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16-1. It seems that according to the G text Antares - the Polynesian Entrance Pillar - should be depicted as a Shark when the Sun was turning around at the SEPTEMBER EQUINOX:

Magó. Spotted dogfish, small shark. Vanaga. Mogo, shark. P Pau.: mago,  id. Mgv. mago, id. Mq. mano, mako, mono, moko id. T. maó, id. In addition to this list the word is found as mago in Samoa, Maori, Niuē, and in Viti as mego. It is only in Rapanui and the Marquesas that we encounter the variant mogo. Churchill.

... Maui at first assumed the form of a kiore, or rat, to enter the body of Hine. But tataeko, the little whitehead, said he would never succeed in that form. So he took the form of a toke, or earth-worm. But tiwaiwaka the fantail, who did not like worms, was against this. So Maui turned himself into a moko huruhuru, a kind of caterpillar that glistens. It was agreed that this looked best, and so Maui started forth, with comical movements.The little birds now did their best to comply with Maui's wish. They sat as still as they could, and held their beaks shut tight, and tried not to laugh. But it was impossible. It was the way Maui went in that gave them the giggles, and in a moment little tiwaiwaka the fantail could no longer contain himself. He laughed out loud, with his merry, cheeky note, and danced about with delight, his tail flickering and his beak snapping. Hine nui awoke with a start. She realised what was happening, and in a moment it was all over with Maui. By the way of rebirth he met his end ...

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 (*366)

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
Ga7-15 (184) Ga7-16 Ga7-17 Ga7-18
SEPT 21 (*184) EQUINOX 23 (266 = 330 - 64) 24
ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM (Club) = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8)

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)

In the Golden Age of the Bull the Sun would have risen with Antares at the northern autumn equinox. Nowadays (in my suggested era for rongorongo) we have to add 64 precessional day positions in order to find heliacal Antares (*249), and SEPTEMBER 22 (*185) + *64 = *249 (329, November 25).

In the E text we could therefore try to count (hia) to heliacal Antares 329 - 266 = 63 days (glyphs) beyond the Long Sand-bank (*186) at Eb5-21 (496 = 559 - 63). Significantly 5 * 59 = 295 (10 lunar synodic months).

... From the natives of South Island [of New Zealand] White [John] heard a quaint myth which concerns the calendar and its bearing on the sweet potato crop. Whare-patari, who is credited with introducing the year of twelve months into New Zealand, had a staff with twelve notches on it. He went on a visit to some people called Rua-roa (Long pit) who were famous round about for their extensive knowledge. They inquired of Whare how many months the year had according to his reckoning. He showed them the staff with its twelve notches, one for each month. They replied: 'We are in error since we have but ten months. Are we wrong in lifting our crop of kumara (sweet potato) in the eighth month?' Whare-patari answered: 'You are wrong. Leave them until the tenth month ...

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 = 260 + 4) Equinox (265)
"Aug 10 11 12 (224 = 265 - 41)
JULY 18 19 (200) 20 (224 - 23 = 201 = 265 - 64)

... The Corner of the House was in the day before the Creation of Our Present World - which evidently had been recreated in "August 13 (225). i.e. in the year 70 * 41 - 1842 AD = 1028 BC. And this would have been 23 * 70 = 1610 ( JUNE 10) years after the preceding similar such recreation in the Golden Age of the Bull.

THE SUN:
March 22 23 24 (*3)

Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)
χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)

σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7)

... The ancient names of the month were: Tua haro, Tehetu'upú, Tarahao, Vaitu nui, Vaitu poru, He Maro, He Anakena, Hora iti, Hora nui, Tagaroa uri, Ko Ruti, Ko Koró ....

