*AUGUST 21	22	23
October 28 (118 + 183 = 301)	29	30
ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN (Balance?) = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9)	31 Bootis (222.0), YANG MUN (South Gate) = α Lupi (222.1), RIJL AL AWWA (Foot of the Barker) = μ Virginis (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9)	IZAR (Girdle) = ε Bootis (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (223.3), μ Librae (223.8)

Cb1-12	Cb1-13 (405)	Cb1-14
manu rere - kua rere ga manu - ki te ragi	eaha te nuku erua	koia kua huki
ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8)	μ Arietis (39.4), HEAD OF THE FLY = 35 Arietis (39.6), KAFFALJIDHMA (Part of a Hand) = γ Ceti, θ Persei (39.8)	π Ceti, ο Arietis (40.0), ANGETENAR (Bend in the River) = τ¹ Eridani, μ Ceti (40.2), RIGHT WING = 39 Arietis (40.9)
*FEBRUARY 19	20	21 (52)
*April 28 (118 = 4 29½)**	29	30

*AUGUST 24 (236 = 472 / 2)	25	26
October 31	November 1 (305)	2
Al Zubānā-14a / *Visakha-16 /* Root-3 (Badger) ZUBEN ELGENUBI (Southern Claw) = α Librae (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)	*KOCHAB (Kakkab* = Star) = β Ursae Min. (225.0), ξ Librae (225.7)**	KE KWAN (Cavalry Officer) = β Lupi (226.3), KE KWAN = κ Centauri (226.4), ZUBEN ELAKRIBI (Scorpion's Claw?) = δ Librae (226.8), π¹ Oct. (226.9)

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
*Bharani-2 / Stomach-17* (Pheasant) π Arietis (41.2), MIRAM (Announcer?) = η Persei (41.3), BHARANI (Bearer) = 41 Arietis (41.4), τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7)	TA LING (Great Mound) = τ Persei (42.4)	ρ Arietis (43.0), GORGONEA SECUNDA = π Persei (43.5), ACAMAR = θ Eridani (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7), λ Ceti (43.9)
*FEBRUARY 22 (53)	23	24
*May 1 (11 11)**	2	3 (123)

*AUGUST 27	28 (240)
November 3	4 (308 = 240 + 68)
ω Bootis (227.2), NEKKAR (Herdsman) = β Bootis (227.3), σ Librae (227.5), π² Oct. (227.7), NADLAT (Low little ones) = ψ Bootis (227.8), π Lupi (227.9)	15h (228.3) ZUBEN HAKRABIM (Scorpion's Claw) = ν Librae (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9)

Cb1-18	Cb1-19 (411 - 4 - 4 = 403)
manu moe ra	ki to mata
MENKAR (Nose) = α Ceti (44.7)	3h (45.7) GORGONEA TERTIA = ρ Persei (45.1), ALGOL = β Persei (45.9)
*FEBRUARY 25	26 (57)
May 4	*5 (5 5 * 5)**

From 'muan' in Cb1-11 to the sleeping little one with navel string still hanging down in front (Cb1-18, where 1-18 could allude to 472 / 4) there was a week.

Moe

To sleep, to lie at full length, to dream, to brood, to place, to cohabit; moe atu, to leave off, to desist; moe atu ra, to adjourn, to postpone; moe hakahepo, to talk in the deep; moe aherepo, somnambulist, sleepwalker; moe hakataha, to sleep on the side; moe no, to oversleep, concubinage; moe tahae, to be a light sleeper; moe tahaga, a sleeper; moe vaeahatu, moe hakaroa, to sleep sprawling; rava moe, to sleep sound; ariga moe ki raro, to lie flat on the ground; tae moe, bachelor; hakamoe, to brood, to fold the wings; to reserve, to lay up; to struggle. P Pau.: moe, sleep. Mgv.: moe, sleep, to lie down, coitus, to shut the eyes. Mq.: moe, to sleep, to lie down; haámoe, to set down on the ground. Ta.: moe, to sleep, to lie down. Moea raruga, lying flat. Moeaivi, thin. Mq.: ivi, haáivi, id. Ta.: ivi, id. Moega, mat. Pau.: moehega, bed. Mgv.: moega, a sleeping mat. Mq.: moena, moeka, mat, floor cloth, bed. Ta.: moea, bed. Moemata, to sleep with the eyes open; mea moemata, phantom. Moemoea, a dream, vision; tikeahaga moemoea, apparition by night. T Mgv., Mq., Ta.: moemoea, dream. Churchill.

