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4. At Ga2-28 I earlier perceived 4 feather signs in front and with feathers as signs of 'fire' my interpretation is not far away from the name Heap of Fuel for μ Cancri. Furthermore, the feathers of a bird's wing can be used to invigorate a 'fire' (cfr at 8): ... Why should a calendar continue up to day number 420? The idea evidently was once current also in Egypt: .. They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead ... We can notice how manu rere (the living spirit) in the Egyptian version is generated from the wings of Isis. Feathers symbolized air and from air the step is short to breath, presumably the proof of how the spirit had reentered the body of Osiris ... And mahuru (with feathers?) was the Maori name for spring:
In The Henua Calendar I wrote: ... In Ga2-28 ... there is a kind of fish going down. The rhombic shape identifies the fish as the 'mountain' behind which the stars are hidden 'when they are sleeping'. At right there is a haga rave sign, which could illustrates the final curve at the end of this 'season of sleep'. It has are 4 feather signs in front, twice the number of tail feathers for Sun ... The right part of Ga2-28 (adorned with 4 feathers) is an example of my glyph type haga rave. (where rave means 'take hold' and similar, and maybe haga rave then will be 'bay of achorage'). But it is hard to avoid the idea that it here 'spells out' hagahuru. Together with the 'descending fish' at left it could then, possibly, mean 'the 10th month' (autumn) has 'reached harbour' (has stopped moving, made 'land-fall').
At Te Pei the following tables and comments were presented (much of which now surely has receded far back in our memory banks):
In other words, I will now suggest the Heap of Fuel referred to by μ Cancri (at Ga2-28) has not yet been ignited. Allen: "This [ζ Cancri at Ga2-29] lies on the rear edge of the Crab's shell, and is known as Tegmine, In the Covering; but, if the word be allowable at all, it should be Tegmen, as Avienus is supposed to have had it. Ideler, however, said that Avienus was referring to the covering shell of the marine object, and not to the stellar. This is a system of great interest to astronomers from the singular changes in color, the probably existence of a fourth and invisible component, and for the short period of orbital revolution - sixty years - of the two closer stars." If the creator of the G text was aware of a connection between 60 years and Tegmine (and given that I have succeded in arranging the stars in alignment with the glyphs in a proper way), then we can guess why the strongly drawn (a Sign) glyph Ga2-29 was placed as number 60 in the text. The colour changes resembles that in a rainbow and could maybe therefore be used as a sign of 'no more rain'- the little bald woman has arrived: ... The ancient Chinese believed that with the arrival of the dry season the earth and sky ceased to communicate (Granet, p. 315, n. 1). The Spirit of drought was personified by a little bald woman³¹ with eyes at the top of her head. While she was present, the sky refrained from sending rain, so as not to harm her (ibid., n. 3) ... ³¹ Hills and rivers are the first to suffer from drought. It deprives hills of their trees, i.e. their hair, and rivers of their fish, which are their people ... The same word, wang, means mad, deceitful, lame, hunchbacked, bald and Spirit of drought (Schafer). The name Tegmine (the covering of the 'marine object') ought to indicate the 'fire' has not yet been ignited. The position in the line implies it is at a day of Mercury and by chance Allen happens to have mentioned Mercury in his comments on Tegmine: "ζ and θ, according to Peters' investigations, probably are the objects announced by Watson as two intra-Mercurial planets, discovered (?) during the total eclipse of the sun on the 29th of July, 1878." The 29th of July is also a day of Mercury. The coincidences are growing quite beyond the credible - the G tablet was presented to the officers of the Chilean corvette O'Higgins already in 1870 according to Fischer. However the planet Vulcan had been observed several times earlier: "... Between 1866 and 1878 no reliable observations of the hypothetical planet were made. Then, during the total solar eclipse of 29 July 1878, two experienced astronomers, Professor James Craig Watson, the director of the Ann Arbor Observatory in Michigan, and Lewis Swift, an amateur from Rochester, New York, both claimed to have seen a Vulcan-type planet close to the Sun. Watson, observing from Separation, Wyoming, placed the planet about 2.5 degrees southwest of the Sun, and estimated its magnitude at 4.5. Swift, who was observing the eclipse from a location near Denver, Colorado, saw what he took to be an intra-mercurial planet about 3 degrees southwest of the Sun. He estimated its brightness to be the same as that of Theta Cancri, a fifth-magnitude star which was also visible during totality, about six or seven minutes from the 'planet'. Theta Cancri and the planet were very nearly in line with the centre of the Sun. Watson and Swift had the reputation as excellent observers. Watson had already discovered more than twenty asteroids, while Swift had several comets named after him. Both described the colour of their hypothetical intra-mercurial planet as 'red'. Watson reported that it had a definite disk - unlike stars, which appear in telescopes as mere points of light - and that its phase indicated that it was approaching superior conjunction. These are merely the more 'reliable observations' of alleged intra-Mercurial planets. For half a century or more, many other observers tried to find the hypothetical Vulcan. Many false alarms were triggered by round sunspots that closely resembled planets in transit. During solar eclipses, stars close to the Sun were mistaken for planets. At one point, to reconcile different observations, at least two intra-mercurial planets were postulated." (Wikipedia) The last glyph in the 1st henua period corresponds to θ Cancri (which according to Allen is one of the pair of suggested intra-Mercurial planets, the other being Tegmine). On Easter Island we are about a month after the season of winter solstice, which presumably is ending with hakaturou and ω Gemini:
472 - 366 = 106 = the day number for ω Gemini counted from the current spring equinox north of the equator, cfr at Tagata Gagana:
There could be a pair of cycles 42 glyphs apart in the G text and each ending with 106 dark days beyond 12 months 'in the light'. The rising 'dark fish' in Gb5-13 is similar to the one which is descending in Ga2-28. Counting from the rising 'mountain fish' in Gb5-13 and 42 glyphs ahead we will reach number 366 + 42 = 408, the zero right ascension glyph:
Thus we can guess 106 = 42 + 64 (on the back side) and 64 + 42 (on the front side):
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