The first of the 19 sons of Tu (Ku) was Rogo:
... the progeny of Tu increased:
Rongo, Tane, Tangaroa, Rongomai,
Kahukura, Tiki, Uru, Ngangana,
Io, Iorangi, Waiorangi, Tahu,
Moko, Maroro, Wakehau, Tiki, Toi,
Rauru, Whatonga - these were the sons ...
Although Metoro only
rarely mentioned Rogo in his readings for Bishop Jaussen I once anyhow decided to name one of my
glyph types Rogo:
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Rogo |
At Ca3-25 - perhaps
alluding to March 25, the date chosen by Julius Caesar for the
northern spring equinox - Metoro said
tagata rogo and the position in timespace was
presumably related to the southern spring equinox. Because at the
time of Rigel (٭)
- my notation is here a star with 6 'points' (tara), not
the usual 5-stars asterisk for nighttime births (*)
- the nakshatra star was here Cursa (like the point of a great
fish-hook).
...
Nut, whom the
Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky,
but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object
of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said,
married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had
the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that
Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year.
Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing
draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a
seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed
five new days.
As these
five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian
calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to
give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris
(Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...
٭AUGUST
1 |
2 (214) |
3 |
4 (*136) |
5 |
35 |
|
|
|
|
|
Ca2-2 |
Ca2-3 |
Ca2-4 (30) |
Ca2-5 |
Ca2-6 |
erua tagata |
te
henua |
tagata
oho ki tona huaga |
kua oho |
φ Centauri
(211.0), υ¹ Centauri (211.1), υ² Centauri (211.8), τ
Virginis (211.9) |
Agena
(212.1), θ Apodis (212.5),
THUBAN
(212.8) |
14h (213.1) |
Neck-2 |
Al
Ghafr-13 /
Svāti-15
TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE |
π HYDRAE,
χ Centauri (213.0), Menkent (213.1) |
ASELLUS
TERTIUS,
κ
VIRGINIS,
14 Bootis (214.8) |
15 Bootis
(215.2),
ARCTURUS
(215.4),
ASELLUS
SECUNDUS
(215.5),
SYRMA,
λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8) |
October 18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 (295) |
NAKSHATRA
DATES: |
٭JANUARY
30 |
31 |
٭FEBRUARY
1 |
2 |
3 |
ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis
(28.2), υ Ceti (28.8) |
ALRISHA,
χ Phoenicis (29.2), Alamak (29.7) |
Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 |
η Arietis (31.9) |
no star listed (32) |
2h (30.4) |
κ Arietis (30.3),
HAMAL
(30.5)
ALKES
|
April 18 (108) |
19 (*29) |
*30 + 366 =
*396 |
*214 + 183 = *397 |
22 |
٭SEPTEMBER 14 |
15 |
16 |
|
17 (*180) |
18 (261) |
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Ca3-21 |
Ca3-22 (73) |
Ca3-23 |
Ca3-24 |
Ca3-25 |
tagata tuu rima ki ruga |
te maitaki |
te henua |
Rei hata ia |
tagata rogo |
ι Ophiuchi (255.3), Grafias (255.4) |
κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), Cujam (256.9) |
no star listed (257) |
17h (258.7) |
Mula-19 |
ARRAKIS (258.7) |
Sabik (259.7), η SCORPII (259.9) |
December 1 |
2 (336) |
3 |
4 |
5 |
NAKSHATRA
DATES: |
NAKSHATRA
DATES: |
٭MARCH
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 (78) |
π4 Orionis (72.1), ο¹ Orionis (72.4), π5 Orionis (72.8) |
π¹ Orionis (73.0),ο² Orionis (73.4), HASSALEH (73.6), π6 Orionis (73.9) |
Almaaz (74.7), HAEDUS I (74.8) |
HAEDUS II (75.9) |
5h (76.1) |
ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7) |
June 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 (156) |
٭SEPTEMBER 19 |
20 (*183) |
21 (264) |
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|
|
Ca4-1 (77) |
Ca4-2 |
Ca4-3 |
kua tupu te rakau |
kua tupu - te kihikihi |
te hau tea |
NODUS I (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), Ras Algethi (260.8) |
SARIN (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4) ALRISHA
|
ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9) |
December 6 (340) |
7 |
8 |
NAKSHATRA
DATES: |
٭MARCH 20 |
21 (0h) |
22 |
μ AURIGAE, μ LEPORIS (77.6) |
ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (78.1), Flaming Star (78.2), CAPELLA (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)
THUBAN
|
λ AURIGAE (79.0), λ LEPORIS (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)
ARCTURUS
|
June 6 (157) |
7 |
8 |
At the time of rongorongo Cursa rose with the Sun
in June 5, i.e. at 5h and in day 156 counted from January 1.
At the time of Rigel heliacal Cursa would have
been 78 days earlier, in ٭MARCH
19 (78). 156 = 2 * 78, and 78 was probably alluding to
the synodic cycle of Mars (780 days).
Cursa at the end of Eridanus
could, however, hardly have marked the birth of a new spring Sun.
