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215. The distance from one point in the Venus pentagram to the next was obviously designed to be equal to the synodic cycle of Venus (*584). Therefore the average synodic velocity of Venus between any pair of its 5 points ought to be equal to 1 right ascension night per day.

First Point of Pentagram

584

2nd Point

Ga2-13 (43)

Gb2-8 (263 → 214 + 49)

July 8 AD 1900 (1 + 187)

Febr 14 AD 1902 (45)

July 6 (*107) era of rongorongo

*220

Febr 11 (*327) era of rongorongo

τ Gemini

Castra (ε Capricorni)

*220 + *364 = *584

... From July 6 AD 1900 (*107) to February 11 (365 + 42 = 407, *327) there should be *364 + *327 - *107 = *584 right ascension nights - i.e. exactly as the synodoc cycle of Venus. *220 = *584 - *364.

From July 8 AD 1900 (187) to February 14 (45) AD 1902 there should be 584 days. 364 - 187 + 364 + 45 = 586. But AD 1900 was a leap-year, which means we should instead count: 364 - 188 + 364 + 45 = 585. Thus 188 (Ga2-13) + 584 + 1 = 773 = 2 * 364 + 45 (Gb2-8).

... After five complete cycles totaling 2,920 days, the movement of Venus fill eight idealized years of 365 days each and come within hours of spanning 99 lunations ...

From February 14 AD 1902 (the 2nd point of Venus) we should therefore count 584 days to the 3rd point in the pentagram, presumably though not in the sign of Virgo but in the constellation of Leo:

... In February 14 (All Heart's Day) AD 1902 we could therefore expect Venus to be in the Goat instead of in the preceding sign of Aquarius, i.e. following the pattern of Gemini instead of the preceding sign of Cancer ...

However, according to Cartes du Ciel we have instead to go 2 steps ahead in the opposite direction to the constellation of the Scorpion, which suggests February 14 in AD 1902 may have been regarded as a final station:

... The Hawaiian woman who was interviewed chuckled because the assassination of Captain Cook coincided with the day we have named All Hearts' Day - when in February 14 (2-14) the war-god Kuu returned to power.

In Roman times and according to the rule of Julius Caesar the final station had been Terminalia = February 23. Caesar had changed the year by adding 10 new days. 23 - 14 = 9, but one more day was December 31. Evidently the Venus pentagram had its point at February 14 according to ancient traditions.

This place (September 17 AD 1903) is quite crowded and I have enlarged it:

Venus AD 1903

Sept 17 (260)

J2000 RA: 16h29m12.90s

*249.1

Antares (α Scorpíi)

J2000 RA: 16h29m24.40s

*249.1

00m11.50s / 1440 * 365.25 = 0.049

The evidence suggests this once upon a time could have been counted as the First Point of Venus, rather than τ Gemini.

... 'From Aleph to Taf' describes something from beginning to end; the Hebrew equivalent of the English 'From A to Z' ... Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew word emet, which means truth. The midrash explains that emet is made up of the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet (Aleph, Mem, and Tav...). Sheqer (falsehood), on the other hand, is made up of the 19th, 20th, and 21st (and penultimate) letters. Thus, truth is all-encompassing, while falsehood is narrow and deceiving. In Jewish mythology it was the word emet that was carved into the head of the Golem which ultimately gave it life. But when the letter 'aleph' was erased from the Golem's forehead, what was left was 'met' - dead. And so the Golem died ...

 

0h (80) MARCH 22 23 (82) 24 JULIAN EQUINOX 26 (*370)
NO GLYPH
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5
(229 + 136) Gb5-13 (365 + 1) Gb5-14 Gb5-15 Gb5-16 (140) (450 - 80 = 370)
PLACE OF THE SUN:
HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)

Jan 20 AD 2023 (385 → 354 + 31) MARS

Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)

Jan 5 AD 2023 (370 → 354 + 15) MARS

 No star listed (66) No star listed (67)

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)

Sept 7 AD 2022 (250 → 235 + 15) MARS

Febr 4 AD 2023 (400 → 260 + 40) MARS

No star listed (69)
May 24 25 (145) 26 27

5 Imix 9 Kumk'u

29
°May 20 21 22 23 24 (144) 25
'April 27 28 29 30 'May 1 (121) 2
"April 13 14 (104) 15 16 ( 1½ * 314) 17 (107, 472) 18
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
SEPT 20 (*183) 21 (264) EQUINOX 23 24 25 (450 - 182)

Heart-5 (Fox)

σ Scorpii (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7(

ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM (Club) = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8) Al Kalb-16 (The Heart) / Jyeshtha-18 (Eldest) / ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)

ANTARES = α Scorpii (249.1), MARFIK (Elbow) = λ Ophiuchi, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)

Dec 7 AD 2023 (*261 → 9 * 29) MARS

Sept 17 (260 → 20 * 13) AD 1903

VENUS (*249.1)

γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5)
Nov 23 (327) 24 25 (*249) 26 27 28
°Nov 19 20 21 (*245) 22 23 24
'Oct 27 (300) 28 29 (*222) 30 31 'Nov 1
"Oct 13 (286) 14 15 (*208) 16 17 18
Ga7-14 (183) Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17 Ga7-18 Ga7-19 (370 - 182)

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

First Point of pentagram

584

2nd Point

580

3rd Point

July 8 AD 1900 (1 + 187) Febr 14 AD 1902 (45) Sept 17 AD 1903 (260, 625)

Ga2-13 (43)

Gb2-8 (263 → 214 + 49)

Ga7-16 (185 → July 6)

July 6 (*107) era of rongorongo

*220

Febr 11 (*327) era of rongorongo

Nov 25 (*249) era of rongorongo

τ Gemini

Castra (ε Capricorni)

ANTARES

... Antares, visible in the morning sky of December-January, came to stand for summer heat; hence the saying, 'Rehua cooks (ripens) all fruit' [hakatupu]. The generally accepted version of the Rehua myth, according to Best, is that Rehua had two wives, the stars on either side of Antares. One was Ruhi-te-rangi or Pekehawani, the personification of summer languor (ruhi), the other Whaka-onge-kai, She-who-makes-food-scarce before the new crops can be harvested ...