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238. In order to perceive properly they - the 'Twins of Contrast' (for creating perceptions) - had to be located close to one-another. The list for the Mesopotamian ecliptic stations was beginning with the Twins at the Tail of the Goat.

... The tradition preserved by Hyginus in his Poetic Astronomy that the constellation Capricorn ('He-goat') was Zeus's foster-brother Aegipan, the Kid of the Goat Amalthea whose horn Zeus also placed among the stars, shows that Zeus was born at mid-winter when the Sun entered the house of Capricorn ...

Here the idea could have been to point to the contrast between these twins (→ 2) at the Tail of the Goat in contrast to the beginning of the following season (→ 1).

... In the morning of the world, there was nothing but water. The Loon was calling, and the old man who at that time bore the Raven's name, Nangkilstlas, asked her why. 'The gods are homeless', the Loon replied. 'I'll see to it', said the old man, without moving from the fire in his house on the floor of the sea.

Then as the old man continued to lie by his fire, the Raven flew over the sea. The clouds broke. He flew upward, drove his beak into the sky and scrambled over the rim to the upper world. There he discovered a town, and in one of the houses a woman had just given birth. The Raven stole the skin and form of the newborn child. Then he began to cry for solid food, but he was offered only mother's milk. That night, he passed through the town stealing an eye from each inhabitant. Back in his foster parents' house, he roasted the eyes in the coals and ate them, laughing. Then he returned to his cradle, full and warm ...

Taki. Dieffenbach, in his 'Travels in New Zealand', mentions that a title or appellation of the chiefs there was 'Taki o te Wenua', and explains it to mean 'the root of the land'. As the New Zealanders also came from the Samoan group, it seems as if what once was a national appellation, in course of time became the title of a chief. If Diffenbach's interpretation of the title is correct, it corresponds to the Hawiian Kumu-honua, the name of the first man. The same author also mentions, p. 67, a place where chiefs go after death, and says it is called Taki-wana ... when a chief dies he first goes to Taki-wana, where his left eye remains and becomes a star. Then he goes to Reinga and further. Spirits sometimes leave the nether world and come back on earth and communicate with the living ... Reinga was a place near the North Cape, New Zealand, where the spirits of the dead collected previous to their final departure. Fornander.

Once upon a time the 'Star' (Kochab, β Ursae Minoris)

had marked the North Pole and at this place the constellation of Libra would follow - where the Horus Child of the Morning was hungry and therefore pointed at his mouth:

AUG 29 (80 + 161) 30 (242) 31 (61 + 182) SEPT 1 2 (*165) 3 (2 * 123)
Ga6-21 (161) Ga6-22 Ga6-23 Ga6-24 (164) Ga6-25 Ga6-26

... 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 ...

KOCHAB (Kakkab, Babylonian for Star) = β Ursae Min. (225.0), ξ Librae (225.7)

KE KWAN (Cavalry Officer) = β Lupi (226.3), KE KWAN = κ Centauri (226.4), ZUBEN ELAKRIBI (Claw of the Scorpion) = δ Librae (226.8), π¹ Oct. (226.9)

*185.0 = *226.4 - *41.4 = "Sept 22 (265) = equinox
ω Bootis (227.2), NEKKAR (Herdsman) = β Bootis (227.3), σ Librae (227.5), π² Oct. (227.7), NADLAT (Mean Little Ones) = ψ Bootis (227.8), π Lupi (227.9)

15h (228.3)

ZUBEN HAKRABIM (Claw of the Scorpion) = ν Librae (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9)

ω Oct. (229.3), ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8)

Dec 21 AD 2023 VENUS

Al Zubānā-14b (Claws)

χ Bootis (230.3), PRINCEPS = δ Bootis (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (Northern Claw) = β Librae (230.8)

Dec 21 AD 2031 VENUS

Nov 1 (*225) 2 3 (*227) 4 5 6 (310)
°Oct 28 (301) 29 30 31 (*224) °Nov 1 2
'Oct 5 6 (*199) 7 (280) 8 9 10
"Sept 21 (264) EQUINOX (*185) 23 (266) 24 25 26
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
FEBR 28 (59) MARCH 1 (*345) 2 (241 - 182 = 61) 3 4 (365 + 63 = 428) 5 (64)

ρ Arietis (43.0), GORGONEA SECUNDA = π Persei (43.5), ACAMAR (End of the River) = θ Eridani (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7), λ Ceti (43.9)

