The last star of the 4th Arab manzil Al Han'ah
was Alzirr (ξ), often depicted at
the right foot of Pollux, although the more enlightened Hevelius
has Alzirr at his left foot:
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In rongorongo times heliacal Alzirr (the Button) coincided with July
4 (185) at the opposite side of Nunki heralding the beginning
of 'the Sea'. Therefore a new 'Land' (Mother Earth) began at 7h and
12 hours later the 'Lord of the Lake' returned.
... 'The earth
rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and
things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive, for
neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and they
dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard. There come also
the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, and bring along his
hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from the other world.
All sit down and converse together. They rehearse their runes
and talk of events of old days. Then they find in the grass the
golden tablets that the Aesir once played with.
Two children of men
will also be found safe from the great flames of Surt. Their
names, Lif and Lifthrasir, and they feed on the morning dew and
from this human pair will come a great population which will
fill the earth. And strange to say, the sun, before being
devoured by Fenrir, will have borne a daughter, no less
beautiful and going the same ways as her mother.'
In the time of Gregorius XIII heliacal Alzirr was
at the end of June and heliacal Nunki was in day 364:
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Ga2-9 |
Ga2-10 |
Ga2-11 |
Ga2-12 |
θ Gemini (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2),
Alhena
(103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9) |
Adara (104.8) |
ω Gemini (105.4),
Alzirr
(105.7), Muliphein (105.8), Mekbuda
(105.9) |
7h (106.5) |
no star listed (106) |
July 2 |
3 |
4 (185) |
5 |
ºJune
28 |
29 (*100) |
30 |
ºJuly
1 (182) |
'June 5 |
6 |
7 (*78) |
8 |
'He
Maro 5 (156) |
6 |
7 |
8 |
"May
22 |
23 |
24 (144) |
25 (*65) |
Ain al
Rami (286.2), δ Lyrae (286.3), κ Pavonis
(286.5), Alya (286.6) |
ξ
Sagittarii (287.1), ω Pavonis (287.3), ε
Aquilae, ε Cor. Austr., Sulaphat
(287.4), λ Lyrae (287.7),
Ascella,
Bered (Ant.) (287.9) |
Al Na'ām-18 /
Uttara Ashadha-21 |
19h (289.2) |
NUNKI
(288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5),
Manubrium (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9) |
λ Aquilae
(Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ
Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ
Cor. Austr. (289.8) |
January 1 (366) |
2 |
3 |
4 |
ºDecember
28 |
29 |
30 (364) |
31 (*285) |
'December 5 |
6 |
7 |
8 (342) |
'Ko
Koró 5 |
6 (*260) |
7 |
8 |
"November
21 (325) |
22 |
23 |
24 (*248) |
... A handsome, fair-skinned
stranger, victim of an accident at sea, is befriended by a shark who carries him
ashore on the south coast of Viti Levu. The stranger wanders into the
interior where he is taken in by a local chieftain, whose daughter he eventually
marries. From this union springs the line of Noikoro ruling chiefs, the
narrator of the story being the tenth descendant on that line. He and his
clansmen are called 'The Sharks' (Na Qio)...
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Ga2-14 |
Ga7-16 |
Na Qio |
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Ga2-13 |
Ga2-14 |
Ga2-15 |
Ga2-16 |
Ga2-17 |
Wezen (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ
Monocerotis (107.9) |
no star listed (108) |
λ Gemini (109.4), Wasat (109.8) |
no star listed (110) |
Aludra (111.1), Propus (111.4),
Gomeisa (111.6) |
July 6 |
7 (188) |
8 |
9 |
10 |
ºJuly
2 |
3 |
4 (185) |
5 |
6 (*107) |
'June 9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 (*84) |
'He
Maro 9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 (164) |
"May
26 |
27 |
28 (*68) |
29 |
30 (150) |
Al Baldah-19 |
Aladfar (291.1), Nodus II (291.5), ψ
Sagittarii (291.6), θ Lyrae (291.8) |
ω
Aquilae (292.1), ρ Sagittarii
(292.6), υ Sagittarii (292.7) |
Arkab
Prior (293.0), Arkab Posterior,
Alrami (293.2),
χ Sagittarii (293.6) |
Deneb
Okab (294.0), α Vulpeculae (294.9) |
AL BALDAH,
Alphekka Meridiana (290.1), β
Cor. Austr. (290.2) |
January 5 (370) |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
ºJanuary
1 |
2 |
3 (*288) |
4 |
5 (370) |
'December 9 |
10 (344) |
11
(*265) |
12 |
LUCIA |
'Ko
Koró 9 |
10 (*264) |
11 (345) |
12 |
LUCIA |
"November
25 (329) |
26 (*250) |
27 |
28 |
29 |
The necessary key which I once
discovered, the key
for beginning to unlock the mysteries of
the rongorongo texts, was the pair of fishes which I
guessed represented Antares and Aldebaran:
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180 |
Ga7-16 |
Ga1-4 |
ANTARES
(249.1) |
ALDEBARAN
(68.2) |
November
25 (329) |
May 28 (148) |
The fish rising up in Ga2-13
could allude to Aldebaran and the fish
turning around in Ga2-14 could allude to
Antares. People in Polynesia could
have looked at the Scorpion, I thought, and perceived a
shark (mago according to Metoro)
which was turning around. In November 25 (*249)
Antares rose heliacally as a sign announcing
the arrival of a new year south of the
equator.
