Menkar |
α Ceti |
2.54 |
03º 54' N |
03h 00m |
45.7 |
453.7 |
453 |
Counting with a 360-day long cycle there
are 30 days from Deben Kaitos to
Kaffaljidhma, from the tail to
the head. And Mira
is 24 days from Deben Kaitos:
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24 |
Gb7-5 |
Gb7-6 |
Gb7-7 (418) |
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Schedir (417.6), Deneb
Kaitos (418.4)
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Gb8-1 (443) |
Gb8-2 |
Gb8-3 |
Gb8-4 |
Gb8-5 |
Mira
(442.7) |
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Gb8-6 |
Gb8-7 |
Gb8-8 (450) |
Gb8-9 |
Gb8-10 |
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Kaffaljidhma (448.8) |
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Gb8-11 (453) |
Gb8-12 |
Gb8-13 |
Menkar (453.7) |
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I think the hole at
Deneb Kaitos is alluded to in the
story about Ure Honu:
... Another year passed, and a man
by the name of Ure Honu went
to work in his banana plantation. He
went and came to the last part, to
the 'head' (i.e., the upper part of
the banana plantation), to the end
of the banana plantation. The sun
was standing just right for Ure
Honu to clean out the weeds from
the banana plantation.
On the first day he hoed the weeds.
That went on all day, and then
evening came. Suddenly a rat came
from the middle of the banana
plantation. Ure Honu saw it
and ran after it. But it disappeared
and he could not catch it. On the
second day of hoeing, the same thing
happened with the rat. It ran away,
and he could not catch it. On the
third day, he reached the 'head' of
the bananas and finished the work in
the plantation. Again the rat ran
away, and Ure Honu followed
it. It ran and slipped into the hole
of a stone. He poked after it,
lifted up the stone, and saw that
the skull was (in the hole) of the
stone. (The rat was) a spirit of the
skull (he kuhane o te puoko).
Ure Honu
was amazed and said, 'How beautiful
you are! In the head of the new
bananas is a skull, painted with
yellow root and with a strip of
barkcloth around it.'
Ure Honu
stayed for a while, (then) he went
away and covered
the roof of his house in Vai Matā.
It was a new house. He took the very
large skull, which he had found at
the head of the banana plantation,
and hung it up in the new house. He
tied it up in the framework of the
roof (hahanga) and left it
hanging there ...
The last part of his
'banana plantation' had a stone with a
hole in it, and in this hole was the
skull of the Sun King. The last part had
'the head', i.e. the beginning of the
new agricultural cycle. Perhaps the
cranium (gagana) in Gb8-7 (at the
head of the whale, Kaff-al-Jidmah)
illustrates how it is turned around into
a new generation (hua). This new
generation has to be 'unearthed', and
puo in Gb8-8 (where 8 * 8 = 64)
probably is a sign of 'hilled up'.
Perhaps Gb8-30 at the end
of side b is the last day of the 'hilled
up' season:
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Gb8-6 |
Gb8-7 |
Gb8-8 (450) |
Gb8-9 |
Gb8-10 |
Gb8-30 (472) |
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Kaffaljidhma (448.8) |
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