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180. Sirius is the brightest star (-1.46) not only in the southern hemisphere but even on the total sphere of the sky.

Wega was also very bright (0.03), indeed the brightest star in the northern hemisphere, with exception for Arcturus (-0.05). We can compare with some other pole stars:

Wega 0.03
Polaris 1.97
Kochab 2.07
Thuban 3.67
Dramasa 5.45

... I became curious about this star ... called Nuutuittuq [= 'never moves'] ... So, on the lee side of our uquutaq (a snow windbreak) I positioned a harpoon pointing directly at this particular star to see if it would move. In the morning I checked it and discovered that the Tukturjuit (Ursa Major) had changed their position completely but the harpoon still pointed at this star ... I had discovered the stationary star ...

Judging from their brightness alone it is obvious that Wega should be at the top with Dramasa at the bottom.

In the Golden Age of the Bull, when Thuban (not extraordinarily bright) had become the northern pole star,

immense efforts were taken to make this fact clear:

... The star [Thuban] could be seen, both by day and night, from the bottom of the central passage of the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Knum Khufu) at Ghizeh, in 30° of north latitude, as also from the similar points in five other like structures; and the same fact is asserted by Sir John Herschel as to the two pyramids at Abousseir ...

... For some reason, too, it had taken their fancy to place the Great Pyramid almost exactly on the 30th parallel at latitude 29º 58' 51". This, a former astronomer royal of Scotland once observed, was 'a sensible defalcation from 30º', but not necessarily in error: For if the original designer had wished that men should see with their body, rather than their mental eyes, the pole of the sky from the foot of the Great Pyramid, at an altitude before them of 30º, he would have had to take account of the refraction of the atmosphere, and that would have necessitated the building standing not at 30º but at 29º 58' 22' ...

And remarkably the brightest star in the northern hemisphere, Arcturus (-0.05), culminated in the following night.

Maybe this fact - taking into consideration also the eminent Sirius who raised the waters of the Nile and was the brightest star in the southern hemispere - could have been the basic reason for raising Thuban to his high position, making Wega into the primordial first Falling Eagle, with head looking towards the past (with no future in sight).

FEBRUARY 23

TERMINALIA

APRIL 4 (*14) → 413 + 1 5 (95 + 365 = 460) 6 7
Ga1-14 Ga1-15 Ga1-16 Ga1-17
Gb5-26 (150) Gb5-6 + 21 Gb5-28 Gb5-29 (382)

ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA (Mother Goat) = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)

Shur-narkabti-sha-iltanu-5 (Star in the Bull towards the north)

σ Aurigae (80.4), BELLATRIX (Female Warrior) = γ Orionis, SAIF AL JABBAR (Sword of the Giant) = η Orionis (80.7), ELNATH (The Butting One) = β Tauri = γ Aurigae (80.9)

*39.0 = *41.0 - *2.0 = *221.0 - *182.0

Oct 7 AD 2022 (280, *200)

MARS

ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL (Thirst-slaking Camels) = β Leporis (81.7)
June 7 (*78) 8 (*444) 9 (525 = 365 + 160) 10 (161)

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

°June 3 (*74) 4 (*440) 5 (521) 6 (157)
'May 11 12 (*52 = *79 - *27) 13 (133) 14
"April 27 28 (118 ↔ 4 * 29½) 29 (*39) 30
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
OCT 3 4 (277) 5 6 (*199)
NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8)

SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4
ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9) β, γ Arae (263.3), κ Arae (263.5), σ Ophiuchi (263.6)
Dec 6 (*260) 7 (→ 9 * 29) 8 (342) 9 (→ 7 * 49)
°Dec 2 (*256) 3 4 (338) 5
'Nov 9 10 (314 → π) 11 12 (*236 → 8 * 29½)
"Oct 26 27 (300 = 341 - 41) 28 29 (*222)
Ga7-27 Ga7-28 Ga7-29 Ga7-30 (199)

The Sun rose at the right ascension line connected with Thuban at the time when the Full Moon ideally should have been at Hamal. And 3 days later followed Arcturus:

Ga6-6 Ga6-7 Ga6-8 (148) Ga6-9 Ga6-10 Ga6-11
PLACE OF THE SUN:
MUPHRID (*210) *211 → 227 - 16 THUBAN *213 *214 ARCTURUS
Oct 17 (290) 18 19 20 21 22 (295)
AUG 14 15 (227) 16 (*148) 17 (229) 18 19
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
*28 ALRISHA HAMAL *31 *32 MIRA
April 18 19 20 (*395) 21 (111) 22 23
FEBR 13 2-14 (45 = 109 - 64) 15 (*331) 16 17 (413 = 14 * 29½) 18 (49)

... Aries only rose to its prominent position as the leading sign of the zodiac in the Neo-Babylonian (7th century BCE) revision of the Babylonian zodiac, as Hamal (α Ari) came to be located close to the point of vernal equinox. In Hellenistic astrology, the constellation of Aries is associated with the golden ram of Greek mythology that rescued Phrixos on orders from Mercury (→ 115), taking him to the land of Colchis ...

