4. The star Aldebaran arrives after the Pleiades and its name means 'the follower': "Aldebaran is from Al Dabarān, the Follower, i.e. of the Pleiades, or, as Professor Whitney suggested, because it marked the 2d manzil that followed the first. The name, now monopolized by this star, originally was given to the entire group of the Hyades and the lunar mansion which, as Nā'ir al Dabarān, the Bright One of the Follower, our star marked ..." (Allen) From the Pleiades to Aldebaran there are 7 + 4 = 11 days:
The 'red opening' (vaha mea) is positioned in day 477, which can be interpreted as 300 + 177 (= 6 * 29½). Glyph number 300 (day number 64 + 300 = 364) is a kind of 'vaha kai' with 9 'teeth', and the preceding Gb3-8 (where 3 * 8 = 24) is a very fat and peculiar vaha mea:
The 'follower' is an idea which agrees with the name Ana-mua (as the stern of a canoe). Yet, the Pleiades evidently are announcing a new beginning. Rana (the 'tadpole' or embryo) is 100 days after day number 364 and at Faka-iti (the 'Little Valley') I have suggested that Menkhib could mark the final of the 'birth process': ... I guess it could refer to a valley which at its bottom has the 'little eyes' (Matariki). And haka-iti should literally mean 'make small ones', I think. Such a little valley would begin with ο (Atiks) and end with ζ (Menkhib) ... From the 'Boat' (Zaurak) up to and including Aldebaran there are 2 * 5 = 10 days. Therefore Zaurak can be compared with Ana-mua (Antares) - they both are like the bow of a canoe: ... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ... In the center (the seat of importance) of the 10-day long 'boat' we find the Hyades:
"α, θ¹, θ², γ, δ, and ε Tauri, 10º southeast of the Pleiades, Whitening all the Bull's broad forehead, form one of the most beautiful objects in the sky, and have been famous for ages, especially with the classical authors. Mythologically they were daughters of Atlas and Aethra, and hence half-sisters of the Pleiades, with whom they made up the fourteen Atlantides; or the Dodonides, the nymphs of Dodona, to whom Jupiter entrusted the nurture of the infant Bacchus, and raised them to the sky when driven into the sea by Lycurgus. Similarly they were said to be the Nysiades, the nymphs of Nysa, and teachers of Bacchus in India." (Allen) "The shrine of Dodona was regarded as the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the second millennium BCE according to Herodotus. Situated in a remote region ... it was considered second only to the oracle of Delphi in prestige. Priestesses and priests in the sacred grove interpreted the rustling of the oak (or beech) leaves to determine the correct actions to be taken." (Wikipedia) When Maui obtained his sacred jawbone (the Hyades) it therefore could have indicated that he was at the beginning of his period as a Ruler.
Considering where the relevant stars are in the map above we must see the jawbone upside down. And then Aldebaran will be in the upper jaw, so to say. The V-form has Aldebaran further in front because its right ascension is higher than for the stars of the jawbone. If we imagine the cranium of the old one as turned upside down, with the 'cap' at bottom like a cup, it means the old one is finished, and Aldebaran could then be at the eye socket. Yet the blazing 'eye' of Aldebaran says it is not over, the end will always turn into a new beginning. The expression 'bullseye' refers to ε Tauri (Ain) and to how an archer has managed to hit right in the eye of the 'whirlpool' (creating fire): ... The navel of the ocean was a vast whirlpool in which sticks for making fire by friction were drifting about. At that time men were still without fire. Now the maiden seized her bow, shot into the navel of the ocean, and the material for fire-rubbing sprang ashore ... 
475 = 25 (Saturn) * 19 (Sun). |
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