According to Manuscript
E 'another year passed' before Ure Honu found
the head of Hotu A Matua, with the help of a
'rat':
...
Another day came, and again Tuu Maheke
came and saw that it was completely dried out (pakapaka).
He took it, went away, and washed it with fresh
water until (the head) was completely clean.
Then he took it and painted it yellow (he pua
hai pua renga) and wound a strip of
barkcloth (nua) around it.
He
took it and hid it in the hole of a stone that
was exactly the size of the head. He put it
there, closed up the stone (from the outside),
and left it there. There it stayed.
Another year passed, and a man by the name of
Ure Honu went to work in his banana
plantation. He went and came to the last part,
to the 'head' (i.e., the upper part of the
banana plantation), to the end of the banana
plantation. The sun was standing just right for
Ure Honu to clean out the weeds from the
banana plantation. On the first day he hoed the
weeds. That went on all day, and then evening
came. Suddenly a rat came from the middle of the
banana plantation. Ure Honu saw it and
ran after it. But it disappeared and he could
not catch it.
On
the second day of hoeing, the same thing
happened with the rat. It ran away, and he could
not catch it. On the third day, he reached the
'head' of the bananas and finished the work in
the plantation. Again the rat ran away, and
Ure Honu followed it.
It ran and slipped into the hole of
a stone. He poked after it, lifted
up
the stone, and saw that the skull was
(in the hole) of the stone. (The rat
was) a spirit of the skull (he kuhane
o te puoko).
Ure Honu
was amazed and said, 'How beautiful you
are! In the head of the new bananas is a
skull, painted with yellow root and with
a strip of barkcloth around it.'
It means - given my
preceding interpretation of the G text - that there could be a
break in time somewhere late in line Gb1or early in
line Gb2 - beyond which would be 'the new banana
plantation'.
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Gb1-9 |
Gb1-10 |
Gb1-11 (240) |
Gb1-12 |
Gb1-13 |
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NOVEMBER 14 |
15 |
16 (320) |
17 |
18 |
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ε Pavonis, θ Sagittarii (302.3), γ Sagittae
(302.5), μ Pavonis (302.7) |
τ Aquilae
(303.8) |
20h (304.4) |
Shang Wei (305.2), θ Sagittae (305.4),
Tseen Foo (305.6), ξ Capricorni (305.8) |
Tso Ke (306.3) |
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η Sagittae (304.2), δ Pavonis (304.4) |
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January 17 |
18 (383) |
19 |
20 |
21 |
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NAKSHATRA DATES: |
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MAY 16 |
17 (137) |
18 |
19 |
20 |
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ω Cancri (120.2) |
8h (121.7) |
ρ Puppis
(122.0), Heap of Fuel (122.1), ζ Monocerotis
(122.3), ψ Cancri (122.6), Regor (122.7) |
Tegmine (123.3) |
Al Tarf (124.3)
Ras
Algethi |
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χ Gemini
(121.0),
Naos (121.3) |
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July 19 (200) |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
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Gb1-14 |
Gb1-15 |
Gb1-16 |
Gb1-17 |
Gb1-18 |
Gb1-19 (248) |
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NOVEMBER 19 |
20 (324) |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
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Gredi
(307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), Alshat
(307.9) |
Al Sa’d al Dhabih-20 /
Ox / Herd Boy-9 |
Okul (309.6), Bos (309.9)
Arneb
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ο Capricorni (310.2), θ Cephei (310.5)
Alnilam
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Rotten Melon, φ Pavonis (311.2), η
Delphini (311.4), ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis
(311.7)
Phakt
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Rotanev,
ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ
Delphini (312.7),
SVALOCIN,
υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8) |
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DABIH
(308.0), κ Sagittarii (308.1), Sadir
(308.4), Peacock (308.7) |
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January 22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 (392) |
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NAKSHATRA DATES: |
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MAY 21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 (146) |
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χ Cancri
(125.2), Bright Fire (125.4) |
Avior (126.4), φ
Cancri (126.8) |
ο Ursa Majoris
(127.4) |
Pushya-8 |
Āshleshā-9 /
Willow-24 |
Al Nathrah-6 |
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υ Cancri
(128.1),
θ CANCRI (128.2),
η Cancri (128.5) |
π¹ Ursa Majoris,
δ HYDRAE (129.6),
Al Minhar al Shujā,
Museida
(129.9)
Ras
Alhague
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BEEHIVE
(130.4),
Xestus (130.5),
Ascellus Borealis
(130.9) |
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July 24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 (210) |
We need not look
far, because we will immediately remember the key
dates July 29 (210) and January 27 (392 = 210 +
182). 72 * 9 = 648 = 364 + 284 and 12 * 7 = 84 =
28 + 28 + 28.