Similarly Polaris - who arrived later in time-space, followed by Sheratan - had Benetnash at the opposite side:

Ga6-1 (141 → 61 + 80) Ga6-2 Ga6-3 Ga6-4 (12 * 12) Ga6-5 (290 / 2)
PLACE OF THE SUN:
HEZE (*205.0) *206 *207 BENET-NASH (η) *209
Oct 12 (285) 13 (104 + 182 = 286) 14 15 (288 = 80 + 208) 16
AUG 9 (285 - 64 = 221) 10 11 12 (224 = 288 - 64) AUG 13 (15 * 15)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
ACHERNAR *24 (= *206 - *182) *25 POLARIS SHERATAN
April 13 4-14  (104 = 80 + 24) 15 16 (106 = 471 - 365) 17 (472 = 408 + 64)

The first point of Aries (at Sheratan) came at *27 corresponding to day 408 (at Sirrah) + 64 = 472 = 1½ * 314 + 1 = 16 * 29½.

*290

*41

Ga6-5 (290 / 2)

Gb7-25 (→ 360)

Ga1-4

SHERATAN SHERATAN ALDEBARAN

Presumably we ought to try to keep all such ideas alive at the back of our heads (where the signals from the optic nerves are processed) when looking at the planet Mars in December 28 (Gb1-15). Here the 3 central stars in Orion would come in order for the Sun:

NOV 19 20 (324) 21 22 → π 23 24 (*248)
Gb1-14 Gb1-15 → 115 Gb1-16 Gb1-17 (2 * 123) Gb1-18 Gb1-19 (248)
PLACE OF THE SUN:
GREDI (Goat) = α Capricorni (307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), ALSHAT (The Sheep) = ν Capricorni (307.9)

 

Al Sa’d al Dhabih-20 (Lucky One of the Slaughterers) / Ox / Heard Boy-9 (Buffalo)

DABIH = β Capricorni (308.0), κ Sagittarii (308.1), SADIR (Hen's Breast) = γ Cygni (308.4), PEACOCK = α Pavonis (308.7)

*267.0 = *308.4 - *41.4
KHUFU
 
MINTAKA (δ Orionis)

ARNEB (α Leporis)

OKUL = π Capricorni (309.6), BOS = ρ Capricorni (309.9(

KHAFRE

ο Capricorni (310.2), θ Cephei (310.5)

ALNILAM (ε Orionis)

HEKA (λ Orionis)

MENKAURE

ALNILAK (ζ Orionis)

PHAKT (α Columbae)

ROTTEN MELON = ε Delphini, φ Pavonis (311.2), η Delphini (311.4), ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis (311.7)

*270.0 = *311.4 - *41.4

ROTANEV = β Delphini, ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7), SVALOCIN = α Delphini, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8)
Dec 28 (362) AD 2027 MARS Febr 20 (416) AD 2024 MARS
Jan 22 23 (*8 + *300) 24 25 → 21 + 4 26 (*311) 27 (392)
°Jan 18 19 (*304) 20 21 22 23 (388)
'Dec 26 27 28 29 30 (364) 31 (*285)
"Dec 12 13 14 (348) 15 16 (*270) 17
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
MAY 20 (140) 21 22 23 24 (12 * 12) 25 (145)

AL TARF (The End) = β Cancri (124.3)

RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)

χ Cancri (125.2), BRIGHT FIRE = λ Cancri (125.4)

*84.0 = *125.4 - *41.4

AVIOR = ε Carinae (126.4), φ Cancri (126.8)

*85.0 = *126.4 - *41.4

ο Ursae Majoris (127.4)

*86.0 = *127.4 - *41.4

Pushya-8 (Nourisher)

υ Cancri (128.1), θ Cancri (128.2)

Āshleshā-9 (Embrace) / Willow-24 (Stag)

π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ HYDRAE (129.6), AL MINHAR AL SHUJĀ = σ Hydrae, MUSEIDA = π² Ursae Majoris (129.9)

RAS ALHAGUE (α Ophiuchi)
Ga3-1 (60) Ga3-2 (61) Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5 Ga3-6 (65)
July 23 (204) 24 25 26 27 (208) 28

December 28 (362, Gb1-15) ↔ February 20 (416 = 8 * 52, Gb1-17) - 2 = 414 (→ Bharani, *41.4) = 362 + 52 (→ 780 - 2 * 364).

Ma'eha, Brightness, bright, to lighten, to brighten up; ku ma'eha-á, it has already lightened up. Vanaga. 1. Light, brightness; to shine, to be bright, to glimmer, to glow; maeha mahina, moonshine; maeharaa, sunrise. Maehamaeha, bright. Hakamaeha, to brighten. Mq.: maeoeo, bright, transparent. 2. To get out of the way. 3. Thin, slender, slight. Churchill.

Teke. Occiput. Teketeke, short (not tall); also: teke. Vanaga. Teke ki nei, as far as, until (? tehe 1). Teketeke, crest, ridge. Churchill. Teke and Maeha were 'brothers', located at opposite sides of 'the house'. [E:62]