3. There may be a double reference to calendar time at Gb8-1, one via Mira to day 114 ('April 24) and the other via Double Double to day 364 ('December 30). These stars are double in character, Mira changing from bright to faint and back again, while Double Double is a rather curious twin (double) star, which for the normal eye looks like a single elongated star: ... They are 207" apart, and, to the ordinary eye, form an elongated star; but exceptionally sharp sight will resolve them without aid ... Mira is one 'double' and ε Lyrae is another 'double' - thus 'double double'. In the idiom of the rongorongo texts 'double double' should collapse into 'single', and indeed there is a single glyph here for Mira and Double Double. Though a sharp 'eye' can perceive 2 dates (the glyph has 2 'heads' on a single body). ... And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator. The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator ... Below I have arranged the Lyra stars in the sequence of 5 days from Double Double to the reversed manu rere. In the week from 'April 22 (112 or 224 /2) I have only Mira listed:
As to the names Sheliak (β) and Sulaphat (γ) we can consult Allen: "Sheliak, Shelyak, and Shiliak are from Al Shilyāk, one of the Arabian names for Lyra ... The changes in its brilliancy, detected by Goodricke in 1784, were fully investigated by Argelander from 1840 to 1859, and showed a regularly increasing period of variability which now is 12 days, 21¾ hours, with several fluctuations of a somewhat complex nature." "γ, 3.3, bright yellow, 2½º east of β is Sulafat, from another of the titles of the whole constellation ..."
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