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Bb8.8

Presumably the creator of the B text worked with the structure of the Rigel year, viz. with the origin (day zero) of the year at the place where Thuban could be observed to culminate at 21h:

Bb8-26 (310) Bb8-27 (366 * 2) Bb8-28 (733) Bb8-29 Bb8-30 (314) Bb8-31 Bb8-32
kua ka ko te Raa i vai te taketake ku kotia ko te henua kua haaati hia ko te kava kava vere ki te henua kua haaati hia ko te kava - ma te hatu huri eko te henua

Take. The Marquesans are the only people who own to a distinctive national name, and retain a tradition of the road they travelled from their original habitat, until they arrived at the Marquesan Islands. They call themselves te Take, 'the Take nation'. Fornander. Take, Tuvaluan for the Black Noddy (Anous Minutes). The specific epithet taketake is Māori for long established, ancient, or original. In the Rapa Nui mythology, the deity Make-make was the chief god of the birdman cult, the other three gods associated with it being Hawa-tuu-take-take (the Chief of the eggs) his wife Vie Hoa and Vie Kanatea. Wikipedia.

Dec 3 4 5 6 7 (341) 8 (364 - 22) 9
RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:

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)

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)
June 4 (155)

5

6 7 (157 + 1) 8 (181 - 22) 9 (160) 10 / 6
'May 8 (128) 9 10 11 (131)

12

13 14
"April 24 (114) 25

26

27 28 29 30
APRIL 1 (91) 2 3 4

5

6 7

+ 366 / 2

OCT 1 (274) 2 3 4

5

6 7
"Oct 24 (297) 25

26

27 (300) 28 29 30

June 10 (161) was the beginning of the month when Jupiter perished,

and south of the equator the corresponding day should be half a year later:

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

Although, as we have seen, 161 + 183 = 344 is December 10 (*264), the crux is that by adding *183 to Haedus I (*74, June 3, 154) the sum will point at December 3 (337, *257) instead of the expected *256 (at the Club of Hercules).

... He is a mighty hunter and makes rain, when it is needed, by rattling an oak-club thunderously in a hollow oak and stirring a pool with an oak branch - alternatively, by rattling pebbles inside a sacred colocinth-gourd or, later, by rolling black meteoric stones inside a wooden chest - and so attracting thunderstorms by sympathetic magic ...

December 2 (336, *256) corresponds to 4 * 84 = 48 weeks. And 336 also equals = 2 * 168 = 8 * 42 = 16 * 21 = 256 + 5 * 16.

Bb8-33 Bb8-34 (318)
ko te rima kua hakamata ia ki te kupega e tagata oo - ki te purega e

Kupega. He-tá i te kupega, to weave (a net). Hopu kupega, those who help the motuha o te hopu kupega in handling the fishing nets. Huki kupega, pole attached to the poop from which the fishing-net is suspended. Mata kupega, mesh.  Te matu'a o te kupega, part of a net from which the weaving started. Te puapua kupega, the upper part of a fishing net.  Tau kupega, rope from which is hung the oval net used in ature fishing. Tuku kupega, a fishing technique: two men drag along the top of a fishing net doubled up, spread out on the bottom of a small cove, trapping the fish into the net. Vanaga.

Pure. Cowrie (Cypraea caput draconis); pure vaka, another type of cowrie, which can float on the sea like a diminutive boat (vaka). Vanaga. 1. To pray, to supplicate, invocation, prayer; hare pure, church, chapel; tae pure, irreverence; purega, prayer P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: pure, to pray. In Samoa, Tonga, Niuē, Futuna, Uvea, pule means to command. 2. A shell T. P Pau.: hakapurepure, to dye, to color. Mq.: pué, the porcelain shell. Ta.: pure, a mark. Purepure, spotted, dappled; ragi purepure, dappled sky. Purepurea, spotted. P Pau.: hakapurepure, to dye, to color. Mgv.: purepure, printed cloth; akapurepure, to paint in different colors. Mq.: puépué, covered with pale scars. Ta.: purepure, spotted, dappled. Churchill. Pureva, rock, stone (small enough to be thrown by hand). Vanaga. Pureva, to throw a stone. Ta.: Pureva, to be on the eve of going. Ha.: puleva, to float here and there. Churchill. Pau.: Pure-hiva, a butterfly. Mgv.: pure-rehue, id. Ta.: pure-hua, a moth. Mq.: pure-hua, id. Ma.: pure-hua, id. Churchill.

