Ba10.7 By a rule of thumb the place in the sky corresponding to NOVEMBER 16 (320) → 111 * 6 = 666 - had due to the precession together with the change from return to visibility to true heliacal places of the stars, moved ahead to *320 (= 400 - 80), with 1 / 8 of the yearly 360-day cycle of the Sun remaining until reaching the special 5 days before 0h. ... 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 ... ... Curiously the spine of a human consists of 7 neck bones, 12 dorsal bones and 5 tail bones, 24 vertebra in all. Certainly this was noticed very early and thereafter incorporated into the myths, wherever suitable. 5 tail bones (although normally no tail was visible outside the human body) must correspond to the 5 extra days at the end of the year (not visible in the calendar) ...
At the time of rongorongo this place was not at Polaris but at the south polar star Dramasa (320.0). ... Snorri Sterluson explains why 'Frodi's grist' is a kenning for gold. Frodi ruled during a peaceful and productive period, contemporaneous with Augustus's Pax Romana and the birth of Christ; hence the kenning. There were neither thieves nor robbers during this period, 'so that a gold ring lay long on Jalang's heath'. Snorri continues his account with the legend of the mill beyond what is told in the song: The girls' grinding produced an army hostile to Frodi. On the very day of the girls' predictions, the sea-king, Musing (Son of the Mouse), landed o the Danish shore, killed Frodi, and took away Grotti and the women on his ship. The girls were bidden to grind out salt on the mill. At midnight they asked for further instructions. 'Keep grinding', he told them. Then they ground with such vigor that the ship sank. Water poured into the eye of the mill, creating the maelstroem of the sea. Therefore the sea was salt. Incidentally, the mill was given a kenning, Serpent's Couch ... The design of Ba10-24 (→ 240 → 320 - 80) is similar to that of the star Bright Fire in the G text:
And, we should remember, Aa6-66 (→ Number of the Beast) is another example:
More to the point, however, we should compare with Ba4-14 (→ Bharani):
96 + 179 + 80 = 355 (→ December 21 = solstice). But on Easter Island December 21 was at the summer solstice. 384 (January 19) - 355 (December 21) = 29 (→ ε Trianguli).
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