... This [σ Sagittarii] has been identified with Nunki of the Euphratean Tablet of the Thirty Stars, the Star of the Proclamation of the Sea, this Sea being the quarter occupied by Aquarius, Capricornus, Delphinus, Pisces, and Pisces Australis. It is the same space in the sky that Aratos designated as Water ...

... Utnapishtim is spry enough to tell [Gilgamesh] in great detail the story of the Deluge. He tells how Enki-Ea has warned him of Enlil's decision to wipe out mankind, and instructed him to build the Ark, without telling others of the impending danger. 'Thus shalt thou say to them: (I will ... go) down to the apsu and dwell with Ea, my (lor)d.' He describes with great care the building and caulking of the ship, six decks, one iku (acre) the floor space, as much for each side, so that it was a perfect cube [a sign of Saturn], exactly as Ea had ordered him to do. This measure '1-iku' is the name of the Pegasus-square, and the name of the temple of Marduk [the spring sun god] in Babylon, as is known from the New Year's Ritual at Babylon, where it is said: 'Iku-star, Esagil, image of heaven and earth.' ...

Similarly the Chinese had the conjunction ('close embrace') between their Green Serpent and their Turtle (Mother Earth) occupying ¼ of the Sky.

... An iconographic study by Jeff Kowalski suggests a cosmological layout for the Nunnery. The higher placement of the North Building, with its 13 exterior doorways (reflecting the 13 layers of heaven), and the celestial serpents surmounting the huts identify it with the celestial sphere. The iconography of the West Building, with 7 exterior doorways (7 is the mystic number of the earth's surface), and figures of Pawahtun - the earth god as a turtle - indicate this to be the Middleworld, the place of the sun's descent into the Underworld. The East Building has mosaic elements reflecting the old war cult of Teotihuacan, where tradition had it that the sun was born; thus, this may also be Middleworld, the place of the rising sun. Finally, the South Building has 9 exterior doorways (the Underworld or Xibalba had 9 layers), and has the lowest placement in the compex; it thus seems to be associated with death and the nether regions ...

364 / 7 = 52 and 52 / 4 = 13. Conjunction: 7 * 13 = 91 = 364 / 4

... They were Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, both sealed together in a close embrace. Crushed between the weight of their bodies were their many children, whose oppression deepened. They yearned to be free; they fought their parents and each other to break loose. Tuumatauenga, virile god of war, thrust and shouted; Tangaroa of the oceans whirled and surged; Tawhirirangimaatea, Haumiatiketike and Rongomatane, of wild foods and cultivated crops, tried their best but were not successful; and Ruamoko, god of earthquakes, yet to be born, struggled in the confinement of his mother's womb ... Of them all, Taane Mahuta, the god of the forests, was the most determined; he set his sturdy feet upon his father's chest, and braced his upper back and shoulders against the bosom of his mother. He pushed; and they parted. So the world, as the Maori understand it, came into being ...

The inundated Pegasus-square (Field) is below indicated by a gap at the end of the Green Serpent, where the tail makes an oval and its tip is going down (dips) as in the letter Q:

1	Horn	α Virginis (Spica)	Crocodile	Oct 9 (282)
2	Neck	κ Virginis	Dragon	Oct 21 (294)
3	Root	α Librae (Zuben Elgenubi)	Badger	Oct 31 (304)
4	Room	π Scorpii (Vrischika)	Hare	Nov 17 (321)
5	Heart	σ Scorpii	Fox	Nov 23 (327)
6	Tail	μ Scorpii (Denebakrab)	Tiger	Nov 30 (334)
7	Winnowing Basket	γ Sagittarii (Nash)	Leopard	Dec 19 (353)
December solstice
8	South Dipper	φ Sagittarii (?)	Unicorn	Dec 30 (364)
9	Ox / Herd Boy	β Capricornii (Dabih)	Buffalo	Jan 23 (388)
10	Girl	ε Aquarii (Albali)	Bat	Jan 29 (394)
11	Emptiness	β Aquarii (Sadalsud)	Rat	Feb 9 (405)
12	Rooftop	α Aquarii (Sadalmelik)	Swallow	Feb 18 (414)
13	House	α Pegasi (Markab)	Pig	Mar 5 (429)
March equinox
14	Wall	γ Pegasi (Algenib)	Porcupine	Mar 22 (81)
15	Legs	η Andromedae (?)	Wolf	Apr 1 (91)
16	Bond	β Arietis (Sheratan)	Dog	Apr 17 (107)
17	Stomach	4¹ Arietis (Bharani)	Pheasant	May 1 (121)
18	Hairy Head	η Tauri (Alcyone) (?)	Cockerel	May 16 (136)
19	Net	ε Tauri (Ain)	Crow	May 25 (145)
20	Turtle Head	λ Orionis (Heka)	Monkey	Jun 12 (163)
21	Three Stars	ζ Orionis (Alnitak)	Gibbon	Jun 13 (164)
June solstice
22	Well	μ Gemini (Tejat Posterior)	Tapir	Jun 24 (175)
23	Ghost	ρ Gemini ?	Goat	Jul 11 (192)
24	Willow	δ Hydrae	Stag	Jul 28 (209)
25	Star	α Hydrae (Alphard)	Horse	Aug 10 (222)
26	Extended Net	ε Hydrae / μ Hydrae	Ox	Jul 30 (211) / Aug 25 (237)
27	Wings	α Crateris (Alkes)	Snake	Sep 2 (245)
28	Chariot	γ Corvi (Gienah)	Worm	Sep 22 (265)
September equinox

