But first we ought to extend our overview table by including some of the corresponding glyph facts:
Furthermore, 27 is also an odd number. Ga4-18 (101) + 14 = 115 (Ga5-15) respectively Cb6-24 (139) + 14 = 153 (Cb7-9).
The precessional distance down to Roman times was *27 right ascension days. Therefore, in August 20 (232) when the Sun was at Regulus (*152) this was corresponding to the day 'August 20 (232) when in Roman times the Sun had been at Phekda (*179 = 259 - 80). This star was γ at the Thigh of Ursa Major:
... it is told that he [Gilgamesh] lives in splendor and dissoluteness, and makes a nuisance of himself until the gods bring relief to his people by rearing a human being, either twin or counterpart,³ who can stand up to him. It is Enkidu, the man of the Wilds, a kind of wolf-child as simple as the beasts he plays with, a happy son of nature, hairy all over, grown to enormous strength ... ³ Actually, the goddess Aruru makes him 'in the likeness of Anu', literally 'a zikru of Anu she conceived in her heart'. But Enkidu is also said to look like Gilgamesh 'to a hair' ... ... Ishtar appears on the walls of Uruk and curses the two heroes who have shamed her, but Enkidu tears out the right thigh of the Bull of Heaven and flings it in her face, amidst brutal taunts. It seems to be part of established procedure in those circles. Susanowo did the same to the sun-goddess Amaterasu, and so did Odin the Wild Hunter to the man who stymied him. A scene of popular triumph and rejoicings follows. But the gods have decided that Enkidu must die, and he is warned by a somber dream after he falls sick ...
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