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Ba9.9

The B text was probably designed to begin 4 days before Rigel - the star at the left Foot of Orion above the head of the Hare - had become visible close to the Full Moon in December 7.

Perhaps this date had been conceived from (10 * 7) / 365.25 * 26000 = AD 1842 + 3140 BC, considering the Mayan view that Itzam-Yeh (Ursa Major) had been defeated 9 years earlier in 3149 BC.

However, a less complicated explanation would be to regard 10-7 as an allusion to 107 ( 16 * 29½ - 365), i.e. as a measure for the difference between the length of the Moon cycle and that of the Sun cycle.

NO GLYPH
Ba1-1 Ba1-2 Ba1-3 Ba1-4 Ba1-5
Ka tuu i te Ragi ki te henua e rua - no Hoatumatua - ka hakanohoa

2

Beid (The Egg)

AIN (The Eye)

2

Ca9-17 (325 - 80)

Ca9-20 (248)

kau tuu

Sea

Land

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
MARCH 31 (455) APRIL 1 (91) 2 3 4 (459 = 94 + 365) 5 (460)
ALMAAZ = ε Aurigae (74.7), HAEDUS I = ζ Aurigae (74.8) Han-shih-tsieh (Eating of Cold Food)

ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)
HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)

5h (*76.1)

ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA (Footstool) = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)

*35.0 = *76.4 - *41.4

 

μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)

... In view of the almost universal prevalence of the Pleiades year throughout the Polynesian area it is surprising to find that in the South Island and certain parts of the North Island of New Zealand and in the neighboring Chatham Islands, the year began with the new Moon after the yearly morning rising, not of the Pleiades, but of the star Rigel in Orion ...

June 3 (154) 4 (91 + 64) 5 (156) 6 (314 / 2) 7 8 (524)

To find the corresponding position of the Sun we should add *183 right ascension days, because according to the Era of Bharani (*41.4) the star Cursa (*76.4 - *41.4 = *35.0 = "April 25) was precisely *185 right ascension days earlier than ο Ophiuchi; *220.0 - *35.0 = *185.0.

HAEDUS II

Cursa

 

*2

 

Capella

 

*183

 

 ο Ophiuchi

*76.4

*78.4

*261.4

June 4 (155)

5 (156 = 80 + 76)

June 7 (158 = 80 + 78)

June 8 (524 = 460 + 64)

APRIL 1 (91)

2 (156 - 64 = 92)

APRIL 4 (158 - 64 = 94)

APRIL 5 (95 + 365 = 460)

"April 24 (114)

25 (156 - 41 = 115 = *35.0)

"April 27 (158 - 41 = 117 = *37)

"Oct 27  (524 - 41 = 483 = 300 + 183)

186 (= 1 + 261.4 - 76.4)

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
SEPT 30 (272 + 1) OCT 1 2 (275) 3 4 (341 - 64 = 277) 5
κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), CUJAM (Club) = ε Herculi (256.9) No star listed (257)

17h (*258.7)

ARRAKIS = μ Draconis (258.7)

Mula-19 (The Root)

SABIK (The Preceding One) = η Ophiuchi (259.7), η Scorpii (259.9)
NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8)

SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4

ALRISHA (α Piscium)
Dec 3 (336 + 1) 4 5 6 (157 + 183) 7 (341) 8 (9 * 29 + 80)

And then another view of the year seems to have been presented 348 (= 12 * 29 = *365 + *56 - *73) days (glyph positions) later in the text, where Alcyone in the Pleiades would have been rising together with the Sun.

... in the South Island and certain parts of the North Island of New Zealand and in the neighboring Chatham Islands, the year began with the new Moon after the yearly morning rising, not of the Pleiades, but of the star Rigel in Orion ...

On side b of the C tablet there are 348 glyphs, which we can compare with 365 + 56 (Alcyone) = 421 = 348 + 73 (365 / 5) number of glyphs on side a of the B tablet.

... As soon as one has mastered the elementary grammar and accidence of myth, and built up a small vocabulary, and learned to distinguish seasonal myths from historical and iconotropic myths, one is surprised how close to the surface lie the explanations, lost since pre-Homeric times, of legends that are still religiously conserved as part of our European cultural inheritance. For example, the various legends of the halcyon, or kingfisher which like the wren, is associated in Greek myth with the winter solstice. There were fourteen 'halcyon days' in every year, seven of which fell before the winter solstice, seven after, peaceful days when the sea was smooth as a pond and the hen-halcyon built a floating nest and hatched out her young. According to Plutarch and Aelian, she had another habit, of carrying her dead mate on her back over the sea and mourning him with a peculiarly plaintive cry.

The number fourteen is a moon-number, the days of the lucky first half of the month; so the legend (which has no foundation in natural history, because the halcyon does not build a nest at all but lays its eggs in holes by the waterside) evidently refers to the birth of the new sacred king, at the winter solstice - after his mother, the Moon-goddess, has conveyed the old king's corpse to a sepulchral island. Naturally, the winter solstice does not always coincide with the same phase of the moon, so 'every year' must be understood as 'every Great Year', at the close of which solar and lunar time were roughly syncronized and the sacred king's term ended ...

