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212. The synodic speeds of Venus ought to be possible to measure from her pentagram:

For instance, from her star point at AD 1900-07-08 (189) to her next point at AD 1902-02-14 (45) it could be expected to be around 2 * 365 + 45 - 189 = 586 right ascension nights.

At AD 1900 the beginning of the pentagram was drawn to indicate the center of Cancer.

Possibly this was intended to allude to MAY 26 (146 → 365 / 5 * 2) November 25 (329) - 183:

NOV 25 (329 → Antares) 26 (*250) 27 (366 - 35)
Gb1-20 (249 → Antares, *249) Gb1-21 (→ 121 → Beltane) Gb1-22
PLACE OF THE SUN:

μ², μ¹ Oct. (313.2), DENEB CYGNI (Tail of the Swan) = α Cygni (313.5), β Pavonis (313.6), δ Delphini (313.8)

Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 (Good Fortune of the Swallower) / Dhanishta-24 (Most Famous) / Girl-10 (Bat)

YUE (Battle-Axe) = Ψ Capricorni (314.3), GIENAH CYGNI = ε Cygni, η Cephei (314.5), γ Delphini (314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7), ALBALI = ε Aquarii (314.8)

BETELGEUZE (α Orionis)

BATEN ALGIEDI (Belly of the Goat) = ω Capricorni (315.8)

... ε, 3.4, was Al Bali, the brightest one of the 21st manzil, Al Sa'd al Bula', the Good Fortune of the Swallower, which included μ and ν; these last also known as Al Buläān in the dual. Kazwini said that this strange title came from the fact that the two outside stars were more open than α and β of Capricorn, so that they seemed to swallow, or absorb, the light of the other! ...

"The corresponding sieu, Mo, Mu, Niu, Nü, or Woo Neu, a Woman, anciently written Nok, was composed of these stars with the addition of another, unidentified, ε being the determinant; and the same three were the Euphratean lunar asterism Munaχa, the Goat-fish, and the Coptic Upeuritos, the Discoverer ..." (Allen)

Jan 28 (393) 29 (*314) 30
°Jan 24 (389) 25 (*310) 26
'Jan 1 (366) 2 3 (*288)
"Dec 18 19 (*273) 20 (354)

... And then the bone spoke; it was there in the fork of the tree: Why do you want a mere bone, a round thing in the branches of a tree? said the head of One Hunaphu when it spoke to the maiden. You don't want it, she was told. I do want it, said the maiden. Very well. Stretch out your right hand here, so I can see it, said the bone. Yes, said the maiden. She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden. And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator. The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator. Rather, he will leave his daughters and sons. So it is that I have done likewise through you. Now go up there on the face of the earth; you will not die. Keep the word. So be it, said the head of One and Seven Hunaphu - they were of one mind when they did it ...

THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
MAY 26 (146 → *130 + 16) 27 (330 - 183 = 147) 28 (148 → 80 + 68)

Al Nathrah-6 (Gap)

BEEHIVE (Exhalation of Piled-up Corpses) = M44, ε Cancri, η Pyxidis (130.4), XESTUS = ο Velorum (130.5), ζ Pyxidis (130.7), ASCELLUS BOREALIS = γ Cancri, β Pyxidis (130.9)

*89.0 = *130.4 - *41.4

Extended Net-26a (Ox) / Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-12 (Southeast Star in the Crab)

η Hydrae (131.0), ASCELLUS AUSTRALIS = δ Cancri (131.4), KOO SHE = Bow and Arrow = δ Velorum (131.6), α Pyxidis (131.8), ε Hydrae (131.9)

*90.0 = *131.4 - *41.4

ι Cancri (132.0), ρ Hydrae (132.4)

*91.0 = *132.4 - *41.4

Ga3-7 (66 → *130 - 64) Ga3-8 Ga3-9
July 29 (146 + 64 = 210) 30 31 (395 - 183 = 212)

'Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!'  //  How I wonder what you're at!'

Vero. To throw, to hurl (a lance, a spear). This word was also used with the particle kua preposed: koía kua vero i te matá, he is the one who threw the obsidian [weapon]. Verovero, to throw, to hurl repeatedly, quickly (iterative of vero). Vanaga. 1. Arrow, dart, harpoon, lance, spear, nail, to lacerate, to transpierce (veo). P Mgv.: vero, to dart, to throw a lance, the tail; verovero, ray, beam, tentacle. Mq.: veó, dart, lance, harpoon, tail, horn. Ta.: vero, dart, lance. 2. To turn over face down. 3. Ta.: verovero, to twinkle like the stars. Ha.: welowelo, the light of a firebrand thrown into the air. 4. Mq.: veo, tenth month of the lunar year. Ha.: welo, a month (about April). Churchill. Sa.: velo, to cast a spear or dart, to spear. To.: velo, to dart. Fu.: velo, velosi, to lance. Uvea: velo, to cast; impulse, incitement. Niuē: velo, to throw a spear or dart. Ma.: wero, to stab, to pierce, to spear. Ta.: vero, to dart or throw a spear. Mg.: vero, to pierce, to lance. Mgv.: vero, to lance, to throw a spear. Mq.: veo, to lance, to throw a spear. Churchill 2.

However, from Cartes du Ciel we can see that in July 8 (→ 78) AD 1900 Venus and the Sun instead had been together in the constellation of Gemini:

We can then compare the data for Venus with those for Wasat (Middle, δ Geminorum)

Venus AD 1900

July 8 (187)

J2000 RA: 7h10m47.11s

*107.4

Wasat (δ Geminorum)

J2000 RA: 7h20m07.40s

*109.8

09m20.29s / 1440 * 365.25 = 2.369

MAY 2 (*42) 3 (123, 488) 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 Geminorum (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9)

July 8 AD 1900 (187)

VENUS (*107.4)

*66.0 = *107.4 - *41.4

No star listed (108)

λ Gemini (109.4), WASAT (Middle) = δ Geminorum (109.8)

*68.0 = *109.4 - *41.4

July 5 (186 = 106 + 80) 6 (*107) 7 July 8 (187)
°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)

*247.0 = *288.4 - *41.4

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)

This date (July 8 AD 1900) agrees quite well with when according to the G text the Sun should rise together with the star named Middle (Wasat).

The precessional distance from the middle of Cancer to the middle of Gemini should be around 1 / 12 * 26000 = 2167 years.

... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini ...