The Chinese Tail of the Tiger was close to but oppositely oriented to the Tail of the Serpent:  Likewise, half a year away the Feather Tail of the Scorpion (Blue Dragon) was close to but oppositely oriented to the Feather Tail of the Red Bird. Therefore the Head of the Grey Tiger was close to but oppositely oriented to the Head of the Red Bird. And therefore the Head of the Blue Dragon was close to but oppositely oriented to the Head of the Green Serpent. It was as if a great mirror had been placed at a line drawn between the Tail of the Blue Dragon and the Tail of the Grey Tiger. In a normal mirror left becomes right (and right becomes left), but here the effect of such an imaginary mirror is to shift down to up (and up to down). ... But the time of his predestined defeat by the dark brother, Tezcatlipoca, was ever approaching, and, knowing perfectly the rhythm of his own destiny, Quetzalcoatl would make no move to stay it. Tezcatlipoca, therefore, said to his attendants, 'We shall give him a drink to dull his reason and show him his own face in a mirror; then, surely, he will be lost' ... At the time of the Bull the northern summer was predestined to end when the Sun reached to the Tail of the Scorpion (Deneb Akrab):
Here the 'Great Fist' high up (Ga7-20) 'went down to the fishes' (Ga7-24). And then we will remember another place where a Rising Fish turned around to become a Descending Fish:
From 'June 10 (161) to day *227 there were *227 - *81 = 146 right ascension days, i.e. *183 - *146 = 37 right ascension days less than what otherwise might have been expected. ... On the twenty-fifth day [raa] of the first month ('Vaitu Nui'), Ira and Makoi set sail. (i te rua te angahuru marima raa o te vaitu nui.i oho.mai ai a ira.ko Makoi), on the first day [te raa po rae] of the month of June ('Maro'), the bow [te ihu] of Ira's canoe touched land again. (E:17) From "April 25 (115) to "June 1 (152) there were *72 - *35 = 37 right ascension days. Perhaps the days out at sea were not to be counted. And if so we could then add 44 days when the Royal Double Canoe was out at sea. *37 + *44 = 81 right ascension days (→ 'June 10). We should also notice that the star in the middle (Wasat, δ Gemini) had risen with the Sun in "May 28 (*68), which might explain why the creators of Manuscript E had pinpointed the pair of pages 68-69 by repeating them.
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