Pliny, who carefully describes the halcyon's alleged nest - apparently the zoöphyte called halcyoneum by Linnaeus - reports that the halcyon is rarely seen and then only at the winter and summer solstices and at the setting of the Pleiades. This proves her to have originally been a manifestation of the Moon-goddess who was worshipped at the two solstices as the Goddess of alternatively Life-in-Death and Death-in-Life - and who early in November, when the Pleiades set, sent the sacred king his summons to death ...

Ba9-1 Ba9-2 (7 * 7 * 7) Ba9-4 (344) Ba9-5 Ba9-6 Ba9-7
ki te ahi kua rere ki te ragi kua hati ïa i to toa - i rapue ko te tagata kua haga ki te mea ke kua hakatega koia  ki mua o te tagata - hua ia

Hati 1. To break (v.t., v.i.); figuratively: he hati te pou oka, to die, of a hopu manu in the exercise of his office (en route from Motu Nui to Orongo). 2. Closing word of certain songs. Vanaga. Hahati. 1. To break (see hati). 2. Roughly treated, broken (from physical exertion: ku hahati á te hakari) 3. To take to the sea: he hahati te vaka. Vanaga. Ha(ha)ti. To strike, to break, to peel off bark; slip, cutting, breaking, flow, wave (aati, ati, hahati); tai hati, breakers, surf; tumu hatihati, weak in the legs; hakahati, to persuade; hatipu, slate. P Pau.: fati, to break. Mgv.: ati, hati, to break, to smash. Mq.: fati, hati, id. Ta.: fati, to rupture, to break, to conquer. Churchill.

Rapu. Pau.: fata-rarapu, to dissolve. Mgv.: rapu, to dilute. Ta.: rapu, to mix. Mq.: ápu, to draw water. Churchill. Ha.: Lapu 1. Ghost ... apparition, phantom, specter; haunted; to haunt; to act as a ghost. Ua lapu ke keiki a kāua ia'u, I have been haunted by our child. Ho'o lapu, to pretend to be a ghost, as children on Hallowe'en. 2. Haunted. Hale lapu, haunted house, not the Halloween variety. Kiliki o lapu, trick or treat. Wehewehe. Waving (of leafy branches). The Eighth Island.

Aga. Work; to work, to make, to build, to create: O te atua i-aga-ai i te ragi, i te henua. God made heaven and earth. Vanaga. Agahuru (hagahuru, hagauru). Agai (hagai). Agatahi (aga-tahi) one, (hagatahi); agatahi ahi atu, day before yesterday; hagatahi ahi, yesterday. Churchill. Ao popohaga, the hours between midnight and dawn. Vanaga.

Haga. 1. Bay, fishing spot. (Figuratively) he haga o te ákuáku, it is the [evil] spirit's fishing spot, i.e. a place where they hide waiting for people to fall under their power. 2. To want, to love. Ku haga á i te vai, I want water, I am thirsty. Vanaga. 1. Bay, strait, anchorage, strand, beach. P Mq.: hana, haka, small bay, creek, cove. 2. Work, labor, employment, act, affair, creation, design, state, maker, fashion, manufacture, occupation, profession; to do, to make, to construct, to employ, to form, to manufacture, to fashion, to found, to be busy with; haga rakerake, crime; tagata haga ei mea, mercenary; haga no iti, to plot mischief; haga ke, to act contrary; haga takataka, to disjoin; haga nui, difficulty, fatigue, to weary; tuhi ki te haga, to give employment; haga hakahou, to make over, to renew, recovery; haga koroiti, to deal prudently; haga nuinui ke, to overburden. P Pau.: haga, to do, action, work, a deed. Mgv.: haga, aga, work, labor. Mq.: hana, haka, action, act, work, occupation. Ta.: haa, work, to labor, to make. 3. Agreement, conduct, liking, intention, desire, will; to resolve, to permit, to endeavor, to tolerate, to be willing, to wish, to approve; haga ihoiho, fixed desire; haga mai, haga no mai, to agree, to hearken favorably; tae haga, despite, involuntary, to refuse, to renounce; noho hakahaga, apathy. 4. = haka. Pau.: haga = haka. 5. Mgv.: haga, a fish. Mq.: haka, id. 6. Mgv.: haga, a fishtrap. Sa.: faga, a fish-trap, bird-cage. Ma.: hanganoa, a small basket for cooked fish. 7. Mgv.: haga, a measure of a fathom. Ta.: aa, to measure length. Mq.: aka, ana, to measure with the arms. Ma.: whanga, id. Churchill. Hagaava (haga 1 - ava 2), entrance of a harbor. Hagahaga: 1. (haga 2), work. 2. hesitation, to hesitate. Churchill.

