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Beyond the 'swiftly running' place (at the 5th banana shoot named he nahoo) we could expect a new well-ordered year - because, we will remember, there were 5 extracalendrical nights created by Thoth in order to enable to Nut give birth and likewise there were 5 days from February 9 to the day of All Hearts.

5 days of birth + 19 (stars above) = 24, or rather 5 + 19 * 5 = 100.

JUNE 7 (*78) 8 9 10 (161) 11 12

... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

Ga3-19 (78 = 158 - 80) Ga3-20 Ga3-21 Ga3-22 Ga3-23 Ga3-24
The Knot (Ukdah)

 

5 Imix 9 Kumk'u

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)

Creation of our present world

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

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

Itzam-Yeh defeated

28 May (148), 3149 BC

1st 3-stone place

21 May (141), 3114 BC

Creation of our present world

13 August (225), 3114 BC

Och ta chan (Hun-Nal-Ye 'entered or became the sky')

5 February (36), 3112 BC

21 May, 3114 BC - 5 February, 3112 BC = 542

542 'happens to be' the sum of 365 days and 6 * 29½ nights.

Aug 10 11 12 13 (225) 14 (*146) 15 (227 → π)
°Aug 6 7 8 (220) 9 (*141) 10 11
'July 14 15 16 17 (*118) 18 19 (200)
SIRIUS "July 1 2 3 (*104) 4 (185) Te Anakena 5
81 (= 158 - 77) 82 83 84 85 = 185 - 100 86 = 227 - 141

... Makoi replied, 'In Hiva the land belongs to him - the land here is mine, not his [tae oona]!' They stayed (there longer). On the fifth day of the month of July (Anakena), they all got up, went downhill, went on, and reached Hanga Te Pau. They took their provisions with them, carrying them on their shoulders, went on, and reached Te Pou. They made camp and slept in Te Pou on the tenth of the month of July (Anakena). Then they all got up, carried their provision on their shoulders, went straight ahead, and followed the path of the dream soul of Hau Maka. They came to Hua Reva and said, This is Hua Reva A Hau Maka!... [E:21-22]

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DEC 7 8 9 10 11 (345) 12 (*266)

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

θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Octantis (330.7)

Febr 9 (40) 10 11 12 (408) 13 (*329) All Hearts' Day
°Febr 5 (36) 6 7 8 (*324) 9 10 (41)
'Jan 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
"Dec 30 31 (*285) "Jan 1 (366) 2 3 4
*184 = *325 - *141 *185 = *285 - *100 *(83 + 183 - 80) *187 *188 *189

e maika (bananas)

-

origo

he ri'o

1

*1

he koro tea.

a Teke. a Oti.

2

*2

he hihi.

3

*3

he pukapuka.

4

*4

he pia.

5

*5

he nahoo.

Maika. Banana (Musa sapientum). Ancient varieties were called ri'o, hihi, korotea, pia, pukapuka, naho'o. Vanaga. Meika, banana. Pau., Mgv.: meika, id. Mq.: meika, meia, id. Ta.: meia, id. Churchill.

... And then followed 5 varieties of banana (maika) and 12 varieties of taro [E:67-68]: ... (There were) five hundred baskets of banana shoots, a thousand baskets of taro, fifty bundles of long ti roots, and ten baskets of little kape seedlings ...

10 + 2 variants of taro brought by Oti from the plantation of Teke:

1

*70

ngeti uri.

a Teke. a Oti.

2

*71

ngeti tea.

3

*72

he ngaatu.

4

*73

he tuitui koviro.

5

*74

he ketu anga mea.

6

*75

he ketu takarua.

7

*76

he teatea.

8

*77

he ngu haha tea.

9

*78

he mango.

10

*79

he hahara rapanui

1

*80

he ti.

1

*81

he kape.

... 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. Know you not that there are two odd feathers in a bird's tail? Likewise there are two odd months in the year.' The grateful tribe of Rua-roa adopted Whare's advice and found the sweet potato crop greatly improved as the result ...

Clearly the creator of the G text could have visualized that when the Full Moon reached the star Atria, it could be deduced the Sun had reached the opposite place, where the final (mauga) dark 'banana' night of growth (the result of 'eating', kai) at left in the glyph was followed by the sky (ragi) lighting up again (at right).

mauga

kai

May 30 (150)

ragi

4 he pia. 5 he nahoo. 1 he ngeti uri.
Naholoholo ('Swift-running')
JULIAN EQUINOX (84) MARCH 26 (*5) 27
Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-6

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)
no star listed (69) no star listed (70)

(3112 BC + AD 1842) * 365.25 / 26000 = 70

On Tahiti Aldebaran was named Ana-muri (star pillar at the end of summer) and as a further clue it was stated that here (when the Sun reached the 'foot' of Aldebaran) was the place for tattooing → darkening as observed from a place south of the equator. Rigel ('Foot') was at the foot of Orion (as perceived from a place in the north), i.e. we can interpret 'foot' as corresponding to time zero (origo) - where Land (to walk on) in the sky had arrived. Here time was moving quickly (naholoholo) in contrast to at the solstices.

