... 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 Piscis Australis. It is the same space in the sky that Aratos designated as Water ...

The summer would begin out at Sea (in Winter), already before making Land-fall (0h).

Hora. Ancient name of summer (toga-hora, winter summer). Vanaga. 1. In haste (horahorau). 2. Summer, April; hora nui, March; vaha hora, spring. 3. 'Hour', 'watch'. 4. Pau.: hora, salted, briny. Ta.: horahora, bitter. Mq.: hoáhoá, id. 5. Ta.: hora, Tephrosia piscatoria, to poison fish therewith. Ha.: hola, to poison fish. Churchill. Horahora, to spread, unfold, extend, to heave to; hohora, to come into leaf. P Pau.: hohora, to unfold, to unroll; horahora, to spread out, to unwrap. Mgv.: hohora, to spread out clothes as a carpet; mahora, to stretch out (from the smallest extension to the greatest), Mq.: hohoá, to display, to spread out, to unroll. Ta.: hohora, to open, to display; hora, to extend the hand in giving it. Churchill.

The Pair of Fishes were loosely tied together to the star named Knot (Al-risha, α Piscium, *29). They had room for movement, but not much.

... 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' ...


Ba6-44	Ba7-1 (326 - 74)	Ba7-2	Ba7-3 (250 + 4)	Ba7-4	Ba7-5
e tagata hoko	ki te kea e	kua rere te manu ki ruga	o te tagata - koia kua vaha mea	ko te tao kua mau - i te ika	eko te tao - kua here ki te ika
Tao. 1. To cook in an oven, to sacrifice. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: tao, to cook in an oven. 2. To carry away. 3. Abscess, bubo, scrofula, boil, gangrene, ulcer, inflammation, sore. Mgv.: taotaovere, small red spots showing the approach of death. Mq.: toopuku, toopuu, boil, wart, tumor. Ta.: taapu, taapuu, scrofula on neck and chin. 4. Mgv.: a lance, spear. Ta.: tao, id. Sa.: tao, id. Ma.: tao, id. 5. Mgv.: taotaoama, a fish. Sa.: taotaoama, id. 6. Ta.: taoa, property, possessions. Ma.: taonga, property, treasure. Churchill. Sa.: tao, to bake; taofono, taona'i, to bake food the day before it is used; tau, the leaves used to cover an oven. To.: tao, to cook food in a oven, to bake. Fu.: taò, to put in an oven, to cook. Niuē: tao, to bake. Uvea: tao, to cook, to bake. Ma., Rapanui: tao, to bake or cook in a native oven, properly to steam, to boil with steam. Ta.: tao, the rocks and leaves with which a pig is covered when cooking; baked, boiled, cooked. Mq., Mgv., Mg., Tongareva: tao, to bake in an oven ... The word refers to the specific manner of cookery which involves the pit oven. The suggestion in the Maori, therefore, does not mean a different method; it is but an attempt more precisely to describe the kitchen method, a very tasty cookery, be it said. The suggestion of boiling is found only in Tahiti, yet in his dictionary Bishop Jaussen does not record it under the word bouillir; boiling was little known to the Polynesians before the European introduction of pottery and other fire-resisting utensils ... Churchill 2. Kao-kao, v. Haw., be red. Root and primary meaning obsolete in Haw. Sam., tao, to bake. Marqu., tao, bake, roast, sacrifice. Tah., tao, baked, boiled, cooked. Greek, καιω, Old Att. καω, to light, kindle, burn, scorch. According to Liddell and Scott, Pott refers καιω to Sanskrit çush, be dry, but Curtius rejects this. In Dravid. (Tamil) kay, to be hot, burn. Fornander. Here. 1. To catch eels in a snare of sliding knots; pole used in this manner of fishing, with a perforation for the line. 2. To tie, to fasten, to lash; rasp made of a piece of obsidian with one rough side; cable, tie; figuratively: pact, treatise. Vanaga. 1. To lash, to belay, to knot the end of a cord, to lace, to tie, to fasten, to knot; to catch in a noose, to strangle, to garrote; here pepe, to saddle; moa herea, a trussed fowl; hehere, collar, necklet; herega, bond, ligament; heregao, scarf, cravat. 2. Hakahere. To buy, to sell, to barter, to part with, to pay for, to do business, to compensate, to owe, to disburse, to expiate, to indemnify, to rent out, to hire, to traffic, to bargain, to bribe; merchant, trader, business, revenge; tagata hakahere, merchant, trader; hakahere ki te ika, to avenge; hakaherega, ransom, redemption; hakahererua, to exchange, to avenge. 3. Here ei hoiho, incense. Churchill. Hereke, festering wound, cracked skin. Barthel 2.
Febr 9 (40)	10	11	12 (408)	13	All Hearts' Day
... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...
DEC 7	8	9	10 (408 - 64)	11 (345)	12
STARS INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
BUNDA (THE FOUNDATION)					θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)
*Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 (Luckiest of the Lucky) / Emptiness-11 (Rat)* TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK (The Flock) = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)	No star listed (326)	CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA = ξ Aquarii (327.5) ~~SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)~~	*Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)* NASHIRA = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3), AZELFAFAGE = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)	*Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)* ENIF (The Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 CAPRICORNI, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI (Tail of the Goat) = δ Capricorni (329.8) 288.0 = 329.4 - *41.4	θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)
STARS VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
*Star-25 (Horse) / ANA-HEU-HEU-PO-5 (Pillar where debates were held)* ALPHARD (The Horse) = α Hydrae (142.3), ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7)	*Al Tarf-7 (The End)* ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5) 102.0 = 143.4 - *41.4	A Hydrae (144.1) ~~VEGA (α Lyrae)~~	*Creation of our present world* UKDAH (Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8) ~~ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA~~ 104.0 = 145.4 - *41.4	*5 Imix 9 Kumk'u* *Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)* ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6) 105.0 = 146.4 - *41.4	VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)
UKDAH (THE KNOT)					VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)

Aug 10 (40 + 182)	11	12 (224)	13 (408 - 183)	14	15 (227 → π)
JUNE 7	8	9 (224 - 64)	10 (161)	11	12
... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. 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 ...


Ba7-6	Ba7-7	Ba7-8	Ba7-9 (260)	*Ba7-10 (9 29)**	Ba7-11	Ba7-12 → 84
e manu oho era	ki to ahi e	e ka ati mai koe i to tauuru	e tagata kai era	ki to hatu e	kua haga ko te makere	mai tae atu ki te hetu
Ahi. Fire; he-tutu i te ahi to light a fire. Ahiahi = evening; ahiahi-ata, the last moments of light before nightfall. I te ahiahi-ata he garo te raá ki raro ki te vai kava. In the evening the sun disappears under the sea. Ku-tea-á te hetu'u ahiahi, the evening star has risen. Vanaga. 1. Candle, stove, fire (vahi); ahi hakapura, match; ahi hakagaiei, firebrand waved as a night signal. P Mgv.: ahi, fire, flame. Mq.: ahi, fire, match, percussion cap. Ta.: ahi, fire, percussion cap, wick, stove. 2. To be night; agatahi ahi atu, day before yesterday. 3. Pau.: ahi, sandalwood. Ta.: ahi, id. Mq.: auahi, a variety of breadfruit. Sa.: asi, sandalwood. Ha.: ili-ahi, id. Ahiahi, afternoon, night; kai ahiahi, supper. P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ahiahi, afternoon, evening. Ahipipi (ahi 1 - pipi 2) a spark, to flash. Churchill. ... Teke said to Oti, 'Go and take the hauhau tree, the paper mulberry tree, rushes, tavari plants, uku koko grass, riku ferns, ngaoho plants, the toromiro tree, hiki kioe plants (Cyperus vegetus), the sandalwood tree, harahara plants, pua nakonako plants, nehenehe ferns, hua taru grass, poporo plants, bottle gourds (ipu ngutu), kohe plants, kavakava atua ferns, fragrant tuere heu grass, tureme grass (Diochelachne sciurea), matie grass, and the two kinds of cockroaches makere and hata.' ... The division into quarters of a 28-series can be applied to the main phases of the moon during the visible period as was as to a (reflex of the old world?) sidereal month. The separate subgroup (29 makere - 30 hata) consists of the names of two types of cockroaches, but in related eastern Polynesian languages these names can also be explained on a different level. MAO. makere, among others, 'to die', and whata, among others, 'to be laid to rest on a platform', deserve special attention. The theme hinted at is one of death and burial. In our scheme they occur at just that time when the moon 'has died'! This lends further support to the lunar thesis. Barthel 2. Atu. Particle of meaning opposite to that of mai; it refers to the second or third person, expressing movement away: ka-avai-atu, give it to him: he-oho-atu au, I am going there, after you; i-oho-atu-era, when I had gone there. Vanaga. 1. a. Directive, of motion from the speaker. b. Somewhat expressive of the comparative degree. 2. Pupil; hakaatu, proof; hare hakaatuga, schoolhouse, class. 3. (hakaatu), to presage. 4. (hakaatu), mark, object. Churchill. Hetu 1. To (make) sound; figuratively: famous, renowned. 2. To crumble into embers (of a bonfire). Hetu'u. Star, planet; hetu'u popohaga morning star; hetu'u ahiahi evening star; hetu'u viri meteorite. Vanaga Hetu 1. Star (heetuu); hetu rere, meteor; hetu pupura, planet. P Pau.: hetu, star. Mgv.: etu, id. Mq.: fetu, hetu, id. Ta.: fetu, fetia, id. The alternative form fetia in Tahiti, now the only one in common use, need not be regarded as an anomaly in mutation. It seems to derive from Paumotu fetika, a planet. Its introduction into Tahiti is due to the fashion of accepting Paumotu vocables which arose when the house of Pomare came into power. 2. Capital letter (? he tu). 3. To amuse. 4. To stamp the feet. Hetuhetu, to calk, to strike the water. Hetuke, sea urchin. Churchill.
