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Once again. The birth of Maui from the topknot of his mother probably referred to how the Pegasus Square could be imagined as the topknot of Adromeda:

It was a square topknot, not round as its male counterpart, and this had to mean it was the Earth - which was formed as a square:

... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini. In fact, he states explicitly (I,12.5) that this 'Gate' is 'where the Zodiac and the Milky Way intersect'.  

Far away, 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 ...

Considering the fact that the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ...

Thus Andromeda corresponded to Mother Earth and she was the mother of Maui, i.e. Tara-ga (the place at the corner) was Andromeda.

Tara

1. Thorn: tara miro. 2. Spur: tara moa. 3. Corner; te tara o te hare, corner of house; tara o te ahu, corner of ahu. Vanaga.

(1. Dollar; moni tara, id.) 2. Thorn, spike, horn; taratara, prickly, rough, full of rocks. P Pau.: taratara, a ray, a beam; tare, a spine, a thorn. Mgv.: tara, spine, thorn, horn, crest, fishbone. Mq.: taá, spine, needle, thorn, sharp point, dart, harpoon; taa, the corner of a house, angle. Ta.: tara, spine, horn, spur, the corner of a house, angle. Sa.: tala, the round end of a house. Ma.: tara, the side wall of a house. 3. To announce, to proclaim, to promulgate, to call, to slander; tatara, to make a genealogy. P Pau.: fakatara, to enjoin. Mq.: taá, to cry, to call. 4. Mgv.: tara, a species of banana. Mq.: taa, a plant, a bird. Ma.: tara, a bird. 5. Ta.: tara, enchantment. Ma.: tara, an incantation. 6. Ta.: tara, to untie. Sa.: tala, id. Ha.: kala, id. Churchill

... The Raven stole the skin and form of the newborn child. Then he began to cry for solid food, but he was offered only mother's milk. That night, he passed through the town stealing an eye from each inhabitant. Back in his foster parents' house, he roasted the eyes in the coals and ate them, laughing. Then he returned to his cradle, full and warm. He had not seen the old woman watching him from the corner - the one who never slept and who never moved because she was stone from the waist down ...

NAKSHATRA READING:
6 40 14
MANUS CATENATA SIRRAH (α Andromedae) BHARANI (41 Tauri) ALCYONE

Foundation Stone

Ga5-1 (111) Ga5-8 (118) Ga6-19 (159) Ga7-5 (174)
March 14 (π) Equinox (80) May 1 (*41) May 16 (*56)
°March 10 (*354) °March 17 (*361) "Equinox (80) "April 5 (*15)
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In the C text the Foundation Stone (star) at the beginning of the Pleiades year could have been depicted in Cb2-5 as a bird man with a broken wing in front:

  ●MARCH 2 (136 - 75) 47  ●APRIL 19 ('29) 198  ●NOVEMBER 4 (308) 5 (*229) 116 ●MARCH 1 (60)
MARCH 13 (136 - 64) APRIL 30 ('40)  NOVEMBER 15 (319) 16 (*240) MARCH 12 (71)
koia ra te ua te ua te ika te henua
Cb2-5 (392 + 29 = 421) Cb4-6 (77 = 29 + 48) Cb12-2 Cb12-3 (77 + 200) Cb2-4 (28 = 420 - 392)
May 16 (421 - 285)

ATLAS + ALCYONE (*56)

July 3 (184)

ADARA (*104)

January 18 (383)

τ Aquilae (*303)

19 (13 * 29½ - ½)

η Sagittae

(*304 = *229 + 75)

May 15 (500)

*420 (= 6 * 70)

TAU-ONO

REHUA 200
48 + 200 + 1 + 116 = 364  

We therefore ought to find Manus Catenata 63 days earlier. 421 (Cb2-5) - 63 = 358 (Ca 13-12):

