10-14. Once again. The Western One in the Tail of the Goat referred to the star Nashira (γ Capricorni), and by adding 80 to its right ascension day *328 we will get 408 as a result. This, we remember from Gb6-26 (408), could be where Maui had been born, viz. at the Topknot of Taraga (= Andromeda), evidently at a corner ('knee') of the Pegasus Square:
Maybe my type 9 ('princess') was referring to Andromeda. ... Though Andromeda has its roots most firmly in the Greek tradition, a female figure in Andromeda's place appeared in Babylonian astronomy. The stars that make up Pisces and the middle portion of modern Andromeda formed a constellation representing a fertility goddess, sometimes named as Anunitum or the Lady of the Heavens ...
Indeed the Pegasus Square was the site of water in contrast to the square of the thirsty Raven:
... the bird, being sent with a cup for water, loitered at a fig-tree till the fruit became ripe, and then returned to the god with a water-snake in his claws and a lie in his mouth, alleging the snake to have been the cause of the delay. In punishment he was forever fixed in the sky with the Cup and the Snake; and, we may infer, doomed to everlasting thirst by the guardianship of the Hydra over the Cup and its contents. From all this came other poetical names for our Corvus - Avis Ficarius, the Fig Bird; and Emansor, one who stays beyond his time; and a belief, in early folk-lore, that this alone among birds did not carry water to its young ... Let's return to what hopefully is a less complicated part of the text:
Possibly the bald lady returned when the Mouth of the Fish culminated. Or rather, the Sun had two wives, one of them connected with the current right ascension positions of the stars and the other one with the culmination positions as they once upon a time had been. ... 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 ... The Bend in the River (Angetenar) enabled the Sea Beast (Cetus) to climb up onto dry land at the other side of the Eridanus river. For how long should a wayfarer keep his oar ready?
The two wives of the Sun were evidently sisters, and both of them could be at a site of draught: ... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ... Looking again at the top and bottom sides of the Phaistos disc it can be ascertained that the pair of bald-headed princesses are meantioned no more in the text.
As I learned by way of TV a few days ago the Akkadian empire did not survive because of a severe drought which lasted for 300 years around 2200 to 1900 BC. People had to abandon their homes because nothing could grow. Not even the earth worms survived and the land was completely barren until the rains eventually started to return and people slowly to trickle back. The royal king list (lineage) was broken off. Who was king, who was not? This surely would have been well known to all at the time when the Nebra and Phaistos discs were created.
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