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130. Then follows the corner in January 5 (370 → half the number of glyphs on the C tablet), or 5 times 74 (→ the Male Goat, Al-maaz, *74):

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Perhaps the number of glyphs on the C tablet (392 + 348 = 740) can be explained as 4 * 185. Because working with the nakshatra model for the first half of the year -  from January 1 up to and including July 4 - necessitates a reflection in the face of the Full Moon, which then also should be 185 nights.

Furthermore, moving from the months of the Moon - reaching the solstice in December 21 in day 12 * 29½ = 354 - might have necessitated an addition with 16 days when the relevant early morning stars would tend to still not have returned from the blinding rays from the Sun. 354 + 16 = 370.

Jan 5

370 = 354 + 16

*290

AIN (*65)

MARCH 22 (81  ↔ 65 + 16)

Dec 6

340 = 235 + 105

*260

5h (*76)

APRIL 2 (92 ↔ 76 + 16)

Nov 6

310 = 235 + 75

*230

HEAVENLY GATE (*84.0 ↔ 100 - 16)

APRIL 10 (100 ↔ 84 + 16)

Oct 7

280 = 235 + 45

*200

ELNATH & BELLATRIX (*80 96 - 16)

APRIL 6 (280 - 184 = 96. *381)

Sept 7

250 = 235 + 15

*170

ALDEBARAN (*68)

MARCH 25 (250 - 166 = 84, *369)

Aug 23

235

*155

λ & ν Tauri (*59)

MARCH 16 (235 - 160 = 75, *360)

0h (80) MARCH 22 23 (82) 24 25 (84) 26
NO GLYPH
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5
PLACE OF THE SUN:
HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)

Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)

Jan 5 AD 2023 (370 → 235 + 135) MARS

No star listed (66) No star listed (67)

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)

Sept 7 AD 2022 (250 → 235 + 15) MARS

No star listed (69)
May 24 25 (145) 26 27

5 Imix 9 Kumk'u

29
°May 20 21 22 23 24 (144) 25
'April 27 28 29 30 'May 1 (121) 2
"April 13 14 (104) 15 16 ( 1½ * 314) 17 (107, 472) 18
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
SEPT 20 (*183) 21 (264) EQUINOX 23 24 25

Heart-5 (Fox)

σ Scorpii (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7(

ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM (Club) = 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 (The Heart) / Jyeshtha-18 (Eldest) / ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)

ANTARES = α Scorpii (249.1), MARFIK (Elbow) = λ Ophiuchi, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)

Dec 7 AD 2023 (*261 → 9 * 29) MARS

γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5)
Nov 23 (327) 24 25 (*249) 26 27 28
°Nov 19 20 21 (*245) 22 23 24
'Oct 27 (300) 28 29 (*222) 30 31 'Nov 1
"Oct 13 (286) 14 15 (*208) 16 17 18
Ga7-14 (183) Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17 Ga7-18 Ga7-19 (188)

Night observations AD 2022-23:

Mars in Jan 5

J2000 RA: 4h23m31.91s

*65.2

Mars in Dec 6

J2000 RA: 4h58m09.40s

*74.0

ι Tauri

J2000 RA: 5h03m05.70s

*75.2

ζ Tauri

J2000 RA: 5h37m38.70s

*84.0

1h14m06.79s / 1440 * 365.25 = 18.798

MARCH 31 (90, 455, '10) APRIL 1 2 (80 + 12) 3 (93)
Ga1-10 Ga1-11 Ga1-12 Ga1-13 ↔ 378 - 365
Gb5-22 (146 2 * 73) Gb5-23 Gb5-24 (92 + 365 - 80 = 377) Gb5-25 (378 → Saturn)
ALMAAZ (The Male Goat) = ε Aurigae (74.7), HAEDUS I = ζ Aurigae (74.8)

Dec 6 AD 2022 (340, *260)

MARS

HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)

Aug 14 AD 2024 (226, *146)

MARS & JUPITER

5h (*76.1)

ε Leporis (76.0), ι Tauri (76.2), CURSA (Footstool) = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7), Ψ (65) Eridani (76.8)

*35.0 = *76.4 - *41.4

μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)
June 3 4 (*75) 5 (40 + 4 * 29) 6 (157 ↔ 314 / 2)
°May 30 (150) 31 °June 1 (*72) 2 (153)
'May 7 8 (128) 9 (*414 ↔ *49 + *365) 10 (*50 ↔ *77 - *27)
"April 23 24 (*399) 25 (115 = 156 - 41) 26 (*36 = *77 - *41)

... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive. In this ceremony two diviners and their wives sit on benches so that they occupy the corner positions of the cosmic square. They take their seats in the same order as the stones were placed, with the men on the eastern side and the women on the west. The ritual actions of sitting down and lifting upward are done with great precision and care, because they are directly related to the actions done by the gods at Creation. The people represent the gods of the four corners and the clouds that cover the earth. As they rise from their seats, they metaphorically lift the sky. If their lifting motion is uneven, the rains will be irregular and harmful ...

hakaariki

5h

Ariki 1. King, ruler, member of the nobility, Ariki henua, king; members of the royal family, descending from Hotu Matu'a; noble, nobility, chief. 2. Divine being, superior being. Ariki Paka, certain collateral descendents of Hotu Matu'a, who exercised religious functions. Vanaga. Chief, king, lord, headman in general. Hakaariki, to make one a king. P Pau., Mgv.: ariki, chief. Mq.: aiki, id. Ta.: arii, id. The Marquesan use both aiki and hakaiki in the same sense; the latter forms with Mangarevan akariki a subordinate couple in Southeast Polynesia. Since akariki is the only form in Mangareva and the Marquesas have both we may regard this as indicative of the influence of Mangareva upon the Marquesas. In Tonga we find only eiki; the vowel change is quite in the Tongan manner, the dropping of the liquid is most unusual; the eiki form appears once more in Mangarevan ataeiki (also a language in which it is unusual to drop the liquid) in the sense 'to do nothing and to dress richly in a luxurious way'. Churchill.

... 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 ...

THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
SEPT 29 30 (273 = 3 * 91) OCT 1 2 (*195)
κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), CUJAM (Club) = ε Herculi (256.9) No star listed (257)

17h (*258.7)

ARRAKIS = μ Draconis (258.7)

Mula-19 (The Root)

SABIK (The Preceding One) = η Ophiuchi (259.7), η Scorpii (259.9)
Dec 2 (336 ↔ 4 * 84) 3 4 5 (*259)
°Nov 28 (332) 29 30 (*254) °Dec 1
'Nov 5 6 (*230) 7 (311) 8
"Oct 22 (295) 23 (*216) 24 25
Ga7-23 (192) Ga7-24 Ga7-25 Ga7-26

One might imagine this retrograde movement of the planet Mars was perceived as an effort to close the gap of fhe Furrow.

... The Katawihi distinguish two rainbows: Mawali in the west, and Tini in the east. Tini and Mawali were twin brothers who brought about the flood that inundated the whole world and killed all living people, except two young girls whom they saved to be their companions. It is not advisable to look either of them straight in the eye: to look at Mawali is to become flabby, lazy, and unlucky at hunting and fishing; to look at Tini makes a man so clumsy that he cannot go any distance without stumbling and lacerating his feet against all obstacles in his path, or pick up a sharp instrument without cutting himself ...

... 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 ...

... In South America the rainbow has a double meaning. On the one hand, as elsewhere, it announces the end of rain; on the other hand, it is considered to be responsible for diseases and various natural disasters [dis-aster]. In its first capacity the rainbow effects a disjunction between the sky and the earth which previously were joined through the medium of rain. In the second capacity it replaces the normal beneficient conjunction by an abnormal, maleficient one - the one it brings about itself between sky and earth by taking the place of water ...

... In the present context 'mouth' has an additional connotation, given that it refers in part to Heart of Earth, the deity called 'Mundo' today. This is the great Mesoamerican earth deity, the ultimate swallower of all living beings, depicted in Classic Mayan art (in the Palenque relief panels, for example) as an enormous pair of jaws upon whose lips even the feet of great lords must rest in precarious balance, and into whose throat even great lords must fall. Turning to the contemporary scene, daykeepers who visit the main cave beneath the ruins of Rotten Cane, the last Quiché capital, speak of the danger of falling into 'the open mouth of the Mundo' there, which is said to be more than four yards wide ...

... Five days of illumination, called the 'Lighting of the Flame' (which in the earlier reading of this miracle play would have followed the quenching of the fires on the dark night of the moon when the king was ritually slain), preceded the five days of the festival itself; and then the solemn occasion (ad majorem dei gloriam) commenced. The opening rites were under the patronage of Hathor. The king, wearing the belt with her four faces and the tail of her mighty bull, moved in numerous processions, preceded by his four standards, from one temple to the next, presenting favors (not offerings) to the gods. Whereafter the priesthoods arrived in homage before his throne, bearing the symbols of their gods. More processions followed, during which, the king moved about - as Professor Frankfort states in his account - 'like the shuttle in a great loom' to re-create the fabric of his domain, into which the cosmic powers represented by the gods, no less than the people of the land, were to be woven ...

... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest. When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...