DECEMBER 29 30 (364) 8 JANUARY 8 (= 373 - 365) 9
FEBRUARY 8 9 (40) FEBRUARY 18 (414) 19 (50)
Ca13-1 Ca13-2 (345) Ca13-11 (354 = 12 * 29½) Ca13-12
Kua haga te tagata kua haga e toru gagata, tuhuga nui, tuhuga roa, tuhuga marakapa* - ma te hokohuki te tapamea - te kihikihi

* Jaussen: kapa chant.

te vaha erua - te maro
SCHEAT AQUARII, FOMALHAUT FUM AL SAMAKAH, ο Andromedae (348.9) NEED-FIRE (*357) MANUS CATENATA
February 28 March 1 60) March 10 (434 = 69 + 365) 11
March 3 4 (63) March 13 (72 = 437 - 365) 3-14 (73)
ºFebruary 27 28 (59) ºMarch 9 (68) 10 (*354)
*354 *355 *364 (Julian) *365
'February 4 5 (36) 'February 14 (2-14) 15 (46)
"January 21 22 "January 31 (396) "February 1
373 374 383 (= 437 - 54) 13 * 29½ + ½
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Manus Catenata rose with the Sun in March 14 (3-14 as in π), at a corner which was 73 / 365 = 1 / 5 counted from the beginning of the year. 365 - 73 = 292 and 292 / 4 = 73.

Sirrah would come at another corner, at the northern spring equinox as defined by Gregory XIII. 73 (Manus Catenata) + 7 = 80 = 0h:

FEBRUARY 18 (414) 19 (50) 20 (*336) 21 22
Ca13-11 (354 = 12 * 29½) Ca13-12 Ca13-13 Ca13-14 Ca13-15
e toru gagata, tuhuga nui, tuhuga roa, tuhuga marakapa* - ma te hokohuki te tapamea - te kihikihi

* Jaussen: kapa chant.

te vaha erua - te maro tagata kara te roturotu - te maro ka pu te niu - mai tae huki hia ka pu te niu
March 10 (434 = 69 + 365) 11 12 13 3-14 (73)
March 13 (72 = 437 - 365) 3-14 (73) 15 16 (440) 17
*357

NEED-FIRE

MANUS CATENATA (*358)

(The Chained Hand, ι, λ, and κ Andromedae)

*359 *360 *361
383 (= 437 - 54) 384 (= 13 * 29½ + ½) 385 386 387
JANUARY 9 10 (*295) 11 12 (377 = 365 + 12) 13 (378 = Saturn)
TERMINALIA 24 (*340) 25 26 (422) 27 (58)
Ca13-16 Ca13-17 (360) Ca13-18 Ca13-19 Ca13-20 (392 - 29)
oho te vae tagata puoko erua tagata puo pouo vero hia -
March 15 16 (440) 17 18 (77 = 377 - 300) 19 (*366 + 77)
March 18 19 20 (*364) 0h 22
DZANEB *363 θ OCTANTIS SIRRAH ALGENIB PEGASI
388 389 390 (= 30 * 13) 391 392

There was 1 week from Manus Catenata to Sirrah and then a further 6 weeks up to and including Bharani. *364 (θ Octantis) + 6 * 7 = *406 = *41 (Bharani) + 365. Ca13-18 (361) + 42 = 403 = 392 + 11: 

25 FEBRUARY 12 (408) 13 (*329) 2-14 15 (46)
MARCH 25 (84) 26 27 28 (*372)
*Ca14-26 (26 + 364) *Ca14-28 *Ca14-29 (392)
manu kake rua te henua te honu te rima
April 14 (104) 15 16 17 (107)
SHERATAN (*27) *28

*211

ALRISHA (*29)

THUBAN (*212)

HAMAL (*30)

*213

FEBRUARY 16 17 (413) 18 (*33 + 80 - 64) 19 (50) 7
MARCH 29 30 (*374 = 2 * 187) 31 (90) APRIL 1 (456)
Cb1-1 Cb1-2 Cb1-3 Cb1-4 (396)
E tupu - ki roto o te hau tea ki te henua - te maro
*31

