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80. Next week the weather is predicted to become much warmer than the cool and windy reign which has terrorized us for a pair of months.

... They walked in crowds when they arrived at Tulan, and there was no fire. Only those with Tohil had it: this was the tribe whose god was first to generate fire. How it was generated is not clear. Their fire was already burning when Jaguar Quitze and Jaguar Night first saw it: 'Alas! Fire has not yet become ours. We'll die from the cold', they said. And then Tohil spoke: 'Do not grieve. You will have your own even when the fire you're talking about has been lost', Tohil told them. 'Aren't you a true god! Our sustenance and our support! Our god!' they said when they gave thanks for what Tohil had said. 'Very well, in truth, I am your god: so be it. I am your lord: so be it,' the penitents and sacrificers were told by Tohil. And this was the warming of the tribes. They were pleased by their fire. After that a great downpour began, which cut short the fire of the tribes. And hail fell thickly on all the tribes, and their fires were put out by the hail. Their fires didn't start up again. So then Jaguar Quitze and Jaguar Night asked for their fire again: 'Tohil, we'll be finished off by the cold', they told Tohil. 'Well, do not grive', said Tohil. Then he started a fire. He pivoted inside his sandal ...

The seemingly dancing figure of Perseus occupies that part of the sky which lies between Andromeda and Auriga. Indeed the connection with Andromeda has been clearly indicated by his outstretched arm.

... Maui was the fifth and youngest of his parents' sons, yet when he was born his brothers knew nothing of it. They first learned that they had a brother when he was discovered one night standing behind them in the great meeting house. Everyone was present, the four brothers, their mother Taranga, and all the relations, and there was dancing going on, when little Maui crept into the house unseen, and went and sat behind his brothers. When it came to their turn to dance, and their mother stood them up and counted them so as to be ready, he stood up with them. 'One, that's Maui mua; two, that's Maui roto; three, that's Maui taha; four, that's Maui pae', she said; these names mean Maui the first, Maui the middle, Maui the side, and Maui the edge. Then she saw this other child standing with them, and cried out, 'Hullo, where did this one come from?' ...

MARCH 5 (64) 6 (*350) 7 (431)
Gb4-29 (120) Gb4-30 (350) Gb4-31

ZIBAL (Young Ostriches) = ζ Eridani (48.0), κ Ceti (48.9)

τ Arietis (49.7)

ALGENIB PERSEI = α Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

GIENAH (γ Corvi)

July 14 AD 2024 (195, *115)

MARS  URANUS

May 8 (128) 9 (*414) 10
°May 4 (124) 5 6 (*46)
'April 11 (101) 12 (*22) 4-13 (468)
"March 28 (*372) 29 (88) 30 (454)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
SEPT 3 (246) 4 5 (*168)

Al Zubānā-14b (Claws)

χ Bootis (230.3), PRINCEPS = δ Bootis (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (Northern Claw) = β Librae (230.8)
μ Lupi, γ Tr. Austr. (231.3), ο Librae (231.8)

ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), PHERKAD (The Dim One of the Two Calves) = γ Ursae Min. (232.6), ε Librae (232.7), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9)

*191.0 = *232.4 - 41.4
Nov 6 (310) 7 (*231) 8
°Nov 2 3 (*227) 4 (308)
'Oct 10 11 (*204) 12 (285)
"Sept 26 27 (*190) 28 (271)
Ga6-26 Ga6-27 (396) Ga6-28 (→ 397 - 229 = 168 → 2 * 84)

We had better here update and stretch out our time-space table for Mars:

ORBIT OF MARS AD 2023-2024

April 14 (180 - 76)

*16

April 30 (196 - 76)

*141

Dec 7 (*261 = 341 - 80)

MEBSUTA (*100)

*16

POLLUX (*116)

*133

Ω OPHIUCHI (*249)

Ga2-6 (36)

Ga2-22 (52)

 Ga7-16 (185 = 265 - 80)
APRIL 26 (116 ↔ 464 / 4) MAY 12 (132 ↔ 264 / 2)

SEPT 22 (EQUINOX)

*37

Jan 13 (378 = 454 - 76)

*9

Jan 22 (378 + 9 = 387)

*82

April 14 (104)
*30

KAUS BOREALIS (*279)

*3 MEBSUTA (*100) *70

Φ AQUARII (*352.0)

Ga8-12 (215) Ga8-15 (36 + 182) Gb2-33 (229 + 59 = 288)

OCT 22 (295)

OCT 25 (464 / 4 + 364 / 2) JAN 3 (368 = 295 + 365 / 5) = March 8 (67) - 64
*53 AD 2024 June 6 (157 = 314 / 2)
*33 Ο PISCES (*20 = *321 + *64 = *385 = *365 + *20)
Gb4-1 (229 + 92 = 321 = 288 + 33)
368 + 33 = 401 = 80 + 321 =

67 (March 8) - 64 + 33 = 36 (FEBR 5)

*38 AD 2024 July 14 (195, *115) *8 AD 2024 July 22 (203, *123)
*30 ALGENIB PERSEI (*50) *8 ZAURAK (*58)
Gb4-31 (351) Gb5-6 (359)
MARCH 7 (65 + 1)

