376. Assuming 88 should be the day number for Betelgeuze returning to visibility, i.e. after having been absent for 88 nights counted from December 31, ... He bore a grievous weight of dry wood, which he cast down with a din inside the cave, so that in fear all fled to hide. Lifting a huge doorstone, such as two and twenty good four-wheeled wains could not have raised from the ground, he set this against the mouth of the cave, sat down, milked his ewes and goats, and beneath each placed her young, after which he kindled a fire and spied his guests ... we could then add 290 days in order to create a full cycle. ... The total number of notches (88) not only coincides with the number of days in 3 lunations (88.5) but also approximately with the number of days when the star Betelgeuse (α Ori) disappeared from view each year between its heliacal set (about 14 days before the spring equinox around 33,000 BP) and its heliacal rise (approximately 19 days before the summer solstice). Conversely, the nine-month period when Orion was visible in the sky approximately matched the duration of human pregnancy ... 88 + 290 = 378 is the synodic cycle of Saturn. But presumably we should count 88 + 295 in order to keep to the lunar calendar, and then 378 + 5 = 383 = 13 * 29½ + ½ = 365 + 19:
Wezen (δ Canis Majoris) means 'weight', and 472 (total number of right ascension days on the G tablet) + 24 (as at Ga1-24) - 408 (as at Gb6-26) = 88:
Rogo in Gb6-26 was both at the end of the cycle of Betelgeuze and at the place which Gregory XIII had assigned 0h to be (α Andromedae, The Navel of the Horse, Sirrah).
Similarly, we ought to perceive the headless Rogo in Gb1-3 as another such Janus figure, with Alsafi (the fire tripod) not only at the beginning of 88 dark nights but also at the end of a cycle measuring 383½ right ascension days:
Moving ahead 384 days from Adhil (ξ Andromedae, at the train of her garment) will bring us to *403:
Counting in the framework of lunar synodic months it thus seems clear that Rogo in Gb6-26 also ought to represent the opposite of Gb1-3:
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