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We can imagine the belly of Rogo could contain the Sun in transport, so to say.

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Ga1-1 Ga8-25 Ga8-26 Gb1-1 (230) Gb1-2 Gb1-3
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Jan 7 (372)

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AIN (*65) OSIRIS ALRAMI *294 ALBIREO ALSAFI
227 5

The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. This idea might have been expressed by the pair of inseparable men, the old one and the young one. A pair yet the same. A little dot in front in Ga8-25 marks its importance. 4 * 93 = 372 = 12 * 31.

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

The tripod (3 feet) cooking places (Athāfiyy)

could have corresponded to Set (as in the Setting Sun), and presumably we ought to count not from the Gregorian spring equinox but from the Julian equinox 4 days later, in which case the first glyph on side b on the G tablet would correspond to day 290 (= 230 + 60).

... In myth the idea of cooking implies the proper conjunction between a man and a woman (i.e., a change from a raw and untamed state of existence):

... When it was evident that the years lay ready to burst into life, everyone took hold of them, so that once more would start forth - once again - another (period of) fifty-two years. Then (the two cycles) might proceed to reach one hundred and four years. It was called 'One Age' when twice they had made the round, when twice the times of binding the years had come together. Behold what was done when the years were bound - when was reached the time when they were to draw the new fire, when now its count was accomplished. First they put out fires everywhere in the country round. And the statues, hewn in either wood or stone, kept in each man's home and regarded as gods, were all cast into the water. Also (were) these (cast away) - the pestles and the (three) hearth stones (upon which the cooking pots rested); and everywhere there was much sweeping - there was sweeping very clear. Rubbish was thrown out; none lay in any of the houses ...

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70 10
Gb8-8 (449) Ga1-4 Ga7-16 (185) Gb2-1 (256) Gb2-12 (267)
BHARANI (*41.4) HYADUM II (*64) ALDEBARAN (*68) ANTARES (*249) DRAMASA (*320) WEEPING (*331.4)
May 1 (121) May 24 (144) May 28 (148) Nov 25 (329) Febr 4 (400) Febr 15 (411)
"March 21 Day zero (80) "April 13 (103) "April 17 (107) "Oct 15 (288) "Dec 25 (359) "Jan 5 (370)
290.0 (= 370 - 80)

... the star named Weeping (μ Capricorni, Chinese: Kuh) rose heliacally 290.0 days after "March 21 (80).

472 = 365 + 107
297 13 23 115 18
Gb1-24 Gb2-12 Gb3-1 Gb3-2 Gb6-26 Gb7-17
*317 WEEPING *354 *355   SIRRAH ADHIL (*19)
Febr 1 (32) 15 (411) 11 (435) March 12 8 March 21 (445) April 19
"Dec 22 (356) "Jan 5 (370) 29 (*314) "Jan 30 "Febr 8 (39) 27 (58)
"June 22  (*93) "July 6 (*107) "July 30 31 (*132)   ALCHITA (*183) SPICA (*202)
365

... Al Maisān, the title of γ Geminorum, by some error of Firuzabadi was applied to this star as Meissa, and is now common for it. Al Sufi called it Al Tahāyī; but Al Ferghani and Al Tizini knew it as Rās al Jauzah, the Head of the Jauzah, which it marks. The original Arabic name, Al Hak'ah, a White Spot, was from the added faint light of the smaller φ¹and φ² in the background, and has descended to us as Heka and Hika. These three stars were another of the Athāfiyy [tripods used for cooking] of the Arabs; and everywhere in early astrology were thought, like all similar groups, to be of unfortunate influence in human affairs. They constituted the Euphratean lunar station Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur, the Little Twins, a title also found for γ and η Geminorum; and individually were important stars among the Babylonians, rising to them with the sun at the summer solstice, and, with α and γ, were known as Kakkab Sar, the Constellation of the King ...

The last of these tripod stars in Draco was at Gb1-3 and from there to the March equinox there were 73 days:

360 / 5

Jan 11

March 25 (84)

The Belly of the Sun meant midsummer ('noon'):

... For the Marquesas are given: - daybreak, twilight, dawn ('the day or the red sky, the fleeing night'), broad day - bright day from full morning to about ten o'clock -, noon ('belly of the sun'), afternoon ('back part of the sun'), evening ('fire-fire', the same expression as in Hawaii, i.e. the time to light the fires on the mountains or the kitchen fire for supper) ...

Sumerian SAG Phoenician resh Greek rho Ρ (ρ)

... Resh (Arabic: ۥ) is the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ... The word resh is usually assumed to have come from a pictogram of a head, ultimately reflecting Proto-Semitic *raۥ(i)š-. The word's East Semitic cognate, rēš-, was one possible phonetic reading of the Sumerian cuneiform sign for 'head' (SAG).

... Then I become aware of ... a presence - a faint, ghostly glimmering, like moonglow, that has appeared on the solstice stone. I don't know how long it lasts, a second or two only I would guess, but while it is there it seems less like a projection - which I know it to be - than something immanent within the stone itself. And it seems to function as a herald for it fades almost as soon as it has appeared and in its place the full effect snaps on - instantaneously. It wasn't there, and then it's there. As Chris had described, the effect does curiously resemble a poleaxe, or a flag on a pole, and consists of a 'shaft', narrow at the base but widening a little towards the top, running up the left hand side of the solstice stone, surmounted by a right-facing 'head' or 'flag'. An instant later an almond-shaped spot of light, like an eye, appears a few centimeters to the right of the 'flag' and the effect is complete. Weirdly - I do not claim it has any significance - this flag-on-a-pole symbol is the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph neter, meaning 'god', or 'a god' - and not to be understood at all in the Judaeo-Christian usage of that word but rather as a reference to one of the supernatural powers or principles that guide and balance the universe. Manifested here, in this strange Stone Age temple, it glows, as though lit by inner fire ...

Marija Gimbutas: 'To sleep within the Goddess's womb was to die and to come to life anew'. In a system of reincarnation the old one must die in order to be reborn, of course. At midsummer Sun comes to a standstill, and this must therefore be an occasion when the 'flame of life' had to be transported into a new body.