We can go back to
the time of the Bull in order to get
the proper perspective on what the
glyphs could tell us. Although
neither the Julian nor the Gregorian
calendars were used at that ancient
time we can get an idea of what
phase
of the year the stars were connected
with.
Furthermore, the
basic structure had been inherited
all the way up to the time of
rongorongo. A number structure kept
it all together, and like the helix
of DNA it would re-pair itself if
damaged.
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 |
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|
Cb1-1 (393) |
Cb1-2 |
Cb1-3 (395 =
45 + 350) |
|
E tupu - ki roto |
o te
hau tea |
|
April 17
(107) |
18 (473) |
19 (*29 =
*330 + 64 - 365) |
|
'March 21
(80 = 107 - 27) |
22 (*1) |
23 |
|
"March 7 (66
= 107 - 41 = 80 - 14) |
8 (*352 =
*329 + 23 = *28 - 41 + 365) |
9 (68 = 45 +
23) |
|
FEBRUARY 12 (408) |
13 (*329) |
2-14 (45) |
|
Al
Sharatain-1 /
Ashvini-1 /
Bond-16
Segin, Mesarthim, ψ
Phoenicis (27.2),
SHERATAN,
φ Phoenicis (27.4) |
ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis
(28.2) |
ALRISHA,
χ Phoenicis (29.2), Alamak (29.7) |
|
Muphrid
(210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3) |
φ Centauri
(211.0), υ¹ Centauri (211.1), υ² Centauri (211.8), τ
Virginis (211.9) |
Agena
(212.1), θ Apodis (212.5),
THUBAN
(212.8) |
|
October 17
(*210 = *27 + 183) |
18 |
19 (292) |
|
'September
20 (*183 = *210 - 27) |
21 (*1 + 183
= *184) |
22 (265 =
292 - 27) |
|
"September 6
(*169 = * 183 - 14 = *210 - 41) |
7 (250 =
*170 + 80) |
8 (*171 =
*353 - 182) |
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|
Cb1-4 (396) |
| ki te henua -
te maro |
|
April 20
(*30) |
|
'March
24 (*3) |
|
"March
10 (*354 = 12 * 29½) |
|
FEBRUARY 15 (46) |
|
2h
(30.4)
κ Arietis (30.3),
HAMAL (30.5)
Alkes
|
|
14h
(213.1)
χ Centauri (213.0), Menkent
(213.1) |
|
October
20 (293) |
|
'September 23 (266) |
|
"September 9 (*172 = *354 - 182) |
The creator of the C text evidently could
have gone back
to the time of Bharani to illustrate how Hamal at that
ancient time would have risen heliacally 354 days after 0h.
We can see from the corresponding glyph that there were 5
days ('feathers') ahead, connected with the creation of a
new cycle.
... Nut, whom
the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of
the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was
the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and,
it was said, married him secretly and against the will of
Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and
afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any
given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily
had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in
the course of several games a seventy-second part of the
Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these
five intercalated days did not belong to the official
Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was
thus able to give birth successively to five children:
Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...