Mgv. Moemoe, to steal, to purloin at a food distribution. Mq.: moemoe, to seize, to grasp. Churchill. Ta.: 1. Moemoe, ambush. Ha.: moemoe, id. 2. Moemoe, Phyllanthus simplex. To.: mohemohe, a tree. Churchill. Mq.: Moehu, exiled, banished, prisoner of war. Ma.: morehu, a survivor. Churchill.


moa	Cb1-11 (403)	Cb1-18 (410)	moe

When the Sun reached Bharani, the place for giving birth, the Full Moon was at α Librae (Zuben Elgenubi). The little coconut tree (niu) stood up here (tu) which ought to mean Metoro identified Cb1-15 (possibly alluding to April 25) with the horizon in the east rather than with the horizon in the west. But the canopy of this young tree carried both > and <.

"Canopy ... covering over a throne, etc. ... for L. cōnōpēum ... net over a bed, pavilion - Gr. kōnōpeîon Egyptian bed with mosquito curtains, f. kōnōps gnat, mosquito." (English Etymology)

"... the Egyptian calendar lost about one day every four years relative to the Gregorian calendar. It is therefore sometimes referred to as the wandering year (Latin: annus vagus), as its months rotated about a third of the way through the solar year each century. Ptolemy III's Canopus Decree attempted to correct this through the introduction of a sixth epagomenal day every four years but the proposal was resisted by the Egyptian priests and people and abandoned until the establishment of the Alexandrian or Coptic calendar by Augustus ..." (Wikipedia)

... What the net could be is known from the story of Kaulu. This adventurous hero, wanting to destroy a she-cannibal, first flew up to Makalii the great god, and asked for his nets, the Pleiades and the Hyades, into which he entangled the evil one before he burned down her house. It is clear who was the owner of the nets up there. The Pleiades are in the right hand of Orion on the Farnese Globe, and they used to be called the 'lagobolion' (hare net). The Hyades were for big game ...


Cb1-15	niu	Ga2-29

Niu

Palm tree, coconut tree; hua niu, coconut. Vanaga. Coconut, palm, spinning top. P Pau., Ta.: niu, coconut. Mgv.: niu, a top; niu mea, coconut. Mq.: niu, coconut, a top. Churchill. The fruit of miro. Buck. T. 1. Coconut palm. 2. Sign for peace. Henry. The sense of top lies in the fact that the bud end of a coconut shell is used for spinning, both in the sport of children and as a means of applying to island life the practical side of the doctrine of chances. Thus it may be that in New Zealand, in latitudes higher than are grateful to the coconut, the divination sense has persisted even to different implements whereby the arbitrament of fate may be declared. Churchill 2.

Nikau

Mgv.: The coco palm. Ta.: niau, coconut leaf. Ha.: niau, stem of the coconut leaf. Ma.: nikau, an areca palm. Churchill. Mgv.: niu, the coconut palm when young, ripening into nikau. ... the ni of New Caledonia leads us to infer that niu was anciently a composite in which ni carried at least some sort of generic sense, it being understood that this refers to those characteristics which might strike the islanders as indicating a genus. In composition with kau tree we should then see nikau, the ni-tree, serving in Mangareva for the coconut palm, in New Zealand for the characteristic palm (Areca sapida) of that land, in Tahiti as niau for coconut leaf, and as niau in Hawaii for the leaf stalk of the coconut. The ni-form is found in Micronesia, and in the Marshall Islands ni is the coconut. Churchill 2.

The world beneath the north pole was spinning around and there was uncertainty as to the cardinal directions. Before birth the fate of the new little one was unknown. At the horizon in the east there was a chamber of hazard, for until with the arrival of spring light the vision was poor and the cardinal points unclear.

... Originally the highly born family of the Sun, Moon, and stars dwelt in a cave on the summit of Maunga-nui, Great Mountain, in the ancient homeland. They were not at all comfortable in their gloomy home for they could not see distinctly and their eyes watered constantly. After the Sky-father had been elevated to his present eminence Tane decided that the celestial family would be happier in the sky, where they would serve the double purpose of ornamenting the naked body of Rangi and giving light to the Earth-mother. Since Papa had already been turned with her face toward the Underworld it is difficult to see how she would benefit by the illumination ...

