By the way, I did count 26 constellation on the map and not 24. I have no idea really why those aren't 48 though, it might be a mistake by the cartographer's part or just some decision they made which I'm not in a position to judge on the 'why' they included only 26 constellations.
Something interesting I noticed about the Knowth K53 lunar cycle is the serpent like pattern with 30 turns. That reminds me of a
Sine wave being the wave-function of the moon's cycles that controls it's phases like a clock work mechanism. And I think that using the
Lunar calendar with 354 days is better than using the
Gregorian calendar which is a
Solar calendar with 365 days and has to account for
Intercalation.
Yes, 30 turns = 15 days, 1 x up + 1 x down = 1 whole circle , 1 revolution
I'm digging into those different cycles for the moment.
And trying to figure out what the numbers at the side of the constellations mean.
On each map are 11 x 2 + 2 x 1 = 24 constellations x 2 = 48
I add again the list with the screenshots of the constellations, as I can no longer edit the post from before.
Left map circle, start at noon or North
(NQ3) Dragon,
DRACO,
circumpolar - one of the largest in Northern sky
(NQ4) Cephee
CEPHEUS circumpolar
(NQ3) Hercules,
HERCULES, - one of the largest in Northern sky
(NQ4) Lyre
LYRA, contains Vega 5th brightest star
(NQ1) Persee, PERSEUS
(SQ3)
Lièvre, LEPUS, south part of Orion, the « boat » of Orion
(SQ2) La Coupe,
CRATER, the cup of Apollo
(NQ3 AE) Le serpent SERPENS
(NQ1 AE) Orion, ORION
(SQ3) Corbeau
CORVUS (MidY)
(SQ2) Le Poisson Volant,
VOLANS -
(SQ2) Le Cameleon CHAMAELEON
(SQ2) Le grand Chien, CANIS MAJOR,
(NQ2 AE) le petit chien CANIS MINOR = LEO called the Dog in Ireland
(SQ4) la Couronne, CORONA AUSTRAL,
(SQ4 ) l’inde , INDUS
(SQ1 AE) La Balene, CETUS, one of the largest in Southern sky
(N) L’Oye ANSER (
created 1690, no longer in use)
(SQ3 AE) Ophiuchus, OPHIUCHUS,
(AE) Antinous ANTINOUS = today part of the EAGLE
(NQ4 AE) L’aigle, AQUILA,
(NQ4)
La Flèche = SAGITTAE (Sham)
(NQ4) Le Dauphin,
DELPHINUS,
(SQ3) le Triangle TRIANGULUM NQ1 SQ3
Right map circle, start at noon:
(NQ2) Grande ourse, URSA MAJOR,
circumpolar - one of the largest in Northern sky
(NQ3) petite ourse, URSA MINOR
circumpolar
(NQ1) Andromede, ANDROMEDA
(NQ2) le cocher
AURIGA TAURUS ??
(NQ3) le bouvier, BOOTES -
(NQ3) la chevelure COMA BERENICES
(NQ4) le Pégase, PEGASUS - - one of the largest in Northern sky
(NQ4) le petit cheval EQUULEUS
(N) la mouche, MUSCA BOREALIS . exists no longer
(NQ1) le Triangle TRIANGULUM NQ1 SQ3
(SQ4) la grue, GRUS
(SQ1) la dorade DORADO
(SQ1) le phoenix PHOENIX
(SQ2 AE) l’ydre HYDRA - one of the largest in Southern sky
(SQ4) le paon, PAVO
(SQ4) poisson australien PISCIS AUSTRINUS
(SQ2) le navire, ARGO - today Carina, Puppis & Vela (SQ2)
(SQ3)
l’encensoir AUTEL ARA d’AL MIJMARAH (MIDY)
(SQ3) le loup, LUPUS
(SQ3) le centaure CENTAURUS one of the largest in Southern sky
(SQ4 - AE) le po. AQUARIUS
(NQ4) le cygne CYGNUS, also called Cross of the North
(NQ1) Cassiopee, CASSIOPEIA,
circumpolar
(NQ3) la couronne CORONA BOREAL
This one can be tricky.
India is indeed called Hodu in Hebrew.
The word Hodu is a form of Hodaya, means Thanksgiving, and in Hodu form means "thank (the lord)" for example.
The accent however is different. Hodu (India) is pronounced HOdu, and Hodu (thank) is pronounced hoDU. In Hebrew it is significant enough to indicate the words are not of the same origin.
The map author was close in his exploration. But, there is a bigger problem:
It isn't absolutely accepted that Hodu is India in Hebrew. Jewish scholars have argued the location of Hodu over the centuries. In modern Hebrew it was decided to officially call India "Hodu" and so it became "final".
We have 48 star constellations total, 12 of them are Zodiac signs, so the rest is 36, the same number of nations are mentionned.
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
Imo, the nations are called after places in the firmament, especially after having read
this : In Mexico the ancient cities were built to mirror certain star constellations and each city had its own Star.
Like India being related to a word meaning Thanksgiving is very telling. That is in Autonm, and it's listed in the third compartiment.
That's how THEY confuse us by changing or adding vowels, different pronounciatioun, but often the letter-roots stay the same.
Each culture had different names for the star constellations, or seasuns and Temples, Templars from french "temps" = time teller by watching the heaven (stars, moon, sun). Those explications about trying to figure out solar & lunar cycles and seasons were kept secret, written in secret languages for the insiders, and then later turned into religions, like the secret/sacred books of the Old Testament, written in dead language hebrew or even if it was "greek" ... same holds true .
THEY once visited all those places, gathered info and then invented HIStory, turned some of those names into ancient cities and Kingdoms that in reality never existed, like Babylon, a name for the Winter Season, Jerusalem = Summer Solstice, Zion = Winter Solstice .. etc and many names appear today as global companies ... Achsah, the ankle of Virgo .. AXA ... Milkah, Gilead, ... See
Hebrew Mythology