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THE D
TABLET
Once again. When they tossed young Raven overboard he had to turn around in midair in order to land safely on his feet, a marvellous feat which otherwise only cats are able to do. Such as for instance the caracal:
Although we should remember how professional actors would land on their feet after a 'death jump' (salto-mortal). But in reality this did not made them disoriented (change their sexual orientation). ... Atea then became the wife of Rua-tupua-nui, Source of Great Growth, and they became the parents of all the celestial beings, first the shooting stars, then the Moon and the Sun, next the comets, then the multitude of stars and constellations, and finally the bright and dark nebulae. When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...
The glyph lines on a rongorongo tablet at first are standing on their feet at the level bottom, then in the next line up they go and are turned upside down. But then in the 3rd line they are back on their feet again. In the D text a reversal from looking ahead to looking back - in the 'other' direction (ké) - occurs only at the beginning of line Da1 and the beginning of line Da5. ... Liddell and Scott (Gr.-Engl. Dict., s. v.) say: 'The root of έτ-ερος is said to be the same as Sanskr. ant-aras, Goth. auth-ar, Germ. and-er, Lat. alt-er, aut, French aut-rui, our eith-er, oth-er, itara = alius, also in Sanskrit.' Whatever the root of ant-aras, auth-ar, alter, it seems to me that έκας shows nearer kindred to the Polynesian e, ke, ee, ese, eze, than to forms so developed as ant-ar, ant-ara, &c ...
Ain was standing on firm ground at the time when Antares (Ant-aras) was up in the night sky and then (68 - 65 = 3 days later) Aldebaran was landing on his feet again (although this would not be visible of course).
And we would have to add 329 - 300 = 29 days (→ Mercury) in order to read Da1-1 as the place for heliacal Antares instead of the place for heliacal η Centauri (*220.4):
*185 + *29 = *214. And 420 + 29 = 449 = 365 + 84 (Julian spring equinox). *64 - *29 = *35 → ξ Arietis (35.0) and ρ Ceti (35.4) → Gb4-16.
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