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459. There were 5 right ascension days from heliacal Ain (Bull's Eye) at Ga1-1 to 21 March. And there were 6 right ascension days to be counted from Hyadum II, down from the time-frame of the Bull to that when Itzem-Yeh had been defeated.

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
15 March (144 - 70) 16 (300 / 4) 17 (66 + 10)
0h (445 - 80 = *365) MARCH 22 (*1) 23 (82)
no glyph
Ga1-1 (= 65 - 64) Ga1-2

HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2) 

Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)

no star listed (66)
May 24 25 (145 = 290 / 2) 26 (*66)
'April 27 28 (118 = 4 * 29½) 29 (*39)
"April 13 14 (104 = 8 * 13) 15 (*25)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
18 March 19 (78) 20 21 (150 - 70)
MARCH 24 JULIAN EQUINOX 26 (*5) 27
Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-6
no star listed (67)

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)
no star listed (69) no star listed (70)
May 27 28 (148) 29 30 (*70)
°May 23 24 (144) 25 (*65) 26
'April 30 'May 1 (121) 2 (*42) 3
16 (471) "April 17 (107) 18 (*28) 19

365 - 360 = 5 and 366 - 360 = 6. In the C text number 6 (implying a right ascension cycle of 366 days) was underlined in Ca1-6 and Cb1-6:

no glyph koia ki te hoea ki te henua te rima te hau tea haga i te mea ke ki te henua - tagata honui
Ca1-1 Ca1-2 Ca1-3 (121 - 118) Ca1-4 Ca1-5 Ca1-6
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
March 21 (80)

Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)

0h (365.25)

CAPH (Hand) = β Cassiopeiae, SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)
22

Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)
23

χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)

24

σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7)

25 (84)

no star listed (4)

26

ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

ALPHARD (α Hydrae)

27

λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4)

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Sept 20 (263) 21 Equinox 23 24 (183) 25 (*5 + *183) 26 (185)
24 (236 = 8 * 29½) 'Aug 25 26 (265 - 27) 27 28 (*160) (157 = 314 / 2) 30
"Aug 10 (222) 11 12 (265 - 41) 13 (15 * 15) 14 (227 = 268 - 41) 16 (*148)
ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis (184.6), MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris (184.9)

Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28 (Worm)

GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9)

*144.0 = *185.4 - *41.4 (= 12 * 12)

CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3) INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5)

*146.0 = *187.4 - *41.4

γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB = δ Corvi (188.5), GACRUX = γ Crucis (188.7) γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7)

... Raven gazed up and down the beach. It was pretty, but lifeless. There was no one about to upset, or play tricks upon. Raven sighed. He crossed his wings behind him and strutted up and down the sand, his shiny head cocked, his sharp eyes and ears alert for any unusual sight or sound. The mountains and the sea, the sky now ablaze with the sun by day and the moon and stars he had placed there, it was all pretty, but lifeless. Finally Raven cried out to the empty sky with a loud exasperated cry. And before the echoes of his cry faded from the shore, he heard a muffled squeak. He looked up and down the beach for its source and saw nothing. He strutted back and and forth, once, twice, three times and still saw nothing. Then he spied a flash of white in the sand. There, half buried in the sand was a giant clamshell. As his shadow fell upon it, he heard another muffled squeak. Peering down into the opening between the halves of the shell, he saw it was full of tiny creatures, cowering in fear at his shadow ...

380
*Ca14-24 *Ca14-25 *Ca14-26 *Ca14-27 (6 + 384) *Ca14-28 *Ca14-29
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
δ Phoenicis (21.5) PINWHEEL GALAXY (M33 Trianguli (22.1), υ Andromedae (22.9) ACHERNAR (End of the River) = α Eridani (23.3), χ Andromedae (23.6), τ Andromedae (23.9) ALSEIPH (Scimitar) = φ Persei (24.5), τ Ceti (24.7) no star listed (25)

ANA-NIA-10 (Pillar-to-fish by)

χ Ceti (26.1), POLARIS = α Ursae Minoris, BATEN KAITOS (Belly of the Fish) = ζ Ceti (26.6), METALLAH (Triangle) = α Trianguli (26.9)
Cb1-1 (393) Cb1-2 Cb1-3 Cb1-4 (82 + 314) Cb1-5
CLOSE TO THE SUN:

Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 (Dog) / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1 (Front of the Head of Ku)

SEGIN = ε Cassiopeia, MESARTHIM = γ Arietis, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN (Pair of Signs) = β Arietis, φ Phoenicis (27.4)

*351 = *27.4 - *41.4
ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8) ALRISHA (The Knot) = α Piscium, χ Phoenicis (29.2), ε Trianguli (29.4), ALAMAK (Caracal) = γ Andromedae (29.7)

*353 = *29.4 - *41.4

Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 (Back of the Head of Ku)

2h (30.4)

κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (Sheep) = α Arietis (30.5)

ALKES (α Crateris)

DELTOTUM = β Trianguli (31.2), ι Trianguli (31.7), η Arietis (31.9)

*355 =  *31 - *41

 

'March 21 (0h) 22 23 (82) 24 Julian equinox
Cb1-6 (398 = 392 + 6)
ξ¹ Ceti (32.1)
Cb1-7 Cb1-8 (400) Cb1-9
γ, δ Trianguli (33.0), χ Persei (33.2), 10 Trianguli (33.5), θ Arietis (33.3), MIRA (Next to the Pleiades) = ο Ceti (33.7) no star listed (34)

ξ Arietis (35.0), ρ Ceti (35.4), 12 Trianguli (35.8), ξ² Ceti (35.9)

*360.0 = *35.4 - *41.4
Cb1-10 (82 + 320) Cb1-11 (403)

The C text was evidently beginning where 0h was at the Full Moon, i.e. as defined from the current heliacal cycle with the Sun at heliacal Alchita.

From the beginning of the Winnowing Basket (the t-pot) in Sagittarius to the northern winter solstice (the southern summer solstice) there had been 6 days at the time when the Pope Gregory XIII had launched his new calendar. °Dec 15 (*269) + 6 = solstice. This meant the corresponding 6 days had to be reflected in the positions of the other cardinal points, and there were 6 days from Sirrah (or Alchita) to Ca1-6.

... 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 ...

Itzam-Yeh was a name for Ursa Major, the Big Dipper high up in the north, and notably the South Dipper was a part of the Tea-pot:

... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini. In fact, he states explicitly (I,12.5) that this 'Gate' is 'where the Zodiac and the Milky Way intersect'. Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ... Considering the fact that the crossroadsof ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ...