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6. The Ship is basically sailing and not up on land, although its bow (mua) evidently is thought of as ramming a tree. Its other end (muri) ought though to be resting in the water and therefore we should not be able to see Canopus down in the Keel below the water line. This could motivate a new Rei when we arrive at Naos in the Stern:
The Ship is sailing in time, not in space, therefore its Stern can be in the water although its Bow has reached land. Allen: "La Caille used for it nearly 180 letters, many of them of course duplicated, so that although this notation was adopted in the British Association Catalogue, recent astronomers have subdivided the figure for convenience in reference, and now know its three divisions as Carina, the Keel, with 268 stars, Puppis, the Stern, with 313, and Vela, the Sail, with 248." These numbers are not arbitrary. 268 for the Keel and 248 for the Sail are expressing 26-8 for the low part and 24-8 for the high part of the constellation. In the center is the Stern with 313 stars or 1 less than 314, and we immediately can associate to 471 = 1 less that 8 * 59. The Polynesians on the Gilbert Islands have given us a picture which shows how 24 can refer to north of the equator and 26 to south of the equator:
The Pleiades (Tauono), when setting, define one cardinal point (24) and Antares (Anamua), when rising, defines the other (26). Rigel is connnected with number 8 and 24 + 8 = 32 can, on Easter Island, express the time when Sun is in the north. From Naos we can begin to see the Ship, perhaps 64 (= 186 - 122) days before spring equinox:
There are 3 + 60 glyphs up to Ga5-10 and then there are 60 + 6 glyphs up to mago in Ga7-16. From Rei in Ga2-27 to Antares (mago in Ga7-16) the distance is 250 (= 64 + 186) - 122 (= 64 + 58) glyphs. This distance measures 128 (neither 268 nor 248) and 128 = 8 * 16, which suggests Moon could be the ruler. |
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