May 28 (148) 29 (88 + 61) 30 (*70)
°May 24 (144) 25 (*65) 26
'May 1 (121) 2 (*42) 3
"April 17 (107) 18 (*28) 19
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
SEPT 24 (267) 25 (*188) 26 (84 + 185)
HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5) ATRIA = α Tr. Austr. (253.9)
JULY 2 (183) 83 SEPT 24 (267)

11h (167.4)

χ Leonis, χ¹ Hydrae (167.1), χ² Hydrae (167.3)

*167.4 - *41.4 = *126.0
HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0)
Nov 27 28 29 (333)
°Nov 23 24 (*248) 25 (329)
'Oct 31 (*225) 'Nov 1 2 (306)
"Oct 17 (*210) 18 19 (292)

... the Hawaiian staple, taro, is the older brother of mankind, as indeed all useful plants and animals are immanent forms of the divine ancestors - so many kino lau or 'myriad bodies' of the gods. Moreover, to make root crops accessible to man by cooking is precisely to destroy what is divine in them: their autonomous power, in the raw state, to reproduce ...

2 he ngeti tea. 3 he ngaatu. 4 he tuitui koviro. 5 he ketu anga mea.

Gaatu, totora reed. Vanaga. Gaatu 1. Bulrush, reed. 2. (gatu).  Churchill.Gatu. Gaatu, totora reed. Gatu: 1. To press, to tighten, to squeeze. 2. To pack tight. 3. To pull suddenly, to give a jerk. I ka hakarogo atu, ku eke á te kahi, he gatu mai, as soon as he felt the tuna be, he pulled in [the line] with a sharp jerk. 4. To kick. 5. E gatu te hagu, to wait for something impatiently (gatu, breath). 6. Shortly, very soon. He tu'u gatu, he is coming shortly, he is just about to arrive. Vanaga. Bulrush, reed. Gaatu (gatu) 1. To feel of, to pinch, to throttle with the hands, to touch, to press (gaatu); gatuga, pressure; gatugatu, to trample down. T Mgv.: natu, to press out linen, to squeeze a person or a sore place. Mq.: natu, to pinch. Ta.: natu, to pinch, to bruise. 2. To suppurate. 3. Gatu mai gatu atu, sodomy. Gatua (gatu 1), tractable, to press.  Churchill. Scirpus riparius var. paschalis. Barthel 2.

... All this, which in so many ways parallels the normal imagery of the Old World culture-hero myths, telling of the one who is gone, dwells underground in a happy, timeless land, as lord of the realm of the happy dead, like Osiris, but will rise again, we can read without surprise. But what is surprising indeed was the manner of Quetzalcoatl's actual return. The priests and astrologers did not know in what cycle he was to reappear; however, the name of the year within the cycle had been predicted, of old, by Quetzalcoatl himself. Its sign was 'One Reed' (Ce Acatl), which, in the Mexican calendar, is a year that occurs only once in every cycle of fifty-two. But the year when Cortes arrived, with his company of fair-faced companions and his standard, the cross, was precisely the year 'One Reed'. The myth of the dead and resurrected god had circumnavigated the globe ...

MARCH 28 29 (88) 30 31 (*10)

... 'Yes, for he was a monstrous thing and fashioned marvelously, nor was he like to any man that lives by bread, but like a wooded peak of the towering hills, which stands out apart and alone from others.' Odysseus, choosing twelve men, the best of the company, left his ships at shore and sallied to the vast cave. It was found stocked abundantly with cheeses, flocks of lambs and kids penned apart, milk pails, bowls of whey; and when the company had entered and was sitting to wait, expecting hospitality, the owner came in, shepherding his flocks. He bore a grievous weight of dry wood, which he cast down with a din inside the cave, so that in fear all fled to hide. Lifting a huge doorstone, such as two and twenty good [maitaki] four-wheeled wains could not have raised from the ground, he set this against the mouth of the cave, sat down, milked his ewes and goats, and beneath each placed her young, after which he kindled a fire and spied his guests ...

Ga1-7 Ga1-8 Ga1-9 Ga1-10

TABIT = π³ Orionis  (71.7), π² Orionis (71.9)

320 (South Pole star, Dramasa) - 71 (Tabit) = 249 (Antares)

π4 Orionis (72.1), ο¹ Orionis (72.4), π5 Orionis (72.8)

*31.0 = *72.4 - *41.4

π¹ Orionis (73.0), ο² Orionis (73.4), HASSALEH = ι Aurigae (73.6), π6 Orionis (73.9)

*32.0 = *73.4 - *41.4

ALMAAZ (The Male Goat) = ε Aurigae (74.7), HAEDUS I = ζ Aurigae (74.8)

May 31 June 1 (152) 2 (*73) 3
°May 27 28 (148) 29 30
'May 4 5 (125) 6 (*46) 7
"April 20 21 (111) 22 (*32) 23
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
SEPT 27 (270 = 3 * 90) 28 29 30 (*193)

Tail-6 (Tiger)

