From the time of the Bull, when Fomalhaut - at the Mouth of the Southern Fish - ought to have culminated at midnight in day 295 - 61 = 234 = 18 * 13 = AUGUST 22
to my suggested time frame for the C text there were 60 precessional days - as from Mayan Pop to Zotz -
and therefore Fomalhaut would have culminated in day 234 + 61 = 295 = 5 * 59 = October 22:
Consequently, in C the nights of the Full Moon in conjunction with the stars in the night placed Acrux in the Southern Cross at the beginning of side a:
For people in South America, and probably also for the inhabitants on Easter Island, the Southern Cross was the proper time piece to consult:
... The two great stars, which marks the summit and the foot of the Cross, having nearly the same right ascension, it follows that the constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to the people of every nation situated beyond the Tropics or in the southern hemisphere. It has been observed at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross is erect or inclined. It is a time piece, which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day, and no other group of stars affords to the naked eye an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahs of Venezuela and in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, 'Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend' ...
According to Posnansky the complex figures at left and right - for my eye suggesting the front (mua) and end (muri) of some kind of sea-going vessel - were representations of the Southern Cross. This means midnight should be in the center:
... This Snake-river of sparkling dust, the stream of the abyss on high through which it runs, the golden cord of the heaven-god ... connected alike with the hill of the Sun-god and with the passage of ghosts, is the Milky Way ... The Norsmen knew it as the Path of the Ghosts going to Valhöll (Valhalla), in the region Gladsheimr, - the palace of their heroes slain in battle; and our North American Indians had the same idea, as witness the 'wrinkled old Nokomis', when, teaching the little Hiawatha, she Showed the broad white road in heaven, / Pathway of the ghosts, the shadows, / Running straight across the heavens, / Crowded with the ghosts, the shadows, / To the Kingdom of Ponemah, / To the land of the hereafter; the brighter stars along the Road marking their camp-fires ... Our aborigines and the Eskimo also called it the Ashen Path, as did the Bushmen of Africa, - the ashes hot and glowing, instead of cold and dark ... (Allen)
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