The time structure for
the explorers in
Manuscript E appears
to be 5 weeks at sea
followed by a
quarter up on land
before the last pair
of months and their
return voyage. 35 +
90 = 125 = 5 * 5 * 5
followed by 59 + 5 =
64 = 8 * 8, and 125
+ 64 = 189 = 3 * 3 *
3 weeks.
Other
interpretations
could be
complementary, e.g.
how the distance to
Te Pou could
be 35
+ 40 = 75 days.
Sirius rose
heliacally in June
30 (181) and 181 -
75 = 106. Or if
He Maro 1 is
counted only once:
181 - 74 (= 1 / 10
of the number of
glyphs on the
tablet) = 107:
|
Almuqaddam
10 |
11 (700) |
12 (336) |
|
April 15 |
16 (471) |
17 (107) |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca1-25 |
Ca1-26 |
Ca2-1
(27) |
|
kiore ki
te huaga |
kua moe
ki te
tai. |
Te
heke |
|
Achernar
(23.3) |
|
Benetnash
(208.5) |
|
Polaris,
Baten
Kaitos
(26.6),
Metallah
(26.9),
Segin,
Mesarthim
(27.2),
Sheratan
(27.4) |
March 30 is
Gregorian day 89 (=
189 - 100).
After adding also 8
weeks we will reach
145 = May 25 (5-25)
- a
π glyph:
|
Sheratan
9 |
10 |
11 |
|
May
25
(145) |
26 |
27 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca3-14 |
Ca3-15 |
Ca3-16 |
|
tapamea
-
tagata
hoi
hatu |
ki
te
ariki |
kiore
i te
henua |
Counting He Maro
1 twice or not
could be comparable to
counting day 193 or
not.
Ana-muri (the
star at the end,
Aldebaran) could
perhaps correspond to
Hiva. From May
28 (148) to November
25 (329) there are
181 days:
|
Syrma 10 (193) |
11 |
12 |
13 |
Az Zubana 1 |
2 |
|
Nov. 25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 (333) |
30 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca9-21 |
Ca9-22 |
Ca9-23 |
Ca9-24 |
Ca9-25 |
Ca9-26 |
|
ka mau - i te
inoino |
ka iri
ka hua i te
inoino |
te hau tea |
te inoino |
kua iri
kua puo |
te inoino |
|
She Low (248.7),
Antares (249.1),
Marfik, φ
Ophiuchi (249.5) |
ω Ophiuchi
(249.8), σ
Herculis (250.3) |
τ Scorpii
(250.7), Han
(251.0) |
ζ Herculis
(252.1), η
Herculis (252.5) |
no star listed |
Wei (254.3) |
|
May 27 |
28 |
29 |
30 (150) |
31 |
June 1 |
|
Sheratan 11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
Pleione 1 |
2 |
|
no star listed |
Aldebaran
(68.2),
Theemin (68.5) |
no stars listed |
Ana-mua (Antares,
the front star) would
then have a position
similar to the time of
the arrival
of Hotu Matua.
The explorers left the
island 5 days later,
which according to my
arguments above
could be June 1.
|
Ka
Ka.
Particle of
the
affirmative
imperative,
of cardinal
numerals, of
independent
ordinal
numerals,
and of
emphatic
exclamation,
e.g.
ka-maitaki!
how
nice!
Vanaga.
Ká.
1. To light
a fire in
order to
cook in the
earth oven
(see
umu): he-ká
i te umu,
he-ká i te
kai. 2.
Figuratively:
to fire up
the soul. To
put oneself
in a fury
(with
manava):
ku-ká-á
toona manava
he has
become
furious.
Vanaga.
1. Of T. 2.
Imperative
sign; ka
oho,
ka tere,
ka ea,
begone!;
ka ko iha,
a greeting
T; ka mou,
hush; ka
oho,
goodbye. 3.
Infinitive
sign; mea
meitaki ka
rava, a
thing good
to take;
ka harai kia
mea, to
accompany.
4. A prefix
which forms
ordinals
from
cardinals.
5. The
dawning of
the day. 6.
Different (?
ke).
Churchill. |
|
Iri
1. To go up;
to go in a
boat on the
sea
(the surface
of which
gives the
impression
of going up
from the
coast):
he-eke te
tagata ki
ruga ki te
vaka, he-iri
ki te
Hakakaiga,
the men
boarded the
boat and
went up to
Hakakainga.
2. Ka-iri
ki puku
toiri ka
toiri.
Obscure
expression
of an
ancient
curse.
Vanaga.
Iri-are,
a seaweed.
Vanaga. |
The
half-year from May 28 to
November 25 is a
comparably dark
season on Easter Island
when it is easier to
observe the stars than
in the next half-year.
The night sky of
November 26 could have
Aldebaran as a sign of
the end of star-gazing.
However, my table does
not support such an
idea:
|
Date |
Heliacal
star |
RA
distance |
Nakshatra
star |
|
March 26
(85) |
Ankaa
(5.0) |
181.3 |
Chang
Sha
(186.3) |
|
April 1
(91) |
η
Andromedae
(11.4) |
181.5 |
Mimosa
(192.9) |
|
April 17
(107) |
Polaris
(26.6) |
181.9 |
Benetnash
(208.5) |
|
April 24
(114) |
Mira
(33.7) |
181.1 |
κ
Virginis
(214.8) |
|
May 26
(146) |
Ain
(65.7) |
181.3 |
Heart
(247.0) |
|
May 28
(148) |
Aldebaran
(68.2) |
180.9 |
Antares
(249.1) |
|
July 6
(187) |
Wezen
(107.1) |
181.3 |
Nunki
(288.4) |
|
July 26
(206) |
Avior
(126.4) |
180.8 |
Gredi
(307.2) |
|
August
21 (233) |
Regulus
(152.7) |
181.9 |
Sadalmelik
(334.6) |
|
September
4 (247) |
Dubhe
(166.7) |
181.1 |
Fomalhaut
(347.8) |
According to
Manuscript E the
explorers returned
to Hiva when
their calendar had
the date Tangaroa
uri 20. Barthel
translated Tangaroa uri
as October. From
October 20 (293) to
November 30 (334)
there are 41 days.
