Bb10.1 The pair of broken (k-oti) fishes at the end of line Bb9 are followed by a single such one in line Bb10:
The Mayas said Ursa Major had been shot down by one of the Hero Twins. At the time of the Golden Bull the Sun would have been at the right ascension line for *285 in DECEMBER 31, the line which was leading up to the pair Merak and Dubhe. Since then the precession would have moved these stars (and all the rest of them, although not Sirius) ahead in the Sun calendar with ideally 64 days. DECEMBER 31 (365) + 64 = 429 = March 5 (64 = 80 - 16). ... The minimum number of nights before the return to visibility of a significant star was 16 ... In this night the Full Moon should be at the beginning of the Pegasus Square, in right ascension night number *285 + *64 = *349.
Possibly the creator of the B text here (at DECEMBER 31) saw the Mouth of the Southern Fish, Fom-al-haut, in front of him:
Because the precession had gradually forced not only the equinoxes and the solstices earlier in the year but even suddenly kicked away (rei) the seat at the north celestial pole associated with Ursa Major in order to instead install Polaris as the north pole star:
Rei. 1. To tread, to trample on: rei kiraro ki te va'e. 2. (Used figuratively) away with you! ka-rei kiraro koe, e mageo ê, go away, you disgusting man. 3. To shed tears: he rei i te mata vai. 4. Crescent-shaped breast ornament, necklace; reimiro, wooden, crescent-shaped breast ornament; rei matapuku, necklace made of coral or of mother-of-pearl; rei pipipipi, necklace made of shells; rei pureva, necklace made of stones. 5. Clavicle. Îka reirei, vanquished enemy, who is kicked (rei). Vanaga. T. 1. Neck. 2. Figure-head. Rei mua = Figure-head in the bow. Rei muri = Figure-head in the stern. Henry. Mother of pearl; rei kauaha, fin. Mgv.: rei, whale's tooth. Mq.: éi, id. This is probably associable with the general Polynesian rei, which means the tooth of the cachalot, an object held in such esteem that in Viti one tooth (tambua) was the ransom of a man's life, the ransom of a soul on the spirit path that led through the perils of Na Kauvandra to the last abode in Mbulotu. The word is undoubtedly descriptive, generic as to some character which Polynesian perception sees shared by whale ivory and nacre. Rei kauaha is not this rei; in the Maori whakarei designates the carved work at bow and stern of the canoe and Tahiti has the same use but without particularizing the carving: assuming a sense descriptive of something which projects in a relatively thin and flat form from the main body, and this describes these canoe ornaments, it will be seen that it might be applied to the fins of fishes, which in these waters are frequently ornamental in hue and shape. The latter sense is confined to the Tongafiti migration. Reirei, to trample down, to knead, to pound. Pau.: Rei-hopehopega, nape. Churchill. So Ursa Major (Itzam-Yeh) had suddenly been shot down by a 'stone' from his ruling position at the north pole.
Although the 4 cardinal points of the Sun (spring equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, winter solstice) had basically remained in place. The Mouth of the Southern Fish in Pisces (Fum-al-samakah) was located in the day after that of Fom-al-haut:
Anciently there were no more than 29 nights in December.
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