The first star in our Teapot (t-pot) asterism is Nash (the Point) which lies in the Milky Way:

But μ Sagittarii (Polis, the Foal) in the South Dipper lies earlier:

rima heu ki te vai	te moko oho mai	te marama	te kava	manu rere	13
Kava. 1. Sour; salty: vai kava, saltwater, sea; te kava o te haíga, acrid underarm smell; tagata kava - tagata kakara i te kava, man with smelly armpits. 2. He-kava te haha, to be thirsty. 3. To turn sour, to become embittered, bad-tempered, exasperated (used with manava): tagata manava kava, bad-tempered, angry man. Vanaga. Bitter, salt; vai kava, brackish water; hakakava, to embalm; kavakava, acid, sharp, bitter, salt, spiritous, vinegar, poisonous, disagreeable; akavakava, to make sharp; hakakavakava, to make acid. P Pau.: kava, disagreeable to the taste; kavakava, acid, sharp. Mgv.: kava, to be bitter, sour, acid, salt. Mq.: kava, bitter. Ta.: ava, bitter, acid, salt. Kavahia: 1. Comfort, comfortable, to feast; hakakavahia, comfort, comfortable. 2. Repulsive (of food), disgusted; hakakavahia, repulsion. Kavakava, rib; moi kavakava, a house god G. P Mgv.: vakavaka, the breast. Mq.: vakavaka, vaávaá, rib. Ma.: wakawaka, parallel ridges. We shall need all the available material in order to determine the germ sense of this word. Sa.: va'ava'a, the breast-bone of a bird; fa'ava'a, the frame as of a slate. To.: vakavaka, the side. Fu.: vakavaka, the side below the armpit. Ha.: hoowaa, to make furrows. In all these we may see the idea of ridge or depression, or of both, as primal (Rapanui, Samoa, Marquesas, Maori, Hawaii), and as secondary the part of the body where such appearances is common (Mangareva, Tonga, Futuna). Churchill. Mgv.: kava, the pepper plant and the drink made therefrom. Ta.: ava, id. Mq.: kava, id. Sa.: 'ava, id. Ma.: kawa, a pepper. Kavakava, a fish. Sa.: 'ava'ava, id. Kavapui, a tree. Ta.: avapuhi, a fragrant plant. Mq.: kavapui, wild ginger. Sa.: 'avapui, id. Ha.: awapuhi, id. Churchill. Mq.: ava, a small fish of sweet water. Sa.. 'ava'ava, a small fish. Ha.: awa, a fish. Kakava, burnt. Sa.: 'a'ava, very hot. Churchill.