Hagahuru. Ten (agahuru, hagauru). P Mq.: onohuú, okohuú, id. Ta.: ahuru. id. Churchill. The Maori recognized two main divisions of the year: winter or takurua, a name for Sirius which then shone as morning star, and summer, raumati or o-rongo-nui, 'of the great Rongo', god of agriculture. They occasionally recognized spring as the digging season koanga, from ko, the digging stick or spade. The autumn or harvest season was usually spoken of as ngahuru, 'tenth' (month), although it was considered to include also the last two months of the year. Mahuru was the personification of spring. Makemson.

The five stages of a baby's development are: kaukau, puepe, tahuri, totoro, mahaga. Puepue = said of a newborn baby when, a few weeks old, it begins to distinguish people and objects: ku-puepue-á te poki. Tahuri = of a new-born baby, to move from side to side: ku-tahuri-á te poki. Totoro = to crawl; ki totoro te poki, when the baby crawls. Mahaga = baby when able to stand by itself. Vanaga.

Hua. 1. Testicle. 2. Figuratively: son, hua tahi, only son; fruits of the earth; to grow well (of fruits). 3. To cause a fight, a quarrel. Hua-ai, generation, as lineage of direct descendents; contemporaries. Huahua, coccyx of bird, 'parson's nose': huahua moa, huahua uha. Huataru, a creeper (Chenopodium ambiguum). Vanaga. 1. The same; ki hua, again, to continue, to strain, to struggle, to move, to repeat, over and above. Mq.: hua, the same, to return, to recommence.  2. To bloom, to sprout; flower, fruit (huaa); huaa tae oko, huaa vahio, young fruit; hua atahi, only son; huahaga, fruit; mei te huahaga o tokoe kopu, the fruit of thy body; tikea huahaga, deceptive appearance. P Pau.: ua, to be born; huahaga, lineage. Mgv.: hua, to produce (said of trees, grain, etc.), blooming time of flowers, abundance of fruit. Mq.: hua, to produce, to bear fruit. Ta.: ua, to sprout. Huahua. 1. Tailless fowl. 2. Vein, tendon, line. 3. Mgv.: huahua, pimples covering the face. Ta.: huahua, id. Mq.: hua, tubercules. Sa.: fuafua, abscess on hand or feet. Ma.: huahua, small pimples. Pau.: Hua-gakau, rupture. Ta.: áau, entrails. Sa.: ga'au, id. Ma.: ngakau, id. Churchill. 1. Fruit. 2. Egg. 3. Tā hua = 'genealogical writing' or 'same writing'. Fischer.

Mate. 1. To die; he-mamate te gagata, many people die. 2. To faint, to lose consciousness; he-tutu ka mate ró to beat someone senseless (often used hyperbole). 3. To feel an overwhelming desire, to be dying for; he mate ki te vai, to be dying for a drink of water. 4. Manava mate, infatuated, in love (with something). 5. To be overwhelmed with pain: mate-á i te mamae. Matega, death. Vanaga. Death, to die, to be ill, to be unfortunate. Hakamate, to kill. P Pau.: mate, to die. Mgv.: mate, to be sick, dead, love, ardent desire. Mq.: mate, illness, death, grief. Ta.: mate, death, illness. Matea, lifeless, passionate. Matega, death. Mgv.: matega, illness, death. Matekeo (mate - keo) pulmonary disease. Matemanava (mate - manava) to marvel at. Matemate, to have a slight illness, to suffer pain. Materaa (mate - raa) sunstroke. Matevai (mate - vai) thirst. Churchill. ... in the ceremonial course of the coming year, the king is symbolically transposed toward the Lono pole of Hawaiian divinity ... It need only be noticed that the renewal of kingship at the climax of the Makahiki coincides with the rebirth of nature. For in the ideal ritual calendar, the kali'i battle follows the autumnal appearance of the Pleiades, by thirty-three days - thus precisely, in the late eighteenth century, 21 December, the winter solstice. The king returns to power with the sun. Whereas, over the next two days, Lono plays the part of the sacrifice. The Makahiki effigy is dismantled and hidden away in a rite watched over by the king's 'living god', Kahoali'i or 'The-Companion-of-the-King', the one who is also known as 'Death-is-Near' (Koke-na-make). Close kinsman of the king as his ceremonial double, Kahoali'i swallows the eye of the victim in ceremonies of human sacrifice ...

