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Once again. There were 39 notches on the edge and 49 on the back side of the prehistoric ivory plate:

39 + 49 = 88. At the time of rongorongo Betelgeuze (*88), the House of the Giant, was at Nehenehe - presumably alluding to nahe the Giant Fern and to nekeneke - a special term used for the Giant Stone statues (moai) when they were 'walking'.

... I remember from somewhere in Heyerdahl's books that he considered it significant that neke-neke was a special word in the vocabulary of Easter Island, it meant 'walking without legs, walking by moving the weight this side and that slowly advancing forward'. He had discovered the word when he asked how the statues had been moved - they walked (neke-neke) was the answer ...

The great fern (nahe) was also known as Mule's Foot. South of the equator the sky dome was perceived upside down - where up became down and down became up (as in ancient Egypt where south meant up in the mountains and down was in the direction to the delta of the Nile). This explains why Spica in Virgo was placed above the waist line in the flag of Brazil, not below as in the northern hemisphere:

Therefore, on Easter Island, they would have observed Betelgeuze not as the right hand of Orion but as his left foot. When inverting a figure the direction right becomes left and vice versa.

... 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 ...

The name Te Kioe Uri (the Dark Rat) presumably indicated they on Easter Island associated this kuhane station with the Rat season in China. In the Hindu nakshatra system Betelgeuze was at Ardra = the Moist One.

10 Girl ε Aquarii (Albali) Bat Jan 29 (394)
11 Emptiness β Aquarii (Sadalsud) Rat Febr 9 (405)

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

Sadalsud (405) - Betelgeuze (168 = 24 weeks) = 237 = 8 * 29½ + 1.

*88 (Betelgeuze at the time of rongorongo) - *41 (precessional distance down to the time of Bharani) = *47, and  39 < 47 < 53 → Te Kioe Uri. At the time of rongorongo Sadalsud rose with the Sun in day 405 (right ascension day *325 - alluding to the Julian spring equinox in 'March 25), and at the time of Bharani Sadalsud would have risen with the Sun in day *325 - *41 = *284, viz. at Peke Tau O Hiti.

Nga Kope Ririva Tutuu Vai

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365

A Te Taanga

Te Pu Mahore

1

- 13

- 378

 A Hau Maka O Hiva

Te Poko Uri

2

14 - 26

- 391

 A Hau Maka I [Sic!] Hiva

Te Manavai

3

- 39

- 404

A Hau Maka O Hiva

Te Kioe Uri (The Dark Rat)

4

- 52

- 417

Te Piringa Aniva

5

- 65

- 430

Te Pei

6

- 78

- 443

Te Pou

7

79 - 91

- 456

Hua Reva

8

- 104

- 469

Akahanga

9

- 117

- 482

Hatinga Te Kohe

10

- 130

- 495

Roto Iri Are

11

- 143

- 508

Tama He Ika Kino He Ihu Roroa

12

- 156

- 521

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One Tea

13

- 169

- 534

A Hau Maka O Hiva

Hanga Takaure

14

- 182

- 547

Poike

15

- 195

- 560

Pua Katiki

16

- 208

- 573

Maunga Teatea

17

- 221

- 586

Mahatua

18

- 234

- 599

Taharoa

19

- 247

- 612

Hanga Hoonu

20

- 260

- 625

Rangi Meamea

21

- 273

- 638

Peke Tau O Hiti

22

- 286

- 651

Maunga Hau Epa

23

- 299

- 664

Oromanga

24

- 312

- 677

Hanga Moria One

25

- 325

- 690

Papa O Pea

26

- 338

- 703

Ahu Akapu

27

- 351

- 716

Te Pito O Te Kainga

28

- 364

- 729

Thus Sadalsud should be placed at the dream soul station Peke Tau O Hiti:

Peke. 1. To bite (of fish or lobster pecking at fishhook). 2. To repeat an action: he-peke te rua; ina ekó peke-hakaou te rua don't you do it a second time; ina ekó peke hakaou-mai te rua ara, don't come back here again. Vanaga. To succeed, to follow. Pau.: peke, to follow, to accompany. Ta.: pee, to follow. Churchill. Mgv.: Pekepeke. 1. The tentacles of the octopus retracted. Mq.: peke, to tuck up the clothes. Ma.: pepeke, to draw up the legs and arms. 2. A crab. Ha.: pee-one, a crab that burrows in the sand. Churchill.

Hiti. 1. To show itself again, to reappear (of the new moon, of a constellation - meaning uncertain). 2. Said of thin, tough-fleshed fish of indifferent taste: ika hiti. 3. Said of fish when they come to the stones of the shore for insects among the seaweed: he hiti te ika. 4. To reproach someone for his ingratitude. Vanaga. 1. To rise, to appear, to dawn; hitihaga, rising; hitihaga roa, sunrise; hitihiti, to dawn; horau hitihiti, break of day; hakahiti ki te eeve, to show the buttocks. 2. Puffed; gutu hiti, thick lips. Churchill.

