3. Earlier I have speculated if there could have been
some special reason for why the current positions of the heliacal
risings of the prominent stars appeared to agree so well with where the
corresponding glyphs were located in the text. The Maya indians saw
winter solstice in 2012 as a very special date. Perhaps the Easter
Islanders had some similar special date for the end of the Era of
Pisces, I thought.
This idea seemed rather compelling if the
complicated text had been gradually refined over centuries, and at the
end engraved on the G tablet and in 1870 presented by Father Roussel
to the officers of the Chilean corvette O'Higgins.
On the other hand, if the text originated at the
same time as the G tablet, created directly for the tablet, then another possibility offers itself,
namely that the right ascension timelines of my old astronomy book
ought to
agree rather well with those in the G text. This is the proposition
which I have just begun to elaborate.
For instance could the June solstice at the time
when the G text was created have been illustrated at Ga1-28, at a
position 1 day later than that implied by my astronomy book. Its copyright year is 1968 and 1968 - 1870 = 98
years is not far from those 72 years needed for precession to move
spring equinox (and the rest of the structure) 1 day earlier in the
year:
|
Dates for heliacal risings according to
my astronomy book: |
|
6h (499.3) |
June 21 (172) |
22 |
23 |
|
η Columbae (498.7), μ Orionis (499.3) |
χ² Orionis (499.5), ν Orionis (500.4) |
- |
ξ Orionis (93.5), Tejat Prior (94.4) |
|
Supposed dates for heliacal risings
according to the G text: |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ga1-26 |
Ga1-27 |
Ga1-28 |
Ga1-29 |
|
'June 19 |
'6h (499.3) |
'21
(172) |
'22 |
|
η Columbae (497.7), μ Orionis (498.3) |
χ² Orionis (498.5), ν Orionis (499.4) |
- |
ξ Orionis (92.5), Tejat Prior (93.4) |
The stars are coupled to the
glyphs in the same way as before, although with
right ascension values corresponding to heliacal
risings 1 day earlier.
The dates have to be shifted 1 glyph
to the right in order to keep glyphs and stars
together. The right ascension timelines are also
shifted 1 glyph forward.
To keep the equation 144 = date
number - glyph number intact we have to count
glyphs from Ga1-1 instead of from Gb8-30, e.g.:
 |
180 |
 |
|
Ga1-4
('4) |
Ga7-16
('185) |
|
Aldebaran |
Antares |
|
'May 28 (148) |
'November
25 (329) |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ga7-5 |
Ga7-6 |
Ga7-7
('176) |
Ga7-8 |
Ga7-9 |
Ga7-10 |
|
ψ² Lupi
(238.5), γ Cor. Borealis (238.7), Unuk Elhaia
(238.9) |
- |
δ Cor.
Borealis (240.5), χ Lupi (240.6) |
ξ Lupi
(242.1) |
ε Cor.
Borealis (242.5), Dschubba (242.7), η Lupi (242.9) |
θ Lupi
(244.5) |
|
'November
14 |
'15 |
'16
(320) |
'17 |
'18 |
'19 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Ga5-10 ('120) |
Ga5-11 |
Ga5-12 |
Ga5-13 |
Ga5-14 |
Ga5-15 |
Ga5-16 |
|
'September 21 (264) |
'22 |
'23 |
'24 |
'25 |
'26 |
'27 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
182 |
|
|
Gb6-25 ('407) |
Gb6-26 |
Gb6-27 |
Gb6-28 |
Ga5-11 ('121) |
|
'March 20 |
'0h |
'22 |
'23 (82) |
'September 22 (265) |
|
|
|
63 |
56 |
 |
 |
121 |
|
|
Gb6-25 |
Gb6-26 |
Ga2-26 |
Ga2-27 |
Ga7-10
('179) |
|
'March 20 |
'0h (80) |
119 |
'July
19 (200) |
'20 |
121 |
'November 19 (323) |
|
0h |
122 (= 365¼ / 3) |
122 (= 365¼ / 3) |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
 |
|
Ga2-23 |
Ga2-24 |
Ga2-25 ('55) |
Ga2-26 |
Ga2-27 (**29) |
Ga2-28 |
Ga2-29 |
|
'July 16 |
'17 |
'18 |
'19 (200) |
'20 |
8h = 121.7 |
'22 |