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
SEPT 5 6 7 (250) (342 - 91) 9 (80 + 237 - 64) (345 - 91)

ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), PHERKAD (The Dim One of the Two Calves) = γ Ursae Min. (232.6), ε Librae (232.7), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9)

*191.0 = *232.4 - 41.4
ALKALUROPS (The Herdsman's Lance) = μ Bootis (233.1), ED ASICH (Male Hyena) = ι Draconis (233.2) NUSAKAN (Pauper's Bowl) = β Cor. Bor. (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7), ζ Librae (234.9)

θ Cor. Borealis (235.3), γ Lupi (235.6), GEMMA = α Cor. Bor., ZUBEN ELAKRAB = γ Librae, QIN = δ Serpentis, ε Tr. Austr. (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8), υ Librae (235.9)

SIRRAH (α Andromedae)

φ Bootis (236.2), ω Lupi, τ Librae (236.3), ψ¹ Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor. Borealis (236.9)

 

κ Librae (237.2), ι Serpentis (237.4), ψ² Lupi, ρ Oct. (237.5), γ Cor. Borealis, η Librae (237.7),  COR SERPENTIS = α Serpentis (237.9)

*196.0 = *237.4 - *41.4
π Cor. Borealis, UNUK ELHAIA (Necks of the Serpents) = λ Serpentis (238.1), CHOW = β Serpentis (238.6)

... 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 [below the upside down right foot of Hercules]. 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 ...

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:

ALGENIB PERSEI = α Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

GIENAH (γ Corvi)
σ Persei (51.6) No star listed (52)

ψ Persei (53.1)

ACRUX (α CRUCIS)
δ Persei (54.7)

Al Thurayya-27 (Many Little Ones) / Krittikā-3 (Nurses of Kārttikeya) / TAU-ONO (Six Stones)

ATIKS = ο Persei, RANA (Frog) = δ Eridani (55.1), CELAENO (16 Tauri), ELECTRA (17), TAYGETA (19), ν Persei (55.3), MAIA (20), ASTEROPE (21), MEROPE (23) (55.6)

Hairy Head-18 (Cockerel) / Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)

ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE (28 Tauri), ATLAS (27 Tauri) (56.3)
May 10 (130) (80 + 51) (250 - 118) 13 (133) (252 - 182 + 64) (365 + 135) 16 (136)
"March 30 31 "April 1 (91) 2 3 4 5 (136 - 41)

70

110

Ba9-5 (345)

Ca5-20 (125)

Ba9-5 (135 ← 527 → 364)
ki te mea ke hakapekaga mai ki te mea ke

δ Persei (54.7)

Bright Fire (125.4)

*125.4 - *41.4 = *84.0

ζ Cor. Borealis (236.9)

May 14 (134 = *419)

July 24 (205 = *490)

Nov 12 (316 = *236 = *601 - *365)

"April 3 (93, *13 = *378)

"June 13 (164, *84 = *449)

"Oct 2 (275 = *195 = *560 - *365)

MARCH 11 (70, *355)

MAY 21 (141, *61 = *426)

SEPT 9 (252, *172 = *537 - *365)

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Then a bird with only one wing (kara etahi) was looking back in MARCH 14 (3-14),

... needfire ceremonies usually take place near the summer solstice (the Feast of St. John) ... but they occur in several other seasons as well. The summer date of the rite and its accompanying festival have to do, among other things, with fertility, as can can clearly be seen in a variant from the valley of the Moselle preserved for us by Jakob Grimm. Each household in the village was constrained to contribute a shock of straw to the nearby high place, Stromberg, where the males went at evening while the females went to a spring lower down on the slope. A huge wheel was wrapped with this straw. An axle run through the wheel served as the handles for those who were to guide it on its downward plunge. The mayor of a nearby town kindled the straw, for which office he was rewarded with a basketful of cherries. All the men kindled torches and some followed the burning orb as it was released downhill to shouts of joy. The women at the spring echoed these shouts as the wheel rushed by them. Often the fire went out of its own accord before it reached the river, but should the waters of the river extinguish it, an abundant vintage was forecast for that year ...

and a further 6 days later ahead was 3-20, alluding to Dramasa (*320.0 at the South Pole):

Ba9-8 (354 - 6) Ba9-9 Ba9-10 (350) Ba9-11 Ba9-12 Ba9-13 → 273 (273 + 81)
e tara tuu o to vaha - o te marama - ko te marama kua haga ia i te ika e kua rere ko te manu ki te huaaga o to kava - kua huri ko to hatu kua tupu ko to toa

Tara. 1. Thorn: tara miro. 2. Spur: tara moa. 3. Corner; te tara o te hare, corner of house; tara o te ahu, corner of ahu. Vanaga. (1. Dollar; moni tara, id.) 2. Thorn, spike, horn; taratara, prickly, rough, full of rocks. P Pau.: taratara, a ray, a beam; tare, a spine, a thorn. Mgv.: tara, spine, thorn, horn, crest, fishbone. Mq.: taá, spine, needle, thorn, sharp point, dart, harpoon; taa, the corner of a house, angle. Ta.: tara, spine, horn, spur, the corner of a house, angle. Sa.: tala, the round end of a house. Ma.: tara, the side wall of a house. 3. To announce, to proclaim, to promulgate, to call, to slander; tatara, to make a genealogy. P Pau.: fakatara, to enjoin. Mq.: taá, to cry, to call. 4. Mgv.: tara, a species of banana. Mq.: taa, a plant, a bird. Ma.: tara, a bird. 5. Ta.: tara, enchantment. Ma.: tara, an incantation. 6. Ta.: tara, to untie. Sa.: tala, id. Ha.: kala, id. Churchill.

