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9-5. The glyph type puo could perphaps express the fact that the holes for the Sun (for emerging in the east and descending in the west) no longer (not yet) were open (for they had been 'hilled up'):

... And so they waited there in the darkness at the place where the sun rises. At length the day dawned, a chilly grey at first, then flaming red. And the sun came up from his pit, suspecting nothing. His fire spread over the mountains, and the sea was all glittering. He was there, the great sun himself, to be seen by the brothers more closely than any man had ever seen him. He rose out of the pit until his head was through the noose, and then his shoulders. Then Maui shouted, and the ropes were pulled, the noose ran taut. The huge and flaming creature struggled and threshed, and leapt this way and that, and the noose jerked up and down and back and forth; but the more the captive struggled, the more tightly it held ...

pu

puo

Puo. (Also pu'a); pu'o nua, one who covers himself with a nua (blanket), that is to say, a human being. Vanaga. 1. To dress, to clothe, to dress the hair; puoa, clothed; puoa tahaga, always dressed. 2. To daub, to besmear (cf. pua 2); puo ei oone, to daub with dirt, to smear. 3. Ata puo, to hill up a plant. Churchill.

 
Sept 7 8 (*171)
Ea9-7 Ea9-8
kua mau ko te Rapa tere nehe ki roto

Rapa. 1. To shine; shiny, polished; he-rapa te moai miro, the wooden figurine is shiny, polished. 2. Emblem, badge of timo īka (person entrusted with putting a death spell on an assassin). Rapahago, name of a spirit (akuaku), anciently considered as benevolent; rapahago, a fish. Raparapa, to dazzle; dazzled: he-raparapa te mata. Marīa raparapa, calm, smooth shiny sea. Vanaga. 1. Pau.: rapa, a fool, madness. Ma.: rapa, a familiar spirit. 2. Pau.: rapa, blade of a paddle. Mgv.: raparapahoe, id. Ta.: rapa, id. Mq.: apa, id. Sa.: lapa, flat. Ma.: rapa, flat part of a shovel. 3. Pau.: rapae, a sand-pit. Ta.: rape, arapai, id. 4. Mgv.: rapahou, primipara. Ma.: rapoi, id. 5. Mgv.: raparapa, green. Ta.: rapa, id. 6. Mgv.: raparapa, flat. Ta.: rapa, a flat rock. Sa.: lapalapa, a flat coral. Ma.: raparapa, the flat part of the foot. 7. Ta.: raparapa, square. To.: labalaba, id. Ha.: lapalapa, square (of timber, of a bottle, of a cow yard). Churchill.

Hau Maka

Hua Tava

Ira

Raparenga

Ngukuu

Ringiringi

Nonoma

Uure

Makoi

E:14-15
REVERSED NAKSHATRA → CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
φ Aquarii (352.0), ψ Aquarii (352.4), χ Aquarii (352.6), γ Tucanae (352.8) ο Cephei (353.3), KERB (Bucket Rope) = τ Pegasi (353.6)
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
φ Leonis (170.0), ALULA (First Spring of the Gazelle) = ξ, ν Ursae Majoris (170.5), LABRUM = δ Crateris (170.6) σ Leonis (171.1), λ Crateris (171.6), ι Leonis, ε Crateris (171.9)
"July 28 29 (210)
JULY 5 6 (187 = 210 - 23)

Counting on the Phaistos disc from my suggested *328 at the end of its top (male) side, the right ascension day numbered *355 (to be compared with day 355 for the solstice in December 21) could possibly be located at glyph number 355 - 328 = 27 on the bottom (female) side of the disc:

END OF THE TEXT ON THE TOP OF THE PHAISTOS DISC:

30

31

2 15 17 18 4 25 2 9
    palace         prince
116 117 118 (*323) 119 120 (*325) 11 * 11 122 75 + 48
  *140 AL MINHAR AL ASAD ALPHARD ALTERF → 12 * 12 *145 *328 - *182

BEGINNING OF THE TEXT ON THE BOTTOM OF THE PHAISTOS DISC:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2 4 5 5 5 4 3 3 4 5
2 6 11 16 21 25 28 31 35 40
19 27¹ 19 19 29 17 19 12 27 29
16 10 10 18 19 18 16 18 10 19
  28² 12 23 32 10 19 19 28 32
  26 3 36 26 19     8 26
    9 34 30         30
2 4 5 5 5 4 3 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
     
31 32 33 34 35 36 37      
1 2
19 16 27 10 28 26
breast flow canoe pole scarab  
1 2 3 4 5 6
Tea (Breast Milk) → Cradle      

... In the morning of the world, there was nothing but water. The Loon was calling, and the old man who at that time bore the Raven's name, Nangkilstlas, asked her why. 'The gods are homeless', the Loon replied. 'I'll see to it', said the old man, without moving from the fire in his house on the floor of the sea. Then as the old man continued to lie by his fire, the Raven flew over the sea. The clouds broke. He flew upward, drove his beak into the sky and scrambled over the rim to the upper world. There he discovered a town, and in one of the houses a woman had just given birth. The Raven stole the skin and form of the newborn child. Then he began to cry for solid food, but he was offered only mother's milk. That night, he passed through the town stealing an eye from each inhabitant. Back in his foster parents' house, he roasted the eyes in the coals and ate them, laughing. Then he returned to his cradle, full and warm. He had not seen the old woman watching him from the corner - the one who never slept and who never moved because she was stone from the waist down. Next morning, amid the wailing that engulfed the town, she told what she had seen. The one-eyed people of the sky dressed in their dancing clothes, paddled the child out to mid-heaven in their canoe and pitched him over the side ...

