At the time of Betelgeuze (when this star had been at 0h) the heliacal position of the Foundation Stone (Temennu, Alcyone) had been in day 52 (as counted from 1 January) + 11 (distance from 21 December to 1 January) = 63 (= 9 * 7), and this number we can recognize from the G text, where instead it evidently marked the precessional time down to the Rainy Hyades - which were at the end of side b of the tablet in order to have the correct position of the March equinox 64 (= 8 * 8) days earlier. Betelgeuze (*88) - Alcyone (*56) = 32 = 64 / 2 = the number of cowries on the hands and feet of the buried Lébé:

... Easter Island (te pito o te kainga) is the last of all known islands. Seven lands lie before it, but these do not recommend themselves for settlement. Easter Island is the 'eighth land' (te varu kainga). Actually, we are dealing here with a figure of speech because 'seven' and 'eight' used as qualifying quantities play a traditional role in Oceania (Barthel 1962a). While the number seven is known as a topos in MQS., HAW., and MAO., the topos of the number eight goes far beyond eastern Polynesia (MQS., HAW., TAH.). In TON., the number eight is 'a conventional term signifying many or a well-balanced number' (McKern 1929:17), and on Malaita in the southern Solomon Islands, the physical world in its entirety is referred to as 'eight islands (wālu malau) (Ivens 1927:400). The number eight not only means 'many' but also denotes perfection. Thus, when Easter Island was called 'an eighth land', the expression contained first of all the idea of a 'last' island - an island farthest away from the rest of the islands that make up the oceanic world. At the same time, the expression indicated a special position among the other islands. The idea of groups of seven, which are surpassed by an eight element, seems to belong to the cosmology of Asian high cultures. For example, there are seven planets circling the world axis, which represents the eighth, and therefore central, position ...

... Ogotemmêli had his own ideas about calculation. The Dogon in fact did use the decimal system, because from the beginning they had counted on their fingers, but the basis of their reckoning had been the number eight and this number recurred in what they called in French la centaine, which for them meant eighty. Eighty was the limit of reckoning, after which a new series began. Nowadays there could be ten such series, so that the European 1,000 corresponded to the Dogon 800. But Ogotemmêli believed that in the beginning men counted by eights - the number of cowries on each hand, that they had used their ten fingers to arrive at eighty, but that the number eight appeared again in order to produce 640 (8 x 10 x 8). 'Six hundred and forty', he said, 'is the end of the reckoning.' According to him, 640 covenant-stones had been thrown up by the seventh Nummo to make the outline in the grave of Lébé.

So the cowries that the father of the first twins found in the ground when harvesting millet after the second sowing, were a foreshadowing of commerce ...

side b
*365	0h	*1	61	*63 = 143 - 80

Gb6-25 (178 = 407 - 229)	Gb6-26 (408)	Gb6-27 (242 - 62)		*Gb8-30 (14 29½ - 1)**
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN NORTH OF THE EQUATOR:
Equinox	SIRRAH	ALGENIB PEGASI	61	HYADUM I
Equinox	March 21	22 (81)	61	May 23 (143 = 59 + 84)
... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ...
Gregory XIII	°March 17	18 (77)	61	°May 19 (139)
Roman times	'Febr 22 (53)	Terminalia		'April 26 (116)
Time of Bharani	"Febr 8	9 (40)		"April 12 (102)
Time of Hyadum II	JAN 16	17 (= 363 + 20 - 366)		EQUINOX (143 - 64)
361	362	*363 = 1 - 4 + 366**		425 = 366 + 59
*65 (= 5 13 = 365 - 300)**

Cb2-4 (420 = 285 + 135)

Cb2-5 (392 + 29)

Cb2-6 (30)

Cb2-7 (423)

te ua

koia ra

kua tuku ki to mata - ki tona tukuga

e kiore - henua - pa rei

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN NORTH OF THE EQUATOR:

