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Today is June 22 AD 2024, the day after Midsummer Eve. It is not day 173 counted from January 1, but day 174 due to the fact that this year is a leap year with February 29 inserted between day 59 and March 1.

Counted from April 10 (100 → not 100 + 1) in an ordinary year June 21 (172) would have been day 72, but in a leap year we should count April 10 (101) + 72 = June 21 (173). The day difference is the same and the dates are the same, but the date numbers will be different.

South of the equator the calendar ought to be different from that north of the equator because the seasons of the year are 'upside down'.

Counting days from April 10 (100) to Antares in November 25 (329) means adding 329 - 100 = 229 days, and, as we will remember, the last glyph on side a of the G tablet was - as if by chance - number 229. Unless we should count also the vacant glyph space at *64, viz. not leap over it.

By adding 6 ('sleeping mats') to 229 we will reach day 235. Or better; reach day 236 = 230 + 6.= 8 * 29½. Because in leap years the Sun calendar will be corrected. 365 + 365 + 365 + 366 = 1461 = 365.25 * 4.

According to our Gregorian XIII calendar the star at 0h, viz. Sirrah (Sirius), ought to culminate at 21h in November 11 (80 + 235 = 315). But in a leap year the day number should be 81 + 235 = 316 = 4 * 79 (→ March 20 = 31 + 28 + 20):

... When Metoro said 'hia' it was probably an instruction for Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti to 'Count!', e.g. ... 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 ...

79 (March 20 in a non-leap year) 7 * 9 (Rigel, *78 → *79) ↔ *63 ↔ *64.

But since there are 63 glyphs from heliacal Sirrah at Gb6-26 (408) to the last glyph on side b, Gb8-30 (471), the leap day ought to be at the empty glyph space preceding Ga1-1. 471 + 1 = 472 = 8 * 59 = 16 * 29½. = 314 * 1½ + 1.

Then would come a kind of Tree which preceded Toromiro with 261 (→ 1461 - 1200) - 236 = 25 days, at the place where ideally the Full Moon would have Acrux culminating at 21h.

Counting the right ascension days properly for Easter Island south of the equator, viz. from March 20 (79 ↔ *79 at Rigel) the position of heliacal Antares would be *250 - not such an  ugly odd number as *249.

Thus all would be in excellent order, as everything else in Mother Nature who ruled by the principle of survival of the fittest i.e. the most beautiful.

But I will continue as before in my documentation in order to avoid more chaos:

Ca9-3 Ca9-4 Ca9-5 Ca9-6 Ca9-7 Ca9-8 (236)
Nov 7 8 9 10 (314) 11 (80 + 235) 12
*231 ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), PHERKAD = γ Ursae Min. (232.6), ε Librae (232.7), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9) *233 NUSAKAN (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7), ζ Librae (234.9)

θ Cor. Borealis (235.3), γ Lupi (235.6), GEMMA, ZUBEN ELAKRAB = γ Librae, QIN = δ Serpentis, ε Tr. Austr. (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8), υ Librae (235.9)

SIRRAH

φ Bootis (236.2), ω Lupi (236.3), ψ¹ Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor. Borealis (236.9)
ZIBAL (*48.0) *49 ALGENIB PERSEI (*50.0)

GIENAH

*51 no star listed *53

ACRUX

May 8 9 (65 + 64) 10 (130) 11 (2 * 51 + 29) 12 (2 * 66) 13 (2 * 53 + 27)
"March 28 29 (88) 30 31 "April 1 (91) 2 (2 * 46)
MARCH 5 6 (65) 7 8 9 (68) 10
koia kua oho ki te vai kua moe ku hakaraoa e rima no ona ku tupu te poporo

Poporo. A plant (Solanum forsteri); poporo haha, a sort of golden thistle. Vanaga. A berry whose juice is mixed with ashes of ti leaves in tattoing. Ta.: oporo, a capsicum plant. The Tahiti oporo is not a degradation of poporo but is the original poro stem augmented by that o which in Tahiti is word-formative in a sense too elusive to find expression in European ideas. Mgv.: poporo, the July season when the leaves fall. Mq.: pororo, dry, arid. Sa.: palolo-mua, July. Ma.: paroro, cloudy weather. Poporohiva, milk thistle. Churchill.

