5. Allen: "It [Antares] rises at sunset on the 1st of June, culminating on the 11th of July ..." Here we have an authoritative statement regarding the distance in time from the reappearance of a star after its heliacal rising to its culmination at midnight. From June 1 to July 11 there are 192 - 152 = 40 days. Originally Allen's book (Star Names, Their Lore and Meaning) was published in 1899 and we can therefore assume his June 1 equals 'June 1 (at the time of G):
Mago in Ga2-14 is not at July 11 but comes 4 days earlier, but we can interpret the straight line inside its head as a possible indication of how Antares is reaching for zenith at midnight. Probably also mago in Ga2-14 refers to Antares:
July 11 is day 192 counted from January 1, which could be significant. At the time of G this date should have been at Ga2-18, in which case we can count 21 * 8 = 216 (= 192 + 24), which seems to point at Ga2-16 (in the centre of the sequence of 5 glyphs beginning with mago). Mago in Ga2-14 (where 21 * 4 = 84 or 12 weeks) would in the time of Scorpius had risen heliacally around May 5 (where 5 * 5 = 25 could allude to a square of Saturn 'fire'). The creator of the text has put Ga2-14 in position 45 counted from Gb8-30 and in position 108 (cfr in Te Kioe Uri) counted from equinox. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
