next page previous page table of contents home

159. Once again. We have tentatively and in overview mapped the positions in the night sky of the planet Mars from April 25 AD 2023 to April 25 AD 2025 and discovered that April 25 (*35 = *400) AD 2023 ought to have been a cardinal date (6 days after April 19):

... 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 ...

These 4 winds of Cardea suggests the double pair April 25 and June 25 'on one hand' together with October 25 and Chrismas Eve on the other (different, ke).

Oct 25 (298)

1

X-mas Eve

*278

3

April 25 (115)

1

St Jóhn's Day

*95 = *460

*208

*35 = *400

Ke. 1. Other; different; different being; hare ké, a different house; e-ké-ro-á... e-ké-ro-á... there are some who... and others who...; me'e ké, something distinct, different: te puaka ina oona kuhane; me'e ké te tagata, he hakari oona, he kuhane, an animal has no soul; man is different, he has a body, and a soul; matu'a ké, the other relatives. 2. Ké te kairua, person who turns up for meals at other people's homes. 3. Used in exclamations: hahau ké! what a cool breeze!; hana ké! how hot! takeo ké! how cold! Vanaga. Other, distinct, different, diverse, otherwise; koona ke, elsewhere; tagata ke, some one else; mea ke, contrary, distinct, otherwise; hakake, feint, stratagem, to feign; hagake, to act contrary. T Pau.: ke, different. Mgv.: ke, another, other, else, different, of partial comparative value. Mq.: ke, é, to be different, changed, no longer the same. Ta.: e, different, strange, other. Churchill.

 

*225

 

*107

Ga2-1 (80 + 31 = 111)

Gb4-16 (336 ↔ 4 * 84) Gb8-2 (443 = 229 + 2 * 107)

CANOPUS (*95)

305

Ξ ARIETIS (*400, *35)

0 Ξ ARIETIS (*400, *35)

St John's Day (175 → 350 / 2)

April 25 (480, 115) April 25 (480, 115)

... in Roman times the sky should in principle be rising at the horizon in the east where the Sea Beast (Great Fish, Cetus) was pushing up the Ram (Land, Aries) at the 'First Point in Aries' ...

Mars AD 2023

Jan 5

370 = 354 + 16

*290

AIN (*65) → Crow

MARCH 22 (81  ↔ 65 + 16)

... 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 ...

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, *400

Ξ ARIETIS (*107)

MAY 2 (123 ↔ 187 -  64)

... The Sacred Book of the ancient Maya Quiche, the famous Popol Vuh (the Book of Counsel) tells of Zipacna, son of Vucub-Caquix (= Seven Arata). He sees 400 youths dragging a huge log that they want as a ridgepole for their house. Zipacna alone carries the tree without effort to the spot where a hole has been dug for the post to support the ridgepole. The youths, jealous and afraid, try to kill Zipacna by crushing him in the hole, but he escapes and brings down the house on their heads. They are removed to the sky, in a 'group', and the Pleiades are called after them ...

But 2 years later, in April 25 (115) AD 2025, the position of Mars had moved ahead from ξ Arietis (*35 = *400) to *145 (August 13, 225 = 80 + *145), i.e. to the star named Knot (Ukdah, ι Hydrae) at the top of the Mast of Argo Navis:

*145 (ι Hydrae) - *35 (ξ Arietis) = *110:

... About Carmenta we know from the historian Dionysus Periergetis that she gave orcales to Hercules and lived to the age of 110 years. 110 was a canonical number, the ideal age which every Egyptian wished to reach and the age at which, for example, the patriarch Joseph died. The 110 years were made up of twenty-two Etruscan lustra of five years each; and 110 years composed the 'cycle' taken over from the Etruscans by the Romans. At the end of each cycle they corrected irregularities in the solar calendar by intercalation and held Secular Games ...

