With the King
making landfall after 300 days
counted from January 1 = Tua
Haro 1, and given no leap day in
this interval,
it seems reasonable to assume
the Moon Queen would have threatened
to come ashore for instance
after 290 or 295 nights.
From
our experience of the Mamari
(C) text we can assume the
Queen would have landed at
Tagaroa Uri 17 (290), because
side b of the C-tablet has 348 =
12 * 29 glyphs. Furthermore, the
Tahua (A) tablet carries
20 * 29 + 26 * 29 = 1334 glyphs.
Close to the Full Moon in
Tagaroa Uri 17 was the First
Point of Aries, the lunar
station Al Sharatain:
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Ga6-6 |
Ga6-7 |
Ga6-8 (148) |
Muphrid (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3) |
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) |
Tagaroa Uri 17 (290) |
18 |
19 |
ºOctober 13 |
14 |
15 (288) |
'September 20 (*183) |
21 (264) |
'Equinox (*185 + 80) |
"September 6 |
7 (250) |
8 (*171) |
Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 |
ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2) |
Alrisha, χ Phoenicis (29.2), Alamak (29.7) |
Segin, Mesarthim, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN, φ Phoenicis (27.4) |
Vaitu Nui 17 (107) |
18 (474 = 108 + 366) |
19 |
ºApril 14 |
15 (104 = 59 + 46) |
16 (*25) |
'Equinox (80 = 59 + 21) |
22 (*367) |
23 (448 = 366 + 82) |
"March 7 (432 = 66 + 366) |
8 (67 = 59 + 22) |
9 (*354) |
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Ga6-9 |
Ga6-10 (150) |
Ga6-11 |
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) |
Tagaroa Uri
20 |
21 |
22 (295) |
ºOctober 16 |
17 (290) |
18 |
'September 23 (266) |
24 |
25 (*188) |
"September
9 (*172) |
10 |
11 (254) |
2h (30.4) |
η Arietis (31.9) |
no star listed (32) |
κ Arietis (30.3),
Hamal (30.5)
Alkes
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Vaitu Nui
20 |
21 (111) |
22 |
ºApril 17 |
18 (107) |
19 (*28) |
'March
24 |
25 (84) |
26 (*5) |
"March
10 (*355) |
11 (436) |
12 (71 = 31 + 28 +
11) |
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Ga6-12 |
Ga6-13 |
Ga6-14 |
Ga6-15 |
Ga6-16
(156) |
ι Lupi,
18 Bootis (216.3), Khambalia (216.4), υ Virginis
(216.5), ψ Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8) |
Asellus
Primus (217.8) |
τ Lupi
(218.1), φ Virginis (218.7)
Fomalhaut
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σ Lupi
(219.1), ρ Bootis (219.5), Haris (219.7) |
σ Bootis
(220.2), η Centauri (220.4) |
Tagaroa Uri
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 (300) |
ºOctober 19
(292) |
20 |
21
(*214) |
22 |
23 |
'September
26 |
27 (270) |
28 |
29 |
30
(*193) |
"September
12 |
13 (256) |
14
(*177) |
15 |
16 |
θ Arietis (33.3), Mira
(33.7) |
no star listed (34) |
ξ Arietis (35.0) |
no star listed (36) |
no star listed (37) |
Vaitu Nui
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 (116) |
27 |
ºApril
20 |
21 (*30) |
22 (111) |
23 |
24 |
'March
27 |
28 |
29 (88) |
30 |
31 (*10) |
"March
13 |
14 |
15
(*360) |
16 |
17 (76) |
Maybe the
Sun King needed 10 helpers for delaying the Queen - one
for each day up to and including Tagaroa Uri 26 (299). The
synodic cycle of Jupiter is 399 days and if the year was
beginning 100 days before January 1, then Tagaroa Uri 26 would
be day 399. April 10 is day 100 and day 265 is September 22.
... Honga
came and gazed in the
direction below (i.e.,
toward the west). He
called out to the
noteworthy ruler (?
ariki motongi)
Hotu: 'There is the
canoe of the queen! It
will be the first one to
land!' At this news King
Hotu replied to
Honga, 'Recite (rutu)
('powerful
incantations') as though
the ten brothers of the
chief (ariki maahu)
were one whole (?).'
The ten
recited with all their
might. This is what they
recited: 'Let all
movement (? konekone)
cease!' They
recited and sailed on
swiftly: Honga,
Te Kena, Nuku
Kehu, Nga Vavai,
Oti, Tive
(corrected for 'Sive'),
Ngehu, Hatu,
Tuki, and Pu
(corrected for 'Bu').
He worked
mana in the
fishing grounds. (Naming
of two fishing
grounds.) ...
The pair of 'fishing
grounds' where mana
had to be worked could
have corresponded to 5 days each:
1st Fishing Ground: |
290 - 294 |
Honga,
Te Kena, Nuku
Kehu, Nga Vavai,
Oti. |
2nd Fishing Ground: |
295 - 299 |
Tive
(corrected for 'Sive'),
Ngehu, Hatu,
Tuki, and Pu
(corrected for 'Bu'). |
Possibly
Pu alluded to the
month Tehetu'upú
('February').
...
the first month of the
Moriori year, was named
Rongo (Lono).
On the first of the new
year the Moriori
launched a small canoe
to Rongo,
although they built and
used only rude craft for
their fishing
excursions. The canoe
was manned by twelve
figures symbolizing the
personifications of the
twelve months. Sometimes
twenty-four figures were
placed in the canoe, and
Skinner interprets the
additional twelve as
representing the female
counterparts of the
months. As an old Maori
once remarked.
'Everything has its
female counterpart.'
... A curious
diversion appears in the month list of the people of Porapora
and Moorea in the Society Islands, which sheds light on
the custom of the Moriori who sometimes placed 24 figures
in the canoe which they dispatched seaward to the god Rongo
on new years day. The names of the wives of the months are
included, indicating that other Polynesians besides the Chatham
Islanders personified the months ...
In rongorongo
times heliacal 14h was probably
at Tagaroa Uri 20, because in
the times of Al Sharatain
the stars rose 27 days earlier
(293 - 27 = 266):
'March 24 |
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Bluemarked stars are
noted with their RA days
in rongorongo times.
(Both C and G below).
Blackmarked stars are
given with their
nakshatra days =
heliacal RA days ± 183. |
'September 23 (266) |
April 20 (110) |
October 20 (293) |
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Cb1-4 (396) |
Ga6-9 (149) |
ki te
henua - te maro |
14h (213.1) |
2h (30.4) |
κ Arietis (30.3), Hamal
(30.5)
Alkes
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π Hydrae, χ
Centauri (213.0),
Menkent (213.1) |
14h (213.1) |
Tagaroa Uri
20 (293) |
χ
Centauri (213.0),
Menkent (213.1) |
ºOctober 16
(289) |
Writing about C I had
not yet realized that
the creator of the text
had followed the stars
in their precessional
advance forward in the
solar year - instead of
follwoing the Sun in his
precessional advance
earlier in the star
year.
Therefore I had not
found any reason to use the Easter
Island names.
October 20 (293) above
corresponds
to Tagaroa Uri 20 (293)
and to the Gregorian
date ºOctober 16 (289),
with the 4 days'
difference in the day number
due to the effects of
the precession from the
time of Gregorius XIII
to rongorongo times. |
'September 23 (266) |
"September
9 (*172) |
2h (30.4) |
κ Arietis (30.3),
Hamal (30.5)
Alkes
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Vaitu Nui
20 (110) |
ºApril 17
(106) |
'March
24 (83) |
"March
10 (*355) |
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