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Bb7.3

The 'bird man' figure at the end of March has been placed 245 - 172 = 73 (= 365 / 5) glyphs later in the text on side b than the corresponding figure on side a of the tablet:

 

Ba5-8 (172)

Bb7-2 (245, 666)

May 23 (143 = 172 - 29)

March 31 (90, 455)

MARCH 20 (79 = 143 - 64)

JAN 26 (391 = 455 - 64 = 17 * 23)

HYADUM I (*63 = 143 - 80)

ACHIRD (*10 = 90 - 80)

YED POSTERIOR (*246) MIMOSA (*192)

Nov 22 (326 = 143 + 183)

Sept 29 (272 = 455 - 183 = 17 * 16)

But the right ascension distance between Yed Posterior and Mimosa is *246 - *192 = *54. Or rather *366 + *54 = *420. Because *246 + *366 = *612 → 692 = 272 + 420. November 22 (326 + 366) - September 29 (272) = 420.

If the Sun had preceded 64 days since MARCH 20 (79) to May 23 (143), then a corresponding measure on side b of the tablet suggests 64 days from JULY 27 (208) to September 29 (272).

208 (JULY 27) - 79 (MARCH 20) = 129 = 272 (September 29) - 143 (May 23). The distance from Ba5-8 to Bb7-2 can therefore be stated to be 129 - 73 (= 245 - 172) = 56.

This should be the right ascension position of Alcyone (*56) in the Pleiades, because the number of glyphs on side a of the tablet is 421 = 365 + 56. Achird (*10) + *54 = *64 (Hyadum II). Mimosa (*192) + *54 = *246 (Yed Posterior) = *64 + *182.

Bb7-1 (244 = 300 - 56) Bb7-2 (666 = 722 - 56) Bb7-3 (273 + 365 + 29)
Ku rere mai ki te manu e tagata hakanaganaga ia ra mai tae moe

Tae. 1. Negation used in conditional and temporal clauses: ana ta'e hoa te ûa, ina he vai, when it does not rain, there is no water. Also used with some verbal forms such as: o te aha koe i-ta'e-oho mai-ai? why didn't you come? Otherwise its use is limited to adjectives or verbal adjectives: tagata ta'e hupehupe, person who is not weak, hard worker; nohoga ta'e oti, endless existence, eternity. 2. Interjection expressing admiration, always used with he: ta'e he tagata! what a man! Ta'e he aga! what a great job! Ta'e he tagata koe mo keukeu i te henua! what a good farmer you are! Vanaga. 1. Prepositive negative: without, not, none. PS To.: tae, prepositive negative. 2. To remain; tae atu ki, as far as, until. Taehaga (tae 1), to shake the head in sign of negation, reluctant, to disdain, to be displeased. 3. Pau.: tae, to arrive. Mgv.: tae, id. Ta.: tae, id. Ma.: tae, id. 4. Pau.: taetae, elephantiasis in scroto. Ta.: taetae, ill, illness. Churchill.

Mai. 1. From, since; mai aganirá pemu'a from now on. 2. Before, prior to (referring to a future event certain to occur); mai ta'e oho au ki-Hiva, prior to my leaving for the continent (note the use of the negative, lit. 'before I do not go...'. 3. Short for ka-avai-mai, mai te kahu, give me the dress. 4. Hither (movement towards the speaker); ka-ho-mai (= ka-oho-mai), come here! welcome! hoki-mai-á e îa, he has come back; ina kai garo'a-mai, he cannot understand it; ka-to'o-mai, come and get it. Vanaga.

