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138. In the night of April 4 AD 2023 we should have been able to perceive the location of the planet Mars to be around 8 right ascension days before Mebsuta in the Gemini constellation, which would have corresponded to the right ascension line at the right hand of Orion, viz. ξ Orionis:

... Earth has its place at the centre and is (at it were) the rich soil of Heaven. Earth is Heaven’s thighs and arms, its virtue so prolific, so lovely to view, that it cannot be told at one time of telling. If fact earth is that which brings these five elements and four seasons all together ...

Mars AD 2023

Jan 5

370 = 354 + 16

*290

AIN (*65)

MARCH 22 (81  ↔ 65 + 16)

Jan 20

385 = 370 + 15

*305

HYADUM II (*64)

MARCH 21 (80  ↔ 64 + 16)

Febr 4

365 + 31 + 4 = 400

*320

ALDEBARAN (*68)

MARCH 25 (JULIAN EQUINOX)

April 4

94

*14

ξ ORIONIS (*92)

APRIL 18 (108)

April 19

109

*29

ALHENA (*103)

APRIL 29 (119)

APRIL 17 (107) 18 (108 = 92 + 16) 19 20

... The 'Candelabra' has a rectangular, box-like base, enclosing a circle, out of which rises the representation of a wide central vertical bar, more than 240 meters in length, running north to south. This is crossed, about one-third of the way up, by a triangular contraption running east to west for some 120 meters, supporting two shorter vertical bars. All three bars are surmounted by curious patterns generally interpreted as flames or rays of light. Because of its auspicious geodetic location half-way round the world from Angkor and 108 degrees west of Giza - sites that both 'resemble the sky' by modelling specific constellations on the ground - we have naturally considered the possibility that the Candelabra could be a work of celestial imitation ...

Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29 Ga1-30
Gb6-10 (392) Gb6-11 (164) Gb6-12 (394) Gb6-13 (166)
PLACE OF THE SUN:

6h (91.3)

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

*50.0 = *91.4 - *41.4

ξ ORIONIS (92.5)

April 4 AD 2023 (94, *14)

MARS

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

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

*52.0 = *93.4 - *41.4

FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)
June 20 SOLSTICE (78 + 94 = 172) 22 23 (174)
°June 16 17 (168) 18 19
'May 24 (144) 25 26 27
"May 10 (130) 11 12 13
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:

"ν, 4.7, and ξ, 4.6, were the Chinese Shwuy Foo, a Water-deposit. They mark Orion's right hand, ξ being the radian point of the fine meteor stream, the Orionids, of the 18th of October." (Allen)

Dec 20 (*273) SOLSTICE 22 23

Winnowing Basket-7 (Leopard)

18h (273.4)

*232.0 = *273.4 - *41.4

NASH (Point) = γ Sagittarii (273.7), θ Arae (273.8)

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)
Ga8-6 (209) Ga8-7 (420 / 2) Ga8-8 Ga8-9

And 3 nights after Mebsuta (ε Geminorum) Mars would be close to the right ascension line of Alhena (γ Geminorum).

Mars AD 2023

April 4

J2000 RA: 6h21m16.27s

*92.4

Mebsuta (ε)

J2000 RA: 6h43m55.90s

*100.7

April 14

J2000 RA: 6h44m02.53s

*100.7

April 19

J2000 RA: 6h55m39.12s

*103.7

32m39.63s / 1440 * 365.25 = 8.284

00m06.63s / 1440 * 365.25 = 0.028

11m43.22s / 1440 * 365.25 = 2.973

24 (*399) APRIL 25 (480) 26 (116, *36)
Ga2-4 (34 399 - 365) Ga2-5 (35 → 4 + 31) Ga2-6
Gb6-17 (399) Gb6-18 (229 + 171 = 400) Gb6-19 (172 = 136 + 36)
No star listed (98)

ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched) = ε Geminorum (100.7)

April 14 AD 2023 (104, *24)

MARS

... 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 ...

June 27 (162 + 16 = 178) 28 (*99) 29 (180 104 + 76)
°June 23 (174) ST JOHN'S DAY (*95) 25 (176 100 + 76)
'May 31 (151 = 135 + 16) 'June 1 (*72 = *99 - *27) 2
"May 17 (121 + 16´= 137) 18 (*58 = *99 - *41) 19
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
OCT 23 (*200 + *16) 24 (297) 25 (*218 = *36 + *183)
ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9)

*239.0 = *280.4 - *41.4

Abhijit-22 (Victorious)

θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA = α Lyrae (281.8)
No star listed (282)
Dec 26 (*264 + *16 = *280) 27 (361) 28
°Dec 22 (356) 23 (*277) CHRISTMAS EVE
'Nov 29 (333) 30 (*254) 'Dec 1 (335)
"Nov 15 (319) 16 (*240 = *281 - *41) 17
Ga8-13 (216) Ga8-14 Ga8-15 (218)

2 APRIL 29 (*39) 30 MAY 1 (121) 2 229
Ga2-9 Ga2-10 Ga2-11 Ga2-12 (42)

Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-9 (Twins of the Shepherd)

θ Geminorum (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), ALHENA = γ Geminorumi (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9)

April 19 AD 2023 (109, *29)

MARS
ADARA (Virgins) = ε Canis Majoris (104.8)

ω Geminorum (105.4), ALZIRR (Button) = ξ Geminorum (105.7), MULIPHEIN (Oaths) = γ Canis Majoris (105.8), MEKBUDA (Contracted) = ζ Geminorum (105.9)

*64.0 = *105.4 - *41.4

7h (106.5)

No star listed (106)
July 2 (*104 = 8 * 13) 4 (185) 5
ºJune 28 29 (*100) SIRIUS ºJuly 1 (182)
'June 5 6 (157 → 314 / 2 7 (*78 = 6 * 13) 8
"May 22 23 24 (*64 = 8 * 8) 25 (145)
DEC 18 → 2 * 136 19 (*273 → 3 * 91) 20 (354 = 2 * 177) SOLSTICE 85
Gb2-17 (272) Gb2-18 Gb2-19 Gb2-20 (229 + 46)

... Allen has documented all his star culminations at 21h, which could be due to an effort of keeping the culminations at their proper places according to the ancients, 24h (spring equinox) - 21h = 3h = 24h / 8 = 45º. 3h corresponds to 366 / 8 = 45.75 of my right ascension days and *366 - *46 = *320 (Dramasa, σ Octantis) ...