κ VIRGINIS (*214)

*32

ARCTURUS (*215)

MIRA (*33)

*217

*34

*218

AUGUST 18 19 20 (*216 + 80 - 64) 21 (233)
SEPTEMBER 28 29 30 (273) OCTOBER 1
FEBRUARY 27 (*343) 28 (424) MARCH 1 (60)
APRIL 9 (*384) 10 (465) 11 (101)
Cb1-12 (404) Cb1-13 Cb1-14
manu rere - kua rere ga manu - ki te ragi eaha te nuku erua koia kua huki
*42 DENEBOLA (*43) MENKAR (*44)
AUGUST 29 30 (242) 31
OCTOBER 9 (*202) 10 11 (284)
MARCH 2 (61) 3 4 (428 = 2 * 214)
APRIL 12 (*387) 13 (468) 14 (104)
Cb1-15 Cb1-16 (408) Cb1-17
e niu tu ki te ariki - e ka hua ra tona rima koia kua iri i ruga o te rima - e o to vaha mea
ALGOL (*45) BOTEIN (*46) *47
SEPTEMBER 1 2 3 (246)
OCTOBER 12 (285) 13 (*206) 14
MARCH 5 (64) 6 (430) 7
APRIL 15 (*390) 16 (471) 17 (107)
Cb1-18 (410) Cb1-19 Cb1-20
manu moe ra ki to mata e nuku mata
ZIBAL (*48) *232        ALGENIB PERSEI        GIENAH (*50)
SEPTEMBER 4 5 (248) 6
OCTOBER 15 (*208) 16 17 (290)
MARCH 8 (432) 9 10 (*354 = 12 * 29½) 11 (70)
APRIL 18 19 20 (*30) 21 (111)
Cb1-21 (413 = 14 * 29½) Cb1-22 Cb1-23 Cb1-24
hoea ko te rima kua oo ki te vai ma te ua
*51 *52

SIRRAH (*235)

ACRUX (*53)

*236 = 8 * 29½

*54

COR SERPENTIS (*237)

SEPTEMBER 7 (250) 8 9 (*172) 10
OCTOBER 18 (291) 19 20 21 (*214)
MARCH 12 13 (72 = 172 - 100) 3-14 (π)
APRIL 22 (477) 23 (*398) 24 (114)
Cb2-1 Cb2-2 (418) Cb2-3 (27)
Eaha te honu kua tupu i to maitaki - o te hau tea te hono huki - maro
TAU-ONO (*55) ALCYONE (*56)    MENKHIB PORRIMA (*57)

*240

SEPTEMBER 11 12 (255 = 355 - 100) 13
OCTOBER 22 (295) 23 (*216) 24
MARCH 15 16 (*360) 17 18 (77)
APRIL 25 (115) 26 (*401) 27 (482) 28 (118 = 4 * 29½)
Cb2-4 (420 = 14 * 30) Cb2-5 Cb2-6 (30) Cb2-7
te ua koia ra kua tuku ki to mata - ki tona tukuga e kiore - henua - pa rei
ZAURAK (*58)

VRISCHIKA

*59

SCHEDIR (*242)

COR CAROLI (*60)

ACRAB

*61

LESATH

SEPTEMBER 14 15 16 17 (260)
OCTOBER 25 (298) 26 27 (300) 28 (*221)

This excercise gives the apparently puzzling result that the figure with a broken wing in front (Cb2-5, Rehua) was placed at right ascension day *59 rather than at the expected *56 (Alcyone).

