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Bb11.3

Spica (the Crocodile) should arrive 11 days after Porrima. Spica (October 9, 282) - Porrima (September 28, 271) = 11.

Bb11-6 Bb11-7 Bb11-8 (426) Bb11-9 Bb11-10 Bb11-11
Sept 26 27 28 29 30 (273 → 3 * 91) Oct 1
γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7)

α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7)

ALDERAMIN (α Cephei)

Al Áwwā'-11 (The Barker) / Shur-mahrū-shirū-18 (Front or West Shur)

SOMBRERO GALAXY = M104 Virginis (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA = γ Virginis, γ Centauri (191.5)

*150.0 = *191.4 - *41.4
ι Crucis (192.2), β Muscae (192.5), MIMOSA = β Crucis (192.9) No star listed (193)

κ Crucis (194.4), ψ Virginis (194.5), μ Crucis, λ Crucis (194.6), ALIOTH (Fat Tail) = ε Ursae Majoris, ι Oct. (194.8)

*153.0 = *194.4 - *41.4 17 * 9
ma te tapamea - kua haga - kua ati ia te kava ma te tapamea kua haga - kua haaati ia a kava e tagata rua kua oho kua hua ma to ihe

The Crocodile ruled the dangerous transition zone between sea and land.

Bb11-12 Bb11-13 Bb11-14 (432) Bb11-15
Oct 2 3 4 (277 = 80 + 197) 5 (214 + 64)
JULY 30 (211) 31 (*132) AUG 1 (396 - 183) 2 (214)
JAN 29 (*314) 30 31 (396) FEBR 1 (32)
MINELAUVA = δ Virginis (195.1), COR CAROLI = α Canum Ven. (195.3) δ Muscae (196.5) , VINDEMIATRIX (Grape Gatherer) = ε Virginis (196.8)

13h (197.8)

ξ¹ Centauri (197.1), ξ² Centauri (197.9)

APAMI-ATSA (Child of Waters) = θ Virginis, ψ Hydrae (198.5), DIADEM = α Com. Ber. (198.9)

... The medieval names Auva, Al Awwa, and Minelauva are from the Arabic, meaning 'barking (dog)'. This star, along with β Vir (Zavijava), γ Vir (Porrima), η Vir (Zaniah) and ε Vir (Vindemiatrix), were Al Awwā, the Barker. On Euphrates it was Lu Lim, the Gazelle, Goat, or Stag, - or perhaps King; and, with ε, probably Mas-tab-ba, another of the seven pairs of Twin-stars of that country. The Hindus called it Āpa, or Āpas, the Waters; and the Chinese, Tsze Seang, the Second Minister of State ...

e i Raa e i te haga era - ko to Rei kua oho ki te henua kua tupu ia i mua i te aro

Aro. Face, front, side (of a figure); ki te aro o ..., to the front of ... Vanaga. Presence, body, frontispiece; ki te aro, face to face. P Pau.: aroga, the visage; ki te aroga, opposite. Mgv.: aro, presence, before; i te aro, in the presence of. Mq.: , face, in the presence of, before. Ta.: aro, face, front, presence, view. It is probable that more than one word is confounded in alo. The significations which appear in Southeast Polynesia are most likely derived from a Tongafiti alo and do not appear in Nuclear Polynesia. The alo belly and alo chief which do occur in Nuclear Polynesia are also probably Tongafiti, for in Samoa and Tonga they are honorific and applied only to folk of rank, a good indication of borrowing by the Proto-Samoans from Tongafiti masters. Churchill. In the Hawaiian group, the western portion or side of an island was called 'the front', ke alo, of the land, and the eastern side was called 'the back', ke kua. The reason of such designations must be sought in the fact of the arrival of the inhabitants from the west. Fornander.

