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 ...

113	CLOSE TO THE SUN:
	11-17 (321 = 336 - 15)	11-18	11-19	11-20	11-21 (*245)
	DEC 2 (336 = 400 - 64)	3	4	5	6 (*260)
	Gb2-1 (141 + 115)	Gb2-2	Gb2-3 (29)	Gb2-4	Gb2-5 (260)
	DRAMASA = σ Oct., χ Capricorni (320.0), ν Aquarii (320.3), γ Equulei (320.6), ο Pavonis (320.8)	α Oct. (321.5), δ Equulei (321.7), φ Capricorni (321.8)	KITALPHA (Part of a Horse) = α Equulei (322.0), ALDERAMIN (The Right Arm) = α Cephei (322.9)	DAI = ι Capricorni (323.5), β Equulei (323.8)	γ Pavonis (324.1), YAN = ζ Capricorni (324.6)
	Febr 4 (400 = 365 + 35)	5	6	7 (403)	8 (*324)
	°Jan 31 (396)	°Febr 1	2	3 (399)	4 (*320)
	'Jan 8 (373 = 400 - 27)	9	10 (*295)	11	12
	"Dec 25 (359 = 400 - 41)	26 (*280)	27	28	29
	CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
	5-18 (138 = 153 - 15)	5-19	5-20 (*60)	5-21	5-22
	JUNE 2 (153 = 336 - 183)	3	4 (*75)	5	6
	9h (137.0) σ¹ Ursa Majoris (137.0), κ Cancri (137.3), τ Cancri (137.4), ALSUHAIL (al Wazn, of the Weight) = λ Velorum (137.5), σ² Ursa Majoris (137.6), τ Ursa Majoris (137.7), ξ Cancri (137.8)	κ Pyxidis (138.0), ε Pyxidis (138.5)	π Cancri (139.2), MIAPLACIDUS = β Carinae (139.3), TUREIS (Little Shield) = ι Carinae (139.8)	no star listed (140)	θ Pyxidis (141.5), MARKAB VELORUM = κ Velorum (141.5), AL MINHAR AL ASAD (The Nose of the Lion) = κ Leonis (141.6), λ Pyxidis (141.9)
	Aug 5 (217)	6	7	8 (*140)	9
	°Aug 1 (213)	2	3	4 (*136)	6
	'July 9 (190)	10	11	12 (*113)	13
	"June 25 (176)	26	27	28 (*99)	29
	Ga3-14 (73)	Ga3-15	Ga3-16	Ga3-17	Ga3-18

We can recognize the general idea - after death the journey goes straight up to the star at the north respectively south pole, from there down again to rebirth.

... 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 crossroads of 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 ...

Counted from Ga6-5 (where Sheratan was at the Full Moon) there were *320 - *209 = *111 right ascension days, from the Scimitar there were *111 + *3 = *114 days:

The 'fish' opening his mouth showing his red gills (vaha mea) in Ga6-5 (at nakshatra Sheratan) can be compared with similar creatures at the Sun in Gb7-25 and Ga1-4:

204	1-27 (392)	1-28	36
	FEBR 11 (42)	12 (408)
	Gb7-24	Gb7-25 (206)
	Polaris	Sheratan (*27)
	April 16 (471)	17 (107 = 472 - 365)
	'March 20 (*364)	21 (0h)
	"March 6 (*350)	7 (66)
	Benetnash	*209 (= *27 + *182)
242

zero	2	3-9	3-10 (69)	137	7-26	7-27	7-28	7-29 (210)	84
		MARCH 24	25 (84)		AUG 10	11	12	13 (225)
		Ga1-3	Ga1-4		Ga6-2	Ga6-3	Ga6-4	Ga6-5 (145)
		*67	Aldebaran		κ Octantis	*207	Benetnash	*209
		*250	Han = ζ Ophiuchi		Alseiph	*25	Polaris	Sheratan (*27)
230

Vaha. Hollow; opening; space between the fingers (vaha rima); door cracks (vaha papare). Vahavaha, to fight, to wrangle, to argue with abusive words. Vanaga. 1. Space, before T; vaha takitua, perineum. PS Mgv.: vaha, a space, an open place. Mq.: vaha, separated, not joined. Ta.: vaha, an opening. Sa.: vasa, space, interval. To.: vaha, vahaa, id. Fu.: vasa, vāsaà, id. Niuē: vahā. 2. Muscle, tendon; vahavaha, id. Vahahora (vaha 1 - hora 2), spring. Vahatoga (vaha 1 - toga 1), autumn. 3. Ta.: vahavaha, to disdain, to dislike. Ha.: wahawaha, to hate, to dislike.  Churchill.

Mea. 1. Tonsil, gill (of fish). 2. Red (probably because it is the colour of gills); light red, rose; also meamea. 3. To grow or to exist in abundance in a place or around a place: ku-mea-á te maîka, bananas grow in abundance (in this place); ku-mea-á te ka, there is plenty of fish (in a stretch of the coast or the sea); ku-mea-á te tai, the tide is low and the sea completely calm (good for fishing); mau mea, abundance. Vanaga. 1. Red; ata mea, the dawn. Meamea, red, ruddy, rubricund, scarlet, vermilion, yellow; ariga meamea, florid; kahu meamea purple; moni meamea, gold; hanuanua meamea, rainbow; pua ei meamea, to make yellow. Hakameamea, to redden, to make yellow. PS Ta.: mea, red. Sa.: memea, yellowish brown, sere. To.: memea, drab. Fu.: mea, blond, yellowish, red, chestnut. 2. A thing, an object, elements (mee); e mea, circumstance; mea ke, differently, excepted, save, but; ra mea, to belong; mea rakerake, assault; ko mea, such a one; a mea nei, this; a mea ka, during; a mea, then; no te mea, because, since, seeing that; na te mea, since; a mea era, that; ko mea tera, however, but. Hakamea, to prepare, to make ready. P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: mea, a thing. 3. In order that, for. Mgv.: mea, because, on account of, seeing that, since. Mq.: mea, for. 4. An individual; tagata mea, tagata mee, an individual. Mgv.: mea, an individual, such a one. Mq., Ta.: mea, such a one. 5. Necessary, urgent; e mea ka, must needs be, necessary; e mea, urgent. 6. Manners, customs. 7. Mgv.: ako-mea, a red fish. 8. Ta.: mea, to do. Mq.: mea, id. Sa.: mea, id. Mao.: mea, id. Churchill.