In the G text we can find
February 11 at Ga3-21 and September 5 at Ga4-21:
|
JUNE 7 (*78) |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 (162) |
12 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
Ga3-19 (78) |
Ga3-20 |
Ga3-21 |
Ga3-22 |
Ga3-23 |
Ga3-24 |
|
The Knot (Ukdah) |
Rishu A.-13 (Head
of the Lion) |
VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae
(147.9) |
|
Star-25 /
ANA-HEU-HEU-PO-5
(Pillar where debates were held) |
Al Tarf-7 |
A Hydrae
(144.1)
VEGA (α Lyrae)
|
UKDAH = ι Hydrae
(145.4),
κ Hydrae (145.5),
SUBRA = ο Leonis
(145.8) |
ψ Leonis (146.4),
RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis
(146.6) |
|
ALPHARD = α Hydrae
(142.3),
ω Leonis (142.6),
τ¹
Hydrae
(142.7) |
ψ Velorum (143.3),
ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae
(143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5) |
|
August 10 |
11 |
12 (*144) |
13 |
14 |
15 (227) |
|
'July 14 |
15 |
16 |
17 (*118) |
18 |
19 (200) |
|
NAKSHATRA DATES: |
|
DECEMBER 7 |
8 |
9 |
10 (*264) |
11 (345) |
12 |
|
BUNDA
(Foundation) / KAKKAB
NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny) |
θ Piscis
Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7) |
|
Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 /
Emptiness-11 |
no star
listed (326) |
CASTRA = ε Capricorni
(327.2),
BUNDA = ξ Aquarii
(327.5)
SIRIUS (α Canis
Majoris)
|
NASHIRA = γ Capricorni
(328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),
AZELFAFAGE = π¹
Cygni, κ
Capricorni (328.7) |
ENIF = ε Pegasi,
ERAKIS = μ Cephei
(329.2),
46
CAPRICORNI,
Jih (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ
Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7),
DENEB
ALGIEDI = δ Capricorni
(329.8) |
|
Tsin (325.2),
ALPHIRK = β Cephei
(325.7),
SADALSUD = β
Aquarii,
ξ Gruis (325.9) |
|
February 9 (40) |
10 |
11 (407) |
12 |
13 |
All Hearts' Day |
|
'January 13 (378) |
14 |
15 (*300) |
16 |
17 |
18 (383) |
|
19 |
JULY 2 |
3 (184) |
4 (*105) |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ga4-20 |
Ga4-21
(104) |
Ga4-22 |
|
11h
(167.4) |
AL
SHARAS = β Crateris
(168.6) |
Al
Zubrah-9 /
Purva
Phalguni-11 |
|
χ
Leonis, χ¹ Hydrae (167.1), χ² Hydrae (167.3) |
ZOSMA =
δ Leonis
(169.2),
COXA = θ
Leonis
(169.4) |
|
September 4 |
5 (248 =
104 + 144) |
6 |
|
'August
8 (*140) |
9 |
10
(222) |
|
NAKSHATRA DATES: |
|
JANUARY
1 |
2 |
3 (368) |
|
23h
(350.0) |
SIMMAH =
γ Piscium (351.7) |
φ
AQUARII (352.0),
ψ
AQUARII (352.4),
χ AQUARII
(352.6), γ Tucanae, φ Gruis (352.8) |
|
υ, θ Gruis (350.0), π
Cephei (350.6), ι Gruis (350.9) |
|
March 6 |
7 (66) |
8 (432) |
|
'February 7 |
8 (*324) |
9 (40) |
But this will be accomplished only if we take a
shortcut from the heliacal view to reading nakshatra wise:
*168 (Al Sharas) + 183 =*351 (Simmah) - which was
close to the Full Moon when the Sun was at Al Sharas.
*351 (Simmah) - *327 (Bunda) = 24.
When the Sun was absent (away on the other side of the
equator) the stars close to the Full Moon would have been easier
to observe:
|
February 11 (407) |
Bunda (ξ Aquarii) |
23 |
March 7 (431) |
Simma (γ Piscium) |
|
August 12 (224 = 407
- 183) |
September 5 (248 =
224 + 24 = 407 -
159) |
... The reason for this Sign at Leo could have
been that the sacred 260-day cycle (tonalamatl)
ended here - 159 days earlier than February 11:
|
52 |
260 = 5 * 52 |
52 |
107 = 80 + 27 |
|
364 = 7 * 52 |
|
471 |
Because February 11 (407) - 107 - 52 = 248
(September 5) and February 11 was where in rongorongo times the
Sun reached the Star of Mighty Destiny ...
If the last day of such a sacred 260-day cycle (tonalamatl)
should have ended with September 5 (248), then we ought to find its beginning
260 - 248 = 12 days earlier than January 1. 366 - 12 = 354 (= 12
* 29½):
|
TONALAMATL |
|
December 20 (354) |
258 |
September 5 (248 +
365) |
AL
SHARAS (β Crateris)
|
|
June 21 (172 = 354 -
182) |
ξ Orionis |
March 7 (66 + 365) |
Simma (γ Piscium) |
|
260 = 24 + 236 = 24
+ 8 * 29½ |
There was one 'tent peg' at ξ Aquarii
(Bunda) and another
at
ξ Orionis.
|
Egyptian
djed |
 |
Phoenician
sāmekh |
 |
Greek
xi |
Ξ (ξ) |
|
... In rongorongo
times the last Greek lettered star
in Orion (ξ)
rose with the Sun in June 21. The letter seems to
have originated from the Phoenician letter samekh
(tent peg, supporting prop), which in turn may have
been derived from the ancient Egytian djed
column ...
 |
But since the stars would have been hard to
observe in June 21 (north of the equator), we could change the
dates to see what they would have been at the time of the Bull:
|
TONALAMATL |
|
OCTOBER 17 (290) |
MENKAR |
234 |
JUNE
9 (160) |
VEGA |
23 |
JULY 3 (184) |
AL
SHARAS (β Crateris)
|
|
APRIL 18 (108) |
ξ ORIONIS |
DECEMBER 9 (343) |
BUNDA (ξ Aquarii) |
JANUARY 2 (367) |
SIMMA (γ Piscium) |
|
236 = 8 * 29½ |
24 |
|
260 = 236 + 24 = 4 *
59 + 24 |
My exercise suggests a sacred
260-day cycle once upon a time might have been defined to begin
where a pair of 'year' twins 'were born' - one of them close to the Full
Moon and the other close to the Sun.
Such a 'birth' was not close to the solstices
(which were times of death), but rather 24 days after spring
equinox. 108
(APRIL 18) - 24 = MARCH 25 (84).
In APRIL 18 the Sun would have been at the right
hand of Orion, where he held his club:
