Turtles seem to belong at the end of a cycle, like the 17th 20-day month Kayab in my reconstruction of a Mayan calendar, but remember also Kuukuu at Hanga Hoonu:
Possibly the Andromeda star Delta (δ) corresponded to the upper shell of a turtle. In the darkest of times a new fire had to be drilled forth upon such a shell (Ç) in order to show the powers above what needed to be done.
Reading in Mayan custom from right to left we can see how from the driller of the upper shell (of the skull) there are 3 'days' for generating sun light ('fire'). Hawaiian Welo 'about April' agrees rather well with how in rongorongo times Hora Nui 28 had Delta at the opposite side of the sky, at day 454 (Tarahao 29):
Some may have thought the 'spear' was lethal, because Benetnash (η) is at the very tip of the tail of Ursa Major:
... The name [Benetnash] derives from the Arabic phrase meaning 'The leader of the daughters of the bier'. The daughters of the bier, i.e. the mourning maidens, are the three stars of the handle of the Big Dipper, Alkaid, Mizar, and Alioth; while the four stars of the bowl, Megrez, Phecda, Merak, and Dubhe, are the bier. Harmony implies the death of a great one north of the equator should be compensated for by the birth of some other great person at the opposite side of the sky. South of the equator, on Easter Island, the proper correlation between stars and seasons could have been aquired by looking at the Full Moon. What star was at the opposite side of the sky compared to Benetnash, where the Sun King would arrive? |
