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Bb6.9

Glyph line 6 on side b of the B tablet could allude to that right ascension line in time-space where the Mouth of the Fish received fresh sweet water (vai ora) from above:

Bb6-1 (25 * 25) Bb6-2 Bb6-3 (619 + 8) Bb6-4 (2 * 314) Bb6-5 Bb6-6 → 360
Ki te henua ko te henua kua tu ko te hei tona maitaki ko te tagata hau ki to maro - koia kua huki
Febr 18 (41.4) 19 20 21 22 (53) Terminalia (419)
"Jan 8 9 10 11 12 13
DEC 16 (50 * 7) 17 18 19 (354 = 12 * 29½) SOLSTICE

... About Carmenta we know from the historian Dionysus Periergetis that she gave orcales to Hercules and lived to the age of 110 years. 110 was a canonical number, the ideal age which every Egyptian wished to reach and the age at which, for example, the patriarch Joseph died. The 110 years were made up of twenty-two Etruscan lustra of five years each; and 110 years composed the 'cycle' taken over from the Etruscans by the Romans. At the end of each cycle they corrected irregularities in the solar calendar by intercalation and held Secular Games. The secret sense of 22 - sacred numbers were never chosen haphazardly - is that it is the measure of the circumference of the circle when the diameter is 7. This proportion, now known as pi, is no longer a religious secret; and is used today only as a rule-of-thumb formula, the real mathematical value of pi being a decimal figure which nobody has yet been able work out because it goes on without ever ending, as 22 / 7 does, in a neat recurring sequence [3.142857142857 ...]. Seven lustra add up to thirty-five years, and thirty-five at Rome was the age at which a man was held to reach his prime and might be elected Consul. (The same age was fixed upon by a Classically-minded Convention as the earliest at which an American might be elected President of the United States.) ...

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
ι Pegasi (335.0), ALNAIR (The Bright One) = α Gruis (335.1), μ Piscis Austrini, υ Piscis Austrini (335.3), WOO (Pestle) = π Pegasi (335.7), BAHAM = θ Pegasi (Good Luck of the Two Beasts), τ Piscis Austrini (335.8) ζ Cephei (336.2), λ Cephei (336.3), -/270 Lac. (336.7), λ Piscis Austrini (336.8)

μ Gruis (337.0), ε Cephei (337.2), 1/325 Lac. (337.3), ANCHA (Hip) = θ Aquarii (337.4), ψ Oct. (337.5), α Tucanae (337.9)

*296.0 = *337.4 - *41.4

Al Sa'ad al Ahbiyah-23 (Lucky Star of Hidden Things) / Shatabisha-25 (Comprising a Hundred Physicians)

 ε Oct. (338.1), ρ Aquarii (338.2), 2/365 Lac. (338.5), SADACHBIA = γ Aquarii (338.6), π Gruis (338.9)

β/172 Lac. (339.2), 4/1100 Lac. (339.4), π Aquarii (339.5)

*298.0 = *339.4 - *41.4

CASTOR (α Gemini)

1900-07-08

1902-02-14

1903-09-17

1905-04-27

1906-11-30

189 = 148 + 41

45 360 / 8

260 = 188 + 72

9 * 13 ↔ 3 * 91

334 = 260 + 74

Cancer

Aquarius

Virgo

Taurus

Sagittarius

"May 28 (148)

 

13 Ahaw 3 Kumk'u

 

"Oct 25 (293)

146 = 366 - 220 = 2 * 73 → Sept 30 (273 = 3 * 91 = 9 * 13 + 12 * 13) 334 - 61

... Ira left [for Hiva, for Maori, i ōho ai a Ira.ki hiva.ki maori] on the twenty-fifth day of the month of October ('Tangaroa Uri') ... [E:86]

Bb6-7 (631) Bb6-8 Bb6-9 Bb6-10 Bb6-11 Bb6-12 Bb6-13 (216)
Febr 24 (420) 25 26 27 28 (59)    
"Jan 14 15 16 17 18 19 (384 = 8 * 48) 20
DEC 22 (356) 23 24 25 26 (360) 27 (19 * 19) 28

... That the Sun-gods Dionysus, Apollo and Mithras were all also reputedly born at the Winter solstice is well known, and the Christian Church first fixed the Nativity feast of Jesus Christ at the same season, in the year A.D. 273 [→ 3 * 91]. St. Chrysostom, a century later, said that the intention was that 'while the heathen were busied with their profane rites the Christians might perform their holy ones without disturbance', but justified the date as suitable for one who was 'the Sun of Righteousness'. Another confirmation of the date is that Zeus was the son of Cronos, whom we have securely identified with Fearn, or Bran, the god of the F month in the Beth-Luis-Nion. If one reckons back 280 days from the Winter Solstice, that is to say ten months of the Beth-Luis-Nion calendar, the normal period of human gestation, one comes to the first day of Fearn. (Similarly, reckoning 280 days forward from the Winter Solstice, one comes to the first day of the G month, Gore, sacred to Dionysus; Dionysus the vine and ivy-god, as opposed to the Sun-god, was son to Zeus.) Cuchulain was born as the result of his mother's swallowing a may-fly; but in Ireland may-flies often appear in late March, so his birthday was probably the same ...

