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MUL.APIN 8

The Stars
on the
Path of the Moon
 

MUL.APIN
Tablet Nr. 86378
British Museum

MUL.APIN
The Stars
on the
Path of the Moon

(Column IV, Lines 31 through 39)
 

31./32. The gods,
which stand on the Path of the Moon d.SIN,
through which the Moon passes
in the course of a month
and which it touches are:

33. The Star Cluster MUL.MUL

 The Old One SHU.GI

34. The Crooked Staff GAM

 The Lion UR.GU.LA

35. The Seed-Furrow AB.SIN

 The Fire-Arrow-Sagittarian PA.BIL.SAG

36. The Goat-Fish SUCHUR.MASH

AK: Papke writes a footnote to the "tail" as follows:
* By the ' tail ' KUN.MESH  of the Swallow
the "bands" are intended which in cuneiform
are identified as Tigris and Euphrates,
"bands" going forth from the
Swallow (and the Great Square),
and, which later, as Swallow and Anunitum
were changed into two fish,
and became the two bands of fish.
The swallow SIM.MACH does not itself
stand in the Path of the Moon and is no longer
touched by the Moon,
rather this is the "tail" of the swallow.

AK: We find this hermetic principle
"as on earth" - "so in heaven"
throughout ancient astronomy.
The astronomy reflected the life, the cities,
the culture and the geography on earth.

 37. Anunitum and the agrarian worker LU.CHUN.GA

38./39. Those are the gods
on the Path of the Moon,
through which the Moon passes within a month,
and which it touches.

AK: And so,
those were the lines of the
MUL.APIN clay tablet Nr. 86378,
scarcely larger than a wallet
(6 cm x 8.4 cm).

It is tablet which tells us more about
ancient culture and civilization
than most of the
hundreds of thousands of
pages written since then
in ignorance of its contents.

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