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In the Chinese system with 28 stations number 5 was the Heart with the additional cue Fox.
... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ... The text on side a of the G tablet was designed to begin when in the Golden Age of the Bull the Sun would have risen in MARCH 21 (0h) with the nakshatra line of the Full at SEPTEMBER 20 (*183), where the star σ Scorpii had been located. Currently (in the era of rongorongo) this star had due to the precession of the Sun advanced with *64 days to right ascension *247.0 (327, November 23).
An alternative denomination of σ Scorpii was 630 Scorpii, we can see in the map above, which suggests 63(0), i.e. the last glyph on side b of the G tablet - corresponding to MARCH 20 (*364). ... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ...
The idea of a Heart at σ Scorpii - half a year after MARCH 21 - was presumably because it was a technical term for the iniitated, viz. the lead (↔ Satuirn) plumb bob at the bottom of the astronomers' string of measurement. This would have been difficult to understand without the guide given in Hamlet's Mill:
... In the inscriptions of Dendera, published by Dümichen, the goddess Hathor is called 'lady of every joy'. For once, Dümichen adds: Literally ... 'the lady of every heart circuit'. This is not to say that the Egyptians had discovered the circulation of the blood. But the determinative sign for 'heart' often figures as the plumb bob at the end of a plumb line coming from a well-known astronomical or surveying device, the merkhet. Evidently, 'heart' is something very specific, as it were the 'center of gravity' ... See Aeg.Wb. 2, pp. 55f. for sign of the heart (ib) as expressing generally 'the middle, the center'. And this may lead in quite another direction. The Arabs preserved a name for Canopus - besides calling the star Kalb at-tai-man ('heart of the south') ... Suhail el-wezn, 'Canopus Ponderosus', the heavy-weighing Canopus, a name promptly declared meaningless by the experts, but which could well have belonged to an archaic system in which Canopus was the weight at the end of the plumb line, as befitted its important position as a heavy star at the South Pole of the 'waters below '. Here is a chain of inferences which might or might not be valid, but it is allowable to test it, and no inference at all would come from the 'lady of every joy'. The line seems to state that Hathor (= Hat Hor, 'House of Horus') 'rules' the revolution of a specific celestial body - whether or not Canopus is alluded to - or, if we can trust the translation 'every', the revolution of all celestial bodies. As concerns the identity of the ruling lady, the greater possibility speaks for Sirius, but Venus cannot be excluded; in Mexico, too, Venus is called 'heart of the earth'. The reader is invited to imagine for himself what many thousands of such pseudo-primitive or poetic interpretations must lead to: a disfigured interpretation of Egyptian intellectual life ...
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