... Now the deluge was caused by the male waters from the sky meeting the female waters which issued forth from the ground. The holes in the sky by which the upper waters escaped were made by God when he removed stars out of the constellation of the Pleiades; and in order to stop this torrent of rain, God had afterwards to bung up the two holes with a couple of stars borrowed from the constellation of the Bear. That is why the Bear runs after the Pleiades to this day; she wants her children back, but she will never get them till after the Last Day ...

Perhaps the pair of stars in the top right corner of the Pleiades net - to the right of the 'nose' of the late at night ship (adorned with 12 stars) - illustrated a pair of children borrowed from Ursa Major.

... Another name for the Goddess of the Mill was Artemis Calliste, or Callisto ('Most Beautiful'), to whom the she-bear was sacred in Arcadia; and in Athens at the festival of Artemis Brauronia, a girl of ten years old and a girl of five, dressed in saffron-yellow robes in honour of the moon, played the part of sacred bears. The Great She-bear and Little She-bear are still the names of the two constellations that turn the mill around. In Greek the Great Bear Callisto was also called Helice, which means both 'that which turns' and 'willow-branch' - a reminder that the willow was sacred to the same Goddess ...

... Etalook refers to the 'aagruuk' as 'labrets' (the circular lower-lip ornaments of some Western Arctic Eskimo groups, certainly evoke an astral image if we recall that early Inuit graphic representations of stars were usually circular ...) giving them, it seems, an alternate name, ayaqhaagnailak, 'they prohibit the playing of string games': They [the aagruuk stars] are the ones that discourage playing a string game ... That's what they're called, ayaqhaagnailak, those two stars... When the two stars come out where is no daylight, people are advised not to play a string game then, but [play instead] with hii, hii, hii... toy noisemakers of wood or bone and braided sinew... Our parents tell us not to play the string games anymore ...

There is only one glyph in the B text which at first sight seems to correspond to heuheu in Ga3-18:

Heu. Offspring of parents from two different tribes, person of mixed descent, e.g. father Miru, mother Tupahotu. Heuheu, body hair (except genitals and armpits). Vanaga. 1. Heheu; ivi heheu, the cachalot, bone needle; hakaheu, spade, to shovel, to grub up, to scratch the ground, to labor; rava hakaheu, laborious, toilsome. 2. Hakaheu, affair. Churchill. M. Heu, to separate, to pull asunder; the eaves of a house; heu, a single hair; hau. to hew; heru, to comb; huru, hair on the body; down; feathers; maheu, scattered; maheuheu, shrubs; mahuru, scrub; heuea, to be separated. Text Centre. Nonoma ran, he quickly went to Te Hikinga Heru (a ravine in the side of the crater Rano Kau) and looked around. There he saw the double canoe way out near the (offshore) islets, and the two (hulls of the canoe) were lashed together.
JUNE 6 (157 = 314 / 2)	erua ra manu

Ga3-18 (260 - 183 = 77)	Bb11-20 (421 + 438 = 859)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
*AL MINHAR AL ASAD (141)**
Aug 9 (221 = 157 + 64)
*"June 29 (180 = 3 60)**
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
324 = 141 + *183
Febr 8 (404 = 221 + 183 = 365 + 39)
*"Dec 29 (363 = 3 121)**
DEC 6 (260 = 324 - *64)
The front (first) side of the presumably last moai statue hewn on Easter Island (viz. Hoa Hakanana'ia placed high up at O-rongo in the southwestern corner of the island at the rim of the volcano Rano Kau) looks typically as all the rest of them, but his back side (representing what came later) is extraordinary, for it is filled with descriptions of the Bird Man season. A prominent circle is located above his midline, in the middle between the pair of birds above - the one at right with a long beak (as that of the Toucan → 363) and the lower bird (compressed) at left with hardly any beak at all. This dorsal diagram is more in agreement with the picture in Bb11-20 than with that in Ga3-18. Winter at left and in front Summer, the Hole in between at spring equinox. Nana.* Mgv.: 1. To look at, to view. Ta.: nana, to see, to look at. Ha.: nana, to view attentively. 2. Angry, offended. Ma.: nana, in a passion. Churchill. Nanagi, to tear with the teeth. Nanai, spider; kahu nanai, cobweb. Churchill. Pau.: Nanao, to insert the hand. Mgv.: nanao, to take fish out of a wicker basket. Ta.: nanao, neneo, to introduce the hand. Mq.: nanao, to grope in. Sa.: naonao, to feel for by introducing the hand. Ma.: nao, to feel with the hand. Churchill. ... Furthermore, according to the G tablet we could also read how the Bird Man season (late July to early August) might have coincided with the right ascension line down from the South Pole star, Dramasa (σ Octantis) [Ga3-14], as seen close to the Full Moon in August 5 (320 - 183) ...

