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THE D TABLET
Argo Navis.had evidently gone down at the time when the Sun reached the Gemini twins:
The star on Argo Navis close to the tip of the tail of Canis Major is Markab (κ Puppis, *114.7). Modern astronomers had found it fitting to break the great old ship into pieces, they had dismembered Argo Navis. ... After all the food supplies had been brought on land [i oti era te kai te too mai ki uta], the two rulers [te ariki arurua], the king and the queen said, 'Drag the canoes on land and take them apart (so the wood can be used) to build houses and cover the roofs!' They dragged the two canoes on land and took them apart. After they had finished disassembling the canoes, Nuku covered all the houses ... [E:84] But they had retained the idea of a whole by not introducing several sets of Greek letters. So this Markab is κ in Argo Navis. But there was another (a twin) Markab in the Sail of Argo Navis (viz. κ Velorum, *141.5) and thus located *27 right ascension days later than Markab in Puppis. It was hardly a coincidence that there was a 3rd Markab (*349.5) in the Pegasus constellation which came exactly 208.0 days later. ... whatever you do don't start cutting up the fish ...
At Da4-2 there is a figure sitting down eating and the following glyph is a rising fish. ... 'Now while I'm away,' he said, 'show some common sense and don't be impatient. Don't eat food until I come back, and whatever you do don't start cutting up the fish until I have found a priest and made an offering to the gods, and completed all the necessary rites. When I get back it will be all right to cut him up, and we'll share him out equally then ... A myth like that about Maui fishing up land (Ao-tea-roa, New Zealand) could here have been in the mind of the creator of the D text: ... And he went on hauling in his line, the canoe kept taking water, and his brothers kept bailing frantically, but Maui would not let go. Now Maui's hook had caught in the barge-boards of the house of Tonganui, who lived at the bottom of that part of the sea and whose name means Great South; for it was as far to the south that the brothers had paddled from their home ...
This would explain the last part of line Da4 dominated by - I suggest - a pair of 'Toga Nui Fish' glyphs:
Maybe we should count from Da3-1 up to and including Da4-13, because 15 + 13 = 28 (= 364 / 13). But that, of course, would presumably enrage Enoch: ... The author of the Book of Enoch in his treatise on astronomy and the calendar also reckoned a year to be 364 days, though he pronounced a curse on all who did not reckon a month to be 30 days long ... An arrow has to be perfectly straight in order to hit its target.
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