... needfire ceremonies usually take place near the summer solstice (the Feast of St. John) ... but they occur in several other seasons as well. The summer date of the rite and its accompanying festival have to do, among other things, with fertility, as can can clearly be seen in a variant from the valley of the Moselle preserved for us by Jakob Grimm. Each household in the village was constrained to contribute a shock of straw to the nearby high place, Stromberg, where the males went at evening while the females went to a spring lower down on the slope. A huge wheel was wrapped with this straw. An axle run through the wheel served as the handles for those who were to guide it on its downward plunge. The mayor of a nearby town kindled the straw, for which office he was rewarded with a basketful of cherries. All the men kindled torches and some followed the burning orb as it was released downhill to shouts of joy. The women at the spring echoed these shouts as the wheel rushed by them. Often the fire went out of its own accord before it reached the river, but should the waters of the river extinguish it, an abundant vintage was forecast for that year ...

At Φ Gemini, 5 days after Castor, the season of the Fish was going away (reva). We can count 54 days from Zaurak to the night when Antares culminated (at 21h). Day 54 was February 23 (Terminalia). 365 + 54 = 7 * 60 - 1.

		*53
ZAURAK	VRISCHIKA	*53	~~ANTARES~~	CASTOR

North of the equator the day after Terminalia (February 23) was doubled (Bissextum), and south of the equator - where the seasons were upside down - a kind of logic could therefore state that before Terminalia a pair of nights were doubled.

				*52
~~VINDEMIATRIX~~	HYADUM I	YED POSTERIOR	*AIN (65)**	*52	ALTAIR	Φ Gemini


Bb9-21	Bb9-22 (348)	Bb9-23	Bb9-24	Bb9-25	Bb9-26 (352)	Bb9-27
RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:
ρ Gemini (112.1), Eskimo Nebula = NGC2392 Gemini (112.2) ~~ANTARES (α Scorpii)~~	*Al Dhirā'-5 (Forearm) / Punarvasu-7 (The Two Restorers of Goods) / Mash-mashu-Mahrū-10 (Western One of the Twins)* CASTOR (Beaver) = α Gemini (113.4) 113.4 = 41.4 + *72.0	*ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA-7 (Pillar for Elocution)* υ Gemini (114.0), MARKAB PUPPIS = κ Puppis (114.7), ο Gemini (114.8), PROCYON = α Canis Minoris (114.9)	α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7) 74.0 = 115.4 - *41.4	*Mash-mashu-arkū-11 (Eastern One of the Twins)* κ Gemini (116.1), POLLUX = β Gemini (116.2), π Gemini (116.9)	AZMIDISKE (Little Shield) = ξ Puppis (117.4) 76.0 = 117.4 - *41.4	φ Gemini (118.4) 77.0 = 118.4 - *41.4
HELIACAL STARS:
ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), ALBIREO - Hen's Beak = β Cygni (295.5)	ALSAFI (Fire Tripod) = σ Draconis (296.0), μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8), κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9)	ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.) (297.4), SHAM (Arrow) = α Sagittae (297.8) 256.0 = 297.4 - *41.4	β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae (298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8)	υ Aquilae (299.1), TARAZED (Star-striking Falcon) = γ Aquilae (299.3), δ Sagittae (299.6), π Aquilae (299.9)	*Sravana-23 (Ear or Three Footprints)* TYL = ε Draconis (300.0), ζ Sagittae (300.1), ALTAIR (Flying Eagle) = α Aquilae (300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5), BEZEK = η Aquilae (Ant.) (300.8)	ι Sagittarii (301.2), TEREBELLUM = ω Sagittarii, ξ Aquilae (301.3), ALSHAIN (Falcon) = β Aquilae (301.6), φ Aquilae (301.8)
... so completely is Aagjuuk identified with mid-December and the winter solstice that one Igloolik elder, invited to point to the constellation in early November, firmly replied that we would not see it until around Christmas, and this in spite of the fact that Altair was at the time in full view to the southwest ...
Jan 10 (375)	11	12	13	14	15 (380)	16
NOV 10 (311)	11	12	13	14	15 (316)	16
ko te metimeti - ma to ragi - kua hua ia i raro	ma te hokohuki - ki te henua	kua haati ia e kava	kava o te ariki	e huarae - ma to rima - ki te ragi	e rere ia mai - ki to huki	ko to huki ka to ihe - kua reva te ika
Reva To hang down; flag, banner. Revareva, 1. To be hanging vertically; to detach oneself from the background of the landscape, such a person standing on top of a hill: ku-revareva-á te tagata i ruga i te maúga. 2. To cast itself, to project itself (of shadows); revareva-á te kohu o te miro i te maeha o te mahina, the shadow of the tree casts itself in the light of the moon. 3. Uvula. Vanaga. To hang, to suspend, flag, banner; hakareva, to hang up; hakarereva, to hang up, to balance; hakarevareva, to wave. T Pau.: reva, a flag; fakarevareva, to hang up, to suspend. Mgv.: reva, a flag, a signal. Mq.: éva, to hang up, to be suspended, to wave a signal. Ta.: reva, a flag, banner; revareva, to wave. The germ sense is that of being suspended ... any light object hung up in the island air under the steady tradewind will flutter; therefore the specification involved in the wave sense is no more than normal observation. Churchill. Mgv.: 1. A plant. Ta.: reva, id. Mq.: eva, id. Sa.: leva, id. Ma.: rewa-rewa, id. 2. To cross, to pass across quickly; revaga, departure. Ta.: reva, to go away, to depart. Ma.: reva, to get under way. Churchill. Ta.: The firmanent, atmosphere. Ha.: lewa, the upper regions of the air, atmosphere, the visible heavens. Churchill. Ika 1. Fish. 2. In some cases, animal in general: îka ariga koreh[v?]a, animal with the face of a koreva fish (name given to horses when they arrived on the island, because of the resemblance of their heads with that of a koreva). 3. Victim (wounded or killed), enemy who must be killed, person cursed by a timo and destined to die; îka reirei, vanquished enemy, who is kicked (rei). 4. Corpse of man fallen in war. Vanaga. 1. Fish, animal; ika rere, flying fish; ivi ika, fishbone; mata ika, pearl. P Pau., Mgv., Mq.: ika, fish. Ta.: ia, id. 2. Prey, victim, sacrifice; ika ke avai mo, abuse; hakarere ki te ika, to avenge. T Mgv.: ikaiara, to quarrel; ikatamamea, to be angry because another has handled one's property. Mq.: ika, enemy, what causes horror. Ma.: ika, the first person killed in a fight. Mangaia: ika, a victim for sacrifice. 3? matamata ika, snow. Ikahi, to fish with a line, to angle. Mq.: ikahi, id. Ikakato, to go fishing. Ikakohau, to fish with a line, to angle. Ikapotu, cape, end of a voyage, destination; ikapotu hakarere, to abut, to adjoin; topa te ikapotu, id.; tehe oho te ikapotu, id.; mei nei tehe i oho mai ai inei te ikapotu, as far as, to. Ikapuhi, to fish with a torch. Mq.: ikapuhi, id. Churchill.

