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399. Cassiopeia was in the Milky Way River (the Níle) but Andromeda was not:

The precession had moved them both ahead in the year to the Gregorian 0h - which anciently should have been at the December solstice rather than in March 21 - but neither of them belonged in the zodiac:

Assuming Betelgeuze had been the basic ancient point of spring equinox, the precession would since then have pushed the Sun to a position 88 right ascension days earlier (than around 4500 BC). *88 * 26000 / 365.25 = 6264 = 1842 AD + 4422 BC.

... Lifting a huge doorstone, such as two and twenty good four-wheeled [22 * 4 = 88] 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. Two were eaten that night for dinner, two the next morning for breakfast, and two the following night. (Six gone.) But the companions meanwhile had prepared a prodigous stake with which to bore out the Cyclops' single eye; and when clever Odysseus, declaring his own name to be Noman, approached and offered the giant a skin of wine, Polyphemus, having drunk his fill, 'lay back', as we read, 'with his great neck bent round, and sleep that conquers all men overcame him.' Wine and fragments of the men's flesh he had just eaten issued forth from his mouth, and he vomited heavy with drink. 'Then', declared Odysseus, I thrust in that stake under the deep ashes, until it should grow hot, and I spake to my companions comfortable words, lest any should hang back from me in fear. But when that bar of olive wood was just about to catch fire in the flame, green though it was, and began to glow terribly, even then I came nigh, and drew it from the coals, and my fellows gathered about me, and some god breathed great courage into us. For their part they seized the bar of olive wood, that was sharpened at the point, and thrust it into his eye, while I from my place aloft turned it about, as when a man bores a ship's beam with a drill while his fellows below spin it with a strap, which they hold at either end, and the auger runs round continually ...

APRIL 7 8 (*18) 9 (*19) 10 (100) 11

... 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 [Sic!] ...

Ga1-17 Ga1-18 → 118 Ga1-19 Ga1-20 Ga1-21
ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL = β Leporis (81.7) Han-shih-tsieh ο Aurigae (85.8), γ Leporis (85.9)

YANG MUN (α Lupi)

KHUFU KHAFRE MENKAURE

MINTAKA (Belt) = δ Orionis, υ Orionis (82.4), χ Aurigae (82.5), ε Columbae (82.6)

*41 = *82.4 - *41.4

Al Hak'ah-3 (Brand) / Mrigashīrsha-5 (Stag's Head) / Turtle Head-20 (Monkey) / Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur (Little Twins)

ARNEB = α Leporis, Crab Nebula = M1 Tauri (83.0, φ¹ Orionis (83.1), HEKA = λ Orionis, Orion Nebula = M42 (83.2), φ² Orionis (83.6), ALNILAM (String of Pearls) = ε Orionis (83.7)

Three Stars-21 (Gibbon) / Shur-narkabti-sha-shūtū-6 (Star in the Bull towards the south) / ANA-IVA-9 (Pillar of exit)

HEAVENLY GATE = ζ Tauri, ν Columbae (84.0), ω Orionis (84.2),  ALNITAK (Girdle) = ζ Orionis, PHAKT (Phaet) = α Columbae (84.7)

June 10 (161) 11 12 13 (*84) 14 (165)

... 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 ...

°June 6 (*77) 7 8 9 (*80) 10
'May 14 (*54) 15 (500 = 365 + 135) 16 (136) 17 18 (*58)
"April 30 (*40) "May 1 (121) 2 3 (133) 4 (*54)
APRIL 12 13 → 14 * 29½ 14 (104) 15 16 (*26)
Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25 Ga1-26
μ Columbae, SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis (86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6) υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae, δ Leporis (87.7), TZE (Son) = λ Columbae (87.9)

Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)

χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BET-EL-GEUZE (Birth House of the Giant) = α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae)

η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI (Lord of Created Beings) = δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM (Wrist) = θ Aurigae, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7)

*48 = *89.4 - *41.4
μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)

... Like the names of most other Greek letters, the name of beta was adopted from the acrophonic name of the corresponding letter in Phoenician, which was the common Semitic word *bayt ('house'). In the system of Greek numerals beta had a value of 2.

... The building of new houses was obviously the result of (male) births in the royal family. In each case, the house that was built last is left to the newborn son and his mother, together with a specific servant, while the king has a new and separate residence constructed for himself ...

June 15 16 17 (84) 18 19
°June 11 12 13 (*84) 14 15
'May 19 20 21 (141) 22 23 (*63)
"May 5 6 7 (127) 8 9 (*49)

... The earliest depiction that has been linked to the constellation of Orion is a prehistoric (Aurignacian) mammoth ivory carving found in a cave in the Ach valley in Germany in 1979. Archaeologists have estimated it to have been fashioned approximately 32,000 to 38,000 years ago ... The artist cut, smoothed and carved one side (A) and finely notched the other side (B) and the edges. Side A contains the half-relief of an anthropoidal figure, either human or a human-feline hybrid, known as the 'adorant' because its arms are raised as if in an act of worship.

Egyptian jubilation Phoenician he Greek epsilon Ε (ε)

Wikipedia points at the Egyptian gesture with arms held high as a Sign of jubilation, which may have been the origin (via Phoenician he) of epsilon.

