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4. The Gemini constellation stood there as a reminder of how beneficial pairs should be.

... In Hindu legend there was a mother goddess called Aditi, who had seven offspring. She is called 'Mother of the Gods'. Aditi, whose name means 'free, unbounded, infinity' was assigned in the ancient lists of constellations as the regent of the asterism Punarvasu. Punarvasu is dual in form and means 'The Doublegood Pair'. The singular form of this noun is used to refer to the star Pollux. It is not difficult to surmise that the other member of the Doublegood Pair was Castor. Then the constellation Punarvasu is quite equivalent to our Gemini, the Twins. In far antiquity (5800 B.C.) the spring equinoctial point was predicted by the heliacal rising of the Twins ...

Nowadays Castor (the Beaver) rose with the Sun in July 12 and returned to visibility 16 nights later in July 28 (193 + 16 = 209 → 220 days from the December solstice) which was 16 nights before day 225 (August 13).

→ 193 + 32 = 15 * 15 and 220 + 16 = 236 = 2 * 118 = 472 / 2 = 8 * 29½.

... In three magnificent texts at the site of Koba, scribes recorded it as one of the largest finite numbers we humans have ever written. According to these inscriptions, our world was created on the day 4 Ahaw 8 Kumk'u. On this day all the cycles of the Maya calendar above twenty years were set at thirteen - that is to say, the cycles of 400 years, 8,000 years, 160,000 years, 32,000,000 years, and so on, all the way up to a cycle number extending to twenty places ... In our calendar, this day fell on August 13, 3114 BC ...

3114 BC + 1842 AD = 4956 = 70 * 70.8, and 708 / 2 = 354 (December 20), the day before the solstice.

354 = 2 * 177, where 177 = 542 - 365:

Itzam-Yeh defeated

28 May (148), 3149 BC

1st 3-stone place

21 May (141), 3114 BC

Creation of our present world

13 August (225), 3114 BC

Och ta chan (Hun-Nal-Ye 'entered or became the sky')

5 February (36), 3112 BC

21 May, 3114 BC - 5 February, 3112 BC = 542

542 'happens to be' the sum of 365 days and 6 * 29½ nights.

Schedir (*8) Night of culmination   (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 233
Nov 18 (322 → 2 * 161) March 29 (88)
365 - 235 = 130
Betelgeuze (*88) Night of culmination 138 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 225
Jan 29 (121 + 3 * 91 = 419 - 25) June 17 (168 → 88 + 80)
365 days = 20 weeks + 15 * 15 days
Castor (*113 → 88 + 25) Night of culmination 138 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 225
Febr 23 (419) → Terminalia July 12 (200 - 7)
365 days = 20 weeks + 15 * 15 days

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...

Regulus (*152 → 212 - 60) Night of culmination 135 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 228
April 6 (96) Aug 20 (232)
137 + 228 = 365 days
Spica (*202 → 212 - 10) Night of culmination 133 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 230
→ 168 - 20 = 148 (May 28) Oct 9 (282)
135 + 230 = 365 days
Thuban (*212) Night of culmination 133 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 230
June 7 (168 - 10) Oct 19 (292)
135 + 230 = 365 days
Zuben Elgenubi (*224) Night of culmination 135 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 228
June 17 (168 → 204 - 36) Oct 31 (304)
137 + 228 = 365 days
Ras Algethi (*260) Night of culmination 135 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 228
July 23 (204 → 158 + 46) Dec 6 (340 → 292 + 48)
137 + 228 = 365 days
Fomalhaut (*347) Night of culmination 128 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 235
Oct 25 (298 → 118 + 180) March 3 (427 = 365 + 62)
130 + 235 = 365 days

It appears as if there was a loss of a week (137 - 130 = 7) - a week was 'swallowed' - somewhere around the Mouth of the Fish. 184 - 177 = 7.

Menkar Night of culmination 133 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 230
Dec 21 (355) May 4 (124)
135 + 230 = 365 days
Atlas Night of culmination 135 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 228
Dec 31 (365) May 16 (136)
365 - 136 = 229

The culmination (at 21h) of Castor was in February 23, 31 + 23 = 54 = 2 * 27, which suggests 628 / 2 = 314 = π.

... The secret sense of 22 - sacred numbers were never chosen haphazardly - is that it is the measure of the circumference of the circle when the diameter is 7 ... 

... Allen has documented all his star culminations at 21h, which could be due to an effort of keeping the culminations at their proper places according to the ancients, 24h (spring equinox) - 21h = 3h = 24h / 8 = 45º. 3h corresponds to 366 / 8 = 45.75 of my right ascension days and *366 - *46 = *320 (Dramasa, σ Octantis) ...

In Roman times this was named Terminalia (the End station). But surely the day number would then not be 54 but 364 + 54 = 420 (= 60 weeks). For the Mesopotamians regarded Castor as the twin going down in the west and Pollux as the twin rising in the east.