The opening created in between the pair of sun birds (erua ra manu) is depicted not high up but low down (just above the horizon).

DEC 1 (*255 = *355 - *100)

2 (336 = 4 * 84)

Gb1-26

Gb2-1 (256 = 4 * 64)

21h (319.6)

ARMUS = η Capricorni (319.0), DORSUM = θ Capricorni (319.3), TSOO = 24 Capricorni (319.7)

DRAMASA = σ Oct., χ Capricorni (320.0), ν Aquarii (320.3), γ Equulei (320.6), ο Pavonis (320.8)

Febr 3 (34)

4 (400)

°Jan 30 (*315)

31 (396)

'Jan 7 (*292)

8 (373)

Christmas Eve (*278)

"Dec 25 (359)

...That the Sun-gods Dionysus, Apollo and Mithras were all also reputedly born at the Winter solstice is well known, and the Christian Church first fixed the Nativity feast of Jesus Christ at the same season, in the year A.D. 273 [→ 3 * 91]. St. Chrysostom, a century later, said that the intention was that 'while the heathen were busied with their profane rites the Christians might perform their holy ones without disturbance', but justified the date as suitable for one who was 'the Sun of Righteousness' ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

JUNE 1 (152)

2 (*73)

ν Cancri (136.0), TALITHA AUSTRALIS = κ Ursae Majoris (136.1), ω Hydrae (136.8)

9h (137.0)

σ¹ Ursa Majoris (137.0), κ Cancri (137.3), τ Cancri (137.4), ALSUHAIL (al Wazn, of the Weight) = λ Velorum (137.5), σ² Ursa Majoris (137.6), τ Ursa Majoris (137.7), ξ Cancri (137.8)

*96.0 = *137.4 - *41.4

Aug 4 (216)

°July 31 (212)

°Aug 1

'July 8

9 (190)

St John's Day (*95)

"June 25 (176)

CLOSE TO THE SUN:

Ga3-12

Ga3-13 (72)

ACUBENS = α Cancri, TALITHA BOREALIS = ι Ursae Majoris (135.0), σ Cancri (135.2), ρ Ursa Majoris (135.6)

ν Cancri (136.0), TALITHA AUSTRALIS = κ Ursae Majoris (136.1), ω Hydrae (136.8)

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 ...

"June 23 (174)

St John's Day (*95)

DEC 3	4	5 (339)	6 (*260)

Gb2-2	Gb2-3 (29)	Gb2-4	Gb2-5 (260)
α Oct. (321.5), δ Equulei (321.7), φ Capricorni (321.8)	KITALPHA (Part of a Horse) = α Equulei (322.0), ALDERAMIN (The Right Arm) = α Cephei (322.9)	DAI = ι Capricorni (323.5), β Equulei (323.8)	γ Pavonis (324.1), YAN = ζ Capricorni (324.6)

Febr 5	6	7 (403)	*8 (324)**
°Febr 1	2	3 (399)	*4 (320)**
'Jan 9	10 (*295)	11	12 (377)
"Dec 26 (360)	*27 (355 + 6 = 19 19)**	28	*29 (363 = 3 121)**
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JUNE 3 (154)	*4 (75)**	5 (156 = 339- 183)	6 (*77)
κ Pyxidis (138.0), ε Pyxidis (138.5)	π Cancri (139.2), MIAPLACIDUS = β Carinae (139.3), TUREIS (Little Shield) = ι Carinae (139.8)	No star listed (140)	θ Pyxidis (141.5), MARKAB VELORUM = κ Velorum (141.5), AL MINHAR AL ASAD (The Nose of the Lion) = κ Leonis (141.6), λ Pyxidis (141.9)
Aug 6	7	8 (220)	*9 (141)**
°Aug 2	3	4 (216)	6
'July 10	11 (192)	12	*13 (114)**
"June 26 (177)	27	28	*29 (100)**
CLOSE TO THE SUN:

Ga3-15	Ga3-16	Ga3-17	Ga3-18 (260 - 183 = 77)
"June 26 (177)	27	28	*29 (100)**

Could it (the hole in Bb11-20) initially have referred to a hole in "December 29 (anciently the last day in this month), when the Sun was far down as regarded from a point north of the equator? Or could it refer to a hole in "June 29 when the Sun was far down as observed on Easter Island? Or maybe both!

