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Once again. The 3rd and last haka-ariki was 12 * 29½ glyphs from the beginning of the text - or perhaps rather in day 355 (as if alluding to the solstice day of December 21):

1 25 2-14 (45) FEBRUARY 15 326
Ca1-26 Ca2-1 (27 = 87 - 60)
kua moe ki te tai. Te heke
April 16 (471) 17 (*27 + 80)
ALRISHA (*29)

THUBAN (*212)

HAMAL (*30)

MENKENT (*213)

26 October 16 17 (290)
354 = 12 * 29½
JANUARY 8 (373) 9 10 (*295) 11 12 (= 73 - 61)
Ca13-11 (354) 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 (*354) 11 12 (436 = 375 + 61) 13 3-14 (73)
March 13 (72) 3-14 (*358) 15 16 17
JULY 10 11 12 (193) 13 14
September 9 10 11 12 13 (256)
September 12 (255) 13 14 (*177) 15 16

Tahu

To assist. T Ma.: tahutahu, to attend upon. Tahuga, pair, to share out, to put in order, to distribute. Hakatahuga, to put in pairs, to arrange. P (Metathetic from stem tufa). Mgv.: tahua, a collection of things properly classified and kept in order. Mq.: tauna, a couple. Churchill. Pau.: tahua. 1. Field of battle. Ta.: tahua, id. 2. Floor. Ta.: tahua, id. Tahuga, wise, capable, doctor, artisan. Mgv.: tuhuga, wise, instructed, adroit. Mq.: tuhuna, wise, instructed, artisan. Sa.: tufuga, carpenter. Ma.: tohunga, adroit, wise, priest. Tahutahu, sorcerer. Ta.: tahu, sorcerer. Mgv.: tahu. 1. A tenant farmer. Ma.: tahu, opulent, possessing property. 2. To stir up a fire. Ta.: to build a fire, to light. Mq.: tahu, to light a fire. Sa.: tafu, id. Ma.: to set on fire, to kindle, to cook. Tahuna, a shallow, shoal, bank. Mq.: tahuna, beach gravel, shingle. Sa.: tafuna, a rocky place in the sea. Ma.: a shoal, a beach. Tohua, a place of public assembly. Mq.: tohua, public place, soil, land. Mq.: tahuahi, the servant in charge of the fire. Ha.: kahuahi, id. Churchill.

Ta.: tahuhu, ridgepole. Ma.: tahuhu, id. Mgv.: tohuhu, a ridgepole. Mq.: tohuhu, ridge, roofing. Churchill. Tahua, sloping stone surface of ahu. Vanaga. T. Tahua, board, plank. Tahu'a, T. Priest, artist. OR. Tahua mimi, bladder. Fischer.

Mara

To start rotting, going bad (e.g. a lobster, a fish). See also mamara. Vanaga. Mgv.: mara, open land, cultivated field. Mq.: mara, maa, land under tilth. Ta.: amara, the first stone of a marae, etc. Sa.: mala, a new plantation. Ma.: mara, land under tilth. Churchill.

Sa.: malae, the town green. Nukuoro: malae, a cleared space, an open place, a plantation. To.: malae, a gree, a grass plot ... Ha.: malae, smooth (as a plain) ... Ma.: marae, an inclosed place in front of a house. Ta.: marae, the sacred place of worship ... Vi.: mara, a burying place ... In note 261 I have advanced the opinion that malae is in form a conditional derivative of lae. This holds of the signification found in Nuclear Polynesia. The secondary sense which the Tongafiti carried to eastern Polynesia has obscured the lae element; but the sacrosanct content of the marae in the four-godded theology of eastern Polynesia is after all but a logical outgrowth of the Nuclear Polynesian malae as the civic center of social life where god is sole, surpreme - and Lucretian ... Churchill 2.

Kapa

Mgv.: a song for the dead, chant. Mq.: kapa, a heathen song. Mgv.: aka-kapakapa, an eager desire balked by timidity. Ta.: apaapa, to flutter the wings. To.: kabakaba, id. Ma.: kapakapa, to flutter. Churchill.

Tu.: Kapakapa, portion, particle. Ta.: apaapaa, fragment, bit, chip. Churchill.

In Polynesia gliding flight is expressed by lele, flight on flapping wing by kapa. In Nuclear Polynesia kapa does not pass into the wing sense except through the aid of a composition member kau. In Samoan 'au we find this to mean a stalk, a handle; in reference to the body its sense as that of some projecting member is exhibited in 'aualuma (the 'au in front) as a very delicate euphemism for the penis. So 'apa'au would mean literally the projecting member that flaps. Churchill 2.

The wise man ('ridgepole tree') in front, viz. Caspar, has his bowl uncovered - possibly intent on receiving the Morning Star above.

