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17-7. I suggest the creator of the E text also created the G text:

*12

Eb7-27 (→ 5 * 73 = 365) Eb7-26 (6 * 41 = 2 * 123) Ga1-4

Ga1-3 (→ 246 - 3 = 9 * 27)

NIHAL ( 3 * 27)

ELNATH (*80 68 + 12)

ALDEBARAN

MARCH 24

June 10 (354 / 2 - 16)

June 9 (2 * 80 = 160)

May 28 (148)

May 27 (*27 + *40)

*40

Gb7-25 (→ 72 * 5 = 360)

Gb7-24 (205 = 246 - 41)

SHERATAN

POLARIS (*26)

April 17 (*27 = *81 - *54)

April 16 (106 = 2 * 53)

There was a shift in perspective when the precession had moved the cardinal points of the Sun away from the domain of Taurus to that of Aries and further on to Pisces:

... Now Frodhi happened to be the owner of a huge mill, or quern, that no human strength could budge. Its name was Grotte, 'the crusher'. We are not told how he got it, it just happened, as in a fairy tale. He traveled around looking for someone who could work it, and in Sweden he recruited two giant maidens, Fenja and Menja, who were able to work the Grotte. It was a magic mill, and Frodhi told them to grind out gold, peace and happiness. So they did. But Frodhi in his greed drove them night and day. He allowed them rest only for so long as it took to recite a certain verse ...

... Snorri Sterluson explains why 'Frodi's grist' is a kenning for gold. Frodi ruled during a peaceful and productive period, contemporaneous with Augustus's Pax Romana and the birth of Christ; hence the kenning. There were neither thieves nor robbers during this period, 'so that a gold ring lay long on Jalang's heath'. Snorri continues his account with the legend of the mill beyond what is told in the song: The girls' grinding produced an army hostile to Frodi. On the very day of the girls' predictions, the sea-king, Musing (Son of the Mouse), landed on the Danish shore, killed Frodi, and took away Grotti and the women on his ship. The girls were bidden to grind out salt on the mill. At midnight they asked for further instructions. 'Keep grinding', he told them. Then they ground with such vigor that the ship sank. Water poured into the eye of the mill, creating the maelstroem of the sea. Therefore the sea was salt. Incidentally, the mill was given a kenning, Serpent's Couch ...

The difference could be measured as e.g. *54 right ascension days, corresponding to 26000 / 365.25 * 54 = 3844 years. *350 + *54 = *404 = *365 + *39:

*54

ELNATH

POLARIS

"April 29 (*39)

"March 6 (*350)

227 + 177 = 404. → The distance between Ga1-2 and Gb6-25 (407).

404

Ga1-2

Gb6-25 (300 + 107)

I.e., Elnath would have first moved ahead in the Gregorian calendar with 55 days from "March 6 (31 + 28 + 6 = 65) to "April 29 (31 + 28 + 31 + 29 = 119). And then we could move on from the era of Bharani to the era of Sirrah in order to find the current days:

"March 6 (65)

53

"April 29 (119)

65 + 41 = 106

April 16 (*26)

119 + 41 = 160

June 9 (26 + 54 *80)

The star of the Creator (Khnum Khufu) was 2 days further ahead in the Gregorian calendar than Elnath, and likewise it should be in the E text:

... Julius Caesar had determined that the Great Creator (Khnum) - personified by the Egyptian primary god-pharaoh Khufu - should have his culmination night at the place half a year away from 'June 28, where he would lead the triplet ending in day 181 + 183 when Sirius was at the Full Moon ...

Eb7-28 (248 = 2 * 123 + 2)

tagata - te kihikihi

June 11 (84 + 78 = 162)

'May 15 (500 = 162 + 365 - 27)

KHUFU

MINTAKA (Belt) = δ Orionis, υ Orionis (82.4), χ Aurigae (82.5), ε Columbae (82.6)

*41.0 = *82.4 - *41.4

→ 41 Arietis (Bharani) 

→ VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

LESATH (Sting) = υ (325) Scorpii, δ Arae (264.7), CHOO (Club) = α Arae (264.9)

Dec 10 (344 = 360 - 16 = 80 + 324)

The 'Brute' (noa) season of birth (hanau) ended here, with only ashes (te kihikihi) remaining.

... When they were there, and had executed their father's commission, the young men felt a wish to enquire to which of them the kingdom of Rome was to come; and we are told that these words were uttered from the bottom of the cave - 'Young men, whichever of you shall first kiss your mother, he shall possess the sovereign power at Rome' ... Brutus judged that the expression of Apollo had another meaning, and as if he had accidentally stumbled and fallen, he touched the earth with his lips, considering that she was the common mother of all mankind ...

... 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) ...

... 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 ...

As a kind of confirmation I a few days ago noticed that Noa(h) was a name allotted to March 31 in the calendar hanging on my kitchen wall. 90 (March 31) + 64 = 154 (*74, Al-Maaz, Eb7-20).

