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12-2. The G text has clearly underlined a kind of inversion half a year away from the Archer.

... Nash (*273) - Menkar (*44) = *229 Alrami (*293), the Archer, at the end of side a on the G tablet.

MAY 3 (123) 4 (44 + 60) 5 (125) 6 7 (127)
Ga2-13 Ga2-14 (44) Ga2-15 Ga2-16 Ga2-17
July 6 (*107) 7 (*108) 8 (*293 - *184) 9 (190) 10
"May 26 (123 + 23) 27 28 (148) 29 30
WEZEN (Weight) = δ Canis Majoris (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9) No star listed (108)

λ Gemini (109.4), WASAT (Middle) = δ Gemini (109.8)

*68.0 = *109.4 - *41.4
No star listed (110)

ALUDRA (Virgin) = η Canis Majoris (111.1), PROPUS = ι Gemini (111.4),  GOMEISA (Water-eyed) = β Canis Minoris (111.6)

*70.0 = *111.4 - *41.4

... The jaguar learned from the grasshopper that the toad and the rabbit had stolen its fire while it was out hunting, and that they had taken it across the river. While the jaguar was weeping at this, an anteater came along, and the jaguar suggested that they should have an excretory competition. The anteater, however, appropriated the excrement containing raw meat and made the jaguar believe that its own excretions consisted entirely of ants. In order to even things out, the jaguar invited the anteater to a juggling contest, using their eyes removed from the sockets: the anteater's eyes fell back into place, but the jaguar's remained hanging at the top of a tree, and so it became blind. At the request of the anteater, the macuco bird made the jaguar new eyes out of water, and these allowed it to see in the dark. Since that time the jaguar only goes out at night. Having lost fire, it eats meat raw. It never attacks the macuco ...

In July the Sun was no longer steadily rising higher and higher in the sky.

... 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 ...

Half a year before NOVEMBER 10 (314) was MAY 10 (130):

MAY 8 9 10 (314 - 184) 11 12 (132) 13
Ga2-18 Ga2-19 Ga2-20 (50) Ga2-21 Ga2-22 Ga2-23
July 11 CASTOR 13 14 POLLUX 16

From May 4 (124) to MAY 4 at Ga2-14 there were *108 - *44 = *64 precessional days. And since the time of Bharani the star at the middle (Wasat) had glided ahead in the year with *64 - *23 = *41 right ascension days.

In December 21 (355 = 314 + 41) the Full Moon should ideally be visible at right ascension line *92 (355 - 183 - 80). Similarly the Nose of Cetus should ideally be culminating at the right ascension line *275 (*92 + *183) in June 21:

Solstice (172 + 183)

Dec 22 (356 = 336 + 20)

Eb3-7

Eb3-8 (77, 403)

vai oka hia kua oo te tere o te vaka - ko te maro o te vaka

Oka. 1. Lever, pole; to dig holes in the ground with a sharpened stick, as was done in ancient times to plant vegetables; used generally in the meaning of making plantations. 2. The four sideways poles supporting a hare paega. Okaoka, to jab, to pierce, to prick repeatedly. Vanaga. Digging stick, stake, joist; to prick, to pierce, to stick a thing into, to drive into, to slaughter, to assassinate; kona oka kai, plantation; pahu oka, a drawer. Okaoka, a fork, to prick, to dig. Okahia, to prick. Churchill.

ι Pavonis (275.1), POLIS = μ Sagittarii (275.9)

MENKAR (α Ceti)
η Sagittarii (276.9)
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
ξ Orionis (92.5)

Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)

TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)

*52.0 = *93.4 - *41.4
Solstice (108 + 64 = 172) June 22
APRIL 18 (108) 19 (*29 = *213 - *184)

From the June solstice to heliacal Sirius there were 9 days → presumably to be compared to 9 Rivers (μ Herculis), which rose with Apollyon and the Sun in December 14.

Dec 23 (314 / 2) 24 25 26 (360)
Eb3-9 Eb3-10 Eb3-11 (80) Eb3-12
e tagata aro ki te rima tarai hia te vae o te vaka te ragi rima hakarava hia

Aro. Face, front, side (of a figure); ki te aro o ..., to the front of ... Vanaga. Presence, body, frontispiece; ki te aro, face to face. P Pau.: aroga, the visage; ki te aroga, opposite. Mgv.: aro, presence, before; i te aro, in the presence of. Mq.: , face, in the presence of, before. Ta.: aro, face, front, presence, view. It is probable that more than one word is confounded in alo. The significations which appear in Southeast Polynesia are most likely derived from a Tongafiti alo and do not appear in Nuclear Polynesia. The alo belly and alo chief which do occur in Nuclear Polynesia are also probably Tongafiti, for in Samoa and Tonga they are honorific and applied only to folk of rank, a good indication of borrowing by the Proto-Samoans from Tongafiti masters. Churchill. In the Hawaiian group, the western portion or side of an island was called 'the front', ke alo, of the land, and the eastern side was called 'the back', ke kua. The reason of such designations must be sought in the fact of the arrival of the inhabitants from the west. Fornander.

Tarai. 1. Deluge, sound of water; ua tarai, a smart shower. 2. To carve, to square, to rough-hew, to shape; taraia, rough-hewn. P Pau.: tarai, to cut, to hew, to carve. Mgv.: tarai, to rough-hew, to carve. Mq.: taái, to cut, to rough-hew, to work wood or stone. Ta.: tarai, to cut, to fashion. Churchill. Sa.: talai, to adze. To.: talai, to smooth off rough edges. Fu.: talai, to cut off knots or thorns ... Churchill 2.

FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)

Well-22 (Tapir) / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)

 

δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM (The Roarer) = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS (Canopy) = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)

*54.0 = *95.4 - *41.4
No star listed (96)  β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0)
June 23 24 (175) 25 26
Dec 27 28 29 30 (364)
Eb3-13 Eb3-14 Eb3-15 Eb3-16 (85)
kua tua te vaivai rima kua tuo te tino te rima - te kihikihi

Vaivai, weak. PS Mq.: vaivai, soft, pleasant, agreeable. Sa., To.: vaivai, weak. Pau.: Hakavaivai, to delay. Ta.: vaivai, to rest a bit. Mq.: vaivai, to dilute, to thin. Ha.: waliwali, soft, pasty. Churchill.

Tuo. Mgv.: tuo, to speak long without an answer. Ta.: tuo, to cry out loudly. Ha.: kuo, to cry with a loud voice. Churchill.

Tino. 1. Belly (as reported by a Spaniard in 1770). 2. Genitalia (modern usage). 3. Trunk (of a tree), keel (of a boat); tino maîka, banana trunk; tino vaka, keel. Vanaga. Body, matter; mea tino, material; tino kore, incorporeal. P Pau.: tino, a matter, a subject. Mgv.: tino, the body, trunk. Mq.: tino, nino, the body. Ta.: tino, id. Churchill.

No star listed (98)

Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched)  = ε Gemini (100.7)

SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7)

*60.0 = *101.4 - *41.4

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

June 27 28 29 30 (181)

But from Agasthya (Canopus) to Sirius at the Full Moon in day 364 there were 6 'sleeping mats'.