In the Babylonian picture we can clearly identify where sweet water was running out, viz. at Eridu:
... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ... The 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. It could have meant it was necessary to illustrate the flow of time by separating the ancient time. At the time of rongorongo the star positions relative to Sirius had changed with 75 days since the time of Haedus II. In addition to our well known zodiacal cycle it had been necessary to have another path with the Serpent below the Lion. It was probably the task of Sirius to replenish 'the ocean' and before that happened there was a stretch of dry land which at the time of Haedus II could have been around 75 + 6 (the distance in rongorongo times from Canopus to Sirius) = 81 days. But the sources of the Nile (from where the ocean would receive its new water) was hidden because the 'pole' of the precession (Uoke) had moved these sources downwards. Possibly the Abyss was the place of 'the hidden ocean' (in contrast to the water from Aquarius at the opposite side of the year). At the opposite side of ο Hydrae, far down between the empty Crater and the thirsty Raven, was the nose of the Goatfish, or rather Eagle & Dead Man (in between the Goatfish and the She Goat). In G we can count:
The right arm and the head have vanished in Ga1-29 and the left hand in Gb1-10. From Ga1-29 to Gb1-10 there are 210 days / glyphs, corresponding to the right ascension distance from Tejat Prior to τ Aquilae at the neck of the Eagle. The other measure is 60 days, corresponding to the distance from heliacal Tejat Prior in ¤JUNE 22 (173) to τ Aquilae in ¤AUGUST 21 (233).
In this tangled tale we should first notice that 210 - 60 = 150. By keeping track of Sirius down to the time of Haedus II we have to reduce the day numbers with 75 due to the precession and then to subtract another 75 in order to find the distances from Sirius at that ancient time. In rongorngo times τ Aquilae (303.8) rose with the Sun in day 383 = January 18 (1-18) or only ˝ a day less than 13 * 29˝ = 383˝. 383 (January 18) - 75 = 308 (●NOVEMBER 4). At the time of Haedus II the star ο Hydrae (176.1) would have risen heliacally 75 days closer to Sirius than in rongorongo times, viz. in ¤AUGUST 21 (233) - with my new symbol ¤ meaning 'according to a calendar where heliacal Sirius at the time of Haedus II was at ¤JUNE 30 (181)'. In my new structure we can then look at Menkhib (ζ Persei) - closely after the Pleiades yet in Gb5-5 drawn very much like Aquarius:
In Gb8-24 heliacal Menkhib is a figure looking back - which means he had no future. On the other hand was in Gb5-5 heliacal Menkhib drawn as a person with a dry empty hand in the past and a liquid (life) arm in front.
465 (Gb8-24) - 358 (Gb5-5) = 107 = 472 - 365 = 471 - 364. In Gb8-24, closely after Alcyone who in rongorongo times could have announced the beginning of the year and a nice sailing weather - as read nakshatra wise on Easter Island - the odd figure could have represented the previous old year. In Gb5-5 the similarity with Aquarius could possibly have referred to an earlier date, for instance to the day when ω Aquarii rose with the Sun:
74 (March 15) + 107 = 181 (June 30). |
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