Eb7-29

Eb7-30

Eb7-31

Eb7-32

Eb7-33

Eb7-34

Eb7-35 (255)

hagahaga mai o te ragi te koka te hokohuki kua rere te veveke te makere te takaure kua oho mai kua hua

June 12

13 (164)

14

15

16

17 (168)

18

KHAFRE

Al Hak'ah-3 (White Spot) / Mrigashīrsha-5 (Stag's Head) / Turtle Head-20 (Monkey) / Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur (Little Twins)

ARNEB = α Leporis, CRAB NEBULA = M1 Tauri (83.0, φ¹ Orionis (83.1), HEKA = λ Orionis, ORION NEBULA = M42 (83.2), φ² Orionis (83.6), ALNILAM (String of Pearls) = ε Orionis (83.7)

MENKAURE

 

Three Stars-21 (Gibbon) / Shur-narkabti-sha-shūtū-6 (Star in the Bull towards the south) / ANA-IVA-9 (Pillar of exit)

HEAVENLY GATE = ζ Tauri, ν Columbae (84.0), ω Orionis (84.2),  ALNITAK (Girdle) = ζ Orionis, PHAKT (Phaet) = α Columbae (84.7)

ο Aurigae (85.8), γ Leporis (85.9)

YANG MUN (α Lupi)
μ Columbae (86.1), SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis (86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6) υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae, δ Leporis (87.7), TZE (Son) = λ Columbae (87.9)

Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)

χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE = α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae)

η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI (Lord of Created Beings) = δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM (Wrist) = θ Aurigae, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7)

*48.0 = *89.4 - *41.4
 

34

12

ka hakatu ma te rima

te toga

hagahaga mai o te ragi
Eb6-17 (326 + 201 = 527 = 628 - 101) Eb7-16 (236 → 8 * 29½) Eb7-29 (249 → 3 * 83)
Oct 24 (297 → *360 - *184) Nov 28 (332 = 297 + 35) Dec 11 (345)
April 25 (115) May 30 (150 = 115 + 45)

June 12 (163 = 345 - 182)

ρ Ceti (35.4)

*360.0 = *35.4 - *41.4

No star listed (70) CRAB NEBULA (M1)

... When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...

→ VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

Al Shaula-17

ALWAID (Mother Camels) = β Draconis, MAASYM (Wrist) = λ Herculis (265.1), SHAULA (Sting) = λ Scorpii (265.3), KUMA = ν Draconis (265.6), σ Arae (265.9)

HAMAL (α ARIETIS)

Dec 11

RAS ALHAGUE (Head of the Serpent Charmer) = α Ophiuchi (266.1), SARGAS = θ Scorpii (266.3), μ Ophiuchi, π Arae (266.5), NAN HAE (Southern Sea) = ξ Serpentis (266.6), AL DHĪLI (The Wolf) = ω Draconis, ι Herculis (266.7)

Dec 12

λ Arae (267.1), GIRTAB (Seizer) = κ Scorpii, ο Serpentis (267.6), DSIBAN (Wolf Pair) = ψ Draconis (267.9)

Dec 13

KELB ALRAI (Dog of the Shepherd) = β Ophiuchi, μ Arae (268.1), KEW HO (Nine Rivers) = μ Herculis (268.6), η Pavonis (268.7), APOLLYON = ι Scorpii (268.9)

Dec 14 (348)

MULIPHEN (Oaths) = γ Ophiuchi (269.0), BASANISMUS = G Scorpii (269.5), PHERKARD (Dim One of the Two Calves) = δ Ursae Minoris (269.9)

Dec 15

PTOLEMY CPTOLEMY CLUSTER = M7 Scorpii (270.5), GRUMIUM (Lower Jaw) = ξ Draconis (270.9)

Dec 16

RUKBALGETHI GENUBI (Bending Claw) = θ Herculis (271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5), ETAMIN (Head) = γ Draconis, ν Herculis (271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8)

Dec 17

... Teke said to Oti, 'Go and take the hauhau tree, the paper mulberry tree, rushes, tavari plants, uku koko grass, riku ferns, ngaoho plants, the toromiro tree, hiki kioe plants (Cyperus vegetus), the sandalwood tree, harahara plants, pua nakonako plants, nehenehe ferns, hua taru grass, poporo plants, bottle gourds (ipu ngutu), kohe plants, kavakava atua ferns, fragrant tuere heu grass, tureme grass (Diochelachne sciurea), matie grass, and the two kinds of cockroaches makere and hata.' ... The division into quarters of a 28-series can be applied to the main phases of the moon during the visible period as well as to a (reflex of the old world?) sidereal month. The separate subgroup (29 makere - 30 hata) consists of the names of two types of cockroaches, but in related eastern Polynesian languages these names can also be explained on a different level. MAO. makere, among others, 'to die', and whata, among others, 'to be laid to rest on a platform', deserve special attention. The theme hinted at is one of death and burial. In our scheme they occur at just that time when the moon 'has died'! This lends further support to the lunar thesis ... [E:69]

Inspired by my act of presenting the idea of a common denominator between the E and G texta there are implications gushing forth in my mind. For instance, first of all it explains not only how the pair Eb7-27 and Ga1-4 could be identical:

But it also points at the similarity between these 25 figures in E

1 7 13 19
2 8 14 20
3 9 15 21
4 10 16 22
5 11 17 23
6 12 18 24 25

and those 31 + 1 in G.

Furthermore, 471 (number of glyphs to be counted on the G tablet) + 628 (on the E tablet) = 1099:

471

1½ * 314

628

2 * 314

1099

3½ * 314

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

Should we count also the hole position after glyph number 260, the number would become a nice 1100.

... 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.) ...