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8-8. The Milky Way could have been regarded as beginning at the Breast of Cassiopeia (Schedir):

Betelgeuze (*88) Day of culmination 138 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 225
Jan 29 (121 + 3 * 91) June 17 (168 → 88 + 80)
365 days = 20 weeks + 15 * 15 days
Thuban (*212) Day of culmination 133 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 230
June 7 (168 - 10) Oct 19 (292)
135 + 230 = 365 days
Zuben Elgenubi (*224) Day of culmination 135 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 228
June 17 (168 → 204 - 36) Oct 31 (304)
137 + 228 = 365 days
Ras Algethi (*260) Day of culmination 135 (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 228
July 23 (204 158 + 46) Dec 6 (340 → 292 + 48)
137 + 228 = 365 days
Schedir (*8) Day of culmination   (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 233
Nov 18 (322) March 29 (88)
132 + 233 = 365 days

Which was 80 right ascension days before Betelgeuze:

Therefore right ascension day *88 (Betelgeuze) in a way corresponded to day 88 (Schedir). But this ought to represent the descending path for the spirits, whereas the ascending path could begin for instance in August 14:

Schedir

 

*80

 

Betelgeuze

 

2 * 29

 

Aug 14

*80

Nov 2

*8

*88

*146.4

*226.4

March 29 (88)

June 17 (168)

ψ Leonis

κ Centauri

... The first half beginning with Alef - an ox, and ending with Lamed - a whip. The second list begins with Mem - water, and continues with Nun - fish, Samek - fish bones, Ayin - a water spring, Peh - the mouth of a well, Tsadi - to fish, Kof, Resh and Shin are the hook hole, hook head and hook teeth, known to exist from prehistoric times, and the Tav is the mark used to count the fish caught ...
Egyptian flail Phoenician lamed Greek psi Ψ (ψ)

In this discussion we should also notice how the Arabs evidently had located η Phoenicis (*9.4) as day 1 after their zero day at Delta (*8.4)

which thus should be rising with the Sun in March 29 (88). 88 → 22 * 4:

... Odysseus and his fleet were now in a mythic realm of difficult trials and passages, of which the first was to be the Land of the Cyclopes, 'neither nigh at hand, nor yet afar off', where the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, son of the god Poseidon (who, as we know, was the lord of tides and of the Two Queens, and the lord, furthermore, of Medusa), dwelt with his flocks in a cave. 'Yes, for he was a monstrous thing and fashioned marvelously, nor was he like to any man that lives by bread, but like a wooded peak of the towering hills, which stands out apart and alone from others.' Odysseus, choosing twelve men, the best of the company, left his ships at shore and sallied to the vast cave. It was found stocked abundantly with cheeses, flocks of lambs and kids penned apart, milk pails, bowls of whey; and when the company had entered and was sitting to wait, expecting hospitality, the owner came in, shepherding his flocks. He bore a grievous weight of dry wood, which he cast down with a din inside the cave, so that in fear all fled to hide. Lifting a huge doorstone, such as two and twenty good four-wheeled wains could not have raised from the ground, he set this against the mouth of the cave, sat down, milked his ewes and goats, and beneath each placed her young, after which he kindled a fire and spied his guests ...

Counting on the Phaistos disc we could find August 14 (→ 2-14) at the end of its top side:

1

11

1

95

9 28 12 9
8-petal flower 8-petal flower prince scarab prince

1 12 109 110 123
κ Octantis (*206.4) λ Virginis (*218.4) *314 - *328

κ Centauri (*146.4)

Zero 108
Oct 13 (286)   Oct 25 (298)   Jan 29 (394) (395) (408)
Ea5-16 (152) Ea5-28 (164) Ea8-4 (260) (9 * 29) (274)
April 14 (104) April 26 (116) July 31 (212) Aug 1 Aug 14 (226)

13

15
95 + 28 = 123

When the Full Moon was at the line for right ascension day *146 the Sun ought to be at right ascension day *328 (→ 2 * 73 + 2 * 91 = 328), viz. rising together with The Fortunate One in August 14:

Aug 13 (225)

14 (45 + 181 = 41 + 185)
Ea8-17 → 21 * 27 Ea8-18 → 648
ku haga koe ki te manu - te hau tea
REVERSED NAKSHATRA → CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA = ξ Aquarii (327.5)

SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)

Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)

NASHIRA (Fortunate One) = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE (Tail of the Hen) = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:

Creation of our present world

UKDAH (Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8)

ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA

*104.0 = *145.4 - *41.4

5 Imix 9 Kumk'u

Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)

ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6)

*105.0 = *146.4 - *41.4

From this point we should then be able to securely move on also to the end of line Ea8:

Aug 15 16 17 (229) 18 19 20
Ea8-19 Ea8-20 Ea8-21 (277) Ea8-22 Ea8-23 Ea8-24
tagata tu ku hanau hia e vaha te rona moe o ruga kua haga koe i te ragi te hoko huki - kiore te hokohuki - kiore

Rona. Figure made of wood, or stone, or painted, representing a bird, a birdman, a lizard, etc. Vanaga. Drawing, traction. Pau.: ronarona, to pull one another about. Churchill. While the rongorongo signs (rona) are generally 'carved out, incised' (motu), ta implies an incision ('cutting, beating') as well as the process of applying signs to the surface with the aid of a dye ... RAP. rona means primarily 'sign' (an individual sign in the Rongorongo script or a painted or carved sign made on a firm background, such as a petroglyph), but also 'sculpture' (made from wood or stone, representing animals of hybrid creatures) ... rona (lona) implies the idea of 'maintaining a straight line' with ropes and nets and also the maintaining of a steady course (in MAO. and TUA.). Te Rona is the name of a star in TUA., which Makemson (1941:251) derives from the mythical figure of 'Rona', who is connected with the moon and is considered to be the father of (the moon goddess) Hina (for this role in MAO., see Tregear 1891:423). From west Polynesia come totally different meanings. Interesting perhaps is FIJ. lona, 'to wonder what one is to eat, fasting for the dead.' ... Barthel 2.

Aug 21 22 23 24 (336) 25 26 27 28
Ea8-25 Ea8-26 Ea8-27 Ea8-28 Ea8-29 (285) Ea8-30 Ea8-31 Ea8-32
tagata haga ki te heu hia tagata hakarava ki te hatu koia ra te ipu gutu hua te hokohuki - rere roa ki raro te hoko huki - kiore
Aug 29 (241) 30 31 (9 * 27)
Ea8-33 Ea8-34 (242 + 48) Ea8-35 (277 + 14)
te henua - ku hakahaganagana hia kua tupu tona mea e vaha mea
a1 32 32 b1 42 368
a2 33 65 b2 27 395
a3 35 100 b3 38 433
a4 36 136 b4 42 475
a5 42 178 b5 35 510
a6 39 217 b6 36 546
a7 39 256 b7 42 588
a8 4 260 b8 40 314 * 2
zero
30 290
a9 36 326 sum 302
sum 326 sum total 260 + 368

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...