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Once again. A day after the pair of heliacal stars Betelgeuze and the Lord of Created Beings (Praja-pāti, δ Aurigae) the Full Moon would stand at the line for 18h (*273.4) together with the Winnowing Basket (γ Sagittarii, Nash).

... δ, 4.1, yellow, is on the head of the Charioteer. It is unnamed with us, but, inconspicuous as it is, the Hindus called it Praja-pāti, the Lord of Created Beings, a title also and far more appropriately given to Orion and to Corvus. The Sūrya Siddhānta devotes considerable space to it; but 'why so faint and inconspicuous a star should be found among the few of which Hindu astronomers have taken particular notice is not easy to discover.' ...

473 - 449 = 24

*22

1

Gb8-8 (449)

Gb8-30 (471)

Ga1-1

Bharani (*41.4)

Hyadum I (*63.4)

Ain (*65)
May 1 (121 = 11 * 11) May 23 (143 = 11 * 13)

MARCH 22 (*1)

41 he ravi pako 1 he koro tea. 3 he pukapuka.

Tiputa. Pau.: To bore, to perforate. Ta.: tiputa, to pierce. Mq.: tiputa, id. Ha.: kipuka, an opening. Churchill. Pilipuka, between midnight and surise, or about 3 A.M.; Kihipuka, corresponding to sunrise, or about 6 A.M. ... (Fornander)

2 + 19 = 21

18

Ga1-2

Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-24
No star listed (66) No star listed (67) Aldebaran (*68) No star listed (69) Betelgeuze (*88)
MARCH 23 (82) 24 (*3) 25 (Julian equinox) MARCH 26 (*5) APRIL 14 (104)
4 he pia. 5 he nahoo. 1 ngeti uri 2 ngeti tea

 ZUBEN ELGENUBI

46 (= 364 / 4 - 24 - 21)

42
Ga1-25 Ga1-26 Ga3-10 Ga3-11 (70)
Praja-pāti (*89) OCT 16 (289) Lughnasadh Aug 2 (214)
APRIL 15 (*25) Winnowing Basket Solstice (172) "June 22 (*93)

Although the Hindu station connected with the Winnowing Basket was 5 days later at right ascension *278 (December 24):

SAGITTARIUS:
20 Purva Ashadha δ and ε Sagittarii Elephant tusk, fan, winnowing basket Dec 24 (358)
first of the ashādhā (the invincible one, the name of a constellation) Kaus
LYRA:
22 Abhijit α, ε, and ζ Lyrae - Dec 27 (361)
victorious Vega
SAGITTARIUS:
21 Uttara Ashadha ζ and σ Sagittarii Elephant tusk, small bed Jan 3 (368)
second of the ashādhā Nunki

7 Winnowing Basket γ Sagittarii (Nash) Leopard (273.7) Dec 19 (353)
December solstice
8 South Dipper φ Sagittarii Unicorn (284.0) Dec 30 (364)
9 Ox / Herd Boy β Capricornii (Dabih) Buffalo (308.0) Jan 23 (388)
10 Girl ε Aquarii (Albali) Bat (314.8) Jan 29 (394)
11 Emptiness β Aquarii (Sadalsud) Rat (325.9) Feb 9 (405)
12 Rooftop α Aquarii (Sadalmelik) Swallow (334.6) Feb 18 (414)
13 House α Pegasi (Markab) Pig (349.5) Mar 5 (429)
March equinox
14 Wall γ Pegasi (Algenib) Porcupine (1.8) Mar 22 (81)
15 Legs η Andromedae Wolf (11.4) Apr 1 (91)

The current stars in December 19 (353) had at the time of the Bull been positioned 64 days earlier, viz. in day 353 - 64 = 289 (OCTOBER 16), Ga1-26.

And the current right ascension day *89 (June 18, 169) corresponded to the earlier right ascension day *89 - *64 = *25 (APRIL 15, 115 → Mercury), Ga1-25.

  Synodic cycles:

Mercury

115.88

Venus

583.92

Earth

364.0 = π * 115.88 (= 4 * 91 = 8 * 58 - 100)

... Another name for Mercury was Hermes and Hermes Trismegisthos (thrice-mighty) could have referred to the fact that there were 3.141 * 115.88 = 364.0 days for the cycle of the Earth around the Sun. Although the calendar has 365 days for a year this is due to the fact that the Earth has to turn around an extra day in order to compensate for how the direction to the Sun changes during a year ...

Mars

779.96

Jupiter

398.88 = 115.88 + (11 + 2 * 136)

Saturn

378.09

It was thus Mercury (Marikuru, alias Wutan, Odin, etc as in Wednesday) who had the peculiar feature of a single eye (Russian odin means one).

For he had sacrificed his other eye in order to gain wisdom; Mercury is often invisible because his orbit goes down below the horizon (the surface of Mother Earth).