Kava. 1. Sour; salty: vai kava, saltwater, sea; te kava o te haíga, acrid underarm smell; tagata kava - tagata kakara i te kava, man with smelly armpits. 2. He-kava te haha, to be thirsty. 3. To turn sour, to become embittered, bad-tempered, exasperated (used with manava): tagata manava kava, bad-tempered, angry man. Vanaga. Bitter, salt; vai kava, brackish water; hakakava, to embalm; kavakava, acid, sharp, bitter, salt, spiritous, vinegar, poisonous, disagreeable; akavakava, to make sharp; hakakavakava, to make acid. P Pau.: kava, disagreeable to the taste; kavakava, acid, sharp. Mgv.: kava, to be bitter, sour, acid, salt. Mq.: kava, bitter. Ta.: ava, bitter, acid, salt. Kavahia: 1. Comfort, comfortable, to feast; hakakavahia, comfort, comfortable. 2. Repulsive (of food), disgusted; hakakavahia, repulsion. Kavakava, rib; moi kavakava, a house god G. P Mgv.: vakavaka, the breast. Mq.: vakavaka, vaávaá, rib. Ma.: wakawaka, parallel ridges. We shall need all the available material in order to determine the germ sense of this word. Sa.: va'ava'a, the breast-bone of a bird; fa'ava'a, the frame as of a slate. To.: vakavaka, the side. Fu.: vakavaka, the side below the armpit. Ha.: hoowaa, to make furrows. In all these we may see the idea of ridge or depression, or of both, as primal (Rapanui, Samoa, Marquesas, Maori, Hawaii), and as secondary the part of the body where such appearances is common (Mangareva, Tonga, Futuna). Churchill. Mgv.: kava, the pepper plant and the drink made therefrom. Ta.: ava, id. Mq.: kava, id. Sa.: 'ava, id. Ma.: kawa, a pepper. Kavakava, a fish. Sa.: 'ava'ava, id. Kavapui, a tree. Ta.: avapuhi, a fragrant plant. Mq.: kavapui, wild ginger. Sa.: 'avapui, id. Ha.: awapuhi, id. Churchill. Mq.: ava, a small fish of sweet water. Sa.. 'ava'ava, a small fish. Ha.: awa, a fish. Kakava, burnt. Sa.: 'a'ava, very hot. Churchill.

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:

MENKHIB (Next to the Pleiades = ζ Persei (57.6)

PORRIMA (γ Virginis)
ZAURAK (Boat) = γ Eridani (58.9) λ Tauri (59.3), ν Tauri (59.9)

4h (60.9)

JĪSHUĬ = λ Persei (60.7)

COR CAROLI (α Canum Ven.)
υ Persei (61.2)

BEID (Egg) = ο¹ Eridani (62.2), μ Persei (62.8)

VINDEMIATRIX ( ε Virginis)

Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)

HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4)

*22.0 = *63.4 - *41.4
May 17 18

19

20 21 22 (142) 23
"April 6 7 8 9 10 11 (101)

12

3-14 MARCH 15 16 17 18

19 (78)

3-20

... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March [*364] in most years) ...

MARCH 21 was at glyph number 355 (alluding to the day of the northern winter solstice).

Ba9-15 (355) Ba9-16 Ba9-17 Ba9-18 Ba9-19 Ba9-20 (360)
koia ra ki te nuku e kua tupu i te tauuru e tagata ui ra ki te huaga kua rere ko te manu ki to toa ko to toa

Ui. To ask. Vanaga. Û'i. To look, to look at (ki); e-û'i koe! look out! Vanaga. Ui. 1. Question, to interrogate, to ask (ue). Uiui, to ask questions. 2. To spy, to inspect, to look at, to perceive; tagata ui, visitor. Churchill.

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)

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)

... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ...

MARCH 21 (80) 22 23 (= 7 + 16) 24 25 (EQUINOX) 26
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
YED POSTERIOR (Hand Behind) = ε Ophiuchi, RUKBALGETHI SHEMALI (Northern Knee of the Giant) = τ Herculis (246.6). δ Apodis (246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8)

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)

... 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 22 (326) 23 24 25 26 27

6 days later (at Ba9-27 and MARCH 27) the place among the stars corresponding to November 28 (332) would be at the Full Moon.

... 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 ...

This correspondence was 'ideal' (i.e. the established picture), and a slight adjustment with 4 days in my normal order could put the Club of Hercules at 28 November. Here (Ba9-17) Metoro said they were looking (ui) at the sun (Tahitian: ra). But this ought to be the day when the cycle of Lono (Rogo) began, and we should therefore rather count 16 days earlier in the text in order to find the true heliacal date. 328 (November 24) - 182 = 146 (May 26):

15

Ba9-1

Ba9-17

ALGENIB PERSEI = α Persei (50.0)

CURSA (Footstool) = β Eridani (76.4)

MARCH 7 (66 = 50 + 16)

May 26 (146 = 82 + 64)

The circuit of Lono (Rogo) would then begin 10 days (glyphs) later in the B text, when 'November 28 (332)' was at the Full Moon, i.e. at Ba9-27. 338 (December 4) - 182 = 156 (June 5).