π Cor. Borealis, UNUK ELHAIA (Necks of the Serpents) = λ Serpentis (238.1), CHOW = β Serpentis (238.6)

κ Serpentis (239.3), δ Cor. Borealis, TIĀNRŪ = μ Serpentis (239.5), χ Lupi, (239.6), ω Serpentis (239.7), BA = ε Serpentis, χ Herculis (239.8). κ Cor. Borealis, ρ Serpentis (239.9)

λ Librae (240.0), β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8)

Iklīl al Jabhah-15 (Crown of the Forehead) / Anuradha-17 (Following rādhā) / Room-4 (Hare)

ξ Lupi, λ Cor. Bor.(241.1), ZHENG = γ Serpentis, θ Librae (241.2), VRISCHIKA = π Scorpii (241.3), ε Cor. Borealis (241.5), DSCHUBBA (Front of Forehead) = δ Scorpii (241.7), η Lupi (241.9)

Egyptian hand

Phoenician kaph

Greek kappa

Κ (κ)

Kaph is thought to have been derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew, kaph means palm/grip) ...

... The manik, with the tzab, or serpent's rattles as prefix, runs across Madrid tz. 22 , the figures in the pictures all holding the rattle; it runs across the hunting scenes of Madrid tz. 61, 62, and finally appears in all four clauses of tz. 175, the so-called 'baptism' tzolkin. It seems impossible, with all this, to avoid assigning the value of grasping or receiving. But in the final confirmation, we have the direct evidence of the signs for East and West. For the East we have the glyph Ahau-Kin, the Lord Sun, the Lord of Day; for the West we have Manik-Kin, exactly corresponding to the term Chikin, the biting or eating of the Sun, seizing it in the mouth.

The pictures (from Gates) show east, north, west, and south; respectively (the lower two glyphs) 'Lord' (Ahau) and 'grasp' (Manik). Manik was the 7th day sign of the 20 and Ahau the last ...

Nov 14

16 (320 = 137 + 183)

17 (*241 = *58 + *183)

ºNov 10 (314)

13 (*237)

'Oct 18 (108 + 183 = 291)

21 (*214 =*31 + *183)

"Oct 4 (277 = 314 - 37)

7 (*200 = *17 + *183)

SEPT 11 (254 = 71 + 183)

12 (365 - 100)

14 (*177 = *354 / 2)

234 = 314 - 80

235

236 = 320 - 84

237 (= 8 * 29½ + 1)

Kiore. Rat. Vanaga. Rat, mouse; kiore hiva, rabbit. P Pau., Mgv.: kiore, rat, mouse. Mq.: kioē, íoé, id. Ta.: iore, id. Churchill.

... All was now ready for departure except that there was no fire in the smithy. The ancestor slipped into the workshop of the great Nummo, who are Heaven's smiths, and stole a piece of the sun in the form of live embers and white-hot iron. He seized it by means of a 'robber's stick' the crook of which ended in a slit, open like a mouth. He dropped some of the embers, came back to pick them up, and fled towards the granary; but his agitation was such that he could no longer find the entrances. He made the round of it several times before he found the steps and climbed onto the flat roof, where he hid the stolen goods in one of the skins of the bellows, exclaiming: 'Gouyo!', which is to say. 'Stolen!'. The word is still part of the language, and means 'granary'. It is a reminder that without the fire of the smithy and the iron of hoes there would be no crops to store ...

During his descent the ancestor still possessed the quality of a water spirit, and his body, though preserving its human appearance, owing to its being that of a regenerated man, was equipped with four flexible limbs like serpents after the pattern of the arms of the Great Nummo. The ground was rapidly approaching. The ancestor was still standing, his arms in front of him and the hammer and anvil hanging across his limbs. The shock of his final impact on the earth when he came to the end of the rainbow, scattered in a cloud of dust the animals, vegetables and men disposed on the steps. When calm was restored, the smith was still on the roof, standing erect facing towards the north, his tools still in the same position. But in the shock of landing the hammer and the anvil had broken his arms and legs at the level of elbows and knees, which he did not have before.

