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RIGEL
Once again. Originally there seems to have been only 10 months: ... From the natives of South Island [of New Zealand] White [John] heard a quaint myth which concerns the calendar and its bearing on the sweet potato crop. Whare-patari, who is credited with introducing the year of twelve months into New Zealand, had a staff with twelve notches on it. He went on a visit to some people called Rua-roa (Long pit) who were famous round about for their extensive knowledge. They inquired of Whare how many months the year had according to his reckoning. He showed them the staff with its twelve notches, one for each month. They replied: 'We are in error since we have but ten months. Are we wrong in lifting our crop of kumara (sweet potato) in the eighth month?' Whare-patari answered: 'You are wrong. Leave them until the tenth month. Know you not that there are two odd feathers in a bird's tail? Likewise there are two odd months in the year.' The grateful tribe of Rua-roa adopted Whare's advice and found the sweet potato crop greatly improved as the result ... The Maori further accounted for the twelve months by calling attention to the fact that there are twelve feathers in the tail of the huia bird and twelve in the choker or bunch of white feathers which adorns the neck of the parson bird ...
And this could possibly account for *60 to be added to *78 at Rigel: ... Although a beginning should be at Cancer, i.e. 2 (Virgo and Leo) + 2 (Cancer and Gemini) + 2 (Orion and Taurus) + 2 (Aries + Pisces) + 2 (Aquarius and the Goat) = 10. ... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini ... And then Spica (*202) - *64 = *138 = *78 (June 7) + *60 indicated Rigel should be perceived as the Foundation ('foot') to be used for the following eon ... Presumably these 10 months were attuned to those 150 days to be counted from 41 Arietis to Porrima:
Twice 150 = 300 and twice 183 = 366. Half 300 and half 366 could have been thought of as measures for the northern summer with the other half in the northern winter. It was not necessary to map the whole year because it was simply to shift attention from the ideal location of the Full Moon to the deduced ideal position of the Sun. For instance from one equinox to the other or from one solstice to the other. ... And then the face of the earth was dried out by the sun. The sun was like a person when he revealed himself. His face was hot, so he dried out the face of the earth. Before the sun came up it was soggy, and the face of the earth was muddy before the sun came up. And when the sun had risen just a short distance he was like a person, and his heat was unbearable. Since he revealed himself only when he was born, it is only his reflection that now remains. As they put it in the ancient text, 'The visible sun is not the real one ...
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