He Maro 1
Eb5-21 (326 + 170 = 496) Eb5-22 Eb5-23 Eb5-24 (173)
ihe romi hia e moa ure tupu hia hetu ki te ragi te kiore - te henua
THE SUN:
Julian equinox (*4) March 26 (267 - 182 = 85) 27 28 (*372)

... When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC he set March 25 as the spring equinox. Since a Julian year (365.25 days) is slightly longer than an actual year the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about 21 March in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March. This drift induced Pope Gregory XIII to create a modern Gregorian calendar. The Pope wanted to restore the edicts concerning the date of Easter of the Council of Nicaea of AD 325. (Incidentally, the date of Easter itself is fixed by an approximation of lunar cycles used in the Hebraic calendar, but according to the historian Bede the English name 'Easter' comes from a pagan celebration by the Germanic tribes of the vernal - spring - equinox.) So the shift in the date of the equinox that occurred between the 4th and the 16th centuries was annulled with the Gregorian calendar, but nothing was done for the first four centuries of the Julian calendar. The days of 29 February of the years AD 100, AD 200, AD 300, and the day created by the irregular application of leap years between the assassination of Caesar and the decree of Augustus re-arranging the calendar in AD 8, remained in effect. This moved the equinox four days earlier than in Caesar's time ...

 No star listed (4)

ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

ALPHARD (α Hydrae

λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4)

*6.4 - *41.4 = *147.0 - 182.0 =

- *35.0
ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31), π Andromedae (7.7)
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3)

INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5)

*146.0 = *187.4 - *41.4
γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB = δ Corvi (188.5), GACRUX = γ Crucis (188.7) γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7)
Sept 23 (266) 24 (85 + 182) 25 (*188) 26

... After the great flood had at long last receded, Raven had gorged himself on the delicacies left by the receding water, so for once, perhaps the first time in his life, he wasn't hungry. But his other appetites, his curiosity and the unquenchable itch to meddle and provoke things, to play tricks on the world and its creatures, these remained unsatisfied. Raven gazed up and down the beach. It was pretty, but lifeless. There was no one about to upset, or play tricks upon. Raven sighed. He crossed his wings behind him and strutted up and down the sand, his shiny head cocked, his sharp eyes and ears alert for any unusual sight or sound. The mountains and the sea, the sky now ablaze with the sun by day and the moon and stars he had placed there, it was all pretty, but lifeless. Finally Raven cried out to the empty sky with a loud exasperated cry. And before the echoes of his cry faded from the shore, he heard a muffled squeak. He looked up and down the beach for its source and saw nothing. He strutted back and and forth, once, twice, three times and still saw nothing. Then he spied a flash of white in the sand. There, half buried in the sand was a giant clamshell. As his shadow fell upon it, he heard another muffled squeak. Peering down into the opening between the halves of the shell, he saw it was full of tiny creatures, cowering in fear at his shadow. Raven was delighted. Here was a break in the monotony of the day. But how was he to get the creatures to come out of their shell and play with him? Nothing would happen as long as they stayed inside the giant clamshell ...

We might guess the Long Sand-bank could have been regarded as a place opposite to where the Long Pit people (Rua-roa) lived (i.e. the winter solstice).

... The Maori used the same word for both solstices, marua-roa, 'long pit', and applied the term also to the month or season during which the Sun passed through its most northerly or southerly declination. A qualifying word such as takurua, 'winter', or o-rongo-nui, 'summer', was usually appended to denote which solstice was meant. When no explanatory word was added marua-roa seems to have signified the winter solstice ...

However, we should rather think of the Long Sand-bank as the September equinox in contrast to the June solstice. South of the equator the winter solstice occurred in June and therefore the Long Sand-bank should indicate the spring equinox in September.

He Maro 2 3 (153 = 80 + 73) 4 5
Eb5-25 (326 + 174 = 500) → 3-25 + 1 + 2 months Eb5-27 Eb5-28 (354 / 2)
e tamaiti nuku maro etoru kua puoko i te haú ia te henua - te kiore