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 |
 |
rutua - te pahu - rutua te maeva -
atua rerorero - atua hiko ura - hiko o tea - ka higa te
ao ko te henua ra ma te hoi atua |
|
Cb1-5 |
Cb1-6 (398) |
Cb1-7 |
|
April 21
(111) |
22 (*32) |
23 (*399 =
*33 + 366) |
|
'March 25 (84) |
26 |
27 (*372 =
*6 + 366) |
|
"March 11 |
12 (71) |
13 |
|
FEBRUARY 16 (*332) |
17 (413 = 48 + 365 =
14 * 29½) |
18
(49) |
|
η Arietis (31.9) |
no star listed (32) |
θ Arietis (33.3),
MIRA
(33.7) |
|
Neck-2
Asellus Tertius,
κ VIRGINIS,
14 Bootis (214.8) |
Al
Ghafr-13 /
Svāti-15
TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE
15 Bootis
(215.2),
ARCTURUS
(215.4), Asellus Secundus (215.5), Syrma, λ Bootis
(215.6), η Apodis (215.8) |
ι Lupi, 18
Bootis (216.3), Khambalia (216.4), υ Virginis (216.5), ψ
Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8) |
|
October 21
(*214) |
22 (295) |
23 |
|
'September
24 (*187) |
25 (268) |
26 |
| |
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|
Cb1-8 |
Cb1-9 |
Cb1-10 |
Cb1-11 (403) |
|
April 24 |
25 |
26 (*36 =
*402 - 366) |
27 |
|
'March 28 |
29 |
30 (*9 =
*375 - 366) |
31 (90) |
|
"March 14
(3-14 » π) |
15 |
16 (75 =
*360 + 80) |
1 |
|
FEBRUARY 19 (50) |
20 |
21 |
22 (53 = 117 - 64) |
|
no star listed (34) |
ξ Arietis (35.0) |
no star listed (36) |
no star listed (37) |
|
Asellus
Primus (217.8) |
τ Lupi
(218.1), φ Virginis (218.7)
Fomalhaut
|
σ Lupi
(219.1), ρ Bootis (219.5), Haris (219.7) |
σ Bootis
(220.2), η Centauri (220.4) |
|
October 24 |
25 |
26 |
27 (300) |
|
'September
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 (273) |
At Cb1-9, i.e. 5 days later, there are 5 feathers
are at left, and then follows an uplifted fist in front,
which means April 21 (111) marked day zero of the new cycle:
... The way of reckoning on the fingers
differs in various islands. In Nengone the fingers are
turned up and brought together at five. In the Banks
Islands the fingers are turned down. This is often done
with the spoken numerals, often without the use of
words. The practice of turning down the fingers,
contrary to our practice, deserves notice, as perhaps
explaining why sometimes savages are reported to be
unable to count above four. The European holds up one
finger, which he counts, the native counts those that
are down and says 'four'. Two fingers held up, the
native counting those that are down, calls 'three'; and
so on until the white man, holding up five fingers,
gives the native none turned down to count. The native
is nunplussed, and the enquirer reports that savages can
not count above four ...
... Strassmeier
and Epping, in their Astronomishes aus Babylon, say
that there its stars formed the third of the twenty-eight
ecliptic constellations, - Arku-sha-rishu-ku,
literally the Back of the Head of Ku, - which had been
established along that great circle milleniums before our
era; and Lenormant quotes, as an individual title from
cuneiform inscriptions, Dil-kar, the Proclaimer of
Dawn, that Jensen reads As-kar, and others Dil-gan,
the Messenger of Light.
George Smith
inferred from the tablets that it might be the Star of
the Flocks; while other Euphratean names have been Lu-lim,
or Lu-nit, the Ram's Eye; and Si-mal or
Si-mul, the Horn star, which came down even to late
astrology as the Ram's Horn.
It also was
Anuv, and had its constellation's titles I-ku and
I-ku-u, - by abbreviation Ku, - the Prince, or
the Leading One, the Ram that led the heavenly flock, some
of íts titles at a different date being applied to Capella
of Auriga.
Brown
associates it with Aloros, the first of the ten mythical
kings of Akkad anterior to the Deluge, the duration of whose
reigns proportionately coincided with the distances apart of
the ten chief ecliptic stars beginning with Hamal, and he
deduces from this kingly title the Assyrian Ailuv,
and hence the Hebrew Ayil; the other stars
corresponding to the other mythical kings being Alcyone,
Aldebaran, Pollux, Regulus, Spica, Antares, Algenib, Deneb
Algedi, and Scheat ...