Ca10-15	Ca10-16	Ca10-17 (272)	Ca10-18	Ca10-19
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
June 16	17 (168)	18	19 (535 = 365 + 170)	20
υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae, δ Leporis (87.7), TZE (Son) = λ Columbae (87.9)	*Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)* χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE = α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)	η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI (Lord of Created Beings) = δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM (Wrist) = θ Aurigae, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7) 48.0 = 89.4 - *41.4	μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)	6h (91.3) ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6) 50.0 = 91.4 - *41.4
DAY 87	88	89	90	91 (= 364 / 4)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Dec 16 (350)	17	18	19	*20 (354 = 12 29½)**
PTOLEMY CLUSTER = M7 Scorpii (270.5), GRUMIUM (Lower Jaw) = ξ Draconis (270.9)	RUKBALGETHI GENUBI (Bending Claw) = θ Herculis (271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5), ETAMIN (Head) = γ Draconis, ν Herculis (271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8)	Cat's Eye = NGC6543 Draconis (272.2), ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ Ophiuchi (272.9) 231.0 = 272.4 - *41.4	*Winnowing Basket-7 (Leopard)* 18h (273.4) NASH (Point) = γ Sagittarii (273.7), θ Arae (273.8)	Zhōngshān (274.0), π Pavonis (274.6)
'Nov 19	20 (324)	21	22 (84 + 242)	23
DAY 270	271	272	273	274
... As has already been mentioned, the Delphians worshipped Dionysus once a year as the new-born child, Liknites, 'the Child in the Harvest Basket', which was a shovel-shaped basket of rush and osier used as a harvest basket, a cradle, a manger, and a winnowing-fan for tossing the grain up into the air against the wind, to separate it from the chaff. The worship of the Divine Child was established in Minoan Crete, its most famous early home in Europe. In 1903, on the site of the temple of Dictaean Zeues - the Zeus who was yearly born in Rhea's cave at Dicte near Cnossos, where Pythagoras spent 'thrice nine hallowed days' [27] of his initiation - was found a Greek hymn which seems to preserve the original Minoan formula in which the gypsum-powdered, sword-dancing Curetes, or tutors, saluted the Child at his birthday feast. In it he is hailed as 'the Cronian one' who comes yearly to Dicte mounted on a sow and escorted by a spirit-throng, and begged for peace and plenty as a reward for their joyful leaps ...

tupu te raau i te vai	te moko	te marama	te kava	manu rere	te mauga hiku hia
Tupu. 1. Shoot, sprout, bud; to sprout, to bud. 2. Pregnant: vî'e tupu (o te poki); to be conceived (of fetus in its mother's womb): he-tupu te poki i roto i te kopú o toona matu'a. Vanaga. To grow, to sprout, to germinate, to come forth, to conceive, pregnant, germ; mea tupu, plant; tupu ke avai, of rapid growth; tupu horahorau, precocious; hakatupu, to produce, to stimulate growth, to excite. P Pau.: fakatupu, to raise up, to create. Mgv.: tupu, to grow, to conceive, to be pregnant. Mq.: tupu, to grow, to sprout, to conceive. Ta.: tupu, to grow, to sprout. Churchill. Mgv.: Tupu, the best or worst, used of men or of bad qualities. Sa.: tupu, king. Ma.: tupu, social position, dignity. Churchill.

Ca11-4 (288)	Ca11-5	Ca11-6	Ca11-7	Ca11-8	Ca11-9
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
July 4	5	6	7	8	9 (190)
ω Gemini (105.4), ALZIRR (Button) = ξ Gemini (105.7), MULIPHEIN (Oaths) = γ Canis Majoris (105.8), MEKBUDA (Contracted) = ζ Gemini (105.9) 64.0 = 105.4 - *41.4	7h (106.5) no star listed (106)	WEZEN (Weight) = δ Canis Majoris (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9)	no star listed (108)	λ Gemini (109.4), WASAT (Middle) = δ Gemini (109.8) 68.0 = 109.4 - *41.4	no star listed (110)
DAY 105	106	107	108	109	110
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Jan 3	4	5	6	7	8
**Al Na'ām-18 (Ostriches) / Uttara Ashadha-21 (Elephant tusk, small bed) NUNKI = σ Sagittarii (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), MANUBRIUM = ο Sagittarii (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9)** 247.0 = 288.4 - *41.4	19h (289.2) λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8) 248.0 = 289.4 - *41.4	*Al Baldah-19 (City)* AL BALDAH = π Sagittarii, ALPHEKKA (Dish) MERIDIANA = α Cor. Austr. (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)	ALADFAR = η Lyrae (291.1), NODUS II = δ Draconis (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), τ Draconis (291.7), θ Lyrae (291.8)	ω Aquilae (292.1), ρ Sagittarii (292.6), υ Sagittarii (292.7)	π Draconis, ARKAB PRIOR = β¹ Sagittarii (293.0), ARKAB POSTERIOR = β² Sagittarii, ALRAMI (The Archer) = α Sagittarii (293.2), χ Sagittarii (293.6)
'Dec 7	8	9	10	11 (345)	12
DAY 288	289	290	291	292	293

... 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 ...