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Bb4.4

The date October 15 (288 = 2 * 144) was essential, for this was when Hotu A Matua had arrived to Easter Island:

OCT 1 (91 + 183):

*25

SEPT 6 (66 + 183):

*192

Nov 18 (322):

6 Nov 25 (329):
APRIL 1 (91)

MARCH 5 (66)

322 - 41 - 80 = *201 = "Oct 8 (281)

329 - 41 - 80 = *208 = "Oct 15 (288)
June 4 (91 + 64 = 155)

May 12 (130 = 66 + 64)

Ba1-1

Bb3-25 (414 + 111)

Bb3-34 (112 + 421) Bb3-41 (175 + 365)

HAEDUS II (*75)

ALGENIB PERSEI (*50)

ρ Cor. Borealis (*242.4) ANTARES (*249)
"April 24 (114 = 91 + 23) "March 30 (89 = 66 + 23)

"Oct 8 (281 = 322 - 41)

"Oct 15 (288 = 329 - 41)
23 = 64 - 41 41 = 64 - 23

... 288 was also the day number the Pope Gregory XIII had decided on for launching his new calendar: ... The Julian calendar day Thursday, 4 October 1582 was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582 (the cycle of weekdays was not affected) ...

We should now fill in the nakshatra stars from the beginning of line Bb4, from the beginning of the Lono cycle, keeping in mind that Easter Island is located far down in the south and not up in the north as the Hawaii islands:

... Antares is visible in the sky all night around May 31 of each year, when the star is at opposition to the Sun. At this time, Antares rises at dusk and sets at dawn. For approximately two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky, because it is near conjunction with the Sun; this period of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's declination is significantly south of the celestial equator ...

... This was at the first glyph in line Bb4, at the distance 3 times 181 days counted from Ba1-1, suggesting not only a correspondence to the day of Antares as counted from the day of Aldebaran but also a correspondence to the day of Sirius (June 30, *101, 181) in the Gregorian calendar ...

Bb4-1 (122, 543 = 3 * 181)

Kua huki - ko te maro

Nov 28 (332 = 322 + 10)

ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5)

May 29 (149 = 332 - 183)

No star listed (69)

hakaturou

Turou. Mgv.: a great sacriledge or blasphemy. Ta.: turou, a curse, to blaspheme. Churchill.

... Presented the drink to quaff, he refused it, saying that he was ill; but urged to taste it from the tip of his finger, he did so and was immediately overpowered by its magic. He lifted the bowl and was drunk. He sent for Quetzalpetlatl, his sister, who dwelt on the Mountain Nonoalco. She came, and her brother gave her the bowl, so that she too was drunk. And with all reason forgotten, the two that night neither said prayers nor went to the bath, but sank asleep together on the floor. And in the morning Quetzalcoatl said, in shame, 'I have sinned; the stain of my name cannot be erased. I am not fit to rule this people. Let them build a habitation for me deep under the ground; let them bury my bright treasures in the earth; let them throw the glowing gold and shining stones into the Precious Waters where I take my nightly bath. And all this was done. The king remained four days in his underground tomb, and when he came forth he wept and told his people that the time had come for his departure to the Red Land, the Dark Land, the Land of Fire ...

... Rerehu, Burning; a Maori name for Antares related to Rehua. Rerehu presided over the sixth month November-December in Stowell's enumeration, while Tregear associated Rerehu with the ninth month, February-March. Rehu is found in the Hawaiian star and month name Welehu, the Tuamotuan Herehu, and in the Rehu, Varehu, and Avarahu of the Society Islands ... Herehu is a Tuamotuan star whose name suggests the Maori Rerehu and Rehua and the Marquesan Ehua, all names for Antares. The Hawaiian equivalent lehu is found in the star name Lehuakona, Lehua-of-the-south. Rehu is seen in such month names a Serehu of Tongareva, Welehu of Hawaii, and Rehu and Varehu of the Society Islands ... Waerehu is listed as a Maori star and was a name for Antares among the Moriori as well as for the month of January ...