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Febr 15	16	17	18 (414)	19 (50)	20	21
DEC 13	14	15	16 (350)	17	18	19
KUH (Weeping) = μ Capricorni (331.4), γ Gruis (331.5) 290.0 = 331.4 - *41.4	No star listed (300 + 32)	η Piscis Austrini (333.4) 292.0 = 333.4 - *41.4	*Rooftop-12 (Swallow)* 22h (334.8) KAE UH (Roof) = ο Aquarii (334.0), AL KURHAH (White Spot) = ξ Cephei (334.4), SADALMELIK (Lucky King) = α Aquarii, AL DHANAB (The Tail) = λ Gruis (334.6), ι Aquarii, ν Pegasi (334.7) 293.0 = 334.4 - *41.4	ι Pegasi (335.0), ALNAIR (The Bright One) = α Gruis (335.1), μ Piscis Austrini, υ Piscis Austrini (335.3), WOO (Pestle) = π Pegasi (335.7), BAHAM = θ Pegasi (Good Luck of the Two Beasts), τ Piscis Austrini (335.8)	ζ Cephei (336.2), λ Cephei (336.3), -/270 Lac. (336.7), λ Piscis Austrini (336.8)	μ Gruis (337.0), ε Cephei (337.2), 1/325 Lac. (337.3), ANCHA (Hip) = θ Aquarii (337.4), ψ Oct. (337.5), α Tucanae (337.9) 296.0 = 337.4 - 41.4 337.4 = 169.4 (Coxa, the Hip in Leo) + 168.0
... If the moral attitudes of primitive man are hard for the Western mind to grasp and translate into familiar terms, there can hardly be one more so than the Maori notion of cooked food as the lowest thing, the furthest opposite to the sacred, in fact filthy. For us to divest our minds of Christian notions of good and evil and substitute the concept of simple payment, harm for harm (or 'revenge', as we commonly call it with a misleading moral overtone), is simple enough - perhaps because every schoolchild has at some time known the latter in his horrid heart. Even the Maori custom of weeping over friends when they arrive instead of when they depart has a certain logic that is not beyond our comprehension. But to enter, against all conditioning, into the minds of a people for whom cooked food and the act of eating could carry the overtones of meaning that we in our greater wisdom attach to their physical opposites and to sex, is a good deal harder. One has somehow to throw the mind into a state of being that is radically unlike ours. Yet if the trick can be done, a light comes on ...
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
υ¹ Hydrae (148.4), RAS ELASET BOREALIS (Northern Head of the Lion) = μ Leonis (148.7) 107.0 = 148.4 - *41.4	TSEEN KE (Heaven's Record) = φ Velorum (149.9)	ν Leonis (150.1), π Leonis (150.6)	υ² Hydrae (151.8)	*Al Jabhah-8 (Forehead) / Maghā-10 (Bountiful) / Sharru-14 (King)* 10h (152.2) AL JABHAH = η Leonis (152.4), REGULUS (Little KIng) = α Leonis (152.7) 111.0 = 152.4 - *41.4	λ Hydrae (153.2)	ADHAFERA = ζ Leonis, TANIA BOREALIS (Northern Gazelle) = λ Ursae Majoris, SIMIRAM = ω Carinae (154.7)
Aug 16	17 (229)	18	19	20 (50 + 182)	21	22
JUNE 13	14 (165)	15	16	17 (80 + 88)	18	19

We could then perceive that the creator of the B text here might have had a mirror in mind (cfr Ba7-12) because at Terminalia (February 23), we can see, there was evidently not an end station but rather a complementary revival.

