1. Sagittarius hits its
target and the winter season is over. In a curve
the great canoe of time turns around. This 'death' once should
have been at autumn equinox, which north of the
equator was associated with Scorpio:
...
In astrology the Scorpion's armoured body
segments and its array of weaponry predisposed
it to become a creature symbolizing war and the
martial prowess of the king. However a different
meaning is attached to it in mythic texts such
as the Gilgamesh Epic where Scorpion-men and
women guard the sacred mountain through which
the hero has [to] traverse on his quest for
immortality. The Scorpion-people are said to
guard the sun at his rising and setting and
because Gilgamesh is a favourite of the sun god
they allow him to travel the subterranean path
that the sun travels every night under the
mountain ...
Nowadays precession has moved Scorpio
away from autumn equinox and towards winter
solstice, which south of the equator means
towards summer solstice. But the idea of a radical
change announced by Scorpio evidently remained, which
could explain why the cycle of Sun seems to be
closed by Sagittarius not far
beyond Rehua and also why Sun could be pictured with
a broken neck (in haś poro in Ga8-16 and
also 11 days later in Gb1-1):
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Ga8-9 (*277) |
Ga8-10 |
Ga8-11 |
Ga8-12 (*280) |
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Ga8-13 |
Ga8-14 |
Ga8-15 |
Ga8-16 |
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Ga8-17 |
Ga8-18 (222) |
Ga8-19 |
Ga8-20 (*288) |
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Ga8-21 |
Ga8-22 |
Ga8-23 |
Ga8-24 |
Ga8-25 |
Ga8-26 |
Maybe glyph number 222 (a
Saturday) alluds to Toliman.
We have seen that the Tahitian
star pillar list can be utilized to illuminate the G text:
|
present autumn equinox |
present winter solstice |
present spring equinox |
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Sirrah |
1 |
- |
Sirius |
102 |
13 |
Spica (3) |
204 |
24 |
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Polaris (10) |
28 |
27 |
Procyon (7) |
116 |
14 |
Arcturus (6) |
216 |
12 |
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Alcyone |
57 |
29 |
Alphard (5) |
143 |
27 |
Toliman |
222 |
6 |
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Aldebaran (2) |
69 |
12 |
Dubhe (4) |
168 |
25 |
Antares (1) |
250 |
28 |
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Rigel |
79 |
10 |
Phaed (9) |
180 |
12 |
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Alnilam |
85 |
6 |
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Betelgeuze (8) |
89 |
4 |
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Sirrah (?) |
67 |
Ana-muri (?) |
98 |
Ana-tipu (?) |
81 |
Rehua (?) |
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Gb6-26 (*1) |
Ga1-4 (*69) |
Ga4-20 (*168) |
Ga7-16 (186) |
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250 |
And we should now be confident
enough to try to summarize the important stars
of the structure:
|
Sirrah (?) |
67 |
Ana-muri (?) |
18 |
Ana-varu (?) |
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Gb6-25 |
Gb6-26 (*1) |
Ga1-3 (4) |
Ga1-4 (*69) |
Ga1-23 (24) |
Ga1-24 (*89) |
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26 |
Ana-tahua-vahine (?) |
50 |
Ana-tipu (?) |
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Ga2-21 (*116) |
Ga2-22 (53) |
Ga4-20 (*168) |
Ga4-21 (105) |
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9 |
Ana-iva (?) |
23 |
Ana-roto (?) |
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Ga5-4 (115) |
Ga5-5 (*180) |
Ga5-29 (*204) |
Ga5-30 (141) |
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9 |
Ana-tahua-taata (?) |
5 |
Toliman (?) |
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Ga6-10 |
Ga6-11
(*216) |
Ga6-17 (*222) |
Ga6-18 |
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25 |
Rehua (?) |
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Ga7-15 (185) |
Ga7-16 (*250) |
I have provisionally assigned 2
glyphs for each of these 3 + 7 = 10 stars but I have no
rule for if to join the key glyph with its
predecessor or its follower.
The 'star days' have odd numbers
(1, 69, 89) up to and including Betelgeuze and
winter solstice. But beyond they have even numbers
(116, 168, 180, 204, 216, 222, 250). This may be
a coincidence, but 'star day' number 28
(Polaris) and 'star day' number 143 (Alphard)
are among the Tahitian pillars but not (so
far) among the star glyphs which I have chosen to
list above. On the other hand I have included
Sirrah and Toliman although they are no Tahitian
star pillars.
Maybe there should be 12 stars
and maybe we should include Polaris (Ana-nia,
pillar-to-fish-by) and Alphard (Ana-heu-heu-po,
the pillar where debates were held):
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Gb7-22 |
Gb7-23 |
Gb7-24 |
Gb7-25
(*28) |
Gb7-26 |
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Gb7-27 |
Gb7-28 |
Gb7-29 (440) |
Gb7-30 |
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4 |
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Ga3-17 (77) |
Ga3-18 |
Ga3-19 (*143) |
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5 |
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Ga3-20 (80) |
Ga3-21 |