He thus acquired the joints proper to the new human form, which was to spread over the earth and to devote itself to toil ...

May 16 (136)

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON ON EASTER ISLAND:

Al Thurayya-27 (Many Little Ones) / Krittikā-3 (Nurses of Kārttikeya) / TAU-ONO (Six Stones)

ATIKS = ο Persei, RANA (Frog) = δ Eridani (55.1), CELAENO (16 Tauri), ELECTRA (17), TAYGETA (19), ν Persei (55.3), MAIA (20), ASTEROPE (21), MEROPE (23) (55.6)

Hairy Head-18 (Cockerel) / Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)

ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE (28 Tauri), ATLAS (27) (56.3)

MENKHIB = ζ Persei (57.6)

~~PORRIMA (γ Virginis)~~

ZAURAK (The Boat) = γ Eridani (58.9)

15 (135 + 365 = 500)

May 16 (136)

18 (*58)

ºMay 11

12 (132)

14 (*54)

4-18 (473 = 108 + 365)

'April 19

4-20

21 (111)

"April 4

5 (501 - 41 = 460)

6 (*16)

MARCH 12

3-14 (73)

417 (= 501 - 84)

53 (= 73 - 20)

54 (= *58 - 4)

... The Mahabharata insists on six as the number of the Pleiades as well as of the mothers of Skanda and gives a very broad and wild description of the birth and the installation of Kartikeya 'by the assembled gods ... as their generalissimo', which is shattering, somehow, driving home how little one understands as yet. The least which can be said, assuredly: Mars was 'installed' during a more or less close conjunction of all planets; in Mbh. 9.45 (p. 133) it is stressed that the powerful gods assembled 'all poured water upon Skanda, even as the gods had poured water on the head of Varuna, the lord of waters, for investing him with dominion'. And this 'investiture' took place at the beginning of the Krita Yuga, the Golden Age ...

... They go inland at the land. The child nursed and tended grows up, is able to go and play. Each day he now goes off a bit further away, moving some distance away from the house, and then returns to their house. So it goes on and the child is fully grown and goes to play far away from the place where they live. He goes over to where some work is being done by a father and son. Likāvaka is the name of the father - a canoe-builder, while his son is Kiukava. Taetagaloa goes right over there and steps forward to the stern of the canoe saying - his words are these: 'The canoe is crooked.' (kalo ki ama). Instantly Likāvaka is enraged at the words of the child. Likāvaka says: 'Who the hell are you to come and tell me that the canoe is crooked?' Taetagaloa replies: 'Come and stand over here and see that the canoe is crooked.' Likāvaka goes over and stands right at the place Taetagaloa told him to at the stern of the canoe. Looking forward, Taetagaloa is right, the canoe is crooked. He slices through all the lashings of the canoe to straighten the timbers. He realigns the timbers. First he must again position the supports, then place the timbers correctly in them, but Kuikava the son of Likāvaka goes over and stands upon one support. His father Likāvaka rushes right over and strikes his son Kuikava with his adze. Thus Kuikava dies. Taetagaloa goes over at once and brings the son of Likāvaka, Kuikava, back to life. Then he again aligns the supports correctly and helps Likāvaka in building the canoe. Working working it is finished ...

... They all sat down and rested [on the plain of Oromanga], when suddenly they saw that a turtle had reached the shore and had crawled up on the beach. He [Ira] looked at it and said, 'Hey, you! The turtle has come on land!' He said, 'Let's go! Let's go back to the shore.' They all went to pick up the turtle. Ira was the first one to try to lift the turtle - but she didn't move. Then Raparenga said, 'You do not have the necessary ability. Get out of my way so that I can have a try!' Raparenga stepped up and tried to lift the turtle - but Raparenga could not move her. Now you spoke, Kuukuu: 'You don't have the necessary ability, but I shall move this turtle. Get out of my way!' Kuukuu stepped up, picked up the turtle, using all his strength. After he had lifted the turtle a little bit, he pushed her up farther. No sooner had he pushed her up and lifted her completely off the ground when she struck Kuukuu with one fin. She struck downward and broke Kuukuu's spine.The turtle got up, went back into the (sea) water, and swam away. All the kinsmen spoke to you (i.e. Kuukuu): 'Even you did not prevail against the turtle!'

