If it feels like an Alberti Cipher it is one!

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According to the constellationsofwords website you refer to, the Hunting Dogs constellation wasn't quite accepted yet in your proposed time frame:

Canes Venatici represents two dogs, two hounds, or two greyhounds, on a leash or brach, the leash held by Bootes, the Herdsman or Bear Driver as they pursue the Great Bear, Ursa Major, as it circles the Pole. The northern dog is named 'Asterion', the southern 'Chara'. The stars of this constellation first appear in the Prodromus (1690) of the inventor of this constellation; Hevelius. 

I assume this issue is addressed in your $100 book on the subject.

I came to my senses and dropped the price to $29.95


Thanks Koen perhaps an edit: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.  This fits the number of Glyph's

The word for hunting [or chasing] in Ancient Greek, [i]kynegia, is derived from kynos (cynos) 'dog' [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. Around AD 150, Arrian wrote You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ("The Hunter"), a supplement in Greek to the manual of the same name attributed to Xenophon, written five hundred and fifty years earlier. Indicating how hunting and hounds have changed in that time, Arrian describes the Vertragus (or Vertagus), a Celtic breed named for their swiftness, and ancestor of the modern greyhound [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.]. Latin vertragus, is a Gaulish word from ver- + trag (Celtic := Greek trekho, to run). [You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., p.119][/i]

Koen your Koenstellations of the nymph's really helped out on me thinking in this direction not to mention reading this what R-sale wrote.