Moe. To sleep, to lie at full length, to dream, to brood, to place, to cohabit; moe atu, to leave off, to desist; moe atu ra, to adjourn, to postpone; moe hakahepo, to talk in the deep; moe aherepo, somnambulist, sleepwalker; moe hakataha, to sleep on the side; moe no, to oversleep, concubinage; moe tahae, to be a light sleeper; moe tahaga, a sleeper; moe vaeahatu, moe hakaroa, to sleep sprawling; rava moe, to sleep sound; ariga moe ki raro, to lie flat on the ground; tae moe, bachelor; hakamoe, to brood, to fold the wings; to reserve, to lay up; to struggle. P Pau.: moe, sleep. Mgv.: moe, sleep, to lie down, coitus, to shut the eyes. Mq.: moe, to sleep, to lie down; haámoe, to set down on the ground. Ta.: moe, to sleep, to lie down. Moea raruga, lying flat. Moeaivi, thin. Mq.: ivi, haáivi, id. Ta.: ivi, id. Moega, mat. Pau.: moehega, bed. Mgv.: moega, a sleeping mat. Mq.: moena, moeka, mat, floor cloth, bed. Ta.: moea, bed. Moemata, to sleep with the eyes open; mea moemata, phantom. Moemoea, a dream, vision; tikeahaga moemoea, apparition by night. T Mgv., Mq., Ta.: moemoea, dream. Churchill. Mgv. Moemoe, to steal, to purloin at a food distribution. Mq.: moemoe, to seize, to grasp. Churchill. Ta.: 1.  Moemoe, ambush. Ha.: moemoe, id. 2. Moemoe, Phyllanthus simplex. To.: mohemohe, a tree. Churchill. Mq.: Moehu, exiled, banished, prisoner of war. Ma.: morehu, a survivor. Churchill.

March 30 (454) 31 April 1 (456 = 365 + 91)
"May 8 (48) 9 10 (50 = 91 - 41)
JAN 25 (390) 26 27 (392 = 91 - 64)
HELIACAL STARS:

ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), DENEB KAITOS (Tail of the Sea Beast) = β Ceti, η Phoenicis (9.4), AL NITHĀM (String of Pearls) = φ¹ Ceti (9.6)

*9.4 - *41.4 = *150.0 - 182.0 =

- *32.0

ACHIRD (Woman with Luminous Rays) = η Cassiopeiae (10.7)

Legs-15 (Wolf)

ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4)

*335.0 = *11.4 - *41.4
RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:
Sept 28 (271) → 728 = 2 * 364 29 (272 = 2 * 136) 30 (3 * 91)
"Aug 18 (230 = 271 - 41)

19

20

JULY 26 (207 = 271 - 64)

27 28

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)

272 (September 29) - 64 (precessional depth down from the Fishes to the Bull) = 208 (JULY 27) = 181 (SIRIUS) + 27 ('thrice nine hallowed days').

... As has already been mentioned, the Delphians worshipped Dionysus once a year as the new-born child, Liknites, 'the Child in the Harvest Basket', which was a shovel-shaped basket of rush and osier used as a harvest basket, a cradle, a manger, and a winnowing-fan for tossing the grain up into the air against the wind, to separate it from the chaff. The worship of the Divine Child was established in Minoan Crete, its most famous early home in Europe. In 1903, on the site of the temple of Dictaean Zeues - the Zeus who was yearly born in Rhea's cave at Dicte near Cnossos, where Pythagoras spent 'thrice nine hallowed days' of his initiation - was found a Greek hymn which seems to preserve the original Minoan formula in which the gypsum-powdered, sword-dancing Curetes, or tutors, saluted the Child at his birthday feast. In it he is hailed as 'the Cronian one' who comes yearly to Dicte mounted on a sow and escorted by a spirit-throng, and begged for peace and plenty as a reward for their joyful leaps ...

The composition with a fully grown man at left exhibiting his 'flapping wing' at right

... In Polynesia gliding flight is expressed by lele, flight on flapping wing by kapa. In Nuclear Polynesia kapa does not pass into the wing sense except through the aid of a composition member kau. In Samoan 'au we find this to mean a stalk, a handle; in reference to the body its sense as that of some projecting member is exhibited in 'aualuma (the 'au in front) as a very delicate euphemism for the penis. So 'apa'au would mean literally the projecting member that flaps ...

suggests his continuation in form of a 'nose',

i.e. to the opening where his spirit would enter in order to make the new one come alive.

... And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator. The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator. Rather, he will leave his daughters and sons. So it is that I have done likewise through you. Now go up there on the face of the earth; you will not die. Keep the word. So be it, said the head of One and Seven Hunaphu - they were of one mind when they did it ...