The coital position seems to show more the Scarlet Whore than it shapes the Hebrew Letter. BABALON is of course, the secret name that was later given to Crowley. And so this position represents her office. The constellation Auriga hails back to the legend of Erichthonius, a king of Athens. He was said to be the son of Hephaestus the god of fire, better known by his Roman name of Vulcan and
raised by the goddess Athene, after whom Athens he was also named. Auriga carrying the goat and kids, from the Uranographia of Johann Bode (1801). The bright star Capella lies in the body of the goat. Athene taught Erichthonius many skills, including how to tame horses. He became the first person to harness four horses to a chariot, in imitation of the four-horse chariot of the Sun suggesting
an attribution to Apollo, the Sun God. Auriga contains the sixth-brightest star in the sky, Capella, a Roman name meaning „she-goat‟ its Greek name was Aix). It is the goat Capricornus that is the true savior in the ancient
Gnosis. Auriga is the Charioteer that carries the goat Amaltheia, who suckled the infant Zeus on the island of Crete and was transferred (flesh to spirit) in
the sky as a mark of gratitude, along with the two kids she bore at the same time the goat resting on the charioteers shoulder, with the kids supported on his forearm. Though, there is no legend to explain why the charioteer is so encumbered with livestock, this seems as much as the burial of kings with their possessions while in life. Greek astronomers regarded one star as being shared by Auriga and Taurus,
the king with the Beast, as shown on old star maps as representing both the right foot of the charioteer and also the tip of the bulls left horn. Modern astronomers now assign this star exclusively to Taurus as Beta Tauri. And we here again have the idea of the evolution or transference of the flesh or of the cells particularly as administered by the Office of the Scarlet Whore. Corvus the Crow and Crater the Cup are two adjacent constellations linked together with Hydra in a complicated tale where the Crow betrays Apollo, who by using his power of prophecy was able to see through the Crows lie. The Crow had failed to deliver a Cup filled with water as he was seduced by a fig garden.
Corvus and Crater, two adjacent constellations on the back of Hydra, shown in the Uranographia of Johann Bode.
In ancient Greece, a krater was a bowl or vase used for mixing wine with water, rather than a cup as we know it. Apollo condemned the crow to a life of thirst – which is perhaps one explanation for the rasping call of the crow. In memorial of this incident, Apollo transfers the crow, the cup and the water-snake together in the sky. But why does the Crow deserve this immortality and what is the function
of its punishment The cup, usually represented as a magnificent double- handed chalice of the type known in Greece as a krater, is shown tilted towards the crow but tantalizingly just out of the thirsty birds reach. It seems it would take an Adept to bring meaning to this complicated image. There is possibly an allusion to the Formula of ON in that the Crow represents the male end of the Tower Atu as the Cup represents the female. The Hydra is then the Aethyr and Yesod.