Mars AD 2025

 

Aug 11 (223)

J2000 RA: 8h16m30.90s

ALTERF (β Cancri) *143.4

JUNE 8 (159 = 223 - 64)

April 25 (115, 400) AD 2025

Aug 13 (225 = 161 + 64)

J2000 RA: 8h22m52.75s

UKDAH '145.4

JUNE 10 (161 = 115 + 46)

06m21.85s / 1440 * 365.25 = 1.614

June 10 (161) AD 2025

Aug 17 (229)

J2000 RA: 9h54m59.60s

Heaven's Record *149.3

JUNE 14 (165)

 

Aug 20 (232 = 225 + 7)

J2000 RA: 10h08m22.30s

REGULUS *152.7

JUNE 17 (168, *88)

 

Sept 7 (250 = 223 + 27)

J2000 RA: 11h16m35.70s

Φ LEONIS → vertical center *170.0

JULY 5 (186, *106)

13m22.70s / 1440 * 365.25 = 3.393

June 26 (177) AD 2025

Aug 29 (241 = 177 + 64)

J2000 RA: 10h44m16.18s

*161.8

JUNE 26 (177)

July 3 (184) AD 2025

Sept 6 (249 = 229 + 20)

J2000 RA: 11h14m14.40s

COXA (θ Leonis) → horizontal center *169.4

JULY 4 (185 = 249 - 64)

29m58.22s / 1440 * 365.25 = 7.602

Phoenician qoph    Greek phi Φ (φ)

Phoenician teth     Greek theta Θ (θ)

DEC 7 8 9 (7 * 7 * 7) 10 11 (345) 12 (*266)
Gb2-6 Gb2-7 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 (35) Gb2-10 Gb2-11 (266)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
BUNDA (Foundation) / KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny) θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)

Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 (Luckiest of the Lucky) / Emptiness-11 (Rat)

TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK (The Flock) = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)
No star listed (326)

CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA = ξ Aquarii (327.5)

SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)

Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)

NASHIRA = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)

Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)

ENIF (The Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 CAPRICORNI, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI =  δ Capricorni (329.8)

*288.0 = *329.4 - *41.4
Febr 9 (40) 10 (343 + 64) (408 = 43 + 365) 13 All Hearts' Day

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...

°Febr 5 6 7 8 (*324) 9 10 (41)
'Jan 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
"Dec 30 31 "Jan 1 2 3 (368) 4
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
JUNE 7 (*78) 8 9 JUNE 10 (161) 11 12

Fibonacci: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 ... → 1.618033998 ... = φ = (1 + √5) / 2.

The Knot (Ukdah)

5 Imix 9 Kumk'u

Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)

ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6)

*105.0 = *146.4 - *41.4
VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)

Star-25 (Horse) / ANA-HEU-HEU-PO-5 (Pillar where debates were held)

ALPHARD (The Horse) = α Hydrae (142.3), ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7)

Al Tarf-7 (The End)

ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)

*102.0 = *143.4 - *41.4

A Hydrae (144.1)

VEGA (α Lyrae)

 

Creation of our present world

UKDAH (Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8)

*104.0 = *145.4 - *41.4

ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA

April 25 AD 2025 (115)

MARS (*35)

Aug 10 11 12 13 (*145, 225) 14 15 (227)
°Aug 6 7 8 (220) 9 10 11 (*143)
'July 14 15 16 17 (*118) 18 19 (200)
"June 30 "July 1 2 3 (*104) 4 5 (186)

And then we could trace Mars beyond April 25 AD 2025 at Ukdah to the constellation of Leo,

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)

viz. to the right ascension line at June 10 (161, *81) = April 25 (115, *35) + 46 = 161, which was *20 days before the cardinal point at Coxa (the Hips of Leo, θ):

... At the end of each cycle they corrected irregularities in the solar calendar by intercalation and held Secular Games ...

The Mayas used a firmly Closed Shell - a sure sign known since prehuman times for some tiny delicious thing inside good to eat (kai) - in order to visualize (night number) zero (0), i.e. the origin of a new counting cycle after the necessary corrections at the end of the previous cycle:

... 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 ...

In the rongorongo idiom the corresponding icon was probably the mama (Pachamama and Paximama) type of glyph.

... Raven began to search for the girls. For it is the way of things in the world that there are both males and females of every creature. Somewhere there must be girls. Raven searched and searched. Under logs and behind rocks, he looked. But he could not find the hiding place of the first girls. But as he searched, the tide was going out, and as it reached its lowest, the Raven spotted some giant Chitons clinging to the rocks. These giant shell fish had but one shell, fastened tightly to the rocks with huge soft lips around their edges. Raven pried one loose with his beak. And there inside was a girl. He pried off another, and another, and another in each was a girl. They were very similar to the creatures he had found in the clamshell, but more like the Chiton, softer and rounder, in contrast to the hard shell and strong muscles of the clam. And these were just as frightened of the Raven. He gathered them onto his back with difficulty, and brought them to the boys he had found in the clamshell ...