And
Rogo had probably position 2 in the row of 5 children of
Nut. He could have represented the horizon (Horus) in the east,
because Horus was the 2nd son of Nut.
...
Ecclesiastically,
the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the
equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most
years) ...
Rei hata ia of Metoro would then of
course have referred to the previous day, when Osiris
(representing death) would have been born:
...
The basic myth of
dynastic Egypt was that of the death and resurrection of
Osiris, the good king, 'fair of face', who was born to
the earth-god Geb and sky-goddess Nut. He was born
together with his sister-wife, the goddess Isis, during
the sacred interval of those five supplementary days
that fell between one Egyptian calendric year of 360
days and the next. He and his sister were the first to
plant wheat and barley, to gather fruit from trees, and
to cultivate the vine, and before their time the races
of the world had been savage cannibals.
But Osiris's evil brother, Set, whose sister-wife was the
goddess Nephtys, was mortally jealous both of his virtue and of
his fame, and so, stealthily taking the measure of his good
brother's body, he caused a beautifully decorated sarcophagus to
be fashioned and on a certain occasion in the palace, when all
were drinking and making merry, had it brought into the room and
jestingly promised to give it to the one whom it should fit
exactly. All tried, but, like the glass slipper of Cinderella,
it fitted but one; and when Osiris, the last, laid himself
within it, immediately a company of seventy-two conspirators
with whom Set had contrived his plot dashed forward, nailed the
lid upon the sarcophagus, soldered it with molten lead, and
flung it into the Nile, down which it floated to the sea ...
Hata
1. Table, bureau. P Pau.: afata,
a chest, box. Mgv.: avata, a box, case,
trunk, coffin. Mq.: fata, hata, a
piece of wood with several branches serving as a
rack, space, to ramify, to branch; fataá,
hataá, stage, step, shelf. Ta.: fata,
scaffold, altar. 2. Hakahata, to disjoint;
hakahatahata, to loosen, to stretch. P Pau.:
vata, an interval, interstice. Mgv.: kohata,
the space between two boards, to be badly joined;
akakohata, to leave a space between two bodies
badly joined; hakahata, to be large, broad,
wide, spacious, far off. Mq.: hatahata,
fatafata, having chinks, not tightly closed,
disjointed. Ta.: fatafata, open. 3.
Hatahata, calm, loose, prolix, vast. Mgv.:
hatahara, broad, wide, spacious, at one's ease.
Ta.: fatafata, free from care. Mq.:
hatahata, empty, open. 4. Hatahata, tube,
pipe, funnel. Churchill.
Sa.: fata, a raised house
in which to store yams, a shelf, a handbarrow, a
bier, a litter, an altar, to carry on a litter;
fatāmanu, a
scaffold. To.: fata,
a loft, a bier, a handbarrow, to carry on a bier;
fataki, a
platform. Fu.: fata,
a barrow, a loft; fatataki,
two sticks or canes attached to each other at each
side of a house post to serve as a shelf. Niuē:
fata, a
cage, a handbarrow, a shelf, a stage, (sometimes)
the upper story of a house. Uvea: fata,
a barrow, a bier. Fotuna: fata,
a stage. Ta.: fata,
an altar, a scaffold, a piece of wood put up to hang
baskets of food on; afata,
a chest, a box, a coop, a raft, a scaffold. Pau.:
fata, a
heap; afata,
a box, a chest. Ma.: whata,
a platform or raised storehouse for food, an altar,
to elevate, to support. Moriori: whata,
a raft. Mq.: fata,
hata,
hataá,
shelves. Rapanui: hata,
a table. Ha.: haka,
a ladder, an artificial henroost; alahaka,
a ladder. Mg.: ata,
a shelf; atamoa,
a ladder; atarau,
an altar. Mgv.: avata,
a coffer, a box. Vi.: vata,
a loft, a shelf; tāvata,
a bier. The Samoan fata
is a pair of light timbers pointed at the ends and
tied across the center posts of the house, one in
front, the other behind the line of posts; rolls of
mats and bales of sennit may be laid across these
timbers; baskets or reserved victuals may be hung on
the ends. The litter and the barrow are two light
poles with small slats lashed across at intervals.
The Marquesan fata
is a stout stem of a sapling with the stumps of
several branches, a hat tree in shape, though found
among a barehead folk. These illustrations are
sufficient to show what is the common element in all
these fata
identifications, light cross-pieces spaced at
intervals. With this for a primal signifaction it is
easy to see how a ladder, a raft, a henroost, an
altar come under the same stem for designation.
Perhaps Samoan fatafata
the breast obtains the name by reason of the ribs;
it would be convincing were it not that the
plumpness of most Samoans leaves the ribs a matter
of anatomical inference. Churchill 2.
... Teke said to Oti,
'Go and take the hauhau tree, the paper
mulberry tree, rushes, tavari plants, uku
koko grass, riku ferns, ngaoho
plants, the toromiro tree, hiki kioe
plants (Cyperus vegetus), the sandalwood
tree, harahara plants, pua nakonako
plants, nehenehe ferns, hua taru
grass, poporo plants, bottle gourds (ipu
ngutu), kohe plants, kavakava atua
ferns, fragrant tuere heu grass, tureme
grass (Diochelachne sciurea), matie
grass, and the two kinds of cockroaches makere
and hata.'
