... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini ...


Eb8-2	Eb8-3	Eb8-4 (266)	Eb8-5
te rima tu ua	te henua	ku tu ua	kua rave te rima
Rave. Ta.: Rave, to take. Sa.: lavea, to be removed, of a disease. To.: lavea, to bite, to take the hook, as a fish. Fu.: lave, to comprehend, to seize. Niuē: laveaki, to convey. Rar.: rave, to take, to receive. Mgv: rave, to take, to take hold; raveika, fisherman. Ma.: rawe, to take up, to snatch. Ha.: lawe, to take and carry in the hand. Mq.: ave, an expression used when the fishing line is caught in the stones. Churchill 2.
June 27	28	*29 (100 → 84 + 16)**	30 (181 = 242 - 61)
No star listed (98)	ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5) ~~GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)~~	ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched) = ε Gemini (100.7)	SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7) 60.0 = 101.4 - *41.4
... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...
→ VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9) 239.0 = 280.4 - *41.4	*Abhijit-22 (Victorious)* θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA = α Lyrae (281.8)	No star listed (282)	ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8) 242.0 = 283.4 - *41.4
Dec 26 (360)	*27 (19 19)**	28	*29 (3 121)**

When anciently the Sun had reached December 29 it had occurred in the last day of the year. It was 242 (11 * 22) days after Beltaine in May 1 (121).

The cycle of the Earth was not 365 but 364 nights, which meant it was convenient to count with 4 quarters corresponding to 52 weeks in a year.

... Another name for Mercury was Hermes and Hermes Trismegisthos (thrice-mighty) could have referred to the fact that there were 3.141 * 115.88 = 364.0 days for the cycle of the Earth around the Sun. Although the calendar has 365 days for a year this is due to the fact that the Earth has to turn around an extra day in order to compensate for how the direction to the Sun changes during a year ...

Moving from one side of the year to the other meant adding 364 / 2 = 182 days. However, the Gregorian calendar carried 365 days, which necessitated a jump from day 364 (December 30) to January 1 in order to make the stars and the calendar days (with their glyphs) continue in parallel. 242 = 182 + 60 and 121 = 61 + 60.