They put the injured Kuukuu on a stretcher and carried him inland. They prepared a soft bed for him in the cave and let him rest there. They stayed there, rested, and lamented the severely injured Kuukuu. Kuukuu said, 'Promise me, my friends, that you will not abandon me!' They all replied, 'We could never abandon you!' They stayed there twenty-seven days in Oromanga. Everytime Kuukuu asked, 'Where are you, friends?' they immediately replied in one voice, 'Here we are!' They all sat down and thought. They had an idea and Ira spoke, 'Hey, you! Bring the round stones (from the shore) and pile them into six heaps of stones!' One of the youths said to Ira, 'Why do we want heaps of stone?' Ira replied, 'So that we can all ask the stones to do something.' They took (the material) for the stone heaps (pipi horeko) and piled up six heaps of stone at the outer edge of the cave. Then they all said to the stone heaps, 'Whenever he calls, whenever he calls for us, let your voices rush (to him) instead of the six (of us) (i.e., the six stone heaps are supposed to be substitutes for the youths). They all drew back to profit (from the deception) (? ki honui) and listened. A short while later, Kuukuu called. As soon as he had asked, 'Where are you?' the voices of the stone heaps replied, 'Here we are!' All (the youths) said, 'Hey, you! That was well done!' ...

... Vainamoinen set about building a boat, but when it came to the prow and the stern, he found he needed three words in his rune that he did not know, however he sought for them. In vain he looked on the heads of the swallows, on the necks of the swans, on the backs of the geese, under the tongues of the reindeer. He found a number of words, but not those he needed. Then he thought of seeking them in the realm of Death, Tuonela, but in vain. He escaped back to the world of the living only thanks to his potent magic. He was still missing his three runes. He was then told by a shepherd to search in the mouth of Antero Vipunen, the giant ogre. The road, he was told, went over swords and sharpened axes. Ilmarinen made shoes, shirt and gloves of iron for him, but warned him that he would find the great Vipunen dead. Nevertheless, the hero went. The giant lay underground, and trees grew over his head. Vainamoinen found his way to the giant's mouth, and planted his iron staff in it. The giant awoke and suddenly opened his huge mouth. Vainamoinen slipped into it and was swallowed. As soon as he reached the enormous stomach, he thought of getting out. He built himself a raft and floated on it up and down inside the giant. The giant felt tickled and told him in many and no uncertain words where he might go, but he did not yield any runes. Then Vainamoinen built a smithy and began to hammer his iron on an anvil, torturing the entrails of Vipunen, who howled out magic songs to curse him away. But Vainamoinen said, thank you, he was very comfortable and would not go unless he got the secret words. Then Vipunen at last unlocked the treasure of his powerful runes. Many days and nights he sang, and the sun and the moon and the waves of the sea and the waterfalls stood still to hear him. Vainamoinen treasured them all and finally agreed to come out. Vipunen opened his great jaws, and the hero issued forth to go and build his boat at last ...

