2. South of the equator Antares announces the arrival of summer and 4 weeks earlier Toliman could possibly indicate a phase when the new Sun not yet has been released from the womb of Mother Earth:
Ga6-17--18 constitutes the 25th period in the henua calendar, Ga7-16 is located 10 * 25 days from 'the woman in chains', and there are 25 glyphs between Saturday at Ga6-18 and Wednesday ('the day of turning around') at Ga7-15. The generation of a new 'fire' ought to be the significance of the square of 5, and with Ga7-15 at day 185 and 71 * 5 = 355 ('one more' than 12 * 29½) Rehua evidently stands on the threshold to next 'year', the back side of the double cycle. Counted from Ana-muri (Aldebaran) and vaha mea in Ga1-4 there are 180 days to hua poporo and Rehua:
There are 6 black berries in front in contrast to all the other hua poporo berries in the G text which are drawn as mata. The singular case of Ga7-15 probably refers to Sun, who evidently has 6 black berries:
Solanum is Latin for the nightshades, and the shadows are indeed taking command over the light from Sun beyond midsummer. (Though some larvae of butterflies thrive on their leaves.) The art of tattooing is to imprint black patterns on the body (cfr at Moko): ... The designs that were made on Mataora's face by the chisel of Uetonga were the tiwhana, these lines that sweep over the eyebrows to the temples; the rerepehi, those lines which sweep from the nose around the mouth to the chin; and also the two spirals on the side of the nose of a man, they are called ngu and pongiangia. We call this work moko because of the lizard whose twitching tail is seen in all its curving lines ...  The place for tattooing is at the foot of Ana-muri, according to the Tahitian star pillar list, and maybe hua poporo refers to the berries of the ti plant (cfr at Camp 5):
The back side of the Taranaki storehouse roof could correspond to side a of the G tablet, because south of the equator the season when Sun is far north would appear to be the back side of the year. A new child could be 'planted' at the apex of the roof, which south of the equator presumably represents summer solstice and north of the equator should correspond to winter solstice. At that time on Hawaii they went into the water and played hi'uwai: ... In the deep night before the image [of Lono] is first seen, there is a Makahiki ceremony called 'splashing-water' (hi'uwai). Kepelino tells of sacred chiefs being carried to the water where the people in their finery are bathing; in the excitement created by the beauty of their attire, 'one person was attracted to another, and the result', says this convert to Catholicism, 'was by no means good' ... Hiku-vai has 'tail' as its main word and vai to indicate what kind of end is meant. The 'tail' of the 'water' should be the last part of autumn immediaterly before winter solstice, I think, with 'water' stretching for ¼ of the year (its last quarter). Toliman is the Mad Dog in the Babylonian version of the sky roof, and he stands at the beginning of the 4th quadrant:
Toliman is α Centauri and centaurs are men in front but has horses' ends. The Horse is depicted in early spring and his end could be in late autumn. Also Sagittarius (Pabilsag) has a centaurian 'tail'. Toliman is very low down, below the tail of Hydra, and far below the path of Sun:
My earlier explanation of why Rehua is at a low declination cannot be right, because Sun is not going down at Ana-mua but rising up from the deep of α Centauri on his way to be reborn (in form of 6 months of summer). In the G text a child (tamaiti) is drawn immediately beyond the end of the henua calendar:
The glyph type in Ga7-12 is ika hiku ('tail of the fish'). North of the equator it could be summer solstice, 181 days beyond winter solstice and 92 days beyond spring equinox. 24 days (= 64 + 182 - 222) have passed since Ga6-17. Maybe we here have the origin of number 68, because 92 - 24 = 68.
Yet, 365 - 181 = 184 is the distance from summer solstice to winter solstice and Ga7-14 is positioned as number 184. Relying on our earlier identification of Ga4-5 as located at spring equinox, however, the child in Ga7-11 ought to be at summer solstice (north of the equator). When according to the sky roof Antares arrived it was a sign of autumn equinox north of the equator - however not at present but a very long time ago. And the centaur image could stand for the quarter which ended the old year, after Sun had turned his back. South of the equator, though, it would have been spring equinox respectively the first quarter of the new year - given that the observations were done at the same time in the day and in the same direction as north of the equator. Precession has since then moved the constellations forward, and α Scorpii is nowadays located at right ascension 16h 26 which is equal to (16 * 60 + 26) / 1440 * 365¼ = 250 days beyond autumn equinox south of the equator:
Thus Rehua is rising in day 266 + 250 - 358 = 158 beyond winter solstice, or 177 - 158 = 19 days before summer solstice. 186 (the day number of mago in Ga7-16) + 19 = 205, which significantly is the first glyph (a Rei) in line a8:
There are 7 'feathers' at left and 6 at right in Ga7-32 and 266 is equal to the day number of autumn equinox, suggesting Sun is ending his days here. And 205, we should remember, happens to be the day number of heuheu in Q:
Beyond summer solstice north of the equator glyph number 185 could be the first day of the back side of the year. The empty hand (both in Ga7-15 and in *Qa7-27) could illustrate how the male Spring Sun now is finished. Day 186 is 5 days beyond day 181 counted from winter solstice. Rehua is the last Tahitian star pillar to emerge at the horizon in the east. Therefore Rehua is also the last to descend in the west. This observation explains why a canoe should be landing with its stern first - Ana-muri is going down (meeting earth in the west) before all the other stars of the 'canoe of Sun'. Though also for practical reasons the canoe of course should have its front out to the sea, in case a quick departure would be necessary. However, when Old Sun goes down into the sea at the horizon in the west he cannot survive, the water will kill him. In the Milky Way the constellation Eagle & Dead Man suggests his spirit (manu rere) will rise like an eagle. Therefore, south of the equator, Spring Sun should not survive beyond Rehua. |
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