Obviously the creator of the text could have wished for a correspondence between his glyph numbers and the number of days after 0h.

JANUARY 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17
Ca13-16 Ca13-17 (360) Ca13-18 Ca13-19 Ca13-20
oho te vae tagata puoko erua tagata puo pouo vero hia -
March 15 16 (*360) 17 18 19 (78)
JANUARY 18 (383) 19 20 21 22
*Ca14-1 (364) *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5
Kua tupu te ata i te henua
March 20 (*364) 21 (80) 22 23 24
JANUARY 23   24 (= 85 - 61) 25 26 27 (392) 28 (*313)
*Ca14-6 *Ca14-7 (370) *Ca14-8 *Ca14-9 *Ca14-10 *Ca14-11
kua ruku te manu te kihikihi - te hoea te kihikihi - o te vai - te kihikihi te vero te henua te heke
March 25 (84) 26 (*370) 27 (86) 28 (*10 - 3) 29 30
  DELTA (*8.4)

PORRIMA (*191)

DENEB KAITOS (*9.4)

MIMOSA

*10

*193 (= *190 + 3)

η ANDROMEDAE (*11.4)

ALIOTH

*377 (= *12 + 365)

COR CAROLI (*195)

September 24 (267) 25 26 27 (270 = 80 + *190) 28 29 (272)

March 25 was the day of equinox according to the Julian calendar. 84 + 183 = 267 (September 24) = 265 (autumn equinox) + 2. Perhaps we therefore should contemplate addition with 181 days instead of 183 days?

And as regards the heliacal stars we maybe should count also the empty glyph space at the beginning of side a, thereby accomplishing a correspondence between Manus Catenata (*358) and hakaariki in glyph 354. *358 - 3 - 1 = *354.

Delta (δ Andromedae) would then be at *Ca14-6 instead of at *Ca14-7.

    Delta δ Andromedae 8.4 March 29 (88) -
0 - Zero η Andromedae 11.4 April 1 (91) 0
1 Al Sharatain Pair of Signs β Arietis (Sheratan), γ (Mesarthim) 27.4 April 17 (107) 16
2 Al Dabarān Follower α Tauri (Aldebaran), θ¹, θ²´, γ (Hyadum I), δ (Hyadum II), ε (Ain) 63.4 May 23 (143) 52
3 Al Hak'ah White Spot λ Orionis (Heka), φ¹, φ² 83.4 June 12 (163) 72
4 Al Han'ah Brand γ Gemini (Alhena), μ (Tejat Posterior), ν, η (Tejat Prior), ξ (Alzirr) 93.4 June 22 (173) 82
5 Al Dhirā' Forearm α Gemini (Castor), β (Pollux) 113.4 July 12 (193) 102
6 Al Nathrah Gap ε Cancri (Beehive) 130.4 July 29 (210) 119
7 Al Tarf End ξ Cancri, λ Leonis (Alterf) 143.4 Aug 11 (223) 132
8 Al Jabhah Forehead η Leonis (Al Jabhah), α (Regulus), ζ (Adhafera), γ (Algieba) 152.4 Aug 20 (232) 141
9 Al Zubrah Mane δ Leonis (Zosma), θ (Coxa) 169.4 Sept 6 (249) 158

We have been here before and perhaps the night of Delta (March 25) was completed at *Ca14-7:

... Time flows and the first notch for a 'night' (day) cannot be counted and carved into the wood until the first day has been measured out in full. Therefore Ca1-1 should correspond to the completion of the first day = at the beginning of the 2nd day of such a year which is beginning with March 21. Similarly should not the first day of the 2nd half of the year be noted down until at the beginning of its 2nd day ...

Alternatively we could say that Manus Catenata was the asterism ι, λ, and κ Andromedae, beginning - appropriately - with λ which rose in the day before ι and κ.

Egyptian menchet Phoenician lamedh Greek lambda Λ (λ)

... Wikipedia has no information regarding the origin of the Phoenician lamedh, but the Egyptian 'cloth' hieroglyph (menchet) is - I suggest - related to the 4 upside down sky pillars. I.e. the basic element of the 'covering' hieroglyph could have indicated darkness:

... The saint named James was connected with bivalve sea shells. In this picture by Rembrandt, though hard to see, St James is said to be wearing such a shell on his shoulder. 'He is depicted clothed as a pilgrim; note the scallop shell on his shoulder and his staff and pilgrim's hat beside him.' ...

... The son of Zebedee and Salome, James is styled 'the Greater' to distinguish him from the Apostle James 'the Less', who was probably shorter of stature. We know nothing of St. James's early life. He was the brother of John, the beloved disciple, and probably the elder of the two ...