In the G text we could perceive a place where the Stag might have brought fire from the sky down to humanity:


Ga1-22	Ga1-23 → 403 - 280	Ga1-24	*Ga1-25 → 5 5 * 5**	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), BETELGEUZE = Α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7) ~~ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae)~~	η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI = Δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN = Β Aurigae, MAHASHIM = Θ Aurigae, and Γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7)	Μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)
June 15	16	17 (168)	18	19
°June 11	12	13 (164)	14	*15 (86)**
'May 19	20	21 (141)	22	*23 (63)**
"May 5	6	7 (127)	8	*9 (49)**
APRIL 12	13	14 (104)	15	*16 (26)**
82	83	*84 (= 12 7)**	*85 (= 5 17)**	86

A man had a daughter who possessed a wonderful bow and arrow, with which she was able to bring down everything she wanted. But she was lazy and was constantly sleeping. At this her father was angry and said: 'Do not be always sleeping, but take thy bow and shoot at the navel of the ocean, so that we may get fire.' The navel of the ocean was a vast whirlpool in which sticks for making fire by friction were drifting about. At that time men were still without fire. Now the maiden seized her bow, shot into the navel of the ocean, and the material for fire-rubbing sprang ashore. Then the old man was glad. He kindled a large fire, and as he wanted to keep it to himself, he built a house with a door which snapped up and down like jaws and killed everybody that wanted to get in. But the people knew that he was in possession of fire, and the stag determined to steal it for them. He took resinous wood, split it and stuck the splinters in his hair. Then he lashed two boats together, covered them with planks, danced and sang on them, and so he came to the old man's house. He sang: 'O, I go and will fetch the fire.' The old man's daughter heard him singing, and said to her father: 'O, let the stranger come into the house; he sings and dances so beautifully.' The stag landed and drew near the door, singing and dancing, and at the same time sprang to the door and made as if he wanted to enter the house. Then the door snapped to, without however touching him. But while it was again opening, he sprang quickly into the house. Here he seated himself at the fire, as if he wanted to dry himself, and continued singing. At the same time he let his head bend forward over the fire, so that he became quite sooty, and at last the splinters in his hair took fire. Then he sprang out, ran off and brought the fire to the people. (From the Catlo'Itq in British Columbia according to Hamlet's Mill.)

The end of line Ga1 (with 30 glyphs) could correspond to the end of line Cb1 (with 24 glyphs). However the latter place perhaps was meant to illustrate where 'fire' was uplifted into the sky and not where the terrestial fire was brought down to earth. From Algenib Persei (*50, cfr Gb6-27) to Alcyone (*56) there were only 6 (→ Sun) days:

ko te rima

kua oo ki te vai

ma te ua

Cb1-22 (414 = 392 + 22)

Cb1-23

Cb1-24

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN NORTH OF THE EQUATOR:

ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), PHERKAD = γ Ursae Min. (232.6), ε Librae (232.7), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9)

ALKALUROPS (The Herdsman's Lance) = μ Bootis (233.1), ED ASICH (Male Hyena) = ι Draconis (233.2)

NUSAKAN (Pauper's Bowl) = β Cor. Bor. (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7), ζ Librae (234.9)

Nov 8 (*232 = *49 + 183)

10 (314)

ºNov 4 (308 = 125 + 183)

5 (*229)

'Oct 12 (285)

14 (*207 = *24 + *183)

"Sept 28 (88 + 183)

29 (2 * 136)

30 (273 = 314 - 41)

SEPT 5 (248 = 65 + 183)

7 (*170 = *234 - *64)

228 (= 45 + 183)

229

230 (= 314 - 84)

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON ON EASTER ISLAND:

τ Arietis (49.7)

ALGENIB PERSEI = α Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

~~GIENAH (γ Corvi)~~

σ Persei (51.6)

May 9 (*49 = 414 - 365)

10 (130)

ºMay 5 (125 = 308 - 183)

6 (*46 = *229 - *183)

'April 12

4-13 (→ 14 * 29½)

14 (104 = 314 - 183 - 27)

"March 29 (88)

MARCH 6

7 (66 = 130 - 64)

46 = 130 - 84

= 121 (= 11 * 11)

The number of 'rain droplets' in the 4 'rivers of time' above are 121 as in the day number for ºMay 1 (at heliacal Algol) or as the place for the tattoing instrument (hoea) in Cb1-21.

