... 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 ...

FEBR 17 (48, 413)	18 (350 + 64)	19	*20 (336)**	21 (417 = 365 + 52)

Gb7-30 (→ 365 + 75)	Gb7-31 (212)	Gb8-1 (229 + 213)	*Gb8-2 (2 107 = 214)**	Gb8-3 (444)

*Gb4-13 (↔ 14 29½)**	Gb4-14 (↔ 336 + 78)	Gb4-15 (154 + 181)	*Gb4-16 (336 ↔ 4 84)**	Gb4-17 (108)
PLACE OF THE SUN:
ξ¹ Ceti (32.1)	γ, δ Trianguli (33.0), χ Persei (33.2), 10 Trianguli (33.5), θ Arietis (33.3), MIRA (Astonishing) = ο Ceti (33.7)	No star listed (34)	ξ Arietis (35.0), ρ Ceti (35.4), 12 Trianguli (35.8), ξ² Ceti (35.9) 360.0 = 35.4 - 41.4 April 25 AD 2023 (115)* *MARS (35)**	σ Ceti (36.9)
April 22 (112)	23	*24 (399)**	25 (480, 115)	*26 (36)**
°April 18 (108)	19	20	21	22 (116 - 4)
'March 26 (85)	27	*28 (372 → 12 * 31)**	*29 (8)**	30 (454)
"March 12	13	3-14 (73)	15	*16 (360)**

THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
*AUG 18 (230 → 2 115)**	19 (33 weeks)	*20 (152)**	21	22 (234)
Neck-2 (Dragon) ASELLUS TERTIUS (3rd Ass Colt) = κ Bootis, κ Virginis, 14 Bootis (214.8)	Al Ghafr-13 (The Cover) / Svāti-15 (Very Good) / TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE-6 (a pillar to stand by) 15 Bootis (215.2), ARCTURUS = α Bootis (2 15.4), ASELLUS SECUNDUS (2nd Ass Colt) = ι Bootis (215.5), SYRMA (Train of the Virgin's Robe) = ι Virginis, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8) 174.0 = 215.4 - *41.4	ι Lupi, 18 Bootis (216.3), KHAMBALIA (Crooked-Clawed) = λ Virginis (216.4), υ Virginis (216.5), ψ Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8) 175.0 = 216.4 - 41.4 KHAMBALIA (216.4) Oct 23 AD 2023 (296) MARS (216)*	ASELLUS PRIMUS (1st Ass Colt) = θ Bootis (217.8)	τ Lupi, δ Oct. (218.1), Φ Virginis (218.7) ~~FOMALHAUT (α Piscis Austrini)~~
... In the evening of October 23 (*216), in the midst between October 21 (April 21 + 6 mån) and October 25 (April 25 + 6 mån), was the Crooked-Clawed. In the Era of Bharani that would have been 100 days before the "December solstice ...
*Oct 21 (214 → 2 * 107)**	22 (295)	23	24	25 (298 = 115 + 183)
*°Oct 17 (210)**	18 (291)	19	20	21
'Sept 24	25 (268)	26	*27 (190)**	28
"Sept 10	11 (254)	12 (355 - 100)	13	*14 (177 = 354 / 2)*

*Ga6-10 (150 → 2 75)**	Ga6-11	Ga6-12 (152)	Ga6-13	Ga6-14 (335 - 101)

The synodic cycle of Mars, as stated in an authoritative and reliable dictionary of mine, is 780 days (→ Rigel, *78). This should of course imply Mars cannot be visible at ξ Arietis in April 25 AD 2024, because 780 - 365 = 415 = 365 + 50.

I.e. we could expect the place of Mars as observed against the background of the fixed stars to move ahead with around 50 days for every 2nd year. Was it then a 'pure coincidence' which led me to look for the path of Mars in the night sky of AD 2023?


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 25	115	*35	*ξ ARIETIS (107)**	MAY 2 (123 ↔ 187 - 64)

The listed evidence seems to point to a systematic structure based on a map for the Martian cycle. In fact it is quite astonishing (→ Mira).

From ξ Orionis (*92) to ξ Arietis (*107) there were 15 right ascension days, and we can count 360 days / 24 hours = 15 days. 108 (APRIL 18) + 15 = 123 (MAY 3):

... The ancient Chinese said: One generates Two, Two generates Three, and Three generates Everything. I.e., before the invention of the alphabet - ABC - there was 123. But we have forgotten ...

*MAY 2 (42)**	3 (123)	4	5 (365 + 125 = 490)

Gb6-25 (229 + 178)	*Gb6-26 (408 → 40 8 = 320)**	Gb6-27 (360 / 2)	Gb6-28 (45 + 136)

Ga2-12 (42)	Ga2-13 (408 - 365)	Ga2-14	Ga2-15 (45)
PLACE OF THE SUN:
7h (106.5) No star listed (106)	WEZEN (Weight) = δ Canis Majoris (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9)	No star listed (108)	λ Gemini (109.4), WASAT (Middle) = δ Gemini (109.8) 68.0 = 109.4 - *41.4
July 5 (186 = 106 + 80)	*6 (107)**	7	8
°July 1 (182)	2	*3 (104)**	4
'June 8 (159 = 186 - 27)	*9 (80)**	10	11
*"May 25 (12 12 = 186 - 41)**	26	27	*28 (68)**
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
OCT 31	NOV 1 (123 + 182)	2 (300 + 6)	*3 (227)**
*Al Na'ām-18 (Ostriches) / Uttara Ashadha-21 (Elephant tusk, small bed)* NUNKI = σ Sagittarii (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), MANUBRIUM = ο Sagittarii (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9)	19h (289.2) λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8) 248.0 = 289.4 - *41.4	*Al Baldah-19 (City)* AL BALDAH = π Sagittarii, ALPHEKKA (Dish) MERIDIANA = α Cor. Austr. (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)	ALADFAR (The Talons) = η Lyrae (291.1), NODUS II = δ Draconis (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), τ Draconis (291.7), θ Lyrae (291.8)
Jan 3 (368)	4	*5 (290)**	6
°Dec 30 (364)	*31 (285)**	°Jan 1	2
'Dec 7	8	*9 (263)**	10 (344)
"Nov 23	24	*25 (249)**	26 (330)

Ga8-21	Ga8-22	Ga8-23	Ga8-24 (227 → 314 → π)

... It must be admitted, however, that the task of raising the sky was not always a long and arduous one. In the New Hebrides of Melanesia the sky was formerly so low overhead that a woman who was pounding roots in a mortar happened to strike the sky with her pestle. Greatly annoyed at the interruption she looked up and cried angrily, 'Go on up higher!' Whereat the sky meekly obeyed her ...