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15-9. When in October the Full Moon was at the right ascension lines connected with the Head of Ku it indicated the northern winter was 'ahead'.

When in April the Sun stood above the Head of Ku it meant winter was ahead on Easter Island:

Eb6-9 Eb6-10 Eb6-11 (191 + 5) Eb6-13 Eb6-14 Eb6-15 (525) Eb6-16 (200)
to ihe te ariki te kai - te manu haú hia te tagata hakatu i te toga kua tupu te kihikihi te ihe

Toga. 1. Winter season. Two seasons used to be distinguished in ancient times: hora, summer, and toga, winter. 2. To lean against somehing; to hold something fast; support, post supporting the roof. 3. To throw something with a sudden movement. 4. To feed oneself, to eat enough; e-toga koe ana oho ki te aga, eat well first when you go to work. Vanaga. 1. Winter. P Pau., Mgv.: toga, south. Mq.: tuatoka, east wind. Ta.: toa, south. 2. Column, prop; togatoga, prop, stay. Togariki, northeast wind. Churchill. Wooden platform for a dead chief: ka tuu i te toga (Bb8-42), when the wooden platform has been erected. Barthel 2. The expressions Tonga, Kona, Toa (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the quarter of an island or of the wind, between the south and west, and Tokelau, Toerau, Koolau (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the opposite directions from north to east - expressions universal throughout Polynesia, and but little modified by subsequent local circumstances - point strongly to a former habitat in lands where the regular monsoons prevailed. Etymologically 'Tonga', 'Kona', contracted from 'To-anga' or 'Ko-ana', signifies 'the setting', seil. of the sun. 'Toke-lau', of which the other forms are merely dialectical variations, signifies 'the cold, chilly sea'. Fornander.

Oct 16 17 18 (*210) 19 20 21 22 (285 + 10) 23

Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 (Dog) / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1 (Front of the Head of Ku)

SEGIN = ε Cassiopeia, MESARTHIM = γ Arietis, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN (Pair of Signs) = β Arietis, φ Phoenicis (27.4)

*351.0 = *27.4 - *41.4

ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8)

ALRISHA (The Knot) = α Piscium, χ Phoenicis (29.2), ε Trianguli (29.4), ALAMAK (Caracal) = γ Andromedae (29.7)

*353.0 = *29.4 - *41.4

Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 (Back of the Head of Ku)

2h (*30.4 = *354.0 + *41.4)

κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (Sheep) = α Arietis (30.5)

ALKES (α Crateris)
DELTOTUM = β Trianguli (31.2), ι Trianguli (31.7), η Arietis (31.9) ξ¹ Ceti (32.1)

γ, δ Trianguli (33.0), χ Persei (33.2), 10 Trianguli (33.5), θ Arietis (33.3), MIRA (Astonishing) = ο Ceti (33.7)

No star listed (34)
April 17 (107) 18 (290 - 182) 19 (364 - 254) 21 22 23 (314 - 200)

... 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.) ...

As we should remember the Thong between Spica and Alcor would return to visibility in day 282 + 16 = 298, i.e. in the same night as the Mouth of the Fish was culminating:

... At the beginning of 44 B.C. - when Ceasar was still alive - the Senate decided to raise statues of him in all the temples and to sacrifice to him on his birthday in the month Quintilis, which in honour of him was renamed July. He was raised to the status of a god (among the other gods of the state) under the name Jupiter Julius. Marcus Antonius, who this year was consul together with Caesar, became high priest and responsible for the ceremonies. In the middle of February, at the time of the old feast of Lupercalia [Lupus = Wolf], he ran around naked and whipped the Roman ladies with thongs made from goat-skin [februa], in order to promote their fertility ...

... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...

*15

Eb6-2 (173 + 4 + 7 + 2) Eb6-18 (173 + 29 = 202)

Eb6-19 (186 + 17)

to ihe - te maro hakapeka hia te tagata

kiore - henua

Oct 9 (282) Oct 25 (282 + 16 = 298)

26

SPICA (*202) FOMALHAUT FUM AL SAMAKAH
KSORA (*20) He Maro 29 (116 + 64) SIRIUS
April 10 (100)

April 26 (116, *36)

27 (181 - 64 = 100 + 17)
*20 = *37 - '17 *17 → [E:17]

... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ... [E:17]

Anciently the Easter Islanders presumably used the Julian equinox, which arrived 4 days later than March 21 (80). Therefore we can guess 'April 25' in Manuscript E corresponded to the Gregorian date April 21 (111). June 1 (152) - April 21 (111) = 41. This distance in time-space would then be the measure from the current position of the Sun at the March equinox to the corresponding place in the era of Bharani (*41.4), i.e. the Explorers followed the precession up in time to May 1 (121, *41) and from there to June 1 (152, *72). During this journey they would have lost 152 - 121 = 31 days. 181 - 31 = 150.