δ Tucanae (340.1), ρ Cephei (340.2),  ν Gruis (340.3), ζ Aquarii, δ Gruis (340.4), 5/1100 Lac. (340.7), σ Aquarii, 6/650 Lac. (340.9)

*299.0 = *340.4 - *41.4

PROCYON (α Canis Minoris)
υ Oct. (341.0), α/91 Lac. (341.1), HOMAN (Hero) = ζ Pegasi, β Piscis Austrini (341.2), ν Tucanae (341.5), υ Aquarii (341.9)

η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (342.4), SITULA (Water-jar) = κ Aquarii (342.7)

*301.0 = *342.4 - *41.4
ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8 ρ Gruis (344.0), MATAR (Rain) = η Pegasi (344.2), η Gruis (344.6), β Oct. (344.7) λ Pegasi (345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), ε Gruis (345.3), τ Aquarii (345.7), ξ Oct. (345.8), μ Pegasi (345.9) ι Cephei (346.0), λ Aquarii, γ Piscis Austrini, σ Pegasi (346.5)

 

348 = 12 * 29
Ba7-35 (286) Bb6-11 (635) Bb6-12 (286 + 350) Ca14-23 (286 + 100)
March 16 (*360) Febr 28 (59) *345 April 10 (100, *20)

 

Extended Net-26b (Ox)

μ Hydrae (157.1)

Maru-sha-arkat-Sharru-15 (4th Son behind the King)

SHIR (Possessing Luminous Rays) = ρ Leonis (158.9)
p Carinae (159.3) φ Hydrae (160.3) No star listed (161 → φ) VATHORZ POSTERIOR = θ Carinae (162.1), PEREGRINI = μ Velorum, η Carinae (162.6) ν Hydrae (163.1)
Aug 25 26 27 28 (240) 29 30 31
"July 15 (196) 16 17 18 (199) 19 20 21
JUNE 22 23 ST JOHN 25 26 (6 * 29½) 27 28

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...

 

Bb6-14

Bb6-15

ki te henua - i ruga o te tagata kua tu erua toga

DEC 29 (3 * 121 = 363 = 80 + 347 - 64)

JAN 1 → (4 * 91 = 364)

SCHEAT AQUARII =  δ Aquarii (347.0), ρ Pegasi (347.2), δ Piscis Austrini (347.4), FOMALHAUT (Mouth of the Fish) = α Piscis Austrini, τ Gruis (347.8)

*306.0 = *347.4 - *41.4
FUM AL SAMAKAH (Mouth of the Fish)  = β Piscium (348.3), ζ Gruis (348.5), ο Andromedae (348.9)

No star listed (164)

ALTAIR (α Aquilae)

Wings-27 (Snake)

η Octans (165.4), ALKES (Shallow Basin) = α Crateris (165.6)

*124.0 = *165.4 - *41.4
Sept 1 (80 + 164 = 244) Sept 2 (245 = 35 weeks)

Sept 1 (363 + 64 = 427)

Sept 2 (2 * 214 = 428 → 300 + 2 * 64)

JUNE 29 (180 = 244 - 64)

→ (180 = 364 - 184)

Then, counted (hia) from Bb6-15 (→ 90) up to and including Bb6-24 (→ 144 = 90 + 54) there were 4 + 6 = 10 right ascension days:

Bb6-14 Bb6-15 Bb6-16 Bb6-17 Bb6-18
ki te henua - i ruga o te tagata kua tu erua toga - kua rere ko te kurarega - kua rere i ruga o tona kona e tagata puhi i te ahi e kua rere te tagata - i ruga o to manu