... Jupiter ruled both above and below, with his Tree streching all the way up from the lowest regions:

A little house of birth can be seen where a bright path curves up to the place where the new Tree emerges from some crack in the carapace of the earth. And to complete the cycle there had to be a return path:

... 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)

The basic idea seems to go back at least to the ancient Babylonians, which had a House of Hazard - implying the new year birth was not a predetermined event but subject to the will of the genetic gods - positioned in the east where the Sun was rising (at left in the picture below):

... Da ferner sofort nachgewiesen werden wird, dass sich der apsū unter der Erde ihrer ganzen Ausdehnung nach befindet und ein Höhlung unter der Erde nur verursacht werden kann durch eine Wölbung der Erde, werden wir nicht umhinkönnen, diese Vorstellung von dem apsū wieder gespiegelt zu sehen in dem Bericht des Diodor, dem gemäss die Erde von den Chaldäern in der Gestalt eines umgestülpten Bootes vorgestellt wurde ... (Jensen)

... Als solch ein Ort (resp. ein Gemach) im Osten des apsū [water below the earth] und im Osten der Erde an der Grenze zwischen dem sichtbaren und unsichtbaren Reiche hat der Duazag eine ganz besondere Bedeutung im Glauben der Babylonier. Er ist ... 'der Ort der Geschicke', der ki nam-tar-tar-ini = ašar šimātum. Ein Solcher konnte nur im Osten liegen. Denn die Sonne geht im Osten auf. Die Ostsonne ist Marduk. Darum bringt auch Marduk die Geschicke aus der Behausung seines Vaters Ía, dem Urwasser, hervor ...

... Von diesem [Nebukadnezar's II grosser Inschrift] heisst es ... 'Duazag, der Ort der Geschicke im Ubšugina [Versammlungsraum], das (dem?) Gemach der Geschicke, in dem im Zakmuku

[= F(e)ast for Marduk at the beginning of the year to determine (make fast) the future (of the year/halfyear?) for which the gods went to Marduk's tempel Ĭsagila in Babylon: '... zu dem sich die übrigen Götter und vor Allem Barsip(pa)'s Hauptgott Nabū in feierlichem Zuge zu Schiff ... begaben ...']

zu Jahresanfang am 8ten (und?) am 11ten Tage der (Gott-)König .... sich niederlässt und die Götter über Himmel und Erde ... das Schicksal der Zukunft ... bestimmen ...'

... Ganz ähnlich is der Name 'Gott von Duazag' des Gottes Nabū ... zu erklären. Er bezeichnet ihn als den Gott des Wachtstums, welches als aus dem Osten stammend betrachtet wird, weil die Sonne, die das Wachstum bringt, im Osten aufgeht. Dass aber Nabū als Ost-Gott aufgefasst wurde, hängt damit zusammen, dass sein Stern, der Mercur, nur im Osten oder Westen sichtbar ist ...

... Wir begreifen, warum der Tišrītu durch 'Monat (des) Duazaga' bezeichnet wird. Denn in diesem findet die Aussaat des Korns (insbesondere ... des Weizens und der Gerste) statt, der Duazag aber hat zu diesen ... als Ort des Gottes, der das Wachstum des Weizens befördert, eine ganz bestimmte Beziehung ¹

¹ Beachte aber, dass der erste Monat des Jahres nach dem Schicksalsgemach (= Ubšugina) bezeichnet wird ... , der siebente aber d.i. der erste der zweiten Jahreshälfte nach dem im Ubšugina befindlichen Duazaga. Sollte darum die Deutung des Namens Tišrītu als 'Anfang' doch vorzuziehen sein?

... The 'living god', moreover, passes the night prior to the dismemberment of Lono in a temporary house called 'the net house of Kahoali'i', set up before the temple structure where the image sleeps. In the myth pertinent to these rites, the trickster hero - whose father has the same name (Kuuka'ohi'alaki) as the Kuu-image of the temple - uses a certain 'net of Maoloha' to encircle a house, entrapping the goddess Haumea; whereas, Haumea (or Papa) is also a version of La'ila'i, the archetypal fertile woman, and the net used to entangle her had belonged to one Makali'i, 'Pleiades'.

Just so, the succeeding Makahiki ceremony, following upon the putting away of the god, is called 'the net of Maoloha', and represents the gains in fertility accruing to the people from the victory over Lono. A large, loose-mesh net, filled with all kinds of food, is shaken at a priest's command. Fallen to earth, and to man's lot, the food is the augury of the coming year. The fertility of nature thus taken by humanity, a tribute-canoe of offerings to Lono is set adrift for Kahiki, homeland of the gods. The New Year draws to a close. At the next full moon, a man (a tabu transgressor) will be caught by Kahoali'i and sacrificed. Soon after the houses and standing images of the temple will be rebuilt: consecrated - with more human sacrifices - to the rites of Kuu and the projects of the king ...