20 is in this Egyptian picture the sum of 10 plus 10 bees and the top compartment rests on a sloping plain:
The man at bottom is kneeling down and listening whereas the figure in the upper compartment is working with no time to listen. The fish-hook in Gb1-18 could denote the opposite side of the year compared to the season working with bees. Bees are above and fishes are below.
July 29 (210) had the Sun at the Beehive (ε Cancri and M44). The Full Moon was in night 392 (January 27) - equal to the number of glyphs on side a on the Mamari tablet. 392 - 210 = 182.
The Fish-hook of Maui was probably in the month He Maro, which, we can guess, was 'June (and time for a new year beginning with 'July): ... Maui temporarily lost his maro (loincloth, perhaps alluded to in the Easter Island month name Maro, June, the 'dry' - maro - month), when hauling hard to get the great 'fish' up from the deeps ...
The heliacal stars indicate Maui was drawing up Land in the sky, because Nunki was at the Full Moon - in 'December the Sea was arriving. In rongorongo times the Fishhook of Maui was in day 185 (July 4) and at the time of the Hyades Gate the stars had been rising 64 days earlier, in day 185 - 64 = 121 (MAY 1). What kind of 'Fish' was drawn up at Gb1-18? 118 = 472 / 4 could mean we ought to look at the nakshatra stars and Cancer was once the constellation for descending souls: ... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer' ...
Gredi rose with the Sun at Gb1-14. Day 210 (July 29) came 5 + 183 = 188 days later. 387 (January 22) + 188 - 365 = 210. ... The four bereaved and searching divinities, the two mothers and their two sons, were joined by a fifth, the moon-god Thoth (who appears sometimes in the form of an ibis-headed scribe, at other times in the form of a baboon), and together they found all of Osiris save his genital member, which had been swallowed by a fish. They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead. These confess before him, and when their hearts have been weighed in a balance against a feather, receive, according to their lives, the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin.  210 * 2 = 420 (42). 210 (July 29) + 210 = 420 = 365 + 55 (February 24). ... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day') ... At the beginning of the Goat (Gb1-14) the souls of men were drawn up and at the Beehive they descended again like a swarm of bees. ... When all had left, when all the brothers were asleep, Tuu Maheke came and cut off the head of Hotu A Matua. Then he covered everything with soil. He hid (the head), took it, and went up. When he was inland, he put (the head) down at Te Avaava Maea. Another day dawned, and the men saw a dense swarm of flies pour forth and spread out like a whirlwind (ure tiatia moana) until it disappeared into the sky ... |
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