15

Ba9-11 (351)

Ba9-27 (367)

4h (60.9)

SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis

MARCH 17 (76 = 60 + 16)

June 5 (156 = 92 + 64)

Egyptian hand Phoenician kaph Greek kappa Κ (κ)

Kaph is thought to have been derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew, kaph means palm/grip) ...

... The manik, with the tzab, or serpent's rattles as prefix, runs across Madrid tz. 22 , the figures in the pictures all holding the rattle; it runs across the hunting scenes of Madrid tz. 61, 62, and finally appears in all four clauses of tz. 175, the so-called 'baptism' tzolkin. It seems impossible, with all this, to avoid assigning the value of grasping or receiving. But in the final confirmation, we have the direct evidence of the signs for East and West. For the East we have the glyph Ahau-Kin, the Lord Sun, the Lord of Day; for the West we have Manik-Kin, exactly corresponding to the term Chikin, the biting or eating of the Sun, seizing it in the mouth.

  

The pictures (from Gates) show east, north, west, and south; respectively (the lower two glyphs)  'Lord' (Ahau) and 'grasp' (Manik). Manik was the 7th day sign of the 20 and Ahau the last ...

The star of the 'Sword' (κ) was at the other (right) foot of Orion, 10 days after Cursa (the Footstool for his left foot).

Ba9-21 (19 * 19) Ba9-22 Ba9-23 Ba9-24 (364) Ba9-25
kua haga ki te marama kua tupu te toa ko te manu - kua haga ia ki te toa te kava ku huri ïa  ki to hatu
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
MARCH 27 28 29 (88 = 152 - 64) 30 31
No star listed (70)

TABIT = π³ Orionis  (71.7), π² Orionis (71.9)

π4 Orionis (72.1), ο¹ Orionis (72.4), π5 Orionis (72.8)

*31.0 = *72.4 - *41.4

π¹ Orionis (73.0), ο² Orionis (73.4), HASSALEH = ι Aurigae (73.6), π6 Orionis (73.9)

*32.0 = *73.4 - *41.4

ALMAAZ = ε Aurigae (74.7), HAEDUS I = ζ Aurigae (74.8)

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5) ATRIA = α Tr. Austr. (253.9)

Tail-6 (Tiger)

WEI (Tail) = ε Scorpii, η Arae (254.3), DENEBAKRAB = μ Scorpii (254.7)

ι Ophiuchi (255.3), GRAFIAS = ζ Scorpii (255.4)

*214.0 = *255.4 - *41.4
κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), CUJAM (Club) = ε Herculi (256.9)
Nov 28 (355 - 23) 29 (338 - 5) 30 Dec 1 2 (336 = 7 * 48)

It should also be mentioned here that there were *168 right ascension days from Hassaleh in Auriga to Vrischika in the Scoripon.

*168
kava Ba9-24 (*73) Ca9-13 (*241)
HASSALEH VRISCHIKA
MARCH 30 (89) SEPT 14 (257)
te kava ku huri ïa haati kava

Haedus II (*74) ought to have been visible close to the Full Moon at Ba1-1. Therefore the same situation ought to return after 365 glyphs (days). However, I have suggested we should turn around from Ba9-5 (cfr above) and instead contemplate the possibility that the B text here instead could refer to the stars of the rising Sun.

... 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 ...

Surely the pair of eating persons (tagata kai) with a dead warrior (toa) hanging down between them in APRIL 2 could have been intended to illustrate 3 days of cold food, in which case we here ought to read the text in parallel with the positions of the Sun in the ancient days of the Golden Age of the Bull, when Thuban had been the star at the North Pole:

Ba9-26 (366) Ba9-27 Ba9-28 Ba9-29 → 108 Ba9-30 Ba9-31 Ba9-32 → 111
e tagata era e kai i te toa e tagata kai i te vaha - koia ra kua kai i tona mea e kua rave i to haga e tagata e rave ra

Rave. Ta.: Rave, to take. Sa.: lavea, to be removed, of a disease. To.: lavea, to bite, to take the hook, as a fish. Fu.: lave, to comprehend, to seize. Niuē: laveaki, to convey. Rar.: rave, to take, to receive. Mgv: rave, to take, to take hold; raveika, fisherman. Ma.: rawe, to take up, to snatch. Ha.: lawe, to take and carry in the hand. Mq.: ave, an expression used when the fishing line is caught in the stones. Churchill 2.

