4. However, we have learnt that the station for the migrating souls was not in our Cancer constellation but in Gemini (cfr at Ana-Tipu): ... All 'change stations' are found invariably in two regions: one in the South between Scorpius and Sagittarius, the other in the North between Gemini and Taurus; and this is valid through time and space, from Babylon to Nicaragua. Why was it ever done in the first place? Because of the Galaxy, which has its crossroads with the ecliptic between Sagittarius and Scorpius in the South, and between Gemini and Taurus in the North ... In Taurus only the stars at the tips of the Bull's horns, Elnath (β) and The Heavenly Gate (ζ), are in touch with the Milky Way. Obviously moe in Ga1-20 stands at a cardinal point and the name of ζ Tauri presumably indicates a Gate for the souls:
... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini. In fact, he states explicitly (I,12.5) that this 'Gate' is 'where the Zodiac and the Milky Way intersect'. Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ... Considering the fact that the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ... The creator of the G text evidently also has 'kept the precessional clock running' and he has put Gemini where something new is 'fished up'. Alhena is γ Gemini and 21 * 0 = 0 (which could explain the 'zero' hole in the glyph):
Ga2-10 is a Monday if we should continue counting colours from line a1 and Sun's rule should end with a day of Moon. The position agrees with a solstice season defined from January 1:
Yet, the name Gate of Cancer could have made him document a further 're-birth' at Acubens:
3 * 12 = 36, but this is not the proper procedure. The layman could also be deceived by 2 * 10 = 20 at Ga2-10, because 20 is the maximum for Moon, not for Sun. |