As I perceive the glyph sequence leading up to number 22 (two and twenty) we could subdivide it into 8 + 4 + 5 + 5:

Nov 29 (333)

30

Dec 1 (365 + 335)

2 (24 * 14 = 336)

Bb4-2 (123, 544)

Bb4-3 → 120

Bb4-4

Bb4-5 → 200

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

Dec 3

4

5

6 (340)

Bb4-6 → 240

Bb4-7 (128, 549)

Bb4-8 → 320

Bb4-9 → 360

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

With aid from the nakshatra stars it becomes evident that Bb4-9 ought to correspond to the gap between the last star of Eridanus river (Cursa) and the beginning of the Orion constellation at Rigel:

... 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 [*78] in Orion ...

 

Egyptian water ripples Phoenician mēm Greek mu Μ (μ)

... Behind me, towering almost 100 feet into the air, was a perfect ziggurat, the Temple of Kukulkan. Its four stairways had 91 steps each. Taken together with the top platform, which counted as a further step, the total was 365. This gave the number of complete days in a solar year. In addition, the geometric design and orientation of the ancient structure had been calibrated with Swiss-watch precision to achieve an objective as dramatic as it was esoteric: on the spring and autumn equinoxes, regular as clockwork, triangular patterns of light and shadow combined to create the illusion of a giant serpent undulating on the northern staircase ...

... The Mesopotamian cylinder seal shows in the upper part the 'God Boat' and in the lower part people are building a ziggurat, the proposition being that the boat is bringing the me from Eridu-Canopus, the measures of creation ...

... It is certainly true that the exterior form of the hare paenga, when the superstructure and thatch are intact, resembles an overturned boat, with the form established by the foundation ...

Dec 7

8 (342 → 132 + 210)

9 (343 = 7 * 7 * 7)

10 (*264)

Bb4-10

Bb4-11 (132)

Bb4-12 (554)

Bb4-13 → 14 * 29½

 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)

*39.0 = *80.4 - *41.4
ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL (Thirst-slaking Camels) = β Leporis (81.7)

... Let them build a habitation for me deep under the ground; let them bury my bright treasures in the earth; let them throw the glowing gold and shining stones into the Precious Waters where I take my nightly bath. And all this was done. The king remained four days in his underground tomb, and when he came forth he wept and told his people that the time had come for his departure to the Red Land, the Dark Land, the Land of Fire ...

One of the most well known asterisms, viz  the stars ('stones') forming the Belt of Orion (Tau-toru), was visible close to the Full Moon in December 11:

Dec 11 (345)

12 (*266)

Lucia

14

15

Bb4-14

Bb4-15 (136)

Bb4-16

Bb4-17

Bb4-18 (560)

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)

... 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 ...

And the House of the Moist One (Bet-el-geuze) - at the brink of the Milky Way River - may have inspired the idea of Splashing Water (Hi'uwai):

... In the deep night before the image [of Lono] is first seen, there is a Makahiki ceremony called 'splashing-water' (hi'uwai). Kepelino tells of sacred chiefs being carried to the water where the people in their finery are bathing; in the excitement created by the beauty of their attire, 'one person was attracted to another, and the result', says this convert to Catholicism, 'was by no means good'. At dawn, when the people emerged from their amorous sport, there standing on the beach was the image of Lono ...

... The Mahabharata insists on six as the number of the Pleiades as well as of the mothers of Skanda and gives a very broad and wild description of the birth and the installation of Kartikeya 'by the assembled gods ... as their generalissimo', which is shattering, somehow, driving home how little one understands as yet. The least which can be said, assuredly: Mars was 'installed' during a more or less close conjunction of all planets; in Mbh. 9.45 (p. 133) it is stressed that the powerful gods assembled 'all poured water upon Skanda, even as the gods had poured water on the head of Varuna, the lord of waters, for investing him with dominion'. And this 'investiture' took place at the beginning of the Krita Yuga, the Golden Age ...

Dec 16 (350)

17

18

19

20 (12 * 29½)

Bb4-19 (140)

Bb4-20 (141)

Bb4-21

Bb4-22 (564 = 3 * 188)

Bb4-23 (12 * 12)

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)

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)

6h (91.3)

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

*50.0 = *91.4 - *41.4

→ Splashing Water

Lewis Carroll:

... I wan't a clean cup, interrupted the Hatter: let's all move one place on. He moved as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from the change; and Alice was a good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset the milk-jug into his plate ...