Tama. 1. Shoot (of plant), tama miro, tree shoot; tama tôa, shoot of sugarcane. 2. Poles, sticks, rods of a frame. 3. Sun rays. 4. Group of people travelling in formation. 5. To listen attentively (with ear, tariga, as subject, e.g. he tama te tariga); e-tama rivariva tokorua tariga ki taaku kî, listen carefully to my words. Tamahahine, female. Tamahine (= tamahahine), female, when speaking of chickens: moa tamahine, hen. Tamâroa, male. Vanaga. 1. Child. P Pau.: tama riki, child. Mgv.: tama, son, daughter, applied at any age. Mq.: tama, son, child, young of animals. Ta.: tama, child. Tamaahine (tama 1 - ahine), daughter, female. Tamaiti, child P Mq.: temeiti, temeii, young person. Ta.: tamaiti, child. Tamaroa, boy, male. P Mgv.: tamaroa, boy, man, male. Mq.: tamaóa, boy. Ta.: tamaroa, id. 2. To align. Churchill. In the Polynesian this [tama na, father in the Efaté language] is distinguished from táma child by the accent tamā or by the addition of a final syllable which automatically secures the same incidence of the accent, tamái, tamana ... Churchill 2

He Maro 1 *1  He Maro 3 *1 He Maro 5

ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31)

ξ Phoenicis (9.0)

π¹ Orionis (73.0)

HAEDUS II

March 28 March 30 MARCH 30 Eb5-28 (354 / 2)
te kiore - te henua nuku maro etoru te henua - te kiore
*5

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

Perhaps nuku maro etoru should be read as the 3rd in the timespace piece of land named 'June'. We could then count June 3 (153) - 89 (March 30) = 64. Since the time of the Golden Bull the stars had been carried ahead in the Sun calendar with 64 right ascension days. One of the possible meanings of nuku is land: Mgv.: nuku, land, country, place. Sa.: nu'u, district, territory, island. Churchill.

THE SUN:
March 29 (88 = 84 + 4) 30 (365 + 89 = 454) 31 April 1 (91 = 456 - 365)

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

... 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 Ceasar, became high priest and responsible for the ceremonies. In the middle of February, at the time of the old feast of Lupercalia, he ran around naked (except for a girdle), and whipped the Roman ladies with thongs made from goat-skin [februa], in order to promote their fertility ...

The word Lupercalia ís Latin and refers to an ancient feast held in February 15. Lupus is Latin for Wolf. The Chinese Legs station which pointed at a Wolf happens to be number 15.

In order to be able to walk on dry land it is necessary to have Legs.

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7)

ALDERAMIN (α Cephei)

Al Áwwā'-11 (The Barker) / Shur-mahrū-shirū-18 (Front or West Shur)

SOMBRERO GALAXY = M104 Virginis (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA = γ Virginis, γ Centauri (191.5)

*150.0 = *191.4 - *41.4
ι Crucis (192.2), β Muscae (192.5), MIMOSA = β Crucis (192.9) No star listed (193)

Wolves do not bark, but dogs do.

Sept 27 (270 = 266 + 4) 28 29 30 (3 * 91 = 273)

By using our E chart we can quickly establish heliacal Antares should be at Eb7-13 (559 = 496 + 63 = 326 + 233).

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

However, I cannot perceive any sign of Antares at or close to Eb7-13. Instead I find what looks like Aldebaran 14 days later:

*45.7

Aug 22 (234)

Oct 7 (280)

ADHAFERA (*154.7)

σ Virginis (*200.4)

48 13
Eb5-35 (280 + 230) Eb7-13 (559) Eb7-27 (573)
*65 *114 *128
Kua pipiri te hetu Erua oona mea ki te puoko te vaha
May 25 (145) July 13 (194) July 27 (208 = 343 - 135)
Oct 7 (280 = 145 + 135) Nov 25 (194 + 135 = 329) Dec 9 (208 + 135 = 7 * 7 * 7)

October 7 (280) + 230 = 510 = 365 + 145 (= 5 * 29) and 145 - 80 = *65.

559 (Eb7-13) = 365 + 194 and 194 - 80 = *114.

573 (Eb7-27) = 365 + 208 and 208 - 80 = *128 = *64 + *64.

Eb5-35 (326 + 184 = 510) Eb6-1 (60 + 5 * 5 * 5) Eb6-2 (193 - 7) Eb6-3 (513 → 19 * 27)
Kua pipiri te hetu ko te mata no te henua to ihe - te maro tara

Piri. 1. To join (vi, vt); to meet someone on the road; piriga, meeting, gathering. 2. To choke: he-piri te gao. 3. Ka-piri, ka piri, exclamation: 'So many!' Ka-piri, kapiri te pipi, so many shellfish! Also used to welcome visitors: ka-piri, ka-piri! 4. Ai-ka-piri ta'a me'e ma'a, expression used to someone from whom one hopes to receive some news, like saying 'let's hear what news you bring'. 5. Kai piri, kai piri, exclamation expressing: 'such a thing had never happened to me before'. Kai piri, kai piri, ia anirá i-piri-mai-ai te me'e rakerake, such a bad thing had never happened to me before! Piripiri, a slug found on the coast, blackish, which secretes a sticky liquid. Piriu, a tattoo made on the back of the hand. Vanaga. 1. With, and. 2. A shock, blow. 3. To stick close to, to apply oneself, starch; pipiri, to stick, glue, gum; hakapiri, plaster, to solder; hakapipiri, to glue, to gum, to coat, to fasten with a seal; hakapipirihaga, glue. 4. To frequent, to join, to meet, to interview, to contribute, to unite, to be associated, neighboring; piri mai, to come, to assemble, a company, in a body, two together, in mass, indistinctly; piri ohorua, a couple; piri putuputu, to frequent; piri mai piri atu, sodomy; piri iho, to be addicted to; pipiri, to catch; hakapiri, to join together, aggregate, adjust, apply, associate, equalize, graft, vise, join, league, patch, unite. Piria; tagata piria, traitor. Piriaro (piri 3 - aro), singlet, undershirt. Pirihaga, to ally, affinity, league. Piripou (piri 3 - pou), trousers. Piriukona, tattooing on the hands. Churchill.

Tara. 1. Thorn: tara miro. 2. Spur: tara moa. 3. Corner; te tara o te hare, corner of house; tara o te ahu, corner of ahu. Vanaga. (1. Dollar; moni tara, id.) 2. Thorn, spike, horn; taratara, prickly, rough, full of rocks. P Pau.: taratara, a ray, a beam; tare, a spine, a thorn. Mgv.: tara, spine, thorn, horn, crest, fishbone. Mq.: taá, spine, needle, thorn, sharp point, dart, harpoon; taa, the corner of a house, angle. Ta.: tara, spine, horn, spur, the corner of a house, angle. Sa.: tala, the round end of a house. Ma.: tara, the side wall of a house. 3. To announce, to proclaim, to promulgate, to call, to slander; tatara, to make a genealogy. P Pau.: fakatara, to enjoin. Mq.: taá, to cry, to call. 4. Mgv.: tara, a species of banana. Mq.: taa, a plant, a bird. Ma.: tara, a bird. 5. Ta.: tara, enchantment. Ma.: tara, an incantation. 6. Ta.: tara, to untie. Sa.: tala, id. Ha.: kala, id. Churchill

Oct 7 (280) 8 9 (100 + 182) 10

...Possibly Eb5-35 was designed to visualize how the Sun at the horizon would be seen reflected as in a mirror by the surface of the water. We can compare with Ba7-12:

*45.7

Aug 22 (234)

Oct 7 (280)

ADHAFERA (*154.7)

σ Virginis (*200.4)

No star listed (18) ADHIL (Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7) KSORA (Knee) = δ Cassiopeiae (20.1), ω Andromedae (20.6), γ Phoenicis (20.8) δ Phoenicis (21.5)
April 8 (108) 9 10 (100) 11 (365 + 101 = 466)

