584
 

69  There was no water left in front of Corvus.

... the bird, being sent with a cup for water, loitered at a fig-tree till the fruit became ripe, and then returned to the god with a water-snake in his claws and a lie in his mouth, alleging the snake to have been the cause of the delay. In punishment he was forever fixed in the sky with the Cup and the Snake; and, we may infer, doomed to everlasting thirst by the guardianship of the Hydra over the Cup and its contents. From all this came other poetical names for our Corvus - Avis Ficarius, the Fig Bird; and Emansor, one who stays beyond his time; and a belief, in early folk-lore, that this alone among birds did not carry water to its young ...

... But in the fullness of time an obscure instinct led the eldest of them towards the anthill which had been occupied by the Nummo. He wore on his head a head-dress and to protect him from the sun, the wooden bowl he used for his food. He put his two feet into the opening of the anthill, that is of the earth's womb, and sank in slowly as if for a parturition a tergo. The whole of him thus entered into the earth, and his head itself disappeared. But he left on the ground, as evidence of his passage into that world, the bowl which had caught on the edges of the opening. All that remained on the anthill was the round wooden bowl, still bearing traces of the food and the finger-prints of its vanished owner, symbol of his body and of his human nature, as, in the animal world, is the skin which a reptile has shed ...

For the precious vessel had been emptied:

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

  365 days
  (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼)   Day of culmination  
Atlas May 16 (136) *229 December 31 (365, *285) 135
Alkes September 3 (246) *229 April 20 (110) 135
Denebola September 15 (258) *230 May 3 (123) 134
Vega December 27 (361, *281) *227 August 12 (224, *144) *137
Alphekka Meridiana January 6 (*291) *218 August 13 (225, *145) '146
Fomalhaut March 3 (*348) *236 October 25 (*584, *218)  

*364 - *229 135 etc. And *144 (August 12) = *281 (December 27) - *137, etc.

We ought to find the culmination (at 21h) of Alkes (α Crateris) 123 (May 3) - 110 (April 10) = 13 glyphs earlier than Ab1-12, i.e. at the end of side a of the tablet:

Aa8-11 Aa8-12 Aa8-13 Aa8-14 Aa8-15 (600)
Aug 8 (220) 9 10 (*142) 11 (*143 + *366) 12 (*144, *510)

π Cancri (139.2), MIAPLACIDUS = β Carinae (139.3), TUREIS = ι Carinae (139.8)

No star listed (140) θ Pyxidis, MARKAB VELORUM = κ Velorum (141.5), AL MINHAR AL ASAD (The Nose of the Lion) = κ Leonis (141.6), λ Pyxidis (141.9)

Al Tarf-7 (The End)

ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)

*102.0 = *143.4 - *41.4

A Hydrae (144.1)

VEGA (α Lyrae)
JUNE 5 (156) 6 7 (*78) 8 9 (155 + 5)
30 May (150) 31 May 1 June 2 June 3 June
DAI = ι Capricorni (323.5), β Equulei (323.8) γ Pavonis (324.1), YAN = ζ Capricorni (324.6)

March 7 AD 2024 (66) MARS

Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 (Luckiest of the Lucky) / Emptiness-11 (Rat)

TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK (The Flock) = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)

March 14 AD 2024 (Π) MARS
No star listed (326) CASTRA(→TION) = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA = ξ Aquarii (327.5)

SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)

Febr 14 AD 1902 (45)

VENUS (*327.7)
e ua roa e ika vero tai ma te Rei e tagata kua haga kua kai eko te henua kua noho - i te ragi
  *63
Aa8-16 (1265) Aa8-17
Aug 13 (225 → 121 + 104) 14 (*512)

UKDAH (Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8)

*104.0 = *145.4 - *41.4

ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA

Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)

ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6)

*105.0 = *146.4 - *41.4
JUNE 10 (161) 11
4 June (155) 5 June (*78)

Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)

NASHIRA = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)

*252.0 = *328.7 - *76.7

Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)

ENIF (The Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 CAPRICORNI, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI =  δ Capricorni (329.8)

*288.0 = *329.4 - *41.4

*253.0 = *329.7 - *76.7

kua hua ko te kahi o te ua roa

... December 13 is evidently a date in harmony with the date of August 13, when according to the Mayas our present world had been created. In contrast to August 14 when Samsonov (the Son of Samson) struggled to survive in the marshes of Poland. Life (light) implies death (darkness) ...

