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In the C text a kind of division is exhibited after 5 days.

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

March 27 (86) + 365 + 27 (precessional distance down to Roman times) = 478 = 378 (= 14 * 15 + 168, cycle of Saturn) + 100 (400 / 4) = 472 (16 * 29½) + 6 = 295 (10 * 29½) + 183 (366 / 2). Turning the tablet around from side a to side b seems to imply a change from one side of the year to its opposite:

5

210 = 393 - 366 / 2 = 30 weeks

342

386

5

March 27 (86)

Oct 22 (295)

β Tucanae (*6.4)

ARCTURUS (*215.4 = *6.4 + 27 + 182)

392 = 5 + 12 * 30 + 27

348 = 12 * 29

And the same kind of rule of inversion seems to have been used on the G tablet, we know:

We can therefore expect this rule was in common use, as for instance on the B tablet:

... The hole in the tablet made it easy to hang it on a post or wall, implying side b should be the front side.

Maui fished up land and this was such a great feat as to be comparable with raising the sky roof high.

... This act of Maui's, that gave our people the land on which we live, was an event next in greatness to the separation of the Sky and Earth ...

Which implies that already before Maui had fished up land there had occurred a separation of Mother Earth from Father Sky.

... Originally the highly born family of the Sun, Moon, and stars dwelt in a cave on the summit of Maunga-nui, Great Mountain, in the ancient homeland. They were not at all comfortable in their gloomy home for they could not see distinctly and their eyes watered constantly. After the Sky-father had been elevated to his present eminence Tane decided that the celestial family would be happier in the sky, where they would serve the double purpose of ornamenting the naked body of Rangi and giving light to the Earth-mother. Since Papa had already been turned with her face toward the Underworld it is difficult to see how she would benefit by the illumination ...

... In South America the rainbow has a double meaning. On the one hand, as elsewhere, it announces the end of rain; on the other hand, it is considered to be responsible for diseases and various natural dis[-]asters. In its first capacity the rainbow effects a disjunction between the sky and the earth which previously were joined through the medium of rain. In the second capacity it replaces the normal beneficient conjunction by an abnormal, maleficient one - the one it brings about itself between sky and earth by taking the place of water ...

Therefore we can expect, in the G text, to see the full cycle of Sirius returning from the Full Moon (nakshatra) view to the place for raising the Sky Roof high above Mother Earth.

 205
Ga2-11 (41) Gb1-18 (247 = 41 + 183 + 23)
ºJune 30 (181) - heliacal Sirius 182 'Dec 30 (364) - nakshatra Sirius
ºDec 30 (364 = 181 + 183) 'June 30 (181 = 364 - 183)
23 = precessional depth from the time of Gregory XIII down to Roman times

... Thus was dry land fished up by Maui, which had lain beneath the sea ever since the great rains that were sent by the Sky father and the god of winds. The Maori people say that the north island of Aotearoa, which certainly is shaped much like a fish, is Te Ika a Maui; and according to some tribes the south island is the canoe from which he caught it. And his hook is the cape at Heretaunga once known as Te matau a Maui, Maui's Fishhook (Cape Kidnappers). In some of the other islands which lie across the sea towards Hawaiki, the people say that theirs is the land that Maui pulled up from below ...

We should try to count ahead from Gb1-18 (→ 118 = 472 / 4) to the Cupped Hand (Caph) of Cassiopeia offering her breast:

MARCH 26 (85) 27 (*6) 28 29 (88)
Ga1-5 Ga1-6 Ga1-7 Ga1-8
May 29 30 (150) 31 June 1 (152 = 115 + 37)

... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ... [E:17 → 152 - 5 * 27]

kava o te ariki e huarae - ma to rima - ki te ragi e rere ia mai - ki to huki ko to huki ka to ihe - kua reva te ika

Rae. First (always follows the noun): te tagata ra'e, the first man; (the other ordinal numerals, second, third, etc., precede the noun. Translator's note: ra'e is likely the noun which means forehead, face, in other Polynesian language, e.g. Tahitian rae). Vanaga. 1. Commencement, beginning, to strike up, to essay, to occasion, to proceed, former, primitive, precedent, predecessor, first-fruits; rae ki te mea hou, to innovate; oho rae, to march at the head; tagata rae, advance guard, van; raega, commencement, beginning, occasion, first-fruits. 2. To attack, to provoke; kakai rae, toua rae, to provoke. Churchill.