Puhi. 1. To blow; to light a fire; to extinguish, to blow out; he-puhi te umu, to light the fire for the earth oven. 2. To fish for lobsters at night using a bait (but during the day one calls it ); puhiga, night fishing spot. Vanaga. To blow; puhi mai, to spring up; pupuhi, wind, fan, to blow, puffed up, to blow fresh, to ferment, to swell, to bloat, to spring out, to gush, yeast; pupuhi vai, syringe; pupuhi eve, squirt; pupuhi heenua, volley; pupuhi nunui, cannon; pupuhi nui, swivel gun; ahuahu pupuhi, amplitude; vai pupuhi, water which gushes forth; pupuhihia, to carry on the wind; hakapupuhi, to gush, leaven, volatilize; puhipuhi, to smoke, to smoke tobacco, a pipe. Churchill

Ahi. Fire; he-tutu i te ahi to light a fire. Ahiahi = evening; ahiahi-ata, the last moments of light before nightfall. I te ahiahi-ata he garo te raá ki raro ki te vai kava. In the evening the sun disappears under the sea. Ku-tea-á te hetu'u ahiahi, the evening star has risen. Vanaga. 1. Candle, stove, fire (vahi); ahi hakapura, match; ahi hakagaiei, firebrand waved as a night signal. P Mgv.: ahi, fire, flame. Mq.: ahi, fire, match, percussion cap. Ta.: ahi, fire, percussion cap, wick, stove. 2. To be night; agatahi ahi atu, day before yesterday. 3. Pau.: ahi, sandalwood. Ta.: ahi, id. Mq.: auahi, a variety of breadfruit. Sa.: asi, sandalwood. Ha.: ili-ahi, id. Ahiahi, afternoon, night; kai ahiahi, supper. P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ahiahi, afternoon, evening. Ahipipi (ahi 1 - pipi 2) a spark, to flash. Churchill.

DEC 29 March 4 5 (429) 6 7

SCHEAT AQUARII =  δ Aquarii (347.0), ρ Pegasi (347.2), δ Piscis Austrini (347.4), FOMALHAUT (Mouth of the Fish) = α Piscis Austrini, τ Gruis (347.8)

*306.0 = *347.4 - *41.4
FUM AL SAMAKAH (Mouth of the Fish)  = β Piscium (348.3), ζ Gruis (348.5), ο Andromedae (348.9)

Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 (Fore Spout) / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 (First of the Blessed Feet) / House-13 (Pig)

SCHEAT PEGASI = β Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), κ Gruis (349.4), MARKAB PEGASI = α Pegasi (349.5)

*308.0 = *349.4 - *41.4

23h (350.0 = 167.4 + 182.6)

υ, θ Gruis (350.0), π Cephei (350.6), ι Gruis (350.9)
SIMMAH = γ Piscium (351.7)
Sept 1 2 (245 = 35 weeks) 3 4 5

No star listed (164)

ALTAIR (α Aquilae)

Wings-27 (Snake)

η Octans (165.4), ALKES (Shallow Basin) = α Crateris (165.6)

*124.0 = *165.4 - *41.4

ANA-TIPU-4 (Upper-side-pillar - where the guards stood)

MERAK (Loin, not Lion) = β Ursae Majoris (166.2), DUBHE (Bear) = α Ursae Majoris (166.7)

11h (167.4)

χ Leonis, χ¹ Hydrae (167.1), χ² Hydrae (167.3)

*167.4 - *41.4 = *126.0
AL SHARAS (The Ribs) = β Crateris (168.6)
Bb6-19 Bb6-20 Bb6-21 Bb6-22 Bb6-23 Bb6-24
kua rere te manu ki haga o rave e rave ika ki te henua - ki haúa ki te ariki mai tae tupu te poporo e haga tere hia
March 8 (2 * 216) 9 10 11 12 (436) 13 (72 + 365)
φ Aquarii (352.0), ψ Aquarii (352.4), χ Aquarii (352.6), γ Tucanae (352.8) ο Cephei (353.3), KERB (Bucket Rope) = τ Pegasi (353.6)

κ Piscium (354.2), θ Piscium (354.4), υ Pegasi (354.9)

*313.0 = *354.4 - *41.4
ο Gruis, Snowball Nebula = NGC7662 Andromedae (355.0), τ Oct. (355.3) No star listed (356)

ι Phoenicis (357.3), ι Piscium (357.4), λ Andromedae (357.9)

*316.0 = *357.4 - *41.4
Sept 6 (249) 7 8 9 10 11 (254)

Al Zubrah-9 (Mane) / Purva Phalguni-11 (First Reddish One - Fig Tree)

ZOSMA (Girdle, not Belt) = δ Leonis (169.2), COXA (Hips) = θ Leonis (169.4)

*169.4 - *41.4 = *128.0

φ Leonis (170.0), ALULA (First Spring of the Gazelle) = ξ, ν Ursae Majoris (170.5), LABRUM = δ Crateris (170.6) σ Leonis (171.1), λ Crateris (171.6), ι Leonis, ε Crateris (171.9)

