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45. In my perception of the Mayan calendar of the year consisting of months with 20 days in each (excepting for the last one which carried only 5 days) there is an eye-catching similarity between Pax (16 * 20 = 320) and Vayeb (18 * 20 + 5 = 365 = 320 + 45):

5 Tzek 6 Xul 7 Yaxkin 8 Mol
9 Ch'en 10 Yax 11 Sac 12 Ceh
200
13 Mac 14 Kankin 15 Moan
16 Pax 17 Kayab 18 Cumhu 19 Vayeb
1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip 4 Zotz

I think these day numbers can be counted from the northern spring equinox. *365 - *45 = *320 → the south pole star Dramasa. If so then the ancient star Vega at the north pole in a way would correspond to the modern star Dramasa at the south pole.

Ga8-1 Ga8-2 Ga8-3 Ga8-4 Ga8-5 (208)
PLACE OF THE SUN
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
"Nov 3 (*227) 4 5 6 (310) 7
OCT 11 12 13 14 15 (288)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
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)
"May 5 6 7 (127) 8 9 (*49)
APRIL 12 13 (468) 14 (104) 15 (*390) 16 (*26)
Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25 Ga1-26

Ga8-6 Ga8-7 (210) Ga8-8

PLACE OF THE SUN

Winnowing Basket-7 (Leopard)

18h (273.4)

*232.0 = *273.4 - *41.4

NASH (Point) = γ Sagittarii (273.7), θ Arae (273.8)

ZHŌNGSHĀN = ο Herculis (274.0), π Pavonis (274.6) ι Pavonis (275.1), POLIS = μ Sagittarii (275.9)  

MENKAR (α Ceti)

Dec 19 (*273) 20 (354) SOLSTICE
°Dec 15 (*269) 16 (350) 17
'Nov 22 (*246) 23 24 (328)
"Nov 8 (*232) 9 10 (314)
OCT 16 17 (290 = 354 - 64) 18
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:

6h (91.3)

ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)

ξ Orionis (92.5)

Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)

TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)

June 20 (*91) SOLSTICE 22 (*93)
°June 16 (*87) 17 (168) 18 (*89)
'May 24 (*64) 25 26 (*66)
"May 10 (*50) 11 12 (*52)
APRIL 17 (*27) 18 (*393) 19 (*29)
Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29
Throwing stick? Phoenician gimel Greek gamma Γ (γ)

... In its unattested Proto-Canaanite form, the letter [gimel] may have been named after a weapon that was either a staff sling or a throwing stick, ultimately deriving from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph ... Bertrand Russell posits that the letter's form is a conventionalized image of a camel. The letter may be the shape of the walking animal's head, neck, and forelegs [cfr the way Taurus normally is depicted]. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states 'It is hard to imagine how gimel = 'camel' can be derived from the picture of a camel ... The word gimel is related to gemul, which means 'justified repayment', or the giving of reward and punishment.

The Swedish word gammal means 'old' (and dry like a stick).

... Tu'i Tofua was the son of Vakafuhu. His mother was Langitaetaea, but she was only one of the many young women whom Vakafuhu had living behind the fences of his dwelling. When Tu'i Tofua grew he was given the first-born sons of all the wives for his companions, and they all used to play sika outside the enclosure of Vakafuhu. They made their sika of clean-peeled sticks and threw them in turn along the ground, they glanced them off a mound and each one tried to make the longest throw. One day while Vakafuhu was sleeping off a kava-drinking those boys were playing their game outside, and Tu'i Tofua threw his sika. Then indeed the enormous strength of Tu'i Tofua made that sika fly over the fences into his father's place. It landed where the women were and they all began to giggle, those girls, and shriek and laugh. They did this because they wanted that handsome youth to come among them, they desired him. More than his father they desired him. They fell with joy upon the sika of their master's son, and snapped it. When he came inside to get it back they called out things that made him embarrased. 'Haven't you got another long thing there, Tu'i?' those women said. 'This one's broken.' And they put their hands across their faces and they laughed ...

In the year AD 2023 the planet Mercury will arrive to λ Sagittarii (Kaus Borealis) in December 7 (341, *261), in the day when Mars will be above Antares at ω Ophiuchi:

And in January 13 AD 2024 it will then be the turn of Mars to reach Kaus Borealis (λ):

Egyptian menchet Phoenician lamedh Greek lambda Λ (λ)

... Wikipedia has no information regarding the origin of the Phoenician lamedh, but the Egyptian 'cloth' hieroglyph (menchet) is - I suggest - related to the 4 upside down sky pillars. I.e. the basic element of the 'covering' hieroglyph could have indicated darkness:

... 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 ...

