3. The Lupus constellation has only weak stars and this could lead to an indistinct picture: "The Greeks and Romans did not specially designate these stars, and thought of them merely as a Wild Animal the θηρίον of Aratos, Hipparchos, and Ptolemy ..." (Allen) Its many small stars are spread out but seem to accumulate just before day 314:
The legs of tagata in Ga6-28 are clearly designed to resemble those in Ga5-4:
And in the Denebola chapter was noted a resemblance between tagata in Ga5-4 and tagata in Gb2-18: ... The figure in Gb2-18 is evidently the same as in Ga5-4 (and 472 - 158 = 314):
Could these signs indicate a kind of 'interregnum' beginning with September 17 (day 260)?
5 * 4 = 20 and 2 * 18 = 36. But Gb2-18 should be counted as 21 * 8 = 168, which agrees with 6 * 28 = 168 (in Ga6-28). But Ga6-28 should be counted as 62 * 8 = 496, which in turn could allude to the stars in Lepus (easily imagined as connected with those in Lupus - both are in the south and are only faint):
The curious figure without mata in Ga6-28 has a position which harmonizes with atariki (the 'shadow king') in June 18 (169). 16 * 9 = 144 and 169 (Ga6-28) - 25 (Ga1-24) = 144. The star δ Lupi (233.1) seems to be connected with the star δ Leporis (496.7), and a delta is where the river finally mingles with land:
If we read the G text - at least the part on side a - as a description of the view north of the equator, then 144 could easily be understood as 'a square of Sun' (12 * 12 = 144). On the other hand, Spring Sun ought to be terminated at summer solstice and the 6h right ascension line. Then would come 'the hairy one' (the 'goat'), when the rains are pouring down, transforming the desiccated and sterile earth into a flourishing multitude.
... A black goat with long hair has his head low in contrast to the head of the ram. At the top of the goat is his tail. The ram has a globular body, suggesting the rounded sky with fluffy white clouds. (Cfr at Auriga) ... The word 'Cherion' [the name of the sacred king of the Centaurs] is apparently connected with the Greek cheir, a hand, and 'Centaurs' with centron, a goat ... 220 days counted from November 10 (day 314) could allude to σ Lupi in October 27 (day 300)
The peculiar wing in front of manu rere in Ga6-14 (where 61 * 4 = 244) is much the same as an inverted form of the kind of arms held high in Ga6-28. We should notice how the bottom line of henua in Ga6-8 is straight (not 'sucked in' as is the normal form in G, e.g. in Ga6-11). The henua in Ga6-29 has both its top and bottom lines drawn straight. Perhaps October 27 (300) and the heliacal rising of σ Lupi corresponds to where the right tresses of Pachamama are beginning. 220.1 - 214.5 = 5.6 and 185.5 - 5.6 = ca 180:
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