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248 should be a potent number, beginning with the number of hours in a day and ending with 8 as in 8 * 45 = 360 (= 24 * 15).

Also: 248 + 118 (= 4 * 29½) = 366 (→ 350 + 16) and 248 + 16 = 264 = 364 (→ 300 + 64) - 100, where 16 could indicate the distance between the true heliacal rising of a star and the night when it will return to visibility and where 64 (= 8 * 8 → 10 * 10) could have referred to the precessional distance down to the time of the Golden Bull.

 JULY 20 (201, *121)

*121 → 322 - 201

NOV 18 (*242, 322)

Ga5-11 (121)

Gb1-13 (242)

Sept 22 (265, equinox)

Jan 21 (365 + 21 = 386)

GIENAH (*185) TEGMINE (*123)
Gb3-14 (304 = 121 + 183) Ga2-29 (59 = 242 - 183)
NOV 19 (*243, 323) 20 (*244, 324)   21 (*245, 325) 22 (326→ 304 + 22) 23 NOV 24 (*248, 328)

Gb1-14 (243)

Gb1-15 (244)

Gb1-19 (248)

Jan 22 (*307, 387) → 123

Jan 27 (*312, 392)

AL TARF (*124)

RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)

BRIGHT FIRE *84.0 + *41.4 = *125.4 SERPENT (*129)

RAS ALHAGUE (α Ophiuchi)

AL TARF (*124)

RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)

BRIGHT FIRE *84.0 + *41.4 = *125.4 SERPENT (*129)

RAS ALHAGUE (α Ophiuchi)

Ga3-1 (60 = 140 - 80) → 123 + 61 = 184 MINTAKA (δ Orionis) ALNILAM (ε Orionis) ALNILAK (ζ Orionis)

Ga3-6 (65 = 129 - 64)

MAY 20 (323 - 183 = 140)

MAY 21 (100 + 41) ARNEB (α Leporis) HEKA (λ Orionis) PHAKT (α Columbae) MAY 25 (*65 = *248 - *183)

 

Gb2-6 (9 * 29) Gb2-7 → 27 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 (35, 248 + 16) Gb2-10 (36, 265)
PLACE OF THE SUN
BUNDA (Foundation) / KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny)

... β and ξ also constituted the Persian lunar station Bunda and the similar Coptic Upuineuti, the Foundation; but β alone marked the sieu Heu, Hiu, or , Void, anciently Ko, the central one of the seven sieu which, taken together, were known as Heung Wu, the Black Warrior, in the northern quarter of the sky. It is found in Hindu lists as Kalpeny, of unknown signification. On the Euphrates it was Kakkab Nammaχ, the Star of Mighty Destiny, that may have given origin to the title of the manzil [Al Sa'd al Su'ud], as well as to the astrologers' name for it - Fortuna Fortunarum. Al Firuzabadi of Khorasan, editor of Al Kāmūs, the great Arabic dictionary of the 14th century, called some of the smaller stars below this Al Au'ā, the plural of Nau', a Star, but without explanation, and they certainly are inconspicious ...

Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 (Luckiest of the Lucky) / Emptiness-11 (Rat)

TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK (The Flock) = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)

March 14 AD 2024 (Π) MARS

No star listed (326)

CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA (Foundation) = ξ Aquarii (327.5)

SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris

Febr 14 AD 1902 (45)

VENUS (*327.7)

Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)

NASHIRA (Fortunate One) = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE (Tail of the Hen) = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)

Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)

ENIF (The Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 CAPRICORNI, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI δ Capricorni (329.8)

*288.0 = *329.4 - *41.4

Febr 9 (40) 10 11 12 (408) 13 (345 + 64)
°Febr 5 (36) 6 7 8 (*324) 9 (40)
'Jan 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17
"Dec 30 (364) 31 "Jan 1 2 3 (368, *288)
DEC 7 (11 * 31 = 341) 8 9 10 11 (345)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:

Al Tarf-7 (The End)

ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)

*102.0 = *143.4 - *41.4

A Hydrae (144.1)

