Cancer
was the
'Gate of
Men
'through
which
souls
descended
from
heaven
into
human
bodies'.
Therefore
there
must
have
been
some
kind of
opening
up in
the sky,
between the
'sky
half (Ç)
of the
year and
the
'earth'
(È)
half:
The
proper
Greek
letter
should be
phi (Φ),
which
indicated
an
'aperture'
of some
kind:
Egyptian bread (-t, female
determinant) |
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Phoenician qoph |
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Greek
phi |
Φ(φ) |
... is
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet
... Its origin is uncertain but it may
be that phi originated as the letter
qoppa ... In traditional Greek numerals,
phi has a value of 500 or 500000 ...
Isaac Taylor, History
of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part
1, 2003: 'The old explanation, which
has again been revived by Halévy, is
that it denotes an 'ape,' the character
Q being taken to represent an ape
with its tail hanging down. It may also
be referred to a Talmudic root which
would signify an 'aperture' of some
kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ...
Lenormant adopts the more usual
explanation that the word means a 'knot'
...
... The king, wearing now a short, stiff
archaic mantle, walks in a grave and
stately manner to the sanctuary of the
wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of
the Way', where he anoints the sacred
standard and, preceded by this, marches
to the palace chapel, into which he
disappears. A period of time elapses
during which the pharaoh is no longer
manifest.
When he reappears he is clothed as in
the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt
with Hathor belt and bull's tail
attatched. In his right hand he holds
the flail scepter and in his left,
instead of the usual crook of the Good
Shepherd, an object resembling a small
scroll, called the Will, the House
Document, or Secret of the Two Partners,
which he exhibits in triumph,
proclaiming to all in attendance that it
was given him by his dead father
Osiris, in the presence of the
earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he
cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two
Partners, the Will that my father has
given me before Geb. I have
passed through the land and touched the
four sides of it. I traverse it as I
desire.' ... |
When
the
pharaoh
was
invisible
this
could
be
visualized
as
an
absence
of
Head
and
in
the
Arab
drawing
above
the
crab
has
no
head.
The
maitaki
type
of
glyph
has
'phi
in
triplicate',
indicating
not
a
pair
of
opposed
'shells'
but
a
beautifully balanced division
with
3
seasons
(tau) at
left
and
3 at
right:
|
maitaki |
Tau Year (ta'u), he-hoa ite ta'u, to confess to a crime committed long ago, by publishing it in the form of a kohau motu mo rogorogo (rongorongo tablet). Vanaga.
1.To hang (tau), to perch (said of chickens on tree branches at night); rock on the coast, taller than others so that something can be deposited on it without fear of seeing it washed away by the waves; hakarere i ruga i te tau, to place something on such a rock; tau kupega, rope from which is hung the oval net used in ature fishing. 2. Pretty, lovely; ka-tau! how pretty! Vanaga.
1. Year, season, epoch, age. P Pau.: tau, a season, period. Mgv.: tau, a year, the season of breadfruit. Mq.: tau, year. Ta.: tau, season, time. 2. Fit, worthy, deserving, opportune; tae tau, impolite, ill-bred, unseemly; pei ra tau, system. PS Mgv.: tau, fit, suitable, proper. Sa.: tau, right, proper. To.: tau, becoming, fit, proper, agreeable. Fu.: tau, fit, proper. 3. To perch. P Pau.: tau, a perch for a bird. Mgv.: tau, to mount on a person's back. Mq.: tau, to perch, to rest on. Ta.: tau, to perch, to alight on. 4. To hang; hakatau, necklace; hakatautau, to append. P Pau.: fakatautau, to hang up. Mq.: tautau, id. Ta.: faatautau, id. 5. Anchor; kona tau, anchorage, port. P Mq.: katau, anchor. Ta.: tau, id. 6. To fight; hakatau, challenge, to defy, to incite; hakatautau, to rival. P Ma.: whakatatau, to quarrel. Churchill.
Pau.: fakatau, indolent. Ta.: faatau, id. Fakatautau, to delay, to defer. Ta.: haatautau, id. Churchill.
The Malay word for 'year' is taun or tahun. In all Polynesian dialects the primary sense is 'a season', 'a period of time'. In the Samoan group tau or tausanga, besides the primary sense of season, has the definite meaning of 'a period of six months', and conventionally that of 'a year', as on the island of Tonga. Here the word has the further sense of 'the produce of the year', and derivatively 'a year'. In the Society group it simply means 'season'. In the Hawaiian group, when not applied to the summer season, the word keeps its original sense of 'an indefinite period of time', 'a life-time, an age', and is never applied to the year: its duration may be more or less than a year, according to circumstances. So far our authority (Fornander, I, 124; cp. 119). It seems however to be questionable whether the original sense is not the concrete 'produce of the seasons', rather than the abstract 'period of time'. It is significant that on the Society Islands the bread-fruit season is called te tau, and the names of the other two seasons, te tau miti rahi and te tau poai, are formed by adding to this name. Nilsson. |
'Six stones' (Tau-ono) was the name for the Pleiades and Tau-toru ('3 stones') the Polynesian name for the Belt Stars in Orion. Maybe therefore, I thought, the Mayan picture below - with the Turtle hanging beautifully below a pair of Sun aspects - could have the rectangle at the top ('yellow' / '20' / 'yellow' as I read the 3 items) not as the ecliptic :(which currently goes far above the Belt Stars) but instead at the celestial equator:
However, the Cancer Turtle is not below Orion. And the ecliptic currently goes above Al Tarf (β) and Acubens (α):
The
Mayan
Turtle
ought
to
have
its
head
and
tail
defined
by
Acubens
respectively
by
Al
Tarf
(The
End).
