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151. There were 2 'hips' at Leo in contrast to a single one in Aquarius:

LEO:
10 Maghā

the bountiful

α Leonis

Regulus

Royal Throne Aug 20 JUNE 17 (168) DEC 17 (351)
11 Purva Phalguni

first reddish one

δ and θ Leonis

Zosma and Coxa

Front legs of bed, hammock, fig tree Sept 6 JULY 4 (185) JAN 3 (368)
1 Uttara Phalguni

second reddish one

β Leonis

Denebola

Four legs of bed, hammock Sept 15 JULY 13 (191 + 3) JAN 12 (370 + 7)

 

... The Sun was no longer in sight and therefore the calendar dates had to shift to the opposide side.

... When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...

Here the earth became divided into 4 equal parts, 4 * 91 = 364. Before that the sky was divided into a pair of hemispheres.

The pair of leaves in the illustration above surely were products of the Fig Tree, and beyond this 'tree' there was no fresh water (↔ no rays from the Sun):

... the bird, being sent with a cup for water, loitered at a fig-tree till the fruit became ripe, and then returned to the god with a water-snake in his claws and a lie in his mouth, alleging the snake to have been the cause of the delay. In punishment he was forever fixed in the sky with the Cup and the Snake; and, we may infer, doomed to everlasting thirst by the guardianship of the Hydra over the Cup and its contents. From all this came other poetical names for our Corvus - Avis Ficarius, the Fig Bird; and Emansor, one who stays beyond his time; and a belief, in early folk-lore, that this alone among birds did not carry water to its young ...

... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ...

The function of the fig leaves was to disguise the sexes, presumably because the male member was no longer in sight (had been emasculated).

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... The four bereaved and searching divinities, the two mothers and their two sons, were joined by a fifth, the moon-god Thoth (who appears sometimes in the form of an ibis-headed scribe, at other times in the form of a baboon), and together they found all of Osiris save his genital member, which had been swallowed by a fish ...

DEC 18 19 (*273 → 39 weeks) 20 (354) SOLSTICE
Gb2-17 Gb2-18 Gb2-19 (45) Gb2-20 (229 + 46 = 275)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
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) 21 (52) 22 (418) Terminalia
°Febr 16 (*332) 17 (48) 18 (414→ Bharani) 19
'Jan 24 25 (*310) 26 27 (392)
"Jan 10 (*295) 11 12 13 (378 → Saturn)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
JUNE 18 19 (*90) 20 (171 = 354 - 183) SOLSTICE
λ Hydrae (153.2) ADHAFERA = ζ Leonis, TANIA BOREALIS (Northern Gazelle) = λ Ursae Majoris, SIMIRAM = ω Carinae (154.7) ALGIEBA (The Mane) = γ Leonis, q Carinae (155.5) TANIA AUSTRALIS (Southern Gazelle) = μ Ursae Majoris (156.0), GHOST OF JUPITER = NGC3242 Hydrae (156.8)
Aug 21 (*153) 22 23 24 (236 = 8 * 29˝)
°Aug 17 18 (*150) 19 20 (232)
'July 25 26 (*127) 27 (208) 28
"July 11 12 (193) 13 (*114) 14
Ga4-6 Ga4-7 (90) Ga4-8 Ga4-9 (275 - 183 = 92)

*12 JAN 2 (184 + 183) 3 4 5 (370)
Gb2-32 Gb2-33 Gb2-34 (60) Gb2-35 (229 + 61 = 290)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
SIMMAH = γ Piscium (351.7)

Φ Aquarii (352.0), ψ Aquarii (352.4), χ Aquarii (352.6), γ Tucanae (352.8)

*311.0 = *352.4 - *41.4

ο Cephei (353.3), KERB (Bucket Rope) = τ Pegasi (353.6)

κ Piscium (354.2), θ Piscium (354.4), υ Pegasi (354.9)

*313.0 = *354.4 - *41.4
March 7 (66 = 54 + 12) 8 (432) 9 (68) 10 (*354)
°March 3 (62) 4 (428) 5 (64) 6 (*350)
'Febr 8 (27 + 12 = 39) 9 (40) 10 (*326) 11 (407)
"Jan 25 (13 + 12) 26 27 (*312) 28 (393)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
JULY 3 (184 = 172 + 12) 4 (*169 - *64 = *105) 5 6 (*107)
AL SHARAS (The Ribs) = β Crateris (168.6)

Al Zubrah-9 (Mane) / Purva Phalguni-11 (First Reddish One - Fig Tree)

ZOSMA (Girdle, not Belt) = δ Leonis (169.2), COXA (Hips) = θ Leonis (169.4)

*169.4 - *41.4 = *128.0
φ Leonis (170.0), ALULA (First Spring of the Gazelle) = ξ, ν Ursae Majoris (170.5), LABRUM = δ Crateris (170.6) γ Crateris,  π Centauri (172.0), κ Crateris (172.5), τ Leonis (172.8)

GREDI (α Capricorni)

Sept 5 (248 = 236 + 12) 6 7 8 (*171)
°Sept 1 (244) 2 3 4 (*167)
'Aug 9 (221 = 209 + 12) 10 11 12 (*144 = *171 - ' 27)
"July 26 (207 = 195 + 12) 27 28 29 (*130 = *171 - *41)
Ga4-21 (104 = 184 - 80) Ga4-22 Ga4-23 Ga4-24 (107)