The measure from Full Moon at Alchita (α in the black Raven)
up to and including Cursa (μ in Eridanus) was 260 right ascension days:
Glyph number 291 in the G text was a great takaure at the beginning of line 8 + 3 = 11. This implies we should count 118 days from Giauzar, from the tail whip of Draco, in order to end with Alchita at the thirsty Raven's Beak. 366 / 2 - 107 = 76.
Notably also the Tail of the Horse, the star Ma Wei (δ Centauri),
was 183 right ascension days after the Navel of the Horse (Sirrah at the topknot of Andromeda). ... the bird, being sent with a cup for water, loitered at a fig-tree till the fruit became ripe, and then returned to the god with a water-snake in his claws and a lie in his mouth, alleging the snake to have been the cause of the delay. In punishment he was forever fixed in the sky with the Cup and the Snake; and, we may infer, doomed to everlasting thirst by the guardianship of the Hydra over the Cup and its contents. From all this came other poetical names for our Corvus - Avis Ficarius, the Fig Bird; and Emansor, one who stays beyond his time; and a belief, in early folk-lore, that this alone among birds did not carry water to its young ...
And, by the way, from Alhena (*103) there were 80 right ascension days. The sign of Mercury hovered above the head of the Babylonian Raven, between Furrow and Frond. ... Ganz ähnlich is der Name 'Gott von Duazag' des Gottes Nabū ... zu erklären. Er bezeichnet ihn als den Gott des Wachtstums, welches als aus dem Osten stammend betrachtet wird, weil die Sonne, die das Wachstum bringt, im Osten aufgeht. Dass aber Nabū als Ost-Gott aufgefasst wurde, hängt damit zusammen, dass sein Stern, der Mercur, nur im Osten oder Westen sichtbar ist ...
... 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...
2 * 115 = 230 = 291 - 61.
Here (at glyph number 230) was the beginning of side b on the G tablet.
Another beginning was at the right foot of Uranus, touching Virgo, which was 3 + 1 days after the full cycle.
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