THUBAN

THUBAN

... 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 ...

This is is a linear function f(x) = y, where x is the independent and well known variable consisting of my interpretation of the text on side a on the G tablet and where y is the dependent variable corresponding to the text on side a of the C tablet. I.e. f(G) = C.

Rigel (*78)

*4

Mintaka (*82.4)

*109

PORRIMA, M104 (*191)

*23

κ Virginis (*214)

Ga1-14

Ga1-18

Ga5-17 (18 + 109)

Ga6-10 (150)

June 7 (*78)

June 11 (*82)

Sept 28 (*41 + *150)

Oct 21 (*214)

APRIL 4 (78 + 16)

APRIL 8 (80 + 18)

JULY 26 (207)

AUG 18 (230)

Algenib Pegasi

*2

Ca1-1

Ca1-2

March 22 (*1)

March 23 (82)

... In its unattested Proto-Canaanite form, the letter [gimel] may have been named after a weapon that was either a staff sling or a throwing stick, ultimately deriving from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph ... Bertrand Russell posits that the letter's form is a conventionalized image of a camel. The letter may be the shape of the walking animal's head, neck, and forelegs [cfr the way Taurus normally is depicted]. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states 'It is hard to imagine how gimel = 'camel' can be derived from the picture of a camel ... The word gimel is related to gemul, which means 'justified repayment', or the giving of reward and punishment.

The Swedish word gammal means 'old' (and dry like a stick).

... Tu'i Tofua was the son of Vakafuhu. His mother was Langitaetaea, but she was only one of the many young women whom Vakafuhu had living behind the fences of his dwelling. When Tu'i Tofua grew he was given the first-born sons of all the wives for his companions, and they all used to play sika outside the enclosure of Vakafuhu. They made their sika of clean-peeled sticks and threw them in turn along the ground, they glanced them off a mound and each one tried to make the longest throw. One day while Vakafuhu was sleeping off a kava-drinking those boys were playing their game outside, and Tu'i Tofua threw his sika. Then indeed the enormous strength of Tu'i Tofua made that sika fly over the fences into his father's place. It landed where the women were and they all began to giggle, those girls, and shriek and laugh. They did this because they wanted that handsome youth to come among them, they desired him. More than his father they desired him. They fell with joy upon the sika of their master's son, and snapped it. When he came inside to get it back they called out things that made him embarrased. 'Haven't you got another long thing there, Tu'i?' those women said. 'This one's broken.' And they put their hands across their faces and they laughed ...

*6

The measure from March 29 (88, *8) to JULY 26 (207, *127) = *119 can be explained as a shift of view from nakshatra (Full Moon, on Easter Island) to heliacal (Sun, north of the equator), combined with a subtraction with *64 in order to compensate for the precessional depth down to the Golden Age of the Bull. Because *183 - *64 = *119.

This is a linear function g(x) = y where x is the independent and assumed reliable variable of the text on side a of the C tablet and where y ought to be the corresponding places in the text on side a of the G tablet,  i.e. g(C) = G.

*119 + *247 = *183 + *183 = *366. This implies a difference with 1 glyph position compared to a calendar cycle with 365 days. Instead of the Sun rising together with Schedir (the Breast of Cassiopeia) the new year meant a new day count from ξ Phoenicis (*9.0) at JANUARY 25 (*310), because 310 + 64 = 374 = 365 + 9.

... In rongorongo times the last Greek lettered star in Orion (ξ) rose with the Sun in June 21. The letter seems to have originated from the Phoenician letter samekh (tent peg, supporting prop), which in turn may have been derived from the ancient Egyptian djed column ...