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The North Star We do not know the name of the North Star on Easter Island, but on Tahiti it was Ana-nia (the pillar high up), the 10th and last of the 'pillars'.
Although it is very near the point with declination 90º, it anyhow circulates around the pole. Any 'fixed' point on the sky 'roof' must rotate, even the imaginary infinitesimal point of the pole itself. Its rectascension is 1h 49, a fact which is important. Because south of the equator 0h is autumn equinox, which means Ana-nia should rise in the east 27 days beyond day 270 (= the theoretical autumn equinox counted as ¾ of 360 days). If we disregard the 49 minutes, we can add 270 + 15 and reach day 285, which is possible to locate as glyph number 285 in the text of G (given we count from Gb8-30), if we include also the 49 minutes, we arrive at Gb3-6:
We are at Hua Reva. The very high neck in Gb2-29 alludes to the North Star. The pe'i fish is drawn up from the deepest point in the sea to the highest point in the sky. We can identify the 'fish being uplifted' kuhane station with the 10th Tahitian 'pillar', the 'pillar to fish by' (Ana-nia, the North Star). At Hua Reva sun is quickly hoisted up to the North Pole, presumably to be reborn north of the equator at this time (or somewhat later). "... the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ..." (Hamlet's Mill) Irrespective of this rule sun goes north at Hua Reva. He does not go to the south pole, because that is where he has been since Te Pei. |
