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4-5. From the first glyph in line Ea3 with Naos (*121) close to the Full Moon in January 18 (365 + 18 = 383 = 13 * 29½ - ½) to February 22 (418) at the first glyph in line Ea4 when the Sun would be rising together with Sadachbia (*338) there were 5 weeks (35 days):

Jan 18 19 20 21 22 23 (388) 29
Ea3-1 (66) Ea3-2 Ea3-3 Ea3-4 Ea3-5 Ea3-6 (71)
E rere te toki - te hau tea - te vaero toki - inoino ma te hatu huri te hupee tupu i ruga ia ia te toki - te kihikihi te toki toki hakakaikai

Vaero. Chicken's long tail feather; lobster's antenna (vaero ura). Vanaga. Tail of a kite, tail of a bird (uero). T Pau.: tuavaero, rump; kaero, tail. Mgv.: vero, tail. Mq.: veó, id. Ta.: aero, id. Churchill.

hupee

Jan 1 (366)

*20

Jan 20

Ea2-17 (49)

Ea3-3 (68)

... There could have been 30 dark nights from 12 * 29½ = 354 (DECEMBER 20) to JANUARY 19, on average the coldest day of the year north of the equator ...

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

8h (121.7)

χ Gemini (121.0), NAOS (Ship) = ζ Puppis (121.3)
ρ Puppis (122.0), HEAP OF FUEL = μ Cancri (122.1), ζ Monocerotis (122.3),  ψ Cancri (122.6), REGOR (Roger backwards) = γ Velorum (122.7) TEGMINE (The Cover) = ζ Cancri (123.3)

AL TARF (The End) = β Cancri (124.3)

RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)

χ Cancri (125.2), BRIGHT FIRE = λ Cancri (125.4)

*84.0 = *125.4 - *41.4

AVIOR = ε Carinae (126.4), φ Cancri (126.8)

*85.0 = *126.4 - *41.4
July 20 (*121) 21 22-7 → π 23 24 25 (206)

Here a notable situation needs our attention, because from February 22 when the Sun rose with the Lucky Star of Hidden Things ('Felicity of Tents') and the Full Moon (ideally) would have been at the right ascension line for the Mane of the Lion (γ Leonis)

the thought would easily walk on another half a year ahead to another place where the light from the Sun once again would make the stars recede from sight. This could have been the origin of the idea of 'another (period of) fifty-two years'.

Febr 22 23 (54) 24 (420) 25 (136 - 80) 26 27
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:

Al Sa'ad al Ahbiyah-23 (Lucky Star of Hidden Things) / Shatabisha-25 (Comprising a Hundred Physicians)

 ε Oct. (338.1), ρ Aquarii (338.2), 2/365 Lac. (338.5), SADACHBIA = γ Aquarii (338.6), π Gruis (338.9)

β/172 Lac. (339.2), 4/1100 Lac. (339.4), π Aquarii (339.5)

*298.0 = *339.4 - *41.4

CASTOR (α Gemini)

δ Tucanae (340.1), ρ Cephei (340.2),  ν Gruis (340.3), ζ Aquarii, δ Gruis (340.4), 5/1100 Lac. (340.7), σ Aquarii, 6/650 Lac. (340.9)

*299.0 = *340.4 - *41.4

PROCYON (α Canis Minoris)
υ Oct. (341.0), α/91 Lac. (341.1), HOMAN = ζ Pegasi, β Piscis Austrini (341.2), ν Tucanae (341.5), υ Aquarii (341.9)

η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (342.4), SITULA (Water-jar) = κ Aquarii (342.7)

*301.0 = *342.4 - *41.4
ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8)

... γ, 4.1, greenish, on the right arm at the inner edge of the Urn, and the westernmost star in the Y, is Sadachbia, from Al Sa'd al Ahbiyah, which has been interpreted the Lucky Star of Hidden Things or Hiding-places, because when it emerged from the sun's rays all hidden worms and reptiles, buried during the preceding cold, creep out of their holes! But as this word Ah Biyah is merely the plural of Hibā', a Tent, a more reasonable explanation is that the star was so called from its rising in the spring twilight, when, after the winter's want and suffering, the nomads' tents were raised on the freshening pastures, and the pleasent weather set in. This idea renders Professor Whitney's 'Felicity of Tents' a happy translation of the original ...

... Zeta (uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; Greek: ζήτα ... is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin. Letters that arose from zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З ...Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn or simply Zay) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads ... It represents the sound [z]. The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In Biblical Hebrew, 'Zayin'  means sword, and the verb 'Lezayen' means to arm. In modern Hebrew, 'zayin' means penis and 'lezayen' is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse and is used in a similar fashion to the English word fuck, although the older meaning survives in 'maavak mezuyan' (armed struggle) and 'beton mezuyan' (armed, i.e., reinforced concrete). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a 'manacle' ...