And
the
3
stones
from
where
a
new
'Fire'
would
be
born
should
be
defined
by
the
'Tau-toru'
stars
ε,
γ,
and
δ
Cancri.
Keeping
this
idea
in
mind
will
make
it
more
easy
to
perceive
a
possible
meaning
of
the
text:
Oromanga ® |
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|
|
Ga3-1 (60) |
Ga3-2 |
Ga3-3 |
Ga3-4 |
Ga3-5 |
Al Tarf (124.3)
Ras Algethi
|
χ Cancri (125.2), Bright Fire (125.4) |
Avior (126.4), φ Cancri (126.8) |
ο Ursa Majoris (127.4) |
Pushya-8 |
υ Cancri (128.1), θ CANCRI (128.2), η Cancri (128.5) |
Anakena 23 |
July 24 (*125) |
25 |
26 |
27 (208) |
ºJuly 19 (200) |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 (204) |
'June 26 (177) |
27 |
28 (*465) |
29 (*100) |
30 (181) |
"June 12 (163) |
13 (*84) |
14 (165) |
15 |
16 |
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
|
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
|
DABIH (308.0), κ Sagittarii (308.1), Sadir (308.4), Peacock (308.7) |
January 22 |
23 (388) |
24 |
25 (*310) |
26 |
ºJanuary 18 (383) |
19 (*304) |
20 |
21 |
22 |
'December 26 (360) |
27 |
28 |
29 (*283) |
30 (364) |
"December 12 (346) |
"December 13 (*267) |
14 |
15 |
16 (350) |
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|
|
Ga3-6 |
Ga3-7 |
Ga3-8 |
Ga3-9 (68) |
Āshleshā-9 / Willow-24 |
Al Nathrah-6 |
Extended Net-26a |
ι Cancri (132.0), ρ Hydrae (132.4) |
π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ HYDRAE (129.6), Al Minhar al Shujā, Museida (129.9) |
BEEHIVE and M44 (130.4), Xestus (130.5), Ascellus Borealis (130.9) |
η Hydrae (131.0), Ascellus Australis (131.4), Koo She (131.6), ε HYDRAE (131.9) |
July 28 |
29 (*130) |
30 |
31 (212) |
ºJuly 24 (*125) |
25 |
26 |
27 (208) |
'July 1 |
2 |
3 (*104) |
4 (185) |
"June 17 (168) |
18 |
19 |
20 (*91) |
Rotanev, ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7), SVALOCIN, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8) |
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) |
Yue (314.3), Gienah Cygni, η Cephei (314.5), γ Delphini (314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7), ALBALI (314.8)
Betelgeuze
|
January 27 (392) |
28 |
29 (*314) |
30 |
ºJanuary 23 |
24 |
25 (*310) |
26 |
'December 31 (*285) |
'January 1 (366) |
2 |
3 |
"December 17 |
18 |
19 (*273) |
20 (354) |
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Ga3-10 |
Ga3-11 |
Ga3-12 |
Ga3-13 (72) |
no star listed |
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), ωHydrae (136.8) |
August 1 |
2 (580 - 80 = 500) |
3 (215) |
4 (*136) |
ºJuly
28 |
29 (210) |
30 |
31 (*132) |
'July 5 (186) |
6 (553 - 80 = 473) |
7 (*108) |
8 |
Solstice
(*92) |
"June 22 (173) |
23 |
St John's Eve |
μ Aquarii
(316.0) |
ε Equulei (317.8) |
no star listed (318) |
21h (319.6) |
Armus
(319.0), Dorsum (319.3), Tsoo (319.7) |
January 31 |
February 1 (32) |
2 (*318) |
3 (399) |
ºJanuary
27 (392) |
28 |
29 (*314) |
30 |
'January 4 |
5 (*290) |
6 |
7 (372) |
Solstice (*275) |
"December 22 |
23 (357) |
Christmas Eve |
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|
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Ga3-14 (73) |
Ga3-15 |
Ga3-16 |
9h (137.0) |
no star listed (138) |
π Cancri (139.2), Miaplacidus (139.3),
Tureis (139.8) |
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) |
August 5 (*137) |
6 (584) |
7 (219) |
ºAugust
1 |
2 (214) |
3 (*135) |
'July 9 |
10 (*111) |
11 (192) |
"June 25 (*96) |
26 (177) |
27 |
χ
Capricorni (320.0), ν Aquarii (320.3),
γ Equulei (320.6), ο Pavonis (320.8) |
δ
Equulei (321.7), φ Capricorni (321.8) |
Kitalpha (322.0), Alderamin (322.9) |
February 4 (400) |
5 (36) |
6 (*322) |
ºJanuary
31 (396) |
ºFebruary
1 (32) |
2 |
'January
8 (373) |
9 |
10 (*295) |
"December 25 |
26 (360) |
27 (*281) |
I have reversed this magnificent Mayan drawing so time runs from left to right. At left is a person with a water jar and at right is empty air. The central figure is the Maize God - maize being the major food source - and he bursts forth through a crack in the upper carapace - in the middle between the season of water and the season of a high sky.
The ancient Chinese used the carapace of a turtle as an instrument for telling the future, cracking its shell with fire. First they drilled holes in it and then they placed the shell in the fire to see what cracks developed:
... in central Brazil: the tortoise is so difficult to kill that the peasants cook it alive among the hot wood cinders, with its own shell acting as the cooking-dish; the process may last several hours, because the poor beast takes so long to die ...
In ancient Egypt one of the 6 'baskets' offered to the pharaoh Ramses II after his first 30 (= 6 * 5) years of rule had a handle (V31 in Gardiner's Sign List), i.e. perhaps a little aperture or tail: It was also used for the consonant sound k.
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