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Once again. The September equinox in day 265 occurred in the day when the Black Raven rose together with the Sun:
Although right ascension day *185 (= *365 - *180) would have been at *181 if counted from the Julian 0h in March 25 (85 = 365 - 280). When once upon a time I meticulously distributed the stars in parallel with the current Gregorian calendar days I used the Julian year because it was in a better (more ideal) order (365.25) instead of the more accurate modern astronomical facts. The Devil's lies are in the details. 85 (March 25) = 365 - 2 * 140 = 365 - 40 weeks. When the brightest star in the southern night sky, Sirius, rose together with the Sun it was always in June 30 (181). And July 4 (185) would always be 4 days later. 225 (August 13) = 185 + 40. This suggests glyph number 15 * 15 = 225 (Hb5-27) should be perceived from the Julian perspective. ... The Sothic cycle was based on what is referred to in technical jargon as 'the periodic return of the heliacal rising of Sirius', which is the first appearance of this star after a seasonal absence, rising at dawn just ahead of the sun in the eastern portion of the sky. In the case of Sirius the interval between one such rising and the next amounts to exactly 365.25 days - a mathematically harmonious figure, uncomplicated by further decimal points, which is just twelve minutes longer than the duration of the solar year ... Thus, after the year had been fully grown (like a fully grown man)
we could expect 5 (or 366 - 360 = 6) dark nights for the creation of the gods in the ancient Egyptian fashion: ... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...
2 + 2 + 2 = 6. ... In China, every year about the beginning of April, certain officials called Sz'hüen used of old to go about the country armed with wooden clappers. Their business was to summon the people and command them to put out every fire. This was the beginning of the season called Han-shih-tsieh, or 'eating of cold food'. For three days all household fires remained extinct as a preparation for the solemn renewal of the fire, which took place on the fifth or sixth day after the winter solstice ... 6 days after the Fully Grown Man - when he was in the past (at left) - would come the regeneration. 95 (Canopus) + 6 = 101 (Sirius).
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