*170.0 (φ Leonis) - *110.0 (Carmenta) = *60.0:

Ga4-22 Ga4-23 Ga4-24 (107)
 θ Leonis (169.4) φ Leonis (*170.0) γ Crateris (*172.0)
JULY 4 (185) JULY 5

JULY 6 (*107)

 ALULA (First Spring of the Gazelle) = ξ, ν Ursae Majoris (*170.5)

We can conclude that because the fraction .4 of a right ascension day (night)

... From a religious point of view, the high regard for flies, whose increase or reduction causes a similar increase or reduction in the size of the human population, is interesting, even more so because swarms of flies are often a real nuisance on Easter Island, something most visitors have commented on in vivid language. The explanation seems to be that there is a parallel relationship between flies and human souls, in this case, the souls of the unborn. There is a widespread belief throughout Polynesia that insects are the embodiment of numinous beings, such as gods or the spirits of the dead, and this concept extends into Southeast Asia, where insects are seen as the embodiment of the soul ...

was evidently the established rule in order to identify numbers congruent with the star Bharani (*41.4) in the asterism named the Northern Fly (Musca Borealis) the fraction zero (.0) must refer to numbers congruent with the Sun. Like empty shells from where you could listen to distant spirits of the Sea.

DEC 13 (LUCIA) 14 (*268) 15 16 (350) 17
Gb2-12 Gb2-13 Gb2-14 (40) Gb2-15 (270 = 350 - 80) Gb2-16
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

KUH (Weeping) = μ Capricorni (331.4), γ Gruis (331.5)

*290.0 = *331.4 - *41.4
No star listed (332)

η Piscis Austrini (333.4)

*292.0 = *333.4 - *41.4

Rooftop-12 (Swallow)

22h (334.8)

KAE UH (Roof) = ο Aquarii (334.0), AL KURHAH (White Spot) = ξ Cephei (334.4), SADALMELIK (Lucky King) = α Aquarii, AL DHANAB (The Tail) = λ Gruis (334.6), ι Aquarii, ν Pegasi (334.7)

*293.0 = *334.4 - *41.4
ι Pegasi (335.0), ALNAIR (The Bright One) = α Gruis (335.1), μ Piscis Austrini, υ Piscis Austrini (335.3), WOO (Pestle) = π Pegasi (335.7), BAHAM = θ Pegasi (Good Luck of the Two Beasts), τ Piscis Austrini (335.8)

... Horapollo, the grammarian of Alexandria, about A.D. 400, tells us that the crane was the symbol of a star-observer in Egypt ...

Febr 15 16 17 (413 → 14 * 29½) 18 19 (50)
°Febr 11 (42) 12 (408) 13 2-14 15 (46)
'Jan 19 (384) 20 21 22 23 (*308)
"Jan 5 (370) 6 7 (372) 8 (*293) 9
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
JUNE 13 (*84) 14 (165 ↔ 115 + 50) 15 16 17 (168)

υ¹ Hydrae (148.4), RAS ELASET BOREALIS (Northern Head of the Lion) = μ Leonis (148.7)

*107.0 = *148.4 - *41.4

TSEEN KE (Heaven's Record) = φ Velorum (149.9)

June 10 AD 2025 (161)

MARS (*81)

ν Leonis (150.1), π Leonis (150.6) υ² Hydrae (151.8)

Al Jabhah-8 (Forehead) / Maghā-10 (Bountiful) / Sharru-14 (King)

10h (152.2)

AL JABHAH = η Leonis (152.4), REGULUS (Little KIng) = α Leonis (152.7)

*111.0 = *152.4 - *41.4
Aug 16 (*148) 17 18 19 20 (*152)
°Aug 12 (*144) 13 14 15 16 (*148)
'July 20 (*121) 21 22-7 23 24 (*125)
"July 6 (*107) 7 8 9 10 (*111)
Ga4-1 (84) Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4 Ga4-5 (88)

2 * 16 = 64 / 2.

JAN 2 (184 + 183) 3 4 JAN 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 JULY 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 (249, *169) 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 (184 - 80) Ga4-22 (105) Ga4-23 Ga4-24 (→ 42 * 4 = 336 / 2)