... Ganz ähnlich is der Name 'Gott von Duazag' des Gottes Nabū ... zu erklären. Er bezeichnet ihn als den Gott des Wachtstums, welches als aus dem Osten stammend betrachtet wird, weil die Sonne, die das Wachstum bringt, im Osten aufgeht. Dass aber Nabū als Ost-Gott aufgefasst wurde, hängt damit zusammen, dass sein Stern, der Mercur, nur im Osten oder Westen sichtbar ist ...

Mercury was a dual nature, both 'male' - above, up in the 'tree', i nika(u), upright, and 'female', below, i raro, down in the ground - which could explain why his horse (Sleipner) had a double set of legs.

And possibly also why there was a niu described as double where St George battled with the Dragon (and perished):

... St George, who died in April 23 in the year 303 AD, was celebrated in April 23 ...

The rongorongo glyphs seem to refer to a grid of right ascension days and therefore April 23 (Bb11-33) at Mira/Khambalia should be ca 16 days before these stars returned to visibility (in day 129 resptively in 312). Although my assumption of *64 precessional right ascension days down to the Golden Era of the Bull need to be adjusted with +16 days in order to accommodate for the ancient rule of return to visibility. For instance 49 (FEBRUARY 18) + 16 = 65 (MARCH 6). As I have hinted at below this fact might well be responsible for how half a year later than the true heliacal dates the corresponding nakshatra day numbers evidently are 16 days lower than the intended numbers. 664 (October 26) for instance, when the star 71 Virginis returned to visibility after the close encounter with the rising Sun, was 16 days after October 10, its true heliacal right ascension day. The number of glyphs on side b of the A tablet was designed to be 664. Observation of the stars at the Full Moon were not impeded by the rays from the rising Sun.

JAN 27

28

7

FEBR 5 (36)

6 (53 - 16 = 37) 11 FEBR 18 (65 - 16)

Bb11-11 (850)

Bb11-12 (430)

Bb11-20

Bb11-21 (860)

Bb11-33 (872)

April 1 (91)

2 April 10 (100) 11 (466) 23 (St George )
The Legs (*11.4) The Whip (*12.4) The Knee (*20) δ Phoenicis (*21) Mira = ο Ceti (*33)
Oct 1 (274 = 290 - 16) 2 Oct 10 (648 = 664 - 16) 11 (284 = 300 - 16) Oct 23 (296)
Alioth (*194) Minelauva (*195) 71 Virginis (*203) No star listed (*204) Khambalia (*216.4)

Niu. Palm tree, coconut tree; hua niu, coconut. Vanaga. Coconut, palm, spinning top.  P Pau., Ta.: niu, coconut. Mgv.: niu, a top; niu mea, coconut. Mq.: niu, coconut, a top. Churchill. The fruit of miro. Buck. T. 1. Coconut palm. 2. Sign for peace. Henry. The sense of top lies in the fact that the bud end of a coconut shell is used for spinning, both in the sport of children and as a means of applying to island life the practical side of the doctrine of chances. Thus it may be that in New Zealand, in latitudes higher than are grateful to the coconut, the divination sense has persisted even to different implements whereby the arbitrament of fate may be declared. Churchill 2.

Nikau. Mgv.: The coco palm. Ta.: niau, coconut leaf. Ha.: niau, stem of the coconut leaf. Ma.: nikau, an areca palm. Churchill. Mgv.: niu, the coconut palm when young, ripening into nikau. ... the ni of New Caledonia leads us to infer that niu was anciently a composite in which ni carried at least some sort of generic sense, it being understood that this refers to those characteristics which might strike the islanders as indicating a genus. In composition with kau tree we should then see nikau, the ni-tree, serving in Mangareva for the coconut palm, in New Zealand for the characteristic palm (Areca sapida) of that land, in Tahiti as niau for coconut leaf, and as niau in Hawaii for the leaf stalk of the coconut. The ni-form is found in Micronesia, and in the Marshall Islands ni is the coconut. Churchill 2.

Nika. 'Savage tribes knew the Pleiades familiarly, as well as did the people of ancient and modern civilization; and Ellis wrote of the natives of the Society and Tonga Islands, who called these stars Matarii, the Little Eyes: The two seasons of the year were divided by the Pleiades; the first, Matarii i nia, the Pleiades Above, commenced when, in the evening, those stars appeared on the horizon, and continued while, after sunset, they were above. The other season, Matarii i raro, the Pleiades Below, began when, at sunset, they ceased to be visible, and continued till, in the evening, they appeared again above the horizon. Gill gives a similar story from the Hervey group, where the Little Eyes are Matariki, and at one time but a single star, so bright that their god Tane in envy got hold of Aumea, our Aldebaran, and, accompanied by Mere, our Sirius, chased the offender, who took refuge in a stream. Mere, however, drained off the water, and Tane hurled Aumea at the fugitive, breaking him into the six pieces that we now see, whence the native name for the fragments, Tauono, the Six, quoted by Flammarion as Tau, both titles singularly like the Latin Taurus. They were the favorite one of the various avelas, or guides at sea in night voyages from one island to another; and, as opening the year, objects of worship down to 1857, when Christianity prevailed throughout these islands.' (Allen)

... When the 'Crooked Claw' (Khambalia) - the reaper's instrument - was seen at the Full Moon in April 23 it portended death of the southern summer year.