Samson was the strange figure in the Bible whose cover of hair gave him enormous strength. And he pulled down (haro - cfr ma-haro-ga at Ab1-8) the (star) pillars (ana).

... 15. And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. 16. And Samson said, with the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. 17. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathle´hi. 18. And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? 19. But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hak´ko-re, which is in Le´hi unto this day. 20. And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years ...

... Here at last I can complete my argument about Arianrhod's Castle and the 'whirling round without motion between three elements'. The sacred oak-king was killed at midsummer and translated to the Corona Borealis, presided over by the White Goddess, which was then just dipping over the Northern horizon. But from the song ascribed by Apollonius Rhodius to Orpheus, we know that the Queen of the Circling Universe, Eurynome, alias Cardea, was identical with Rhea of Crete; thus Rhea lived at the axle of the mill, whirling around without motion, as well as on the Galaxy. This suggests that in a later mythological tradition the sacred king went to serve her at the Mill, not in the Castle, for Samson after his blinding and enervation turned a mill in Delilah's prison-house ...

... To cut the hair (or to shave) - varu - will take the power from 'Samson' (or Enkidu). The spring god becomes bald. The reason is drought - the sky does not deliver ...

 
Aa8-80 (1329) Aa8-81 (666) Aa8-82 Aa8-83 Aa8-84 Aa8-85 (1334)
ki to hatu huri ma to ua mata - mae tae e ui hia mai kua oho te tagata ki te henua -
Oct 16 (260 + 29) 17 (290) 18 (472 - 181) 19 20 21 (294)
April 16 (314 * 1½) 17 (16 * 29½) (365 + 108 = 473) 19 ALKES 21 (111)

To. 1. Particle sometimes used with the article in ancient legends; i uto to te hau, the ribbon was in the float. 2. To rise (of the sun) during the morning hours up to the zenith: he-to te raá. Vanaga. 1. Of. T Pau., Ta.: to, of. Mgv.: to, genitive sign. Mq.: to, of, for. 2. This, which. Churchill. Mgv.: To, to make a canoe of planks. Mq.: to, to build a canoe. Sa.: to, to build. Churchill.

Huri. 1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga. 1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill. Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

Metoro was silent in the following day, presumably a Sign for Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti to be understood as 'empty'. South of the equator April 20 was a day in autumn when it could be said that the days of summer had run out.

 
Ab1-1 (671) Ab1-2 (2 * 336) Ab1-3 Ab1-4
Oct 22 (295) 23 (*216) 24 25 (*218, *584)

FOMALHAUT

13 Aug (225 = 408 - 183) 14 Aug (*146, *512) (*513 19 * 27 = 9 * 57) 16 Aug (*514)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 22 (112, *32) 23 24 25 (115, *35)
12 Febr (408 - 365 = 43) 13 Febr (*329) All the 'hearts' (*514 - *183 = *331)
Te hoea rutua te pahu - rutua te maeva - atua rerorero - atua ata tuu
 
Ab1-5 ( → 25 * 27 = 15 * 45) Ab1-6 Ab1-7 (1341)
Oct 26 (412 - 6 - 107) = 299 Oct 27 (*220)

ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9)

16 Febr (412) 17 Febr (413 14 * 29½ (14 * 29½ + 1) → *41.4 Bharani
atua ata Rei - tuu te Rei hemoa i ako te vai

Ako. To sing, to recite: he-ako i te kaikai, to recite the [text accompanying a] string figure kaikai; he-ako i te rîu, to sing rîu. Vanaga. Song. Ako hakaha'uru poki = 'song to make children sleep'. Barthel. Ákoáko, to recite hymns in honour of a deity. Vanaga.

 

Ab1-8 (1335 + 7) Ab1-9 Ab1-10 (90 + 580 + 10) Ab1-11

Ab1-12 (1334 + 12)

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 29 30 May 1 (50 + 71)   2 (122) DENEBOLA

19 Febr

20 Febr (*336) 21 Febr (29 + 21) 22 Febr Terminalia
Ko te maitaki - ko te maharoga hetuu e roia - e ragi huhuki eaha ia

Haro. To pull; popohaga o te rua raá, i haro i te aka o te miro, on the morning of the second day, they pulled up the anchor of the boat. He haro i te hagu a roto, to draw in air, to breathe. He-haro te vaka i te au , the boat is towed off course in the current. Vanaga. a. to point, to raise the arm, to stretch out the hand or other member, to spread, to point the yards. b. to hoist, to pull up, to entice. c. to stiffen, to grasp, to squeeze. Haroharo, to point, to limp. PS Sa.: falo, to stretch out. To.: falo, to stretch out, to make tense. Fu.: falo, to stretch out, to lay hands on. Churchill.

