3. Obviously τ denotes the end ('death'), which also implies its opposite - only life can be threatened by death. The main question is not death but how the inanimate can come alive (like Golem did). Perhaps Thuban once had something to do with it:
Allen: "... σ and τ [were the Chinese] Tien Teen, the Heavenly Fields ...", a statement which we possibly can understood to mean that the Chinese saw the slope from σ to τ as flat (or even level). We can see from the star chart that about 2400 years ago - the distance from Alaraph (β) to τ is 212.9 - 179.6 = 33.3 days - the Heavenly Fields were close to the ecliptic and also close to the end of the first 12 months from equinox. This stretch of 'land' could have served as pars pro toto for the whole ecliptic 'plain'.
κ Virginis was rising heliacally in day 295 (October 22) at my assumed date of G. The letter is suitable because October is the 10th month and 10 * 29½ = 295: ... Kappa ... Greek: κάππα is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, used to represent the /k/ sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 20. It was derived from the Phoenician letter kaph.
Letters that arose from kappa include the Roman K and Cyrillic К ... Kaph is thought to have been derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew, kaph means palm/grip) ... τ Virginis rose 3 days earlier, in day 292. Maybe also this number can be understood as 'end', e.g. because it is 100 more than 192. Though a better explanation could be that it is equal to 4 * 73 (leaving the 5th such 'quarter' to the season stretching up to day 365). Furthermore, we can guess the closeness to 14h was highly relevant. It was Johann Bayer who in his Uranometria (1603) introduced the Greek letters for the star names. 1870 - 1600) / 72 = ca 4 days. At that time τ Virginis would have risen heliacally 4 days earlier, around October 15 (where τ Bootis has been placed at the supposed time of G). κ Virginis would have risen heliacally around October 18:
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