There
was
a
pair
of
great
events
at
the
beginning
of
time,
viz.
raising
the
sky
roof
above
the
level
of
the
sea
and
after
that
came the
task
of drawing
up
land:
... A very
detailed
myth comes
from the
island of
Nauru.
In the
beginning
there was
nothing but
the sea, and
above soared
the
Old-Spider.
One day the
Old-Spider
found a
giant clam,
took it up,
and tried to
find if this
object had
any opening,
but could
find none.
She tapped
on it, and
as it
sounded
hollow, she
decided it
was
empty. By
repeating a
charm, she
opened the
two shells
and slipped
inside. She
could see
nothing,
because the
sun and the
moon did not
then exist;
and then,
she could
not stand up
because
there was
not enough
room in the
shellfish.
Constantly
hunting
about she at
last found a
snail. To
endow it
with power
she placed
it under her
arm, lay
down and
slept for
three days.
Then she let
it free, and
still
hunting
about she
found
another
snail bigger
than the
first one,
and treated
it in the
same way.
Then she
said to the
first snail:
'Can you
open this
room a
little, so
that we can
sit down?'
The snail
said it
could, and
opened the
shell a
little. Old-Spider
then took
the snail,
placed it in
the west of
the shell,
and made it
into the
moon. Then
there was a
little
light, which
allowed
Old-Spider
to see a big
worm. At her
request he
opened the
shell a
little
wider, and
from the
body of the
worm flowed
a salted
sweat which
collected in
the lower
half-shell
and became
the sea.
Then he
raised the
upper
half-shell
very high,
and it
became the
sky. Rigi,
the worm,
exhausted by
this great
effort, then
died.
Old-Spider
then made
the sun from
the second
snail, and
placed it
beside the
lower
half-shell,
which became
the earth
...
I
have
suggested
where
in
the
G
text
the
enchanted
fish-hook
of
Maui
was
used
to
draw
up
'land'.
It
is
described
early
in
line
a2,
where
the
toga
glyphs
are
indicating
the
direction
southwest
(toga)
from
where
land
(the
'fish') had
to
come
up -
when
the
star
announcing
the
'sea'
(Nunki)
was
close
to
the
Full
Moon.
The
hook
possibly
referred
to
γ
Canis
Majoris,
the
star
at
the
top
of
the
head
of
the
Great
Dog:
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| Ga1-30 |
Ga2-1 |
Ga2-2 |
Ga2-3 (33) |
Ga2-4 |
| ●APRIL 9 (*19) |
10 (100) |
11 |
12 |
13 |
| APRIL 20 (*30) |
21 (111) |
22 |
23 |
24 |
| Furud (94.9) |
Well-22 / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-9 |
no star listed (96) |
β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) |
no star listed (98) |
| δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR, Mirzam (95.4), CANOPUS (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9) |
| June 23 |
ST JOHN'S EVE |
25 |
26 (177) |
27 |
| ºJune 19 |
20 (*91) |
SOLSTICE |
22 (173) |
23 |
| 'May 27 |
28 (*68) |
29 |
30 (150) |
31 |
| "May 13 |
14 (*54) |
15 |
16 (136) |
17 |
| NAKSHATRA DATES: |
| ●OCTOBER 9 |
10 |
11 (*204) |
12 (285) |
13 |
| OCTOBER 20 |
21 |
22 (295) |
23 (*216) |
24 |
| Purva Ashadha-20 |
Kaus Borealis (279.3) |
ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9) |
Abhijit-22 |
| KAUS MEDIUS, κ Lyrae (277.5), Tung Hae (277.7) |
φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), Al Athfar (278.6) |
θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA (281.8) |
| December 23 |
CHRISTMAS EVE |
25 |
26 (360) |
27 |
| ºDec 19 (*273) |
20 (354 = 12 * 29½) |
SOLSTICE |
22 |
23 |
| 'Nov 26 (*250) |
27 |
28 |
29 (333) |
30 |
| "Nov 12 (*236) |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 (320) |
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| Ga2-5 |
Ga2-6 (36) |
Ga2-7 |
Ga2-8 |
| ●APRIL 14 |
15 |
16 (*26) |
17 (107) |
| APRIL 25 |
26 (*36) |
27 |
28 (118) |
| ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)
Gemma
|
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), Mebsuta (100.7) |
SIRIUS (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7) |
τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4) |
| June 28 |
29 (180) |
30 |
July 1 |
| ST JOHN'S EVE |
ºJune 25 (*96) |
26 (177) |
27 |
| 'June 1 |
2 (*73) |
3 (154) |
4 |
| "May 18 |
19 (*59) |
20 (140) |
21 |
| NAKSHATRA DATES: |
| ●OCTOBER 14 |
15 (*208) |
16 |
17 (290) |
| OCTOBER 25 |
26 (*219) |
27 (300) |
28 |
| no star listed (282) |
ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), Double Double (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8) |
South Dipper-8 |
Sheliak, ν Lyrae (285.1), λ Pavonis (285.7)
Atlas
|
| Φ SAGITTARII (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8) |
| December 28 |
29 |
30 (364) |
31 |
| CHRISTMAS EVE |
ºDecember 25 |
26 (*280) |
27 |
| 'December 1 |
2 (336 = 14 * 24) |
3 |
4 (*258) |
| "November 17 |
18 (322) |
19 |
20 (*244) |
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| Ga2-9 |
Ga2-10 (40) |
Ga2-11 |
Ga2-12 |
| ●APRIL 18 (*28) |
19 |
20 |
21 (111) |
| APRIL 29 (*39) |
30 |
MAY 1 (121) |
2 |
| Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-10 |
Adara (104.8) |
ω Gemini (105.4), Alzirr (105.7), MULIPHEIN (105.8), Mekbuda (105.9) |
7h (106.5) |
| θ Gemini (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), ALHENA (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9) |
no star listed (106) |
| July 2 |
3 |
4 (185) |
5 |
| ºJune 28 |
29 (*100) |
30 |
ºJuly 1 (182) |
| 'June 5 (156 = 12 * 13) |
6 (*77) |
7 |
8 |
| "May 22 |
23 (*63) |
24 (144) |
25 |
| NAKSHATRA DATES: |
| ●OCTOBER 18 (291) |
19 |
20 |
21 (*214) |
| OCTOBER 29 (*222) |
30 |
31 (304) |
NOVEMBER 1 |
| χ Oct. (286.0), 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) |
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 (340) |
7 (*261 = 9 * 29) |
8 |
| "November 21 (325) |
22 |
23 |
24 (*248) |
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| Ga2-13 |
Ga2-14 (44) |
Ga2-15 |
Ga2-16 |
Ga2-17 |
| ●APRIL 22 (*32) |
23 |
24 (114) |
25 |
26 |
| MAY 3 |
4 (*44) |
5 (125) |
6 |
7 |
| 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 (184) |
4 |
5 |
6 (*107) |
| 'June 9 |
10 (161) |
11 |
12 |
13 (*84) |
| "May 26 |
27 |
28 (*68) |
29 |
30 (150) |
| NAKSHATRA DATES: |
| ●OCTOBER 22 (295) |
23 (*216) |
24 |
25 |
26 |
| NOVEMBER 2 |
3 (*227) |
4 (308) |
5 |
6 |
| Al Baldah-19 / Cargo Boat-91 |
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 |
6 |
7 (372) |
8 |
9 |
| ºJanuary 1 |
2 |
3 (368) |
4 |
5 (*290) |
| 'December 9 |
10 (344) |
11 (*265) |
12 |
LUCIA |
| "Nov 25 (329) |
26 (*250) |
27 |
28 |
29 |
... O
Tonganui
/ why do
you hold
so
stubbornly
there
below?
The
power of
Muri's
jawbone
is at
work on
you, /
you are
coming,
/ you
are
caught
now, /
you are
coming
up, /
appear,
appear.
Shake
yourself,
/
grandson
of
Tangaroa
the
little.
The fish
came
near the
surface
then, so
that
Maui's
line was
slack
for a
moment,
and he
shouted
to it
not to
get
tangled.
But then
the fish
plunged
down
again,
all the
way to
the
bottom.
And Maui
had to
strain,
and haul
away
again.
And at
the
height
of all
this
excitement
his belt
worked
loose,
and his
maro
fell off
and he
had to
kick it
from his
feet.
He had
to do
the rest
with
nothing
on.
The
brothers
of Maui
sat
trembling
in the
middle
of the
canoe,
fearing
for
their
lives.
For now
the
water
was
frothing
and
heaving,
and
great
hot
bubbles
were
coming
up, and
steam,
and Maui
was
chanting
the
incantation
called
Hiki,
which
makes
heavy
weights
light.
At
length
there
appeared
beside
them the
gable
and
thatched
roof of
the
house of
Tonganui,
and not
only the
house,
but a
huge
piece of
the land
attached
to it.
The
brothers
wailed,
and beat
their
heads,
as they
saw that
Maui had
fished
up land,
Te
Ika a
Maui,
the fish
of Maui.
And
there
were
houses
on it,
and
fires
burning,
and
people
going
about
their
daily
tasks
...
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