On side B together with the four edges is a series of notches that are clearly set in an intentional pattern. The edges contain a total of 39 notches in groups of 6, 13, 7 and 13. A further 49 notches on side B are arranged in four vertical lines of 13, 10, 12 and 13 respectively plus a further notch that could be in either of the middle two lines ... The grouping of the notches on the plate suggests a time-related sequence. 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, and the timing of the heliacal rise in early summer would have facilitated a ‘rule of thumb’ whereby, by timing conception close to the reappearance of the constellation, it could be ensured that a birth would take place after the severe winter half-year, but leaving enough time for sufficient nutrition of the baby before the beginning of the next winter. There is a resemblance between the anthropoid on side A and the constellation Orion. None of these factors is convincing when taken in isolation, because of the high probability that apparently significant structural and numerical coincidences might have arisen fortuitously. However, taken together they suggest that the anthropoid represented an asterism equivalent to today’s constellation of Orion, and that the ivory plate as a whole related to a system of time reckoning linked to the moon and to human pregnancy. If so, then ethnographic comparisons would suggest that the Geißenklösterle culture related their ‘anthropoid’ asterism to perceived cycles of cosmic power and fertility ...

Betelgeuze was 5 days after the 'Magician' (Heka) and indeed it would have been like a miracle to see how Mother Nature came alive again after 88 days, in APRIL 14 (104), as counted from JANUARY 16 (= DECEMBER 31 + 16 days waiting for the return to visibility of this star).

Sirrah (the Navel of the Pegasus Horse) would have risen with the Sun in day 365 + 80 - 88 = 357 (DECEMBER 23), to become visible again in day 357 + 16 - 365 = JANUARY 8 - in a way which alluded to the 8-night long absence of Venus before she would return as Morning Star:

CIRCUIT OF VENUS

Evening star

263

Black

8

Morning star

263

Black

50

Sum

584

Venus as Evening Star would appear after 50 dark nights and in Virgo was Spica at right ascension day *202. Counting backwards 50 days will lead us to *152 = 232 (August 20). And converting 232 days counted from the beginning of January to 232 right ascension days at the time of the Bull will bring us to January 11 (111 as in 3 days of cold food):

NOV 6 (310) 7 (227 = 311 - 84) 8 (*232 = 312 - 80) 9 10 (314)
Gb1-1 Gb1-2 Gb1-3 Gb1-4 (233) Gb1-5
DENEB OKAB (Tail of the Eagle) = δ Aquilae (Ant.) (294.0), α Vulpeculae (294.9) ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), ALBIREO (Ab Ireo) = β Cygni (295.5) ALSAFI (Fire Tripod) = σ Draconis (296.0), μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8), κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9) ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.) (297.4), SHAM (Arrow) = α Sagittae (297.8)

*256 = *297.4 - *41.4 = 4 * 64

β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae (298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8)
Jan 9 (8 + 1) 10 (*295) 11 12 13 (378 → Saturn)
°Jan 5 6 (*291) 7 8 9 (374)
'Dec 13 14 (*268) 15 16 (350) 17 (88 + 263)
"Nov 29 30 (*254) "Dec 1 2 (336 = 4 * 84) 3

Rogo in Gb1-3 could correspond to the place from where there were 50 dark nights before Venus returned as Evening Star:

NOV 8 (*232) 49 DEC 28 (*282) 29 30 (364) 31 JAN 1
Gb1-3 (232) Gb2-27 → π Gb2-28 (54) Gb2-29 → 229 Gb2-30 (285) Gb2-31
Jan 11 (8 + 3) March 2 FOMALHAUT (Mouth of the Fish) 4 (*348) Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 (Fore Spout) / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 (First of the Blessed Feet) / (Birth) House-13 (Pig) 23h

... In late September or early October 130, Hadrian and his entourage, among them Antinous, assembled at Heliopolis to set sail upstream as part of a flotilla along the River Nile. The retinue included officials, the Prefect, army and naval commanders, as well as literary and scholarly figures. Possibly also joining them was Lucius Ceionius Commodus, a young aristocrat whom Antinous might have deemed a rival to Hadrian's affections. On their journey up the Nile, they stopped at Hermopolis Magna, the primary shrine to the god Thoth. It was shortly after this, in October [in the year A.D.] 130 - around the time of the festival of Osiris - that Antinous fell into the river and died, probably from drowning. Hadrian publicly announced his death, with gossip soon spreading throughout the Empire that Antinous had been intentionally killed. The nature of Antinous's death remains a mystery to this day, and it is possible that Hadrian himself never knew; however, various hypotheses have been put forward.

One possibility is that he was murdered by a conspiracy at court. However, Lambert asserted that this was unlikely because it lacked any supporting historical evidence, and because Antinous himself seemingly exerted little influence over Hadrian, thus meaning that an assassination served little purpose. Another suggestion is that Antinous had died during a voluntary castration as part of an attempt to retain his youth and thus his sexual appeal to Hadrian. However, this is improbable because Hadrian deemed both castration and circumcision to be abominations and as Antinous was aged between 18 and 20 at the time of death, any such operation would have been ineffective. A third possibility is that the death was accidental, perhaps if Antinous was intoxicated. However, in the surviving evidence Hadrian does not describe the death as being an accident; Lambert thought that this was suspicious.

Another possibility is that Antinous represented a voluntary human sacrifice. Our earliest surviving evidence for this comes from the writings of Dio Cassius, 80 years after the event, although it would later be repeated in many subsequent sources. In the second century Roman Empire, a belief that the death of one could rejuvenate the health of another was widespread, and Hadrian had been ill for many years; in this scenario, Antinous could have sacrificed himself in the belief that Hadrian would have recovered. Alternately, in Egyptian tradition it was held that sacrifices of boys to the Nile, particularly at the time of the October Osiris festival, would ensure that the River would flood to its full capacity and thus fertilize the valley; this was made all the more urgent as the Nile's floods had been insufficient for full agricultural production in both 129 and 130. In this situation, Hadrian might not have revealed the cause of Antinous's death because he did not wish to appear either physically or politically weak. Conversely, opposing this possibility is the fact that Hadrian disliked human sacrifice and had strengthened laws against it in the Empire ...