Dec 10 (*81 + 183 = *264) 11 (345)
RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:

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)

A string of pearls is a necklace:

I have named the glyph type at δ Orionis Rona:

rona

Bb8-33

... After naming the topographical features of Easter Island with names from their land of origin, the emissaries went from the west coast up to the rim of the crater Rano Kau, where Kuukuu had started a yam plantation some time earlier.

After they had departed from Pu Pakakina they reached Vai Marama and met a man. Ira asked, 'How many are you?'

He answered, 'There are two of us.' Ira continued asking, 'Where is he (the other)?'

To that he answered, 'The one died.' Again Ira asked, 'Who has died?'

He replied, 'That was Te Ohiro A Te Runu.' Ira asked anew, 'And who are your?'

He answered, 'Nga Tavake A Te Rona.' [E:46]

After this, the emissaries and Nga Tavake went to the yam plantation ...

Rona glyphs possibly depict an effigy, a 'person' taking the place of the king when his time has run out:

"... 'In Upper Egypt', wrote Sir James G. Frazer in The Golden Bough, citing the observations of a German nineteenth-century voyager, 'on the first day of the solar year by Coptic reckoning, that is, on the tenth of September, when the Nile has generally reached its highest point, the regular government is suspended for three days and every town chooses its own ruler. This temporary lord wears a sort of tall fool's cap and a long flaxen beard, and is enveloped in a strange mantle. With a wand of office in his hand and attended by men disguised as scribes, executioners, and so forth, he proceeds to the Governor's house. The latter allows himself to be deposed; and the mock king, mounting the throne, holds a tribunal, to the decisions of which even the governor and his officials must bow. After three days the mock king is committed to the flames, and from its ashes the Fellah creeps forth ..." (Campbell 2)

Rona glyphs appear at the beginning of a new season:

Gb1-13 Ra2-9

Gb1-13 probably refers to how spring has ended and Ra2-9 to how autumn has ended. In addition to the various signs which can be seen in these two glyphs there are also numbers which confirm this interpretation:

If we assign Gb1-13 glyph number 230 + 13 = 243 and Ra2-9 glyph number 39, then the difference is 243 - 39 = 204 or half 408, which in G probably indicates the length of the solar year:

Gb6-25 (408) Gb6-26 Gb6-27 Gb6-28
Gb7-1 Gb7-2 Gb7-3 Gb7-4

408 - 64 = 344 (December 10) → Bb8-33.

... 'Tell us a story!' said the March Hare. 'Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice. 'And be quick about it', added the Hatter, 'or you'll be asleep again before it's done.' 'Once upon a time there were three little sisters', the Dormouse began in a great hurry: 'and their names were Elsie [ε, Kaus Australis], Lacie [λ, Kaus Borealis], and Tillie [τ, *289.4]; and they lived at the bottom of a well — '

'What did they live on?' said Alice, who always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking. 'They lived on treacle,' said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or two. 'They couldn't have done that, you know', Alice gently remarked. 'They'd have been ill.' 'So they were', said the Dormouse; 'very ill'. Alice tried a little to fancy herself what such an extraordinary way of living would be like, but it puzzled her too much: so she went on : 'But why did they live at the bottom of a well?'

'Take some more tea [= t as in duration of time]', the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. 'I've had nothing yet', Alice replied in an offended tone: 'so I can't take more [<]'. 'You mean you can't take less [>]', said the Hatter: 'it's very easy to take more than nothing'. 'Nobody asked your opinion', said Alice. 'Who's making personal remarks now?' the Hatter remarked triumphantly. Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and repeated her question. 'Why did they live at the bottom of a well?'

The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then said 'It was a treacle-well.' 'There's no such thing!' Alice was beginning very angrily, but the Hatter and the March Hare went 'Sh! Sh!' and the Dormouse sulkily remarked 'If you ca'n't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself.' 'No, please go on!' Alice said very humbly. 'I wo'n't interrupt you again. I dare say there may be one.'  'One, indeed!' said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he consented to go on. 'And so these three little sisters - they were learning to draw, you know —' 'What did they draw?' said Alice, quite forgetting her promise. 'Treacle', said the Dormouse, without considering at all, this time. 'I wan't a clean cup', interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move [hop] 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 upsed the milk-jug into his plate [creating the Milky Way river] ...