Once again. The C text should in principle be easier to understand than the G text. Not only was I able to arrange the glyphs in parallel with the heliacal stars at the time of rongorongo, but we have also - thanks to Bishop Jaussen and Barthel - access to the comments of Metoro:
Ca1-2 looks somewhat similar to Ga1-1, but the G text was beginning 145 (May 25) - 81 (March 21) = 64 precessional days earlier. Furthermore, the sequence of glyphs (cfr e.g. Aldebaran and Antares at Ga1-4 respectively at Ga7-16) seems to follow the Sun rather than the Full Moon. The figure in Ga1-1 could represent the horns of Taurus rather than a tattooing instrument.
The Tahitian Rear Pillar (Aldebaran) had its foot at the place for tattooing, which could refer to May 28 when south of the equator darkness was falling because it was fall:
... He continued travelling until he reached the house of Uetonga, whose name all men know: he was the tattoo expert of the world below, and the origin and source of all the tattoo designs in this world. Uetonga was at work tattooing the face of a chief. This chief was lying on the ground with his hands clenched and his toes twitching while the father of Niwareka worked at his face with a bone of many sharpened points, and Mataora was greatly surprised to see that blood was flowing from the cheeks of that chief. Mataora had his own moko, it was done here in the world above, but it was painted on with ochre and blue clay. Mataora had not seen such moko as Uetonga was making, and he said to him, 'You are doing that in the wrong way, O old one. We do not do it thus.' 'Quite so,' replied Uetonga, 'you do not do it thus. But yours is the way that is wrong. What you do above there is tuhi, it is only fit for wood. You see,' he said, putting forth his hand to Mataora's cheek, 'it will rub off.' And Uetonga smeared Mataora's make-up with his fingers and spoiled its appearance. And all the people sitting round them laughed, and Uetonga with them ... (Legends of the South Seas.) Gregory XIII changed 3-25 to 3-21 - i.e. the plumb line above the Heart ('load stone') in March 25 (84) was cut off:
... In the inscriptions of Dendera, published by Dümichen, the goddess Hathor is called 'lady of every joy'. For once, Dümichen adds: Literally ... 'the lady of every heart circuit'. This is not to say that the Egyptians had discovered the circulation of the blood. But the determinative sign for 'heart' often figures as the plumb bob at the end of a plumb line coming from a well-known astronomical or surveying device, the merkhet. Evidently, 'heart' is something very specific, as it were the 'center of gravity' ... See Aeg.Wb. 2, pp. 55f. for sign of the heart (ib) as expressing generally 'the middle, the center'. And this may lead in quite another direction. The Arabs preserved a name for Canopus - besides calling the star Kalb at-tai-man ('heart of the south') ... Suhail el-wezn, 'Canopus Ponderosus', the heavy-weighing Canopus, a name promptly declared meaningless by the experts, but which could well have belonged to an archaic system in which Canopus was the weight at the end of the plumb line, as befitted its important position as a heavy star at the South Pole of the 'waters below'. Here is a chain of inferences which might or might not be valid, but it is allowable to test it, and no inference at all would come from the 'lady of every joy'. The line seems to state that Hathor (= Hat Hor, 'House of Horus') 'rules' the revolution of a specific celestial body - whether or not Canopus is alluded to - or, if we can trust the translation 'every', the revolution of all celestial bodies. As concerns the identity of the ruling lady, the greater possibility speaks for Sirius, but Venus cannot be excluded; in Mexico, too, Venus is called 'heart of the earth'. The reader is invited to imagine for himself what many thousands of such pseudo-primitive or poetic interpretations must lead to: a disfigured interpretation of Egyptian intellectual life ... November 24 (328) - when it was observed close to the Full Moon in May 25 (84) - was seen to be followed by nakshatra Antares. Thus heliacal Antares would have been at the ancient southern spring equinox. By looking at the Full Moon in Taurus the day for this ancient southern spring equinox could be estimated. And by looking at the Full Moon in Corvus the day for the current southern spring equinox could also be determined. November 23 (327) with its Heart star σ in the Scorpion was 183 days later than May 24 (at heliacal Hyadum II). Number 327 also 'happened to be' at heliacal Bunda where Sirius culminated at midnight. But this was 327 days after 0h and not 327 days from January 1. It was in February 11 (407 = 80 + 327). Structures survive but their applications change.
In February 10 (41) there were 2 * 29 = 58 days remaining to April 9 (464) and close to the Full Moon was the Knot asterism in the Hydra. On Easter Island they could have observed Bunda close to the Full Moon in August 12 (224), knowing there would be 58 nights remaining to October 8 (8-8), when the star at the train of the garment of Andromeda (Adhil, ξ) would be at the Full Moon.
Hevelius has put ξ on the garment close to the heel of her right foot. |
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