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Once again. August 13 (225) was when the Sun was at the Knot (Ukdah, ι Hydrae) with the Full Moon half a year away at Bunda (ξ Aquarii) and Nashira (γ Capricorni):

Ukdah (*145.4)

'July 17 (*118)

"July 3 (*104)

JUNE 10 (161)

Bunda

Nashira

Febr 11 (42)

12 (408)

'Jan 15 (*300)

16

"Jan 1 (42 - 41)

2

DEC 9 (7 * 7 * 7)

10 (*264)

225 (Aug 13) - May 25 (145) = 80. 145 (Ain) + 33 = June 27 (178):

Bb11-39 (436 + 21)

Bb11-40 (458 = 2 * 229)

14

Bb12-12 → 121 * 2 = 242

32

Bb12-45

ihe haki tua pu ma to rutu mai tae rutu hia i te pahu - mai tae oho te rima ko te henua ia kua oti

457 (= 300 + 314 / 2)

458

473

506 (= 590 - 84)

τ Arietis (*49.7)

Algenib Persei (*50.0)

Ain (*65.7)

No star listed (*98 = 2 * 49)

May 9 (*414)

→ Bharani (*41.4)

May 10 (130 + 365 = 495)

May 25 (*430)

June 27 (*463)

7 * 7

Tua. 1. Back, shoulder, tu'a ivi, shoulder blade; tu'a ivi more, lumbago; moa tu'a ivi raá, 'sun-back chicken': chicken with a yellow back which shines in the sun. 2. Behind (a locative adverb, used with i, ki, a, o, etc). Tu'a-papa, pelvis, hips. Vanaga. 1. Behind, back, rear; ki tua, after; o tua, younger; taki tua, perineum. 2. Sea urchin, echinus. The word must have a germ sense indicating something spinous which will be satisfactorily descriptive of the sea urchin all spines, the prawn with antennae and thin long legs, and in the Maori the shell of Mesodesma spissa. Tuaapapa, haunch, hip, spine. Tuahaigoigo, tattooing on the back. Tuahuri, abortion; poki tuahuri, abortive child. Tuaivi, spine, vertebræ, back, loins; mate mai te tuaivi, ill at ease. Tuakana, elder, elder brother; tuakana tamaahina, elder sister. Tuamouga, mountain summit. Tuatua, to glean. Mgv. tua: To fell, to cut down. Ta.: tua, to cut. Mq.: tua, to fell, to cut down. Ma.: tua, id. Tuaki, to disembowel. Ma.: tuaki, to clean fish. Tuavera, the last breadfruit spoiled by the wind. Ta.: tuavera, burnt by the sun. Churchill.

Oti, To come to an end; to suffice, to be enough: ku-oti-á, it is finished; ina kai oti mo kai, there is not enough to eat; he-oti á, there isn't anymore left, it's the last one; it's enough with that. Vanaga. Ta.: 1. Oti, presage of death. Sa.: oti, to die. 2. To cut. Mq.: koti, oti, id. Sa.: 'oti, id. Ma.: koti, id. Churchill.

14 32
Gb8-16 (= 300 + 314 / 2) (229 + 229 = 351 + 107) Ga1-1 Ga2-4
MARCH 6 (65 = 225 - 160) 7 (*415 - *64 = *351) MARCH 22 (225 - 144) APRIL 24 (*34)

On Hawaii there were 33 days from the return of the Pleiades in November 18 (322) to the December solstice (355), which suggests June 27 (178 = 355 - 6 * 29½) could be the corresponding place on Easter Island, viz. 6 days after June 21.

... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ...

Solstice

June 22

23

24 (175) 25

26

June 27

Bb12-39

Bb12-40

Bb12-41

Bb12-42

Bb12-43

Bb12-44

Bb12-45

123 * 9 = 27 * 41 and 12 * 41 = 492.

15 * 41 = 365 + 250 = 355 + 260.

This looks promising.

Extrapolating backwards from the assumed Canopus in June 24 to December 21 means going back 175 + 10 = 185 days.

Dec 21 (355)

9

Dec 31 (365)

Jan 1

173

June 24 (175)

185

Canopus (*95)

   

Bb8-34 (318)

Bb9-2

Bb9-3 (329) Bb12-42 (503)

31 * 8 = 248 = 12 * 42.

32 * 9 = 288 = 248 + 40.

Glyph 329 at my suggested January 1 rings a bell, because we should associate 329 with Antares (*249) rising with the Sun in November 25 (329).

Ga7-14 Ga7-15 (184) Ga7-16 Ga7-17 Ga7-18 Ga7-19 (188)
SEPT 20 21 (*184) EQUINOX 23 24 25 (268)

Heart-5 (Fox)

σ Scorpii (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7)
ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM (Club) = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8)

Al Kalb-16 (The Heart) / Jyeshtha-18 (Eldest) / ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)

ANTARES = α Scorpii (249.1), MARFIK (Elbow)  = λ Ophiuchi, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)
γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5)

... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...

Nov 23 24 25 (329) 26 (*250) 27 28
°Nov 19 20 21 (325) 22 (*246) 23 24
27 (118 + 182) 28 'Oct 29 (*222) 30 31 'Nov 1
"Oct 13 14 15 (288 = 329 - 41) 16 (*209) 17 (290) 18
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
MARCH 22 (*1) 23 24 (*185 + *183) JULIAN EQUINOX 26 (85) 27 (268 - 182 = 86)

Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)
No star listed (66) No star listed (67)

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)
No star listed (69) No star listed (70)
May 25 (145) 26 (328 - 182) 27 (*432) 28 (513 = 19 * 27) 29 (85 + 64) 30 (150)
°May 21 (506) 22 23 (*428) 24 (509 = 513 - 4) 25 26 (*66)
'April 28 (2 * 59) 29 (*431 - *27) 30 (*40 = *67 - *27) 'May 1 (*41) 2 3 (488 = 515 - 27)
"April 14 (2 * 52) (*25 = *66 - *41) 16 (*40 - *14) (107 = 148 - 41) (473 = 365 + 108) 19 (*29)
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-6

At the time of Gregory XIII day 506 (as in the number for the last glyph on side b of the B tablet) was when the Sun reached the Eye of the Bull.