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14-7. There was a pair of women in the sky and this was the only place in the Mesopotamian list of ecliptic stations with a conjunction between a pair of ruling stars (β in Leo and β in Virgo).

... Like the names of most other Greek letters, the name of beta was adopted from the acrophonic name of the corresponding letter in Phoenician, which was the common Semitic word *bayt ('house'). In the system of Greek numerals beta had a value of 2.

... The traditions show that the residences of the king were fairly flexible. The building of new houses was obviously the result of (male) births in the royal family. In each case, the house that was built last is left to the newborn son and his mother, together with a specific servant, while the king has a new and separate residence constructed for himself ...

Eb5-10 (326 + 159 = 485) Eb5-11 Eb5-12 (161 225 - 64) Eb5-13
kua tu te Ao te rima kua haga i te henua kaoa o te heke te henua - te kiore

Ao. Large dance paddle. 1. Command, power, mandate, reign: tagata ao, person in power, in command, ruler. 2. Dusk, nightfall. 3. Ao nui, midnight. 4. Ao popohaga, the hours between midnight and dawn. , to serve (food); ku-âo-á te kai i ruga i te kokohu, the food is served on a platter. Vanaga. 1. Authority, kingdom, dignity, government, reign (aho); topa kia ia te ao, reign; hakatopa ki te ao, to confer rank; ao ariki, royalty; ka tu tokoe aho, thy kingdom come. PS Mgv.: ao, government, reign. Mq.: ao, government, reign, command. Sa.: ao, a title of chiefly dignity; aoao, excellent, surpassing, supreme. 2. Spoon; ao oone, shovel. 3. Dancing club T. 3. Aonui (ao-nui 2), midnight. 4. Pau.: ao, the world. Mgv.: ao, id. Ta.: ao, id. Mq.: aomaama, id. Ma.: ao, id. 5. Pau.: ao, happy, prosperity. Mgv.: ao, tranquil conscience. Ta.: ao, happiness. 6. Mgv.: ao, cloud, mist. Ta.: ao, id. Mq.: ao, id. Sa.: ao, cloud. Ma.: ao, id. 7. Mgv.: ao, hibiscus. 8. Ta.: ao, day. Mq.: ao, day from dawn to dark. Sa.: ao, id. Ma.: ao, id. 9. Ta.: ao, a bird. Ha.: ao, id. 10. Mq.: ao, respiration, breath. Ha.: aho, breath. 11. Mq.: ao, to collect with hand or net. Sa.: ao, to gather. Ma.: ao, to collect. Ta.: aoaia, to collect food and other things with care. Churchill.

Heke. (Heke), hakaheke, to pull down, to overthrow. Mgv.: akaeke, to overthrow, to vanquish; heke, to fall down, to fall to pieces: akaheke; akahekeheke, to demolish. Mq.: heke, to crumble, to fall down; hakaheke, to demolish, to pull down. Churchill. Kai heke, hakaheke, to deflower. Kahukahu o heke, an octopus hiding in his ink. Mq.: ve'eve'e 'tentacules du heke'. Barthel 2. Pau.: Heke, to purge. Mgv.: heke-toto, hemorrhage. Ta.: hee, to purge. Mq.: heke, to drip. Ma.: heke, id. Pau.: Hekeheke, elephantiasis. Ta.: feefee, id. Mq.: fefe, id. Sa.: fe'efe'e, id. Mgv.: Heke, eke, octopus. Ta.: fee, id. Mq.: heke, feke, fee, id. Sa.: fe'e, id. Ma.: wheke, id. Ta.: Hee, to slide, to swim. Sa.: se'e, to slide, to shoot the breakers. Ha.: hee, id. Mq.: Hee oto, to cut. Sa.: sele, id. Ha.: helehele, id. Churchill. Ma.: 1. Migrate. Islands of History. 2. Rafter. Starzecka.

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JULY 10 (191 = 161 + 30) 11 (193 → 225 - 32 = 161 + 32) 13
Sept 12 (255) 13 14 (80 + 354 / 2) 15

θ Crateris (175.0), υ Leonis (175.2), ω Virginis (175.3), ι Crateris (175.5)

ο Hydrae (176.1)

ζ Crateris, ξ Virginis  (177.0), λ Muscae (177.1), ν Virginis (177.2), μ Muscae (177.8)

Al Sarfah-10 (Turn) / Uttara Phalguni-12 (Second Reddish One) / Zibbat A.-16 (Tail of the Lion) / Shēpu-arkū sha-A-17 (Hind Leg of the Lion)

93 Leonis (178.0), DENEBOLA = β Leonis (178.3), ALARAPH (Unarmed) = β Virginis (178.6)
THE SUN:
March 14 (365 / 5) → π 15 (31 + 28 + 15 = 74) 16 (365 + 75 = 440) 17 (441 = 80 + 361))
Λ Piscium (358.0), MANUS CATENATA = ι Andromedae (358.1), θ Phoenicis, ALRAI = γ Cephei (358.4), κ Andromedae (358.7)

*358.4 - *41.4 = *317.0

ω Aquarii (359.2), 78 Pegasi (359.5)

ψ Andromedae (360.1), σ Phoenicis (360.4)

*360.4 - *41.4 = *319.0

γ¹ Oct. (361.4), φ Pegasi (361.7)

*361.4 - *41.4 = *320.0

*358 for Manus Catenata seems unlikely for such a prominent place. But should we count from the Julian equinox in day 84 instead of from the Gregorian in day 80 things become more suitable, because *358 - *4 = *354, which surely would make people associate to 12 * 29½.

And for another week timespace would evidently then continue to run in the 'wrong' direction (withershins, backwards as if ruled by the Moon):

Eb5-14 Eb5-15 (326 + 164 = 490) Eb5-16 Eb5-17 (166)
e hakatopa hia mai te rima kua tu te ua te henua - te kiore

Topa. 1. To bend down, to drop to the ground; to fall on a certain date. 2. To stop doing something, to drop; ina ekó topa taau aga, do not stop, keep doing your work. 3. To remain, to be left over, to be unfinished; he topa te kai, the food is not finished, there is some left. 4. To come to one's memory; i te aamu he topa te vânaga tûai, in the legends old words come to memory. 5. To remember, to reflect (with mana'u as subject); e-topa rivariva tokorua mana'u ki te me'e nei, let the two of you think carefully about this thing. Vanaga. 1. Wine; topa tahaga, id. 2. To fall in drops, to descend, to go down, to abdicate; topa iho, to fall; hakatopa, to knock down, to cause to fall; hakatopa ki raro, to knock down, to subjugate. 3. Childbirth, abortion; topa te poki, to lie in. 4. A feast, to feast. 5. To arrive, to result; topa rae, newcome; topa iho, to come unexpectedly; topa ke, to deviate; topa no mai, topa hakanaa, topa tahaga, mau topa pu, unexpected; topa okotahi, solitary; hakatotopa, to excite, to foment. 6. Bad, low, cheap, failure; igoa topa, nickname; ariga topa, sinister, sly, ill-tempered, to hang the head; hakatopa, to disparage; hakatotopa, irresolute. 7. (Of upward movement) topa ki raro, to scale, to surpass; hakatopa ki te ao, to confer a dignity; hakatopa ki te kahu, to spread a sail; hakatotopa, to make a genealogy. Churchill.

PHEKDA ('Thigh') = γ Ursae Majoris, β Hydrae  (179.3), η Crateris (179.9) 

DENEB CYGNI (α Cygni)
No star listed (180)

π Virginis (181.0), θ Crucis (181.5)

12h (182.6)

ο Virginis (182.1), η Crucis (182.5)
Sept 16 17 18 (261 = 9 * 29)

19

THE SUN:
March 18 19 20 (261 - 182 = 79) 21 (80)

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

The Corner of the House of Virgo (Zaniah, η)

was in the day before the Creation of Our Present World - which evidently could have been recreated in "August 13 (225), i.e. in the year 70 * 41 - 1842 AD = 1028 BC.

... 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. Her special form of tapu would counter the energies within the house, and thus render it noa, and safe for general entry. Such ritual continues to be observed today; even in the context of an ethnological or fine arts exhibition, these procedures are followed, to appease the ancestral forces who may generate tapu, which imbues the objects with dread or beauty ...

And this would then have been 23 * 70 = 1610 ( JUNE 10) years after the preceding and similar such recreation in the Golden Age of the Bull.

Eb5-18 Eb5-19 (168) Eb5-20
te tagata - e vai mama mamae hia te henua - Te kiore

Mamae. Illness, pain, to be ill or in pain, afflicted; tagata mamae, the sick. Vanaga. Sick, suffering, weak, ill; mate maia mamae, to depress; mata mamae, drowsy, sleepy; mamae kopu, bellyache; mamae keo, headache; mamae toto, menses; ariga mamae, to look ill; hakamamae, to make ill. T Mgv.: mamae, to be ill, in pain, suffering, sorrow. Mq.: mamae, memae, suffering, pain, grief. Ta.: mamae, pain. Churchill.

Kiore. Rat. Vanaga. Rat, mouse; kiore hiva, rabbit. P Pau., Mgv.: kiore, rat, mouse. Mq.: kioē, íoé, id. Ta.: iore, id. Churchill.

ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis (184.6), MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris (184.9)

Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28 (Worm)

GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9)

*144.0 = *185.4 - *41.4
Sept 20 21 (364 - 100 = 180 + 184) Equinox (265)
"Aug 10 11 12 (224 = 265 - 41)
JULY 18 19 (200) 20 (224 - 23 = 201 = 265 - 64)
THE SUN:
March 22 23 24 (*3)

From the Ao dance paddle of the Moon to the September equinox at the Rat (of the Sun) there were 10 days:

*10

255

265

te Ao

Te kiore

This distance seems to basically correspond to the length between December 22 (354 + 1) and December 31 (364 + 1), but then surely also to be used at the other cardinal points of the Sun, dancing to the same rythm.

*10
manu i ruga o te take koia kua hoi - te toka i haga hia
Aug 31 (*163 = *284 - *101) Sept 10 (*173 = *284 - *111)
CORVUS:
13 Hasta

the hand

α, β, γ, δ, ε Corvi

Gienah

Hand or fist Sept 22 (265)
Egyptian hand Phoenician kaph Greek kappa Κ (κ)

Kaph is thought to have been derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew, kaph means palm/grip) ...

... The manik, with the tzab, or serpent's rattles as prefix, runs across Madrid tz. 22 , the figures in the pictures all holding the rattle; it runs across the hunting scenes of Madrid tz. 61, 62, and finally appears in all four clauses of tz. 175, the so-called 'baptism' tzolkin. It seems impossible, with all this, to avoid assigning the value of grasping or receiving. But in the final confirmation, we have the direct evidence of the signs for East and West. For the East we have the glyph Ahau-Kin, the Lord Sun, the Lord of Day; for the West we have Manik-Kin, exactly corresponding to the term Chikin, the biting or eating of the Sun, seizing it in the mouth.

  

The pictures (from Gates) show east, north, west, and south; respectively (the lower two glyphs)  'Lord' (Ahau) and 'grasp' (Manik). Manik was the 7th day sign of the 20 and Ahau the last ...

Comparing with other text we can find te ao used also at Cb1-10, where Metoro had been unusually eloquent, mentioning that the sky was moving (rutua te maeva).

... Probably Metoro's words are here describing the whole package of glyphs instead of commenting on them each separately. He is beginning by stating that drums (te pahu) are sounding (rutua) as a means of welcoming (te maeva) and this is meaningful if the beginning of the text on side b is related to the onset of a new year ...