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12 One thing should be sure, viz.once the spirit (fly, dream soul) had been entangled in 'the net of the spider' it could no longer move around freely, it had been caught. This was a fundamental rule for all astronomers. They could not lie. ... Epimenides stated that all Cretans lied, which was an example of curved (unbounded, infinite) logic, because he himself was a Cretan. This was the opposite of the straightforward linear logic at the other side of the coin - the kind we in the industrialized western culture have got ourselves entangled in ...
Astronomy was an exact science for it described what had been observed, what had been caught by the eye:
Our modern quantum mechanical world view says it too - once an observation has been carried out it will immediately destroy the underlying uncertainty, and the observation will now be integrated into (become a part of) our global (world-wide) web of knowledge. I.e., become a pixel hiding the phenomenon which earlier was calling out for our attention. No longer would it have the force of life, no longer would it cause any tension. ... The poet identifies himself with the God of the Waxing Year and his Muse with the Goddess; the rival is his blood-brother, his other self, his weird. All true poetry - true by Housman's practical test [i.e. it makes the hairs of one's chin bristle if one repeats it silently while shaving] - celebrates some incident or scene in this very ancient story [the Theme], and the three main characters are so much a part of our racial inheritance that they not only assert themselves in poetry but recur on occasion of emotional stress in the form of dreams, paranoic visions and delusions. The weird, or rival, often appears in nightmare as the tall, lean, dark-faced bed-side spectre, or Prince of the Air, who tries to drag the dreamer out through the window, so that he looks back and sees his body still lying rigid in bed; but he takes countless other malevolent or diabolic or serpent-like forms ... Although because Easter Island was located south of the equator the role of the sexes were reversed: ... Atea then became the wife of Rua-tupua-nui, Source of Great Growth, and they became the parents of all the celestial beings, first the shooting stars, then the Moon and the Sun, next the comets, then the multitude of stars and constellations, and finally the bright and dark nebulae. When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ... ... Balancing the notion of tapu, though not in perfect dichotomy, is the notion of noa. This pertains to mundane, ordinary objects and functions - household and serving utensils, the acts of preparing and eating food, the many small and common interactions of everyday life. Noa is safe - without preternatural sanction or restricted association, it is demonstrated by the lifting of the condition of tapu from a particular environment or object. A newly built house, ornamented and fresh, would be considered tapu - unsafe, prohibited, raw with spirit and inaccessible to the common touch of people. Making the place noa - 'blessing' it in current terms - would involve ritual, and the crossing of the threshold, usually by a high-born woman. Her special form of tapu would counter the energies within the house, and thus render it noa, and safe for general entry. Such ritual continues to be observed today; even in the context of an ethnological or fine arts exhibition, these procedures are followed, to appease the ancestral forces who may generate tapu, which imbues the objects with dread or beauty ... But a pixel's entanglement implies immediate, although mostly very minute - butterfly wing's - effects on the whole. Spreading out through the whole WWW and forcing dark uncertainty to escape outwards (thus expanding the universe in exponential fashion). . ... Then at last the old woman decided that Maui must be playing some trick on her. She drew out the one nail that remained, the nail of her big toe, and fire flowed from it. But instead of handing it to Maui, she dashed it to the ground, and the whole place caught fire. 'There, you have it all now!' she cried. And Maui was already running for his life, with the fire at his heels pursuing him. Looking round, he saw that the whole land would soon be aflame. So he changed himself into a karearea, a hawk, and tried to soar above the flames. But the fire pursued him there and scorched his feathers, which accounts for the colour of that bird. Seeing a lake, he plunged down into it, but found that it was almost boiling. All the forests then caught fire, the land everywhere was alight, and Maui came very near to death ...
There was a beginning in Virgo and an end in Orion.
This fact determined a map (entangled, created a mesh) which covered all the way from Porrima to Rigel
and it centered at the Lion (Leo, Puma):
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