Thus my first sequence ('period') covers a week, and for various reasons I feel inclined to see a pair of days followed by 5 days:
I have redmarked the nakshatra star Heka which (like kava) implies a dark time. ... Al Maisān, the title of γ Geminorum, by some error of Firuzabadi was applied to this star [Heka] as Meissa, and is now common for it. Al Sufi called it Al Tahāyī; but Al Ferghani and Al Tizini knew it as Rās al Jauzah, the Head of the Jauzah, which it marks. The original Arabic name, Al Hak'ah, a White Spot, was from the added faint light of the smaller φ¹and φ² in the background, and has descended to us as Heka and Hika. These three stars were another of the Athāfiyy [tripods used for cooking] of the Arabs; and everywhere in early astrology were thought, like all similar groups, to be of unfortunate influence in human affairs. They constituted the Euphratean lunar station Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur, the Little Twins, a title also found for γ and η Geminorum; and individually were important stars among the Babylonians, rising to them with the sun at the summer solstice, and, with α and γ, were known as Kakkab Sar, the Constellation of the King ... Heka ruled the 5th Hindu station Mrigashīrsha:
492 (Ga1-19) + 63 = 555 and 555 - 365 = 190. Using information from C: 555 - 265 (Ca10-10) = 290. 10 * 10 = 100 and 190 + 100 = 290. Aldebaran ruled the previous station Rohini which was characterized by e.g. the banyan tree. Was toromiro the Easter Island equivalent of the banyan tree?
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