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Perhaps the creators of Manuscript E had access to the G text in published form, I seem to remember Barthel suggested so, and the time frame of Bharani (the place of birth) was 37 (= 41 - 4) precessional days before the birth of the Gregorian calendar.

... The Julian calendar day Thursday, 4 October 1582 was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582 (the cycle of weekdays was not affected) ...

Vaitu Nui 25 (115) "April 25 (115) °June 1 (152 = 115 + 37)
Sea Voyage of the Explorers: 37 days (= 152 - 115 = 189 - 152)
Maro 1 (152) "June 1 (152) °July 8 (189 = 152 + 37)
ARIES:
1 Ashvini β and γ Arietis Horse's head 27 = 16 + 11
wife of the Ashvins Sheratan and Mesarthim April 17 (107)
2 Bharani 35, 39, and 41 Arietis Yoni, the female organ of reproduction 41 = 27 + 14
the bearer  Musca Borealis May 1 (121)
TAURUS:
3 Krittikā M 45 Tauri Knife or spear 55 = 41 + 14
the nurses of Kārttikeya The Pleiades May 15 (135)
4 Rohini α Tauri Cart or chariot, temple, banyan tree 68 = 55 + 13
the red one Aldebaran May 28 (148)

Also the Arabs (in addition to the Hindus) could evidently have singled out Bharani as their place of birth, because their first 9 stations probably had the fraction 0.4 in order to be in harmony with the Northern Fly:

0  Zero η Andromedae 11.4 April 1 (91)
Whip Cih (γ Cassiopeiai) 12.4 April 2 (92)
1 Al Sharatain Pair of Signs β Arietis (Sheratan), γ (Mesarthim) 27.4 April 17 (107)
 
  Musca Borealis 35 (Head of the Fly), 39 (Kaffaljidhma), and 41 Arietis (Bharani) 41.4 May 1 (121)
2 Al Dabarān Follower α Tauri (Aldebaran), θ¹, θ²´, γ (Hyadum I), δ (Hyadum II), ε (Ain) 63.4 May 23 (143)
    Khufu Mintaka (δ Orionis)  82.4 June 11 (162)
3 Al Hak'ah White Spot λ Orionis (Heka), φ¹, φ² 83.4 June 12 (163)
4 Al Han'ah Brand γ Gemini (Alhena), μ (Tejat Posterior), ν, η (Tejat Prior), ξ (Alzirr) 93.4 June 22 (173)
5 Al Dhirā' Forearm α Gemini (Castor), β (Pollux) 113.4 July 12 (193)
6 Al Nathrah Gap ε Cancri (Beehive) 130.4 July 29 (210)
7 Al Tarf End ξ Cancri, λ Leonis (Alterf) 143.4 Aug 11 (223)
8 Al Jabhah Forehead η Leonis (Al Jabhah), α (Regulus), ζ (Adhafera), γ (Algieba) 152.4 Aug 20 (232)
9 Al Zubrah Mane δ Leonis (Zosma), θ (Coxa) 169.4 Sept 6 (249)

At the time of rongorongo there were 41 precessional days down to the time of 41 Arietis (Bharani). From the time of Bharani to Zosma and Coxa there were 169.4 - 41.4 = precisely 128 (twice 8 * 8) days. To present the time dimension and then make it stay in memory it was necessary to use numbers, not ordinary numbers but remarkable numbers: 414 = 14 * 29½ + ½.

And then the baseline at the time of the Bull had to be remembered in order to arrange these very special numbers in proper parallel with the stars. On Easter Island a square of 8 could have served this purpose, because this was where the G text began - where the Heart (σ Scorpii) was close to the Full Moon in the night:

0h MARCH 22 (*1) 23 (82)
no glyph
Ga1-1 Ga1-2
HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri

(*64)

Net-19

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)

no star listed (66)
May 24 25 (145) 26 (*66)
°May 20 21 (*61) 22 (142)
'April 27 28 (118) 29 (*39)
"April 13 14 (104) 15 (*25)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
SEPTEMBER 20 (*183) 21 (264) EQUINOX
Heart-5

σ SCORPII (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7)

ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8) Al Kalb-16 / Jyeshtha-18 / ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)

ANTARES = α Scorpii (249.1), MARFIK = λ Ophiuchi, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)

November 23 (327) 24 25 (*249)
°November 19 20 (*244) 21 (325)
'October 27 (300) 28 29 (*222)
"October 13 (286) 14 TAGAROA URI 15 (288)

To realize what this 'heart' meant the Chinese had added a clue in form of a suggestive animal:

1 Horn α Virginis (Spica) Crocodile (202.7) Oct 9 (282) 282 = 265 + 17
2 Neck κ Virginis Dragon (214.8) Oct 21 (294) 294 = 282 + 12
3 Root α Librae (Zuben Elgenubi) Badger (224.2) Oct 31 (304) 304 = 295 + 9
4 Room π Scorpii (Vrischika) Hare (241.3) Nov 17 (321) 321 = 304 + 17
5 Heart σ Scorpii Fox (247.0) Nov 23 (327) 327 = 321 + 6
6 Tail μ Scorpii (Denebakrab) Tiger (254.7) Nov 30 (334) 334 = 327 + 9
7 Winnowing Basket γ Sagittarii (Nash) Leopard (273.7) Dec 19 (353) 353 = 334 + 19

... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...

... Every astronomer should have known about the Fox star and therefore it would have been easy to associate the Heart ('load stone') in the Scorpion with Al-cor (a name which could allude to a 'heart'). The Fox rose at the same time as Spica (α Virginis) and there were then 45 (= 360 / 8) days from the Horn (tara) of Spica to the Heart (kopu) in the Scorpion ...

Kopu

Heart, breast, paunch, belly, entrails; kopu mau, stomach; kopu takapau nui, big belly; mamae kopu, bellyache. T Pau., Mgv.: kopu, belly, paunch. Mq.: kopu, opu, belly, stomach, breast. Ta.: opu, belly, intestines, spirit, intelligence. Churchill.

Ta.: opu, to rise, of the sun. Ma.: kopu, the morning star. Churchill.

Names for Saturn:

Hawaiian Islands

Society Islands

New Zealand

Pukapuka

Naholoholo, 'Swift-running'

Makulu, 'Dripping-water'

Fetu-tea, 'Pale-star'

Parearau, 'Circlet'

Kopu-nui, 'Great-paunch'

Mata-tea, 'Pale-star'

... 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 ...

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...

APRIL 17 (107) 18 19 20 (*30) 21
Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29 Ga1-30 Ga2-1
6h (91.3)

ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)

ξ Orionis (92.5) Al Han'ah-4 / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)

 TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)

 FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9) Well-22 / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)

δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)

June 20 SOLSTICE 22 (*93) 23 (174) ST JOHN'S DAY
°June 16 17 (168) 18 19 20 (*91)
'May 24 (144) 25 26 27 28 (*68)
"May 10 (130) 11 12 13 14 (*54)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
OCTOBER 17 (290) 18 19 20 21 (*214)
ZHŌNGSHĀN = ο Herculis (274.0), π Pavonis (274.6) ι Pavonis (275.1), POLIS = μ Sagittarii (275.9)

MENKAR (α Ceti)

η Sagittarii (276.9) Purva Ashadha-20
KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii, κ Lyrae (277.5), TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis (277.7), SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis (277.8), KWEI SHE = χ Draconis (277.9) φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS = ε Sagittarii (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), AL  ATHFAR = μ Lyrae (278.6)
December 20 SOLSTICE 22 23 (357) CHRISTMAS EVE
°December 16 17 18 19 (*273) 20 (354)
'November 23 (327) 24 25 26 (*250) 27
"November 9 10 (314) 11 12 (*236) 13
APRIL 22 23 24 25 (*35) 26 27 28 (118)
Ga2-2 Ga2-3 Ga2-4 Ga2-5 Ga2-6 Ga2-7 (37) Ga2-8
no star listed (96) β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) no star listed (98) ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)

ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA = ε Gemini (100.7) SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7) τ PUPPIS (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4)
June 25 26 27 28 29 (180) SIRIUS July 1
SOLSTICE °June 22 23 ST JOHN'S DAY 25 (*96) 26 (177) 27
'May 29 30 (150) 31 'June 1 2 3 4 (*75)
"May 15 (500) 16 (136) 17 18 19 20 21 (*61)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
OCTOBER 22 23 24 25 (*218) 26 27 (300) 28
KAUS BOREALIS = λ Sagittarii (279.3) ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9) Abhijit-22

θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA = α Lyrae (281.8)

no star listed (282) ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8) South Dipper-8

Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)

SHELIAK = β Lyrae, ν Lyrae (285.1), ο Draconis (285.5). λ Pavonis (285.7)

ATLAS (27 Tauri)

December 25 26 27 28 29 30 (364) 31
SOLSTICE °December 22 23 (*277) CHRISTMAS EVE 25 26 (360) 27
'November 28 29 30 (*254) 'December 1 2 (336) 3 4
"November 14 15 16 17 18 (*242) 19 20 (324)
APRIL 29 30 MAY 1 (*41) 2 (122)
Ga2-9 Ga2-10 Ga2-11 Ga2-12 (42)
Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-9 (Twins of the Shepherd ?)

θ Gemini (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), ALHENA = γ Gemini (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9)

ADARA (Virgin) = ε Canis Majoris (104.8) ω GEMINI (105.4), ALZIRR = ξ Gemini (105.7), MULIPHEIN = γ Canis Majoris (105.8), MEKBUDA = ζ Gemini (105.9) 7h (106.5)

no star listed (106)

July 2 (*104 = 8 * 13) 4 (185) 5
ºJune 28 29 (*100) SIRIUS ºJuly 1 (182)
'June 5 6 (157) 7 (*78) 8
"May 22 23 24 (144) 25 (*65)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
OCTOBER 29 30 (303) 31 (*224) NOVEMBER 1
χ Oct. (286.0), AIN AL RAMI = ν Sagittarii (286.2), υ Draconis (286.4), δ Lyrae (286.3), κ Pavonis (286.5), ALYA = θ Serpentis (286.6) ξ Sagittarii (287.1), ω Pavonis (287.3), ε Aquilae, ε Cor. Austr., SULAPHAT = γ Lyrae (287.4), λ Lyrae (287.7), ASCELLA = ζ Sagittarii, BERED = i Aquilae (Ant.) (287.9)  Al Na'ām-18 / Uttara Ashadha-21

NUNKI = σ Sagittarii (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), MANUBRIUM = ο Sagittarii (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9)

19h (289.2)

λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8)

January 1 2 3 (*288) 4
°December 28 29 30 (364) 31
'December 5 6 (340) 7 (*261) 8
"November 21 22 23 (327) 24 (*248)

... the seasonal cycle, throughout the ancient world, was the foremost sign of rebirth following death, and in Egypt the chronometer of this cycle was the annual flooding of the Nile. Numerous festival edifices were constructed, incensed, and consecrated; a throne hall wherein the king should sit while approached in obeisance by the gods and their priesthoods (who in a crueler time would have been the registrars of his death); a large court for the presentation of mimes, processions, and other such visual events; and finally a palace-chapel into which the god-king would retire for his changes of costume ...

... Pliny wants to assure us that 'the whole sea is conscious of the rise of that star, as is most clearly seen in the Dardanelles, for sea-weed and fishes float on the surface, and everything is turned up from the bottom'. He also remarks that at the rising of the Dog-Star the wine in the cellars begins to stir up and that the still waters move ... the modern Homo occidentalis is bound to shrink back from the mere idea that the Nile represented a circle, where 'source' and 'mouth' meet, so that there is nothing preposterous in the notion that a Canopic mouth can be found in the geographical North ...

... Xiuhtecuhtli, the fire god, as Huehueteotl, 'the old god at the centre'. One of the oldest deities of ancient America, this clay figure from the Veracruz culture shows him seated with a brazier on his head. Xiuhtecuhtli was lord of the present 'Sun', or era, his ceremonies being particularly important at the end of every fifty-two-year cycle when all fires were put out and a fresh one was kindled on a prisoner's breast in order to keep time moving ...