Hat-hor (the House of Horus) emerged after 11 * 11 dark nights. But she could not be observed before night number 121 + 16 = 137. In ancient Egypt everything was upside down and it was a Cow instead of a Bull. But Bulls cannot give birth and Bharani was a place for birth.

ARIES:
1	Ashvini	β and γ Arietis	Horse's head	April 17 (107)
	wife of the Ashvins	Sheratan and Mesarthim
2	Bharani	35, 39, and 41 Arietis	Yoni, the female organ of reproduction	May 1 (121)
	the bearer	Musca Borealis

From Betelgeuze to Canopus, however, there were 7 (→ Mother Earth) nights and here the Bow of Sagittarius was at the Full Moon. Orion was the place where once upon a time the path of the Sun had touched Mother Earth at the northern spring equinox:

... When they were there, and had executed their father's commission, the young men felt a wish to enquire to which of them the kingdom of Rome was to come; and we are told that these words were uttered from the bottom of the cave - 'Young men, whichever of you shall first kiss your mother, he shall possess the sovereign power at Rome' ... Brutus judged that the expression of Apollo had another meaning, and as if he had accidentally stumbled and fallen, he touched the earth with his lips, considering that she was the common mother of all mankind ...

Ga1-27

Ga1-28

Ga1-29

Ga1-30

Ga2-1

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN NORTH OF THE EQUATOR:

6h (91.3)

ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)

ξ Orionis (92.5)

Al Han'ah-4 (The Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)

TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)

FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)

Well-22 (Tapir) / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)

δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM (The Roarer) = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)

... Murzim, generally but less correctly Mirzam, and occasionally Mirza, is from Al Murzim, the Announcer², often combined by the Arabs with β Canis Minoris in the plural Al Mirzamāni, or as Al Mirzamā al Shi'rayain, the two Sirian Announcers; Ideler's idea of the applicability of this title being that this star announced the immediate rising of the still brighter Sirius.

² Literally the Roarer, and so another of the many words in the Arabic tongue for the lion, of which that people boasted of having four hundred.

Buttmann asserted that it also was Al Kalb, the Dog, running in front of Sirius, but this must have been from early times in the Desert. In our maps it marks the right fore foot of the Dog ...

June 20

SOLSTICE

22 (*93)

23 (174)

ST JOHN'S DAY

°June 16

17 (168)

20 (*91)

'May 24 (144)

28 (*68)

"May 10 (130)

14 (*54)

APRIL 17 (107)

20 (*30)

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON ON EASTER ISLAND:

ZHŌNGSHĀN = ο Herculis (274.0), π Pavonis (274.6)

ι Pavonis (275.1), POLIS = μ Sagittarii (275.9)

~~MENKAR (α Ceti)~~

η Sagittarii (276.9)

Purva Ashadha-20

KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii, κ Lyrae (277.5), TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis (277.7), SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis (277.8), KWEI SHE = χ Draconis (277.9)

φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS = ε Sagittarii (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), AL ATHFAR = μ Lyrae (278.6)

Dec 20

SOLSTICE

23 (357)

CHRISTMAS EVE

°Dec 16

19 (*273)

20 (354)

'Nov 23 (327)

26 (*250)

"Nov 9

10 (314)

12 (*236)

OCT 17 (290)

21 (*214)

270

271

272

273

274

SAGITTARIUS:
20	*Purva Ashadha*	δ and ε Sagittarii	Elephant tusk, fan, winnowing basket	Dec 24 (358)
	first of the ashādhā (the invincible one, the name of a constellation)	Kaus

But since that ancient time the ecliptic had been drawn up - like a fish - considerably in comparison to declination 0º and the right ascension line for 6h was now around 23º 25':

(22º 36' 41" + 24º 14' 07") / 2 = [(22 * 60 * 60 + 36 * 60 + 41)" + (24 * 60 * 60 + 14 * 60 + 7)"] / 2 = (81401 + 87247)" / 2 = 84324" = 23º 25' 24".