The
slightly oblique 'line of
measurment' in Ca1-25 could very
well indicate that the line of sight
going up from Achernar to Polaris -
or maybe to Hamal because on Easter
Island Polaris is too far north to
be observed - is not quite
vertical:
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Almuqaddam 10 |
11 (700) |
12 (336) |
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April 15 |
16 (471) |
17 (107) |
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Ca1-25 |
Ca1-26 |
Ca2-1 (27) |
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kiore
ki te huaga |
kua
moe ki te tai. |
Te
heke |
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Achernar
(23.3) |
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Benetnash (208.5) |
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Polaris, Baten Kaitos
(26.6),
Metallah (26.9), Segin,
Mesarthim (27.2),
Sheratan (27.4) |
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13 |
Al Muakhar 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
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April 18 |
19 |
20 |
21 (*31) |
22 |
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Ca2-2 |
Ca2-3 |
Ca2-4 (30) |
Ca2-5 |
Ca2-6 |
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erua tagata |
te
henua |
tagata oho ki tona
huaga |
kua oho |
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2h (30.4) |
Hamal
(30.5) |
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Furthermore,
Mesarthim (γ Arietis) and
Sheratan (β Arietis) are
rising earlier than Hamal (α
Arietis), and therefore they
would once have better served to define
'the first point of Aries'.
Ca 71 * 27 = 1900 years
earlier than the time of
rongorongo they rose together
with Polaris and Sun in
March 21.
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Mirach |
β Andromedae |
2.07 |
35º 21' N |
01h 07m |
17.0 |
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Anunitum |
τ Piscium |
4.51 |
30º 05' N |
01h 09m |
17.5 |
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Ksora |
δ Cassiopeiae |
2.66 |
59º 59' N |
01h 23m |
21.1 |
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Achernar |
α Eridani |
0.45 |
57º 29' S |
01h 36m |
24.3 |
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Polaris |
α Ursa Minoris |
1.97 |
89º 02' N |
01h 49m |
27.6 |
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Baten Kaitos |
ζ Ceti |
3.74 |
10º 35' S |
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Metallah |
α Trianguli |
3.42 |
29º 20' N |
01h 50m |
27.9 |
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Segin |
ε Cassiopeia |
3.35 |
63º 25' N |
01h 51m |
28.2 |
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Mesarthim |
γ Arietis |
3.88 |
19º 03' N |
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Sheratan |
β Arietis |
2.64 |
20º 34' N |
01h 52m |
28.4 |
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Alrisha |
α Piscium |
4.33 |
2º 31' N |
01h 59m |
30.2 |
But ca 71 *
30.5 = 2200 years ago it was
Hamal which rose together
with Sun at the equinox. And
Hamal is brighter than the
other stars in Aries,
therefore Hamal was 'the first point
of Aries'.
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Alamak |
γ Andromedae |
2.10 |
42º 05' N |
02h 01m |
30.7 |
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Hamal |
α Arietis |
2.01 |
23º 14' N |
02h 04m |
31.5 |
We can compare with G, where
there is a 'horn' in front at
the Hamal glyph:
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kai |
Gb7-27 |
Gb7-28 |
Gb7-29 (440) |
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Alrisha (29.2) |
Alamak (29.7)
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Hamal (30.5) |
At
Alrisha (α Piscium)
there is a kai
glyph and it possibly
means the season of food
returns here (29 days
after equinox). In Ca2-5
the
kai type of glyph is at left and 31
days after the equinox.
The
composition in Gb7-28 with
hanau in the center
corresponds to the central
ceremonial ground (raaraa)
at 2h (Ca2-4). This is 30 days
after March 21. Alamak
is γ Andromedae, at her
left foot:
In Ca2-5
eating (kai) is
combined with an eye:
... Whereas, over the
next two days, Lono
plays the part of the
sacrifice. The
Makahiki effigy is
dismantled and hidden
away in a rite watched
over by the king's
'living god',
Kahoali'i or
'The-Companion-of-the-King',
the one who is also
known as 'Death-is-Near'
(Koke-na-make).
Close kinsman of the
king as his ceremonial
double, Kahoali'i
swallows the eye of the
victim in ceremonies of
human sacrifice ...
... The Raven stole
the skin and form of
the newborn child.
