1. Instead of the conspicious (female) feelers of a Lobster our attention will immediately be drawn to the eyes (male) of a Crab. At Tagata Gagana I wrote: ... The 'eyes' of tagata are outside his head, but in Ga1-11 the head is distorted into a skull of death and instead of eyes outside there are hollows inside. The arms are comparatively short and possibly therefore illustrate how the sky roof is low at this time of the year. There is a similarity between a human death skull and a crab, they have no soft parts outside, they are 'exosceletons': Later, at Beid and Theemin I presented the following structure: ... The head of tagata gagana in Ga1-11 is tilted upwards, a sign which could indicate there is a reversal somewhere beyond the oppositely tilted 'head' (= wings of the Fly) in Gb8-7. If we count 17 days beyond Gb8-7 the midpoint should be found. 449 + 17 = 466 is in the Pleiades and the central point will be the following day of Saturn at Menkhib:
Since then we have located this part of the text to winter solstice, which has Ga2-11 (at ω Gemini) 80 days before spring equinox (as counted from January 1 and our own calendar (cfr at Egyptian X):
There are 30 days from tagata gagana in Ga1-11 to hakaturou in Ga2-11. From the eye hollows of tagata gagana in Ga1-11 to the eyes on stalks of the Crab there must be a reversal, a change from 'death' to 'life'. No eyes, only hollows, is the extreme opposite of such living eyes which are held high on stalks. Considering the insect we can imagine going down ('dying') at the heliacal rise of Musca Borealis (Gb8-7--8) we can expect a relationship with the heliacal rise of the insect who is rolling his nest of dung ('procreating') in Cancer:
The star Bright Fire (λ Cancri) is presumably a mark of 'ignition' (*), and 63 - 42 = 3 weeks:
If 24 indicates 'midnight', then 42 should be 'reverse midnight'. 40 + 24 = 42 + 22 = 64. |