DENEBOLA (β Leonis)
MENKAR (The Nose) = α Ceti (44.7)

3h (45.7)

GORGONEA TERTIA = ρ Persei (45.1), ALGOL (The Demon) = β Persei (45.9)
ι Persei (46.1), MISAM (Next to the Pleiades) = κ Persei (46.2), GORGONEA QUARTA = ω Persei (46.7), BOTEIN (Pair of Bellies) = δ Arietis (46.9) ζ Arietis (47.7) ZIBAL (Young Ostriches) = ζ Eridani (48.0), κ Ceti (48.9)
May 4 AD 2030 MARS
May 3 (123) 4 5 (490 = 70 weeks) 6 7 (*412) → 29½ * 14
°April 29 30 (120) °May 1 (*41) 2 3 (*408) 4
'April 6 7 8 (*383) 9 10 (100) 11 (466)
"March 23 24 25 (3-25, 84) 26 (450) 27 (86) 28 (*372)

Whereas the C text, we have seen, seems to have marked out Kochab after The Southern Claw:

manu rere - kua rere ga manu - ki te ragi eaha te nuku erua koia kua huki e niu tu ki te ariki - e ka hua ra tona rima

Ga. Preposed plural marker of rare usage. 1. Sometimes used with a few nouns denoting human beings, more often omitted. Te ga vî'e, te ga poki, the women and the children. Ga rauhiva twins. 2. Used with some proper names. Ga Vaka, Alpha and Beta Centauri (lit. Canoes). Vanaga.

Gaa. Gaaha, to burst, to become ruptured, to have a discharge of pus, of blood. Ku gaaha te toto o te ihu. He had a nose-bleed. E û'i koe o gaaha te îpu. Be careful not to break the bottle (lit. look out lest the bottle burst). E tiaki á au mo gaaha mai o te harakea. I shall wait for the abcess to burst. Gaatu, totora reed. Vanaga. To break, to split, to crack, to rive; fracture, fissure, break, crack, crevice (gaaha); niho gaa, toothache, broken teeth; gaamiro (miro, ship) shipwreck; gaàpu (pu 2), abortion; poki gaàpu, abortive child. T Mq.: naha, nafa, split, fissure. Ta.: aha, afa, crack fissure. Gaatu 1. Bulrush, reed. 2. (gatu).  Churchill.

Cb1-12 (392 + 12) Cb1-13 Cb1-14 Cb1-15 → Mercury Cb1-16 (408)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 28 (4 * 29½) 29 30 May 1 (11 * 11) 2 (2 * 61)
ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8) μ Arietis (39.4), HEAD OF THE FLY = 35 Arietis (39.6), KAFFALJIDHMA = γ Ceti, θ Persei (39.8) π Ceti, ο Arietis (40.0), ANGETENAR = τ¹ Eridani, μ Ceti (40.2), RIGHT WING = 39 Arietis (40.9)

Bharani-2 (The Bearer) / Stomach-17 (Pheasant)

π Arietis (41.2), MIRAM = η Persei (41.3), BHARANI = 41 Arietis (41.4), τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7)

TA LING (Great Mound) = τ Persei (42.4)

*1.0 = *42.4 - *41.4

'April 1 (91) 2 3 4 5
"March 18 19 (78) 20 0h (*365) 22
→ TERMINALIA → BISSEXTUM FEBR 25 (110 - 64) 26 (57) 27
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Oct 28 29 30 31 (304 = 121 + 183) Nov 1 (*225)
ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9) 31 Bootis (222.0), YANG MUN = α Lupi (222.1), RIJL AL AWWA = μ Virginis (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9) IZAR = ε Bootis (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (223.3), μ Librae (223.8)

Al Zubānā-14a (Claws) / Visakha-16 (Forked) / Root-3 (Badger)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (Southern Claw) = α Librae (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)

KOCHAB (Kakkab, Babylonian for Star) = β Ursae Min. (225.0), ξ Librae (225.7)

... Kochab was at the opposite side of the pole compared to Polaris, and thus also at the opposite side in the right ascension circle. It meant Kochab was not very far from the Full Moon when the Sun was at Polaris ...

... at the ancient time of Bharani the star at the North Pole was not Polaris but β Ursae Minoris - Kochab (as in Babylonian Kakkab = Star).

'Oct 1 2 3 4 5
"Sept 17 (260) 18 19 20 (304 - 41 = 263) 21
AUG 25 (*157) 26 27 28 (304 - 64 = 240) 29