And when Mira was at the Full Moon in October 23 it was the opposite, the death of the winter year:

Once again. The current right ascension line 18h (= 6h + 12h) = *273.4 - 'the (N)ash line' - was at Nash (γ Sagittarii), i.e. half a year after 'the line of fire',

... It should be stated right now that 'fire' is actually a great circle reaching from the North Pole of the celestial sphere to its South Pole ...

which at the time of the Bull would have been in December 19 (353) - 64 = 289 (OCTOBER 16) = *209 = *26 (APRIL 16) + *183.

46 (= 364 / 4 - 24 - 21)

APRIL 15 (105) 16 (*26) 42 MAY 29 (*69) 30 (150 = 105 + 45)
Ga1-25 Ga1-26 Ga3-10 Ga3-11 (70)
June 18 (169) June 19 (*90) Lughnasadh Aug 2 (214 → Febr 14, 45)
Praja-pāti (*89) "May 9 (*49) Solstice (172) "June 22 (*93)
Dec 18 (352) Dec 19 (18h, *273.4) Solstice (355) "Dec 22 (*276)
ζ Serpentis (*272.4) Nash (*273 → 3 * 91)Winnowing Basket Jan 31 (213 + 183 - 365) Febr 1 (*317)
OCT 15 (288) OCT 16 (289 → 273 + 16) NOV 28 (332 = 316 + 16) 29 (*253)

... Early on Sunday morning, 14 February 1779, Captain Cook went ashore with a party of marines to take the Hawaiian king, Kalaniopu'u, hostage against the return of the Discovery's cutter, stolen the night before in a bold maneuver - of which, however, the amiable old ruler was innocent. At the decisive moment, Cook and Kalaniopu'u, the God and the King, will confront each other as cosmic adversaries. Permit me thus an anthropological reading of the historical texts. For in all the confused Tolstoian narratives of the affray - among which the judicious Beaglehole refuses to choose - the one recurrent certainty is a dramatic structure with the properties of a ritual transformation. During the passage inland to find the king, thence seaward with his royal hostage, Cook is metamorphosed from a being of veneration to an object of hostility. When he came ashore, the common people as usual dispersed before him and prostrated face to earth; but in the end he was himself precipitated face down in the water by a chief's weapon, an iron trade dagger, to be rushed upon by a mob exulting over him, and seeming to add to their own honors by the part they could claim in his death: 'snatching the daggers from each other', reads Mr. Burney's account, 'out of eagerness to have their share in killing him'. In the final ritual inversion, Cook's body would be offered in sacrifice by the Hawaiian King ...

... Once upon a time there was an old woman who owned a great potato field where she planted her potatoes in spring and harvested them in autumn. She was famous all around for her many varieties of wonderful potatoes, and she had enough of them to sell at the market place. She planted her potatoes 7 in a row, placing her foot in front of her as a measure from one potato to the next. Then she marked the place with a bean - which would also give nourishment to the surrounding potatoes. Next she changed variety and planted 7 more followed by another bean, and this was the pattern she followed until all her 214 varieties had been put down in their proper places. She had drawn a map which she followed and from where each sort of potato could be located at the proper time for its harvest. I was fascinated, when I happened to stumble on this Swedish TV program, because my 'once upon a time' was now and 214 (= 2 * 107) was surely no coincidence. She knew what she was doing. Let's therefore count: 214 * 7 (potatoes) + 213 (beans) = 1711. So what? Probably because 1711 = 59 * 29 ...

... The Hawaiian woman who was interviewed chuckled because the assassination of Captain Cook coincided with the day we have named All Hearts' Day - when in February 14 (2-14) the war-god Kuu returned to power ...

After the right ascension line for 6h ('fire') in June 20 came the Milky Way River with Gemini.

... What happens after (or happened, or will happen sometime, for this myth is written in the future tense), is told in the Völuspa, but it is also amplified in Snorri's Gylfaginning (53), a tale of a strange encounter of King Gylfi with the Aesir themselves, disguised as men, who do not reveal their identity but are willing to answer questions: 'What happens when the whole world has burned up, the gods are dead, and all of mankind is gone? You have said earlier, that each human being would go on living in this or that world.' So it is, goes the answer, there are several worlds for the good and the bad. Then Gylfi asks: 'Shall any gods be alive, and shall there be something of earth and heaven?' And the answer is: 'The earth rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive, for neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and they dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard. There come also the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, and bring along his hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from the other world. All sit down and converse together. They rehearse their runes and talk of events of old days. Then they find in the grass the golden tablets that the Aesir once played with ...