Kio 1.
Defeated; one who has taken refuge
in a house or in a cave. 2. To come
out a winner, to win, to be
victorious in war, in a quarrel, in
a race: ku-kio-á te taûa i a
Miru, the war was won by the
Miru; ku-kio-á te toru vaka,
the third boat won. Kiokio,
to smell of smoke, to smell smoky
(of food). Vanaga.
1. Stick wherewith
to rake things into a heap. 2.
Slave, servant, inferior, of low
estate, husbandsman. Hakakio,
to enslave, to reduce to subjection;
tagata hakakio, master. Mgv.:
kio, a servant, slave, tiller of
the soil. 3. To discourage; also
kioa. Kiokio, foul
smelling smoke. Mgv.: kio,
kiohe, to extinguish, to put out
a light. 4. Pau.: kiokio, to
chirp. Mgv.: kio, id. Ta.:
ioio, to cry, said of a baby.
Mq.: kiokio, to chirp. Sa.:
'io, id. Ha.: ioio,
id. 5. Mgv.: kio, little,
small, said of birds and animals.
Mq.: kio, young of birds. 6.
Mgv.: kiokio, a fish. Mq.:
kiokio, id. 7. Mq.: kio,
said of women and children who run
away to the mountain shelters in
time of war. Ha.: kio, to
flee, to hasten away in fear.
Churchill.
Hakakio,
festival of thanksgiving. Barthel 2. |
Io
dwelt within the
breathing-space
of immensity. //
The universe was
in darkness,
with water
everywhere. //
There was no
glimmer of dawn,
no clearness, no
light.
And he began by
saying these
words,
That he might
cease remaining
inactive:
'Darkness,
become a
light-possessing
darkness.' And
at once a light
appeared. He
then repeated
these self-same
words in this
manner,
That he might
cease remaining
inactive:
'Light, become a
darkness-possessing
light.' And
again an intense
darkness
supervened. Then
a third time He
spake, saying:
'Let there be
one darkness
above. Let there
be one darkness
below. Let there
be a darkness
unto Tupua.
Let there be a
darkness unto
Tawhito. A
dominion of
light. A bright
light.' And now
a great light
prevailed.
Io
then looked to
the waters which
compassed him
about, and spake
a fourth time,
saying:
'Ye waters of
Tai kama, be
ye separate.
Heaven be
formed.' Then
the sky became
suspended.
'Bring forth
thou Te Tupua
horo nuku.'
And at once the
moving earth lay
stretched abroad.
(Tiwai
Paraone, New
Zealand, c.
1880, and
translated by
Hare Hongi.)
More than fifty
years after
Christianity
reached New
Zealand it was
suddenly
disclosed by
certain Maori
elders that the
pantheistic
mythology
hitherto
revealed was not
in fact the full
story, and that
according to an
esoteric or
'higher'
learning -
withheld till
then because of
its sanctity -
the Maori did
have a single,
Supreme Creator,
whose name was
Io.
The first
reference in
print to Io
seems to have
been made in
1876, by C. O.
Davis, who said
a member of the
Ngapuhi
tribe had told
him 'that the
Maoris in olden
times had
worshipped a
Supreme Being
whose name was
so sacred that
none but a
priest might
utter it at
certain times
and places ...
The only
complete account
was given much
later, in a
manuscript
dictated by the
Maori elder
Te
Matorohanga
and published in
1913 ... But
both this elder
and his scribe
Te
Whatahoro
were converted
to Christianity
long before the
manuscript was
composed.
The little word
'io' or 'kio',
as Buck points
out in an amused
survey of the
principal
evidence and
claims ... can
sometimes mean
the squeak of a
rat or bird, at
other times
muscular
twitches of the
body that were
regarded as
omens by the
Maori. Even so,
Io-Jehovah
caused some
excitement in an
age which wished
to persuade
itself that
primitive
peoples had
really been
Believers all
along, and His
revelation soon
led to further
discoveries
elsewhere in
Polynesia -
notably in the
Tuamotu,
where Stimson
believed as late
as 1933 that he
had unearthed a
cult of 'Kiho'.
(Antony Alpers,
Legends of
the South Seas.)
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