... 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 ...

It seems reasonable to assume Virgo was the first to reach the northern spring equinox, commemorating the time when the Great Ice age thawed away and made earth soft and fruitful.

In the B text the last glyph in line b7 has been placed at May 9 (*49 → 7 * 7), which should correspond to glyph b1-23 on side b of the C tablet - a week before Alcyone in the Pleiades.


May 9	Cb1-23

Number 123 could have been used e.g. to characterize the place 60 days before 183 (= 366 / 2) as well as that place defined by 64 days before 187. However, the equation 129 (May 9) - 123 = 6 (→ 366 - 360) might be more relevant, in which case 6 + 177 = 60 + 123.

In any case, the G text (on its side a) should make us count 123 as the distance from Ga2-27 (→ π) to *244 (→ 4 * 61 = ⅔ * 366):

	*123
Ga2-27 (57)		Ga7-11 (180)
*NAOS (121)**		*LESATH (244)**
20h (304.4)		VINDEMIATRIX

Might not Vindemiatrix - the Grape Gatherer - have corresponded to Eve (Bb7-14) loitering at the Tree of Life?


*Bb7-4 (13 19)**	Bb7-5 (248)	Bb7-6 (670 = 664 + 6)
ki te maro - ku hokohuki ia - ki te tagata	mai tae oho atu ki te rima - o to haga mama ia - ku hakatepe ia	ki to maitaki
Atu. Particle of meaning opposite to that of mai; it refers to the second or third person, expressing movement away: ka-avai-atu, give it to him: he-oho-atu au, I am going there, after you; i-oho-atu-era, when I had gone there. Vanaga. 1. a. Directive, of motion from the speaker. b. Somewhat expressive of the comparative degree. 2. Pupil; hakaatu, proof; hare hakaatuga, schoolhouse, class. 3. (hakaatu), to presage. 4. (hakaatu), mark, object. Churchill. Mama. 1. To chew. 2. To mouth-feed (arch.) he-mama i te vai tôa koia ko te tiapito kiroto ki te haha o te poki, she mouth-feeds the child with sugarcane juice together with tiapito juice. 3. A sea mollusc (with an eight-horned shell). Vanaga. 1. To leak, to ooze, (maamaa). P Pau., Mgv., Ta.: mama, id. 2. To chew. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: mama, id. 3. Light not heavy, (maamaa). P Mgv., Ta.: mama, id. 4. A limpet (Chiton magnificus). Mgv., Mq., mama, a shellfish. 5. To open the mouth; hakamama, to yawn, to gape, to be ajar. Pau.: hamama, to open. Mgv.: akamama, to burst open. Ta.: haamama, to open. Mq.: haámama, to open the mouth. 6. Ta.: mama-orero, conclusion of a council. Ha.: mama, to finish, to have done with a thing. Churchill. Kahu. Clothing, dress, habit, cloth, curtain, vestment, veil, shirt, sheet; kahu hakaviri, shroud; kahu nui, gown; rima o te kahu, sleeve; kahu rahirahi, muslin; hare kahi, tent; horega kahu, shirt; hakarivariva ki te kahu, toilet; rakai ki te kahu, toilet; patu ki te kahu, to undress; kahu oruga, royal sail; kahu hakatepetepe, jib; kahu nui, foresail; hakatopa ki te kahu, to set sail; (hecki keho, canvas T.) P Pau.: kahu, dress, garment, native cloth. Mgv.: kahu, cloth, stuff, garment, clothing. Mq.: kahu, habit, vestment, stuff, tunic. Ta.: ahu, cloth in general, vestment, mantle. Chuchill.
HELIACAL STARS:
April 2	3 (29 + 64)	4 (459)
JAN 28	29 (13 + 16)
CIH (Whip) = γ Cassiopeiae, λ Tucanae (12.4), φ³ Ceti (12.6), μ Andromedae (12.8) 336.0 = 12.4 - 41.4 = 4 84	φ4 Ceti (13.2)	No star listed (14)

RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:
Oct 1 (640 - 366)	2 (275 = 93 + 182)	3 (94 + 182)
JULY 29 (210 = 179 + 31)	30	31 (29 + 183)
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	MIN-EL-AUVA (Door of the Barker) = δ Virginis (195.1), COR CAROLI = α Canum Ven. (195.3)	δ Muscae (196.5) , VINDEMIATRIX (Grape Gatherer) = ε Virginis (196.8)
... 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 ...


