ADDENDA
10-1a. Once again. The B text is obviously here referring to midsummer (in the era of Bharani) and not to the time of spring which I had guessed:
And on Easter Island midsummer was in December (and not in June). Therefore, when in the night of January 22 the right ascension line at the Full Moon should (ideally) have been seen close to the star named Tegmine = the Cover, ζ Cancri, *123 (= 5 days after *118.4 at φ Gemini) - cfr Ga2-29 (→ number of glyphs on side a of the G tablet) - where it would be known that the Sun had moved on, beyond his apex and then disappeared behind the cover of the rain clouds (generated from evaporation due to his hot rays earlier). ... The life-force of the earth is water. God moulded the earth with water. Blood too he made out of water. Even in a stone there is this force, for there is moisture in everything. But if Nummo is water, it also produces copper. When the sky is overcast, the sun's rays may be seen materializing on the misty horizon. These rays, excreted by the spirits, are of copper and are light. They are water too, because they uphold the earth's moisture as it rises. The Pair excrete light, because they are also light ... 'The sun's rays,' he went on, 'are fire and the Nummo's excrement. It is the rays which give the sun its strength. It is the Nummo who gives life to this star, for the sun is in some sort a star.' It was difficult to get him to explain what he meant by this obscure statement. The Nazarene made more than one fruitless effort to understand this part of the cosmogony; he could not discover any chink or crack through which to apprehend its meaning. He was moreover confronted with identifications which no European, that is, no average rational European, could admit. He felt himself humiliated, though not disagreeably so, at finding that his informant regarded fire and water as complementary, and not as opposites. The rays of light and heat draw the water up, and also cause it to descend again in the form of rain. That is all to the good. The movement created by this coming and going is a good thing. By means of the rays the Nummo draws out, and gives back the life-force. This movement indeed makes life ...
And reasonable the Chorti diviners could have expected to continue with their sacred work of carefully raising the sky until July 22 (115 + 88 = 203), when the Sun would rise at Tegmine. ... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive. In this ceremony two diviners and their wives sit on benches so that they occupy the corner positions of the cosmic square. They take their seats in the same order as the stones were placed, with the men on the eastern side and the women on the west. The ritual actions of sitting down and lifting upward are done with great precision and care, because they are directly related to the actions done by the gods at Creation. The people represent the gods of the four corners and the clouds that cover the earth. As they rise from their seats, they metaphorically lift the sky. If their lifting motion is uneven, the rains will be irregular and harmful ... 118 (Φ Gemini) + 5 ↔ Ga2-27 (57) + 123 = 180 (Ga7-11) → .7 * 11 = 77 = 177 - 100. It was like a great moving caleidoscope.
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