Then he began to cry
for solid food, but
he was offered only
mother's milk. That
night, he passed
through the town
stealing an eye from
each inhabitant.
Back in his foster
parents' house, he
roasted the eyes in
the coals and ate
them, laughing. Then
he returned to his
cradle, full and
warm. He had not
seen the old woman
watching him from
the corner - the one
who never slept and
who never moved
because she was
stone from the waist
down. Next morning,
amid the wailing
that engulfed the
town, she told what
she had seen. The
one-eyed people of
the sky dressed in
their dancing
clothes, paddled the
child out to
mid-heaven in their
canoe and pitched
him over the side.
He turned round and
round to the right as he fell from
the sky back to the water. Still in
his cradle, he floated on the sea.
Then he bumped against something
solid. 'Your illustrious grandfather
asks you in', said a voice. The
Raven saw nothing. He heard the same
voice again, and then again, but
still he saw nothing but water. Then
he peered
through
the hole in his
marten-skin blanket. Beside him was
a grebe. 'Your illustrious
grandfather asks you in', said the
grebe and dived. Level with the
waves beside him, the Raven
discovered the top of a housepole
made of stone. He untied himself
from his cradle and climbed down the
pole to the lowermost figure.
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Kai
1. Ina
kai;
verbal
negation
(but not
used with
the
imperative);
ina kai
kai matou,
we have
not eaten.
2. To eat;
meal. 3.
Fruits or
produces of
the land,
vegetables,
edible
plants. 4.
Figuratively:
he-kai
ite rogorogo,
to recite
the
inscriptions
kohau
rogorogo
(as
spiritual
food). 5.
Eclipse:
ku-kai-á te
raá, te
mahina,
the sun, the
moon has
been eaten
(eclipsed).
Vanaga.
1. Negative;
kai rogo,
to fast;
kai oho,
to forego;
kai maa,
to be
ignorant, to
doubt;
vave kai
kohe,
inaccessible;
ina kai,
see ina
1. Ta.:
ai, no.
2. To
undergo, to
suffer. 3.
Sharp,
cutting. T
Mgv.: koi,
koikoi,
pointed,
sharp,
adapted for
cutting;
kokoi,
prickly,
stinging,
irritating.
Mq.: koi,
sharp,
cutting.
Ta.: oi,
sharp, keen.
Since this
is the only
language
which has
kai in
this sense
the
possibility
of
typographical
error should
not be
overlooked.
The form
koi
outside of
Southeast
Polynesia is
found in
Maori,
Rarotonga
and Hawaii.
4. To eat,
to feed, to
feast; food,
meat, a
meal,
repast;
kai nui,
provision,
intemperate,
voracious;
kai no
iti,
sober,
temperate;
hue ki te
kai, to
victual;
kai taria te
kai,
abundance,
to abound;
hakapee
no kai hoao,
abundance,
to abound.
Kaia,
eaten. P
Pau.: kai,
food, to
eat. Mgv.:
kai,
food,
nourishment,
to eat. Mq.:
kai,
ai,
food, to
eat. Ta.:
ai, to
eat. 5.
Hakakai,
to take, to
attack.
Mgv.: kai,
to receive.
Mq.: ai,
to catch
some one, to
seek to
surprise.
Ta.: ai,
to receive,
to get
possession
of, to
become
master of.
Churchill.
Kaihue,
a heap of
food.
Kaikino,
selfish,
avaricious,
faithless,
ingrate,
miserly,
rascal. Mq.:
kaikino,
selfish,
stingy,
avaricious.
Kaipurua,
issue,
outlet,
egress.
Kaitagata,
cannibal;
paoa
kaitagata,
cannibal,
savage.
Kaiu,
nursling,
suckling.
Pau.:
kaiu, a
child at the
breast. Mq.:
kaiu,
child at the
breast,
unweaned,
suckling,
young of
animals.
Ta.: aiu,
nursling.
Churchill.
Pau.:
Fakakai,
earring.
Ta.:
faaai,
ear
ornament.
Mq.:
hakakai,
id. Ma.:
whakakai,
id.
Kaikaia,
a league, a
plot. Mgv.:
kaia,
cruel,
cannibal.
Ta.: aiaa,
fault, sin.
Mq.: kaia,
quarrelsome.
Ma.: kaia,
to steal.