From the year 755 (when Cancer had been at July 11 according to the Mayas) to AD 1842 (my assumed baseline for the rongorongo texts) there were around (1842 - 755) / 71 = 15 precessional days. This seems to point to the time of the Bull, when in JANUARY 31 the old year would end (terminate). 192 (JULY 11) - 31 = 161 (JUNE 10):

... 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 ...

... The Fijian barkcloth that in the end captures the chief represents his capture of the land: upon installation, he is said to hold the 'barkcloth of the land' (masi ni vanua). The barkcloth thus has deeper significance. In general ritual usage, barkcloth serves as 'the path of the god'. Hanging from the rafters at the rear, sacred end of the ancient temple, it is the avenue by which the god descends to enter the priest ... There is still more to the barkcloth. The barkcloth which provides access for the god/chief and signifies his sovereignity is the preeminent feminine valuable (i yau) in Fiji. It is the highest product of woman's labor, and as such a principal good of ceremonial exchange (soolevu). The chief's accession is mediated by the object that saliently signifies women ...

This day, January 13, can be counted as number 365 + 13 = 378 (= 260 + 118) because the synodic orbit of Saturn is 378 days.

Ga8-9 Ga8-10 Ga8-11 (214)
PLACE OF THE SUN

η Sagittarii (276.9)

KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii, κ Lyrae (277.5), TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis (277.7), SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis (277.8), KWEI SHE = χ Draconis (277.9) φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS = ε Sagittarii (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), AL  ATHFAR (The Talons of the Falling Eagle) = μ Lyrae (278.6)

*237.0 = *278.4 - *41.4

Dec 22 23 (357) CHRISTMAS EVE
'Nov 25 (*249) 26 (330) 27
"Nov 11 (*235) 12 (316) 13
OCT 19 20 (293) 21 (*214)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
APRIL 20 (*30) 21 (111) 22 (477)
FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)

Well-22 (Tapir) / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)

δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM (The Roarer) = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS (Canopy) = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)

*54.0 = *95.4 - *41.4
No star listed (96)
June 23 (*94) ST JOHN'S DAY (*460) 25 (176)
'May 27 28 (*68) 29 (149)
"May 13 (133) 14 (*54) 15 (500)
Ga1-30 Ga2-1 Ga2-2

 

Ga8-12 Ga8-13 (216) Ga8-14 Ga8-15
PLACE OF THE SUN

KAUS BOREALIS = λ Sagittarii (279.3)

Dec 7 AD 2023 (*261 → 9 * 29) MERCURY

Jan 13 AD 2024 (300 + 78 = 378 → Saturn) MARS

ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9)

*239.0 = *280.4 - *41.4

Abhijit-22 (Victorious)

θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA = α Lyrae (281.8)
No star listed (282)
Dec 25 26 (360) 27 28
'Nov 28 29 (333) 30 (*254) 'Dec 1
"Nov 14 15 16 (*240) 17 (321)

OCT 22 (295)

23 (*216) 24 25
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
 β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) No star listed (98)

ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched)  = ε Gemini (100.7)

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

June 26 (177) 27 28 (*464) 29 (*100)
'May 30 (150) 31 (*436) 'June 1 2 (*73)
"May  16 (136) 17 (*422) 18 19 (*59)
APRIL 23 24 (*399) 25 (480) 26 (*36)
Ga2-3 Ga2-4 Ga2-5 Ga2-6 (36)

 

ORBIT OF MARS AD 2023-2024

April 14 (180 - 76)

*16

April 30 (196 - 76)

*133

Dec 7 (*261 = 341 - 80)

*30

Jan 13 (378 = 454 - 76)

Mebsuta (*100)

Pollux (*116)

ω Ophiuchi (*249)

Kaus Borealis (*279)

Ga2-6 (36)

Ga2-22 (52)

 Ga7-16 (185 = 265 - 80)

Ga8-12 (215)

APRIL 26 (116) MAY 12 (132)

SEPT 22 (EQUINOX)

OCT 22 (295)