The primary stars
seem to be heliacal and day 393 should therefore be the
day for a break. Acccording to the glyphs a
new sequence of events is indeed beginning
here:
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Gb1-20 |
Gb1-21 (250) |
Gb1-22 |
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NOVEMBER 25
(329) |
26 |
27 |
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Deneb Cygni (313.5), β Pavonis (313.6),
δ Delphini
(313.8) |
Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 /
Dhanishta-24 /
Girl-10 |
Baten Algiedi
(315.8) |
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Yue (314.3), Gienah Cygni, η Cephei (314.5),
γ Delphini
(314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7),
ALBALI
(314.8)
Betelgeuze
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January 28 |
29 |
30 (395) |
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NAKSHATRA DATES: |
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MAY 27 |
28 (148) |
29 |
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Extended Net-26a /
Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-13 |
ι Cancri
(132.0), ρ Hydrae
(132.4) |
no star listed
(133) |
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η Hydrae
(131.0), Ascellus
Australis (131.4), Koo She
(131.6), ε HYDRAE
(131.9) |
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July
30 |
31 (212) |
August 1 |
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Gb1-23 |
Gb1-24 |
Gb1-25 (254) |
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NOVEMBER
28 |
29 (333) |
30 |
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μ Aquarii
(316.0) |
ε Equulei (317.8) |
no star listed (318) |
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January 31
(396) |
February 1 |
2 |
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NAKSHATRA DATES: |
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MAY 30 |
31 (151) |
JUNE 1 |
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ζ Hydrae
(134.1), ρ Cancri (134.2), ο Cancri (134.6) |
Acubens, Talitha
Borealis (135.0), σ Cancri (135.2), ρ Ursa
Majoris (135.6) |
ν Cancri
(136.0), Talitha Australis (136.1), ω Hydrae
(136.8) |
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August 2 |
3 |
4 (216) |
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Gb1-26 |
Gb2-1 (256) |
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DECEMBER 1 |
2 (336) |
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21h (319.6) |
χ Capricorni (320.0),
ν Aquarii
(320.3), γ Equulei (320.6), ο Pavonis
(320.8) |
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Armus (319.0), Dorsum (319.3), Tsoo (319.7) |
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February 3 |
4 (400) |
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NAKSHATRA DATES: |
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JUNE 2 |
3 (154) |
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9h (137.0) |
no star listed
(138) |
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σ¹ Ursa Majoris
(137.0), κ Cancri (137.3), τ Cancri (137.4),
Alsuhail (137.5), σ² Ursa Majoris (137.6), τ
Ursa Majoris (137.7),
ξ Cancri
(137.8) |
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August 5 |
6 (218) |
The unique Gb1-21
should refer to the heliacal stars rather than to
the nakshatra view. Because in rongorongo times
these stars happened to rise with the Sun 314
days after 0h. But the midnight culmination of
Betelgeuze ought also to have been important.
Furthermore, if we
should add 182 (instead of my normal 183) to day
314 (after 0h) we will find day 314 + 182 = 496
= 131 + 365, where the Extended Net was
beginning (at
Ascellus Australis). This was the 13th
Babylonian ecliptic station,
the Southeast Star in the Crab.
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Motu
1. To cut;
to snap off: motu-á te hau, the
fishing line snapped off; to engrave, to
inscribe letters or pictures in stone or in
wood, like the motu mo rogorogo,
inscriptions for recitation in lines called
kohau. 2. Islet; some names of
islets: Motu Motiro Hiva, Sala y
Gómez; and around the island: Motu Nui,
Motu Iti, Motu Kaokao, Motu Tapu, Motu
Marotiri, Motu Kau, Motu Tavake, Motu
Tautara, Motu Ko Hepa Ko Maihori, Motu Hava.
Motu rau uri,
southeast wind. Motu takarua,
west wind. Vanaga.
To break, to cut with a
knife, to sever, to rupture; rent, reef,
shoal, rock; motu poto, to cut short;
aretare motu, an oratory; motu
kivakiva, an uncovered shoal;
motumotu, to cut up; tae motumotu, e
ko motumotu, indissoluble. P Pau.:
motu, island; komutu, to break.
Mgv.: motu, an island, a rock, to
cut, to be broken. Mq.: motu, island,
land, to break, to cut up, to take to
pieces. Ta.: motu, a low island, to
be broken, cut up. Motuava (motu
- ava 1), a hollowed rock.
Motuhaua, archipelago. Motupiri (motu
- piri), archipelago. Motuputuputu
(motu - putuputu),
archipelago. Moturauri, south wind T.
Moturogorogo, to write T. Churchill.
H Moku 1. To be
cut, severed, amputated, broken in two, as a
rope; broken loose, as a stream after heavy
rains, or as a bound person; to punctuate.
Moku ka pawa, dawn has broken. Kai
moku ka noho 'ana, relations separated
by the sea. Ho'o moku, to cut and
divide; a cutting, division, separation. 2.
District, island, islet, section, forest,
grove, clump, severed portion, fragment,
cut, laceration, scene in a play. Cfr.
mokupuni, momoku. Moku lehua,
lehua forest. Ho'o moku, to
place one over a moku, district. 3.
Ship, schooner, vessel, boat, said to be so
called because the first European ships
suggested islands. 4. A stage of pounded
poi (such poi sticks together as
a mass and can be separated cleanly -
moku - from the pounding board).
Wehewehe. |
Albali marked the
beginning of Aquarius, its star
ε. But the
manzil
Al Sa’d al Bula' (The Good Fortune of the
Swallower) included also μ and ν:
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