RIGEL
 

We surely have to coordinate Rigel with Castor:

... That there is a whirlpool in the sky is well known, it is most probably the essential one, and it is precisely located. It is a group of stars so named (zalos) at the foot of Orion, close to Rigel (beta Orionis, Rigel being the Arabic word for 'foot'), the degree of which was called 'death', according to Hermes Trismegistos, whereas the Maori claim outright that Rigel marked the way to Hades (Castor indicating the primordial homeland) ...

 
Ca9-15 Ca9-16 (244) Ca9-17 Ca9-18 (246) Ca9-19 Ca9-20 (248)
Nov 19 20 (324) 21 (80 + 245) 22 23 24 (328)
16h (*243.5) LESATH *245 → 63 + 183 σ SCORPII (*247.0) *248
4h (*60.9) *61 VINDEMIATRIX HYADUM I HYADUM II AIN
May 20 21 (141) 22 23 24 25 (145)
"April 9 10 (100) 11 12 13 14 (104)
LIBERALIA 18 (100 - 23) 19 (78) MARCH 20 21 (80) 22 (145 - 64)
i te mauga pu hia E rima ki te henua koia ku honui erua maitaki ko koe ra

When Metoro said 'hia' it was probably an instruction for Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti to 'Count!' For instance:

 ... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ... → 3-20 ↔ right ascension day *320 at the south pole star Dramasa.

... A very detailed myth comes from the island of Nauru. In the beginning there was nothing but the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider. One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty. By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last found a snail. To endow it with power she placed it under her arm, lay down and slept for three days. Then she let it free, and still hunting about she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated it in the same way ...

... Then she said to the first snail: 'Can you open this room a little, so that we can sit down?' The snail said it could, and opened the shell a little. Old-Spider then took the snail, placed it in the west of the shell, and made it into the moon. Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm. At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky.

Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died.

Ure. 1. Generation; ure matá, warlike, bellicose generation (matá, obsidian, used in making weapons). 2. Offspring; brother; colleague i toou ure ka tata-mai, your colleague has turned up. 3. Friendship, friendly relationship; ku-ké-á te ure, they have become enemies (lit.: friendship has changed). 4. Penis (this definition is found in Englert's 1938 dictionary, but not in La Tierra de Hotu Matu'a). Ure tahiri, to gush, to spurt, to flow; e-ure tahiri-á te toto, blood is flowing in gushes. Ure tiatia moana, whirlwind which descend quickly and violently onto the ocean; whirlpool, eddy. Vanaga. Penis; kiri ure, prepuce, foreskin. P Pau., Mgv., Ta.: ure, penis. Ureure, spiral. Ta.: aureure, id. Urei, to show the teeth. Mgv.: urei, to uncover the eye by rolling back the lids. Churchill. Pau.: Ureuretiamoana, waterspout. Ta.: ureuretumoana, id. Churchill. H. Ule 1. Penis. For imaginative compounds see 'a'awa 1, 'aweule, ulehala, ulehole, ulepa'a, ulepuaa, ule'ulu. Kū ka ule, he'e ka laho, the penis is upright, the scrotum runs away (refers to breadfruit: when the blossom (pōule) appears erect, there will soon be fruit). 2. Tenon for a mortise; pointed end of a post which enters the crotch of a rafter (also called ma'i kāne). Ho'o ule, to form a tenon or post for the crotch of a rafter. 3. To hang. Wehewehe.