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
APRIL 1 2 3 4 5 (95) 6 7

HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)

5h (*76.1)

ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA (Footstool) = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)

*35.0 = *76.4 - *41.4
μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)

ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)
 

Shur-narkabti-sha-iltanu-5 (Star in the Bull towards the north)

σ Aurigae (80.4), BELLATRIX (Female Warrior) = γ Orionis, SAIF AL JABBAR (Sword of the Giant) = η Orionis (80.7), ELNATH (The Butting One) = β Tauri = γ Aurigae (80.9)

ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL (Thirst-slaking Camels) = β Leporis (81.7)
Han-shih-tsieh (Eating of Cold Food)
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
No star listed (257 = 273 - 16)

17h (*258.7)

ARRAKIS = μ Draconis (258.7)

Mula-19 (The Root)

SABIK (The Preceding One) = η Ophiuchi (259.7), η Scorpii (259.9)
NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8)

SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9)

*221.0 = *262.4 - *41.4
β, γ Arae (263.3), κ Arae (263.5), σ Ophiuchi (263.6)
Dec 3 (337) 4 5 6 7 8 9 (7 * 7 * 7)
"Oct 23 (296) 24 25 26 27 (300) 28 29
SEPT 30 (273) OCT 1 2 3 4 (277) 5 6

One more week is then needed in order to make a fortnight. Although it was stopped at 10, at the Pillar of Exit:

Ba9-33 Ba9-34 Ba9-35 (375) Ba9-36 Ba9-37 Ba9-38 Ba9-39
ki te nuku kai o to ua to inoino o to hure koia ra - kua haga ki te mea ke e tagata moe ra - ki mua e

Pahure: 1. To sweep everything away. 2. To wound, to lacerate, scar, bruise, lesion, sore; pahurehure, to wound, to scratch; hakapahure, to wound. T Pau.: pahure, to be skinned; pahore, to peel off, to scale. Mgv.: pahore, to cut off, to chop, to slice. Ta.: pahore, to flay, to skin. Churchill 2.

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
APRIL 8 9 10 (465) 11 12 13 14 (104)

KHUFU

MINTAKA (Belt) = δ Orionis, υ Orionis (82.4), χ Aurigae (82.5), ε Columbae (82.6)

*41.0 = *82.4 - *41.4

→ 41 Arietis (Bharani)

KHAFRE

Al Hak'ah-3 (Brand) / Mrigashīrsha-5 (Stag's Head) / Turtle Head-20 (Monkey) / Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur (Little Twins)

ARNEB = α Leporis, CRAB NEBULA = M1 Tauri (83.0, φ¹ Orionis (83.1), HEKA = λ Orionis, ORION NEBULA = M42 (83.2), φ² Orionis (83.6), ALNILAM (String of Pearls) = ε Orionis (83.7)

MENKAURE

Three Stars-21 (Gibbon) / Shur-narkabti-sha-shūtū-6 (Star in the Bull towards the south) / ANA-IVA-9 (Pillar of exit)

HEAVENLY GATE = ζ Tauri, ν Columbae (84.0), ω Orionis (84.2),  ALNITAK (Girdle) = ζ Orionis, PHAKT (Phaet) = α Columbae (84.7)

ο Aurigae (85.8), γ Leporis (85.9)

YANG MUN (α Lupi)
μ Columbae (86.1), Saiph (86.5), ζ μ Columbae, SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis (86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6) υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae, δ Leporis (87.7), TZE (Son) = λ Columbae (87.9)

Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)

χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE = α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae)

... Menkaure was allegedly a much more benevolent Pharaoh than his predecessors. According to legends related by Herodotus, he wrote the following: This Prince (Mycerinus) disapproved of the conduct of his father, reopened the temples and allowed the people, who were ground down to the lowest point of misery, to return to their occupations and to resume the practice of sacrifice. His justice in the decision of causes was beyond that of all the former kings. The Egyptians praise him in this respect more highly than any other monarchs, declaring that he not only gave his judgements with fairness, but also, when anyone was dissatisfied with his sentence, made compensation to him out of his own purse and thus pacified his anger. The Gods however ordained that Egypt should suffer tyrannical rulers for a hundred and fifty years according to this legend. Herodotus goes on: An oracle reached him from the town of Buto, which said 'six years only shalt thou live upon this earth, and in the seventh thou shalt end thy days'. Mycerinus, indignant, sent an angry message to the oracle, reproaching the god with his injustice - 'My father and uncle,' he said 'though they shut up the temples, took no thought of the gods and destroyed multitudes of men, nevertheless enjoyed a long life; I, who am pious, am to die soon!' There came in reply a second message from the oracle - 'for this very reason is thy life brought so quickly to a close - thou hast not done as it behoved thee. Egypt was fated to suffer affliction one hundred and fifty years - the two kings who preceded thee upon the throne understood this - thou hast not understood it'. Mycerinus, when this answer reached him, perceiving that his doom was fixed, had lamps prepared, which he lighted every day at eventime, and feasted and enjoyed himself unceasingly both day and night, moving about in the marsh-country and the woods, and visiting all the places he heard were agreeable sojourns. His wish was to prove the oracle false, by turning night into days and so living twelve years in the space of six ...

