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RIGEL
To keep our order and progress in balance we should now shift attention from the G text to the C text. In G, we have just seen, the first location for heliacal κ Virginis is at Ga6-10 - five days after AUGUST 13 (15 * 15 = 225) when our present world was created - and in Ga1-18, 11 * 12 = 132 days earlier, was Mintaka:
... Gronw Pebyr, who figures as the lord of Penllyn - 'Lord of the Lake' - which was also the title of Tegid Voel, Cerridwen's husband, is really Llew's twin and tanist ... Gronw reigns during the second half of the year, after Llew's sacrificial murder; and the weary stag whom he kills and flays outside Llew's castle stands for Llew himself (a 'stag of seven fights'). This constant shift in symbolic values makes the allegory difficult for the prose-minded reader to follow, but to the poet who remembers the fate of the pastoral Hercules the sense is clear: after despatching Llew with the dart hurled at him from Bryn Kyvergyr, Gronw flays him, cuts him to pieces and distributes the pieces among his merry-men. The clue is given in the phrase 'baiting his dogs'. Math had similarly made a stag of his rival Gilvaethwy, earlier in the story. It seems likely that Llew's mediaeval successor, Red Robin Hood, was also once worshipped as a stag. His presence at the Abbot's Bromley Horn Dance would be difficult to account for otherwise, and stag's horn moss is sometimes called Robin Hood's Hatband. In May, the stag puts on his red summer coat. Llew visits the Castle of Arianrhod in a coracle of weed and sedge. The coracle is the same old harvest basket in which nearly every antique Sun-god makes his New Year voyage; and the virgin princess, his mother, is always waiting to greet him on the bank ...
Whereas the beginning of side a on the G tablet is beginning (being born, *) at the heliacal Eye (Ain) of the Bull in MARCH 22, according to the view in the Golden Age of the Bull, I have assumed the beginning of side a on the C tablet to be at the beginning of the Full Moon ideally at the current date March 22 (81). On Easter Island the seasons were 'upside down' compared to the perspective north of the equator.
... 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 ... ... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ...
And my planetary colours for the dates will here agree with those for the ordinal numbers of the glyphs in the line. Mercury would be at the beginning followed by Thursday (the day of Jupiter, Father Light).. ... The colours of the rainbow will not be seen if the Sun is absent. The stars will not be seen if the Sun is present. The equinox in day 265 (September 22, *185) is not at 12h but 2 days later, because the orbit of the Earth around the Sun is elliptical and not circular ... From Gienah (*185) at the Full Moon in September 22 (185) to heliacal Rigel (*78) we have to move from Ca1-2 to Te Toromiro who flourished in the sweet water lake of Rano Kau
at right ascension day number 9 * 29 = *261 = 2 + 366 - 185 + 78 = 183 + 78:
Thus tupu te toromiro kua noho te vai corresponds to Ga1-4:
The right ascension day number (glyph number) difference from the G text to the C text measures *247 = *261 - *14. This can be explained as the measure from APRIL 4 (94, *14) to June 7 (158, *78) = *64 (the precessional depth down to the Golden Age of the Bull) combined with a shift of view from heliacal (Sun, north of the equator) to nakshatra (Full Moon, on Easter Island). Because *64 + *183 = *247.
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