Spring equinox occurred later than at
the opposite side of the Gregorian leap day
(ºFebruary 29) - and of course also later than the
current heliacal position of Peregrini (up in the
crown of the Royal Oak):
Ahu Akapu A Hau Maka |
Te Pito O Te Kainga A Hau Maka |
Pu Pakakina A Ira |
6 days for loading the canoe of Hotu
Matu'a: |
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Ga4-11 |
Ga4-12 |
Ga4-13 |
Ga4-14 |
Ga4-15 |
Ga4-16 (99) |
Shir (158.9) |
p Carinae (159.3) |
φ Hydrae (160.3) |
no star listed (161) |
Vathorz
Posterior
(162.1),
Peregrini,
η Carinae (162.6) |
ν Hydrae (163.1) |
Hora Iti 26 |
27 |
28 (*160) |
29 |
30 (242) |
31 (*163) |
ºAugust 22 |
23 |
24 (236) |
25 (237) |
26 |
27 (*159) |
'July 30 (*131) |
31 |
'August 1 (213) |
2 |
3 (*135) |
4 (216) |
"July 16 |
17 (*118) |
18 (199) |
19 (200) |
20 |
21 (*122) |
α/91 Lac.
(341.1), Homan, β Piscis Austrini (341.2), ν
Tucanae (341.5), υ Aquarii (341.9) |
η Aquarii
(342.1), Situla (342.7) |
ε Piscis
Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi (343.8) |
Matar (344.2) |
Leap night |
λ Pegasi
(345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), τ Aquarii
(345.7), μ Pegasi (345.9) |
Tehetu'upú
25 |
26 (422) |
27 |
28 |
29 (60) |
Tarahao 1 |
426 - 366 = 60 |
ºFebr 21 |
22 (418) |
23 |
24 |
25 (56) |
ºFebr 27 (*341) |
422 - 365 = 57 |
'Jan 29 (*314) |
30 |
31 (396) |
'February 1 |
2 (33) |
3 (399) |
"Jan15 (*300) |
16 |
17 |
18 (383) |
19 (384) |
20 |
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King out at Sea ® |
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Ga4-20 |
Ga4-21 (104) |
Ga5-10 |
Ga5-11 (121) |
11h (167.4) |
Al
Sharas
(168.6) |
Pálida (184.6), Megrez (184.9) |
Hasta-13 /
Chariot-28 |
χ¹ Hydrae (167.1), χ² Hydrae (167.3) |
GIENAH
(185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4),
Zaniah (185.9) |
Hora Nui 4 |
5 (248) |
21 (*184) |
Equinox (265) |
ºAug 31 (*163) |
ºSept 1 (244) |
17 (*180) |
18 (261) |
'August 8 (220) |
9 (*141) |
25 (237) |
26 (*158) |
"July 25 (206) |
26 (*127) |
"August 11
(*143) |
12 (224) |
Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 /
Purva Bhādrapadā-26 /
House-13 |
23h (350.0) |
Uttara Bhādrapadā-27
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Wall-14 |
χ Pegasi
(2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7) |
Scheat
Pegasi, π
Piscis Austrini (349.3),
MARKAB PEGASI
(349.5) |
π Cephei (350.6) |
ALGENIB PEGASI
(1.8) |
Tarahao 5 (64) |
6 (*350) |
22 (81 = 31 + 28 + 22) |
23 (448 = 366 + 82) |
ºMarch 2 (61 = 64 - 3) |
3 (*346) |
19 (78 = 443 - 365) |
20 (444 = 365 + 31 + 28 + 20) |
'February 7 (403) |
8 (*323 = *350 - 27) |
Bissextum
(55 = *340 + 80 - 365) |
'Feburary 25 (55
= 22 * 5 / 2) |
"January 24 (389) |
25 (*309 = *350
- 41) |
"February 10
(*326) |
11 (42 = *327 + 80 - 365) |
When Makoi made his personal
cycle around the whole island in a single day he
went withershins (which is clockwise south of the
equator when looking north). He therefore may have
reduced the calendar's Sun time with a day. He could
have created a leap day, where the stars jumped over
a day. I have guessed this 'star leap night'
occurred somewhere close to Matar (η Pegasi), which
in rongorongo times rose with the Sun in Tehetu'upú
28. This position would then be a 'translation' of
the Gregorian custom of assigning the last day of
February to the leap day.
