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Five phases = a five-element cyclic group

The five phases are not five parallel nouns but a cyclic group of order five. One step around the ring generates, two steps controls; both relations are just step sizes, and enumerating five elements verifies all of them.

Same structure as the ring diagram above

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Astronomy and calendar

This one is astronomy and calendar: verifiable against civil dates and solar-term tables.

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