...the Chaldean astrologers introduced the 7-day week which has come down into the present. The number was convenient because the seers recognized seven planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, each of which governed one hour of the day. If, for illustration, Saturn ruled the first hour of a certain day followed by each of the 'planets' in turn, he also ruled the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second hours. Jupiter was lord of the second, ninth, sixteenth, and twenty-third hours; Mars presided over the third, tenth, seventeenth, and twenty-fourth hours, and the Sun took charge of the first hour of the succeeding day. Since the planet which ruled the first hour gave his name to the entire day, Sunday thus followed Saturn-day, and this was the way the names of the days of the week came into existence out of ancient Chaldean astrology.
Saturn	1	8	15	22
Jupiter	2	9	16	23
Mars	3	10	17	24
Sun	4	11	18	1
Venus	5	12	19	2
Mercury	6	13	20	3
Moon	7	14	21	4
In the 7-item cycle the role of leader shifts forward 3 steps for each cycle, and the resulting leader cycle in turn creates the order of the days in the week.

* In day 21 associeted with Mars,

number of glyphs and planets
Venus	Saturn	Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31	32	33	34	35	36	37
38	39	40	41	42	43	44
45	46	47	48	19	50	51

* In May = 2 months after the month of Mars.

Chinese correspondences:
Elements:	wood	fire	earth	metal	water
Cardinal points:	east	south	middle	west	north
Planets:	Jupiter	Mars	Saturn	Venus	Mercury
Sense organ:	eye	tongue	mouth	nose	ear
Taste:	sour	bitter	sweet	rank	salty
Crop:	wheat	beans	hirs (Panicum)	hemp	hirs (Setaria)
Animal:	sheep	hen	ox	dog	pig
Colour:	bluegreen	red	yellow	white	black

MARCH 17	18 (77 → 61 + 16)	19 (→ 14 + 5)	20 (444)	*0h (365)**

Gb5-8 (361)	Gb5-9	Gb5-10	Gb5-11 (229 + 135)	Gb5-12 (365)
				No glyph.
Gb8-27	Gb8-28	(241 → 123 + 118)	Gb8-30 (229 + 13)	No glyph.
4h (60.9) JĪSHUĬ = λ Persei (60.7) ~~COR CAROLI (α Canum Ven.)~~	υ Persei (61.2)	BEID (Egg) = ο¹ Eridani (62.2), μ Persei (62.8) ~~VINDEMIATRIX ( ε Virginis)~~	*Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)* HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4) 22.0 = 63.4 - *41.4	HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)
May 20 (140)	*21 (61)**	22 (142)	*23 (428)**	*24 (144. 64)**
°May 16 (136)	17	18	*19 (424)**	*20 (140, 60)**
*'April 23 (113, 33)**	24 (114, 479)	*25 (400 = 35 + 365)**	*26 (36 = 63 - 27)**	*27 (117, 37)**
*"April 9 (99, 384)**	10 (100, 465)	11 (101)	*12 (22)**	13 (468 = 144 + 324)

THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
SEPT 15	*16 (9 27 + 16 = 259)**	17 (260)	18 (290 - 29)	*19 (364 / 2)**
υ Herculis (242.3), ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4), ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), θ Draconis (242.6), ξ Scorpii (242.7) ~~SCHEDIR (Breast) α Cassiopeiae~~ 201.0 = 242.4 - *41.4	16h (243.5) ACRAB (Scorpion) = β Scorpii, JABHAT AL ACRAB (Forehead of the Scorpion) = ω Scorpii (243.3), θ Lupi, RUTILICUS = β Herculis (243.5), MARFIK (Elbow) = κ Herculis (243.7), φ Herculis (243.8)	ψ Scorpii (244.6), LESATH (Sting) = ν Scorpii (244.8)	χ Scorpii (245.1), YED PRIOR (Hand in Front) = δ Ophiuchi, δ Tr. Austr. (245.5)	YED POSTERIOR (Hand Behind) = ε Ophiuchi, RUKBALGETHI SHEMALI (Northern Knee of the Giant) = τ Herculis (246.6). δ Apodis (246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8)
... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...
*Nov 18 (242)**	19 (259 + 64 = 323)	*20 (12 27 = 324)**	*21 (245)**	22
... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ...
°Nov 14	15	16 (320)	*17 (241)**	18
'Oct 22 (295)	*23 (216)**	24	25	26 (299)
"Oct 8	*9 (202)**	10	11	12 (285)

Ga7-9 (178)	Ga7-10	Ga7-11	Ga7-12 (181)	Ga7-13

The 8 legs of the Scorpion Mother

might have been aquired 181 days after Hyadum II:

HYADUM II *64	*180
		*Ga7-12 (245)**
MARCH 21		Nov 21 (325 → 3-25)
... When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC he set March 25 as the spring equinox. Since a Julian year (365.25 days) is slightly longer than an actual year the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about 21 March in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March. This drift induced Pope Gregory XIII to create a modern Gregorian calendar. The Pope wanted to restore the edicts concerning the date of Easter of the Council of Nicaea of AD 325.. 180 + 80 (= 84 + 176) = 260 = 8 * 32.5..

... Gilgamesh has no metaphysical temperament like the Lord Buddha. He sets out on his great voyage to find Utnapishtim the Distant, who dwells at 'the mouth of the rivers' and who can possibly tell him how to attain immortality. He arrives at the pass of the mountain Mashu ('Twins'), 'whose peaks reach as high as the banks of heaven - whose breast reaches down to the underworld - the scorpion people keep watch at its gate - those whose radiance is terrifying and whose look is death - whose frightful splendor overwhelms mountains - who at the rising and setting of the sun keep watch over the sun'.