 

Eb6-17 (326 + 201 = 527 = 628 - 101) Eb6-18 (202) Eb6-19
ka hakatu ma te rima hakapeka hia te tagata kiore - henua

Peka. Pekapeka, starfish. Vanaga. 1. 100,000 T. 2. A cross; pekapeka, curly; pekapekavae, instep T. (? shoelaces.); hakapeka, to cross; hakapekapeka, to interlace, lattice. T Mgv.: peka, a cross, athwart, across; pepeka, thick, only said of a number of shoots or sprouts in a close bunch. Mq.: peka, a cross, dense thicket. Ta.: pea, a cross. Churchill. Mq.: Pekahi, to make signs with the hand, to blow the fire with a fan. Ha.: peahi, id. Churchill.

Oct 24 25 26 (299)
ξ Arietis (35.0), ρ Ceti (35.4), 12 Trianguli (35.8), ξ² Ceti (35.9)

*360.0 = *35.4 - *41.4

σ Ceti (36.9) ν Ceti (37.9)
April 25 (115 = 64 + 41 + 10, 480, *400) 26 27

In October 24 they would ideally have observed the Full Moon at the right ascension line of Ξ (ξ) Arietis (*35.0). This was where the Sun was bound to rise in April 25 (115, *35). There were *360 days needed to cover the Sun year. Therefore *360 + *35 - *41 = *354 (→ 12 * 29½).

... In rongorongo times the last Greek lettered star in Orion (ξ) rose with the Sun in June 21. The letter seems to have originated from the Phoenician letter samekh (tent peg, supporting prop), which in turn may have been derived from the ancient Egyptian djed column ...

We have here reached to the end of the 24 kíore-henua glyphs:

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

In the G text a rising maro string has been drawn attatched in front of kiore-henua and 31 * 13 = 403 days seems to have been distributed over 123 (179 - 56) glyphs. 403 - 123 = 280.

We can compare with the E text, where 203 (Eb6-19) - 55 (Eb2-13) = 148.

E 24 148
G 31 123

242 (number of glyphs on side b of the G tablet) + 123 = 365 = 472 (total number of glyph spaces on the G tablet) - 107.

628 - 148 (→ 107 + 41) = 480 = 365 + 115 (→ April 25).

a1 32 32 b1 42 368
a2 33 65 b2 27 395
a3 35 100 b3 16 411
22 433
a4 36 136 b4 42 475
a5 42 178 b5 35 326 + 184 = 510
a6 39 217 b6 36 118 546
a7 39 256 b7 42 588
a8 4 260 b8 40 314 * 2 = 628
9 * 29
30 290
a9 36 326 sum total 260 * 2 + 108

260 + 368 = 314 * 2

sum 260 + 66
2 * 314 - 510 = 118 = 4 lunar synodic months

Taking a closer look we can then place in parallel:

Ga7-11 (180 → 500 - 320) Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14 (183 → 177 + 6)
SEPT 17 (260) 18 19 20 (*183)
MARCH 19 (78) 20 (*364) 21 22

BEID (Egg) = ο¹ Eridani (62.2), μ Persei (62.8)

VINDEMIATRIX ( ε Virginis)

Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)

HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4)

*22.0 = *63.4 - *41.4
HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)

Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)
May 22 23 24 (144 = 80 + 64) 25
 
Eb5-25 (326 + 174 = 500) Eb5-26 Eb5-27 Eb5-28 (177 = 354 / 2)
e tamaiti nuku maro etoru kua puoko i te haú ia te henua - te kiore
Sept 27 (270) 28 29 30 (3 * 91 = 273)
March 29 (88) 30 31 April 1 (91)

ε Andromedae (8.2), DELTA = δ Andromedae (8.4), SCHEDIR (Breast) = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9)

*8.4 - *41.4 = *149.0 - 182.0 =

- *33.0

ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), DENEB KAITOS (Tail of the Sea Beast) = β Ceti, η Phoenicis (9.4), AL NITHĀM (String of Pearls) = φ¹ Ceti (9.6)

*9.4 - *41.4 = *150.0 - 182.0 =

- *32.0
ACHIRD (Woman with Luminous Rays) = η Cassiopeiae (10.7)

Legs-15 (Wolf)

ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4)*335.0 = *11.4 - *41.4

 

The time distance seems to be 270 (September 27) - 260 (SEPTEMBER 17) = 10 days. From the Breast (*8) to the Egg (*62) we can count to *54. My imagination flies ahead to 354 - 300 = 64 - 10 = 54 → 'February 23:

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...