Deep down in the cave home dwellings of our old cousin the spear-armed Neanderthal there were wall paintings illustrating not only animals and people but also what evidently must be regarded as more abstract figures. There were 32 such characters. This new piece of information excavated by a modern day scientist (Genevieve von Petzinger) - which became known to me by way of a TV program last night - makes food for thought. Possibly they sat comfortably at the entrances with cooking fires warming their backs, looking out at the glorious night sky which was slowly moving up in the east and down in the west.

They could easily have made strings to better perceive when the great stars were passing across some predetermined elevations, for instance 32º apart.

Anciently all knowledge was potentially essential for survival and what gradually had accumulated were surely not forgotten. Knowledge was much more valuable than gold.

... 'Most ingenious Thoth', said the god and king Thamus, 'one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.'

I guess the position of Dramasa, 10 * 32 = 320 right ascension days after 0h, was no arbitrary fact. A game board for chess carries 32 white and 32 black squares. If you would place 1 seed on the 1st square, 2 on the 2nd, 4 on the 3rd, etc, in geometric progression you would find 32 on square number 6:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	2	4	8	16	32	64
1	10	100	1000	10000	100000	1000000

... Ogotemmêli had his own ideas about calculation. The Dogon in fact did use the decimal system, because from the beginning they had counted on their fingers, but the basis of their reckoning had been the number eight and this number recurred in what they called in French la centaine, which for them meant eighty. Eighty was the limit of reckoning, after which a new series began. Nowadays there could be ten such series, so that the European 1,000 corresponded to the Dogon 800. But Ogotemmêli believed that in the beginning men counted by eights - the number of cowries on each hand, that they had used their ten fingers to arrive at eighty, but that the number eight appeared again in order to produce 640 (8 x 10 x 8). 'Six hundred and forty', he said, 'is the end of the reckoning.' According to him, 640 covenant-stones had been thrown up by the seventh Nummo to make the outline in the grave of Lébé ...

Obviously the thoughtful Neanderthals would have seen how the gradual doubling of any amount of small stones would soon expand beyond reach and eventually grow even beyond the immense amount of stars visible above. Their children would have seen and immediately have understood. This discovery could be used to document all sorts of things, for instance by using knots on strings in a binary system.


Bb10-3 (379)	Bb10-4	Bb10-5	Bb10-6	Bb10-7
HELIACAL STARS:
CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA (Foundation) = ξ Aquarii (327.5) ~~SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)~~	*Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)* NASHIRA (Fortunate One) = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3), AZELFAFAGE (Horse's Foot Track) = 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 (the Dancer) = 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 = δ Capricorni (329.8) 288.0 = 329.4 - *41.4	θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)	KUH (Weeping) = μ Capricorni (331.4), γ Gruis (331.5) 290.0 = 331.4 - *41.4
12	Aug 13 (225)	14 (409 - 183)	15 (227)	16
Febr 11 (42)	12 (408 = 365 + 43)	13 (226 + 183)	*2-14 (→ 14 29½ - 3)**	15 (411 = 350 + 61)
DEC 12	*LUCIA (264)**	14	15	16 (350 → 347 + 3)
kua moe ma te tara huki	kua ati ra te kava - kua hakaroa - ko te kava ma te hatu huri	i vai o amo hia	eko te maitaki ma te hokohuki ku hura hia	ki te vai o amo hia
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. ... 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!] ... ... Once upon a time there was an old woman who owned a great potato field where she planted her potatoes in spring and harvested them in autumn. She was famous all around for her many varieties of wonderful potatoes, and she had enough of them to sell at the market place. She planted her potatoes 7 in a row, placing her foot in front of her as a measure from one potato to the next. Then she marked the place with a bean - which would also give nourishment to the surrounding potatoes. Next she changed variety and planted 7 more followed by another bean, and this was the pattern she followed until all her 214 varieties had been put down in their proper places. She had drawn a map which she followed and from where each sort of potato could be located at the proper time for its harvest. I was fascinated, when I happened to stumble on this Swedish TV program, because my 'once upon a time' was now and 214 (= 2 * 107) was surely no coincidence. She knew what she was doing. Let's therefore count: 214 * 7 (potatoes) + 213 (beans) = 1711. So what? Probably because 1711 = 59 * 29 ... ... Early on Sunday morning, 14 February 1779, Captain Cook went ashore with a party of marines to take the Hawaiian king, Kalaniopu'u, hostage against the return of the Discovery's cutter, stolen the night before in a bold maneuver - of which, however, the amiable old ruler was innocent. At the decisive moment, Cook and Kalaniopu'u, the God and the King, will confront each other as cosmic adversaries. Permit me thus an anthropological reading of the historical texts. For in all the confused Tolstoian narratives of the affray - among which the judicious Beaglehole refuses to choose - the one recurrent certainty is a dramatic structure with the properties of a ritual transformation. During the passage inland to find the king, thence seaward with his royal hostage, Cook is metamorphosed from a being of veneration to an object of hostility. When he came ashore, the common people as usual dispersed before him and prostrated face to earth; but in the end he was himself precipitated face down in the water by a chief's weapon, an iron trade dagger, to be rushed upon by a mob exulting over him, and seeming to add to their own honors by the part they could claim in his death: 'snatching the daggers from each other', reads Mr. Burney's account, 'out of eagerness to have their share in killing him'. In the final ritual inversion, Cook's body would be offered in sacrifice by the Hawaiian King ... ... The Hawaiian woman who was interviewed chuckled because the assassination of Captain Cook coincided with the day we have named All Hearts' Day - when in February 14 (2-14) the war-god Kuu returned to power ...
RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:
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 (Southern Head of the Lion) = ε Leonis (146.6) 105.0 = 146.4 - *41.4	VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)	υ¹ Hydrae (148.4), RAS ELASET BOREALIS (Northern Head of the Lion) = μ Leonis (148.7) 107.0 = 148.4 - *41.4
12	Aug 13 (225)	14 (409 - 183)	15 (227)	16


Bb10-8	Bb10-9	Bb10-10
Aug 17	18 (230)	19
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
RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:
TSEEN KE (Heaven's Record) = φ Velorum (149.9)	ν Leonis (150.1), π Leonis (150.6)	υ² Hydrae (151.8)
Heaven's Record is the star which arrives high up and half hidden in the dark foliage of the beginnning of Robur Carolinum:
ko te ravarava ku moe	eaha te goe moe	ki te henua - e tagata era
Goe. Milky Way. Vanaga.