The Mesopotamians had placed the nose of their Lion (Jupiter, Father Light), straight across from the nose of the Goatfish (evidently associated with Mars), at the place where the Eagle flew away with the Dead Man along the Milky Way river (like how the Scarab of the Sun in ancient Egypt had oriented himself along the Celestial River):

This was simular to how once upon a time at Christmas Eve Antinous had been abducted by the Talons of the Falling Eagle (Al Athfar), at the time when the Full Moon simultaneously had reached Canopus at right ascension day *95 (= 19 * 5):

And it seems to explain why Itzam-Yeh (alias Ursa Major) had been defeated in May 28.

te hau tea	tupu te rakau - te henua	te hau tea	tupu te rakau

Ca4-17	Ca4-18	Ca4-19 (95)	Ca4-20
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
*Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)* TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8) 52.0 = 93.4 - *41.4	FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)	*Well-22 (Tapir) / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)* δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM (The Roarer) = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS (Canopy) = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9) 54.0 = 95.4 - *41.4	No star listed (96)
June 22	23	24 (St John's Day)	25 (176)
'May 26	27	28 (148)	29
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Dec 22	23	24 (Christmas Eve)	25 (359)
η Sagittarii (276.9)	*Purva Ashadha-20 (Elephant Tusk, Fan, Winnowing Basket)*		KAUS BOREALIS = λ Sagittarii (279.3)
η Sagittarii (276.9)	KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii, κ Lyrae (277.5), TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis (277.7), SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis (277.8), KWEI SHE = χ Draconis (277.9)	φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS = ε Sagittarii (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), AL ATHFAR (The Talons of the Falling Eagle) = μ Lyrae (278.6) 237.0 = 278.4 - *41.4	KAUS BOREALIS = λ Sagittarii (279.3)
'Nov 25	26	27 (331)	28
... As has already been mentioned, the Delphians worshipped Dionysus once a year as the new-born child, Liknites, 'the Child in the Harvest Basket', which was a shovel-shaped basket of rush and osier used as a harvest basket, a cradle, a manger, and a winnowing-fan for tossing the grain up into the air against the wind, to separate it from the chaff. The worship of the Divine Child was established in Minoan Crete, its most famous early home in Europe. In 1903, on the site of the temple of Dictaean Zeues - the Zeus who was yearly born in Rhea's cave at Dicte near Cnossos, where Pythagoras spent 'thrice nine hallowed days' [27] of his initiation - was found a Greek hymn which seems to preserve the original Minoan formula in which the gypsum-powdered, sword-dancing Curetes, or tutors, saluted the Child at his birthday feast. In it he is hailed as 'the Cronian one' who comes yearly to Dicte mounted on a sow and escorted by a spirit-throng, and begged for peace and plenty as a reward for their joyful leaps ...

The First 3-stone Place was a week earlier, viz. in May 21, although 35 years later.

te hokohuki	te moko	te hokohuki
Hoko. 1. To jump; to rock or swing in rhythm with the chants in festivals, as was the ancient custom; an ancient dance. He to'o mai e te hoa manu i te mamari ki toona rima, he ma'u, he hoko, the 'bird master' receives the egg in his hand and carries it, dancing. 2. Number prefix: 'in a group of...': hokotahi, alone; hokorua, in a group of two (also companion, e hakarere te kai mo toou hokorua, leave some food for my companion); hakatoru, in a group of three, etc.; hokohía, in a group of how many? Hokohía ana oho koe ki te rano? With how many people will you go to the volcano? Vanaga. 1. To traffic, to trade, to buy, to ransom (hoò); hoòa te kaiga, to buy land. 2. To sport, to play. Churchill. Move the body to and fro with the rythm of a song. Barthel. Huki. 1. Pole attached to the poop from which the fishing-net is suspended: huki kupega. 2. Digging stick. 3. To set vertically, to stand (vt.). 4. Huki á te mahina, said of the new moon when both its horns have become visible. Vanaga. 1. To post up, to publish. 2. To cut the throat (uki). Mq.: Small sticks which close up the ridge of a house. Ha.: hui, the small uniting sticks in a thatched house. Churchill. Standing upright. Barthel. M. Spit for roasting. Te Huki, a constellation. Makemson. Hukihuki. 1. Colic. 2. To transpierce, a pricking. 3. To sink to the bottom. Churchill.

Ca4-10	Ca4-11	Ca4-12 (88)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
μ Columbae (86.1), Saiph (86.5), ζ μ Columbae, SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis (86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6)	υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae, δ Leporis (87.7), TZE (Son) = λ Columbae (87.9)	*Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)* χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE = α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7) ~~ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae)~~

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
MULIPHEN (Oaths) = γ Ophiuchi (269.0), BASANISMUS = G Scorpii (269.5), PHERKARD (Dim One of the Two Calves) = δ Ursae Minoris (269.9)	PTOLEMY CLUSTER = M7 Scorpii (270.5), GRUMIUM (Lower Jaw) = ξ Draconis (270.9)	RUKBALGETHI GENUBI (Bending Claw) = θ Herculis (271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5), ETAMIN (Head) = γ Draconis, ν Herculis (271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8)

Indeed this was probably at the very beginning, as we can remember from the notches on the ancient mammoth bone: