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11-6. The number of days on the top side of the Phaistos disc (123) agrees with the number of days from Ga2-27 (→ 22 / 7 → π) to Ga7-10 (179), i.e. in what presumably corresponded to the contorted fish of Maui.

56 (Ga2-27) + 123 = 179 and in the Golden Age of the Bull, *64 precessional days earlier than my assumed era for rongorongo, Naos (the Ship) would have risen with the Sun not at 8h but in MAY 17 (137 = 201 - 64). Significantly 137 (MAY 17) + 183 = 320 (NOV 16) → *320 (Dramasa).

... Allen has documented all his star culminations at 21h, which could be due to an effort of keeping the culminations at their proper places according to the ancients, 24h (spring equinox) - 21h = 3h = 24h / 8 = 45º. 3h corresponds to 366 / 8 = 45.75 of my right ascension days and *366 - *46 = *320 (Dramasa, σ Octantis) ...

This Ship was evidently engulfed in flames, which explains why kiore o te henua has fiery feathers (maro) added in front:

1 7 13 19
2 8 14 20
3 9 15 21
4 10 16 22
5 11 17 23
6 12 18 24

Instead of 24 (as the number of hours in the nightside diurnal cycle) the number with fiery feathers had been defined as 31, which happens to agree with the number of text divisions on the top side of the Phaistos disc. 6 * 31 = 186 → the right ascension day distance from the Girdle of Andromeda to the Girdle of Virgo.

... According to Gylfaginning, following the murder of Baldr by Loki, the other gods brought his body down to the sea and laid him to rest on the ship. They would have launched it out into the water and kindled a funeral pyre for Baldr but were unable to move the great vessel without the help of the giantess Hyrrokkin [→ Hurricane], who was sent for out of Jötunheim. She then flung the ship so violently down the rollers at the first push that flames appeared and the earth trembled, much to the annoyance of Thor. Along with Baldr, his wife Nanna was also borne to the funeral pyre after she had died of grief. As Thor was consecrating the fire with his hammer Mjolnir, a dwarf named Litr began cavorting at his feet. Thor then kicked him into the flames and the dwarf was burned up as well ...

On the bottom side of the Phaistos disc there are 118 signs and the sum 123 + 118 = 241 at first appears strange. However it could be explained as 364 - 123. The number of glyphs on side b of the G tablet is 242, which similarly could be explained as 365 - 123.

Phaistos

123

118

241 = 364 - 123

G

123

242

123 + 242 = 365

118 (4 * 29½) + 242 (22 * 11) = 360.

... About Carmenta we know from the historian Dionysus Periergetis that she gave orcales to Hercules and lived to the age of 110 years. 110 was a canonical number, the ideal age which every Egyptian wished to reach and the age at which, for example, the patriarch Joseph died. The 110 years were made up of twenty-two Etruscan lustra of five years each; and 110 years composed the 'cycle' taken over from the Etruscans by the Romans. At the end of each cycle they corrected irregularities in the solar calendar by intercalation and held Secular Games. The secret sense of 22 - sacred numbers were never chosen haphazardly - is that it is the measure of the circumference of the circle when the diameter is 7. This proportion, now known as pi, is no longer a religious secret; and is used today only as a rule-of-thumb formula, the real mathematical value of pi being a decimal figure which nobody has yet been able work out because it goes on without ever ending, as 22 / 7 does, in a neat recurring sequence [3.142857142857 ...]. Seven lustra add up to thirty-five years, and thirty-five at Rome was the age at which a man was held to reach his prime and might be elected Consul. (The same age was fixed upon by a Classically-minded Convention as the earliest at which an American might be elected President of the United States.) ...

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. 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 ...

The text on the E tablet describes, it seems, how the Entrance Pillar (Antares) when rising together with the Sun indicated that the southern summer heat had arrived:

Nov 25

26 (*250)

27

28

29

30

Dec 1 (335)

EQUINOX

SEPT 23

24

25

26

27

28

Eb2-8

Eb2-9

Eb2-10

Eb2-11

Eb2-12 (54)

Eb2-13

Eb2-14

a matiro - ko hiti noho maitaki koira taua ko pe ko tae te rima tagata oho - ki moto vaero tae kiore - o te henua

Tiro. Mgv.: Spots on linen. Ta.: tiro, to mark. Mq.: tiotioa, blotched, covered with white spots. Titiro, to admire. P Ma.: tiro, to gaze at. Churchill. Vi.: tiro, siro, sisiro, to descend, to go down a steep or hill. Churchill 2.

Hiti. 1. To show itself again, to reappear (of the new moon, of a constellation - meaning uncertain). 2. Said of thin, tough-fleshed fish of indifferent taste: ika hiti. 3. Said of fish when they come to the stones of the shore for insects among the seaweed: he hiti te ika. 4. To reproach someone for his ingratitude. Vanaga. 1. To rise, to appear, to dawn; hitihaga, rising; hitihaga roa, sunrise; hitihiti, to dawn; horau hitihiti, break of day; hakahiti ki te eeve, to show the buttocks. 2. Puffed; gutu hiti, thick lips. Churchill.

Pe. 1. Like, as. PS Mgv.: pe, as, the same as, also. Sa.: pei, like, as. Niuē: pehe, thus. 2. And, also (in numerals); e rua te hagahuru pe aha, twenty-four. PS Sa.: pe, a restrictive particle in counting, only. To.: be, only. Uvea: pe, id. Churchill. Pau.: Spoilt, damaged. Mgv.: pee, macerated, spoilt. Ta.: pe, spoilt, rotten. Mq.: pe, id. Sa.: pe, id. Ma.: pe, pulpy, purulent. Churchill.

