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361. The meteor showers proved there was a way down from the stars, and if there was a way down there should also be a way up.

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
6-3 (164) 6-4 → 24 6-5 6-6 → 360 6-7 (210 - 42) 6-8 → 48 6-9 (2 * 80)
JUNE 18 19 (170) 20 SOLSTICE 22 23 ST JOHN'S DAY
Ga4-6 Ga4-7 Ga4-8 Ga4-9 (92) Ga4-10 Ga4-11 Ga4-12
λ Hydrae (153.2) ADHAFERA = ζ Leonis, TANIA BOREALIS (Northern Gazelle) = λ Ursae Majoris, SIMIRAM = ω Carinae (154.7) ALGIEBA (The Mane) = γ Leonis, q Carinae (155.5) TANIA AUSTRALIS (Southern Gazelle) = μ Ursae Majoris (156.0), GHOST OF JUPITER = NGC3242 Hydrae (156.8) Extended Net-26b (Ox)

μ Hydrae (157.1)

Maru-sha-arkat-Sharru-15 (4th Son behind the King)

SHIR = ρ Leonis (158.9)

p Carinae (159.3)

... From a point a little to the west of ζ [Adhafera, ζ Leonis] and not much farther from γ - when first observed the radiant point was in Cancer - issue the Leonids, the meteor stream of November 9th to 17th, its maximum now occurring on the 13th to 14th, which about every thirty-three years has furnished such wonderful displays, the last in 1866 and the next due in 1899.

Their first noticed appearance may have been in the year 137, since which date the stream has completed fifty-two revolutions. According to Theophanes of Byzantium, the shower was seen from there in November, 472; but the late Professor Newton, our deservedly great authority on the whole subject of meteors, commenced his list of the Leonids with their appearance on the 13th of October, 902, the Arabian Year of the Stars, during the night of the death of King Ibrahim ben Ahmad, and added:

It will be seen that all these showers are at intervals of a third of a century, that they are at a fixed day of the year, and that the day has moved steadily and uniformly along the calendar, at the rate of about a month in a thousand years. (Allen)

Aug 21 22 (*154) 23 24 (8 * 29˝) 25 26 27
°Aug 17 18 (*150) 19 (2 * 115) 20 21 22 23
'July 25 26 (*127) 27 28 29 30 (7 * 30) 31
"July 11 12 13 14 (*115) 15 16 17 (*118)
HANGA TAKAURE
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
12-2 (88 + 248) 12-3 12-4 12-5 12-6 12-7 (*161 + *100) 12-8
DEC 17 18 19 (*273 = 3 * 91) 20 (354) SOLSTICE 22 23
ι Pegasi (335.0), ALNAIR (The Bright One) = α Gruis (335.1), μ Piscis Austrini, υ Piscis Austrini (335.3), WOO (Pestle) = π Pegasi (335.7), BAHAM = θ Pegasi, τ Piscis Austrini (335.8) ζ Cephei (336.2), λ Cephei (336.3), -/270 Lac. (336.7), λ Piscis Austrini (336.8) μ Gruis (337.0), ε Cephei (337.2), 1/325 Lac. (337.3), ANCHA (Hip) = θ Aquarii (337.4), ψ Oct. (337.5), α Tucanae (337.9)

Al Sa'ad al Ahbiyah-23 (Lucky Star of Hidden Things) / Shatabisha-25 (Comprising a Hundred Physicians)

ε Oct. (338.1), ρ Aquarii (338.2), 2/365 Lac. (338.5), SADACHBIA = γ Aquarii (338.6), π Gruis (338.9)

β/172 Lac. (339.2), 4/1100 Lac. (339.4), π Aquarii (339.5)

CASTOR (α Gemini)

δ Tucanae (340.1), ρ Cephei (340.2),  ν Gruis (340.3), ζ Aquarii, δ Gruis (340.4), 5/1100 Lac. (340.7), σ Aquarii, 6/650 Lac. (340.9)

PROCYON (α Canis Minoris)

υ Oct. (341.0), α/91 Lac. (341.1), HOMAN = ζ Pegasi, β Piscis Austrini (341.2), ν Tucanae (341.5), υ Aquarii (341.9)

... It must be admitted, however, that the task of raising the sky was not always a long and arduous one. In the New Hebrides of Melanesia the sky was formerly so low overhead that a woman who was pounding roots in a mortar happened to strike the sky with her pestle. Greatly annoyed at the interruption she looked up and cried angrily, 'Go on up higher!' Whereat the sky meekly obeyed her. What actually happened probably was that the woman struck the low house roof with her pestle and cried angrily to her husband, 'If you don't raise that roof higher, I won't cook you another meal!' thus giving a strong impuls to the development of the science of architecture ...

Febr 19 (50) 20 21 22 Terminalia 24 (420) 25
°Febr 15 (46) 16 17 (14 * 29˝) 18 (414) 19 20 21
'Jan 23 24 25 26 27 (392) 28 29 (*314 → π)
"Jan 9 10 11 12 13 (378 → Saturn) 14 15 (*300)

The time from JUNE 21 (172) to DECEMBER 21 (355) was 183 days, but I have arranged the nakshatra stars 182 (364 / 2) days later than the heliacal stars. The final of the Extended Net was 182 days before DECEMBER 21, beginning at ε Hydrae and ending at μ Hydrae.