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
LESATH (Sting) = υ Scorpii, δ Arae (264.7), CHOO (Club) = α Arae (264.9)

Al Shaula-17

ALWAID (Mother Camels) = β Draconis, MAASYM (Wrist) = λ Herculis (265.1), SHAULA (Sting) = λ Scorpii (265.3), KUMA = ν Draconis (265.6), σ Arae (265.9)

HAMAL (α ARIETIS)
RAS ALHAGUE (Head of the Serpent Charmer) = α Ophiuchi (266.1), SARGAS = θ Scorpii (266.3), μ Ophiuchi, π Arae (266.5), NAN HAE (Southern Sea) = ξ Serpentis (266.6), AL DHĪLI (The Wolf) = ω Draconis, ι Herculis (266.7) λ Arae (267.1), GIRTAB (Seizer) = κ Scorpii, ο Serpentis (267.6), DSIBAN (Wolf Pair) = ψ Draconis (267.9) KELB ALRAI (Dog of the Shepherd) = β Ophiuchi, μ Arae (268.1), KEW HO (Nine Rivers) = μ Herculis (268.6), η Pavonis (268.7), APOLLYON = ι Scorpii (268.9) MULIPHEN (Oaths) = γ Ophiuchi (269.0), BASANISMUS = G Scorpii (269.5), PHERKARD (Dim One of the Two Calves) = δ Ursae Minoris (269.9) M7 Scorpii (270.5), GRUMIUM (Lower Jaw) = ξ Draconis (270.9)
Dec 10 11 (345) 12 Lucia 14 15 16 (350)

There were 5-6 days to the winter solstice, as counted beyond 3 days of cold food.

... In China, every year about the beginning of April, certain officials called Sz'hüen used of old to go about the country armed with wooden clappers. Their business was to summon the people and command them to put out every fire. This was the beginning of the season called Han-shih-tsieh, or 'eating of cold food'. For three days all household fires remained extinct as a preparation for the solemn renewal of the fire, which took place on the fifth or sixth day after the winter solstice [Sic!].

Anciently December 13 (Lucia) was regarded as the day of winter solstice.

APRIL 11 (101 → Sirius) - 6 = APRIL 5 (95 → Canopus). APRIL 11 (101 → Sirius) - 12 ('years') = MARCH 31 at Haedus I (*73).

... His wish was to prove the oracle false, by turning night into days and so living twelve years in the space of six ...

Ba9-40 Ba9-41 (381)
ki te verega o to kava kua hati hia mai ko to kava
APRIL 15 16 (106)

η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI (Lord of Created Beings) = δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM (Wrist) = θ Aurigae, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7)

*48.0 = *89.4 - *41.4
μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)
June 18 (169 = 172 - 3)

19

Ba9-42 (382) Ba9-43 Ba9-44 Ba9-45 Ba9-46 Ba9-47 Ba9-48 Ba9-49
e kua haga hia i to topa koia ra kua hakavari ki te henua - kua hua hia mai ki te henua ko te henua kua noho ki te ariki ko te ariki kua mau ki tona tuura e manu itiiti era e

Topa. 1. To bend down, to drop to the ground; to fall on a certain date. 2. To stop doing something, to drop; ina ekó topa taau aga, do not stop, keep doing your work. 3. To remain, to be left over, to be unfinished; he topa te kai, the food is not finished, there is some left. 4. To come to one's memory; i te aamu he topa te vânaga tûai, in the legends old words come to memory. 5. To remember, to reflect (with mana'u as subject); e-topa rivariva tokorua mana'u ki te me'e nei, let the two of you think carefully about this thing. Vanaga. 1. Wine; topa tahaga, id. 2. To fall in drops, to descend, to go down, to abdicate; topa iho, to fall; hakatopa, to knock down, to cause to fall; hakatopa ki raro, to knock down, to subjugate. 3. Childbirth, abortion; topa te poki, to lie in. 4. A feast, to feast. 5. To arrive, to result; topa rae, newcome; topa iho, to come unexpectedly; topa ke, to deviate; topa no mai, topa hakanaa, topa tahaga, mau topa pu, unexpected; topa okotahi, solitary; hakatotopa, to excite, to foment. 6. Bad, low, cheap, failure; igoa topa, nickname; ariga topa, sinister, sly, ill-tempered, to hang the head; hakatopa, to disparage; hakatotopa, irresolute. 7. (Of upward movement) topa ki raro, to scale, to surpass; hakatopa ki te ao, to confer a dignity; hakatopa ki te kahu, to spread a sail; hakatotopa, to make a genealogy. Churchill.

APRIL 17 18 (108) 19 20 21 (111) 22 23 24

6h (91.3)

ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)

*50.0 = *91.4 - *41.4
ξ Orionis (92.5)

Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)

TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)

*52.0 = *93.4 - *41.4
FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)

Well-22 (Tapir) / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)

δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM (The Roarer) = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS (Canopy) = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)

*54.0 = *95.4 - *41.4
No star listed (96) β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) No star listed (98)
June 20 Solstice 22 23 24 (175) 25 26 27