Peke Tau O Hiti (274-286)
DEC 7 8 9 10 11 (345) 12 (*266)
Gb2-6 (32) Gb2-7 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (229 +36) Gb2-11 (266)
BUNDA (Foundation) / KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny) θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Octantis (330.7)

Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 (Luckiest of the Lucky) / Emptiness-11 (Rat)

TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK (The Flock) = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)
no star listed (326) CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA = ξ Aquarii (327.5)

SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)

Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)

NASHIRA = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7

Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)

ENIF (The Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 CAPRICORNI, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI δ Capricorni (329.8)

*288.0 = *329.4 - *41.4

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

Febr 9 (40) 10 11 12 (408) 13 (*329) All Hearts' Day
°Febr 5 (36) 6 7 8 (404) 9 (*325) 10 (41)
'Jan 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
"Dec 30 (364) 31 "Jan 1 (366) 2 3 (*288) 4
364 - 100 = 264 265 266 408 - 141 = 267 268 269

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...

... In the inscriptions of Dendera, published by Dümichen, the goddess Hathor is called 'lady of every joy'. For once, Dümichen adds: Literally ... 'the lady of every heart circuit'. This is not to say that the Egyptians had discovered the circulation of the blood. But the determinative sign for 'heart' often figures as the plumb bob at the end of a plumb line coming from a well-known astronomical or surveying device, the merkhet. Evidently, 'heart' is something very specific, as it were the 'center of gravity' ... See Aeg.Wb. 2, pp. 55f. for sign of the heart (ib) as expressing generally 'the middle, the center'.

And this may lead in quite another direction. The Arabs preserved a name for Canopus - besides calling the star Kalb at-tai-man ('heart of the south') ... Suhail el-wezn, 'Canopus Ponderosus', the heavy-weighing Canopus, a name promptly declared meaningless by the experts, but which could well have belonged to an archaic system in which Canopus was the weight at the end of the plumb line, as befitted its important position as a heavy star at the South Pole of the 'waters below'. Here is a chain of inferences which might or might not be valid, but it is allowable to test it, and no inference at all would come from the 'lady of every joy'. The line seems to state that Hathor (= Hat Hor, 'House of Horus') 'rules' the revolution of a specific celestial body - whether or not Canopus is alluded to - or, if we can trust the translation 'every', the revolution of all celestial bodies. As concerns the identity of the ruling lady, the greater possibility speaks for Sirius, but Venus cannot be excluded; in Mexico, too, Venus is called 'heart of the earth'. The reader is invited to imagine for himself what many thousands of such pseudo-primitive or poetic interpretations must lead to: a disfigured interpretation of Egyptian intellectual life ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JUNE 7 8 (*79) 9 10 (161) 11 12
The Knot (Ukdah)

Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)

ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6)

*105.0 = *146.4 - *41.4

VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)

Star-25 (Horse) / ANA-HEU-HEU-PO-5 (Pillar where debates were held)

ALPHARD (The Horse) = α Hydrae (142.3), ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7)

Al Tarf-7 (The End)

ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)

*102.0 = *143.4 - *41.4

A Hydrae (144.1)

VEGA (α Lyrae)

UKDAH (Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8)

*104.0 = *145.4 - *41.4 (= *288 - *184)

... For they say that the course of human life resembles the letter Y, because every one of men, when he has reached the threshold of early youth, and has arrived at the place 'where the way divides itself into two parts', is in doubt, and hesitates, and does not know to which side he should rather turn himself ...

Aug 10 11 12 13 (*145) 14 15 (227 → π)
°Aug 6 7 8 (220) 9 10 11
'July 14 15 16 *118 = 4 * 29½ 18 19 (200)
SIRIUS "July 1 2 *104 = 4 * 26 4 (185) Te Anakena 5

At the time of rongorongo Sirius stood like a pillar at day zero in June 30, 181 (*101), and 101 days later came Spica in October 9, 282 (*202). The flag of Brazil has uplifted Spica with a little dot far down marking Dramasa (σ Octantis, the South Pole star). In between we can perceive the Southern Cross, and between Spica and the Southern Cross is the Tail of the Hydra (γ Hydrae, Al Dhanab al Shuja) - in the day before Spica but below the curved band. To the right is the Scorpion with Antares placed at the opposite side compared to Procyon (α Canis Minoris), below O in ORDEM. Alphard (α Hydrae) is below M. Sirius and 4 more stars in Canis Major are noted below Alphard, together with Canopus. In addition to 8 stars in the Scorpion we can also see 3 more stars to the left which mark the Southern Triangle (Triangulum Australe). Altogether there are 26 + 1 = 27 stars: