Below the right foot of Bootes is Mons Menalus, i.e. a mountain. Possibly the cave Pu Pakakina was a hole in this moutain, I thought.
... Mons Maenalus, at the feet of Boötes, was formed by Hevelius, and published in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum; this title coinciding with those of neighboring stellar groups bearing Arcadian names. It is sometimes, although incorrectly, given as Mons Menelaus, - perhaps, as Smyth suggested, after the Alexandrian astronomer referred to by Ptolemy and Plutarch. The Germans know it as the Berg Menalus; and the Italians as Menalo. Landseer has a striking representation of the Husbandsman, as he styles Boötes, with sickle and staff, standing on this constellation figure. A possible explanation of its origin may be found in what Hewitt writes in his Essays on the Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times: The Sun-god thence climbed up the mother-mountain of the Kushika race as the constellation Hercules, who is depicted in the old traditional pictorial astronomy as climbing painfully up the hill to reach the constellation of the Tortoise, now called Lyra, and thus attain the polar star Vega, which was the polar star from 10000 to 8000 B.C. May not this modern companion constellation, Mons Maenalus, be from a recollection of this early Hindu conception of our Hercules transferred to the adjacent Bootes? Hevelius has put Mons Menalus between Bootes and Virgo:
We can imagine Virgo as the horizontal representation of Mother Earth and Bootes (or rather Arcturus) as the vertically oriented Sun god climbing up from vernal equinox (at some ancient time). October 22 (when in rongorongo times Arcturus rose heliacally) points at a very early date for rising at 0h. 215.4 / 365.25 * 26000 = ca 15000 years ago. I think we instead should use the nakshatra date, viz. April 23 (113), which gives a more reasonable voyage back in time: (113 - 80) / 365.25 * 26000 = ca 2350 years ago (compared to rongorongo times). The distance 113 - 80 = 33 may be significant considering the length of the Hawaiian new year ceremonies: '... For in the ideal ritual calendar, the kali'i battle follows the autumnal appearance of the Pleiades, by thirty-three days - thus precisely, in the late eighteenth century, 21 December, the winter solstice. The king returns to power with the sun ...' Although I think a mountain ought to be a feature of mother earth the stars of Mons Menalus are mainly mapped as belonging to Bootes, possibly to be compared with how Pu Pakakina was named Pu Pakakina A Ira. I once suggested Ira must be a 'garment' of Sun (the all-seeing Eye):
I ought to add also the Mons Menalus stars (71, 14, 18, 31, and 15) to my list:
The first star of this Mountain is belonging to Virgo and in rongorongo times 71 Virginis rose heliacally in October 11 the day after Spica and Alcor were close to the sun:
Next star, 14 Bootis, rose together with κ Virginis. 15 and 18 Bootis arrived not much later:
The last of the numbered Mons Menalus stars, 31 Bootis, rose in October 29:
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