The beginning of Water (Sea) was determined by Nunki:

... 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 ...

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OCT 21 (*214)	9	31 (*224)	25
*278		NUNKI (*288.4)
X-MAS EVE		Jan 3 (368)

... I wan't a clean cup, interrupted the Hatter: let's all move one place on. He moved as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from the change; and Alice was a good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset the milk-jug into his plate ...

Reasonably enough we can indeed see the Head (the beginning) of the Green Serpent at the South Dipper.

From then on the Jaguar went hunting only in the night, because his new eyes were watery.

... Originally the highly born family of the Sun, Moon, and stars dwelt in a cave on the summit of Maunga-nui, Great Mountain, in the ancient homeland. They were not at all comfortable in their gloomy home for they could not see distinctly and their eyes watered constantly ...

The position of Nunki in the night sky was *288.4 right ascension days after 0h. When the Pope Gregory XIII launched his new calendar the day had been chosen to be number 288 (= 2 * 144 = 4 * 72 = 8 * 36 = 16 * 18 = 9 * 32 = 3 * 96) counted from the beginning of the year. Numbers (i.e. the stars) ruled.

... Gregory dropped 10 days to bring the calendar back into synchronisation with the seasons. Accordingly, when the new calendar was put in use, the error accumulated in the 13 centuries since the Council of Nicaea was corrected by a deletion of ten days. The Julian calendar day Thursday, 4 October 1582 was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582 (the cycle of weekdays was not affected) ...

... The Gregorian calendar was launched by the Pope Gregory XIII  in AD 1582 and its date ºJune 30 corresponded to the place not only of heliacal Sirius but also to day when the Button star ξ in Gemini rose with the Sun. Furthermore, half a year away was Nunki and the Teapot ...

The Sumerians had led the way and the remarkable variable star η Carinae (*162) was half a year away from March 1.

ST JOHN'S DAY	JUNE 25 (181 - 5)	26 (177)	27
Ga4-12 (175 = 350 / 2)	Ga4-13 → 14 * 29½	Ga4-14 → Bharani	Ga4-15 → 4 * 15 = 60
p Carinae (159.3)	φ Hydrae (160.3)	no star listed (161)	VATHORZ POSTERIOR = θ Carinae (162.1), PEREGRINI = μ Velorum, η Carinae (162.6)
... This [η Carinae] is one of the most noted objects in the heavens, perhaps even so in almost prehistoric times, for Babylonian inscriptions seem to refer to a star noticeable from occasional faintness in its light, that Jensen thinks was η. And he claims it as one of the temple stars associated with Ea, or Ia, of Eridhu¹, the Lord of Waters, otherwise known as Oannes², the mysterious human fish and greatest god of the kingdom. ¹ Eridhu, or Eri-duga, the Holy City, Nunki, or Nunpe, one of the oldest cities in the world, even in ancient Babylonia, was that kingdom's flourishing port on the Persian Gulf, but, by the encroachment of the delta, its site is now one hundred miles inland. In its vicinity the Babylonians located their sacred Tree of Life. ² Berōssōs described Oannes as the teacher of early man in all knowledge; and in mythology he was even the creator of man and the father of Tammuz and Ishtar, themselves associated with other stars and sky figures. Jensen thinks Oannes connected with the stars of Capricorn; Lockyer finds his counterpart in the god Chnemu of Southern Egypt; and some have regarded him as the prototype of Noah ...
Aug 27	28 (240)	29 (*161)	30
°Aug 23	24 (236 = 8 * 29½)	25 (*157)	26
'July 31	'Aug 1	2 (214)	3 (*500)
"July 17	18	19 (200)	20 (*121)
... They went on and came to Tama. They looked around and said, 'This is Tama.' They gave the name 'Tama, an evil fish (he ika kino), a very long nose (He ihu roroa).' Again they went on and came to One Tea. They saw it, looked around, and gave the name 'One Tea A Hau Maka'. Then they went on and came to Hanga Takaure. There they gave the name 'Hanga Takaure A Hau Maka'. They made camp and rested at the Bay of Flies for a week (etahi pohitu). On the eighteenth day of the month of July ('Anakena'), they went on from Hanga Takaure. [E:23]
NAKSHATRA DATES:
CHRISTMAS EVE	DEC 25	26 (360)	27 (19 * 19)
η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (342.4), SITULA (Water-jar) = κ Aquarii (342.7) *301.0 = *342.4 - *41.4	ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8)	ρ Gruis (344.0), MATAR (Rain) = η Pegasi (344.2), η Gruis (344.6), β Oct. (344.7)	λ Pegasi (345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), ε Gruis (345.3), τ Aquarii (345.7), ξ Oct. (345.8), μ Pegasi (345.9)
... Horapollo, the grammarian of Alexandria, about AD 400, tells us that the crane was the symbol of a star-observer in Egypt ... Grus has as an alternative name Flamingo (a name which sounds quite similar to that of the bird Phoenix) which obviously is based on 'flame'. Phoenicopterus (the Flamingo) is characterized by its red feathers. Wikipedia: ... from Greek φοινικόπτερος meaning 'purple wing'. Purple is the colour for kings and 'phoenix' should therefore mean 'purple, the colour of the king' ...
Febr 26	27 (58 = 2 * 29)	28 (424)	March 1 (*345)
°Febr 22	23	24 (55)	25
'Jan 30 (*315)	31	'Febr 1 (32)	2
"Jan 16 (*301)	17	18 (383)	19
Egyptian courtyard Phoenician heth Greek eta Η (η) ... The letter shape ultimately goes back to a hieroglyph for 'courtyard' ... possibly named hasir in the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, while the name goes rather back to hayt, the name reconstructed for a letter derived from a hieroglyph for 'thread' ... The kaikai are the rythmic songs that are sung to Cat's Cradles, the string games that are found not only throughout the Pacific but throughout the world. On premissionary Rapa Nui the kaikai, together with their corresponding cat's cradles, were not simple children's games but were used, among other things, to produce magic effect. They were highly important for the study of Rapa Nui's rongorongo. This is because it was apparently with the aid of cat's cradles that the rongorongo experts taught their pupils to learn many of the chants accompanying the incised inscriptions ... ... string games could be resumed after it was clear that the Sun had managed to leave the horizon and was rapidly gaining in altitude: 'Before the sun starts to leave the horizon ... when it shows only on the horizon, ... then string games were no longer allowed as they might lacerate the sun. Once the sun had started to go higher and could be seen in its entirety, string games could be resumed, if one so wished. So the restriction on playing string games was only applicable during the period between the sun's return and its rising fully above the horizon ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DEC 22	23	X-MAS EVE		25	26 (360)	27 (19 * 19)
Gb2-21	Gb2-22	→ Febr 23		Gb2-24	Gb2-25 (280)	Gb2-26 (229 + 52)
BISSEXTUM	*341	SITULA		*343 → 7 * 7 * 7	*344	March 1 (425)
... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day') ...

... Berōssōs described Oannes [St John] as the teacher of early man in all knowledge; and in mythology he was even the creator of man and the father of Tammuz and Ishtar, themselves associated with other stars and sky figures. Jensen thinks Oannes connected with the stars of Capricorn; Lockyer finds his counterpart in the god Chnemu of Southern Egypt; and some have regarded him as the prototype of Noah ...