129. The G text had its beginning 8 days
after heliacal Alcyone (*56), in right ascension day
*64 (= 384 / 6) = May 24 (144 = 12 * 12). Or we
could read the stars close to the Full Moon and
identify this time of the year as the
southern spring equinox at the time of Hyadum II,
when Antares - the Entrance Pillar - had marked this place:
0h |
MARCH 22 (*1) |
23 (82) |
no glyph |
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|
Ga1-1 |
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) |
26 |
°May 20 |
21 (*61) |
22 (142) |
'April 27 |
28 (118) |
29 (*39) |
"April 13 |
14 (104) |
15 (*25) |
CLOSE TO THE FULL
MOON (and nakshatra
dates): |
SEPT 20 (*183) |
21 (264) |
EQUINOX |
Heart-5 (Fox)
σ Scorpii
(247.0),
HEJIAN = γ Herculis
(247.2),
ψ Ophiuchi (247.7) |
ρ
Ophiuchi (248.1),
KAJAM = ω Herculis
(248.3),
χ Ophiuchi (248.5),
SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi,
Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr.
(248.8) |
Al Kalb-16
/
Jyeshtha-18 /
ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)
ANTARES
= α Scorpii
(249.1),
MARFIK = λ Ophiuchi,
φ Ophiuchi (249.5), ω Ophiuchi
(249.8) |
Nov 23 (327) |
24 |
25
(*249 = *208 + *41) |
°Nov 19 |
20 (*244) |
21 (325 = 265 + 60) |
'Oct 27 (300) |
28 |
29 (*222) |
"Oct 13 (286) |
14 |
15 (*208) |
Side a of the tablet ended with glyph number 229 (=
365 - 136), at the left leg of the Archer (Al
Rami) - who was in the form of a flying horse -
and at the π hole in Draco (3 days after π
Sagittarii at the back of the head of the Archer):
222 |
NOV 1 |
2 (306) |
3
(*227) |
4 |
5 |
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Ga8-22 |
Ga8-23 |
Ga8-24 (227) |
Ga8-25 |
Ga8-26 |
19h (289.2)
λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor.
Austr (289.3),
τ Sagittarii
(289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor.
Austr. (289.8) |
Al Baldah-19
AL BALDAH
= π Sagittarii,
ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA
= α
Cor. Austr.
(290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2) |
ALADFAR = η Lyrae
(291.1),
NODUS II = δ Draconis
(291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), τ
Draconis (291.7), θ Lyrae (291.8) |
ω Aquilae (292.1), ρ Sagittarii
(292.6), υ Sagittarii (292.7) |
π Draconis,
ARKAB PRIOR = β¹ Sagittarii
(293.0),
ARKAB POSTERIOR = β² Sagittarii,
ALRAMI = α Sagittarii
(293.2),
χ Sagittarii
(293.6) |
Jan 4 |
5 (*290) |
6 |
7 (372) |
8 |
°Dec 31 |
°Jan 1 |
2 (*250 + *37) |
3 (368) |
4 |
'Dec 8 |
9 |
10 (*250
+ 14) |
11 (345) |
12 |
"Nov 24 |
25 (329
= 249 + 80) |
26 (*250) |
27 |
28 |
CLOSE TO THE FULL
MOON (and nakshatra
dates): |
MAY 2 |
3 (123 = 306 - 183) |
4 (124 =
188 - 64) |
5 (*45) |
6 |
no
star listed (106) |
WEZEN (Weight) = δ Canis Majoris
(107.1),
τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis
(107.9) |
no star
listed (108) |
λ Gemini
(109.4),
WASAT (Middle) = δ Gemini
(109.8) |
no star
listed (110) |
July 5 |
6 (*107
= *66 + *41) |
7 (188 = 161 + 27) |
8 |
9 |
°July 1 |
2 |
3 (184 = 161 + 23) |
4 |
5 |
'June 8 |
9 |
10 (161 = 124 + 23) |
11 |
12 |
"May 25 |
26
(146 = 2 * 73) |
27
(84 + 63) |
28 |
29 |
... 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
...
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I.e., this important place
was where the Babylonians had their Cargo
Boat (Corona Australis) and where the
March Hare had upset the Milk Jug - the place
where the Milky Way River was beginning. It
was a spirit leaping place.
Reiga
Mg. Reiga, Spirit
leaping-place. At Mangaia the
spirits of those who ignobly died
'on a pillow' wandered about
disconsolately over the rocks near
the margin of the sea until the day
appointed by their leader comes
(once a year). Many months might
elapse ere the projected departures
of the ghost took place. This weary
interval was spent in dances and
revisiting their former homes, where
the living dwell affectionately
remembered by the dead. At night
fall they would wander amongst the
trees and plantations nearest to
these dwellings, sometimes venturing
to peep inside. As a rule these
ghosts were well disposed towards
their own living relatives; but
often became vindictive if a pet
child was ill-treated by a
stepmother or other relatives etc.
Eventually the spirits would depart
from known reinga, spirit
leaping-places. Such leaping-places
also existed on other islands. Even
after this departure some spirit
intrusions from the underworld were
possible. Oral Traditions.
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.
Hamlet's Mill. |
Or
ending, should we take more notice of the
stars close to the Full Moon. At the time of
the Pope Gregory XIII the star which
announced the beginning of the Sea - Nunki (σ
Sagittarii) - rose heliacally in ºDecember
30 (364) at the time when Sirius was at the
Full Moon in ºJune 30 (181 = 364 - 183).
... '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 Mad Hatter had a Sign in his oversized
hat, a price label which alluded to the
month of Jupiter (In this Style 10 / 6)
... 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 ...
And the Chinese list had the South Dipper (Tea
Pot with
Φ
Sagittarii) as their 8th station:
1 |
Horn |
α Virginis (Spica) |
Crocodile |
(202.7) |
Oct 9 (282) |
2 |
Neck |
κ Virginis |
Dragon |
(214.8) |
Oct 21 (294) |
3 |
Root |
α Librae (Zuben Elgenubi) |
Badger |
(224.2) |
Oct 31 (304) |
4 |
Room |
π Scorpii (Vrischika) |
Hare |
(241.3) |
Nov 17 (321) |
5 |
Heart |
σ Scorpii |
Fox |
(247.0) |
Nov 23 (327) |
6 |
Tail |
μ Scorpii (Denebakrab) |
Tiger |
(254.7) |
Nov 30 (334) |
7 |
Winnowing Basket |
γ Sagittarii (Nash) |
Leopard |
(273.7) |
Dec 19 (353) |
December solstice |
8 |
South Dipper |
Φ Sagittarii |
Unicorn |
(284.0) |
Dec 30 (364) |
The Unicorn was associated with the
South Dipper because Monoceros was
at
Castor and Pollux at the other end
of the Milky Way River. Although in
modern times the tail end of the
winter quarter had changed its
position from Gemini to Andromeda:
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