Eb8-6 (268)	Eb8-7	Eb8-8	Eb8-9	Eb8-10	Eb8-11	Eb8-12 (600)
te kahi	kua oho ku tutu		koia - e ua	huki ma te papamea	hoko huki erua
Kahi. Tuna; two sorts: kahi aveave, kahi matamata. Vanaga. Mgv.: kahi, to run, to flow. Mq.: kahi, id. Churchill. Rangitokona, prop up the heaven! // Rangitokona, prop up the morning! // The pillar stands in the empty space. The thought [memea] stands in the earth-world - // Thought stands also in the sky. The kahi stands in the earth-world - // Kahi stands also in the sky. The pillar stands, the pillar - // It ever stands, the pillar of the sky. (Morriori creation myth according to Legends of the South Seas.) Tutu. 1. Circle of fishing nets arranged in the shape of a funnels or baskets. 2. To light a fire; he-tutu i te ahi: to burn something. 3. To hit, to strike, to beat. Tûtú, to shake (something) clean of dust or dirt; he-tûtú te oone o te nua, to shake the dirt off a nua cape. Tutuhi, to reject the responsibility for a mistake onto one another, to blame one another for a mistake (see tuhi). Tutuki, to stumble, to trip. O tutuki te va'e, in order not to trip. Tutuma, firebrand, partly burnt stick. Tuturi, to kneel. Vanaga. 1. To beat bark for cloth. PS Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: tutu, id. Sa., To., Fu.: tutu, id. 2. A broom, to sweep, to clean. Mq.: tutu, to beat out the dust. 3. To shake, to winnow. Mgv.: tutu, to tremble, to leap. Mq.: tutu, to shake. 4. To kindle, to light, to ignite, to set fire, to burn. Mq.: tutu, to burn, to set fire. 5. To stand; hakatutu, to set joists. P Mgv., Mq.: tutu, to stand upright. Ta.: tu, id. Tutua (tutu 1): board on which bark is beaten into cloth. PS Mgv.: tutua, a cloth beater. Mq., Ta.: tutua, wood on which cloth is beaten. Sa., Fu.: tutua, id. Tutui: tutui ohio, chain, tutui kura, shawl. Mq.: tuitui kioé, chain. Tutuki: shock, contusion, to run against, to collide; tukukia, to run foul of. P Pau.: tukituki, to strike, to pound, to grind. Mgv.: tukia, to strike against, shock, concussion. Mq.: tutuki, id. Ta.: tui, id. Tutuma: 1. (tutu - ma) a live coal. 2. Tree trunk T (? tumu). Tutumata, ligament of the eye, orbit, eyelid. T (tutumate, eyelid G). Tutuu, bristling. Churchill. Papa. 1. Underground rock; motionless; rocky sea bottom; large flat stone; figuratively: tagata papa important man, author of great works. 2. Wooden plank currently used much like a surf-board in the sport called garu; it was formerly called papa gaatu mo te garu, because it was made from dry totora leaves woven into the shape of a plank. 3. To line up things side by side on a flat surface, for instance, to line up fish on top of a flat stone. Vanaga. Shoulderblade. Papapapa, a chill, to shiver, to tremble, to shudder. Churchill.
July 1	2	3	4 (185)	5	6	7 (188)
τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4) 61.0 = 102.4 - *41.4	*Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-9 (Twins of the Shepherd)* θ Gemini (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), ALHENA = γ Gemini (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9)	ADARA (Virgins) = ε Canis Majoris (104.8)	ω Gemini (105.4), ALZIRR (Button) = ξ Gemini (105.7), MULIPHEIN (Oaths) = γ Canis Majoris (105.8), MEKBUDA (Contracted) = ζ Gemini (105.9) 64.0 = 105.4 - *41.4	7h (106.5) No star listed (106)	WEZEN (Weight) = δ Canis Majoris (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9)	No star listed (108)
→ VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
*South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)* Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)	SHELIAK (Tortoise) = β Lyrae, ν Lyrae (285.1), ο Draconis (285.5). λ Pavonis (285.7) ~~ATLAS (27 Tauri)~~	χ Oct. (286.0), AIN AL RAMI (Eye of the Archer) = ν Sagittarii (286.2), υ Draconis (286.4), δ Lyrae (286.3), κ Pavonis (286.5), ALYA (Fat Tail) = θ Serpentis (286.6) 245.0 = 286.4 - *41.4	ξ Sagittarii (287.1), ω Pavonis (287.3), ε Aquilae, ε Cor. Austr., SULAPHAT (Little Tortoise Shell) = γ Lyrae (287.4), λ Lyrae (287.7), ASCELLA (Armpit) = ζ Sagittarii, BERED = i Aquilae (Ant.) (287.9) 246.0 = 287.4 - *41.4	*Al Na'ām-18 (Ostriches) / Uttara Ashadha-21 (Elephant tusk, small bed)* NUNKI = σ Sagittarii (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), MANUBRIUM = ο Sagittarii (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9) 247.0 = 288.4 - *41.4	19h (289.2) λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8) 248.0 = 289.4 - *41.4	*Al Baldah-19 (City)* AL BALDAH = π Sagittarii, ALPHEKKA (Dish) MERIDIANA = α Cor. Austr. (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)

Dec 30 (364)	31	Jan 1	2	3	4	*5 (370. 290)**
Dec 31	Jan 1	2	3	4	5 (107 + 182)	6 (107 + 183)

I.e., all the cardinal points of the Sun in the Gregorian calendar had to be shifted 1 place ahead.

... 'I wan't a clean cup', interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move one place on.' He moved as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from the change; and Alice was a good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upsed the milk-jug into his plate [creating the Milky Way river] ...

