Go through and find the letter that corresponds with the last hole. In this case, it’s the letter C. Again, line up with symbol with the letter. This will give you U.
Now you have CO, RV, S, U. Start in the top right of the most outer ring, going clockwise. You will get: CORVUS - as the U comes before the S. Make sense?
This method falls apart with the other ones that I have answer for - Neptune and Earth. But I get the letters the same way, and then anagram them out to get Vulpecula and Lepus respectively.
My other letters for reference are:
Saturn: ANX IF L A G
Venus: A L IC I A (this is a genus of a seasponge so I thought maybe it was possible as an answer)
Jupiter: M I R G A (kind of means mouse??)
Corvus, Lepus, Vulpecula , and Aquila are all constelations in the Hercules Family.
Edit: So I’d say your method is rock solid, Kelsey. Great job!!!
Here are the rest of them if this helps.
Hercules Family[edit]
The Hercules Family is a group of constellations connected mainly by their adjacency on the celestial sphere. It is Menzel’s largest grouping, and extends from declination +60° to −70°, mostly in the western hemisphere. It includes Hercules, Sagitta, Aquila, Lyra, Cygnus, Vulpecula, Hydra, Sextans, Crater, Corvus, Ophiuchus, Serpens, Scutum, Centaurus, Lupus, Corona Australis, Ara, Triangulum Australe, and Crux.
Jupiter’s letters could also translate to Mriga, which means “the deer” and is what the Rig Veda refers to the Orion constellation as. I know that it’s not a part of the Hercules constellation family, but it sorta works!
For Saturn, there are only a few constellations that even have X in the name - sextans, crux, fornax, lynx, phoenix, and pyxis. None of these have a G however.
And for Jupiter, the only one short enough with an M G is Gemini, but I have an R so that doesn’t work.
@Kelsey - How do you get the U for Corvus/Mercury. I want to see if I can give a hand, but I am struggling a bit with the next steps. I was able to get CO, RV, S but unsure where the U comes in
EDIT: Got it! I was a little mixed up in my planet stacking, which is embarrassing since I made the summary post about it up above. Whoops haha.
But I think I have figured out how to read these once we get our planets stacked. I believe it is just Left to Right, Top to Bottom (Sorry if this is what you have all figured out). But in doing so, you get:
MERCURY Disc - Corvus (Hercules Constellation - Robert posted about this)
VENUS Disc - Aquila (Hercules Constellation - Robert posted about this)
EARTH - Lepus (Constellation just south of Orion)
JUPITER Disc - Mriga (@Keegan made a post about this above, he may have been right if my process holds true)
SATURN - Galifanx
NEPTUNE - Vulpecula (Hercules Constellation - Robert posted about this)
Galifanx is the only one we can’t seem to find any information on (at least I cant). Maybe it is the answer to our next step (I already tried putting it at the end of the BoB site).
EDIT: Made a change to Lepus, it is a constellation but it isn’t in the Hercules family. Lupus and Lepus aren’t the same
EDIT 2: I thought we were done with animals, but maybe not? These constellations all represent animals:
Corvus - Raven
Aquila - Eagle
Lepus - Hare
Mriga - Deer
Galifanx - ???
Vulpecula - Little Fox
So, I was led to a website that asked for a password, and after a few tries, I put in one of the other constellations (I don’t remember which one initially). It led me to that constellation’s site, which asked for another password. I repeated this process with all of the constellations that we uncovered, and finally arrived at this page: Galifanx - The Book of Briars
Good work everyone!!
Major props to - @Kelsey and @reesylou for figuring out how you stack these @Robert for finding the proper constellation names and groupings @Keegan for tying all these bits and pieces together
Eh, the way I see it, you found that most were constellations recognized by all of society (regardless if they are herculean or not), and when we found one that didn’t quite work, we knew that it could have magimystical ties
