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Ba6.6

Thus a new 'year' could evidently have begun when the Full Moon was observed at the right ascension line of Φ Sagittarii, from which fact it could be deduced the Sun was at Sirius in June 30. What would happen after that?

... The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

Solstice

June 22

23

Baptist

25

26 (177)

27

Solstice

Dec 22

23

X-mas Eve

25

26 (360)

Vega

June 28

Mebsuta

Sirius

Dec 28

29

30 (364)

July 1

2

3 (*104)

Mekbuda

7h

Wezen

*108

To repeat:

Ba6-1 Ba6-2 Ba6-3 (210 = 284 - 74)
Kua huki ko Toia kua vaha mea ïa

To'i. T. Stone adze (e to'i purepure = with the wounderful adze). Henry. Toki. Month of the ancient Rapanui calendar. Fedorova according to Fischer.

Vaha. Hollow; opening; space between the fingers (vaha rima); door cracks (vaha papare). Vahavaha, to fight, to wrangle, to argue with abusive words. Vanaga. 1. Space, before T; vaha takitua, perineum. PS Mgv.: vaha, a space, an open place. Mq.: vaha, separated, not joined. Ta.: vaha, an opening. Sa.: vasa, space, interval. To.: vaha, vahaa, id. Fu.: vasa, vāsaà, id. Niuē: vahā. 2. Muscle, tendon; vahavaha, id. Vahahora (vaha 1 - hora 2), spring. Vahatoga (vaha 1 - toga 1), autumn. 3. Ta.: vahavaha, to disdain, to dislike. Ha.: wahawaha, to hate, to dislike.  Churchill.

... If the old calendar year had been Outstretched (Mebsuta) by 3 days from Vega to December 30 (364), then the new year must have been similarly Contracted (Mekbuda) by 3 days - no longer beginning at the very ancient star at the north pole but 3 days later. ... Vainamoinen set about building a boat, but when it came to the prow and the stern, he found he needed three words in his rune that he did not know, however he sought for them ...

No star listed (282)

ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8)

*242.0 = *283.4 - *41.4
 

South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)

Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)
Dec 28 29 30 (364)
June 28 29 (180) 30 (364 - 183)

ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

*58.0 = *99.4 - *41.4

GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)

ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched)  = ε Gemini (100.7)

SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7)

*60.0 = *101.4 - *41.4

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ..

... In the Chinese map over the significant stars marking the path of the Sun there was a Grey Tiger stretching out (cfr Mebsuta, Outstretched, ε Gemini, *100) his Right Front Paw towards the Right Wing of the Red Summer Bird. The head of this Tiger was at Orion and the beak of this Bird was at Gemini:

 

15 + 3
Ba5-25 (190) Ba5-26 (*74 + *191) Ba5-27 (*266) Ba6-3 (210 → *284)
June 9 10 (161 → φ) 11 June 30 (181)
ELNATH LESATH SHAULA Φ Sagittarii
mai tae tuki te togavaha kua huri te hatu mai tae oho te manu rere kua vaha mea ïa

Huri. 1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water.

Huri. 1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga. 1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill. Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

Metoro said this place was at vaha mea ïa, and the word ïa ought to be discussed. Looking back in the text we will find his ïa mentioned at these glyphs:

1 6 10 61 111
Ba1-16 Ba1-18 Ba1-25 Ba1-36 Ba3-11 (98) Ba6-3
*90 20 173 June 30

However, we must come back to this problem later. Instead, let us here and now continue to expand our slowly growing star map:

... a drastic change was in the rongorongo idiom evidently expressed by a mirror image, 

*93

KHAMBALIA

TOLIMAN

ALBALI

*216

*221

*314

Ba6-7 (214 = 288 - 74) Ba6-8 65 + 3 Ba6-9 Ba6-10
ka huri te hatu e tagata huri hatu e tagata haga