*11 *100
Ca10-4 Ca10-5 (260) Ca10-6 (9 * 29) Ca10-7 (262) Ca13-20
Dec 5 Dec 6 Dec 7 (341, *261) Dec 8 March 18 (*362)
*259 RAS ALGETHI Sarin (*261.0), ο Ophiuchi (*261.4)

ALRISHA

θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (*262.4) DZANEB (*362.4)

ACUBENS

5h (*76.1)

CURSA (*76.4)

ψ (65) ERIDANI

*77 CAPELLA (*78.4)

THUBAN

*262 + *183 = *445

ARCTURUS

no star listed (*180)
June 5 June 6 (157) June 7 (158, *78) June 8 Sept 17 (260, *180)
"April 25 (115) 26 (*36) (158 - 41 = 117, *37) "April 28 (→ 4 * 29½) (*180 - *41 = *139)
APRIL 2 (*12) 3 (93) (158 - 64 = 94, *14) APRIL 5 (95, *79 - *64) (*139 - *23 = *116)
te kiore - te inoino kua oho te rima kua kai - ihe nuku hoi Tupu te toromiro kua noho te vai -

Kiore. Rat. Vanaga. Rat, mouse; kiore hiva, rabbit. P Pau., Mgv.: kiore, rat, mouse. Mq.: kioē, íoé, id. Ta.: iore, id. Churchill.

... 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 ...

... The decoded meaning of the names 'the dark rat' (i.e., the island king as the recipient of gifts) and 'the gathering place of the island population' (for the purpose of presenting the island king with gifts) links them with the month 'Maro', which is June ...

1 Horn Α Virginis (Spica) Crocodile (202.7) Oct 9 (282)
2 Neck κ Virginis Dragon (214.8) Oct 21 (294)
3 Root α Librae (Zuben Elgenubi) Badger (224.2) Oct 31 (304)
4 Room π Scorpii (Vrischika) Hare (241.3) Nov 17 (321)
5 Heart σ Scorpii Fox (247.0) Nov 23 (327)
6 Tail μ Scorpii (Denebakrab) Tiger (254.7) Nov 30 (334)
7 Winnowing Basket γ Sagittarii (Nash) Leopard (273.7) Dec 19 (353)
December solstice
8 South Dipper Φ Sagittarii Unicorn (284.0) Dec 30 (364)
9 Ox / Herd Boy β Capricornii (Dabih) Buffalo (308.0) Jan 23 (388)
10 Girl ε Aquarii (Albali) Bat (314.8) Jan 29 (394)
11 Emptiness β Aquarii (Sadalsud) Rat (325.9) Feb 9 (40)

*325 (February 9) - *259 (December 5) = *41 + * 25 = *66 → *366 - *300.

... 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.

This can be done by moving ahead in the text beyond June 5 at heliacal Cursa to heliacal Castor at "June 1.

By the way the Julian spring equinox in March 25 (84) had presumably induced the creator of the C text to coordinate Ca3-25 (→ *325 → February 9) with the star named Cursa (Footstool) at the end of the Eridanus river.

... When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC he set March 25 as the spring equinox. Since a Julian year (365.25 days) is slightly longer than an actual year the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about 21 March in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March. This drift induced Pope Gregory XIII to create a modern Gregorian calendar. The Pope wanted to restore the edicts concerning the date of Easter of the Council of Nicaea of AD 325 ...

*173

*183

Ca9-21 (249)

Ca3-25 (76)

Ga7-26

ANTARES CURSA (*76.4) CURSA (*76.4)
Nov 25 (329 = 80 + 249) June 5 (156 = 80 + 76) Dec 5 (339 = 329 + 10)

Ca3-21 → 0h Ca3-22 Ca3-23 (73 + 1) Ca3-24 Ca3-25 → Julian equinox
June 1 (152) 2 3 4 5 (156)
      APRIL 1 2 (156 - 64 = 92)
*72 HASSALEH HAEDUS I HAEDUS II 5h (*76.1)

CURSA (*76.4)

ψ (65) ERIDANI

GRAFIAS (*255.4) *256 (→ 16 * 16) *257 17h (*258.7) Mula-19 (The Root)
Dec 1 2 (336) 3 4 5
"Oct 21 22 (295) 23 24 "Oct 25
SEPT 28 29 (272) 30 OCT 1 2
tagata tuu rima ki ruga te maitaki te henua Rei hata ia tagata rogo