Bb9-24 (350) Bb9-25 Bb9-26 Bb9-27 (353)
Dec 16 (85 + 265) 17 (351) 18 19 (88 + 265)
(250, Sept 5) (251, 6) (252, 7) (253, 8)
JULY 5 (186) 6 (251 - 64) GREDI (188) 8 (253 - 64)
OBSERVED CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 (108 = 188 - 80) Ga4-26
KERB *354 = 251 - 80 + 183 *355 *356

... With α Andromedae [Sirrah → Navel] and γ Pegasi [Kerb], as the Three Guides, it [Caph → Phoenician Kaph, Hand] marks the equinoctial colure, itself exceedingly close to that great circle; and, being located on the same side of the pole as is Polaris, it always affords an approximate indication of the latter's position with respect to that point. This same location, 32º from the pole, and very near to the prime meridian, has rendered it useful for marking sidereal time. When above Polaris and nearest the zenith the astronomical day begins at 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds; when due west the sidereal time is 6 hours; when south and nearest the horizon, 12 hours, and when east, 18 hours; this celestial clockhand then moving on the heavenly dial contrary to the motion of the hands of our terrestrial clocks, and at but one half the speed ...

... τ, 4.5, with υ, was Al Sufi's Sa'd al Na'amah, which Knobel thinks should be Al Na'āim, the Cross-bars over a well; but they also were known as Al Karab, the Bucket-rope. The usual titles for τ - Markab and Sagma or Salma - are from Bayer, but the last two should be Salm, a Leathern Bucket ...

There were 12 days from Kerb to Caph and Sirrah:

6 JULY 15 (196) 16 17 (*118 = 4 * 29½) 18 (199)
Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 (118) Ga5-9
No star listed (180) π Virginis (181.0), θ Crucis (181.5)

12h (182.6)

ο Virginis (182.1), η Crucis (182.5)
ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)
Sept 17 (260) 18 (*181) 19 20
°Sept 13 14 (*177) 15 16
'Aug 21 22 23 24 (236)
"Aug 7 8 9 10 (222 = 185 + 37)

Oct 27 (300)

TERMINALIA

ihe tau

ika

June 1 (152)

152 (June 1) - 37 = 115 (April 25) = 300 (Oct 27) - 185

185 + 37 = 222

... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ...  [E:17 → 152 - 5 * 27]

OBSERVED CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JAN 14 15 (380) 16 (*301) 17

η Tucanae (363.0), ψ Pegasi (363.1), 32 Piscium (363.2), π Phoenicis (363.4), ε Tucanae (363.6), τ Phoenicis (363.9)

*322.0 = *363.4 - *41.4

θ Oct. (364.4)

*323.0 = *364.4 - *41.4 

Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)

0h (365.25)

CAPH (Hand) = β Cassiopeiae, SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)

Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)
March 19 (78) 20 EQUINOX 22 (*366)
°March 15 16 (*360) 17 18 (77)
'Febr 20 (*336) 21 22 (53) TERMINALIA
"Febr 6 7 (403) 8 (*324) 9 (40)
Egyptian hand Phoenician kaph Greek kappa Κ (κ)

Kaph is thought to have been derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew, kaph means palm/grip) ...

... The manik, with the tzab, or serpent's rattles as prefix, runs across Madrid tz. 22 , the figures in the pictures all holding the rattle; it runs across the hunting scenes of Madrid tz. 61, 62, and finally appears in all four clauses of tz. 175, the so-called 'baptism' tzolkin. It seems impossible, with all this, to avoid assigning the value of grasping or receiving. But in the final confirmation, we have the direct evidence of the signs for East and West. For the East we have the glyph Ahau-Kin, the Lord Sun, the Lord of Day; for the West we have Manik-Kin, exactly corresponding to the term Chikin, the biting or eating of the Sun, seizing it in the mouth.

  

The pictures (from Gates) show east, north, west, and south; respectively (the lower two glyphs)  'Lord' (Ahau) and 'grasp' (Manik). Manik was the 7th day sign of the 20 and Ahau the last ...