Bb11-16 Bb11-17 Bb11-18 (436) Bb11-19
Oct 6 7 (280 = *200) 8 9 (99 + 183 = 282)
AUG 3 4 (216 = *136) 5 6
FEBR 2 3 4 (400 = *320) 5
April 6 7 8 9 (99 = *19)

AL DAFĪRAH (Tuft) = β Com. Ber. (199.4)

*158.0 = *199.4 - *41.4

σ Virginis (200.4)

*159.0 = *200.4 - *41.4

γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4)

*160.0 = *201.4 - *41.4

Al Simāk-12 (Lofty) / Chitra-14 (Bright One) / Horn-1 (Crocodile) / Sa-Sha-Shirū-19 (Virgin's Girdle) / ANA-ROTO-3 (Middle pillar)

MIZAR = ζ Ursae Majoris (202.4), SPICA = α Virginis, ALCOR (The Fox) = 80 Ursae Majoris (202.7)

SADALMELIK (α Aquarii)

Al Batn Al Hūt-26 (Belly of the Fish) / Revati-28 (Prosperous) / 1-iku (Field Measure)

MIRACH (Girdle) = β Andromedae, KEUN MAN MUN (Camp's South Gate) = φ Andromedae (16.0), ANUNITUM = τ Piscium (16.5), REVATI (Abundant) = ζ Piscium (16.9)

 REGULUS (α Leonis)

ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6)

*159.0 + *182.0 = 341.0
No star listed (18) ADHIL (Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7)

... Though Andromeda has its roots most firmly in the Greek tradition, a female figure in Andromeda's place appeared in Babylonian astronomy. The stars that make up Pisces and the middle portion of modern Andromeda formed a constellation representing a fertility goddess, sometimes named as Anunitum or the Lady of the Heavens ...

e tagata oho era - ki to kava e ka oho te Rei Tagata itiiti - ma to kava kua moe te goe

*19

ALCHITA (*183)

SPICA (*202)

Sept 20 (263)

Oct 9 (282)

Te Taka-pau

39 variants of uhi - STOLEN by Teke from his brother Ma'eha [E:58-64]

18

13

7

SIRRAH (*0)

ADHIL (*19)

MIRA (*33)

BHARANI (*41)

ALCHITA (*183)

SPICA (*202)

KHAMBALIA (*216)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (*224)

0h

39 (= 3* 13)

Teke. Occiput. Teketeke, short (not tall); also: teke. Vanaga. Teke ki nei, as far as, until (? tehe 1). Teketeke, crest, ridge. Churchill.

Te-ké, the Other (different), could refer to the back side, i.e the side opposite to the facial side, te Aro.

Ma'eha. Brightness, bright, to lighten, to brighten up; ku ma'eha-á, it has already lightened up. Vanaga. 1. Light, brightness; to shine, to be bright, to glimmer, to glow; maeha mahina, moonshine; maeharaa, sunrise. Maehamaeha, bright. Hakamaeha, to brighten. Mq.: maeoeo, bright, transparent. 2. To get out of the way. 3. Thin, slender, slight. Churchill.

Ke. 1. Other; different; different being; hare ké, a different house; e-ké-ro-á... e-ké-ro-á... there are some who... and others who...; me'e ké, something distinct, different: te puaka ina oona kuhane; me'e ké te tagata, he hakari oona, he kuhane, an animal has no soul; man is different, he has a body, and a soul; matu'a ké, the other relatives. 2. Ké te kairua, person who turns up for meals at other people's homes. 3. Used in exclamations: hahau ké! what a cool breeze!; hana ké! how hot! takeo ké! how cold! Vanaga. Other, distinct, different, diverse, otherwise; koona ke, elsewhere; tagata ke, some one else; mea ke, contrary, distinct, otherwise; hakake, feint, stratagem, to feign; hagake, to act contrary. T Pau.: ke, different. Mgv.: ke, another, other, else, different, of partial comparative value. Mq.: ke, é, to be different, changed, no longer the same. Ta.: e, different, strange, other. Churchill.

Presumably the Horn (Tara, Jiao) marked where Teke arrived, i.e. at the beginning of the night side of the year (as regarded from the horizon of China). On Easter Island this place ought to be where the night side ended and the Sooty Tern arrived. Although the thirsty Raven had changed his habits (habitations) due to the precession:

... the bird, being sent with a cup for water, loitered at a fig-tree till the fruit became ripe, and then returned to the god with a water-snake in his claws and a lie in his mouth, alleging the snake to have been the cause of the delay. In punishment he was forever fixed in the sky with the Cup and the Snake; and, we may infer, doomed to everlasting thirst by the guardianship of the Hydra over the Cup and its contents. From all this came other poetical names for our Corvus - Avis Ficarius, the Fig Bird; and Emansor, one who stays beyond his time; and a belief, in early folk-lore, that this alone among birds did not carry water to its young ...

The Chariot (or Deep Emotion) corresponded to the Raven constellation (Corvus), where all the sweet rain waters had run down into the Abyss: