5. Allen:

"Alphard, Alfard, and Alpherd, - Alphart in the Alfonsine Tables and Pherd with Hyde, - are from Al Fard al Shujā', the Solitary One in the Serpent, well describing its position in the sky."

Why is it a solitary star? Its position among the rest of the stars in Hydra cannot be the reason I think. Perhaps one should say Alphard is the only star which is easily seen in the 10th hour, all the other are faint. The complete list so far of the stars in the 10th hour:

The 10th hour:
  ν Cancri 5.45 24° 27′ N 09h 00m 137.0 545.0

Talitha Australis

 κ Ursa Majoris 3.57 47° 09′ N 09h 01m 137.1 545.1
  ω Hydrae 4.99 05° 06′ N 09h 03m 137.8 545.8
  σ¹ Ursa Majoris 5.15 66° 52′ N 09h 04m 138.0 546.0
  κ Cancri 5.23 10° 40′ N 09h 05m 138.3 546.3

Alsuhail

 λ Velorum 2.23 43° 14′ S 09h 06m 138.5 546.5
  σ² Ursa Majoris 4.80 67° 08′ N 09h 06m 138.6 546.6
  τ (2 stars) Ursa Majoris 4.67 63° 31′ N 09h 07m 138.7 546.7
  ξ Cancri 5.16 22° 03′ N 09h 07m 138.8 546.8

Miaplacidus

 β Carinae 1.67 69° 31′ S 09h 13m 140.3 548.3

Tureis

 ε Carinae 1.86 59° 03′ S 09h 15m 140.8 548.8

Alphard

 α Hydrae 1.99 08° 26′ S 09h 25m 143.3 551.3
Ukdah ι Hydrae 3.90 01° 08′ N 09h 37m 146.4 554.4

Ras Elaset Australis

 ε Leonis 2.97 24° 00′ N 09h 43m 147.6 555.6

Ras Elaset Borealis

 μ Leonis 3.88 26° 15′ N 09h 50m 149.7 557.7

Miaplacidus and Tureis are also bright stars but they are too far down to be visible under normal circumstances.

Alphard is a single great star on the other side of the Milky Way compared to Betelgeuze and submerged only a little beneath the equator of the sky. It marks the neck (turi-uru) of the Sea Dragon and the neck is the first 'joint' named by the Golden Plover:

... Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa. When the baby is born a golden plover flies over and alights upon the reef. (Kua fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai i te papa). And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae).

In the chapter Time Travel I commented:

... Tae-tagaloa means 'not (ta'e) Tagaroa, i.e. we can understand the strange name of the child as 'land', because Tagaroa refers to the sea. His father 'expires' before reaching the new land, but his mother 'swims and swims' and survives the sea. On the freshwater reef (a horizontal flat season) she is giving birth to her man again. Because her man is Sun and her Son is Sun and his living spirit (manu rere) reappears as a golden plover in order to reincarnate himself in the body of the newborn baby boy.

The head of Hydra (the 7 stars rising earlier than the Knot and Alphard) is just above the 'water line' (the sky equator). 6 of them are in the 9th hour and the last (ω) in the 10th hour. Thus ω Hydrae can be said to correspond to Saturn - it is the last of the 7 and also the faintest.

  δ Hydrae 4.14 05° 42′ N 08h 35m 130.6 538.6
Al Minhar al Shujā σ Hydrae 4.45 03° 20′ N 08h 36m 130.9 538.9
  η Hydrae 4.30 03° 24′ N 08h 40m 132.0 540.0
  ε Hydrae 3.38 06° 25′ N 08h 44m 132.9 540.9
  ρ Hydrae 4.35 05° 50′ N 08h 46m 133.4 541.4
  ζ Hydrae 3.11 05° 57′ N 08h 53m 135.1 543.1
  ω Hydrae 4.99 05° 06′ N 09h 03m 137.8 545.8
period 3:2
Ga3-14 Ga3-15 (75) Ga3-16 (*140)
ω Hydrae (137.8), σ¹ Ursa Majoris (138.0), κ Cancri (138.3), Alsuhail (138.5) σ² Ursa Majoris (138.6), τ (2 stars) Ursa Majoris (138.7), ξ Cancri (138.8) Miaplacidus (140.3)

Number 3-14 confirms my interpretation. In chapter Signs I speculated:

... Maybe we should add 104 + 182 = 286 = 11 * 26, i.e. 'one more' than 10 * 26 ... Quite possibly we should also count beyond 2 * 236 = 472 in the G text. Haś in Ga3-14 corresponds to glyph number 260 + 286 = 546 ...