In the Gospel of Mark III.17, the 'twins' James and John, the sons of Zebedee, are given by Jesus the name of Boanerges, which the Evangelist explains as meaning 'Sons of Thunder'. This was long overlooked but eventually became the title of a work by a distinguished scholar, too soon forgotten, Rendel Harris. Here the Thunder Twins were shown to exist in cultures as different as Greece, Scandinavia and Peru. They call to mind the roles of Magni and Modi, not actually called twins, but successors of Thor, in Ragnarok. But to quote from Harris:

We have shown that it does not necessarily follow that when the parenthood of the Thunder is recognized, it necessarily extends to both of the twins. The Dioscuri may be called unitedly, Sons of Zeus; but a closer investigation shows conclusively that there was a tendency in the early Greek cults to regard one twin as of divine parentage, and the other of human. Thus Castor is credited to Tyndareus, Pollux to Zeus ...

The extra child made the trouble, and was credited to an outside source. Only later will the difficulty of discrimination lead to the recognition of both as Sky-boys or Thunder-boys. An instance from a remote civilization will show that this is the right view to take.

For example, Arriaga, in his 'Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru' tells us that 'when two children are produced at one birth, which they call Chuchos or Curi, and in el Cuzco Taqui Hua-hua, they hold it for an impious and abominable occurrence, and they say, that one of them is the child of the Lightning, and require a severe penance, as if they had committed a great sin'.

And it is interesting to note that when the Peruvians, of whom Arriaga speaks, became Christians, they replaced the name of Son of Thunder, given to one of the twins, by the name of Santiago, having learnt from their Spanish (missionary) teachers that St. James (Santiago) and St. John had been called Sons of Thunder by our Lord, a phrase which these Peruvian Indians seem to have understood, where the great commentators of the Christian Church had missed the meaning ...

Another curious and somewhat similar transfer of the language of the Marcan story in the folk-lore of a people, distant both in time and place ... will be found, even at the present day, amongst the Danes ... Besides the conventional flint axes and celts, which commonly pass as thunder-missiles all over the world, the Danes regard the fossil sea-urchin as a thunderstone, and give it a peculiar name. Such stones are named in Salling, sebedaei-stones, s'bedaei; in North Salling they are called sepadeie-stones. In Norbaek, in the district of Viborg, the peasantry called them Zebedee stones! At Jebjerg, in the parish of Cerum, district of Randers, they called them sebedei-stones ...

The name that is given to these thunderstones is, therefore, very well established, and it seems certain that it is derived from the reference to the Sons of Zebedee in the Gospel as sons of Thunder. The Danish peasant, like the Peruvian savage, recognised at once what was meant by Boanerges, and called his thunderstone after its patron saint.

This might have given pause to later hyperscholars like Bultmann, before they proceeded to 'de-mythologize' the Bible. One never knows what one treads underfoot. (Hamlet's Mill)

... James' emblem was the scallop shell (or 'cockle shell'), and pilgrims to his shrine often wore that symbol on their hats or clothes. The French for a scallop is coquille St. Jacques, which means 'cockle (or mollusk) of St. James'. The German word for a scallop is Jakobsmuschel, which means 'mussel (or clam) of St. James'; the Dutch word is Jacobsschelp, meaning 'shell of St. James' ...

... The scallop shell is represented in the decoration of churches named after St. James, such as in St James' Church, Sydney, where it appears in a number of places, including in the mosaics on the floor of the chancel. When referring to St James, the scallop shell is represented with convex perspective. Referring to Venus the perspective is concave ...

... The date to celebrate St James (the Great) was July 25 in Western Christianity, April 30 in Eastern Christianity, and December 30 in the Hispanic Church. On the other hand, St John (the apostle) was celebrated in December 27 according to all these church traditions. St George, who died in April 23 in the year 303 AD, was celebrated in April 23 ...

JANUARY 23   24 (= 85 - 61) 25 26 27 (392) 28 (*313)
*Ca14-6 *Ca14-7 (370) *Ca14-8 *Ca14-9 *Ca14-10 *Ca14-11
kua ruku te manu te kihikihi - te hoea te kihikihi - o te vai - te kihikihi te vero te henua te heke
March 25 (84) 26 (*370) 27 (86) 28 (*10 - 3) 29 30
  DELTA (*8.4)

PORRIMA (*191)

DENEB KAITOS (*9.4)

MIMOSA

*10

*193 (= *190 + 3)

η ANDROMEDAE (*11.4)

ALIOTH

*377 (= *12 + 365)

COR CAROLI (*195)

September 24 (267) 25 26 27 (270 = 80 +*190) 28 29 (272)
JULY 25 26 27 28 29 30

... Venus, the goddess of the Sea, has the concave half (È) and St James the convex upper half (Ç), which probably represents the sky above. This pair of shells is the house which protects the life inside, in the middle (ki roto) ...