Early in August the Water Serpent was
'speared' by the mast of the Sunken Ship, and the precise
date was
determined by Alphard (α
Hydrae, Ana-heu-heu-po, the pillar where
debates were held), a star which in rongorongo times was seen close to
the Moon in manzil day 268 = February 8:
|
8 (265) |
Al Baldaah 9 |
|
10 |
11 (268) |
|
5 (36) |
February 6 |
7 (403) |
8 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca12-5 |
Ca12-6 |
Ca12-7 |
Ca12-8 (324) |
|
mauga tu taki |
tagata hoi haatu |
ka huri ra |
ki te mauga |
|
ο Pavonis (320.8) |
φ Capricorni (321.8) |
Alderamin (322.9),
Dai (323.5) |
γ Pavonis (324.1) |
|
7 |
August 8 |
9 |
10 (222) |
|
4 |
Murzim 5 (84) |
6 |
7 |
|
Miaplacidus (139.3) |
Tureis (139.8) |
Markab Velorum (141.5) |
Al Minhar al Asad
(141.6), Alphard (142.3) |
|
Al Baldaah 12 |
13 (270) |
|
Saad Al Thabib 1 |
2 |
|
February 9 (40) |
10 |
11 |
12 (408) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca12-9 (325) |
Ca12-10 |
Ca12-11 |
Ca12-12 |
|
oho te vae |
ki hukiga o
te ra |
kua oho
ra |
kua ere te tagata -
te hetu |
|
Yan (324.6) |
Alphirk (325.7),
Sadalsud (325.9) |
Castra (327.2),
Bunda (327.5) |
Nashira (328.0) |
|
August 11 |
12 |
13 |
14 (226) |
|
Murzim 8 |
9 |
10 |
11 (90) |
|
ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7), ψ
Velorum (143.3), Alterf, τ² Hydrae (143.4),
ξ Leonis (143.5) |
A Hydrae (144.1) |
Ukdah (145.4),
κ Hydrae (145.5) |
Subra (145.8), ψ Leonis (146.4) |
The Hydrae 'knot' (ukdah) could
allude to the navel string of a newborn baby (= the
new halfyear). August 10 can be counted as 8 * 10 =
80 and 324 + 80 = 404 (February 8) is half a year
later.
August 10 + 80 = October 29 (302) and
February 8 + 80 = April 29 (119):
|
Auva 8 |
9 |
10 |
11 (168) |
|
October 28 |
29 |
30 |
31 (304) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca8-22 |
Ca8-23 |
Ca8-24 |
Ca8-25 |
|
tagata i te marama |
koia ra |
ki te marama |
ku hakarava |
|
ρ Lupi (221.0), Toliman (221.2) |
π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9), Yang
Mun (222.1),
Rijl al Awwa (222.5) |
ο Bootis (222.9), Izar (223.0),
109 Virginis (223.3) |
Zuben Elgenubi (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi
(224.5) |
|
April 29 |
30 |
May 1 (121) |
2 |
|
Al Muakhar
11 |
12 |
13 (350) |
Alrescha 1 |
|
no star
listed |
Head of the Fly
(39.6), Kaffaljidhma (39.8),
Angetenar (40.2) |
Right Wing (40.9), Bharani (41.4) |
τ² Eridani
(41.7) |
|
Bharani,
the 2nd Hindu lunar station (i raro): |
|
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
Al Muahkhar 12 |
13 (350) |
|
April 26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 (120) |
May 1 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca2-10 |
Ca2-11 |
Ca2-12 |
Ca2-13 |
Ca2-14 (40) |
Ca2-15 |
| ki
te kea |
tagata oho ki roto o to vai |
kua
noho te kea |
kua
hua te rima |
tagata oho |
ki
te vai |
| |
|
|
|
Head of the Fly (39.6), Kaffaljidhma
(39.8) |
Right Wing (40.9), Bharani (41.4) |
Half a year after early August, in early
February, the change had to be in the opposite
direction. Instead of the 'neck' it was the right
front 'leg' which was the target. And we can guess
that instead of the
Crater vessel it was the Urn who received the part
sacrificed.
I imagine a pattern 400 = 5 * 80,
with the 'year in leaf' measured as 240 days:
...
Fakataka
swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes
there and stays on the upraised reef in the
freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers
her child, a boy child. She gives him the name
Taetagaloa. When the baby is born a
golden plover flies over and alights upon the
reef. (Kua
fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai
i te papa).
And
so the woman thus names various parts of the
child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli):
neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima),
knee (tulivae).
|
neck |
elbow |
knee |
|
turi-uru |
turi-rima |
turi-vae |
|
3 * 80 = 240 |
The C text has 4 + 1 = 5 vae
glyphs, the last of them maybe expressing a fluid
state (vae hipu):
|
Saad Al Thabib 14 |
15 (285) |
|
Saad Balaa 1 |
2 |
|
February 24 |
25 |
26 (422) |
27 (58) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca12-24 (340) |
Ca12-25 |
Ca12-26 |
Ca12-27 |
|
te vae
paupau |
te niu tutuu |
oho te rima o te niu |
a hagahaga |
February 24 can be counted as 12 * 24
= 288 = 4 * 72. It is day 420 (55 + 365) in the
Gregorian calendar, a number which equals 2 * 210 =
12 * 35 = 14 * 30 days.
