The new evidence has forced me to reconsider. It seems I have been wrong when assuming the perspective from the latitude of Easter Island, below the tropics. The Polynesian culture is centered in the tropical belt south of the equator. When Sun moves from the June solstice in the far north there is not half a year to Polynesia, instead a bit more than a quarter of a year. 107 days could correspond to this distance. But we have to postpone such conclusions and let the glyphs continue to speak for themselves. Once again, this is the 4th (and odd) sequence, perhaps used to explain the beginning of the back side, beyond 10h:
I have included the nakshatra star of Regulus, Sadalmelik (α Aquarii), which could be seen close to Moon in August 21, just after the 10h 'corner'. We cannot avoid noticing the contrast between the 'little' Sun king (Regulus) on one hand and on the other hand the 'lucky' king of Water at the other end of the sky. From August 21 (233) to the heliacal rising of Sadalmelik (in February 19) there are 80 + 335 - 233 = 182 days. and 415 - 365 = 50, which in a way could allude to May 10 (RA day 50):
Earlier, at the 'feather stick' (in RA day 121 = 11 * 11) at the stern of the Sunken Ship, we saw Metoro use the word heu, but here (30 days later) he said heheu and then he added ke ('different'):
There are 100 days from the twin niu glyhs to the single niu located in between 'twins'. Could these 'twins' possibly correspond to the 'double faces' of Cancer depicted by Al Sufi? The 'coconut tree' (niu) marking a point of reversal (huri) could have the same 'crustacean' in front as at the back, and maybe with the bottom shell in front and the top shell at the back. And the added ke could indicate the 'legs' of the shell fish are different from feathers. Feathers are for birds.
"Jensen makes it [the Cancer constellation] the Tortoise of Babylonia, and it was so figured there and in Egypt 4000 B.C.; although in the Egyptian records of about 2000 B.C. it was described as a Scarabeus, sacred, as its specific name sacer signifies, and an emblem of immortality. This was the Greek κάραβος, with its nestball of earth in its claws, an idea which occurs again even as late as the 12th century, when an illuminated astronomical manuscript shows a Waterbeetle. In the Albumasar of 1489 it was a large Crayfish; Bartschius and Lubienitzki, in the 17th century, made it into a Lobster, and the latter added toward Gemini a small shrimp-like object which he called Cancer minor." (Allen) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