Hatu. 1. Clod of earth; cultivated land; arable land (oone hatu). 2. Compact mass of other substances: hatu matá, piece of obsidian. 3. Figuratively: manava hatu, said of persons who, in adversity, stay composed and in control of their behaviour and feelings. 4. To advise, to command. He hatu i te vanaga rivariva ki te kio o poki ki ruga ki te opata, they gave the refugees the good advice not to climb the precipice; he hatu i te vanaga rakerake, to give bad advice. 5. To collude, to unite for a purpose, to concur. Mo hatu o te tia o te nua, to agree on the price of a nua cape. 6. Result, favourable outcome of an enterprise. He ká i te umu mo te hatu o te aga, to light the earth oven for the successful outcome of an enterprise. Vanaga. 1. Haatu, hahatu, mahatu. To fold, to double, to plait, to braid; noho hatu, to sit crosslegged; hoe hatu, clasp knife; hatuhatu, to deform. 2. To recommend. Churchill. In the Polynesian dialects proper, we find Patu and Patu-patu, 'stone', in New Zealand; Fatu in Tahiti and Marquesas signifying 'Lord', 'Master', also 'Stone'; Haku in the Hawaiian means 'Lord', 'Master', while with the intensitive prefix Po it becomes Pohaku, 'a stone'. Fornander.

Al Na'ām-18 (Ostriches) / Uttara Ashadha-21 (Elephant tusk, small bed)

NUNKI = σ Sagittarii (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), MANUBRIUM = ο Sagittarii (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9)

*247.0 = *288.4 - *41.4

19h (289.2)

λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), TILLIE = τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8)

*248.0 = *289.4 - *41.4

Al Baldah-19 (City)

AL BALDAH = π Sagittarii, ALPHEKKA (Dish) MERIDIANA = α Cor. Austr. (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)
 ALADFAR (The Talons) = η Lyrae (291.1), NODUS II = δ Draconis (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), τ Draconis (291.7), θ Lyrae (291.8)

... This [σ Sagittarii] has been identified with Nunki of the Euphratean Tablet of the Thirty Stars, the Star of the Proclamation of the Sea, this Sea being the quarter occupied by Aquarius, Capricornus, Delphinus, Pisces, and Pisces Australis. It is the same space in the sky that Aratos designated as Water ...

Jan 3 4 = 1 + 3 5 6 (371 = 80 + 291)

ω Gemini (105.4), ALZIRR (Button) = ξ Gemini (105.7), MULIPHEIN (Oaths) = γ Canis Majoris (105.8), MEKBUDA (Contracted) = ζ Gemini (105.9)

*64.0 = *105.4 - *41.4

7h (106.5)

No star listed (106)
WEZEN (Weight) = δ Canis Majoris (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9) No star listed (108)
July 4 (185) 5 (366 + 3 - 183) 6 7

Beyond the suggested 7 day wake, presumably to be counted from July 1 after heliacal Sirius, we should arrive at the first true calendar day of the 2nd half of the year, and here indeed there is a very special glyph:

pare

Ba6-11

Ba6-11 Ba6-12 Ba6-13 (220) Ba6-14 (295 - 74)
i to pare ko te tagata mai tae rere - ki to toki te tara huki kua huki ki te toki - e kua tuu i te toga

Pare. Half raw, badly cooked. Parehaoga, food prepared in the earth oven (umu parehaoga) for a feast or for people whose help is needed for some work or for organizing a feast. Parehe, piece, bit; to fall, break into pieces. Parei, dirty, to have a dirty face and eyes, someone who gets up without washing. Parera, sea bottom. Vanaga. Ta.: Pare, a fort, a place of refuge. Ma.: parepare, a breastwork in a stockade. Mgv.: Pare, a covering for the head. Mq.: pae, id. Sa.: pale, id. Ma.: pare, id. Churchill. Parehe, to break, a crack. Parei, 1.  (paré), dressed up. 2. To sparkle (of the eyes). Parera, 1. A shallow, a reef. 2. Deep water, profound, gulf; parera tai, deep sea; tai parera, high tide; hohonu parera, fathomless, unsoundable. 3. To lead astray. Hakaparera, to frighten, to scare. Pareu, skirt, apron. Mgv., Mq., Ta.: pareu, loincloth, apron. Pau.: Parego, to drown oneself. Ta.: paremo, drowned. Ma.: paremo, id. 

To. 1. Particle sometimes used with the article in ancient legends; i uto to te hau, the ribbon was in the float. 2. To rise (of the sun) during the morning hours up to the zenith: he-to te raá. Vanaga. 1. Of. T Pau., Ta.: to, of. Mgv.: to, genitive sign. Mq.: to, of, for. 2. This, which. Churchill. Mgv.: To, to make a canoe of planks. Mq.: to, to build a canoe. Sa.: to, to build. Churchill.

... If the old calendar year had been Outstretched (Mebsuta) by 3 days from Vega to December 30 (364), then the new year must have been similarly Contracted (Mekbuda) by 3 days - no longer beginning at the very ancient star at the north pole but 3 days later. ... Vainamoinen set about building a boat, but when it came to the prow and the stern, he found he needed three words in his rune that he did not know, however he sought for them ...