Bb7-7 (250)	Bb7-8	Bb7-9 (673)
ko agaagata hagu atu ki te tokerau
Hagu. 1. Breath, respiration, air. He haro i te hagu a roto, to draw in air, to breathe. He hakaea mai te hagu, to breathe. 2. Figuratively: sustenance, snack. He gau i te hagu, to eat something. He tuha te kai mo te hagu o te tagata, the food was shared for the men's sustenance. 3. Figuratively: hagu gatu, a great need, a pressing desire, such as when you hold your breath in expectation. He gatu te hagu, to have a great desire of something (lit. breath is held). He gatu hau o te tagata ki te miro ki te tu'u mai (or: mo te tu'u mai o te miro), the people's great desire for a boat to come. Te matu'a e gatu ró mai te hagu ki taana poki ana oho ki te tahi kaíga, a father feels a great desire to see his son again when he leaves for another country. 4. Strength. Te hagu o te rima, the strength of the hands. Haguhagu, to pant. Hagupotu, last born; also used as a term of endearment to a young person: e hagupotu ê, ducky. Vanaga. 1. The temples. 2. (agu). Haguhagu, convulsion, spasm, convulsive. Hagupotu, younger son, younger brother. Churchill. Atu. Particle of meaning opposite to that of mai; it refers to the second or third person, expressing movement away: ka-avai-atu, give it to him: he-oho-atu au, I am going there, after you; i-oho-atu-era, when I had gone there. Vanaga. 1. a. Directive, of motion from the speaker. b. Somewhat expressive of the comparative degree. 2. Pupil; hakaatu, proof; hare hakaatuga, schoolhouse, class. 3. (hakaatu), to presage. 4. (hakaatu), mark, object. Churchill. ... e-tahataha-á te vaka o te tokerau. the boat rocks from side to side because of the wind ... ku-pa'e-á te vaka i te tokerau, the wind has made the boat deviate from its course ... he-tá e te tokerau i te maga miro, the wind shakes the branches of the trees ... he-uéué te kahu i te tokerau, the clothes flutter in the wind ...
April 5	*6 (96 = 214 - 4 29½)**	7
... 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!] ...
1h (15.2) β Phoenicis (15.1), υ Phoenicis, ι Tucanae (15.6), η Ceti, ζ Phoenicis (15.7)	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

RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:
Oct 4 (277)	5	6
(213 = 197 + 80 - 64 = 197 + 16)	*AUG 2 (214 = 2 107)**	3 (29 + 186)
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)	AL DAFĪRAH (Tuft) = β Com. Ber. (199.4) 158.0 = 199.4 - *41.4