... The division into quarters
of a 28-series can be applied to the main phases of
the moon during the visible period as was as to a
(reflex of the old world?) sidereal month.
The separate subgroup (29 makere - 30
hata) consists of the names of two types of
cockroaches, but in related eastern Polynesian
languages these names can also be explained on a
different level. MAO. makere, among others,
'to die', and whata, among others, 'to be
laid to rest on a platform', deserve special
attention. The
theme hinted at is one of death and burial. In our
scheme they occur at just that time when the moon
'has died'! This lends further support to the lunar
thesis. Barthel 2. |
In the G text and at the time of rongorongo a
similarly formed Rogo person was present at 0h:
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61 |
Gb6-25 |
Gb6-26
(408) |
Gb6-27 |
Gb6-28
(181) |
JANUARY
15 |
16
(*301) |
17 |
18 (383) |
θ
Octantis (364.4) |
Al
Fargh al Thāni-25 |
Uttara Bhādrapadā-27
/
Wall-14 |
χ Pegasi
(2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7) |
0h
(365.25) |
Caph,
SIRRAH
(0.5), ε Phoenicis (0.8) |
ALGENIB
PEGASI
(1.8) |
March 20 |
EQUINOX
(80) |
22 |
23 |
NAKSHATRA DATES: |
JULY 17 |
18 |
19 (200) |
20
(*121) |
12h
(182.6) |
ALCHITA,
Ma Wei (183.1),
MINKAR
(183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) |
PÁLIDA
(184.6), Megrez (184.9) |
Hasta-13
/
Chariot-28 |
ο Virginis (182.1), η
Crucis (182.5) |
GIENAH
(185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4),
ZANIAH
(185.9) |
September 19 |
20 |
21 |
EQUINOX
(265) |
no
glyph |
|
|
Ga1-1 |
Ga1-2 |
0h
(80) |
MARCH 22 |
23 |
HYADUM II (δ¹ Tauri)
(64.2) |
Net-19 |
no
star listed (66) |
AIN,
θ¹
Tauri, θ² Tauri
(65.7) |
May
24 |
25 |
26
(146) |
NAKSHATRA DATES: |
SEPTEMBER 20 |
21
(*184) |
EQUINOX |
Heart-5 |
ρ Ophiuchi (248.1),
ALDIBAIN
(248.2), 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 |
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) |
Aldebaran rose with the Sun 68 days
later. At the time of Gregory XIII there should have
been 64 days from Rogo to heliacal Aldebaran.
In contrast the C text was instead
probably beginning where the Sun in rongorongo times
reached Raven, i.e. at the current southern spring
equinox:
ELNATH |
oJULY 2 |
3 (184) |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
RIGEL |
٭JULY 4 |
5 (186) |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
HAEDUS II |
●JULY 7 |
8 (189) |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
ALDEBARAN |
JULY 14 |
15 (196) |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
AIN |
JULY 18 |
19 (200) |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
no glyph |
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Ca1-1 |
Ca1-2 |
Ca1-3 |
Ca1-4 |
Ca1-5 |
koia |
ki te hoea |
ki te henua |
te rima te hau tea |
haga i te mea ke |
ALCHITA,
Ma Wei (183.1),
MINKAR
(183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) |
PÁLIDA
(184.6), Megrez (184.9) |
Hasta-13 /
Chariot-28 |
Chang Sha
(186.3) |
INTROMETIDA
(187.4),
ACRUX
(187.5) |
γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri
(188.1),
ALGORAB
(188.5),
GACRUX
(188.7) |
GIENAH
(185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4),
ZANIAH
(185.9) |
SIRRAH |
Sept 20 |
21 (264) |
EQUINOX |
23 |
24 |
25 |
SHERATAN |
'Aug 24 |
25 (237) |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
BHARANI |
"Aug 10 |
11 (223) |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
NAKSHATRA DATES: |
oDECEMBER 31 |
oJANUARY 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 (*290) |
٭JANUARY
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 (*290) |
6 |
7 |
●JANUARY 5 (*290) |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 (*295) |
JANUARY 12 |
13 |
14 |
15 (*300) |
16 |
17 |
JANUARY 16 |
17 |
18 (383) |
19 (*304) |
20 |
21 |
Al
Fargh al Thāni-25 |
Uttara Bhādrapadā-27
/
Wall-14 |
χ Pegasi
(2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7) |
σ Andromedae
(3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ
Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7) |
no star
listed (4) |
ANKAA,
κ PHOENICIS
(5.0)
Alphard
|
0h (365.25) |
Caph,
SIRRAH
(0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8) |
ο Oct. (1.3),
ALGENIB PEGASI
(1.8) |
EQUINOX |
March 22 |
23 |
24 (*3) |
25 (84) |
26 (*370) |
'February 22 (53) |
TERMINALIA |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 (*343) |
"February 8 (2-8) |
9 (40) |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 (*329) |
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