Counting from January 6 (glyph number 600) to February 1 (31 + 1 = 32) therefore ought to correspond to a move 32 - 6 = 26 glyphs ahead from Eb8-12 to Eb8-38. But since 26 suggests 2 * 13 we should make a first move from Eb8-12 to Eb8-25, where Metoro saw 'the Milky Way' (te goe):


Eb8-13	*Eb8-14 (276 = 12 23)**	Eb8-15 (378 - 101)
te tara hoi	e ariki	he tara hoe
E. Ê, yes. E ... é disjunct vocative marker. E vovo é! Girl! E te matu'a é! Father! (Vanaga) 1. By. 2. And. 3. Oh! 4. Yes. 5. Verb sign. 6. Negative verb sign; e maaa, inexperienced; ina e, negative sign; ina e rakerakega, innocent; ina e ko mou, incessant; e ko, not, except. 7. Wave. 8. Weak demonstrative, functioning as article. (Churchill) 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. Goe. Milky Way. Vanaga. Go. Pau.: goge, to break. Ma.: ngongengonge, crippled. Churchill. Pau.: gogo, the navel and cord. Mgv.: gogo, id. 2. Mgv.: gogo, a conical hole. Ta.: oo, a large cavity. Ha.: no, a hole left to draw off water from taro patches. 3. Mgv.: gogo, thin cheeks, sunken eyes. Ta.: tu-oo, wasted away. Ma.: ngongo, emaciated. Churchill. Sa.: ngongo, the tern (Sterna longipennis). To., Niuē; ngongo, the sea gull. Futuna: ngŏngŏ, the name of a bird. Vi.: ngongo, a sea bird. Churchill 2. Ho. 1. Ho!, Oh! 2. Lest, on the point of. 3. To deliver, to give up. Churchill.
July 8	9 (190)	10
λ Gemini (109.4), WASAT (Middle) = δ Gemini (109.8) 68.0 = 109.4 - *41.4	No star listed (110)	AL-UDRA (Virgin) = η Canis Majoris (111.1), PROPUS = ι Gemini (111.4), GOMEISA (Water-eyed) = β Canis Minoris (111.6) 70.0 = 111.4 - *41.4
→ VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AL-ADFAR (The Talons) = η Lyrae (291.1), NODUS II = δ Draconis (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), τ Draconis (291.7), θ Lyrae (291.8) Jan 7	ω Aquilae (292.1), ρ Sagittarii (292.6), υ Sagittarii (292.7) Jan *8 (80 + 292 = 372 = 12 31)**	π Draconis, ARKAB PRIOR = β¹ Sagittarii (293.0), ARKAB POSTERIOR = β² Sagittarii, AL-RAMI (The Archer) = α Sagittarii (293.2), χ Sagittarii (293.6) Jan 9 (273 + 100)

... In late September or early October 130, Hadrian and his entourage, among them Antinous, assembled at Heliopolis to set sail upstream as part of a flotilla along the River Nile. The retinue included officials, the Prefect, army and naval commanders, as well as literary and scholarly figures. Possibly also joining them was Lucius Ceionius Commodus, a young aristocrat whom Antinous might have deemed a rival to Hadrian's affections. On their journey up the Nile, they stopped at Hermopolis Magna, the primary shrine to the god Thoth. It was shortly after this, in October [in the year A.D.] 130 - around the time of the festival of Osiris - that Antinous fell into the river and died, probably from drowning. Hadrian publicly announced his death, with gossip soon spreading throughout the Empire that Antinous had been intentionally killed. The nature of Antinous's death remains a mystery to this day, and it is possible that Hadrian himself never knew; however, various hypotheses have been put forward. One possibility is that he was murdered by a conspiracy at court. However, Lambert asserted that this was unlikely because it lacked any supporting historical evidence, and because Antinous himself seemingly exerted little influence over Hadrian, thus meaning that an assassination served little purpose. Another suggestion is that Antinous had died during a voluntary castration as part of an attempt to retain his youth and thus his sexual appeal to Hadrian. However, this is improbable because Hadrian deemed both castration and circumcision to be abominations and as Antinous was aged between 18 and 20 at the time of death, any such operation would have been ineffective. A third possibility is that the death was accidental, perhaps if Antinous was intoxicated. However, in the surviving evidence Hadrian does not describe the death as being an accident; Lambert thought that this was suspicious. Another possibility is that Antinous represented a voluntary human sacrifice. Our earliest surviving evidence for this comes from the writings of Dio Cassius, 80 years after the event, although it would later be repeated in many subsequent sources. In the second century Roman Empire, a belief that the death of one could rejuvenate the health of another was widespread, and Hadrian had been ill for many years; in this scenario, Antinous could have sacrificed himself in the belief that Hadrian would have recovered. Alternately, in Egyptian tradition it was held that sacrifices of boys to the Nile, particularly at the time of the October Osiris festival, would ensure that the River would flood to its full capacity and thus fertilize the valley; this was made all the more urgent as the Nile's floods had been insufficient for full agricultural production in both 129 and 130. In this situation, Hadrian might not have revealed the cause of Antinous's death because he did not wish to appear either physically or politically weak. Conversely, opposing this possibility is the fact that Hadrian disliked human sacrifice and had strengthened laws against it in the Empire ...