There was a flying Eagle who carried a Dead Man in his claws, a pair of figures rising up together.

5 nights after the Full Moon had been at Pollux the Full Moon would be at Naos, and 5 days after the Sun had been at Tarazed (the Star-striking Falcon, γ Aquilae) the Sun would be at 20h:


rona	*NAOS (121)**

... 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]

→ Co-rona Borealis:

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

→ Va-runa:

... 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 ...


Bb9-28 (354)	Bb9-29	Bb9-30	Bb9-31	Bb9-32
RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:
DRUS (Hard) = χ Carinae (119.9)	ω Cancri (120.2)	8h (121.7) χ Gemini (121.0), NAOS (Ship) = ζ Puppis (121.3)	ρ Puppis (122.0), HEAP OF FUEL = μ Cancri (122.1), ζ Monocerotis (122.3), ψ Cancri (122.6), REGOR (Roger backwards) = γ Velorum (122.7)	TEGMINE (The Cover) = ζ Cancri (123.3)

HELIACAL STARS:
ε Pavonis, θ Sagittarii (302.3), γ Sagittae (302.5), μ Pavonis (302.7)	τ Aquilae (303.8)	20h (304.4) 304.4 = 118.4 + 186.0 η Sagittae (304.2), δ Pavonis (304.4) 263.0 = 77.0 + *186.0	SHANG WEI (Higher Guard) = κ Cephei (305.2), θ Sagittae (305.4), TSEEN FOO (Heavenly Raft) = θ Aquilae (Ant.) (305.6), ξ Capricorni (305.8) 264.0 = 305.4 - *41.4	TSO KE (Left Flag) = ρ Aquilae (306.3)

Jan 17	18	19 (384)	20	21
NOV 17	18	19 (320)	20	21
kua hahaú ia koia	e rere koia	ki ruga mai kia au	kua rere mai ki te toga	eaha te manu rere toki - ki te henua

8h corresponded to right ascension day *121 (→ Beltaine) and 12h later was *304 (→ NOVEMBER 19) at η Sagittae.