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
...
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