I am suggesting there were 'joints' in timespace where Sun had to cross over from one 'limb' to the the next (whatever that precisely may have meant). This pattern would, however, not be present in the long nights before 'fire' had been brought down from above: ... During his descent the ancestor still possessed the quality of a water spirit, and his body, though preserving its human appearance, owing to its being that of a regenerated man, was equipped with four flexible limbs like serpents after the pattern of the arms of the Great Nummo. The ground was rapidly approaching. The ancestor was still standing, his arms in front of him and the hammer and anvil hanging across his limbs. The shock of his final impact on the earth when he came to the end of the rainbow, scattered in a cloud of dust the animals, vegetables and men disposed on the steps. When calm was restored, the smith was still on the roof, standing erect facing towards the north, his tools still in the same position. But in the shock of landing the hammer and the anvil had broken his arms and legs at the level of elbows and knees, which he did not have before. He thus acquired the joints proper to the new human form, which was to spread over the earth and to devote itself to toil ... Perhaps the ancient calendars did not cover the dark time when Sun was absent, the time when he was 'among the fishes'. Counting days meant Sun had to be present. There was no problem with counting nights, on the other hand, because the face of Moon was there all the time and everyone knew how to read her face. Thus calendars only had to describe the path of Sun, when he 'walked on land'. The Gregorian calendar, for example, would have been ideal for this purpose, because it is obviously Sun-oriented. The stars can be mapped onto the Gregorian calendar, because their right ascension positions are distributed over 24 hours, equal to the measure for the day. Earth turns around once every day, that was certainly known from very ancient times. Sun moved slowly across the timescape of the stars in the sky and it took him a year, this had been observed indirectly from the Full Moon positions since prehistoric times. In Egypt this valuable knowledge was secured in the picture of the dung beetle (Sun) who rolled ahead his little clod of Earth (and those who were uninitiated would get the message if they were sharp enough):  The 6 joints of the insect suited a year with 6 * 60 = 360 days. In Gb6-20 there is an arrangement with a great raaraa in the center supported by 3 + 3 = 6 small circles:
... The chief thus makes his appearance at Lakeba from the sea, as a stranger to the land. Disembarking at the capital village of Tubou, he is led first to the chiefly house (vale levu) and next day to the central ceremonial ground (raaraa) of the island ... If we read this glyph heliacally, then Sirius should be in the center. In front would then be July 1, the first day of the 2nd half of the Gregorian calendar. Such small circles could represent stars, because we have tentatively identified such signs as stars in the constellation of Auriga:
Another possibility is that these small circles were used to correspond to the months of Sun. But this could in a sense be a complementary reading, because months were ruled by (connected to) stars. ... Among the Nahyssan of S. Carolina time was measured and a rude chronology arranged by means of strings of leather with knots of various colour, like the Peruvian quipos. The Dakota use a circle as the symbol of time, a smaller one for a year and a larger one for a longer period: the circles are arranged in rows, thus: OOO or O-O-O. The Pima of Arizona make use of a tally. The year-mark is a deep notch across the stick ... Anyhow, day 157 (= 314 / 2) perhaps identifies the first glyph in line Ca4 as June 6 (6-6) - and as the last part in a cycle, with Capella and Rigel in the following day defining the beginning of the next. Returning then to the 3 + 3 months (stars) before and after Sirius, we can guess Algenib Persei was one of those small circles at left (in the past).
From June 6 (157) to November 10 (314) there are 157 days. This is where someone was choking on a fishbone (hakaraoa) and possibly terminated by suffocating - no longer able to breathe, like a fire suddenly covered by a blanket. To create a Sun calendar implied working in the light of order (outside in the daylight). What better instrument could be used than 314 as the proper tool. 314 + 157 = 471:
In the nights of early July could be observed the heliacal stars at the beginning of the Gregorian year. January 1 was at the opposite side of the year compared to July 1. Reading the January night sky from Easter Island there were 5 days with 7h in the center of night number 16 * 29½ + 1 = 473 (= 1½ * 314 + 2). The ka(h)i fish held up in front with head down as if dead, could be waiting to be revived. ... Rangitokona, prop up the heaven! // Rangitokona, prop up the morning! // The pillar stands in the empty space. The thought [memea] stands in the earth-world - // Thought stands also in the sky. The kahi stands in the earth-world - // Kahi stands also in the sky. The pillar stands, the pillar - // It ever stands, the pillar of the sky. Then for the first time was there light between the Sky and the Earth; the world existed ... But in the C text Sun may have been in July, not in January. The feet of the kiore (Cb4-7 and Cb4-14) have no toes - they are like fins. In front invigorating rain (ua) could be expected. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