... He was moreover confronted with identifications which no European, that is, no average rational European, could admit. He felt himself humiliated, though not disagreeably so, at finding that his informant regarded fire and water as complementary, and not as opposites. The rays of light and heat draw the water up, and also cause it to descend again in the form of rain. That is all to the good. The movement created by this coming and going is a good thing. By means of the rays the Nummo draws out, and gives back the life-force. This movement indeed makes life. The old man realized that he was now at a critical point. If the Nazarene did not understand this business of coming and going, he would not understand anything else. He wanted to say that what made life was not so much force as the movement of forces. He reverted to the idea of a universal shuttle service. 'The rays drink up the little waters of the earth, the shallow pools, making them rise, and then descend again in rain.' Then, leaving aside the question of water, he summed up his argument: 'To draw up and then return what one had drawn - that is the life of the world' ...

And instead of a special pair of days (Bissextum) following Terminalia there was a pair of night side culminations (at 21h), viz. those of Castor and of Procyon. Maybe the creator of the B text had observed that π Aquarii was not before ρ Aquarii but after. Hidden things (things in the dark) needed a hole (π) to emerge from.


Ba7-13 (264)	Ba7-14	Ba7-15	Ba7-16	Ba7-17	Ba7-18	Ba7-19	Ba7-20
e kua tere koia	e tagata oho era - ki te Raa e	ka Maroa ra e teie	ki te henua - kua moe te manu utu hakaraoa	mai tae atu ki te marama	o to hau tea - e kua haati ïa to kava	koia ra kua hai ki tona matua	eko tona ariki - e koia ra i tona tamaiti
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
2-22	Terminalia	24 (420)	25	Febr 26	27	28 (59)	March 1
DEC 20	SOLSTICE	22	23	X-MAS EVE	25 (423 - 64)	26 (360)	*27 (19 19)**
*Al Sa'ad al Ahbiyah-23 (Lucky Star of Hidden Things) / Shatabisha-25 (Comprising a Hundred Physicians)* ε Oct. (338.1), ρ Aquarii (338.2), 2/365 Lac. (338.5), SADACHBIA = γ Aquarii (338.6), π Gruis (338.9)	β/172 Lac. (339.2), 4/1100 Lac. (339.4), π Aquarii (339.5) 298.0 = 339.4 - 41.4 ~~CASTOR (α Gemini)~~*	δ Tucanae (340.1), ρ Cephei (340.2), ν Gruis (340.3), ζ Aquarii, δ Gruis (340.4), 5/1100 Lac. (340.7), σ Aquarii, 6/650 Lac. (340.9) 299.0 = 340.4 - 41.4 ~~PROCYON (α Canis Minoris)~~*	υ Oct. (341.0), α/91 Lac. (341.1), HOMAN (Hero) = ζ Pegasi, β Piscis Austrini (341.2), ν Tucanae (341.5), υ Aquarii (341.9)	η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (342.4), SITULA (Water-jar) = κ Aquarii (342.7) 301.0 = 342.4 - *41.4	ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8)	ρ Gruis (344.0), MATAR (Rain) = η Pegasi (344.2), η Gruis (344.6), β Oct. (344.7)	λ Pegasi (345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), ε Gruis (345.3), τ Aquarii (345.7), ξ Oct. (345.8), μ Pegasi (345.9)
... γ, 4.1, greenish, on the right arm at the inner edge of the Urn, and the westernmost star in the Y, is Sadachbia, from Al Sa'd al Ahbiyah, which has been interpreted the Lucky Star of Hidden Things or Hiding-places, because when it emerged from the sun's rays all hidden worms and reptiles, buried during the preceding cold, creep out of their holes!
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
ALGIEBA (The Mane) = γ Leonis, q Carinae (155.5)	TANIA AUSTRALIS (Southern Gazelle) = μ Ursae Majoris (156.0), GHOST OF JUPITER = NGC3242 Hydrae (156.8)	*Extended Net-26b (Ox)* μ Hydrae (157.1)	*Maru-sha-arkat-Sharru-15 (4th Son behind the King)* SHIR (Possessing Luminous Rays) = ρ Leonis (158.9)	p Carinae (159.3)	φ Hydrae (160.3)	No star listed (161 → φ)	VATHORZ POSTERIOR = θ Carinae (162.1), PEREGRINI = μ Velorum, η Carinae (162.6)

Aug 23	24 (236)	25	26	27	28 (240)	29	30
JUNE 20	SOLSTICE	22	23	DAY OF ST JOHN	25 (240 - 64)	26 (354 / 2)	27 (178)

I have not attempted to document more than a selected few of the star culminations. But we can deduce the culmination of Pollux should be around 3 nights after that of Castor, because this was the distance between their heliacal dates.