The Sun year was beginning in the middle between the equinoxes and not where the gods (birds and fishes) were entering:
…to enter a war canoe from either the stern or the prow was equivalent to a 'change of state or death'. Instead, the warrior had to cross the threshold of the side-strakes as a ritual entry into the body of his ancestor as represented by the canoe. ... The first god's house in the temple was the empty body of Ta'aroa's own person, and it became a model for all other god's houses. One day Ta'aroa let himself go into a trance and his spirit stood away in space while his body floated in the sea; then he said to his daughters: Oh, girls, girls! How many canoes are there at sea? And the daughters replied: It is like one, it is like one! Then Ta'aroa's spirit said: Who can it be? And they answered: It is thyself assuredly! In terms of the G text we should therefore not look back to the stars in mythic times. Instead the heliacal stars in rongorongo time should be our guides:
I guess Ana-kena could allude to Al Han'ah. Which sign (brand - a sign of fire) pointed at the Tejat door (between μ and ν in Gemini).
3 feet were pointing backwards, but the right foot of Pollux was oriented forward. In rongorongo times Alhena (γ) was rising with the Sun early in July (He Anakena). In the times of Gemini the Land would here have risen from the Milky Way at the March equinox. In modern times the star Alhena was not at an equinox but where a solstice broke the continuity. There could have been 7 black nights, a weak of wake, from the day of St John the Baptist in June 24 (175) to day 182 (July 2 = He Anakena 2). There could have been a 7-day break in the 'turtle shell' through which a new 'tree' emerged:
... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ... |
