355. Once again. The cosmic numbers were interconnected. For instance: 115, as in "April 25 when the Explorers left Hiva and as when the Chorti diviners began to raise their sky, was 5 weeks after 0h and 60 days before St John's Day (175 = 80 + 95). ... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive. In this ceremony two diviners and their wives sit on benches so that they occupy the corner positions of the cosmic square. They take their seats in the same order as the stones were placed, with the men on the eastern side and the women on the west. The ritual actions of sitting down and lifting upward are done with great precision and care, because they are directly related to the actions done by the gods at Creation. The people represent the gods of the four corners and the clouds that cover the earth. As they rise from their seats, they metaphorically lift the sky. If their lifting motion is uneven, the rains will be irregular and harmful ... Furthermore, the synodic cycle of Mercury took a fraction (.88) more than 115 days - which was exactly like Jupiter with its synodic cycle of 398.88 days - and the ancient Babylonians (who had named this curious planet Nabū) - associated it with the horizon in the east because in spring this was where the Sun went up in order to fertilize Mother Earth: ... Ganz ähnlich is der Name 'Gott von Duazag' des Gottes Nabū ... zu erklären. Er bezeichnet ihn als den Gott des Wachtstums, welches als aus dem Osten stammend betrachtet wird, weil die Sonne, die das Wachstum bringt, im Osten aufgeht. Dass aber Nabū als Ost-Gott aufgefasst wurde, hängt damit zusammen, dass sein Stern, der Mercur, nur im Osten oder Westen sichtbar ist ... Notably there were 52 weeks in a year measuring 4 * 91 = 364 days and 3.1413 * 115.88 = ca 364.0 which was quite a remarkable feature of the created cosmos:
The month of Jus-piter began in June 10, ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ... which was day 161 counted from January 1 and this number was also associated with growth because it could be understood as short for 1.6180 ... = φ in the same way as 314 could be understood as short for π = 3.1413... Therefore the Mad Hatter (alias Mercury) had to be associated with June 10:
... Mercury was used in the process of curing pelts for hats, making it impossible for hatters to avoid inhaling the mercury fumes given off during the hat making process; hatters and mill workers thus often suffered mercury poisoning, causing neurological damage, including confused speech and distorted vision ...
'Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!' // How I wonder what you're at!' His Tea party was probably referring to the Tea kettle in Sagittarius: ... 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 upsed the milk-jug into his plate ...
The Chinese had their 8th station (counted from Spica) located at the South Dipper (in Sagittarius at the head of their Green Serpent),
and at the time of rongorongo the star φ Sagittarii rose in December 30 (364 = 3.1413 * 115.88).
In his The White Goddess Robert Graves has given the following list of the planet names:
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