But another argument is to point out
to how Tehetu'upú 27 was the same day as ºFebruary
23 - reminding us of the last day of the old year (Terminalia)
according to ancient traditions. This would
therefore be the last day of Hau Maka - Te
Pito O Te Kainga A Hau Maka.
Egyptian courtyard |
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Phoenician heth |
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Greek eta |
Η (η) |
... The
letter shape ultimately goes back to a
hieroglyph for 'courtyard' ... possibly
named
hasir in the Middle Bronze Age
alphabets, while the name goes rather
back to
hayt, the name reconstructed for
a letter derived from a hieroglyph for
'thread'
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Makoi could therefore have
gone withershins in the night of Hora Iti 29, when
the stars made a jump ahead in the calendar, when
the Sun was at Peregrini up in the Royal Oak. RA day
344 for Matar can be counted as twice 172 (referring
to midsummer in the Gregorian calendar) - i.e. as a
day similar to the time of solstice.
This my interpretation is supported
by the names Hau-Ma-ka respectively Ma-koi,
where koi carries a negative meaning:
Ka
Ka. Particle of
the affirmative imperative, of cardinal
numerals, of independent ordinal
numerals, and of emphatic exclamation,
e.g. ka-maitaki! how nice!
Vanaga.
Ká. 1. To light
a fire in order to cook in the earth
oven (see umu): he-ká i te umu, he-ká
i te kai. 2. Figuratively: to fire
up the soul. To put oneself in a fury
(with manava): ku-ká-á toona manava
he has become furious. Vanaga.
1. Of T. 2. Imperative
sign; ka oho, ka tere,
ka ea, begone!; ka ko iha, a
greeting T; ka mou, hush; ka
oho, goodbye. 3. Infinitive sign;
mea meitaki ka rava, a thing good to
take; ka harai kia mea, to
accompany. 4. A prefix which forms
ordinals from cardinals. 5. The dawning
of the day. 6. Different (? ke).
Churchill. |
Kai
1. Ina kai;
verbal negation (but not used with the
imperative); ina kai kai matou,
we have not eaten. 2. To eat; meal. 3.
Fruits or produces of the land,
vegetables, edible plants. 4.
Figuratively: he-kai ite rogorogo,
to recite the inscriptions kohau
rogorogo (as spiritual food). 5.
Eclipse: ku-kai-á te raá, te mahina,
the sun, the moon has been eaten
(eclipsed). Vanaga.
1. Negative; kai
rogo, to fast; kai oho, to
forego; kai maa, to be ignorant,
to doubt; vave kai kohe,
inaccessible; ina kai, see ina
1. Ta.: ai, no. 2. To undergo, to
suffer. 3. Sharp, cutting. T Mgv.:
koi, koikoi, pointed, sharp,
adapted for cutting; kokoi,
prickly, stinging, irritating. Mq.:
koi, sharp, cutting. Ta.: oi,
sharp, keen. Since this is the only
language which has kai in this
sense the possibility of typographical
error should not be overlooked. The form
koi outside of Southeast
Polynesia is found in Maori, Rarotonga
and Hawaii. 4. To eat, to feed, to
feast; food, meat, a meal, repast;
kai nui, provision, intemperate,
voracious; kai no iti, sober,
temperate; hue ki te kai, to
victual; kai taria te kai,
abundance, to abound; hakapee no kai
hoao, abundance, to abound. Kaia,
eaten. P Pau.: kai, food, to eat.
Mgv.: kai, food, nourishment, to
eat. Mq.: kai, ai, food,
to eat. Ta.: ai, to eat. 5.
Hakakai, to take, to attack. Mgv.:
kai, to receive. Mq.: ai,
to catch some one, to seek to surprise.
Ta.: ai, to receive, to get
possession of, to become master of.
Churchill.