And then at Maro I had a more thorough discussion:

... Number 16 (twice 8) is also the ordinal number of the last glyph in the 3rd period:

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Ga3-10 (70) Ga3-11 Ga3-12 Ga3-13 Ga3-14 Ga3-15 Ga3-16

It contains a week and ends with Jupiter. The π-glyph (haś) is at Mars and it has an adjunct in form of 3 toes who have come loose. They form the opposite of the 3 tiny feathers at the top end which also have come loose. The distance betweem them is not far and the meaning could be to indicate how the end of the top (the old curved generation) will continue as the beginning of the front bottom (new generation). The seeds of the old generation will sprout in spring. Counted from the beginning of the old generation Ga3-14 could be number 472 + 74 = 546 = 6 * 91 = 13 * 42.

Compared with my haś prototype we can see several adjuncts:

haś Ga2-23 (54) Ga3-14 (74)

The 20 days from haś in Ga2-23 implies great changes and once the following were my conclusions as I documented them in my preliminary dictionary:

There is one more important haś glyph worth mentioning, viz. Ga2-23:

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Ga2-20 Ga2-21 Ga2-22 Ga2-23 Ga2-24 Ga2-25 Ga2-26

The number of feather marks are 4 (dots) + 2 (great) + 8 (normal) + 2 (dots) = 16. We should compare with Ga3-14:

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Ga3-10 Ga3-11 Ga3-12 Ga3-13 Ga3-14 Ga3-15 Ga3-16

Whereas in Ga3-14--15 there is a triplet of 'spookiness' (3 at the tip of the 'branch', 3 'toes', and the sign 3 at the top of the left part of Ga3-15), in Ga2-24--26 we can read the opposite - new life (new fire) formulated as triplets of fingers (thumbs not counted).

There are more reversals. Reversal is also expressed in how the 4 spooky dot-like feathers in Ga2-23 have 'come down to earth' (are 'alive') in Ga3-14. The 2 great feathers following the 4 dots in Ga2-23 have, moreover, changed places in Ga3-14, where basically we have at first the 2 feathers meaning the 2 half-years and then the 4 feathers meaning the quarters.

Ga3-14 probably describes the new year, while in Ga2-23 we see the 4 old quarters as 'spooky', no longer present with us (more than in our memory).

I do not endorse all these remarks now, but the observation of how 4 'dots' which are followed by 2 'great feathers' in Ga2-23 changes to 2 'great feathers' followed by 4 'great feathers' in Ga3-14 is interesting because it suggests a point of turnaround between them.

4 'dots' (like feathers flowing down from Tagaroa in the sky but not yet having reached earth) are followed by 2 great feathers rooted in earth.

... Ta'aroa sat in his heaven above the earth and conjured forth gods with his words. When he shook off his red and yellow feathers they drifted down and became trees ...

In Ga2-23 it presumably means the 2 halves of 'earth' (not of the year) are still lying ahead. In Ga3-14 they evidently have arrived.

The 4 following great feathers could represent 4 'pillars' which define the 4 quarters of the season when Sun is present, pillars which are holding the sky roof high. It makes sense because then follows 4 smaller feathers which could indicate the time when Sun has disappeared, hidden by rain clouds, and the picture says it is high up.

9 Ch'en 10 Yax (200) 11 Sac 12 Ceh

Another 4 - normally sized - feathers completes the cycle, 8 + 4 = 12. There is a gap between the 2 basic feathers (halves of 'earth') and the 12 following feathers rooted in earth, therefore the 2 feathers at the beginning should not represent months.

13 Mac (260) 14 Kankin 15 Moan (300) 16 Pax