Number 334 for the
last day of November
is the only possible explanation
I have discovered so
far of
why the Tahua
tablet has 46 * 29 =
1334 glyphs - it
could mean 1000 plus the
time from January 1
to December 1.
Adjusting with these 41
days we could then
look for the departure
of the explorers from
Hiva 181 days
earlier than
November 30, i.e. in
day 334 - 181 = 153
(June 2). This date
corresponds to
Ca3-22, when Wei
('the Tail', ε
Scorpii) was visible
in the night sky:
|
Pleione
2 |
3 |
4 (383) |
5 |
6 (20) |
|
June 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 (156) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca3-21 |
Ca3-22
(73) |
Ca3-23 |
Ca3-24
(75) |
Ca3-25 |
|
tagata
tuu rima
ki ruga |
te
maitaki |
te
henua |
Rei hata
ia |
tagata
rogo |
|
|
Wei
(254.3) |
Denebakrab
(254.7),
Grafias
(255.4) |
|
|
But
in Manuscript E the
first day of He
Maro was when
the explorer's canoe
touched land again:
... On
the twenty-fifth day
of the first month
('Vaitu Nui'),
Ira and
Makoi set sail;
on the first day of
the month of June ('Maro'),
the bow of Ira's
canoe touched land
again ...
Possibly the
beginning of June in
the C text (up to
and including
Gregorian day 156)
is describing the
time when Sun (and
the explorers) were
still in Hiva
(= north of the
equator):
|
Almuqaddam
10 |
11 (700) |
12 |
49 |
|
April 15 |
16 (471) |
17 (107) |
|
|
|
|
|
Ca1-25 |
Ca1-26 |
Ca2-1
(27) |
|
kiore ki
te huaga |
kua
moe ki
te tai. |
Te
heke |
|
|
|
Benetnash
(208.5) |
|
Achernar
(23.3) |
|
Polaris,
Baten
Kaitos
(26.6),
Metallah
(26.9),
Segin,
Mesarthim
(27.2),
Sheratan
(27.4) |
|
Pleione
7
(21) |
8 |
9 |
|
June
6
(157) |
7 |
8 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ca4-1
(77) |
Ca4-2 |
Ca4-3 |
|
kua
tupu
te
rakau |
kua
tupu
- te
kihikihi |
te
hau
tea |
|
λ
Eridani
(76.7) |
Rigel
(78.1),
Capella
(78.4) |
η
Scorpii
(259.9) |
Possibly the
C text has
no
sea-voyage,
which could
explain the
growth of
the 'Tree'
from June 6
and forward.
The
adjustment
with 41 days
(= October
20 to
November 30)
would then
increase to
35 + 41 = 76
days - which
is close to
the number
of days in
the Moon
calendar (75
nights if
Ca9-3 is
included):
| An Nathra 9 (101) |
10 |
11 |
12 |
64 |
| August 25 (237) |
26 |
27 |
28 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Ca6-17 (157) |
Ca6-18 |
Ca6-19 |
Ca6-20 |
| tagata oho rima - ki te marama |
koia kua oho |
ki te marama |
kua moe |
| μ Hydrae (157.1) |
no star listed |
Shir (158.9) |
φ Hydrae (160.3) |
| 12 |
Auva 13 |
Simak 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 (174) |
| November 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 (310) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Ca8-26 (225) |
Ca8-27 |
Ca8-28 |
Ca8-29 |
Ca9-1 |
Ca9-2 (230) |
| - |
- |
- |
- |
Ohiro |
Oata |
| te ahi ki te rima aueue - te ika |
tupu te ure o te henua |
erua kiore |
Te marama erua |
| Kochab (225.0) |
Ke Kwan (226.3), Ke Kwan (226.4) |
Zuben Elakribi (226.8), Nekkar (227.3) |
15h (228.3) |
λ Lupi (228.9) |
κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8) |
| π Lupi (227.9), Zuben Hakrabim (228.3) |
| 3 |
May 4 |
5 (125) |
6 |
7 |
8 |
| 2 |
Alrescha 3 |
4 (354) |
5 |
6 |
7 |
| no star listed |
Acamar (43.6) |
Menkar (44.7) |
3h (45.7) |
no star listed |
Botein (46.9) |
| Algol (45.9), Misam (46.2) |
| Simak 5 (175) |
11 |
Syrma 4 (187) |
11 |
Az Zubana 3 (199) |
| November 7 |
November 19 |
December 1 |
 |
 |
 |
| Ca9-3 (231) |
Ca9-15 (243) |
Ca9-27 (255) |
| koia kua oho |
i te mauga pu hia |
etoru gagata hakaariki kia raua |
| Princeps (230.6), Zuben Elschemali (230.8), μ Lupi (231.3) |
16h (243.5) |
Denebakrab (254.7), ι Ophiuchi (255.3), Grafias (255.4) |
| ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), ξ Scorpii (242.7), Acrab, Jabhat al Akrab (243.3), θ Lupi, Rutilicus (243.5) |
| May 9 (129) |
May 21 (141) |
June 2 (153) |
| Alresha 8 (358) |
Sheratan 5 |
Pleione 3 (17) |
| no star listed |
4h (60.9) |
no star listed |
| no star listed |
|