JUNE 27 (178 = 98 + 80)	179	CHRISTMAS EVE (358)	69	MARCH 4 (*348 = *278 + 70)	220
DEC 26 (360 = 178 + 182)		ST JOHN'S DAY (175 = 358 - 183)		SEPT 2 (*165 = 175 - 80 + 70)
Ga4-15 (98 = 178 - 80)		Gb2-23 (278 = 358 - 80 = 229 + 7 * 7)		Gb4-28 (348 = 428 - 80 = 12 * 29)
η CARINAE (*162 = *98 + *64)		SITULA (*342 = *162 + *180)		ζ ARIETIS (*47 = *229 - *182)
MATAR (*344 = 360 - 80 + *64)		p CARINAE (*159 = *342 - *183)		ζ LUPI (*229 = *159 + 70)
181 + 70 = 251 = 471 - 220
SEPT 2 (245) + 10 * 29½ = 540 (= 360 * 1½ = 2 * 270) = 365 + 175 (ST JOHN'S DAY)

The flow from Situla was swallowed by a fish:

But then the stream would reappear again at the Phoenix bird who heated it up - resulting in the rising flow of Eridanus, moving towards Cetus and spring.

... Before I had time to take notes the information was gone from my TV screen. But what remains in my memory must be retold. There was somewhere among the 'Paradise Islands' - which ought to have been located close to New Guinea where the birds of paradise are thriving - a species which I think might have been the origin of the mythical Phoenix. It laid a single great white egg and after some time (27 days if I remember it right) a rather fully grown chicken emerged from the ashes in which his mother had dug a properly located hole. This hole had to be on the slope of an active volcano and the temperature in the hole she had dug with her powerful feet down into the ashes had to keep a temperature close to 95º Fahrenheit. His mother had fought with other such birds in order to secure a good hole which had exactly the right temperature for hatching out her offspring. Unfortunately I cannot recall with certainty what the name of this species was, but the bird was sooty black all over and looked rather similar to a raven. Later I investigated further by way of the internet and concluded that this bird born from the ashes ought to be a close relative to the greater of the Melampitta pair (i.e. Megalampitta giganteus) - a curious character who has its nest down in limestone sinkholes and who has stubby wings from climbing up and down the walls inside such a hole:

... All my records of Greater Melampittas were near sinkholes. The significance of these formations to the bird was called to my attention by Wanggasten villagers, who (like many New Guinea people) possessed detailed knowledge of local birds and gave me local-language names and accurate life history accounts of over 100 bird species familiar to them. When I first heard the song that I later identified as belonging to M. gigantea, my guides said that it came from an all-black bird named suaran. They described how the suaran differed in body size, bill, eye color, tail length, tail shape, and habits from other allblack birds such as the Trumpet Bird (Phonygummus keraudrenii), Spangled Drongo (Dicrurus hottentottus), and Australian Crow (Corvus orru). The characteristics of the suaran that all Wanggasten villagers mentioned first were that it was black, and that it roosted and nested underground in deep sinkholes. These remarkable roosting habits were confirmed on my first sighting of this melampitta. Our high-altitude camp (1,140 m) was at the edge of a narrow, vertical-walled trench 5 m deep. At 18:15 on the first night that we occupied this camp, as light was fading and bird activity was decreasing, my Wanggasten guide and I returned to camp and began talking loudly. A large black animal scurried up the opposite-facing wall of the trench and then out of the trench along the ground into the forest. At first glance I assumed from the animal’s movements that it was a rat, but I then saw that it was a Greater Melampitta. On subsequent days I found at least three individuals near our camp, and I assume that the trench behind our camp had been used as a night roost by the individual that we frightened out with our noise. An advantage of roosting in this trench, and other such holes pointed out to me by villagers as melampitta roosts, would be protection from predators, such as rats, phalangers, and dasyurid marsupials. Villagers told me that the bird also nests in these holes, and that the nest is a large suspended basket of vines ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
DEC 25	26 (360)	27	28	29
Gb2-24 (50)	Gb2-25	Gb2-26	Gb2-27 → π	Gb2-28 (283)
*343 (= 7 * 7 * 7)	MATAR (Rain)	*345	*346	FOMALHAUT
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JUNE 26 (6 * 29½)	27	28	29 (180)	SIRIUS
Ga4-14 (→ 41.4)	Ga4-15	Ga4-16	Ga4-17 (100)	Ga4-18
*161	η CARINAE	*163	*346 - *182	ALKES
"July 19 (200)	20	He Anakena 21	22 (22 / 7)	23
Delta δ Andromedae 8.4 March 29 (88) 0      η Phoenicis 9.4 March 30 (89) 1   0 Zero η Andromedae 11.4 April 1 (91) 3    Whip Cih (γ Cassiopeiai) 12.4 April 2 (92) 4   1 Al Sharatain Pair of Signs β Arietis (Sheratan), γ (Mesarthim) 27.4 April 17 (107) 19    Musca Borealis 35 (Head of the Fly), 39 (Kaffaljidhma), and 41 Arietis (Bharani) 41.4 May 1 (121) 33 0 2 Al Dabarān Follower α Tauri (Aldebaran), θ¹, θ²´, γ (Hyadum I), δ (Hyadum II), ε (Ain) 63.4 May 23 (143) 55 22 3 Al Hak'ah White Spot λ Orionis (Heka), φ¹, φ² 83.4 June 12 (163) 75 42 4 Al Han'ah Brand γ Gemini (Alhena), μ (Tejat Posterior), ν, η (Tejat Prior), ξ (Alzirr) 93.4 June 22 (173) 85 52 5 Al Dhirā' Forearm α Gemini (Castor), β (Pollux) 113.4 July 12 (193) 105 72 6 Al Nathrah Gap ε Cancri (Beehive) 130.4 July 29 (210) 123 90 7 Al Tarf End ξ Cancri, λ Leonis (Alterf) 143.4 Aug 11 (223) 135 102 8 Al Jabhah Forehead η Leonis (Al Jabhah), α (Regulus), ζ (Adhafera), γ (Algieba) 152.4 Aug 20 (232) 144 111 9 Al Zubrah Mane δ Leonis (Zosma), θ (Coxa) 169.4 Sept 6 (249) 161 128 10 Al Sarfah Turn β Leonis (Denebola) 178.3 Sept 15 (258) 170   11 Al Áwwā' Barker β (Alaraph), η (Zaniah), γ (Porrima), δ (Minelauva), ε Virginis (Vindemiatrix) 191.5 Sept 28 (271) 183