The hero is seized 'with fear and dismay', but as he pleads with them, the scorpion-men recognize his partly divine nature. They warn him that he is going to travel through a darkness no one has traveled, but open the gate for him. 'Along the road of the sun (he went?) - dense is the dark(ness and there is no light)' (Tabl. 9, col. 4, 46). The successive stretches of 1, then 2, then 3, and so on to 12 double-hours he travels in darkness.

At last it is light, and he finds himself in a garden of precious stones, carnelian and lapis lazuli, where he meets Siduri, the divine barmaid, 'who dwells by the edge of the sea'. Under the eyes of severe philologists, slaves to exact 'truth', one dare not make light of this supposedly 'geographical' item with its faint surrealistic tang. Here is a perfectly divine barmaid by the edge of the sea, called by many names in many languages. Her bar should be as long as the famed one in Shanghai, for she has along her shelves not only wine and beer, but more outlandish and antiquated drinks from many cultures, drinks such as a honeymead, soma, sura (a kind of brandy), kawa, pulque, peyote-cocktail, decoctions of ginseng. In short, from everywhere she has the ritual intoxicating beverages which comfort the dreary souls who are denied the drink of immortality. One might call these drinks Lethe, after all.

Earnest translators have seriously concluded that the 'sea' at the edge of which the barmaid dwells must be the Mediterranean, but there have also been votes for the Armenian mountains. Yet the hero's itinerary suggests the celestial landscape instead, and the scorpion-men should be sought around Scorpius. The more so as lambda ypsilon Scorpii are counted among the Babylonian mashu-constellations, and these twins, lambda ypsilon, play an important role also in the so-called Babylonian Creation Epic, as weapons of Marduk ...

*18	APRIL 8	9 (99)	10 (465)	*11 (21)**

	Gb6-1 (383 = 365 + 18)	Gb6-2	Gb6-3 (385 = 465 - 80)	Gb6-4 (229 + 157)

	Ga1-18 → 118 = 241 - 123	Ga1-19 → 384 - 365	Ga1-20	Ga1-21
	*KHUFU* MINTAKA (Belt) = δ Orionis, υ Orionis (82.4), χ Aurigae (82.5), ε Columbae (82.6) 41.0 = 82.4 - 41.4 → 41 Arietis* (Bharani)	*KHAFRE* Al Hak'ah-3 (White Spot) / Mrigashīrsha-5 (Stag's Head) / Turtle Head-20 (Monkey) / Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur (Little Twins) NEBULA = M1 Tauri (83.0), φ¹ Orionis (83.1), HEKA (KAKKAB SAR, the Constellation of the King), λ Orionis, ORION NEBULA = M42 (83.2), φ² Orionis (83.6), ALNILAM (String of Pearls) = ε Orionis (83.7)	*MENKAURE* Three Stars-21 (Gibbon) / Shur-narkabti-sha-shūtū-6 (Star in the Bull towards the south) / ANA-IVA-9 (Pillar of exit) HEAVENLY GATE = ζ Tauri, ν Columbae (84.0), ω Orionis (84.2), ALNITAK (Girdle) = ζ Orionis, PHAKT (Phaet) = α Columbae (84.7)	ο Aurigae (85.8), γ Leporis (85.9) ~~YANG MUN (α Lupi)~~

	June 11 (162)	*12 (448)**	*13 (84)**	14 (530)
	°June 7	*8 (444)**	*9 (80)**	10 (161)
	'May 15 (500 = 365 + 135)	*16 (136. 56)**	*17 (422)**	*18 (58)**
	"May 1 (486 = 468 + 18)	*2 (407)**	3 (123)	*4 (44)**
	THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
	OCT 7 (280)	*8 (201)**	9 (282)	10 (648 = 365 + 283)
	LESATH (Sting) = υ (325) Scorpii, δ Arae (264.7), CHOO (Club) = α Arae (264.9)	*Al Shaula-17* ALWAID (Mother Camels) = β Draconis, MAASYM (Wrist) = λ Herculis (265.1), SHAULA (Sting) = λ Scorpii (265.3), KUMA = ν Draconis (265.6), σ Arae (265.9) ~~HAMAL (α ARIETIS)~~	RAS ALHAGUE (Head of the Serpent Charmer) = α Ophiuchi (266.1), SARGAS = θ Scorpii (266.3), μ Ophiuchi, π Arae (266.5), NAN HAE (Southern Sea) = ξ Serpentis (266.6), AL DHĪLI (The Wolf) = ω Draconis, ι Herculis (266.7)	λ Arae (267.1), GIRTAB (Seizer) = κ Scorpii, ο Serpentis (267.6), DSIBAN (Wolf Pair) = ψ Draconis (267.9)

	*Dec 10 (264)**	11 (345)	12	13 (347)
	*°Dec 6 (260)**	7 (341)	8	9 (343)
	*'Nov 13 (237)**	14 (318)	15	16 (320)
	"Oct 30	31 (304)	"Nov 1	*2 (226)**

	Ga7-31 (200)	Ga7-32	Ga7-33 (202)	Ga7-34
	... The 'classic' version, however, was much more detailed: the rope would seem to rise high into the skies, disappearing from view. The boy would climb the rope and be lost to view. The magician would call back his boy assistant, and, on getting no response, become furious. The magician then armed himself with a knife or sword and climbed the rope, vanishing too. An argument would be heard, and then limbs would start falling, presumably cut from the assistant by the magician. When all the parts of the body, including the torso, landed on the ground, the magician would climb down the rope. He would collect the limbs and put them in a basket, or collect the limbs in one place and cover them with a cape or blanket. Soon the boy would appear, restored ...