Next page: Another hipu was carefully placed at Gb4-17:
April 25 was when the Chorti diviners' initiated the rituals connected with raising the sky roof and these countinued until the rains arrived: ... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive. In this ceremony two diviners and their wives sit on benches so that they occupy the corner positions of the cosmic square. They take their seats in the same order as the stones were placed, with the men on the eastern side and the women on the west. The ritual actions of sitting down and lifting upward are done with great precision and care, because they are directly related to the actions done by the gods at Creation. The people represent the gods of the four corners and the clouds that cover the earth. As they rise from their seats, they metaphorically lift the sky. If their lifting motion is uneven, the rains will be irregular and harmful ... The creator of the G tablet has carefully organized his text so that April 25 coincided with day 416 according to his extrapolations backwards in time to the era of the Hyades Gate. April 25 was located at glyph number 416 (= 8 * 52). Hipu in Gb4-17 could hardly refer directly to the Urn of Aquarius, because the last star (with a Greek letter) of Aquarius was ω in March 15. Instead we can guess this calabash was symbolizing the important rains ahead. ... It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder ... From "December 30 (*284) to "March 16 (*360) there were 76 (= 4 * 19) days:
In rongorong times ξ Arietis rose like a tent peg 172 - 115 = 57 = 3 * 19 days before June 21:
"A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name. The original list of Bayer designations contained 1,564 stars." (Wikipedia) 1564 = 4 * 391 = 4 * 368 + 92. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
