Once again. The Chinese structure had a Serpent around a Turtle at the top of the year, at the inauguration of a new year: ... The Mahabharata insists on six as the number of the Pleiades as well as of the mothers of Skanda and gives a very broad and wild description of the birth and the installation of Kartikeya 'by the assembled gods ... as their generalissimo', which is shattering, somehow, driving home how little one understands as yet. The least which can be said, assuredly: Mars was 'installed' during a more or less close conjunction of all planets; in Mbh. 9.45 (p. 133) it is stressed that the powerful gods assembled 'all poured water upon Skanda, even as the gods had poured water on the head of Varuna, the lord of waters, for investing him with dominion'. And this 'investiture' took place at the beginning of the Krita Yuga, the Golden Age ...
The Neck of this Green Serpent was at the South Dipper (which rose with the Sun in December 30) and its tail was at the end of the Pegasus Square, as defined by Markab Pegasi (α) - which rose with the sun 65 days after the South Dipper (φ Sagittarii).
I.e, the rest of the year ought to have measured 300 right ascension days. The distance from December 30 (364) to Markab Pegasi in March 5 (429 = 365 + 64) was subdivided into periods, and from the South Dipper (8) to the Girl (10) there were 30 days. Then came Emptiness (11) at Sadalsud (β Aquarii) - and this was 11 days after ε Aquarii (the swallowing Girl). 30 + 11 = 41 (→ Bharani, the place of birth) = 65 - 24. ... And then the bone spoke; it was there in the fork of the tree: Why do you want a mere bone, a round thing in the branches of a tree? said the head of One Hunaphu when it spoke to the maiden. You don't want it, she was told. I do want it, said the maiden. Very well. Stretch out your right hand here, so I can see it, said the bone. Yes, said the maiden. She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden. And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator. The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator. Rather, he will leave his daughters and sons. So it is that I have done likewise through you. Now go up there on the face of the earth; you will not die. Keep the word. So be it, said the head of One and Seven Hunaphu - they were of one mind when they did it ...
The 'lower jaw' of the 'crocodile gap' formed by the dry towel of Aquarius was at the Girl (Albali) and the Emptiness was at his left shoulder:
... β [Sadalsud] alone marked the sieu Heu, Hiu, or Hū, Void, anciently Ko [Xu, Emptiness], the central one of the seven sieu which, taken together, were known as Heung Wu, the Black Warrior, in the northern quarter of the sky ...
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