Reading in the Chinese list of lunar stations we can see there is a Wolf followed by a Dog:
The Crocodile comes first and only after approximately (16 - 1) * 364 / 28 = 195 days arrives the friendly and faithful Dog - the opposite of the unreliable Wolf of course. The Dog loves his leash - the symbol of the bond with his master. In ancient Egypt the name of the Wolf was Upwaut - the Opener of the Way: ... Instead of that old, dark, terrible drama of the king's death, which had formerly been played to the hilt, the audience now watched a solemn symbolic mime, the Sed festival, in which the king renewed his pharaonic warrant without submitting to the personal inconvenience of a literal death. The rite was celebrated, some authorities believe, according to a cycle of thirty years, regardless of the dating of the reigns; others have it, however, that the only scheduling factor was the king's own desire and command. Either way, the real hero of the great occasion was no longer the timeless Pharaoh (capital P), who puts on pharaohs, like clothes, and puts them off, but the living garment of flesh and bone, this particular pharaoh So-and-so, who, instead of giving himself to the part, now had found a way to keep the part to himself. And this he did simply by stepping the mythological image down one degree. Instead of Pharaoh changing pharaohs, it was the pharaoh who changed costumes. The season of year for this royal ballet was the same as that proper to a coronation; the first five days of the first month of the 'Season of Coming Forth', when the hillocks and fields, following the inundation of the Nile, were again emerging from the waters. For the seasonal cycle, throughout the ancient world, was the foremost sign of rebirth following death, and in Egypt the chronometer of this cycle was the annual flooding of the Nile. Numerous festival edifices were constructed, incensed, and consecrated; a throne hall wherein the king should sit while approached in obeisance by the gods and their priesthoods (who in a crueler time would have been the registrars of his death); a large court for the presentation of mimes, processions, and other such visual events; and finally a palace-chapel into which the god-king would retire for his changes of costume. ... Five days of illumination, called the 'Lighting of the Flame' (which in the earlier reading of this miracle play would have followed the quenching of the fires on the dark night of the moon when the king was ritually slain), preceded the five days of the festival itself; and then the solemn occasion (ad majorem dei gloriam) commenced. The opening rites were under the patronage of Hathor. The king, wearing the belt with her four faces and the tail of her mighty bull, moved in numerious processions, preceded by his four standards, from one temple to the next, presenting favors (not offerings) to the gods. Thereafter the priesthoods arrived in homage before his throne, bearing the symbols of their gods. More processions followed, during which, the king moved about - as Professor Frankfort states in his account - 'like the shuttle in a great loom' to re-create the fabric of his domain, into which the cosmic powers represented by the gods, no less than the people of the land, were to be woven ... ... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest. When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...
The time of the Wolf was evidently before the return of 'Land' after it having being submerged by the 'Water' - locally translated to the life important inundation (below the waves) of the Nile.
The Chinese had their 13th station House just after the end of Aquarius. The beginning of the Wolf constellation was with (ι Lupi) just after Arcturus. And the last star of the Wolf (θ) was rising with the Sun in RA day 243.5 = November 19 (323), a month later - and only 6 days before Antares. ... θ is the last star in the Ara constellation, and the ancient meaning of this letter was described as a wheel by the Phoenicians but for the Egyptian it meant 'good':
When the wheel of time has come full cycle around and the upside down fire-altar is in the past the times ahead should be good (or lucky Sa'ad) ... Antares (249.1) - 216.3 (ι Lupi) = 32.8 or approximately 33 days, which happens to coincide with the ideal length from the evening return of the Pleiades in the skies of the 18th century Hawaii to the solstice: ... 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 ... Unfortunately the C text has no glyph like those in E and H with mata surrounding an invisible henua - which resemble the composition in the Egyptian picture above. The closest similar glyph is Cb8-8 (where we can count 8 * 8 = 128 / 2):
33 days ahead from the great vero in April 11 (467 = 101 + 366) we will arrive in day 500, and day 500 was not far from the heliacal rising of the Pleiades in spring - in May 16 (136 + 366 = 502). The cycle of Sun is not a perfect circle.
There were 5 * 29 = 145 days from December 21 (355) to day 500 (May 14). There may have been a kind of 'moon-corner' around the time of the Pleiades, which could explain why the number of mata is not 6 (ono) but 4 (ha). As a further argument - for the similarity between a solstice and April 13 (104 = 8 * 13) - I can point at the appearance 8 days after Eb6-1 of a reversed ihe tau (which is a phenomon seldom encountered in the rongorongo texts):
The reversed ihe tau in Cb8-10 could be connected with Cb8-8 only 3 days earlier. April 15 is day 471 according to my description, and 314 * 1½ = 471. We should here remember the 12 'binomes', with the reversal in number 10 at the beginning of the 4th quarter:
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