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3-7. In February 14 (All Hearts' Day) the Full Moon would ideally be at day 225 and a week later the last glyph in line Ea3 should correspond to day 45 (2-14) + 7 = 52 (February 21, 427, *347):

Jan 29 (394)

*11

Febr 9 (40)

*3

Febr 12 (408)

13

2-14 (45)

*314 π

*325

*328

*329

*330

ALBALI

SADALSUD

NASHIRA

DENEB ALGIEDI

ALL HEARTS' DAY

Bat

Rat

Fortunate One

Tail of the Goat

10 Girl

11 Emptiness

26 Western One in the Tail of the Goat

27 Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat

War-god Kuu returned to power

(29 + 180 = 209)

Aug 8 (220)

Aug 11 (408 - 185)

12 (224)

(45 + 180 = 225)
Febr 13 All Hearts' Day 15 (46)

Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)

ENIF (The Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS  (the Dancer) = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 CAPRICORNI, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI =  δ Capricorni (329.8)

*288.0 = *329.4 - *41.4
θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)

KUH (Weeping) = μ Capricorni (331.4), γ Gruis (331.5)

*290.0 = *331.4 - *41.4
Aug 12 13 (45 + 180 = 225) 14
Ea3-27 (84 + 8) Ea3-28 Ea3-29 (46 + 48)
tagata - te vai hokohuki - kiore - hokohuki - kiore kiore kikiu

... In the inscriptions of Dendera, published by Dümichen, the goddess Hathor is called 'lady of every joy'. For once, Dümichen adds: Literally ... 'the lady of every heart circuit'. This is not to say that the Egyptians had discovered the circulation of the blood. But the determinative sign for 'heart' often figures as the plumb bob at the end of a plumb line coming from a well-known astronomical or surveying device, the merkhet. Evidently, 'heart' is something very specific, as it were the 'center of gravity' ... See Aeg.Wb. 2, pp. 55f. for sign of the heart (ib) as expressing generally 'the middle, the center'. And this may lead in quite another direction. The Arabs preserved a name for Canopus - besides calling the star Kalb at-tai-man ('heart of the south') ... Suhail el-wezn, 'Canopus Ponderosus', the heavy-weighing Canopus, a name promptly declared meaningless by the experts, but which could well have belonged to an archaic system in which Canopus was the weight at the end of the plumb line, as befitted its important position as a heavy star at the South Pole of the 'waters below'. Here is a chain of inferences which might or might not be valid, but it is allowable to test it, and no inference at all would come from the 'lady of every joy'. The line seems to state that Hathor (= Hat Hor, 'House of Horus') 'rules' the revolution of a specific celestial body - whether or not Canopus is alluded to - or, if we can trust the translation 'every', the revolution of all celestial bodies. As concerns the identity of the ruling lady, the greater possibility speaks for Sirius, but Venus cannot be excluded; in Mexico, too, Venus is called 'heart of the earth'. The reader is invited to imagine for himself what many thousands of such pseudo-primitive or poetic interpretations must lead to: a disfigured interpretation of Egyptian intellectual life ...

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...

The number of glyphs in line Ea3 is 35 = 28 + a week. Might not the double hokohuki - kiore statement of Metoro at February 14 (→ 2-14 → 314 - 100) indicate a place not yet ruled by the Sun but still ruled by the Double-faced Moon? March 14 (0h minus a week) was a π day.

... The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

... Janus was perhaps not originally double-headed: he may have borrowed this peculiarity from the Goddess herself who at the Carmentalia, the Carmenta Festival in early January, was addressed by her celebrants as 'Postvorta' and 'Antevorta' - 'she who looks both back and forward' ...

February 9 (40) - 27 (precession since Roman times) = 'January 13 (378 → Saturn).

