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13-5. Glyph Eb4-13 ought to allude to 413 = 14 * 29½, and the numerous parallel texts continue - up to the day before that when our present world was finally created. Also: 41 * 3 = 123 (→ 366 / 2 - 60) and 4 * 13 = 52 (→ 364 / 7).

... There seems to have been a little difficulty at first in getting the machinery of the sky into smooth running order, for some maintain that Ruddy Sun and Waxing Moon disputed in a brotherly fashion. The Sun desired the Moon to accompany him and suggested they travel in daylight, while the Moon insisted they make their rounds during the night. So they agreed, not too amicably, to separate, the Moon saying pettishly, 'Very well! You go by day and have the servile job of drying women's washings!' And the Sun retorted, 'And you go by night and be terrified by food-ovens!' The quarrel must have been made up later, for the Moon visits the Sun for a day or two each month ...

Eb4-7 Eb4-8 Eb4-9 Eb4-10 Eb4-11 (326 + 118) Eb4-12 (445)
te honu te henua te honu paka te maitaki te henua te henua - te kiore

... Once again henua / kiore instead of kiore / henua (cfr Eb4-1). I suspect that Metoro in both places realized that he was wrong in reading backwards and therefore read the glyph right. The patterns of glyphs in these two places are not only easily recognized but should also have been very well known because of the many parallel ocurrences in the texts of different tablets ...

Paka. 1. Dry; to become dry (of things); pakapaka, to dry out. Te paka is also the name of the moss-covered areas, between the small lakes of volcano Rano Kau, through which one can pass without getting one's feet wet. 2. To go, to depart; he-paka-mai, to come; he-oho, he-paka, they go away. 3. To become calm (of the sea): ku-paka-á te tai. Pakahera, skull, shell, cranium; pakahera puoko tagata, human skull; pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Gutu pakapaka, scabbed lips. Hau paka, fibres of the hauhau tree, which were first soaked in water, then dried to produce a strong thread. Moa gao verapaka, chicken with bald neck. Ariki Paka, certain collateral descendents of Hotu Matu'a, who exercised religious functions. Vanaga. 1. Crust, scab, scurf; paka rerere, cancer; pakapaka, crust, scabby. 2. Calm, still. 3. Intensive; vera paka, scorching hot; marego paka, bald; nunu paka, thin. 4. To arrive, to come. 5. To be eager. 6. To absorb. 7. Shin T. Pakahera, calabash, shell, jug. Pakahia, to clot, curdle, coagulate. Pakapaka, dry, arid, scorching hot, cooked too much, a desert, to fade away, to roast, a cake, active; toto pakapaka, coagulated blood; hakapakapaka, to dry, to broil, to toast. Pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Churchill.

... The ancient Chinese believed that with the arrival of the dry season the earth and sky ceased to communicate. The Spirit of drought was personified by a little bald woman with eyes at the top of her head. While she was present, the sky refrained from sending rain, so as not to harm her.Hills and rivers are the first to suffer from drought. It deprives hills of their trees, i.e. their hair, and rivers of their fish, which are their people. The same word, wang, means mad, deceitful, lame, hunchbacked, bald and Spirit of drought ...

... Lobster said to Flounder: 'Let us-two hide from each other, see who is best at that.' Flounder agreed to play this game. Lobster went to a hole in the coral, hid his body; but his feelers stuck out, he could not hide them. Flounder knew where he was, found him. Said Flounder; 'Now it is my turn.' He stirred up a cloud of mud and scooted into it. Then he returned to Lobster's side, so quietly that Lobster did not know he was there. 'Here I am sir, Lobster!' Lobster was so angry at being beaten that he stamped on the fish and smashed him flat. Cried Flounder; 'Now I've got one eye in the mud!' Therefore Lobster gouged it out for him and roughly stuck it back on top. This is the reason why men tread on the Flounder, but can always see the Lobster's feelers outside his hole ...

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
July 29 (420 / 2) 30 31 Aug 1 (213) 2 (2 * 107) 3 (*135, 580)

Al Nathrah-6 (Gap)

BEEHIVE (Exhalation of Piled-up Corpses) = ε Cancri, η Pyxidis (130.4), XESTUS = ο Velorum (130.5), ζ Pyxidis (130.7), ASCELLUS BOREALIS = γ Cancri, β Pyxidis (130.9)

*89.0 = *130.4 - *41.4

Extended Net-26a (Ox) / Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-12 (Southeast Star in the Crab)

η Hydrae (131.0), ASCELLUS AUSTRALIS = δ Cancri (131.4), KOO SHE = Bow and Arrow = δ Velorum (131.6), α Pyxidis (131.8), ε Hydrae (131.9)

*90.0 = *131.4 - *41.4

ι Cancri (132.0), ρ Hydrae (132.4)

*91.0 = *132.4 - *41.4
γ Pyxidis (133.6) ζ Hydrae (134.1), ρ Cancri (134.2), ζ Oct. (134.3), ο Cancri (134.6), δ Pyxidis (134.9) ACUBENS = α Cancri, TALITHA BOREALIS = ι Ursae Majoris (135.0), σ Cancri (135.2), ρ Ursa Majoris (135.6)

... He then set off to look for his wife and children; he found them again and gave them food, for his rival had deprived the children of food in the hope that they would quickly die of hunger. The hero [→ Homan,*341 → *206 + *136] then hid in a meat sack, jumped on the Trickster and killed him. The corpse was cut up and the pieces scattered. However, the Trickster came back to life. He went away and stopped to rest by a lake, and meditated on death: should death be final or not? On seeing that a stick, then a buffalo turd, and lastly a piece of pith remained afloat after he had thrown them into the lake, he opted for resurrection. However, when a pebble sank, he reversed his decision. It was better that people should die, he concluded, otherwise the earth would quickly become overpopulated. Since that time, people only live for a certain period and die for ever ...

... At length there appeared beside them the gable and thatched roof of the house of Tonganui, and not only the house, but a huge piece of the land attached to it. The brothers wailed, and beat their heads, as they saw that Maui had fished up land, Te Ika a Maui, the fish of Maui. And there were houses on it, and fires burning, and people going about their daily tasks. Then Maui hitched his line round one of the paddles laid under a pair of thwarts, and picked up his maro, and put it on again. 'Now while I'm away,' he said, 'show some common sense and don't be impatient. Don't eat food until I come back, and whatever you do don't start cutting up the fish until I have found a priest and made an offering to the gods, and completed all the necessary rites. When I get back it will be all right to cut him up, and we'll share him out equally then. What we cannot take with us will keep until we come back for it.' Maui then returned to their village. But as soon as his back was turned his brothers did the very things that he had told them not to. They began to eat food, which was a sacrilege because no portion had yet been offered to the gods. And they started to scale the fish and cut bits off it. When they did this, Maui had not yet reached the sacred place and the presence of the gods. Had he done so, all the male and female deities would have been appeased by the promise of portions of the fish, and Tangaroa would have been content. As it was they were angry, and they caused the fish of Maui to writhe and lash about like any other fish. That is the reason why this land, Aotearoa, is now so rough and mountainous and much of it so unuseful to man. Had the brothers done as Maui told them it would have lain smooth and flat, an example to the world of what good land should be. But as soon as the sun rose above the horizon the writhing fish of Maui became solid underfoot, and could not be smoothed out again. This act of Maui's, that gave our people the land on which we live, was an event next in greatness to the separation of the Sky and Earth ...

... Sorrowing, then, the two women placed Osiris's coffer on a boat, and when the goddess Isis was alone with it at sea, she opened the chest and, laying her face on the face of her brother, kissed him and wept. The myth goes on to tell of the blessed boat's arrival in the marshes of the Delta, and of how Set, one night hunting the boar by the light of the full moon, discovered the sarcophagus and tore the body into fourteen pieces, which he scattered abroad; so that, once again, the goddess had a difficult task before her. She was assisted, this time, however, by her little son Horus, who had the head of a hawk, by the son of her sister Nephtys, little Anubis, who had the head of a jackal, and by Nephtys herself, the sister-bride of their wicked brother Set. Anubis, the elder of the two boys, had been conceived one very dark night, we are told, when Osiris mistook Nephtys for Isis; so that by some it is argued that the malice of Set must have been inspired not by the public virtue and good name of the noble culture hero, but by this domestic inadventure. The younger, but true son, Horus, on the other hand, had been more fortunately conceived - according to some, when Isis lay upon her dead brother in the boat, or, according to others, as she fluttered about the palace pillar in the form of a bird. The four bereaved and searching divinities, the two mothers and their two sons, were joined by a fifth, the moon-god Thoth (who appears sometimes in the form of an ibis-headed scribe, at other times in the form of a baboon), and together they found all of Osiris save his genital member, which had been swallowed by a fish. They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead. These confess before him, and when their hearts have been weighed in a balance against a feather, receive, according to their lives, the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin ...

... According to a variety of sources of the legend, the Argo was said to have been planned or constructed with the help of Athena. According to other legends it contained in its prow a magical piece of timber from the sacred forest of Dodona, which could speak and render prophecies. Argo Navis is the only one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy that is no longer officially recognised as a constellation. It was unwieldy due to its enormous size: were it still considered a single constellation, it would be the largest of all. In 1752, the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille subdivided it into Carina (the keel, or the hull, of the ship), Puppis (the poop deck), and Vela (the sails). When Argo Navis was split, its Bayer designations were also split. Carina has the α, β and ε, Vela has γ and δ, Puppis has ζ, and so on. The constellation Pyxis (the mariner's compass) occupies an area which in antiquity was considered part of Argo's mast (called Malus). However, Pyxis is not now considered part of Argo Navis, and its Bayer designations are separate from those of Carina, Puppis and Vela ...

*25

No star listed (*110)

ACUBENS (*135.0)

Eb3-25 (420) Eb4-12 (445)
July 9 (190, 555) Aug 3 (20 * 29)

... It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer [ui] for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder ...

Eb4-13 Eb4-14 (11 * 11) Eb4-15
te rakau ko te hoea te henua

Hoe 1. Paddle. Mgv.: hoe, ohe, id. Mq., Ta.: hoe, id. 2. To wheeze with fatigue (oeoe 2). Arero oeoe, to stammer, to stutter; Mgv. oe, to make a whistling sound in breathing; ohe, a cry from a person out of breath. Mq.: oe, to wheeze with fatigue. 3. Blade, knife; hoe hakaiu, clasp-knife, jack-knife; hoe hakanemu, clasp-knife; hoe pikopiko, pruning knife. 4. Ta.: oheohe, a plant. Ma.: kohekohe, id. Churchill. T. Paddle. E hoe te heiva = 'and to paddle (was their) pleasure'. Henry. Hoea, instrument for tattooing. Barthel.

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Aug 4 (2 ' 108) 5 6 (218)
"St John's Day (175) "June 25 (217 - 41) 26 (6 * 29½)
JUNE 1 (152) 2 3 (218 - 64)
ν Cancri (136.0), TALITHA AUSTRALIS = κ Ursae Majoris (136.1), ω Hydrae (136.8)

9h (137.0)

σ¹ Ursa Majoris (137.0), κ Cancri (137.3), τ Cancri (137.4), ALSUHAIL (al Wazn, of the Weight) = λ Velorum (137.5), σ² Ursa Majoris (137.6), τ Ursa Majoris (137.7), ξ Cancri (137.8)

*96.0 = *137.4 - *41.4
κ Pyxidis (138.0), ε Pyxidis (138.5)
THE SUN:

21h (319.6)

ARMUS = η Capricorni (319.0), DORSUM = θ Capricorni (319.3), TSOO = 24 Capricorni (319.7)
DRAMASA = σ Oct., χ Capricorni (320.0), ν Aquarii (320.3), γ Equulei (320.6), ο Pavonis (320.8) α Oct. (321.5), δ Equulei (321.7), φ Capricorni (321.8)
"X-mas Eve (*278) "Dec 25 (*320 - *41) 26 (360 = 177 + 183)
DEC 1 (365 - 30) 2 (2 * 168) 3 (154 + 183)

Eb4-16 Eb4-17 (450) Eb4-18 (125)
te rakau te rakau tagata
Aug 7 8 (220) 9
π Cancri (139.2), MIAPLACIDUS = β Carinae (139.3), TUREIS (Little Shield) = ι Carinae (139.8) No star listed (140) θ Pyxidis (141.5), MARKAB VELORUM = κ Velorum (141.5), AL MINHAR AL ASAD (The Nose of the Lion) = κ Leonis (141.6), λ Pyxidis (141.9)
KITALPHA (Part of a Horse) = α Equulei (322.0), ALDERAMIN (The Right Arm) = α Cephei (322.9) DAI = ι Capricorni (323.5), β Equulei (323.8) γ Pavonis (324.1), YAN = ζ Capricorni (324.6

Eb4-19 Eb4-20 Eb4-21 (128, 454)
hoi atu - henua te ariki henua - kiore

Hoki. To return, to go back, to come back; ka hoki ki rá, go back there! ana oho koe ki Hiva, e hoki mai ki nei, if you go to the mainland, do come back here again. Vanaga. 1. Also, what; ki ra hoki, precisely there; pei ra hoki, similitude, likeness; pei ra hoki ta matou, usage. P Pau.: hokihoki, often. Mgv.: hoki, also, and, likewise. Mq.: hoi, surely. Ta.: hoi, also, likewise. 2. To return, to turn back, to draw back, to give back, to tack; mau e hoki mai, to lend; hoki hakahou, to carry back; hoki amuri, to retrograde; hakahoki, to bring back, to send back, to carry back, to restore, to renew, to revoke, to remove, to dismiss, to pay, to pardon, to compress; hakahokia, given up; hakahokihaga, obligation. P Pau.: hokihoki, to persist, to insist; fakahoki, to give back. Mgv.: hoki, to return, to retrace one's steps; oki, to return, to come back. Ta.: hoi, to return, to come back. Ta.: mahoi, the essence or soul of a god. Churchill.

Atu. Particle of meaning opposite to that of mai; it refers to the second or third person, expressing movement away: ka-avai-atu, give it to him: he-oho-atu au, I am going there, after you; i-oho-atu-era, when I had gone there. Vanaga. 1. a. Directive, of motion from the speaker. b. Somewhat expressive of the comparative degree. 2. Pupil; hakaatu, proof; hare hakaatuga, schoolhouse, class. 3. (hakaatu), to presage. 4. (hakaatu), mark, object. Churchill.

Aug 10 (222) 11 12

Star-25 (Horse) / ANA-HEU-HEU-PO-5 (Pillar where debates were held)

ALPHARD (The Horse) = α Hydrae (142.3), ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7)

Al Tarf-7 (The End)

ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)

*102.0 = *143.4 - *41.4

A Hydrae (144.1)

VEGA (α Lyrae)

Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 (Luckiest of the Lucky) / Emptiness-11 (Rat)

TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK (The Flock) = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)

No star listed (326)

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

SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris
"Dec 30 (364) 31 (*285 = *326 - *41) "Jan 1 (366)

... Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ...