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2. The modern constellation Cancer has lines drawn in a pattern somewhat like λ, maybe to be understood as a sign opposite in meaning to γ (cfr the Egyptian sign for cloth and the Malayam letter for Rahu in the Heka chapter).
We should first of all add data for ι and β Cancri, and then we ought to consider the picture of Hevelius:
I have added blue lines to a few of the stars which could be significant. And we should notice that β is not a part of the Cancer 'person' of Hevelius. But we should add κ Cancri (further out on the southern claw) to out list. I decided, though, to avoid the swarm of stars (ρ and σ) in the corresponding location of the northern claw, it is not easy to know where precisely Hevelius has drawn them. The Beehive is centrally located on the carapace and around it I have drawn blue lines in a quadrangle with η and θ added to γ and δ. Further down on the body is ζ. I avoided drawing lines to the eyes (ξ and ν). But we can anyhow add them to our list because they are in the 10th hour. |