... Kaph is thought to have been derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew, kaph means palm/grip) ... The manik, with the tzab, or serpent's rattles as prefix, runs across Madrid tz. 22 , the figures in the pictures all holding the rattle; it runs across the hunting scenes of Madrid tz. 61, 62, and finally appears in all four clauses of tz. 175, the so-called 'baptism' tzolkin. It seems impossible, with all this, to avoid assigning the value of grasping or receiving. But in the final confirmation, we have the direct evidence of the signs for East and West. For the East we have the glyph Ahau-Kin, the Lord Sun, the Lord of Day; for the West we have Manik-Kin, exactly corresponding to the term Chikin, the biting or eating of the Sun, seizing it in the mouth.

  

The pictures (from Gates) show east, north, west, and south; respectively (the lower two glyphs)  'Lord' (Ahau) and 'grasp' (Manik). Manik was the 7th day sign of the 20 and Ahau the last ...

Ea4-1 → Bharani Ea4-2 Ea4-3 Ea4-4 (104) Ea4-5 Ea4-6
Tagata moe marama tagata moe - marama kua oho - vai taketake te hokohuki - moa ia hokohuki

Take. The Marquesans are the only people who own to a distinctive national name, and retain a tradition of the road they travelled from their original habitat, until they arrived at the Marquesan Islands. They call themselves te Take, 'the Take nation'. Fornander. Take, Tuvaluan for the Black Noddy (Anous Minutes). The specific epithet taketake is Māori for long established, ancient, or original. In the Rapa Nui mythology, the deity Make-make was the chief god of the birdman cult, the other three gods associated with it being Hawa-tuu-take-take (the Chief of the eggs) his wife Vie Hoa and Vie Kanatea. Wikipedia.

... When it was evident that the years lay ready to burst into life, everyone took hold of them, so that once more would start forth - once again - another (period of) fifty-two years. Then (the two cycles) might proceed to reach one hundred and four years. It was called 'One Age' when twice they had made the round, when twice the times of binding the years had come together. Behold what was done when the years were bound - when was reached the time when they were to draw the new fire, when now its count was accomplished. First they put out fires everywhere in the country round. And the statues, hewn in either wood or stone, kept in each man's home and regarded as gods, were all cast into the water. Also (were) these (cast away) - the pestles and the (three) hearth stones (upon which the cooking pots rested); and everywhere there was much sweeping - there was sweeping very clear. Rubbish was thrown out; none lay in any of the houses ...

vaha kai

Ea4-4 (2 * 52)

... In the present context 'mouth' has an additional connotation, given that it refers in part to Heart of Earth, the deity called 'Mundo' today. This is the great Mesoamerican earth deity, the ultimate swallower of all living beings, depicted in Classic Mayan art (in the Palenque relief panels, for example) as an enormous pair of jaws upon whose lips even the feet of great lords must rest in precarious balance, and into whose throat even great lords must fall. Turning to the contemporary scene, daykeepers who visit the main cave beneath the ruins of Rotten Cane, the last Quiché capital, speak of the danger of falling into 'the open mouth of the Mundo' there, which is said to be more than four yards wide ...

... A crack opened up in the ground, and the Rat was put down into the pit, to rest there - he hakatopa i te kioe.ki raro ki te rua.he hakarere ... [E: Tori 4]

... Interestingly, since another meaning of shi is 'death', the number 4 is considered unlucky. For example, the floor numbering in hotels sometimes jumps mysteriously from 3 to 5; it's also considered unlucky to give four of something as a present ...

Counting the tresses from right to left:

1

26

78

1

29

90

2

26

2

30

3

26

3

31

4

25

104

4

34

124

5

26

5

31

6

27

6

30

7

26

7

29

Total = 182 + 214 = 396

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
ALGIEBA (The Mane) = γ Leonis, q Carinae (155.5) TANIA AUSTRALIS (Southern Gazelle) = μ Ursae Majoris (156.0), GHOST OF JUPITER = NGC3242 Hydrae (156.8)

Extended Net-26b (Ox)

μ Hydrae (157.1)

Maru-sha-arkat-Sharru-15 (4th Son behind the King)

SHIR (Possessing Luminous Rays) = ρ Leonis (158.9)
p Carinae (159.3) φ Hydrae (160.3)

ALCYONE (136)

*100

TANIA AUSTRALIS (236)

May 16 (*56)

Aug 24 (*156)

σ Virginis (280 = 136 + 64 + 80)

*100

ALTAIR (380 = 136 + 236 + 8)

AUG 4 (*136)

NOV 12 (*236)