γ Crateris,  π Centauri (172.0), κ Crateris (172.5), τ Leonis (172.8)

GREDI (α Capricorni)
ο¹ Centauri (173.8) GIAUZAR = λ Draconis (174.0), ξ Hydrae (174.3), ο² Centauri, λ Centauri (174.8)
Bb6-25 Bb6-26 Bb6-27 Bb6-28
etoru mata oona e te maitaki ihe vero hia koia ku akapava
March 14 π 15 16 (440 = 75 + 365) 17

λ Piscium (358.0), MANUS CATENATA = ι Andromedae (358.1), θ Phoenicis, ALRAI = γ Cephei (358.4), κ Andromedae (358.7)

*358.4 - *41.4 = *317.0
ω Aquarii (359.2), 78 Pegasi (359.5)

ψ Andromedae (360.1), σ Phoenicis (360.4)

*360.4 - *41.4 = *319.0

γ¹ Oct. (361.4), φ Pegasi (361.7)

*361.4 - *41.4 = *320.0
Sept 12 (255) 13 14 (440 - 183) 15
θ Crateris (175.0), υ Leonis (175.2), ω Virginis (175.3), ι Crateris (175.5) ο Hydrae (176.1) ζ Crateris, ξ Virginis  (177.0), λ Muscae (177.1), ν Virginis (177.2), μ Muscae (177.8)

Al Sarfah-10 (Turn) / Uttara Phalguni-12 (Second Reddish One) / Zibbat A.-16 (Tail of the Lion) / Shēpu-arkū sha-A-17 (Hind Leg of the Lion)

93 Leonis (178.0), DENEBOLA = β Leonis (178.3), ALARAPH (Unarmed) = β Virginis (178.6)
Bb6-29 Bb6-30 Bb6-31
ki te tagata mau - i to maro - e tagata mau huki - kua oho te tagata - mau veveke

Veveke, to hurry up, hasten, quicken. Websters.

March 18 19 (443 = 260 + 183) 20 (444 - 80 = *364)

DZANEB (→ Deneb, Tail) = ω Piscium (362.4), γ² Oct. (362.8)

*362.4 - *41.4 = *321.0

η Tucanae (363.0), ψ Pegasi (363.1), 32 Piscium (363.2), π Phoenicis (363.4), ε Tucanae (363.6), τ Phoenicis (363.9)

*322.0 = *363.4 - *41.4

θ Oct. (364.4)

*323.0 = *364.4 - *41.4
Sept 16 17 (260) 18 (9 * 29)

PHEKDA ('Thigh') = γ Ursae Majoris, β Hydrae  (179.3), η Crateris (179.9) 

DENEB CYGNI (α Cygni)
No star listed (180) π Virginis (181.0), θ Crucis (181.5)

Presumably Metoro here said veveke in order to indicate this was the place for the equinox (which meant the opposite of time moving slowly as at a solstice).

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

Bb6-32 (656 = 16 * 41) Bb6-33 (236 = 8 * 29½) Bb6-34
ko te maitaki kua rere te manu - mau i te poporo ko te manu kua mau i te poporo
March 21 (0h) 22 (81) 23

Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)

0h (365.25)

CAPH (Hand) = β Cassiopeiae, SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)

Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)

χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)
Sept 19 20 21 (264)

12h (182.6)

ο Virginis (182.1), η Crucis (182.5)
ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis (184.6), MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris (184.9)
Bb6-35 Bb6-36 Bb6-37 (240)
ka oho te tagata kua oho ki mua kia ia kai tae e oho
March 24 25 (84) 26
σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7) No star listed (4)

ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

ALPHARD (α Hydrae)
Sept 22 (Equinox) 23 (266) 24

Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28 (Worm)

GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9)

*144.0 = *185.4 - *41.4

CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3)

INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5)

*146.0 = *187.4 - *41.4
Bb6-38 Bb6-39 (242) Bb6-40 (664)
ka rere te manu ki te hakanohoga o te tahito koia
March 27 28 29 (88)

λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4)

*6.4 - *41.4 = *147.0 - 182.0 =

- *35.0
ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31), π Andromedae (7.7)

ε Andromedae (8.2), DELTA = δ Andromedae (8.4), SCHEDIR (Breast) = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9)

*8.4 - *41.4 = *149.0 - 182.0 =

- *33.0
Sept 25 26 27 (270)
γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB = δ Corvi (188.5), GACRUX = γ Crucis (188.7) 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)

Number 664 for the last glyph in line number 10 + 6 = 16 should remind us of the number of glyphs on side b on the A tablet.