Febr 16 17 (14 * 29½) 18 (414) 19 (50) 20 21 (80 - 4 * 7)
No star listed (332)

η Piscis Austrini (333.4)

*292.0 = *333.4 - *41.4

Rooftop-12 (Swallow)

22h (334.8)

KAE UH (Roof) = ο Aquarii (334.0), AL KURHAH (White Spot) = ξ Cephei (334.4), SADALMELIK (Lucky King) = α Aquarii, AL DHANAB (The Tail) = λ Gruis (334.6), ι Aquarii, ν Pegasi (334.7)

*293.0 = *334.4 - *41.4
ι Pegasi (335.0), ALNAIR (The Bright One) = α Gruis (335.1), μ Piscis Austrini, υ Piscis Austrini (335.3), WOO (Pestle) = π Pegasi (335.7), BAHAM = θ Pegasi (Good Luck of the Two Beasts), τ Piscis Austrini (335.8) ζ Cephei (336.2), λ Cephei (336.3), -/270 Lac. (336.7), λ Piscis Austrini (336.8)

μ Gruis (337.0), ε Cephei (337.2), 1/325 Lac. (337.3), ANCHA (Hip) = θ Aquarii (337.4), ψ Oct. (337.5), α Tucanae (337.9)

*296.0 = *337.4 - *41.4

Ea3-30 (95) Ea3-31 Ea3-32 Ea3-33 Ea3-34 Ea3-35 (100)
tagata rere te toki kua tua ko te tino te toki marama toki

Tino. 1. Belly (as reported by a Spaniard in 1770). 2. Genitalia (modern usage). 3. Trunk (of a tree), keel (of a boat); tino maîka, banana trunk; tino vaka, keel. Vanaga. Body, matter; mea tino, material; tino kore, incorporeal. P Pau.: tino, a matter, a subject. Mgv.: tino, the body, trunk. Mq.: tino, nino, the body. Ta.: tino, id. Churchill.

The bird named Swallow presumably got its name from its habit of swallowing flies (→ vessels for carrying ghosts):

... From a religious point of view, the high regard for flies, whose increase or reduction causes a similar increase or reduction in the size of the human population, is interesting, even more so because swarms of flies are often a real nuisance on Easter Island, something most visitors have commented on in vivid language. The explanation seems to be that there is a parallel relationship between flies and human souls, in this case, the souls of the unborn. There is a widespread belief throughout Polynesia that insects are the embodiment of numinous beings, such as gods or the spirits of the dead, and this concept extends into Southeast Asia, where insects are seen as the embodiment of the soul ...

When the sooty terns (manu tara) arrived in multitudes to the southwest corner of Easter Island

 it indicated the arrival of a new year, a return to life. Another name for this cardinal type of bird was sea swallow.

 

Jan 29 (394)

*1

31 (396)

*3

Febr 4 (400)

*5

9 (40 = 220 - 180)

*2

11 (42)

*314 π

Ea3-14 → π

*320.0

*325

*327

ALBALI (ε Aquarii)

μ (316.0)

ν Aquarii

SADALSUD (β Aquarii)

BUNDA (Foundation) = ξ Aquarii

Bat

 

DRAMASA

 

Rat

SIRIUS

10 Girl

11 Emptiness

(29 + 180 = 209)

Aug 8 (220)

 

Febr 12 (408)

13

2-14 (45)

*3

414 = 14 * 29½ + 1 = 7 * 7

*328

*329

*330

Roof, ο Aquarii (*334.0)

NASHIRA

DENEB ALGIEDI

ALL HEARTS' DAY

SAD-AL-MELIK (α)

Fortunate One

Tail of the Goat

The Lucky King

26 Western One in the Tail of the Goat

27 Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat

War-god Kuu returned to power

12 ROOFTOP (Swallow)

Aug 11 (408 - 185)

12 (224)

13 (45 + 180 = 225)

17 (229 → 414 - 185)

Surely the star Bharani had been chosen for its right ascension postion (*41.4) implicating day 365 + 7 * 7 = 414 as counted from January 1 in the preceding year.