The compression of the celestial Land
to 123 days instead of the expected 185 days for the
northern summer amounts to
a difference with 62 days, which happens
to coincide with what Ceasar had
added by way of the new months July and August (2 * 31 = 62 days),
inserted in his Sun calendar in the place where Sirius had reached
'June 30.
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826 / 14 = 59 |
Gb8-27 |
(240) |
(470) |
Gb8-30 |
MARCH 16 |
17 |
18 |
19 (78) |
20 |
May 19 |
20 (140) |
21 |
22 (*62) |
23 |
5 |
no glyph |
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54 |
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121 |
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50 |
Ga1-1 |
Ga1-2 |
Ga2-27 (57) |
Ga7-10 (179) |
Hyadum II (δ¹ Tauri)
(64.2) |
Net-19 |
no star listed (66) |
8h (121.7) |
16h (243.5) |
AIN,
θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri
(65.7) |
χ Gemini (121.0), Naos (121.3) |
Acrab, Jabhat al Akrab (243.3), θ
Lupi, Rutilicus (243.5), Marfik
(243.7), φ Herculis (243.8)
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57 |
123 |
180 |
230 (= number of days on side a) |
... This island was once a great land. The
reason it became so small is because Uoke
lifted the earth with a (mighty) pole and
then let it sink (into the sea). It was
because of the very bad people of Te Pito
O Te Henua that Uoke lifted the
land (and let it crumble) until it became
very small. From the uplifted Te Pito O
Te Henua, (they) came to the landing
site of Nga Tavake, to Te
Ohiro. In Rotomea (near
Mataveri) they disembarked and climbed
up to stay at Vai Marama (a
waterplace near Mataveri).
During the next month, they moved on to
Te Vare (on the slope of the crater
Rano Kau). When they saw that the
(land-) lifting Uoke also approached
(their present) island, Nga Tavake
spoke to Te Ohiro: 'The land is
sinking into the sea and we are lost!' But
Te Ohiro warded off the danger with a
magic chant. In Puku Puhipuhi,
Uoke's pole broke, and, in this way, at
least Nga Tavake's landing
site remained (of the formerly great land)
...
The shrinking
(sinking) Land could
alternatively have been explained as
57 days together with 5
extracalendrical nights beyond day 180:
no
glyph |
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177 |
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Ga1-1 |
Ga1-2 |
Ga7-11 (180) |
Ga7-12 |
Ga7-13 |
0h |
MARCH 22 |
23 (82) |
SEPT 17 (260) |
18 |
19 |
Hyadum II (δ¹ Tauri)
(64.2) |
Net-19 |
no star listed (66) |
ψ Scorpii (244.6), Lesath
(244.8) |
χ Scorpii (245.1), Yed Prior, δ
Tr. Austr. (245.5) |
Yed Posterior, Rukbalgethi
Shemali (246.6). δ Apodis
(246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8) |
AIN,
θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri
(65.7) |
May 24 |
25 |
26 (146) |
Nov 20 (324) |
21 |
22 |
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Ga7-14 |
Ga7-15 |
Ga7-16 (185) |
Ga7-17 |
Ga7-18 |
Ga7-19 |
SEPTEMBER 20 |
21 |
EQUINOX |
23 |
24 |
25 (268) |
Heart-5 |
ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), Kajam
(248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), She
Low, ι Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr.
Austr. (248.8) |
Al Kalb-16
/
Jyeshtha-18
ANA-MUA |
γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis
(250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6),
τ Scorpii
(250.7) |
Han (251.0) |
ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr.
(252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis
(252.5) |
σ SCORPII
(247.0), Hejian (247.2), ψ
Ophiuchi (247.7) |
ANTARES
(249.1), Marfik, φ Ophiuchi
(249.5), ω Ophiuchi (249.8) |
November 23 |
24 |
25 (329) |
26 |
27 |
28 |
From heliacal Antares (Ana-mua,
the star in front) up to and including the arrow Point of
Sagittarius (Nash) there were 210 - 185 = 25
days. Up to and including Al Baldah there were
227 - 185 = 42 days.
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23 |
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16 |
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2 |
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Ga7-16 (185) |
Ga8-6 (209) |
Ga8-23 (226) |
Ga8-26 (229) |
25 |
20 |
45 |
Then followed the last 3
days at the end of
line 8 at the top of the front side of
the tablet. Counted from heliacal Antares to the end
of side a there were 42 + 3 = 45 (= 360
/ 8) days.