GIENAH (γ Corvi)

URANUS

MARCH 15 (73 + 1)

SEPT 13 (256)

↔ 4 * 64 = 8 * 32 = 16 * 16

... Ogotemmêli had his own ideas about calculation. The Dogon in fact did use the decimal system, because from the beginning they had counted on their fingers, but the basis of their reckoning had been the number eight and this number recurred in what they called in French la centaine, which for them meant eighty. Eighty was the limit of reckoning, after which a new series began. Nowadays there could be ten such series, so that the European 1,000 corresponded to the Dogon 800. But Ogotemmêli believed that in the beginning men counted by eights - the number of cowries on each hand, that they had used their ten fingers to arrive at eighty, but that the number eight appeared again in order to produce 640 (8 x 10 x 8). 'Six hundred and forty', he said, 'is the end of the reckoning.'

The Perseus constellation is beginning with Φ Andromedae, i.e. at FEBRUARY 1:

Egyptian bread, (-t, female determinant) Phoenician qoph Greek phi Φ(φ)

... is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet ... Its origin is uncertain but it may be that phi originated as the letter qoppa ... In traditional Greek numerals, phi has a value of 500 or 500000 ...

Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1, 2003: 'The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character Q being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ... Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot' ...

... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest.

When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...

FEBR 1 (32) 2 3 (399) 4 (*320)

... Sirrah would return to visibility after its close encounter with the blinding rays from the Sun at the time as when the Sun reached Revati (*16). Thus Revati was located *16 + *16 = *32 right ascension days after Markab Pegasi ...

Gb3-27 (88) Gb3-28 Gb3-29 (319) Gb3-30 (91)
PLACE OF THE SUN:

Al Batn Al Hūt-26 (Belly of the Fish) / Revati-28 (Prosperous) / 1-iku (Field Measure)

MIRACH (Girdle) = β Andromedae, KEUN MAN MUN (Camp's South Gate) = φ Andromedae (16.0), ANUNITUM = τ Piscium (16.5), REVATI (Abundant) = ζ Piscium (16.9)

 REGULUS (α Leonis)
ν Phoenicis (17.4),  κ Tucanae (17.6)

*158.0 + *183.0 = 341.0

No star listed (18) ADHIL (Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7)
April 6 (*16) 7 8 (*383) 9 (464)
°April 2 (*12) 3 4 5 (460)
'March 10 (*354) 11 12 13 (72)
"Febr 24 (*340) 25 26 27 (58)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
AUG 2 (214 = 32 + 182) 3 4 (*136) 5
APAMI-ATSA (Child of Waters) = θ Virginis, ψ Hydrae (198.5), DIADEM = α Com. Ber. (198.9)

AL DAFĪRAH (Tuft) = β Com. Ber. (199.4)

*158.0 = *199.4 - *41.4

σ Virginis (200.4)

*159.0 = *200.4 - *41.4

γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4)

*160.0 = *201.4 - *41.4
Oct 5 6 7 (280) 8
°Oct 1 2 3 (*196) 4 (277)
'Sept 8 9 (*172) 10 11 (254)
"Aug 25 26 (*158) 27 28 (240)
Ga5-24 Ga5-25 (135) Ga5-26 (→ Alcyone) Ga5-27

... 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 [ui] 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 life-force of the earth is water. God moulded the earth with water. Blood too he made out of water. Even in a stone there is this force, for there is moisture in everything. But if Nummo is water, it also produces copper. When the sky is overcast, the sun's rays may be seen materializing on the misty horizon. These rays, excreted by the spirits, are of copper and are light. They are water too, because they uphold the earth's moisture as it rises. The Pair excrete light, because they are also light ... 'The sun's rays,' he went on, 'are fire and the Nummo's excrement. It is the rays which give the sun its strength. It is the Nummo who gives life to this star, for the sun is in some sort a star.' It was difficult to get him to explain what he meant by this obscure statement. The Nazarene made more than one fruitless effort to understand this part of the cosmogony; he could not discover any chink or crack through which to apprehend its meaning. He was moreover confronted with identifications which no European, that is, no average rational European, could admit. He felt himself humiliated, though not disagreeably so, at finding that his informant regarded fire and water as complementary, and not as opposites. The rays of light and heat draw the water up, and also cause it to descend again in the form of rain. That is all to the good. The movement created by this coming and going is a good thing. By means of the rays the Nummo draws out, and gives back the life-force. This movement indeed makes life ...

... According to Gylfaginning, following the murder of Baldr by Loki, the other gods brought his body down to the sea and laid him to rest on the ship. They would have launched it out into the water and kindled a funeral pyre for Baldr but were unable to move the great vessel without the help of the giantess Hyrrokkin, who was sent for out of Jötunheim. She then flung the ship so violently down the rollers at the first push that flames appeared and the earth trembled, much to the annoyance of Thor. Along with Baldr, his wife Nanna was also borne to the funeral pyre after she had died of grief. As Thor was consecrating the fire with his hammer Mjolnir, a dwarf named Litr began cavorting at his feet. Thor then kicked him into the flames and the dwarf was burned up as well ...