Castor and
Pollux
ought to be present also in the
C text and I decide to cover the
ground between Sirius (June 30)
and Naos (July 20). Metoro's
erua tamaiti could refer to
Gemini.
I will below redpaint
the names of the Gemini stars:
|
Al Tuwaibe' 6 |
7 |
8 (413) |
9 (49) |
|
July 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 (185) |
|
(178) |
(179) |
(180) |
(181) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca4-26 (102) |
Ca4-27 |
Ca4-28 |
Ca4-29 |
|
erua
tamaiti |
kua vaha te
mago
erua |
|
ψ6 Aurigae
(101.7),
τ
Puppis (102.2),
ψ7 Aurigae
(102.4) |
ψ8 Aurigae
(103.2) |
Alhena (103.8),
ψ9 Aurigae
(103.9) |
Adara (104.8),
ω Gemini (105.4) |
|
Al Tuwaibe' 10
(50) |
11 |
12 |
13 |
|
July 5 (186) |
6 |
7 |
8 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca5-1 |
Ca5-2 (107) |
Ca5-3 |
Ca5-4 |
|
E hua ki te
henua - ka huki |
te hau tea -
te henua |
kua hua |
te henua |
|
Muliphein
(105.8) |
Wezen (107.1) |
no stars listed |
Muliphein
and Wezen are stars in
Canis Major (γ
respectively δ), and
both Ca5-1 and Ca5-2
appear to indicate a
'break' in time. 107 =
472 - 365. And not until
July 10 with Aludra (η
Canis Majoris, the last
star assigned a Greek
letter in the
constellation) seems the
influence of Sirius to
abate.
With the
beginning of the Heka
manzil there arrives a
pattern of reflection.
Te mago erua (the
sharks, two of them)
becomes erua mago
(two sharks), and
corresponding to te mago
erua the following
pair is te hokohuki
erua:
|
Heka 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 (57) |
|
July 9 |
10 |
11 |
12 (193) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca5-5 |
Ca5-6 (111) |
Ca5-7 |
Ca5-8 |
|
kua iri i te
rakau |
ihe tamaiti |
erua mago |
|
Wasat (109.8) |
Aludra (111.1) |
Gomeisa (111.6),
ρ Gemini (112.1) |
Castor (113.4) |
|
Heka 5 |
6 |
7 (60) |
8 |
9 |
|
July 13 |
14 |
15 (196) |
16 |
17 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca5-9 |
Ca5-10 |
Ca5-11 (116) |
Ca5-12 |
Ca5-13 |
|
te hokohuki
erua |
te marama |
te maitaki |
te henua |
|
no star listed |
Markab (114.7),
Procyon (114.9) |
σ Gemini
(115.7), Pollux
(116.2) |
Azmidiske
(117.4) |
no star listed |
|
Heka 10 |
11 (64) |
|
July 18 |
19 (200) |
 |
 |
|
Ca5-14 |
Ca5-15 (120) |
|
kua haga te
mea ke |
manu puoko i
tona ahi |
|
no star listed |
χ Carinae
(119.9) |
Pollux,
the immortal twin, is
the last of the major
Gemini stars in my list
(I have not so far
listed the very last
stars
π, φ, and χ) and the first
star to rise in Gemini is Tejat
Prior:
|
Albatain 10 |
11 (403) |
12 |
13 (40) |
|
June 22 |
23 (St
John's Eve) |
24 (St
John's Day) |
25 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca4-17 |
Ca4-18 (94) |
Ca4-19 |
Ca4-20 |
|
te hau
tea |
tupu te
rakau - te
henua |
te hau
tea |
tupu te
rakau |
|
Tejat Prior
(93.4) |
κ Aurigae
(93.6) |
Furud
(94.9),
Tejat
Posterior,
Mirzam
(95.4) |
Canopus
(95.6) |
|
Al Tuwaibe'
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 (409) |
5 (45) |
|
June 26
(177) |
27 |
28 |
29 (180) |
30 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca4-21 |
Ca4-22 |
Ca4-23 |
Ca4-24 (100) |
Ca4-25 |
|
ihe pepe
rere |
ka rere ki
tona nohoga |
te moko |
manu rere |
tupu te
rakau |
|
no stars
listed |
ν Puppis
(99.2), ψ3
Aurigae
(99.4) |
ψ2 Aurigae
(99.5) |
ψ4 Aurigae
(100.5),
Mebsuta
(100.7),
Sirius
(101.2), ψ5
Aurigae
(101.4) |
It
seems probable
Gemini 'makes itself
felt' already in
June 22, the day
after the solstice. The pair of
hau tea
glyphs are identical
and together and
between them they
indicate manzil day
403 (possibly
alluding to Sirius
because 63 + 403 -
365 = 101, the
number of its
RA-day). Therefore κ
Aurigae (Ca4-18) and
Sirius a week later
could together mark
the 'door' to
Gemini.
In
Ca4-18 the 'Tree' (rakau)
is at left and
inserted into a
henua, which
grows from a
'winter' shape (a cup
line at bottom) to a
straight 'land'
shape at the top.
Gemini once marked
the arrival of
spring:
... Men's spirits
were thought to
dwell in the Milky
Way between
incarnations. This
conception has been
handed down as an
Orphic and
Pythagorean
tradition fitting
into the frame of
the migration of the
soul. Macrobius, who
has provided the
broadest report on
the matter, has it
that souls ascend by
way of Capricorn,
and then, in order
to be reborn,
descend again
through the 'Gate of
Cancer'. Macrobius
talks of signs;
the constellations
rising at the
solstices in his
time (and still in
ours) were Gemini
and Sagittarius: the
'Gate of Cancer'
means Gemini. In
fact, he states
explicitly (I,12.5)
that this 'Gate' is
'where the Zodiac
and the Milky Way
intersect' ...
Today the
intersection moved
to
6h, which on Easter
Island coincided with
winter solstice:
|
Albatain
6 (33) |
7 (399) |
8 |
9 |
|
June 18 |
19 |
20 |
21 (172) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca4-13 |
Ca4-14 |
Ca4-15 |
Ca4-16
(92) |
|
kua tuu
tona mea |
te henua |
te
hau tea |
mauga
hua - te
henua |
|
η
Leporis
(89.0),
Praja-pāti,
Menkalinan,
Mahashim,
and γ
Columbae
(89.3)
|
η
Columbae
(89.7),
μ
Orionis
(90.3) |
6h
(91.3)
|
ξ
Orionis
(92.5) |
|
χ²
Orionis
(90.5),
ν
Orionis
(91.4) |
|