Kaihue, a heap
of food. Kaikino, selfish,
avaricious, faithless, ingrate, miserly,
rascal. Mq.: kaikino, selfish,
stingy, avaricious. Kaipurua,
issue, outlet, egress. Kaitagata,
cannibal; paoa kaitagata,
cannibal, savage. Kaiu,
nursling, suckling. Pau.: kaiu, a
child at the breast. Mq.: kaiu,
child at the breast, unweaned, suckling,
young of animals. Ta.: aiu,
nursling. Churchill.
Pau.: Fakakai,
earring. Ta.: faaai, ear
ornament. Mq.: hakakai, id. Ma.:
whakakai, id. Kaikaia, a
league, a plot. Mgv.: kaia,
cruel, cannibal. Ta.: aiaa,
fault, sin. Mq.: kaia,
quarrelsome. Ma.: kaia, to steal.
Kaito, brave, robust. Ta.:
aito, brave. Ma.: kaitoa, a
brave man. Kaitoa, well and good!
Ta.: aitoa, good! Ma.: kaitoa,
id. Kaitura, bravery, manhood.
Ta.: turatura, honored, exalted.
Churchill.
Mgv.: Kaiota,
raw food. Ta.: aiota, raw, ill
cooked. Ma.: kaiota, id.
Churchill.
Ta.: Ai, a bet,
a wager, a game. Mq.: kai, to
throw lots, to lose a game. Sa.: 'ai,
a count toward the score of a game. Ma.:
kai, a puzzling toy. Aihamu,
to eat leavings. Mq.: kaihamu,
id. Churchill.
Mq.: Kaiheehee,
to go from place to place to enjoy
feasts. Sa.: 'aisee, to beg food
at feasts. Kaihue, thief. Ha.:
aihue, to steal. Kaika, a
meal, feast. Sa.: 'aiga, meal.
Ha.: aina, id. Kaioto, a
sort of hemorrhage, piles. Sa.:
'ailoto, a cancerous ulcer. Kaitu,
to perfume oneself during a tabu period
when it was forbidden. Ha.: aiku,
to break a tabu. Churchill. |
AI,
v. Haw., to
eat; s. food,
vegetable food, in
distinction from
ia, meat;
ai-na, for
ai-ana, eating,
means of eating,
fruits of the land;
hence land, field,
country. New Zeal.,
kai, to eat;
kainga, food,
meal, home,
residence, country.
Tong., kai,
to eat. Sam., 'ai,
to eat; ainga,
family, kindred.
Marqu., kaika,
kainga, food,
meal.
Tagal., cain,
to eat.
Zend., gaya,
life; gaetha,
the world; gava,
land, country.
Vedic, gaya,
house, family (A.
Pictet). Sanskr.,
ghâsa, food;
ghas, devour.
Greek, αία,
γαια,
γη,
different forms
occurring in Homer,
land, country,
cultivated land;
γειος,
indigenous;
γειτων,
a neighbour;
ήια,
provisions for a
journey.
Goth.,
gawi,
gauja,
country, region.
Germ.,
gau.
Lat.,
ganea,
eating-house;
ganeo,
glutton. Lith.,
goyas;
Ant. Slav. and
Russ.,
gai,
'past-rage', nemus.
Polish,
gay,
id.
Mr. A. Pictet, in
his 'Les Origines
Indo-Europ.', vol.
II. p. 15, says that
the Vedic and Zend
gay 'n'ont
surement aucun
rapport avec le grec
γαια.'
This assertion
evokes a doubt,
inasmuch as, as late
a in Homer's time,
two other
dialectical
variations of this
word existed in the
Greek, viz. αία
and δα
or δη,
in
δη-μητηρ,
contracted from some
ancient form in
δαια,
as γη
and γα,
from γαια.
As neither of these
can be supposed to
be derived from, or
to be a phonetic
corruption of, the
other, it seems to
me that they must
have come down
abreast from
primeval times, thus
indicating that the
original root was
differently
pronounced by
various sections of
the still united
Aryan stock; and I
believe that this
root, in its archaic
forms, still
survives in the
Polynesian
ai
and
kai,
to eat.