ω Aquilae (292.1), ρ Sagittarii (292.6), υ Sagittarii (292.7) Π Draconis, ARKAB PRIOR = β¹ Sagittarii (293.0), ARKAB POSTERIOR = β² Sagittarii, ALRAMI (The Archer) = α Sagittarii (293.2), χ Sagittarii (293.6) DENEB OKAB (Tail of the Eagle) = δ Aquilae (Ant.) (294.0), α VULPECULAE (Little Fox) (294.9) ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), ALBIREO - Hen's Beak = β Cygni (295.5)
Jan 7 (3 + 369) 8 9 10

λ Gemini (109.4), WASAT (Middle) = δ Gemini (109.8)

*68.0 = *109.4 - *41.4
No star listed (110)

ALUDRA (Virgin) = η Canis Majoris (111.1), PROPUS = ι Gemini (111.4),  GOMEISA (Water-eyed) = β Canis Minoris (111.6)

*70.0 = *111.4 - *41.4

ρ Gemini (?) (112.1), Eskimo Nebula = NGC2392 Gemini (112.2)

ANTARES (α Scorpii)
July 8 (3 + 186) 9 10 (191) 11

... 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 ...

... They go inland at the land. The child nursed and tended grows up, is able to go and play. Each day he now goes off a bit further away, moving some distance away from the house, and then returns to their house. So it goes on and the child is fully grown and goes to play far away from the place where they live. He goes over to where some work is being done by a father and son. Likāvaka is the name of the father - a canoe-builder, while his son is Kiukava. Taetagaloa goes right over there and steps forward to the stern of the canoe saying - his words are these: 'The canoe is crooked.' (kalo ki ama). Instantly Likāvaka is enraged at the words of the child. Likāvaka says: 'Who the hell are you to come and tell me that the canoe is crooked?' Taetagaloa replies: 'Come and stand over here and see that the canoe is crooked.' Likāvaka goes over and stands right at the place Taetagaloa told him to at the stern of the canoe. Looking forward, Taetagaloa is right, the canoe is crooked. He slices through all the lashings of the canoe to straighten the timbers. He realigns the timbers. First he must again position the supports, then place the timbers correctly in them, but Kuikava the son of Likāvaka goes over and stands upon one support. His father Likāvaka rushes right over and strikes his son Kuikava with his adze. Thus Kuikava dies. Taetagaloa goes over at once and brings the son of Likāvaka, Kuikava, back to life. Then he again aligns the supports correctly and helps Likāvaka in building the canoe. Working working it is finished ...

Ba6-15 Ba6-16 Ba6-17 (225 → Aug 13) Ba6-19 (300 - 74)
mai tae rere hia ki te toki e haga tara hia mai tae rere te toki e ihe kite toki - kua amo hia ki te henua

Amo. To carry on one's shoulders: O Yetú i-amo-ai te tatauró ki ruga ki-te maúga Kalvario. Jesus carried his cross up to the Calvary. Amoga, bundle; to tie in a bundle: he-amoga i te hukahuka, to tie a bundle of wood. Vanaga. 1. A yoke, to carry; amoga, burden, load.  2. To bend, to beat a path. Churchill. Âmo. 1. To clean, to clean oneself: he-âmo i te umu, to clean the earth oven; ka-âmo te hare, ka haka-maitaki, clean the house, make it good; he-âmo i te ariga, to clean one's face wetting it with one's hand. 2. Clear; ku-âmo-á te ragi, the sky is clear. 3. To slip, to slide, to glide (see pei-âmo). Ámoámo, to lick up, to lap up, to dry; to slap one's body dry (after swimming or bathing): he-âmoâmo i te vaihai rima. Vanaga. Amoamo. 1. To feed, to graze. 2. To spread, to stretch (used of keete). Churchill.