Hu. 1. Breaking of wind. T Mgv., uu, to break wind. Mq., Ta.: hu, id. 2. Whistling of the wind, to blow, tempest, high wind. P Pau.: huga, a hurricane. Churchill. Mgv.: hu, to burst, to crackle, to snap. Ha.: hu, a noise. Churchill.

ihe tau

... For the Maori the past is an important and pervasive dimension of the present and future. Often referred to as the 'ever-present now', Maori social reality is perceived as though looking back in time from the past to the present. The Maori word for 'the front of' is mua and this is used as a term to describe the past, that is, Nga wa o mua or the time in front of us. Likewise, the word for the back is muri which is a term that is used for the future. Thus the past is in front of us, it is known; the future is behind us, unknown. The point of this is that our ancestors always had their backs to the future with their eyes firmly on the past. Our past is not conceived as something long ago and done with, known only as an historical fact with no contemporary relevance or meaning. In the words of a respected Maori elder: The present is a combination of the ancestors and 'their living faces' or genetic inheritors, that is the present generations. Our past is as much the face of our present and future. They live in us ... we live in them ...

Nga wa o mua  
*4 *8
Aa8-83 (2 * 666) Aa8-84 (1346 - 13) Aa8-85 (1334) Ab1-4 (90 + 584) Ab1-12
kua oho te tagata ki te henua - FOMALHAUT *592
16 Aug (*514) *522
April 19 (480 - 6) ALKES 21 (476, *396) 25 (*400, 115, *35) DENEBOLA
9 Febr (40, *324) 10 Febr (54 - 12 = 41) (*326 = *396 - *70) 15 (*514 - *183 = *331) 23 (Terminalia)

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...

*85

ihi

e mama vaiehu ki te tagata mata etahi ki te tagata vae e ihi ki te hetuu
a1 90 90 b1 4 4
6 10
63 73
9 82
a2 85 175 b2 3 85
82 167
a3 76 251 b3 77 244
a4 82 333 b4 80 324
a5 83 416 b5 80 404
a6 84 500 b6 92 496
a7 85 585 b7 84 580
a8 16 601 b8 84 664
69 670
sum 670 sum 664
Ihi. 1. Line of singing women at a feast or an êi. 2. Ihi, ihi-ihi, to break up into small pieces, to crumble, to tear to pieces; he-ihi i te maúku, to separate fibres. Vanaga. Ihiihi, to hop. Churchill. Ga heva te va'e ihi, spread-leg devotee (insulting term for 'woman'). Vanaga

... When they arrived at the place where Hine nui lay asleep with her legs apart and they could see those flints that were set between her thighs, Maui said to his companions: 'Now, my little friends, when you see me crawl into the body of this old chieftainess, whatever you do, do not laugh. When I have passed right through her and am coming out of her mouth, then you can laugh if you want to. But not until then, whatever you do.' His friends twittered and fluttered about him and flew in his way. 'O sir', they cried, 'you will be killed if you go in there.' 'No', said Maui, holding up his enchanted jawbone. 'I shall not - unless you spoil it. She is asleep now. If you start laughing as soon as I cross the threshold, you will wake her up, and she will certainly kill me at once. But if you can keep quiet until I am on the point of coming out, I shall live and Hine nui will die, and men will live thereafter for as long as they wish.' So his friends moved out of his way. 'Go on in then, brave Maui', they said, 'but do take care of yourself'.

Maui at first assumed the form of a kiore, or rat, to enter the body of Hine. But tataeko, the little whitehead, said he would never succeed in that form. So he took the form of a toke, or earth-worm. But tiwaiwaka the fantail, who did not like worms, was against this. So Maui turned himself into a moko huruhuru, a kind of caterpillar that glistens. It was agreed that this looked best, and so Maui started forth, with comical movements. The little birds now did their best to comply with Maui's wish. They sat as still as they could, and held their beaks shut tight, and tried not to laugh. But it was impossible. It was the way Maui went in that gave them the giggles, and in a moment little tiwaiwaka the fantail could no longer contain himself. He laughed out loud, with his merry, cheeky note, and danced about with delight, his tail flickering and his beak snapping. Hine nui awoke with a start. She realised what was happening, and in a moment it was all over with Maui. By the way of rebirth he met his end ...

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