7. Schematically:
In the last line of my table I have used the rule to add 229 days in order to reach the next midnight culmination from the heliacal rising, 329 + 229 - 365 = 193. The result is in good agreement with the date for the first such culmination, only 1 day's difference. Remarkably the distance from rising in the east in the early night to rising together with Sun in the early morning is precisely 177 days (= 6 synodic lunar months):
'June 1 came 4 days after the heliacal rising of Aldebaran and the distance from Aldebaran to Antares was 181 days, 181 - 4 = 177. It would have been unnessecary to put a mago glyph for Antares at Ga1-8, everyone would know it took 4 days from the heliacal rising of Aldebaran to the early evening return of Antares in the east. Instead the creator of the text evidently indicated the position by the twin glyphs flanking Ga1-8:
Around 5000 B.C. the distance from Aldebaran to Antares was 177 days (cfr Camp 9). Today the same measure can be used again, given that we add 4 days at the beginning. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