Ca9-9 (237) Ca9-10 Ca9-11 Ca9-12 Ca9-13 Ca9-14 (242)
Nov 13 (*237) 14 (135 + 183) 15 16 (320, *240) 17 18
COR SERPENTIS *238 *56 + *183 λ Librae (240.0), β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8) VRISCHIKA SCHEDIR
no star listed TAU-ONO ALCYONE PORRIMA ZAURAK *59
May 14 15 (365 + 135) 16 (136, *56) May 17 (*58) → 2 * 29 19 (139)
"April 3 (93) 4 "April 5 (*15) 6 (96) 7 "April 8 (98)
MARCH 11 (70) 12 13 → π 15 16 (300 / 4)
kotia kua rere ki te marama e moa haati kava e moa

... Kava will make the eyes more sensitive, generating an illusion of returning light ...

   
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.

Ca9-21 Ca9-22 (250) Ca9-23 Ca9-24 (9 * 28) (460 225) Ca9-26 (254)
Nov 25 26 27 28 29 (333) 30

... 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 ...

ANTARES *250 *251 *252 *253 DENEBAKRAB
*66 *67 ALDEBARAN *69 *70 *71
May 26 27 28 29 30 (150) 31 (151)
"April 15 16 17 18 19 20 (110)
MARCH 23 24 25 (84) 26 27 28
ka mau - i te inoino ka iri ka hua i te inoino te hau tea te inoino kua iri kua puo te inoino

... Antares, visible in the morning sky of December-January, came to stand for summer heat; hence the saying, 'Rehua cooks (ripens) all fruit' [hakatupu]. The generally accepted version of the Rehua myth, according to Best, is that Rehua had two wives, the stars on either side of Antares. One was Ruhi-te-rangi or Pekehawani, the personification of summer languor (ruhi), the other Whaka-onge-kai, She-who-makes-food-scarce before the new crops can be harvested ...

Ca9-27 (255 ↔ 355 - 100)
Dec 1 (335 = 152 + 183)
GRAFIAS = ζ Scorpii (*255.4)
*255 + *183 = '438, *73
June 1 (152)
"April 21 (111 = 152 - 41)
MARCH 29 (88 = 152 - 64)
etoru gagata hakaariki kia raua
Ka ki atu a Tu raua ko Roko ki a Rehua.
Ca10-1 (256 = 4 * 64) Ca10-2 Ca10-3
Dec 2 (2 * 168) 3 (337 = 8 * 42 + 1) 4
κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), Cujam (256.9) no star listed (257) 17h (258.7)

no star listed (258)

Hassaleh (73.6) Almaaz (74.7), Haedus I (74.8) Haedus II (75.9)
June 2 3 4 (155)
"April 22 (112 = 8 * 14) 23 24 (114 = 6 * 19)
MARCH 30 31 (360 / 4) APRIL 1 (114 - 23)
Erua inoino kua hua te vai
Ca10-4 Ca10-5 (260) Ca10-6 (9 * 29) Ca10-7 (262)
Dec 5 Dec 6 Dec 7 (341, *261) Dec 8

...We should now of course take a look at June 6 according to Ca10-5 (260) and also at December 6 (340) where the planet Mars was bound to cross over his own path.

Mula-19 (The Root)

*259

RAS ALGETHI Sarin (*261.0), ο Ophiuchi (*261.4)

ALRISHA

θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (*262.4)
5h (*76.1)

CURSA (*76.4)

ψ (65) ERIDANI

*77 CAPELLA (*78.4)

THUBAN

*262 + *183 = *445

ARCTURUS

June 5 6-6 (314 / 2) June 7 (158, *78) June 8
"April 25 (115) 26 (4 * 29) 27 (158 - 41 = 117, *37) "April 28 (→ 4 * 29½)
APRIL 2 (*12) 3 (93 → 3 * 31) 4 (158 - 64 = 94, *14) APRIL 5 (95, *79 - *64)
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 ...

 

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