But we already know the explanation, the C text seems to have used a time frame with 3 days' difference compared to that in the text on the G tablet:

  ●MARCH 2 (136 - 75) 47  ●APRIL 19 ('29) 198  ●NOVEMBER 4 (308) 5 (*229) 116 ●MARCH 1 (60)
MARCH 13 (136 - 64) APRIL 30 ('40)  NOVEMBER 15 (319) 16 (*240) MARCH 12 (71)
koia ra te ua te ua te ika te henua
Cb2-5 (392 + 29 = 421) Cb4-6 (77 = 29 + 48) Cb12-2 Cb12-3 (77 + 200) Cb2-4 (28 = 420 - 392)
5-13 (*53 = 421 - 368)

(513 = 19 * 27)

June 30 (*100)

SIRIUS

January 15 (*300) 16 (*301) May 12 (132)
May 16 (421 - 285)

ATLAS + ALCYONE (*56)

REHUA

July 3 (184)

ADARA (*104)

January 18 (383)

τ Aquilae (*303)

19 (13 * 29½ - ½)

η Sagittae

(*304 = *229 + 75)

May 15 (500)

*420 (= 6 * 70)

TAU-ONO

200
48 + 200 + 1 + 116 = 364  
●MARCH 12 (71) 235 ●NOVEMBER 3 4 5 (*229) 6 (310)
MARCH 23 (71 + 11) NOVEMBER 14 15 16 (*240) 17 (321)
te kahi huga Te nuku te ua te ika te henua ma te hua
Cb2-15 (39) Cb12-1 Cb12-2 Cb12-3 (77 + 200) Cb12-4 (278)
May 23 (*63) January 14 15 (*300) 16 (*301) 17
May 26 (71 + 75) January 17 18 (383) 19 (13 * 29½ - ½) 20
*66

ANTARES (*249)

*302

ω CANCRI (*120)

τ Aquilae (*303)

NAOS

η Sagittae (*229 + 75)

*122

*305

TEGMINE (*123)

●SEPTEMBER 11 (254) ●MAY 7 (125) 8 9 (*47 = *229 - 182) 10
EQUINOX (265) MAY 16 (136) 17 18 (*240 - 182) 19 (*59)
●MARCH 5 (64) 44 ●APRIL 19 (*29) 20 21 (111 = 183 - 72) 22 (112 = 8 * 14) 198  ●NOV 7 (*231)
Cb2-5 (421) Cb4-3 Cb4-4 Cb4-5 (468) Cb4-6 (77) Cb12-2 (276)
koia ra te hakaua te henua te Rei te ua te ua
May 16 (136) SIRIUS July 1 2 (183) 3 January 18 (383)
ºMay 15 (135) ºJune 29 (180) ºSIRIUS ºJuly 1 2 (183) ºJanuary 17 (382)
May 19 (139)

*59

*242

July 3 (184)

ADARA (Virgin)

*104

July 4

*105

NUNKI (*288)
July 5

*106

*289

July 6 (*107)

WEZEN (*107)

AL BALDAH (*290)

January 21 (386)

*306

AL TARF (THE END) (*124)

RAS ALGETHI

248 = 8 * 31 = 48 + 200
 ●MARCH 5 (64) 47  ●APRIL 19 ('107 - 78) 198  ●NOVEMBER 7 8 (*232) 115 ●MARCH 4 (63)
Cb2-5 (29 = 136 - 107) Cb4-6 (77) Cb12-2 (276) Cb12-3 Cb2-4 (28)
koia ra te ua te ua te ika te ua
May 16 (136) July 3 (184) January 18 19 (384) May 15 (500)
*59 (= *346 + 78)

*242

WEZEN (*107)

AL BALDAH (*290)

*306

AL TARF (THE END)

RAS ALGETHI

GREDI (*307)

BRIGHT FIRE (*125)

*58

VRISCHIKA (*241)

ATLAS + ALCYONE (*56)

REHUA

ADARA (*104) τ Aquilae (*303)

NAOS

η Sagittae (*229 + 75)

*122

*420 (= 6 * 70)

TAU-ONO

November 15 (319) January 2 (367) July 20 (201) 21 November 14 (318)
364 = 48 + 200 + 117