Kaito,
brave,
robust. Ta.:
aito,
brave. Ma.:
kaitoa,
a brave man.
Kaitoa,
well and
good! Ta.:
aitoa,
good! Ma.:
kaitoa,
id.
Kaitura,
bravery,
manhood.
Ta.:
turatura,
honored,
exalted.
Churchill.
Mgv.:
Kaiota,
raw food.
Ta.:
aiota,
raw, ill
cooked. Ma.:
kaiota,
id.
Churchill.
Ta.: Ai,
a bet, a
wager, a
game. Mq.:
kai,
to throw
lots, to
lose a game.
Sa.: 'ai,
a count
toward the
score of a
game. Ma.:
kai,
a puzzling
toy.
Aihamu,
to eat
leavings.
Mq.:
kaihamu,
id.
Churchill.
Mq.:
Kaiheehee,
to go from
place to
place to
enjoy
feasts. Sa.:
'aisee,
to beg food
at feasts.
Kaihue,
thief. Ha.:
aihue,
to steal.
Kaika, a
meal, feast.
Sa.:
'aiga,
meal. Ha.:
aina,
id.
Kaioto,
a sort of
hemorrhage,
piles. Sa.:
'ailoto,
a cancerous
ulcer.
Kaitu,
to perfume
oneself
during a
tabu period
when it was
forbidden.
Ha.: aiku,
to break a
tabu.
Churchill. |
"AI, v. Haw., to eat; s. food, vegetable food, in distinction from ia, meat; ai-na, for ai-ana, eating, means of eating, fruits of the land; hence land, field, country.New Zeal., kai, to eat; kainga, food, meal, home, residence, country. Tong., kai, to eat. Sam., 'ai, to eat; ainga, family, kindred. Marqu., kaika, kainga, food, meal.
Tagal., cain, to eat.
Zend., gaya, life; gaetha, the world; gava, land, country. Vedic, gaya, house, family (A. Pictet). Sanskr., ghâsa, food; ghas, devour.
Greek, αία, γαια, γη, different forms occurring in Homer, land, country, cultivated land; γειος, indigenous; γειτων, a neighbour; ήια, provisions for a journey.
Goth., gawi, gauja, country, region. Germ., gau.
Lat., ganea, eating-house; ganeo, glutton.
Lith., goyas; Ant. Slav. and Russ., gai, 'past-rage', nemus. Polish, gay, id.
Mr. A. Pictet, in his 'Les Origines Indo-Europ.', vol. II. p. 15, says that the Vedic and Zend gay 'n'ont surement aucun rapport avec le grec γαια.' This assertion evokes a doubt, inasmuch as, as late as in Homer's time, two other dialectical variations of this word existed in the Greek, viz. αία and δα or δη, in δη-μητηρ, contracted from some ancient form in δαια, as γη and γα, from γαια.
As neither of these can be supposed to be derived from, or to be a phonetic corruption of, the other, it seems to me that they must have come down abreast from primeval times, thus indicating that the original root was differently pronounced by various sections of the still united Aryan stock; and I believe that this root, in its archaic forms, still survives in the Polynesian ai and kai, to eat.
The Sanskrit go, land, the earth, from which Benfey derives a hypthetical gavyd and a Greek γαfια - by elimination γαια - is probably itself a contraction from the Vedic and Zend gaya, as the Greek γη and γα, as the ancient Saxon gâ and gô, pagus, regio, and the ancient Slav. gai, nemus, are contractions from derivations of that ancient root still found in Polynesia.
The above derivatives in sound and sense certainly refer themselves better to some ancient ai of kai, food, the fruits of the forest or the roots of the field, than to the Sanskrit go, bull, cow, cattle; for the Aryan family undoubtedly had one or more names for eating and for food before its various divisions applied themselves to the herding of cattle. The Sanskrit ghas, ghâsa, the Latin ganea, ganeo, point strongly to the underlying original sense of eating and food.
According to Professor A. H. Sayce, in 'Introduction to the Science of Language', vol ii. p. 19, it is probable that the Latin edere, to eat, is a compound word = e-dere, like ab-dere, con-dere, cre-dere, and others, thus leaving e as the root. How far that e may have been a dialectical variant or a phonetic decay of an older form more nearly allied to the Polynesian ai, kai, I leave to abler philologists to determine." (Fornander)
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