WEGA (α Lyrae)

Creation of our present world

UKDAH (Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8)

ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA

*104.0 = *145.4 - *41.4

5 Imix 9 Kumk'u

Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)

ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6)

*105.0 = *146.4 - *41.4
VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)
UKDAH (THE KNOT)

... σ, 4.6, was Ulug Beg's Al Minhar al Shujā', the Snake's Nose. τ¹, 4.9, flushed white, and τ², 4.6, lilac, with ι and the 5th magnitude A, form the curve in the neck, Ptolemy's Καμπή; but Kazwini knew them as Ukdah, the Knot ...

Aug 11 12 13 (225) 14 15 (227)
"July 1 2 3 (*104) 4 5
JUNE 8 9 10 (161) 11 12
Ga3-20 → Dramasa Ga3-21 Ga3-22 Ga3-23 Ga3-24

... 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 ...

Magic means a connection between entities with no visual explanation. The other day I happened to notice (on TV) how a scientific experiment had shown how chimpanzees reacted to music played in another room.

 

Some of them moved about vigorously in tune with the rhythms (i.e. danced), while others only changed their positions back and forth (→ the nakshatra system) as when rongorongo texts were chanted in the 4th quarter of the Moon.

But all of them reacted in harmony with what they heard.

Tari. 1. To take from one place to another; he-tari-mai, to bring. 2. Upper end of the sugarcane, which was used in military training as a harmless weapon. Tariga, ear; tariga pogeha, tariga pó, sordo; tariga maîka, bunch of bananas. Vanaga. 1. To pluck, to gather, to reap, to load; kai taria te kai, abundance. 2. To lead, to carry; hakatari, to conduct, to guide, to direct, to escort, to carry, to bring, to pay; hakatari miro, pilot; hakatariga, payment. Tariga, ear, earring; tariga hakarogo, faithful, observant, submissive; tariga kikiu, din, buzzing; tariga meitaki, to have good hearing; tariga pogeha, deaf, to disobey; tariga puru, disobedient; tariga purua, stubborn; tarigariga, chain. Tarirapa, to gather. Churchill.

I suggest the foundation of magic was sound. Which implies the voice of Man will carry influence not only over other men but also over the Gods and all their other Created Beings.

APRIL 12 13 (468) 14 (104) 15 (*390) 16 (*26)
Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25 Ga1-26
Gb6-5 (229 + 158) Gb6-6 (388) Gb6-7 Gb6-8 (161 φ) Gb6-9 (391)
PLACE OF THE SUN:
μ Columbae (86.1), SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis (86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6) υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae, δ Leporis (87.7), TZE (Son) = λ Columbae (87.9) Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)

χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE = α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae)

η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI (Lord of Created Beings) = δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM (Wrist) = θ Aurigae, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7)

*48.0 = *89.4 - *41.4
μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)
June 15 16 17 (168 → 2 * 84) 18 19 (*90)
°June 11

12

13 (*84) 14 (165) 15
'May 19 20 21 (*61) 22 (142) 23
"May 5 6 7 (127) 8 9 (*49)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
OCT 11 12 13 14 15 (288)
KELB ALRAI (Dog of the Shepherd) = β Ophiuchi, μ Arae (268.1), KEW HO (Nine Rivers) = μ Herculis (268.6), η Pavonis (268.7), APOLLYON = ι Scorpii (268.9) MULIPHEN (Oaths) = γ Ophiuchi (269.0), BASANISMUS = G Scorpii (269.5), PHERKARD (Dim One of the Two Calves) = δ Ursae Minoris (269.9) PTOLEMY CLUSTER = M7 Scorpii (270.5), GRUMIUM (Lower Jaw) = ξ Draconis (270.9) RUKBALGETHI GENUBI (Bending Claw) = θ Herculis (271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5), ETAMIN (Head) = γ Draconis, ν Herculis (271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8) CAT'S EYE = NGC6543 Draconis (272.2), ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ Ophiuchi (272.9)
Dec 14 (*268) 15 16 (350) 17 18
°Dec 10 (*264) 11 12 13 14 (348 → 208 + 140)
'Nov 17 (*241) 18 19 20 21 (325)
"Nov 3 (*227) 4 5 6 (310) 7
Ga8-1 (204) Ga8-2 Ga8-3 Ga8-4 Ga8-5 (208)

In other words, it is not the language in the form of dry encoded writings as much as the quality of the living Word heard which causes the herd to move.