Tae. 1. Negation used in conditional and temporal clauses: ana ta'e hoa te ûa, ina he vai, when it does not rain, there is no water. Also used with some verbal forms such as: o te aha koe i-ta'e-oho mai-ai? why didn't you come? Otherwise its use is limited to adjectives or verbal adjectives: tagata ta'e hupehupe, person who is not weak, hard worker; nohoga ta'e oti, endless existence, eternity. 2. Interjection expressing admiration, always used with he: ta'e he tagata! what a man! Ta'e he aga! what a great job! Ta'e he tagata koe mo keukeu i te henua! what a good farmer you are! Vanaga. 1. Prepositive negative: without, not, none. PS To.: tae, prepositive negative. 2. To remain; tae atu ki, as far as, until. Taehaga (tae 1), to shake the head in sign of negation, reluctant, to disdain, to be displeased. 3. Pau.: tae, to arrive. Mgv.: tae, id. Ta.: tae, id. Ma.: tae, id. 4. Pau.: taetae, elephantiasis in scroto. Ta.: taetae, ill, illness. Churchill.

Al Kalb-16 (The Heart) / Jyeshtha-18 (Eldest) / ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)

ANTARES = α Scorpii (249.1), MARFIK (Elbow)  = λ Ophiuchi, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)
γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5) ATRIA = α Tr. Austr. (253.9)

Tail-6 (Tiger)

WEI (Tail) = ε Scorpii, η Arae (254.3), DENEBAKRAB = μ Scorpii (254.7)

ι Ophiuchi (255.3), GRAFIAS = ζ Scorpii (255.4)

*214.0 = *255.4 - *41.4
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
No star listed (66) No star listed (67)

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)
No star listed (69) No star listed (70) TABIT = π³ Orionis  (71.7), π² Orionis (71.9)

π4 Orionis (72.1), ο¹ Orionis (72.4), π5 Orionis (72.8)

*31.0 = *72.4 - *41.4
May 26

27

28

29

30

31

June 1 (152)

MARCH 23

24

EQUINOX

26

27

28

29 (88)

... Antares, visible in the morning sky of December-January, came to stand for summer heat; hence the saying, 'Rehua cooks (ripens) all fruit' [hakatupu]. The generally accepted version of the Rehua myth, according to Best, is that Rehua had two wives, the stars on either side of Antares. One was Ruhi-te-rangi or Pekehawani, the personification of summer languor (ruhi), the other Whaka-onge-kai, She-who-makes-food-scarce before the new crops can be harvested ...

... Antares is visible in the sky all night around May 31 of each year, when the star is at opposition to the Sun. At this time, Antares rises at dusk and sets at dawn. For approximately two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky, because it is near conjunction with the Sun; this period of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's declination is significantly south of the celestial equator ...

Rerehu, Burning; a Maori name for Antares related to Rehua. Rerehu presided over the sixth month November-December in Stowell's enumeration, while Tregear associated Rerehu with the ninth month, February-March. Rehu is found in the Hawaiian star and month name Welehu, the Tuamotuan Herehu, and in the Rehu, Varehu, and Avarahu of the Society Islands ... Herehu is a Tuamotuan star whose name suggests the Maori Rerehu and Rehua and the Marquesan Ehua, all names for Antares. The Hawaiian equivalent lehu is found in the star name Lehuakona, Lehua-of-the-south. Rehu is seen in such month names a Serehu of Tongareva, Welehu of Hawaii, and Rehu and Varehu of the Society Islands ... Waerehu is listed as a Maori star and was a name for Antares among the Moriori as well as for the month of January.

Hu. 1. Breaking of wind. T Mgv., uu, to break wind. Mq., Ta.: hu, id. 2. Whistling of the wind, to blow, tempest, high wind. P Pau.: huga, a hurricane. Churchill. Mgv.: hu, to burst, to crackle, to snap. Ha.: hu, a noise. Churchill.

Rehu. 1. Dust. P Mgv.: rehu, a cinder, coal, ashes. Mq.: éhuahi, ashes. Ta.: rehu, ashes, soot, any powder. 2. To omit, to forget, to faint. Rehurehu, to omit, omission, lost to sight. Hakarehu, to surprise. Rehua, unintelligible. Churchill. Mgv.: rehurehu, from early dawn to mid morning. Ta.: rehurehu, twilight. Mq.: ehuehu, id. Churchill. Mq.: ehu, to fall in bits. Ma.: rehu, to split off in chips. Ehua, Ehuo, a large constellation. Ma.: rehua, a star or planet, probably Jupiter. Churchill.

Dec 2 (2 * 168)

3

4

5 (260 + 79)

6

7

Eb2-15

Eb2-16

Eb2-17

Eb2-18 (60)

Eb2-19

Eb2-20

parei niu tapa tu - manu rere rua manu - hokohuki mata tata te kahi hokohuki aveave te kahi kiore - o te henua

Kahi. Tuna; two sorts: kahi aveave, kahi matamata. Vanaga. Mgv.: kahi, to run, to flow. Mq.: kahi, id. Churchill. Rangitokona, prop up the heaven! // Rangitokona, prop up the morning! // The pillar stands in the empty space. The thought [memea] stands in the earth-world - // Thought stands also in the sky. The kahi stands in the earth-world - // Kahi stands also in the sky. The pillar stands, the pillar - // It ever stands, the pillar of the sky. (Morriori creation myth according to Legends of the South Seas.)

Dec 8 (18 * 19)

9 (64 + 279)

10 (260 + 84)

11 (3 * 115)

Eb2-21

Eb2-22 (390 - 326)

Eb2-23

(7 * 56 → 2 * 378)

te hagahaga - kua tuu tagata haga - kava manu ariga etoru kiore henua

Dec 12

13

Lucia (260 + 88)

Eb2-25

Eb2-26

Eb2-27 π

manu ragi rima manu ragi kiore henua