7 of these 8 stars fill up the gap before Hassaleh:
Possibly the enigmatic quartet of glyphs from Ga1-7 was meant to illustrate how Orion with his left arm is holding up a shield and to explain how the hide of his shield was derived from a 'fish'. Bulls and lions were absent on Easter Island, but perhaps Orion had lifted up his beast from the river of Eridanus:
In rongorongo times Ga1-8 ought to have represented June 1 (6-1) and in the preceding night the Chinese Tail station should have been close to the Full Moon. In the time of Gregorius XIII the date at Ga1-8 was 4 days earlier, ºMay 28 (where 52 * 8 = 416 = 2 * 208 = 16 * 26). Maybe Ga1-8 was the central glyph in a triplet with the 4th glyph (Ga1-10) not a part of the group but pointing at a continuation in Auriga. Or maybe ihe tau in Ga1-8 was necessery before Hassaleh. First a lifting up from the water and then a further uplifting from land - a preliminary description of rising heliacally at the solstice soon to come: ... Considering the fact that the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ... |