Eb8-16	Eb8-17	Eb8-18	Eb8-19
te henua	ma te hio ia	te rima hakatu ua	te ariki
July 11	12 (193)	13	14
ρ Gemini (112.1), Eskimo Nebula = NGC2392 Gemini (112.2) ~~ANTARES (α Scorpii)~~	*Al Dhirā'-5 (Forearm) / Punarvasu-7 (The Two Restorers of Goods) / Mash-mashu-Mahrū-10 (Western One of the Twins)* CASTOR (Beaver) = α Gemini (113.4) 113.4 = 41.4 + *72.0	*ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA-7 (Pillar for Elocution)* υ Gemini (114.0), MARKAB PUPPIS = κ Puppis (114.7), ο Gemini (114.8), PROCYON = α Canis Minoris (114.9)	α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7) 74.0 = 115.4 - *41.4

→ VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DENEB OKAB (Tail of the Eagle) = δ Aquilae (Ant.) (294.0), α VULPECULAE (Little Fox) (294.9) Jan 10	ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), ALBIREO - Hen's Beak = β Cygni (295.5) Jan 11 (375 = 193 + 182)	ALSAFI (Fire Tripod) = σ Draconis (296.0), μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8), κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9) Jan 12	ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.) (297.4), SHAM (Arrow) = α Sagittae (297.8) 256.0 = 297.4 - 41.4 Jan 13*


Eb8-20	Eb8-21	Eb8-22 (284)	Eb8-23	Eb8-24	Eb8-25
te henua	ihe tapamea	te rima to kava	tagata rere ragi - te henua	tara hoi	te goe
July 15 (196)	16	17	18	19	20 (201)
*Mash-mashu-arkū-11 (Eastern One of the Twins)* κ Gemini (116.1), POLLUX = β Gemini (116.2), π Gemini (116.9)	AZMIDISKE (Little Shield) = ξ Puppis (117.4) 116.0 = 117.4 - *41.4	Φ Gemini (118.4) 117.0 = 118.4 - *41.4	DRUS (Hard) = χ Carinae (119.9)	ω Cancri (120.2)	8h (121.7) χ Gemini (121.0), NAOS (Ship) = ζ Puppis (121.3)

→ VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae (298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8) Jan 14 (378)	υ Aquilae (299.1), TARAZED = γ Aquilae (299.3), δ Sagittae (299.6), π Aquilae (299.9) Jan 15	*Sravana-23* TYL = ε Draconis (300.0), ζ Sagittae (300.1), ALTAIR = α Aquilae (300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5), BEZEK = η Aquilae (Ant.) (300.8) Jan 16	ι Sagittarii (301.2), TEREBELLUM = ω Sagittarii, ξ Aquilae (301.3), ALSHAIN = β Aquilae (301.6), φ Aquilae (301.8) Jan 17	ε Pavonis, θ Sagittarii (302.3), γ Sagittae (302.5), μ Pavonis (302.7) Jan 18	τ Aquilae (303.8) Jan 19 (383)

We should connect Eb8-22 with Ga2-26:

	*100
*MAY 16 (136)**		*ALTAIR (300 → 236)*
216		316 = 380 - 64 (Jan 16)