The Chinese station beyond the Star Alphard is Extended Net with the exceptional 2 ruling stars, both of them in the Hydra constellation:
The Net in question apparently is extended between this pair of stars. In my star list I have a single ε Hydrae, and according to Wikipedia there is no ε² Hydrae so we can assume ε¹ = ε. This star is at the eye of the Hydra, whereas μ comes much later, around 10½h:
At my assumed precessional time for the rongorongo texts μ Hydrae rose in day 157 (half 314) after equinox:
The glyph number (91) is ¼ of 364 and perhaps implies the K calendar contains periods with 13 days in each. 7 * 13 = 91. The beginning of the Extended Net is earlier than Alphard and immediately before 'August 1 where the 'Arrow Head' is shot straight down from above. The beginning of the Extended Net is probably comparable to a sign of viri, because the Greek letter is ε. Thus a new 'year' would begin with 'August 1:
I guess the Net is there to catch something valuable. This is its extension:
... in the ceremonial course of the coming year, the king is symbolically transposed toward the Lono pole of Hawaiian divinity ... It need only be noticed that the renewal of kingship at the climax of the Makahiki coincides with the rebirth of nature. For in the ideal ritual calendar, the kali'i battle follows the autumnal appearance of the Pleiades, by thirty-three days - thus precisely, in the late eighteenth century, 21 December, the winter solstice. The king returns to power with the sun. Whereas, over the next two days, Lono plays the part of the sacrifice. The Makahiki effigy is dismantled and hidden away in a rite watched over by the king's 'living god', Kahoali'i or 'The-Companion-of-the-King', the one who is also known as 'Death-is-Near' (Koke-na-make). Close kinsman of the king as his ceremonial double, Kahoali'i swallows the eye of the victim in ceremonies of human sacrifice ... 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 ... Ka4-4 is glyph number 132 / 2 and Gregorian day 237 is in the G text a day of 'falling down':
The 'Arrow' star Sham (α Sagittae) was rising 2 days earlier and 237 - 91 = 146 (the Gregorian day number for May 26). In Gregorian day 237 μ Hydrae was rising heliacally.
Possibly the original idea of the Extended Net was to keep the web of calendar time intact, in spite of 'turning the page'. However, in K the Net does not stretch quite so far, and instead the important 'separation' (Ð) apparently took place 8 days earlier with the heliacal rising of ν Leonis:
The net presumably covers the 'secret' of how one generation changes into the next, but nets hardly hides anything at all (cfr The Scapegoat): ... The love-chase is, unexpectedly, the basis of the Coventry legend of Lady Godiva. The clue is provided by a miserere-seat in Coventry Cathedral, Miserere is Latin and means 'Have mercy (on me, O God)'. It refers to the opening words Miserere mei, Deus in 'Psalm 51 (Greek numbering: Psalm 50)' according to Wikipedia, where we also can find a connection to the ancient Egyptian ceremony of Opening the Mouth ... parallelled elsewhere in Early English grotesque wood-carving, which shows what the guide-books call 'a figure emblematic of lechery': a long-haired woman wrapped in a net, riding sideways on a goat and preceded by a hare ... The planet ruling births is Venus and to be foamborn is to be born where sea and land are joining. The Morning Star apparition of Venus might have been due at the end of side a. Or it could have been a Sign for the reappearance of the 'Morning Sun' south of the equator, when Sun was 'making landfall'. Southern spring equinox was not far ahead. |