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Ga8-22 |
Ga8-23 |
Ga8-24 (227) |
Ga8-25 |
Ga8-26 |
NOVEMBER 1 |
2 (306) |
3 |
4 |
5 |
19h (289.2) |
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) |
λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr
(289.3),
τ Sagittarii
(289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr.
(289.8) |
AL BALDAH,
Alphekka Meridiana (290.1), β Cor. Austr.
(290.2) |
January 4 |
5 (370) |
6 |
7 |
8 |
NAKSHATRA DATES: |
MAY 3 (123) |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 (492) |
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 |
8 |
9 (190) |
10 |
If the day number at NOVEMBER 5 had
been
counted from MARCH 16 (75) at Gb8-26, it would
have been 309 + 5 = 314 (π).
When counting with logarithms the power of 10 (the
mantissa) can be disregarded, because this
power is obvious. The difficult part is the rest,
its characteristic.
(NGC 2392 in Gemini, the
Eskimo Nebula)
Sumerian SAG |
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Phoenician resh |
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Greek rho |
Ρ (ρ) |
...
Resh (Arabic: rāۥ)
is the twentieth letter of many
Semitic alphabets, including
Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ... The
word resh is usually assumed
to have come from a pictogram of a
head, ultimately reflecting
Proto-Semitic *raۥ(i)š-.
The word's East Semitic cognate,
rēš-, was one possible phonetic
reading of the Sumerian cuneiform
sign for 'head' (SAG). |
LA, s. Haw., sun, light, day. N.
Zeal., ra, sun, day. Marqu.,
a, id. Sam., la, id.
Deriv.: Haw., lae, be light,
clear, shining; lai, shining
as the surface of the sea, calm,
still; laelae and lailai,
intens. Sam., lelei,
something very good; lala, to
shine; lalangi, to broil.
Fiji., rai, to see, appear;
rai-rai, a seer, a prophet.
Teor., la, sun. Aru Islands,
lara, id.; rarie,
bright, shining. Amblaw., laei,
sun, day.
Irish, la, lae, day.
Laghmani (Cabul), la'e, day.
Sanskr., laj, lanj, to
appear, shine; râj, to shine.
Ved., to govern; s. a king.
If, as Benfey intimates, the
Sanskrit verb bhrâj, to shine, to
beam, is 'probably abhi-râj',
an already Vedic contraction, then
the Polynesian root-word al
and lae will reappear in
several of the West Aryan dialects.
Lat., flagrare, flamma,
flamen. Greek, φλεγω,
φλοξ.
A.-Sax., blac,
blæcan,
&c.
Probably the universal Polynesian
lani,
langi,
rangi,
ra'i,
lanits
(Malg.) designating the upper air,
sky, heaven, and an epithet of
chiefs, refers itself to the same
original la,
lai,
lanj,
referred to above, to which also be
referred: Welsh,
glan,
clean pure, bright, holy. Sax.
clæne,
clean, pure. Swed.,
ren,
clean. pure;
grann
(?), fine, elegant.
It may be noted in connection with
this word, either as a coincidence
or as an instance of ancient
connection, that in the old Chaldean
the name of the sun and of the
Supreme Deity was
Ra,
and that in Egypt the sun was also
named Ra.
LA²,
s. Haw., Sam., Tong.,
ra.
N. Zeal., the sail of a canoe;
abbreviated from, or itself an older
form of, the Fiji.
laca,
a sail, also the mats from which the
sails were made. Sunda., Mal.,
layar,
sail. Malg.,
laï,
sail, tent, flag.
Sanskr.,
lâta
(Pictet), a cloth;
latâ
(Benfey), a creeper, a plant;
lak-taka,
a rag. As mats and clothing in
primitive times were made of bark or
flexible plants, the connection
between the Sanskrit
latâ
and Polynesian
laca,
la,
becomes intelligible. Armen.,
lôtig,
a mantle. Lat.,
lodix,
a blanket. Irish,
lothar,
clothing. |
From Rogo with head
intact
(in Gb6-26) to the 'birth' of Rogo
without a visible head there were 295 (= 5 * 59) days. This was the number of
days from March 21 (0h) to January 10 (375).
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63 |
1 |
230 |
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177 |
Gb6-25 |
Gb6-26 (408) |
Gb1-2 |
Gb1-3 (232) |
JANUARY 15 (380) |
16 |
NOVEMBER
7 (311) |
8 |
no star listed (364) |
Al
Fargh al Thāni-25 |
ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), Albireo (295.5) |
μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8),
κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9) |
0h (365.25) |
Caph,
SIRRAH
(0.5), ε Phoenicis (0.8) |
March 20 (444) |
0h |
January
10 (375) |
11 |
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