Ruga. Upper part, higher part; when used as a locative adverb, it is preceded by a preposition: i ruga, above, on; ki ruga, upwards, mai ruga, from above. When used with a noun the same preposition is repeated: he-ea te vî'e Vakai, he-iri ki ruga ki te Ahu ruga, the woman Vakai went, she climbed Ahu Runga. Ruga nui, high, elevated, lofty: kona ruga nui, high place, elevated position, high office; mana'u ruga nui, elevated thoughts. Vanaga. High up; a ruga, above; ki ruga, on, above, upon; ma ruga, above; o ruga, upper; kahu o ruga, royal (sail); ruga iho, celestial. Hakaruga, to accumulate, to draw up. P Pau., Mgv.: ruga, above. Mq.: úna, úka, id. Ta.: nua, nia, id. Churchill.

Rogo. Rogorogo: Originally, 'orators, bards' of Mangareva. Borrowed into the Rapanui language in 1871, it came to generically signify the wooden tablets incised with glyphs, the writing system itself, and the respective inscriptions. Earlier the term ta was used for the writings. Fischer. Mgv.: rogouru, ten. Mq.: onohuu, okohuu, id. Churchill.

*34
Ca5-5 Ca5-6 Ca5-7 Ca5-8 (113)
July 9 10 11 12 (193)
"May 29 30 (150) 31 "June 1 (152)
*110 *111 ANTARES CASTOR
*293 DENEB OKAB *295 *296
Jan 8 9 10 (375) 11 (193 + 183)
"Nov 28 (355 - 23) 29 (333) 30 (*254) "Dec 1 (335, *255)

... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ...

NOV 5 (332 - 23) 9 (310) 10 (311 = 375 - 64) 11 (*296 - *64 = *232)
kua iri i te rakau ihe tamaiti erua mago

Iri. 1. To go up; to go in a boat on the sea (the surface of which gives the impression of going up from the coast): he-eke te tagata ki ruga ki te vaka, he-iri ki te Hakakaiga, the men boarded the boat and went up to Hakakainga. 2. Ka-iri ki puku toiri ka toiri. Obscure expression of an ancient curse. Vanaga. Iri-are, a seaweed. Vanaga.

... About Carmenta we know from the historian Dionysus Periergetis that she gave orcales to Hercules and lived to the age of 110 years. 110 was a canonical number, the ideal age which every Egyptian wished to reach and the age at which, for example, the patriarch Joseph died. The 110 years were made up of twenty-two Etruscan lustra of five years each; and 110 years composed the 'cycle' taken over from the Etruscans by the Romans. At the end of each cycle they corrected irregularities in the solar calendar by intercalation and held Secular Games. The secret sense of 22 - sacred numbers were never chosen haphazardly - is that it is the measure of the circumference of the circle when the diameter is 7. This proportion, now known as pi, is no longer a religious secret; and is used today only as a rule-of-thumb formula, the real mathematical value of pi being a decimal figure which nobody has yet been able work out because it goes on without ever ending, as 22 / 7 does, in a neat recurring sequence [3.142857142857 ...]. Seven lustra add up to thirty-five years, and thirty-five at Rome was the age at which a man was held to reach his prime and might be elected Consul ...

113 (Ca5-8, Castor) - 76 (Ca3-25, Cursa) = 37 June 1 (152 → 2 * 76) - April 125 (115 → Mercury).

Metoro said kua iri i te rakau at Ca5-5, i.e. three days before heliacal Castor. Does it mean someone was about to hide in 'The Tree'?

... Robur Carolinum, Charles' Oak, the Quercia of Italy and the Karlseiche of Germany, was formally published by Halley in 1679 in commemoration of the Royal Oak of his patron, Charles II, in which the king had lain hidden for twenty-four hours after his defeat by Cromwell in the battle of Worcester, on the 3rd of September AD 1651 ...

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