Once again. In Manuscript E the Explorers' 37 days out at Sea before they made Landfall may have implied the precessional depth from the time of Gregory XIII down to that of Bharani, but the creator of the G text used a more distinct method by relying of the reader's certain knowledge of the position of heliacal Sirius - which never changed in the Gregorian calendar and always was at the end of the first half of theyear: ... In other words, the Explorers spent 152 (= 6³ - 4³) - 115 = 37 days out at Sea (from Vaitu Nui 25 to Maro 1) before they made Landfall and these 37 days could have been equated with the precessional distance from the time of Bharani (*41) and up to the time of Gregory XIII (*4). It surely was a Sign and it was probably intended to let the reader know that the structure of the Gregorian calendar was used. The distribution of right ascension days should follow the Gregorian calendar and the dates be defined accordingly ... The Ship of Noah had a cube of 6 as regarded from the outside. Its inside measure could have been 4 * 4 * 4 = 64, in which case we could count: 6³ - 4³ = 216 - 64 = 152 for its dry timbers [its protecting outer shell] ...
The 2nd half of the Gregorian year was 'fished up' where the Sun reached Sirius. The idea of 2nd is seems to be implied by the design of the fish-hook which here had a pronounced break at its neck:
... At the time of the loading of the emigrant canoe, Hotu Matua ordered his assistant Teke to take a (stone) figure (moai) named Oto Uta on board the canoe, along with the people (aniva) who were emigrating. However, the figure was left behind 'out in the bay' (E:73). After the arrival in the new land, after disembarkation in the bay of Anakena, and after the return of the explorers to the homeland, our source continues with the following account [E:87-90]. On the thirtieth day of the month of October ('Tangaroa Uri'), Hotu asked about the stone figure (moai maea) named Oto Uta. Hotu said to Teke, 'Where is the figure Ota Uta (corrected in the manuscript for Hina Riru)? Teke thought about the question and then said to Hotu, 'It was left out in the bay.' Hotu said to Pure O, to Pure Ki, and to Pure Vanangananga: 'You fellows (kope), sail to the friend (hoou), to Oto Uta. Bring him here, he who is resting out in the bay. Move him carefully (? nee), you fellows, so that the king, that Oto Uta is not damaged!' Pure O, Pure Ki, and Pure Vanangananga took the canoe, put it into the water, and sailed to Hiva. The canoe of Pure O left on the fifth day of the month of November ('Ruti'). After the canoe of Pure O had sailed and had anchored out in the bay, in Hanga Moria One, Pure saw the figure, which had been lying there all this time, and said to his younger brothers (ngaio taina), 'Let's go my friends (hoa), let us break the neck of this mean one (or, ugly one, rakerake). Why should we return to that fragment of earth (te pito o te kainga, i.e., Easter Island)? Let us stay in our (home)land!' ... Pure O picked up a large round stone (pureva) and hit the top of the figure. Because of the stone, the neck of Oto Uta was broken.Then the wind started blowing, the billow rose, the waves broke, the rain started falling, the flame (i.e., lightning) shone brightly, and the thunder rolled. As soon as the wind started blowing, the waves broke, the rain fell, and thunder rolled, King Hotu knew that Pure O had done harm to Oto Uta. Hotu spoke: 'These fellows have done a mean thing to King Oto Uta!' After the neck of Oto Uta had been broken, Kuihi and Kuaha arrived. They picked up the neck of King Oto Uta, took it, and brought it with them. They arrived out in the bay, in Hanga Rau. (There) Kuihi and Kuaha left (the fragment). After the neck of Oto Uta had been brought on land, out in the bay of Hanga Rau, the wind, the rain, the waves, and the thunder subsided. Kuihi and Kuaha arrived and told the king the following: 'King Oto Uta is out in the bay of Hanga Rau'. Hotu said to his servant (tuura) Moa Kehu, 'Go down to king Oto Uta and take him up out of the bay of Hanga Rau!' Moa Kehu arose, went down, picked up (the fragment), and carried (it) on his shoulders [i te tua ivi] to the house. There he left it for King Hotu. King Hotu sat down and wept over King Oto Uta. This is Hotu's lament (tanginga): ka hati toou ngao e oto uta e te ariki e / mo tau papa rangaranga o haho i te tai / mo tuu huehue rangaranga o haho i te tai / mo tau hahave rere ai ka pae / mo tae ngu rere ai ka pae / mo te ika aringa riva nei he aku renga ai ka pae. Broken is your neck, oh Oto Uta, oh king! / Floating (?) like a raft (?) out at sea. / To be erected for the drifting huehue (fish) out at sea. / Able (?) to put an end to the flight of the flying fish hahave; / Able (?) to put and end to the flight of the flying fish ngu; / Put an end to this fish, a dorado, with the good face! (E:87-90) ... Hotu A Matua corresponded to the last of the antediluvian kings (to Noah, to Ubardudu etc), whereas the first king up on dry Land was Ko Oto Uta - corresponding to Adam, to Alulim etc:
Which probably means that ºJune 30 was the day when according to the Gregorian calendar the 'neck of Adam' was broken. Beyond ºJune 30 the brightest star in the night sky would draw up the Sea again (after Canopus had bared the Land):
... 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 ... ... In ancient Egypt they thought Sirius was behind the yearly rise of the Nile ... 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 ... By moving from the heliacal to the nakshatra perspective - to the opposite side of the year - there should not be a broken neck here but rather its opposite, viz. a rebirth of Land:
The Explorers returned to their homeland 10 days after Hotu A Matua had reached Easter Island, viz. 10 days after the Sun had reached Antares. To remind ourselves:
The measure 61 for a double-month in the Gregorian calendar breaks down at the end of August, because both July and August carried 31 days. Therefore my 'planetary colours' for the dates at the time of the Bull compared to those at the dates 61 days earlier in the Gregorian calendar are no longer the same. South of the equator the beginning of September corresponded to the beginning of March (where a break instead was caused by a too short preceding month). And a 3rd disorder occurred at the beginning of February because both December and January carried 31 days.
... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive. In this ceremony two diviners and their wives sit on benches so that they occupy the corner positions of the cosmic square. They take their seats in the same order as the stones were placed, with the men on the eastern side and the women on the west. The ritual actions of sitting down and lifting upward are done with great precision and care, because they are directly related to the actions done by the gods at Creation. The people represent the gods of the four corners and the clouds that cover the earth. As they rise from their seats, they metaphorically lift the sky. If their lifting motion is uneven, the rains will be irregular and harmful ... |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