The Sanskrit
go,
land, the earth,
from which Benfey
derives a
hypthetical
gavyd
and a Greek
γαfια
- by elimination
γαια
- is probably itself
a contraction from
the Vedic and Zend
gaya,
as the Greek
γη
and
γα,
as the ancient Saxon
gâ
and
gô,
pagus, regio, and
the ancient Slav.
gai,
nemus, are
contractions from
derivations of that
ancient root still
found in Polynesia.
The above
derivatives in sound
and sense certainly
refer themselves
better to some
ancient
ai
of
kai,
food, the fruits of
the forest or the
roots of the field,
than to the Sanskrit
go,
bull, cow, cattle;
for the Aryan family
undoubtedly had one
or more names for
eating and for food
before its various
divisions applied
themselves to the
herding of cattle.
The Sanskrit
ghas,
ghâsa,
the Latin
ganea,
ganeo,
point strongly to
the underlying
original sense of
eating and food.
According to
Professor A. H.
Sayce, in
'Introduction to the
Science of
Language', vol ii.
p. 19, it is
probable that the
Latin
edere,
to eat, is a
compound word =
e-dere,
like
ab-dere,
con-dere,
cre-dere,
and others, thus
leaving
e
as the root. How far
that
e
may have been a
dialectical variant
or a phonetic decay
of an older form
more nearly allied
to the Polynesian
ai,
kai,
I leave to abler
philologists to
determine.
(Fornander)
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However, the Sun Kng Hotu
Matu'a should be governed not by the old
Moon (Star) calendar but by the updated Sun
calendar and his crucial day ought to have
been Hora Nui 22 (equinox). 'Translating'
this date we find September 22 and then 7-22
(or 22-7 alluding to
π). 72 *
2 = 144 resembles *144 at Ga4-1:
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Ga3-23 |
Ga3-24 |
Ga4-1 |
Ga4-2 |
Ga4-3 |
Ga4-4 (87) |
ψ Leonis (146.4),
Ras
Elaset Australis
(146.6) |
Vathorz Prior
(147.9) |
υ¹ Hydrae (148.4),
Ras
Elaset Borealis
(148.7) |
Tseen Ke (149.9) |
ν Leonis (150.1), π Leonis
(150.6) |
υ² Hydrae (151.8) |
Hora Iti 14 |
15 |
16 |
17 (229) |
18 (*150 = 87 + 63) |
19 |
ºAug 10 |
11 |
12 (*144) |
13 |
14 |
15 |
'July 18 |
19 (200) |
20 |
21 (*122) |
22 |
23 |
"July 4 (185) |
5 |
6 (*107) |
7 (*108) |
8 |
9 |
Enif, Erakis (329.2), 46
Capricorni, Jih (329.3), ι
Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ
Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei
(329.7),
Deneb Algiedi (329.8) |
θ
Piscis Austrini (330.1) |
Kuh (331.4) |
no star listed (332) |
η
Piscis Austrini (333.4) |
22h (334.8) |
Kae Uh (334.0), Al Kurhah
(334.4), Sadalmelik (334.6), ι
Aquarii, ν Pegasi (334.7) |
Febr 13 (*329) |
14 |
15 (46) |
16 |
17 (413 = 14 * 29½) |
18 (49) |
ºFebruary 9 |
10 (*326) |
11 (407) |
12 (408) |
13 (*329) |
14 (45) |
'January 17 |
18 (383) |
19 (384) |
20 (*305) |
21 (386 = 2 * 193) |
22 |
"January 3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 (372) |
8 (*293) |
This amazing maze appears to
work across different ages and parts of the
glyph text and it is therefore not very
clear what the individual glyphs are
referring to. It is a global structure,
where the parts are interdepentent.
However, it becomes simpler
if we follow the Sun. His arrival to Easter
Island should have coincided with spring
equinox. The date Tagaroa Uri 15 (288)
should therefore correspond to September 22
(265).
288 - 265 = 23 and 121 (viri
in Ga5-11) + 23 = 144 (= 12 * 12).
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