Ga4-9 has a person with a high neck (suggesting midsummer) and arms held high in what looks like a greeting gesture:
Hora Iti 24 was day 236 = 472 / 2 = 8 * 29½ counted from January 1. Half a year later and at midnight Castor culminated. In our own Gregorian calendar it was day 152 = 8 * 19 counted from March 21. 80 + 152 + 4 = 236 = 8 * 19 + 12 * 7. Regulus (The Little King, α Leonis, where the Lion should have his heart) rose with the Sun in Hora Iti 20 (*152).
In the night sky, however, which should be of more interest for those living on Easter Island - where winter was summer and summer was winter - it was the Full Moon who was in Aquarius as a Sign of summer ahead:
The right arm of Aquarius goes through the opening of his 'Urn' at γ (Sadachbia) and half a year later the Sun would be here, in February 23 (365 + 31 + 23 = 419). At the end of the last Ice Age (around 12000 years ago) the Full Moon would have been in Aquarius when the great winter ice began to melt. 12000 / 71 = 169 and 53 (February 23) - 169 = 53 + 365 - 169 = 249 (September 6) = 183 + 66 (March 7). The person who appears to be greeting the new half year in Ga4-9 has an interesting 'ornament' hanging obliquely down from his right elbow. It resembles the Egyptian sign for the daytime sky:
7 weeks earlier an opposite sign has been depicted inside the head of the shark - in contrast to the outside and broader sign in Ga4-9, which probably represents the sky with the Sun present. This sign is at left which should mean the Sun no longer will be ahead, as if a statement of the view from north of the equator, where summer could be regarded as finished 8 * 19 = 152 days counted from ºMarch 21. According to calendar time the Sun would here, in Hora Iti 24, move away from the northern hemisphere in order to go down to the southern hemisphere. Precession had moved the sky roof ahead with around 8 * 19 - 92 = 60 days since the time around 71 * 60 = 4260 years earlier when Regulus rose with the Sun at the June solstice. ... Hamiora Pio once spoke as follows to the writer: 'Friend! Let me tell of the offspring of Tangaroa-akiukiu, whose two daughters were Hine-raumati (the Summer Maid - personified form of summer) and Hine-takurua (the Winter Maid - personification of winter), both of whom where taken to wife by the sun ... Now, these women had different homes. Hine-takurua lived with her elder Tangaroa (a sea being - origin and personified form of fish). Her labours were connected with Tangaroa - that is, with fish. Hine-raumati dwelt on land, where she cultivated food products, and attended to the taking of game and forest products, all such things connected with Tane ... The Ghost of Jupiter (Father Light) - NGC 3242 - rose with the Sun in Hora Iti 24, in the Hydra constellation:
... This planetary nebula is most frequently called the Ghost of Jupiter, or Jupiter's Ghost due to its similar size to the planet, but it is also sometimes referred to as the Eye Nebula ...
The name 'Ghost of Jupiter' may have been given because the Sun ('Father of Light' = Jupiter) was 'dying' in ºAugust 20, turning into a poor 'smoking mirror' image of his younger self: ... But the time of his predestined defeat by the dark brother, Tezcatlipoca, was ever approaching, and, knowing perfectly the rhythm of his own destiny, Quetzalcoatl would make no move to stay it. Tezcatlipoca, therefore, said to his attendants, 'We shall give him a drink to dull his reason and show him his own face in a mirror; then, surely, he will be lost'. And he said to the servants of the good king, 'Go tell your master that I have come to show him his own flesh!' But when the message was brought to Quetzalcoatl, the aging monarch said, 'What does he call my own flesh? Go and ask!' And when the other was admitted to his presence: 'What is this, my flesh, that you would show me?' Tezcatlipoca answered, 'My Lord and Priest, look now at your flesh; know yourself; see yourself as you are seen by others!' And he presented the mirror. Whereupon, seeing his own face in that mirror, Quetzalcoatl immediately cried out, 'How is it possible that my subjects should look upon me without fright? Well might they flee from before me. For how can a man remain among them when he is filled as I am with foul sores, his old face wrinkled and of an aspect so loathsome? I shall be seen no more, I shall no longer terrify my people' ... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