ζ Cephei (336.2), λ Cephei (336.3), -/270 Lac. (336.7), λ Piscis Austrini (336.8)

μ Gruis (337.0), ε Cephei (337.2), 1/325 Lac. (337.3), ANCHA (Hip) = θ Aquarii (337.4), ψ Oct. (337.5), α Tucanae (337.9)

*296.0 = *337.4 - *41.4

*337.4 = *169.4 (Coxa, the Hip in Leo) + *168

Al Sa'ad al Ahbiyah-23 (Lucky Star of Hidden Things) / Shatabisha-25 (Comprising a Hundred Physicians)

 ε Oct. (338.1), ρ Aquarii (338.2), 2/365 Lac. (338.5), SADACHBIA = γ Aquarii (338.6), π Gruis (338.9)

β/172 Lac. (339.2), 4/1100 Lac. (339.4), π Aquarii (339.5)

*298.0 = *339.4 - *41.4

CASTOR (α Gemini)
Febr 20 (*336 → 48 * 7) 21 (52) 22 (418) Terminalia

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...

Gb2-21

°Febr 16 (*332) 17 (48) 18 (414→ Bharani) 19
'Jan 24 25 (*310) 26 27 (392)
"Jan 10 (*295) 11 12 13 (378 → Saturn)

... The divine names Bran, Saturn, Cronos ... are applied to the ghost of Hercules that floats off in the alder-wood boat after his midsummer sacrifice. His tanist, or other self, appearing in Greek legend as Poeas who lighted Hercules' pyre and inherited his arrows, succeeds him for the second half of the year; having acquired royal virtue by marriage with the queen, the representative of the White Goddess, and by eating some royal part of the dead man's body - heart, shoulder or thigh-flesh. He is in turn succeeded by the New Year Hercules, a reincarnation of the murdered man, who beheads him and, apparently, eats his head. This alternate eucharistic sacrifice made royalty continous, each king in turn the Sun-god beloved of the reigning Moon-goddess. But when these cannibalistic rites were abandoned and the system was gradually modified until a single king reigned for a term of years, Saturn-Cronos-Bran became a mere Old Year ghost, permanently overthrown by Juppiter-Zeus-Belin though yearly conjured up for placation at the Saturnalia or Yule feast ...

... That Cronos the emasculator was deposed by his son Zeus is an economical statement: the Achaean herdsmen who on their arrival in Northern Greece had identified their Sky-god with the local oak-hero gained ascendancy over the Pelasgian agriculturalists. But there was a compromise between the two cults. Dionë, or Diana, of the woodland was identified with Danaë of the barley; and that an inconvenient golden sickle, not a bill-hook of flint or obsidian, was later used by the Gallic Druids for lopping the mistletoe, proves that the oak-ritual had been combined with that of the barley-king whom the Goddess Danaë, or Alphito, or Demeter, or Ceres, reaped with her moon-shaped sickle. Reaping meant castration; similarly, the Galla warriors of Abyssinia carry a miniature sickle into battle for castrating their enemies ...

MARCH 17 18 19 (78 = 142 - 64) (444 = 365 + 79) 0h (*365) 99
Gb5-8 (361) Gb5-9 Gb5-10 (275 + 88) Gb5-11 (135) Gb5-12 (365)

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 21 22 (142) 23 (*428) 24 (509)
°May 16 (136) 17 18 19 (*424) 20 (*60)
'April 23 24 (114) 25 (*400) 26 (*36) 27
"April 9 (99) 10 (465) 11 12 (*22) 13
3-14 (73) MARCH 15 16 (440) 17 18 (77) 15 * 29½ + ½ 20 (*364)
Gb8-24 (236) Gb8-25 Gb8-26 (361 + 107) Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30 (242)

MENKHIB (Next to the Pleiades = ζ Persei (57.6)

PORRIMA (γ Virginis)

ZAURAK (Boat) = γ Eridani (58.9)

λ Tauri (59.3), ν Tauri (59.9) 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

... Long ago in the very beginning of time there dwelt within a shell an infant god whose name was Ta'aroa. He was Ta'aroa the unique one, the ancestor of all gods, the creator of the universe whose natures were myriad, whose backbone was the ridgepole of the world, whose ribs were its supporters. The shell was called Rumia, Upset. Becoming aware at last of his own existence and oppressed by a yearning loneliness Ta'aroa broke open his shell and, looking out, beheld the black limitless expanse of empty space. Hopefully, he shouted, but no voice answered him. He was alone in the vast cosmos. Within the broken Rumia he grew a new shell to shut out the primeval void ...

May 17 (137) 18 (*58) 19 (*424) 20 (*60) 21 22 23 (*428)
°May 13 14 (*54) 15 (*420) 16 (136) 17 18 (*58) 19 (*424)
'April 20 21 (111) 22 23 24 25 (*400) 26 (*36)
"April 6 7 8 9 (464) 10 11 (101) 12 (*22)

... Among the multitude of gods worshipped by these people [the Maya] were four whom they called by the name Bacab. These were, they say, four brothers placed by God when he created the world at its four corners to sustain the heavens lest they fall ...