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235. Well now. The clouds of the Sky Garment

... Note that rain and stars are singled out as the characteristics of the sky: we have seen that the ancients of Mesopotamia and in India shared the concept of a divine 'sky garment' consisting either of rain clouds or of the starry sky ...

had dissipated this morning.

And here was Venus visible to the naked eye again, after having been absent for 8 nights behind the Sun.

...when the new moon appeared women assembled and bewailed those who had died since the last one, uttering the following lament: 'Alas! O moon! Thou has returned to life, but our departed beloved ones have not. Thou has bathed in the waiora a Tane, and had thy life renewed, but there is no fount to restore life to our departed ones. Alas' ...

And towards the end of my early morning walk the Dawn could be observed to emerge from the horizon in the east.

In December 6 (AD 2023) I had lost sight of Venus, and 5 + 8 = 13 → December 13.

And - 'as if by chance' - today 'happened to be' the Morning of Lucia.

Therefore, after another 8 days would come the solstice in December 21 (355).

The dates in the Julian (Gregorian) Sun calendar were evidently synchronized (in cosmic synchronism) with the synodic cycle of Venus (→ Lucia).

... There is a couple residing in one place named Kui and Fakataka [meaning Creating a Cycle]. After the couple stay together for a while Fakataka is pregnant. So they go away because they wish to go to another place - they go. The canoe goes and goes, the wind roars, the sea churns, the canoe sinks. Kui expires while Fakataka swims. Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa [meaning Not Tagaroa]. When the baby is born a Golden Plover flies over and a-lights upon the reef. (Kua fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai i te papa). And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae). They go inland at the land. The child nursed and tended grows up, is able to go and play. Each day he now goes off a bit further away, moving some distance away from the house, and then returns to their house ...

And then the morning news for December 14 (348 → 12 * 29 → December 29) announced it was time for people to look up at the night sky because the Gemini meteor swarm was due to arrive.

Evidently there were 8 significant meteor showers:

Dec 14

Jan 3

Geminids

Quadrantides

April 21

Aug 12

Oct 10

Lyrids

Perseids

Draconids

Oct 21

Nov 4

Nov 16

Orionids

Taurids

Leonids

But the Geminids was a special case. For instance because these meteors originated from a point close to the star named Middle (Wasat), which 'happened to be' 5 days after the Virgins (Adara).

"Just north of δ lies the radiant point of the Geminids, visible early in October; another stream of meteors bearing the same title appearing from the northeastern border of the constellation and at its maximum on the 7th of December." (Allen)

... 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 ...:

Wasat was the delta star in the Gemini constellation and it should therefore not be surprising to here observe a pair of meteor streams.

Egyptian door Phoenician dalet Greek delta Δ (δ)

... Delta (uppercase Δ, lowercase δ) ... is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 4. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Dalet.

Letters that come from delta include Latin D and Cyrillic Д. A river delta (originally, the Nile River delta) is so named because its shape approximates the upper-case letter delta (the shape is a triangle) ...

Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets ... The letter is based on a glyph of the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, probably called dalt 'door' (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door.

... Sorrowing, then, the two women placed Osiris's coffer on a boat, and when the goddess Isis was alone with it at sea, she opened the chest and, laying her face on the face of her brother, kissed him and wept. The myth goes on to tell of the blessed boat's arrival in the marshes of the Delta, and of how Set, one night hunting the boar by the light of the full moon, discovered the sarcophagus and tore the body into fourteen pieces, which he scattered abroad; so that, once again, the goddess had a difficult task before her. She was assisted, this time, however, by her little son Horus, who had the head of a hawk, by the son of her sister Nephtys, little Anubis, who had the head of a jackal, and by Nephtys herself, the sister-bride of their wicked brother Set. Anubis, the elder of the two boys, had been conceived one very dark night, we are told, when Osiris mistook Nephtys for Isis; so that by some it is argued that the malice of Set must have been inspired not by the public virtue and good name of the noble culture hero, but by this domestic inadventure. The younger, but true son, Horus, on the other hand, had been more fortunately conceived - according to some, when Isis lay upon her dead brother in the boat, or, according to others, as she fluttered about the palace pillar in the form of a bird.

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. They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead. These confess before him, and when their hearts have been weighed in a balance against a feather, receive, according to their lives, the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin ...

I guess the modern computer age technical term 'delete' had been chosen because it suggested the idea of an exit door (Hebrew delet).

PENTAGRAM COMPLETED   First Point of Pentagram 584 2nd Point 580

3rd Point

July 6 AD 1908 (185) July 8 AD 1900 (188) Febr 14 AD 1902 (45) Sept 17 AD 1903 (260, 625)
APRIL 30 (120) MAY 3 (187 - 64, 488) DEC 9 (407 - 64 = 7 * 49) EQUINOX (SEPT 22, *185, 265)
Ga2-10 (40) Ga2-13 (43) Gb2-8 (263 → 214 + 49)

Ga7-16 (185 → July 6)

July 3 (*104) era of rongorongo July 6 (*107) era of rongorongo *220 Febr 11 (*327) era of rongorongo *220

Nov 25 (*249) era of rongorongo

ADARA (*104) τ Geminorum (*107) Castra (ε Capricorni, *327)

ANTARES (*547)

*327 - *107 = *220 → 584 - 364

*547 - *364 = *183 = *366 / 2

APRIL 29 30 (*40) MAY 1 (121) 2
Ga2-9 Ga2-10 Ga2-11 Ga2-12 (42)

Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-9 (Twins of the Shepherd)

θ Geminorum (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), ALHENA = γ Geminorumi (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9)

April 19 AD 2023 (109, *29)

MARS
ADARA (Virgins) = ε Canis Majoris (104.8)

July 6 AD 1908 (185)

VENUS (*104.8)

*104.8 - *41.4 = *63.4

HYADUM I

ω Geminorum (105.4), ALZIRR (Button) = ξ Geminorum (105.7), MULIPHEIN (Oaths) = γ Canis Majoris (105.8), MEKBUDA (Contracted) = ζ Geminorum (105.9)

*64.0 = *105.4 - *41.4

7h (106.5)

No star listed (106)
July 2 3 (*104) 4 (185) 5
ºJune 28 29 (*100) SIRIUS ºJuly 1 (182)
'June 5 6 (157 → 314 / 2) 7 (*78 = 6 * 13) 8
"May 22 23 24 (*64 = 8 * 8) 25 (145)
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

RADIANT POINT FOR THE GEMINIDS

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)

And, remarkably, the 'parent' of the Geminids was the strange stony object named 3200 Phaeton - with an orbit like a comet but with no light nor any visible red tail.

... 'From now on', said Father Sun, grieving over Phaeton, his fallen child, 'you shall be Mink' ...

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...

... Tavake is the general Polynesian name for the tropic bird (Phaeton), whose red tail feathers were very popular. This name is closely connected with the original population ...