The 80 days (nights) before the March equinox
respectively 8 weeks later the beginning of the manzil calendar
ought to offer us a key to the rongorongo texts:
| January 1 |
80 |
|
Saad Balaa 1 |
80 |
| March 21 |
Sheratan 1 |
| March 22 |
285 |
Sheratan 2 |
285 |
| December 31 |
Alrescha 15 |
| Gregorian year |
365 |
Manzil year |
365 |
Caesar inserted 2 new months between June and September. Otherwise January would have been the 11th and February the 12th month. Maybe the last month of the year was June, the 15th month. But June should also have been the 6th month because September was the 7th (septem) month.
If each such month carried 29 nights, then the cycle could have been 15 * 29 = 435 nights.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Gb7-22 |
Gb7-23 |
Gb7-24 (435) |
Gb7-25 |
Gb7-26 |
435 - 80 = 355 (= 12 * 29½ + 1) = 285 + 70.
Some of the difficulties inherent in a rongorongo calendar text which maybe refers (as a whole or partially) to the seasons on Easter Island - with spring in the 2nd half of the Gregorian year instead of in its 1st half - can possibly be resolved by using 80 as a Sign for the last part of the old year.
But we ought first to try to determine if the C
text could be reflecting the Arabic manzil calendar in a way which
necessitates the nakshatra perspective:
|
Al
Baldaah 12 |
13 (270) |
|
February
9 (40) |
10 |
 |
 |
|
Ca12-9
(325) |
Ca12-10 |
| oho
te vae |
ki
hukiga o te ra |
|
August 11 (223) |
12 |
|
Murzim 8
(87) |
9 |
|
Saad Al
Thabib 1 |
2 (272) |
|
February 11 (42) |
12 |
 |
 |
|
Ca12-11 |
Ca12-12 |
| kua
oho ra |
kua
ere te tagata - te hetu |
|
August
13 |
14 (226) |
|
Murzim
10 |
11 (90) |
|
Saad Al
Thabib 3 |
4 |
5 (275) |
|
February
13 (409) |
14 (45) |
15 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca12-13
(329) |
Ca12-14 |
Ca12-15 |
| oho
te vae |
te
vai okahia |
te
henua |
|
August
15 |
16 (228) |
17 |
|
Murzim
12 |
13 (92) |
An
Nathra 1 |
|
Saad Al
Thabib 6 |
7 (277) |
|
February
16 |
17 (413) |
|
|
 |
|
Ca12-16 |
Ca12-17
(333) |
| oho
te vae |
kua
pure ia |
|
August 18 (230) |
19 |
|
An
Nathra 2 |
3 (95) |
|
Saad Al
Thabib 8 |
9 |
10 (280) |
|
February 18 |
19 (50) |
20 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca12-18 |
Ca12-19 |
Ca12-20
(336) |
| oho te vae |
koia ra kua
haga hia |
kua moe |
|
August
20 |
21 (233) |
22 |
| An
Nathra 4 |
5 |
6 (98) |
|
Saad Al Thabib 11 |
12 |
13
(283) |
|
February 21 |
22 |
23
(54) |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca12-21 |
Ca12-22 |
Ca12-23 (339) |
|
te niu ku hakatu ua |
te maitaki - kupega tuku hia mai |
mata hakatuu |
|
August 23 |
24
(236) |
25 |
|
An
Nathra 7 |
8 |
9
(101) |
|
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 |
|
August 26 |
27 |
August 28 (240) |
29 |
|
An Nathra 10 |
11 |
An Nathra 12 |
13 (105) |
The change from a sign down
(Ca12-25) to a sign up (Ca12-26) is in harmony with
the ending of the extraordinary long manzil Saad Al
Thabib. 285 + 80 = 365.