... It is known that in the final battle of the gods, the massed legions on the side of 'order' are the dead warriors, the 'Einherier' who once fell in combat on earth and who have been transferred by the Valkyries to reside with Odin in Valhalla - a theme much rehearsed in heroic poetry. On the last day, they issue forth to battle in martial array. Says Grimnismal (23): 'Five hundred gates and forty more - are in the mighty building of Walhalla - eight hundred 'Einherier' come out of each one gate - on the time they go out on defence against the Wolf.' That makes 432,000 in all, a number of significance from of old. This number must have had a very ancient meaning, for it is also the number of syllables in the Rigveda. But it goes back to the basic figure 10,800, the number of stanzas in the Rigveda (40 syllables to a stanza) [40 * 270 = 10800] which, together with 108, occurs insistently in Indian tradition, 10,800 is also the number which has been given by Heraclitus for the duration of the Aiōn, according to Censorinus (De die natali, 18), whereas Berossos made the Babylonian Great Year to last 432,000 years. Again, 10,800 is the number of bricks of the Indian fire-altar (Agnicayana) ...

Metoro told us that Eb5-35 and Eb7-13 were special by way of his Capital letters. Looking to see where he used Capital letters it is first quite clear that on side a of the tablet he used such at the beginning of the glyph lines - excepting at the beginning of the last line.

In addition we can find some more places (not counting those where he said Rei, Rapa or Ao), 9 of them are on side b and 2 on side a:

 

 

 

Ea2-22

Ea5-31

Ea9-1

Ea9-7

Eb1-1

ma te hokohuki - E te moa e

Te mauga

kava

kua mau ko te Rapa

tagata mau kupega

Eb1-36

Eb3-26

Eb3-38

Eb4-42

Eb5-10

Eb5-20

Kua vare

tagata - e Tapamea

Te maitaki

E manu

kua tu te Ao

te henua - Te kiore

Eb5-35

Eb6-36

Eb7-13

Eb8-40

Kua pipiri te hetu

kua vere te rima - Te henua

Erua oona mea ki te puoko

Mamae mamae hia

Notably he did not use a capital letter at Eb1-1 and neither at any other of the beginnings of the glyph lines on side b.

There is much food for thought here. Just let me add an idea: At Eb5-35 they are 'glued together', in other words they are in 'close embrace' (before the Raven would make them come out).

... They were Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, both sealed together in a close embrace. Crushed between the weight of their bodies were their many children, whose oppression deepened. They yearned to be free; they fought their parents and each other to break loose. Tuumatauenga, virile god of war, thrust and shouted; Tangaroa of the oceans whirled and surged; Tawhirirangimaatea, Haumiatiketike and Rongomatane, of wild foods and cultivated crops, tried their best but were not successful; and Ruamoko, god of earthquakes, yet to be born, struggled in the confinement of his mother's womb ... Of them all, Taane Mahuta, the god of the forests, was the most determined; he set his sturdy feet upon his father's chest, and braced his upper back and shoulders against the bosom of his mother. He pushed; and they parted. So the world, as the Maori understand it, came into being ...

... They were not going to come out as long as they were so afraid of him. So Raven leaned over his head, close to the shell, and with all the cunning and skill of that smooth trickster's tongue, that had so often gotten him in and out of so many misadventures during his troubled and troublesome existence, he coaxed and cajoled and coerced the little creatures to come out and play in his wonderful shiny new world. As you know the Raven has two voices, one harsh and strident, and the other which he used now, a seductive, bell-like croon which seems to come from the depth of the sea, or out of the cave where winds are born. It is an irresistable sound, one of the loveliest in the world. It wasn't long before first one and then another of the little shell-dwellers emerged from the shell. Some scurried back when they saw the Raven, but eventually curiosity overcame their caution and all of them had crept or scrambled out. Very strange creatures they were: two legged like Raven, but otherwise very different. They had no feathers. Nor fur. They had no great beak. Their skin was pale, and they were naked except for the dark hair upon round, flat-featured heads. Instead of strong wings like raven, they had thick stick-like arms that waved and fluttered constantly. They were the first humans ...

At Eb7-13 they are outside and possibly indicating where the Weaving of the cosmic net was beginning, i.e. the right ascension strings and the declination thongs 90º apart. Although this was not how the ancient Egyptians saw it, for they evidently used another perspective, presumably because they had the pair of Bull horn points in mind (El-nath and the Heavenly Gate).