ALSAFI (Fire Tripod) = σ Draconis (296.0), μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8), κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9)

ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.) (297.4), SHAM (Arrow) = α Sagittae (297.8)

*256.0 = *297.4 - *41.4

β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae (298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8) υ Aquilae (299.1), TARAZED (Star-striking Falcon) = γ Aquilae (299.3), δ Sagittae (299.6), π Aquilae (299.9)

Sravana-23 (Ear or Three Footprints)

TYL = ε Draconis (300.0), ζ Sagittae (300.1), ALTAIR (Flying Eagle) = α Aquilae (300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5), BEZEK = η Aquilae (Ant.) (300.8)
Jan 11

12 (377)

378 (→ Saturn) 14 15
NOV 8 9 10 (314 = 378 - 64) 11

12

Al Dhirā'-5 (Forearm) / Punarvasu-7 (The Two Restorers of Goods) / Mash-mashu-Mahrū-10 (Western One of the Twins)

CASTOR (Beaver) = α Gemini (113.4)

*113.4 = *41.4 + *72.0

ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA-7 (Pillar for Elocution)

υ Gemini (114.0), MARKAB PUPPIS = κ Puppis (114.7), ο Gemini (114.8), PROCYON = α Canis Minoris (114.9)

α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7)

*74.0 = *115.4 - *41.4

Mash-mashu-arkū-11 (Eastern One of the Twins)

κ Gemini (116.1), POLLUX = β Gemini (116.2), π Gemini (116.9)

AZMIDISKE (Little Shield) = ξ Puppis (117.4)

*76.0 = *117.4 - *41.4
July 12 13 14 (195 = 378 - 183) 15 16
MAY 11 12 13 (131 = 195 - 64) 14 15

When a King reaches a certain old age he has to abdicate (topa) in order to invigorate his newborn (hanau) successor:

... When the man, Ulu, returned to his wife from his visit to the temple at Puueo, he said, 'I have heard the voice of the noble Mo'o, and he has told me that tonight, as soon as darkness draws over the sea and the fires of the volcano goddess, Pele, light the clouds over the crater of Mount Kilauea, the black cloth will cover my head. And when the breath has gone from my body and my spirit has departed to the realms of the dead, you are to bury my head carefully near our spring of running water. Plant my heart and entrails near the door of the house. My feet, legs, and arms, hide in the same manner. Then lie down upon the couch where the two of us have reposed so often, listen carefully throughout the night, and do not go forth before the sun has reddened the morning sky. If, in the silence of the night, you should hear noises as of falling leaves and flowers, and afterward as of heavy fruit dropping to the ground, you will know that my prayer has been granted: the life of our little boy will be saved.' And having said that, Ulu fell on his face and died. His wife sang a dirge of lament, but did precisely as she was told, and in the morning she found her house surrounded by a perfect thicket of vegetation. 'Before the door,' we are told in Thomas Thrum's rendition of the legend, 'on the very spot where she had buried her husband's heart, there grew a stately tree covered over with broad, green leaves dripping with dew and shining in the early sunlight, while on the grass lay the ripe, round fruit, where it had fallen from the branches above. And this tree she called Ulu (breadfruit) in honor of her husband. The little spring was concealed by a succulent growth of strange plants, bearing gigantic leaves and pendant clusters of long yellow fruit, which she named bananas. The intervening space was filled with a luxuriant growth of slender stems and twining vines, of which she called the former sugar-cane and the latter yams; while all around the house were growing little shrubs and esculent roots, to each one of which she gave an appropriate name. Then summoning her little boy, she bade him gather the breadfruit and bananas, and, reserving the largest and best for the gods, roasted the remainder in the hot coals, telling him that in the future this should be his food. With the first mouthful, health returned to the body of the child, and from that time he grew in strength and stature until he attained to the fullness of perfect manhood. He became a mighty warrior in those days, and was known throughout all the island, so that when he died, his name, Mokuola, was given to the islet in the bay of Hilo where his bones were buried; by which name it is called even to the present time ...

ku hanau ïa mai tae tuki te henua

o te tagata - mai tae topa te kovare

Ba3-13 (100) Ba3-14 π
MARCH 12

13

14

15

*313.0 = *354.4 - *41.4

*355 = March 11

March 12 13

... In the second century Roman Empire, a belief that the death of one could rejuvenate the health of another was widespread, and Hadrian had been ill for many years; in this scenario, Antinous could have sacrificed himself in the belief that Hadrian would have recovered. Alternately, in Egyptian tradition it was held that sacrifices of boys to the Nile, particularly at the time of the October Osiris festival, would ensure that the River would flood to its full capacity and thus fertilize the valley; this was made all the more urgent as the Nile's floods had been insufficient for full agricultural production in both 129 and 130. In this situation, Hadrian might not have revealed the cause of Antinous's death because he did not wish to appear either physically or politically weak. Conversely, opposing this possibility is the fact that Hadrian disliked human sacrifice and had strengthened laws against it in the Empire ...

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