|
Nawaa |
Manzil |
Begins on |
Number of days |
Stars |
|
Al Thuraya |
Sheratan |
17 May (137) |
14 |
14 |
Sheratan |
|
Pleione |
31 May (151) |
13 |
27 |
Pleione |
|
Albatain |
13 June (164) |
13 |
40 |
Albatain in the Pleiades |
|
Al Tuwaibe' |
Al Tuwaibe' |
26 June (177) |
13 |
53 |
Aldebaran |
|
Al Jawzaa |
Heka |
9 July (190) |
13 |
66 |
Heka |
|
Alhena |
22 July (203) |
13 |
79 |
Alhena |
|
Murzim |
Murzim |
4 Aug (216) |
13 |
92 |
Canis Major |
|
Kulaibain |
An Nathra |
17 Aug (229) |
13 |
105 |
An Nathra |
|
Suhail |
Alterf |
30 Aug (242) |
13 |
118 |
Alterf |
|
Dschuba |
12 Sept (255) |
13 |
131 |
Dschuba |
|
Azzubra |
25 Sept (268) |
13 |
144 |
|
|
Assarfa |
8 Oct (281) |
13 |
157 |
|
|
Al Wasm |
Auva |
21 Oct (294) |
13 |
170 |
Auva |
|
Simak |
3 Nov (307) |
13 |
183 |
Spica |
|
Syrma |
16 Nov (320) |
13 |
196 |
|
|
Az Zubana |
29 Nov (333) |
13 |
209 |
Acubens |
|
Murabaania |
Akleel |
12 Dec (346) |
13 |
222 |
Corona Borealis |
|
Qalb al Akraab |
25 Dec (359) |
9 |
231 |
Antares |
|
Shaula |
3 Jan (368) |
13 |
244 |
Shaula |
|
Ash Shabt |
Al Naam |
16 Jan (381) |
13 |
257 |
Ascella and Nunki |
|
Al Baldaah |
29 Jan (394) |
13 |
270 |
|
|
The Three Saads |
Saad Al Thabib |
11 Febr (407) |
15 |
285 |
Saad Al Thabih |
|
Saad Balaa |
26 Febr (422) |
13 |
298 |
Saad Balaa |
|
Saad Al Saud |
11 March (435) |
13 |
311 |
Saadalsud |
|
Hameemain |
Saad Al Akhbia |
24 March (448) |
13 |
324 |
Sadachbia |
|
Almuqaddam |
6 April (461) |
13 |
337 |
Almuqaddam |
|
Al Tharaeen |
Al Muakhar |
19 April (474) |
13 |
350 |
Pollux |
|
Alrescha |
2 May (487) |
15 |
365 |
Alrescha |
From Saad Balaa 1 (February
26) to Sheratan 1 there are 366 - 286 = 80 days.
This logic should make us take a
quick look back
to Sheratan 1:
|
Alrescha 15 (365) |
|
Sheratan 1 |
2 |
3 |
|
May 16 (136) |
17 |
18 |
19 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca3-5 |
Ca3-6 (57) |
Ca3-7 |
Ca3-8 |
|
ihe tapamea |
e tagata mau toki
ki te henua |
e hokohuki mau ki
te matagi |
kiore i te henua |
|
November 15 |
16 (320) |
17 |
18 |
|
Simak 13 |
Syrma 1 (184) |
2 |
3 |
Here there is no obvious sign of a
vertical inversion from the end of Alrescha to
Sheratan 1. And 183 nights later (= 182 nights
earlier) Simak changes to Syrma (a manzil with no
ruling star). 184 (Syrma 1) + 136 = 320 (November
16). There is no such change from one nakshatra manzil to another 183 nights later when viewing the
gap between the pair of niu glyphs (Ca12-25
and Ca12-26).
The evidence suggests a
basically heliacal system determined from the
end of the Pleiades:
|
Simak 11
(181) |
|
12 |
|
November 13 |
14 (318) |
 |
 |
|
Ca9-9 (237) |
Ca9-10 |
|
kotia |
kua rere |
|
ψ¹ Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor. Borealis
(236.9), ι Serpentis (237.4), ψ²
Lupi (237.5) |
γ Cor. Borealis (237.7), Unuk
Elhaia (237.9), π Cor. Borealis, Cor
Serpentis (238.1) |
|
May 15 (500) |
16 (136) |
|
Alrescha 14 (364) |
15 |
|
Atiks,
Rana (55.1), Celaeno, Electra,
Taygeta (55.3) |
Maia, Asterope, Merope (55.6),
Alcyone (56.1), Pleione, Atlas
(56.3) |
The break illustrated in Ca9-9 could
refer to RA day 237 (= 4 * 59 + 1) or to day 364 (=
4 * 91 = 236 + 128) in the manzil calendar. And
Novem-ber 13 implies 91 * 3 = 273 leaving a last
quarter with 91 + 1 = 92 (= 365 - 273) nights.
Or the koti glyph
could refer to the breaking up of the
Pleiades into 5 + 6 stars, with Tau-ono
marking day 'zero' of the new year. Metoro's
kotia (koti-ana) suggests he
could have connected Ca9-9 with a night
view of the Pleiades.
Manzil day 181 (= 364 - 183)
could allude to June 30 (181) when Sirius
was together with the Sun.
80 was the distance to
the beginning of the Murzim (Sirius) manzil:
| Alrescha 15 (0) |
1 |
May 16 (136) |
| Sheratan 1 (1) |
80 |
May 17 (137) |
| Murzim 1 (80) |
August 4 (216) |
| Murzim 2 (81) |
284 |
August 5 (217) |
| Alrescha 14 (364) |
May 15 (500) |