I have here chosen to begin at the top so to say, speculating that the breast could illustrate the Breast of Cassiopeia (*8).

Counting 27 - 1 = 26 glyphs ahead from this point should then bring us to *8 + *26 = *34 (*355 - *321).

19 7
19 16 19
breast flow breast
26 (*34) 27 28 ( *36 - *8)
36 18
12 31 17 17 26
  female palace palace  
65 ( *73 - *8) 66 67 68 69

... Hamiora Pio once spoke as follows to the writer: 'Friend! Let me tell of the offspring of Tangaroa-akiukiu, whose two daughters were Hine-raumati (the Summer Maid - personified form of summer) and Hine-takurua (the Winter Maid - personification of winter), both of whom where taken to wife by the sun ... Now, these women had different homes. Hine-takurua lived with her elder Tangaroa (a sea being - origin and personified form of fish). Her labours were connected with Tangaroa - that is, with fish. Hine-raumati dwelt on land, where she cultivated food products, and attended to the taking of game and forest products, all such things connected with Tane ...

... Balancing the notion of tapu, though not in perfect dichotomy, is the notion of noa. This pertains to mundane, ordinary objects and functions - household and serving utensils, the acts of preparing and eating food, the many small and common interactions of everyday life. Noa is safe - without preternatural sanction or restricted association, it is demonstrated by the lifting of the condition of tapu from a particular environment or object. A newly built house, ornamented and fresh, would be considered tapu - unsafe, prohibited, raw with spirit and inaccessible to the common touch of people. Making the place noa - 'blessing' it in current terms - would involve ritual, and the crossing of the threshold, usually by a high-born woman ...

19 *45
4 1 27 8
beginning 8-petal flower canoe skin
70 (→ *78 - *8) 71 72 (80 - 8) 73 (→ *81)
March 19 (158 - 80 θ Oct. (*364.4) SIRRAH (80) ALGENIB (*1)

... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March [*364] in most years) ...

... The Symplegades ... or Clashing Rocks, also known as the Cyanean Rocks, were, according to Greek mythology, a pair of rocks at the Bosphorus that clashed together randomly. They were defeated by Jason and the Argonauts, who would have been lost and killed by the rocks except for Phineus' advice. Jason let a dove fly between the rocks; it lost only its tail feathers. The Argonauts rowed mightily to get through and lost only part of the stern ornament. After that, the Symplegades stopped moving permanently ... The Argonauts, with the Golden Fleece on board, had to pass the Symplegades, the clashing rocks. Once a ship with its crew came through unharmed - so the 'blessed ones' (makaroi) had decided long ago - the Symplegades would stay fixed, and be clashing rocks no longer. After that 'accepting the novel laws of the fixed earth', they should 'offer an easy passage to all ships, once they had learnt defeat'. This is only one station on the long 'opening travel' of the Argonauts transporting the Golden Fleece (of a ram), undertaken in all probability to introduce the Age of Aries, but it demonstrates best the relevant point, namely, 'the novel laws' ...

Thus my working idea is that the Breast at the top of the female (night) side of the disc ought to be at the opposite place as compared to the Flower of the male (daylight) side:

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... The branches with their white flowers bent down along their thighs, the double-headed ecliptic snake rested in their arms, and the great bird Itzam-Yeh stood on their head. I already knew as I stood under the young tree in Tikal that the kings were the human embodiment of the ceiba as the central axis of the world. As I stood there gazing at the flowers in Joyce's hand, I also learned that the kings embodied the ceiba at the moment it flowers to yield the sak-nik-nal, the 'white flowers', that are the souls of human beings. As the trees flowers to reproduce itself, so the kings flowered to reproduce the world ...

Schedir (the Breast, α Cassiopeiae) should thus be visible in the night sky at a place corresponding to March 29 (88, *8), when the Sun had reached day *328 → 240 + 88:

PHAISTOS DISC

top

1 (*206)

121

123 (*328)

κ Octantis (*206.4)

NASHIRA (*328.0)

Ea5-16 (152)

Ea8-18 → 81 * 8 = 648

bottom

*8 (88)

*116

*124 (204)

March 29

July 23

SCHEDIR

RAS ALGETHI

 

Schedir (*8) Day of culmination   (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼) 233
Nov 18 (322) March 29 (88)
132 + 233 = 365 days
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