The foremost instrument of the Schaman (magician) was the Drum because it had effect all around, even up to the ruling gods above.

... It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder ...

... The most important of all drums, he said, was the armpit drum. The Nummo made it. It consists of two hemispherical wooden cups connected through their centres by a slender cylinder. It is like an hour-glass with a very long narrow neck. With this instrument tucked between his left arm and armpit, the drummer, by pressing on the hollow structure of thin wood, can tighten or relax the tension on the skins and so modify the tone. 'The Nummo made it. He made a picture of it with his fingers, as children do today in games with string.' Holding his hands apart, he passed a thread ten times round each of the four fingers, but not the thumb. He thus had forty loops on each hand, making eighty threads in all, which, he pointed out, was also the number of teeth of his jaws. The palms of his hands represented the skins of the drum, and thus to play on the drum was, symbolically, to play on the hands of the Nummo. But what do they represent? Cupping his two hands behind his ears, Ogotemmêli explained that the spirit had no external ears but only auditory holes. 'His hands serve for ears,' he said; 'to enable him to hear he always holds them on each side of his head. To tap the drum is to tap the Nummo's palms, to tap, that is, his ears.' Holding before him the web of threads which represented a weft, the Spirit with his tongue interlaced them with a kind of endless chain made of a thin strip of copper. He coiled this in a spiral of eighty turns, and throughout the process he spoke as he had done when teaching the art of weaving. But what he said was new. It was the third Word, which he was revealing to men ...

Ca9-16 (244) Ca9-17 Ca9-18 Ca9-19 Ca9-20
E rima ki te henua koia ku honui erua maitaki ko koe ra
Tangaroa Uri 10 11 12 (285) 13 14
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
*61 BEID (Egg) HYADUM I HYADUM II AIN (Eye)

... A very detailed myth comes from the island of Nauru. In the beginning there was nothing but the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider. One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty. By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last found a snail.

To endow it with power she placed it under her arm, lay down and slept for three days. Then she let it free, and still hunting about she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated it in the same way. Then she said to the first snail: 'Can you open this room a little, so that we can sit down?' The snail said it could, and opened the shell a little. Old-Spider then took the snail, placed it in the west of the shell, and made it into the moon. Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm. At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky. Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died. Old-Spider then made the sun from the second snail, and placed it beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth ...

... Then three lines are drawn east and west, one across the northern section indicates the northern limit of the Sun (corresponding with the Tropic of Cancer) about the 15th and 16th days of the month Kaulua (i.e., the 21st or 22nd of June) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kane, the black-shining road of Kane. The line across the southern section indicates the southern limit of the Sun about the 15th or 16th days of the month Hilinama (December 22) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kanaloa, the black-shining road of Kanaloa. The line exactly around the middle of the sphere is called ke alanui a ke ku'uku'u, the road of the spider, and also ke alanui i ka Piko a Wakea, the way to the navel of Wakea (the Sky-father) ...

... A straight line from Betelgeuze at the right armpit of Orion down to Azmidiske in Argo Navis (29 days after Betelgeuze) went through Sirius at the nowadays short nose of Canis Major ...

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.

Also 248 24(0) + 8 (dark nights of Venus):

... The tun glyph was identified as a wooden drum by Brinton ... and Marshal H. Saville immediately accepted it ... [the figure below] shows the Aztec drum representation relied on by Brinton to demonstrate his point. It was not then known that an ancestral Mayan word for drum was *tun: Yucatec tunkul 'divine drum' (?); Quiche tun 'hollow log drum'; Chorti tun 'hollow log drum' ...