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 |
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|
Cb1-12 |
Cb1-13 (405) |
Cb1-14 |
| manu
rere - kua rere ga manu - ki te ragi |
eaha te
nuku erua |
koia
kua huki |
|
April 28
(118) |
29 |
30 (*40) |
|
'April 1
(91) |
2 |
3 (*13) |
|
"March 18 |
19 |
20 (79) |
|
FEBRUARY 23 (54) |
24 (420) |
25 |
|
ν Arietis (38.5) |
μ Arietis (39.4), Head of
the Fly (39.6), Kaffaljidhma (39.8) |
ο Arietis (40.0), Angetenar
(40.2), Right Wing (40.9) |
|
ρ Lupi
(221.0),
TOLIMAN
(221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9) |
31 Bootis
(222.0), Yang Mun (222.1), Rijl al Awwa (222.5), ο
Bootis (222.9) |
Izar
(223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (223.3) |
|
October 28
(301) |
29 (*222) |
30 |
|
'October 1
(274) |
2 (*195) |
3 |
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|
Cb1-15 |
Cb1-16 (408) |
Cb1-17 |
| e niu
tu |
ki te
ariki - e ka hua ra tona rima |
koia
kua iri i ruga o te rima - e o to vaha mea |
|
May 1 (121) |
2 |
3 |
|
'April 4 (460) |
5 |
6 (96) |
|
"March 21
(*365) |
22 |
23 |
|
FEBRUARY 26 |
27 (58 = 408 - 350) |
28 (59) |
|
Bharani-2 /
Stomach-17
π Arietis (41.2),
BHARANI (41.4), τ²
Eridan, σ Arietis (41.7) |
no star listed (42) |
ρ Arietis
(43.0), Acamar (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7)
Denebola
|
|
Al
Zubānā-14a /
Visakha-16 /
Root-3
ZUBEN
ELGENUBI
(224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5) |
Kochab
(225.0) |
Ke Kwan (226.3), Ke Kwan
(226.4), Zuben Elakribi (226.8) |
|
October 31
(304) |
November 1 |
2 |
|
'October 4 (277) |
5 |
6 |
|
"September
20 (*183) |
21 (264) |
EQUINOX |
According to the
dates at the time of the Bull we
could expect a new year would begin
with glyph 410. Yes, we can see the
outline of a newborn little one
(still dormant, moe) with his
'navel
string' hanging out in front:
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 |
 |
|
Cb1-18 |
Cb1-19 (411) |
Cb1-20 |
| manu
moe ra |
ki to
mata |
e nuku
mata |
|
May 4 (124) |
5 (*45) |
6 |
|
'April 7 |
8 (464) |
9 (99) |
|
"March 24 |
25 (84) |
26 |
|
MARCH 1 |
2 (61) |
3 |
|
Menkar (44.7) |
3h (45.7)
ALGOL
(45.9) |
Misam (46.2), Botein (46.9) |
|
Nadlat
(227.8), π Lupi (227.9) |
15h (228.3)
Zuben Hakrabim (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9) |
ι Librae
(229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8) |
|
November 3 |
4 (308) |
5 |
|
'October 7
(280) |
8 |
9 |
|
"September
23 (266) |
24 |
25 (*188 = *229 - 41) |
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 |
 |
 |
| Cb1-21 (413) |
Cb1-22 |
Cb1-23 |
Cb1-24 |
| hoea |
ko te rima |
kua oo ki te vai |
ma te ua |
| May 7 |
8 |
9 (*49) |
10 (130) |
| 'April 10 (100) |
11 |
12 (468) |
13 |
| "March 27 |
28 |
29 (88) |
30 (*9 = *50 - 41) |
| MARCH 4 (413) |
5 (64) |
6 |
7 |
| ζ Arietis (47.7) |
Zibal (48.0) |
τ Arietis (49.7) |
ALGENIB PERSEI (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8) Gienah
|
| Al Zubānā-14b χ Bootis (230.2), χ Bootis (230.3), Princeps (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (230.8) |
μ Lupi, γ Tr. Austr. (231.3) |
ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), Pherkad (232.6), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9) |
Alkalurops (233.1) |
| November 6 (310) |
7 |
8 |
9 |
| 'October 10 |
11 |
12 (285) |
13 |
| "September 26 |
27 (270) |
28 |
29 (*192) |
|