Bb7-10 (674)	(248 + 6)	Bb7-12 (255)	Bb7-13	Bb7-14	Bb7-15	Bb7-16 (680)
kua moe atu te manu	ki raro o tona manu punua	kua vero koia	kua moe koia	i te eve o te manu	ko te tagata oho ia	ka oho oia
Punua, burst of thunder. Nua. 1. Mother; this seems a more ancient word than matu'a poreko. 2. Blanket, clothing, cape formerly made from fibres of the mahute tree. Vanaga. Cloak T. Churchill. Nu'a 1. Thick; piled one on top of the other, as leis, mats, or ocean swells; heaped; lush, thick-growing; much traveled, as a road; multitude, as of people, mass. Also hānu'a. Moena kumu nu'a, a sleeping mat made thick at one end to serve as a head rest; lit. 'mat piled beginning'. Nu'a moena, a heap of mats. Nu'a kanaka, many people. Haki nu'a ka uahi i ke kai, the spray breaks in masses in the sea. Ka nu'a o ka palai, the thick clump of palai ferns. Ho'o nu'a, to heap up; to give generously and continuously; to indulge, as a child; surging, rising in swells, as the sea. 2. A kind of seaweed. Nu'a-kea, a goddess of lactation. Wehewehe. ... The Raven stole the skin and form of the newborn child. Then he began to cry for solid food, but he was offered only mother's milk ... Eve. 1. Placenta, afterbirth (eeve). T Pau.: eve, womb. Ta.: eve, placenta. Ma.: ewe, id. Haw.: ewe, navel string. 2. The rear; taki eeve, the buttocks; hakahiti ki te eeve, to show the buttocks; pupuhi eve, syringe. 3. The bottom of the sea. Churchill.
April 8	9 (464)	10 (100)	11 (466)	12	13	14 (104)
No star listed (18)	ADHIL (Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7)	KSORA (Knee) = δ Cassiopeiae (20.1), ω Andromedae (20.6), γ Phoenicis (20.8)	δ Phoenicis (21.5)	υ Andromedae (22.9)	ACHERNAR (End of the River) = α Eridani (23.3), χ Andromedae (23.6), τ Andromedae (23.9)	ALSEIPH (Scimitar) = φ Persei (24.5), τ Ceti (24.7)
RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:
Oct 7 (280)	8	9	10	11	12 (285)	13 (104 + 182)
*AUG 4 (136)**	5 (210 + 7)	6	7	8 (220)	*9 (141)**	10 (104 + 118)
... It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer [ui] for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder ...
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 = 80 Ursae Majoris (202.7) ~~SADALMELIK (α Aquarii)~~ 161.0 = 202.4 - *41.4	71 VIRGINIS (203.6)	No star listed (204)	HEZE = ζ Virginis (205.0), SOUTHERN PINWHEEL GALAXY = M83 Hydrae (205.7)	ε Centauri (206.3), κ Oct. (206.4) 165.0 = 206.4 - 41.4

The distance from Vindemiatrix (*196) at the Full Moon to her culmination (at 21h) when Beid (*62) was at the Full Moon corresponded to the distance from 276 (October 3) to May 22 (142 + 364) = 230 days. And 230 - 46 = 184.

... Allen has documented all his star culminations at 21h, which could be due to an effort of keeping the culminations at their proper places according to the ancients, 24h (spring equinox) - 21h = 3h = 24h / 8 = 45º. 3h corresponds to 366 / 8 = 45.75 of my right ascension days and *366 - *46 = *320 (Dramasa, σ Octantis) ...

	*230
Bb7-6 (249)		Ga7-11 (180)	Ga7-12
(JAN 30)		SEPT 17 (260)	*SEPT 18 (9 29) → 2 * 414**
*No star listed (14)**		*LESATH (244)**	*YED PRIOR (245)**
*VINDEMIATRIX (196)**		*BEID (62)** VINDEMIATRIX	*HYADUM I (63.4)**
JULY 31 (212)		*MARCH 19 (6 13) → 183**	MARCH 20 (79)

... Next, she went all alone and arrived where the tree stood. It stood at the Place of Ball Game Sacrifice. What? Well! What's the fruit of this tree? Shouldn't this tree bear something sweet? They shouldn't die, they shouldn't be wasted. Should I pick one? said the maiden. And then the bone spoke; it was there in the fork of the tree: Why do you want a mere bone, a round thing in the branches of a tree? said the head of One Hunaphu when it spoke to the maiden. You don't want it, she was told. I do want it, said the maiden. Very well. Stretch out your right hand here, so I can see it, said the bone. Yes, said the maiden. She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden ...

142 (May 22) + 364 = 506 → number of glyphs on side b of the B tablet. May 22 → 5-22 → 522 → 2 * 261.