Aug 23 (235) 24 (8 * 29½) 25 (420 - 183) 26 27 28 (240)
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Febr 22 (53) 23 (→ Terminalia) (365 + 55 = 420) 25 (136 - 80) 26 27
ρ Gruis (344.0), MATAR (Rain) = η Pegasi (344.2), η Gruis (344.6), β Oct. (344.7) λ Pegasi (345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), ε Gruis (345.3), τ Aquarii (345.7), ξ Oct. (345.8), μ Pegasi (345.9) ι Cephei (346.0), λ Aquarii, γ Piscis Austrini, σ Pegasi (346.5)

SCHEAT AQUARII =  δ Aquarii (347.0), ρ Pegasi (347.2), δ Piscis Austrini (347.4), FOMALHAUT (Mouth of the Fish) = α Piscis Austrini, τ Gruis (347.8)

*306.0 = *347.4 - *41.4
FUM AL SAMAKAH (Mouth of the Fish)  = β Piscium (348.3), ζ Gruis (348.5), ο Andromedae (348.9)

Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 (Fore Spout) / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 (First of the Blessed Feet) / House-13 (Pig)

SCHEAT PEGASI = β Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), κ Gruis (349.4), MARKAB PEGASI = α Pegasi (349.5)

*308.0 = *349.4 - *41.4

The Sun has now - according to my methods - moved ahead with 6 days beyond Sadachbiya (*338) to Matar (*344), i.e. to the Rain star in Pegasus! Rutua te maeva!

Maeva. T. 1. Move. Rangi-maeva = Moving Sky (name of a marae). 2. Greet, greeting. Henry.

Rutu. 1. To read, to recite, to pronounce words solemnly; he-rutu i te kohau motu, to read the rongorongo tablets; hare rutu rogorogo mo hakama'a ki te ga poki ite kai, i te rogorogo, rongorongo school, house in which children were taught reading and writing the rongorongo signs. 2. To pelt with stones.

3. To gather in great numbers (of people). Vanaga. Sound. Rutu-rongorongo = the sound of recitation. Barthel. T. Beat. Henry. To recite; tae rutu, irreverence. Churchill. Pau.: rutu, a drum. Mgv.: rutu, to beat, to cause to resound. Ta.: rutu, a drum, to drum. Mq.: utu, to drum. Sa.: lutu, to shake a rattle. Churchill.

Bb10-18 Bb10-19 Bb10-20 (396)

η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (342.4), SITULA (Water-jar) = κ Aquarii (342.7)

*301.0 = *342.4 - *41.4
ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8) ρ Gruis (344.0), MATAR (Rain) = η Pegasi (344.2), η Gruis (344.6), β Oct. (344.7)
Aug 27 28 (240) 29
ST JOHN'S DAY JUNE 25 (240 - 64) 26 (177 = 354 / 2)
RIGHT ASCENSION DAYS AT THE FULL MOON:
p Carinae (159.3) φ Hydrae (160.3) No star listed (161)
Febr 26 27 (240 + 183 = 423) 28
CHRISTMAS EVE DEC 25 (423 - 64)  26 (360)
ka inoino ma hatu huri ka hahaú hia ma te maitaki

I think this is not evidence of some fault in my methods but rather the opposite - it confirms we could be on the right track, because we have seen the first 6 glyphs on side a of the C tablet and the first 6 glyphs on its side b were designed to measure out 6 special days at the beginning:

 

364 + 27

 

Ca1-6

Cb1-6 (398 = 392 + 6)

March 27 (86)

Oct 22 (295 = 478 - 183)

β Tucanae (6.4)

ARCTURUS (215.4)

γ Muscae (189.0)

MIRA (33.7)

Like Columba, the Dove of Noah, the Toucan bird brought a fresh leafy twig in her beak to prove spring (light, land, ebb) had returned:

... The earth rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive, for neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and they dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard. There come also the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, and bring along his hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from the other world. All sit down and converse together. They rehearse their runes and talk of events of old days. Then they find in the grass the golden tablets that the Aesir once played with. Two children of men will also be found safe from the great flames of Surt. Their names, Lif and Lifthrasir, and they feed on the morning dew and from this human pair will come a great population which will fill the earth. And strange to say, the sun, before being devoured by Fenrir, will have borne a daughter, no less beautiful and going the same ways as her mother.' Then, all at once, concludes Snorri's tale wryly, a thunderous cracking was heard from all sides, and when the King looked again, he found himself on the open plain and the great hall had vanished ...

'Another (period of) fifty-two years' could therefore mean 'another way of measuring', viz. based on the idea of a congruence between the months February (2) and that of August (8 = 2 + 6). In other words: the early spring month named February north of the equator corresponded to the month of August as regarded from a viewer south of the equator.

Furthermore, *344 (Matar) + 80 (March 21) = 424 (8 * 53) = 360 (8 * 45) + 64 (8 * 8) = 366 (2 * 183) + 58 (2 * 29).