MAY 27 (2 * 73 + 1) 25 JUNE 22 (172 + 1) 241 FEBR 19 (50) 110 JUNE 10 (161) 360
Ga3-8 (67) Ga4-10 (93) Gb4-15 (335) Gb8-5 (446)
July 30 (210 + 1) Aug 25 (236 + 1) April 24 (73 + 41)  Aug 13 (184 + 41)
ε Hydrae (*260 / 2 + *1) μ Hydrae (*12 * 13 + *1) *34 = 114 - 80 UKDAH (*145 = 225 - 80)
He Maro 19 (*90) He Anakena 14+1 (*115 + *1) Tarahao 14 (73 = 50 + 23) He Anakena 3 (161 + 23)
268 = 26 + 242 (side b on the G tablet) 472 = 16 * 29˝ = 360 + 16 weeks = 8 fortnights + 8 * 45 = 8 * 59
268 + 472 = 740 = 392 (C tablet side a) + 348 (C tablet side b)

... In the Gospel of Mark III.17, the 'twins' James and John, the sons of Zebedee, are given by Jesus the name of Boanerges, which the Evangelist explains as meaning 'Sons of Thunder'. This was long overlooked but eventually became the title of a work by a distinguished scholar, too soon forgotten, Rendel Harris. Here the Thunder Twins were shown to exist in cultures as different as Greece, Scandinavia and Peru. They call to mind the roles of Magni and Modi, not actually called twins, but successors of Thor, in Ragnarok. But to quote from Harris:

We have shown that it does not necessarily follow that when the parenthood of the Thunder is recognized, it necessarily extends to both of the twins. The Dioscuri may be called unitedly, Sons of Zeus; but a closer investigation shows conclusively that there was a tendency in the early Greek cults to regard one twin as of divine parentage, and the other of human. Thus Castor is credited to Tyndareus, Pollux to Zeus ...

The extra child made the trouble, and was credited to an outside source. Only later will the difficulty of discrimination lead to the recognition of both as Sky-boys or Thunder-boys. An instance from a remote civilization will show that this is the right view to take. For example, Arriaga, in his 'Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru' tells us that 'when two children are produced at one birth, which they call Chuchos or Curi, and in el Cuzco Taqui Hua-hua, they hold it for an impious and abominable occurrence, and they say, that one of them is the child of the Lightning, and require a severe penance, as if they had committed a great sin'.

And it is interesting to note that when the Peruvians, of whom Arriaga speaks, became Christians, they replaced the name of Son of Thunder, given to one of the twins, by the name of Santiago, having learnt from their Spanish (missionary) teachers that St. James (Santiago) and St. John had been called Sons of Thunder by our Lord, a phrase which these Peruvian Indians seem to have understood, where the great commentators of the Christian Church had missed the meaning ...

Another curious and somewhat similar transfer of the language of the Marcan story in the folk-lore of a people, distant both in time and place ... will be found, even at the present day, amongst the Danes ... Besides the conventional flint axes and celts, which commonly pass as thunder-missiles all over the world, the Danes regard the fossil sea-urchin as a thunderstone, and give it a peculiar name. Such stones are named in Salling, sebedaei-stones, s'bedaei; in North Salling they are called sepadeie-stones. In Norbaek, in the district of Viborg, the peasantry called them Zebedee stones! At Jebjerg, in the parish of Cerum, district of Randers, they called them sebedei-stones ...

The name that is given to these thunderstones is, therefore, very well established, and it seems certain that it is derived from the reference to the Sons of Zebedee in the Gospel as sons of Thunder. The Danish peasant, like the Peruvian savage, recognised at once what was meant by Boanerges, and called his thunderstone after its patron saint.

This might have given pause to later hyperscholars like Bultmann, before they proceeded to 'de-mythologize' the Bible. One never knows what one treads underfoot. (Hamlet's Mill)

... The son of Zebedee and Salome, James is styled 'the Greater' to distinguish him from the Apostle James 'the Less', who was probably shorter of stature. We know nothing of St. James's early life. He was the brother of John, the beloved disciple, and probably the elder of the two ... James' emblem was the scallop shell (or 'cockle shell'), and pilgrims to his shrine often wore that symbol on their hats or clothes. The French for a scallop is coquille St. Jacques, which means 'cockle (or mollusk) of St. James'. The German word for a scallop is Jakobsmuschel, which means 'mussel (or clam) of St. James'; the Dutch word is Jacobsschelp, meaning 'shell of St. James' ... The scallop shell is represented in the decoration of churches named after St. James, such as in St James' Church, Sydney, where it appears in a number of places, including in the mosaics on the floor of the chancel. When referring to St James, the scallop shell is represented with convex perspective. Referring to Venus the perspective is concave ... The date to celebrate St James (the Great) was July 25 in Western Christianity, April 30 in Eastern Christianity, and December 30 in the Hispanic Church. On the other hand, St John (the apostle) was celebrated in December 27 according to all these church traditions. St George, who died in April 23 in the year 303 AD, was celebrated in April 23 ...