Metoro said te vae paupau and
as pau means empty we can imagine he referred
to the river from the Urn. Double pau means
the opposite, viz. full. A double negative becomes a
positive.
|
Pau 1. To
run out (food, water): ekó pau te
kai, te vai, is said when there is
an abundance of food or water, and there
is no fear of running out. Puna pau,
a small natural well near the quarry
where the 'hats' (pukao) were
made; it was so called because only a
little water could be drawn from it
every day and it ran dry very soon. 2.
Va'e pau, clubfoot. Paupau:
Curved. Vanaga.
1. Hakapau, to
pierce (cf. takapau, to thrust
into). Pau.: pau, a cut, a wound,
bruised, black and blue. 2. Resin. Mq.:
epau, resin. Ta.: tepau,
gum, pitch, resin. (Paupau)
Hakapaupau, grimace, ironry, to
grin. 3. Paura (powder),
gunpowder. 4. Pau.: paupau,
breathless. Ta.: paupau, id. 5.
Ta.: pau, consumed, expended.
Sa.: pau, to come to an end. Ma.:
pau, finished. 6. Ta.: pau,
to wet one another. Mq.: pau, to
moisten. Churchill.
Paua
or pāua
is the Māori name given to three
species of large edible sea snails,
marine gastropod molluscs which belong
to the family Haliotidae (genus
Haliotis), known in the USA as
abalone, and in the UK as ormer shells
... Wikipedia |
Raven had to go thirsty because his
Crater was empty. Possibly Hevelius
illustrated how his empty bowl later was overturned by
the right front leg of Sagittarius:
This seems to have necessitated the sacrifice
of his front leg, leaving only 3 behind. In the night sky
Nunki (Eridu) marked where 'Land' ended - i.e. Sun
would at that time be where 'Sea' ended.
In rongorongo times Nunki was at RA
day 288.4 = Gregorian day 80 + 288 = 368 (January 3,
Shaula 1), where according to my reconstruction a
new Sun cycle could have begun:
|
Shaula 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 (600) |
5 (236) |
|
January 3 |
4 |
5 |
6 (736) |
7 (372) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca11-4 |
Ca11-5 |
Ca11-6 (290) |
Ca11-7 |
Ca11-8 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ga8-21 |
Ga8-22 |
Ga8-23 |
Ga8-24 |
Ga8-25
(*292) |
|
73 |
Saad Al Saud 12 |
13 (311) |
|
March 22 (81) |
23 |
 |
 |
|
Ca1-1 |
Ca1-2 |
 |
 |
|
Gb3-12 |
Gb3-13 |
The loss of a leg
may
evidently have been illustrated in Ca11-5. It
is not the front right leg but the
left back leg and Easter Island is
south of the equator where the 'year
in leaf' corresponds to the time of
the northern 'year in straw' (and
vice versa). Therefore, when Sagittarius with
his front leg (and we now can
understand why he had to be a
quadruped) overturns Raven's empty dry
'bowl' it ought to indicate that Easter
Island should experience the end of
their wet season, their year in
leaf.
However, the C text
is apparently describing events in
the sky, not down on the ground:
|
Shaula 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 (600) |
5 (236) |
6 |
|
January 3 |
4 |
5 |
6 (736) |
7 (372) |
8 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Ca11-4 |
Ca11-5 |
Ca11-6 (290) |
Ca11-7 |
Ca11-8 |
Ca11-9 |
|
tupu
te raau i te vai |
te
moko |
te
marama |
te
kava |
manu
rere |
te
mauga hiku hia |
|
λ Lyrae (287.7), Ascella
(287.9),
Nunki
(288.4), ζ Cor. Austr.
(288.5) |
19h (289.2) |
δ Cor. Austr. (289.8),
Al Baldah,
Alphekka Meridiana
(290.1), β Cor. Austr.
(290.2) |
Aladfar (291.1), Nodus
II (291.5) |
ψ Sagittarii (291.6), θ
Lyrae (291.8) |
Arkab Prior (293.0),
Arkab Posterior,
Alrami
(293.2) |
|
Manubrium
(288.8), γ Cor. Austr.
(289.3), τ Sagittarii
(289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5) |
|
July 5 |
6 |
7 (188) |
8 |
9 |
10 |
|
Al Tuwaibe' 10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
Heka 1 (54) |
2 |
|
Alzirr (105.7),
Muliphein (105.8) |
7h (106.5) |
no stars listed |
Wasat (109.8) |
Aludra (111.1) |
|
Wezen (107.1) |
The loss of the left
back leg of moko in Ca11-25
coincides with Sun having passed
beyond the
end of Land. In the nakshatra sky
the time was 7h and in the preceding
night (July 5) Alzirr (ξ
Gemini, the Button) could have been imagined as the
navel button (the knot) of the
newborn Sun. But it marked the right
foot of Pollux.
Instead of a loss
of the back left leg (maybe the
last limb of the creature) there is in Ca11-4 an
insertion of a
rakau limb into vai.
January 3 was the day of birth (of
the new Sun) and January 4 was the
day of death (of the old Sun).
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