3. I suggest Vega could have been the 'beautiful shining tooth' of Seven-Macaw (alias Itzam-Yeh):
... in the time before the sky was lifted up to make room for the light, the vainglorious Seven-Macaw imagined himself to be the sun. Offended by his pride, the Hero Twins humbled him by breaking his beautiful shining tooth with a pellet from their blowgun. This pot shows One-Ahaw aiming at the bird as he swoops down to land in his tree. As Itzam-Yeh lands on his perch, the text tells us he is 'entering or becoming the sky'. This particular 'sky-entering' is not the one mentioned in the Palenque text. It is the final event that occurred in the previous creation before the universe was remade. Before the sky could be raised and the real sun revealed in all its splendor, the Hero Twins had to put the false sun, Itzam-Yeh, in his place. If the date on this pot corresponds to that pre-Creation event, as we believe it does, then Itzam-Yeh was defeated in 12.18.4.5.0 1 Ahaw 3 K'ank'in (May 28, 3149 B.C.). After the new universe was finally brought into existence, First Father also entered the sky by landing in the tree, just as Itzam-Yeh did ... Counting precession days from 3149 B.C. to 1870 A.D. results in (3149 + 1870) / 72 = ca 70 days, a result which possibly might be related to the 70 male gods born in the loving embrace between Sky and Earth: ... According to one of the Maori cosmologies there existed from the very beginning two divine beings, Rangi-nui, Great Sky-father, and Papa-tua-nuku, Earth-mother. Yearning for a mate Rangi descended from heaven and made Papa his wife. Within their loving embrace were born seventy male gods ... Suppose the right ascension day of Vega at the time of G (ca 1870 A.D.) was 'December 28. Then I guess Itzam-Yeh could have been defeated in day number 362 - 70 = 292 (= 4 * 73) counted from 'January 1, i.e. in 'October 19:
Of course in 3149 B.C. the date would not have been 'October 19 but ¯December 28. And the star at that time, Vega, would have been 'killed' (not possible to see) because Sun would have been be there at the same time. Thuban (α Draconis) once was the Pole star and Vega was once close to the Pole star circle. Possibly this could have something to do with why it was considered necessary to shoot down Itzam Yeh from the top of the Tree.
If side b of the G tablet should have the right ascension day of Vega at Gb8-2 (a possibility I have played with, cfr at the end of Cor Serpentis), then we maybe should count 444 - 70 = 374 to find a glyph representing the right ascension day of Vega around 3149 BC:
(For a discussion of the possibility that Vega might have its midnight culmination at Gb8-5, see Falling Eagle.)
A new king is said to be made (hakaariki) in Gb5-24. And 447 (Gb8-5) - 374 (Gb5-20) = 73 (= 365 - 292). A 'star year' with 364 nights might have 'December 30 as its last day, in which case the reversed manu rere in Gb8-5 might be regarded as outside - making it possible to connect the glyph to 'August 12 instead of to 'December 31 or to 'January 1. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