WEI (Tail) = ε Scorpii, η Arae (254.3), DENEBAKRAB = μ Scorpii (254.7)

ι Ophiuchi (255.3), GRAFIAS (Claws) = ζ Scorpii (255.4)

*214.0 = *255.4 - *41.4
κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), CUJAM (Club) = ε Herculi (256.9) no star listed (257)
Nov 30 Dec 1 2 (4 * 84 = 336) 3
°Nov 26 27 28 29 (333)
'Nov 3 4 5 6 (310)
"Oct 20 21 (*214) 22 (295) 23
6 he ketu takarua. 7 he teatea. 8 he ngu haha tea. 9 he mango. 10 he hahara rapanui

The taro variant 9 he mango. was presumably a verbal sign corresponding to the glyph type Metoro helped me name mago - a sign of the tail (end):

 180
5 186
vaha mea mago
182 days

Hara. Harahara 1. Misaligned (of roofing, basketware, etc.); e harahara nó te kete, the basket is misaligned (its strips are not parallel. 2. A sort of taro. 3. Latrine, defecating ground. Vanaga. 1. Pandanus. P Mgv.: ara, puhara, pandanus (tree); hara, a bunch of pandanus fruit, old pandanus. Mq.: faá haá, pandanus. Ta.: fara, id. 2. Error, mistake, oversight, wrong; to err, to confound, to mistake; manau hara, illusion; toua hara, discussion without knowing the object. P Mgv.: ara, arara, defective, abortive, to miss, to fail, a fault, a quarrel; hara, a fault, a mistake, an error, a dispute, a quarrel, undisciplined. Mq.: hara, a rake, libertine. Ta.: hara, sin, fault, crime. Churchill.

→ the name of the 10th taro variant he hahara rapanui had no final dot.

APRIL 1 (59 + 32) 2 3 (*13) 4 5 (95)
Ga1-11 Ga1-12 Ga1-13 Ga1-14 Ga1-15
HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)

5h (76.1)

ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA (Footstool) = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)

*35.0 = *76.4 - *41.4
μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)

ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)
June 4 5 6 (157 = 314 / 2) 7 (94 + 64) 8 (*444)
°May 31 (151) °June 1 2 (*73) 3 (94 + 60) 4 (*440)
'May 8 (128) 9 10 (*50) 11 (94 + 37) 12 (*52)
"April 24 (114) Vaitu Nui 25 (*35) 26 (4 * 29) 27 (94 + 23) 28 (118 = 4 * 29)

... The Explorers had left their old homeland in "April 25 (115) - implying the synodic cycle of Mercury - and they had returned half a year later, in "October 25 (298 = 115 + 183), which was 10 days after the arrival of the Royal Double Canoe ...

... Ganz ähnlich is der Name 'Gott von Duazag' des Gottes Nabū ... zu erklären. Er bezeichnet ihn als den Gott des Wachtstums, welches als aus dem Osten stammend betrachtet wird, weil die Sonne, die das Wachstum bringt, im Osten aufgeht. Dass aber Nabū als Ost-Gott aufgefasst wurde, hängt damit zusammen, dass sein Stern, der Mercur, nur im Osten oder Westen sichtbar ist ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
OCT 1 (91 + 183) 2 (275) 3 4 5

17h (258.7)

ARRAKIS = μ Draconis (258.7) 

Mula-19 (The Root)

SABIK (The Preceding One) = η Ophiuchi (259.7), η Scorpii (259.9) 
NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8)

SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9)

*221.0 = *262.4 - *41.4 
Dec 4 5 6 (*260) 7 8 (342)
°Nov 30 °Dec 1 (335) *(8 * 32) 3 4
'Nov 7 8 (*232) 9 10 (314) 11
"Oct 24 Tangaroa Uri 25 26 27 (300) 28

... Page E:86 tells about Makoi being left behind on Easter Island when the remaining 5 Explorers sailed home to Hiva. From there (Tangaroa Uri 25) to the day when Hotu became worried about where Oto Uta was, i.e. in Tangaroa Uri 30, there were 5 days:

April 25 (115)

5 + 56

June 25 (176)

5 + 116

Oct 25 (298)

5 + 56

Dec 25 (359)

5 + 116

61

2 * 61

61

2 * 61

183

183

366 = 2 * 183 = 6 * 61

And from the autumn equinox (265) at Antares to the Sting of the Scorpion (υ Scorpii) there were 15 days ...

... In view of the almost universal prevalence of the Pleiades year throughout the Polynesian area it is surprising to find that in the South Island and certain parts of the North Island of New Zealand and in the neighboring Chatham Islands, the year began with the new Moon after the yearly morning rising, not of the Pleiades, but of the star Rigel in Orion ...

hanau

RIGEL & CAPELLA

Hanau. 1. Race, ethnic group. Hanau eepe, the thick-set race; hanau momoko, the slender race (these terms were mistranslated as 'long-ears' and 'short-ears'). 2. To be born. Hanau tama, pregnant woman; vî'e hanau poki, midwive (also: vî'e hakaa'u). Vanaga. To be born; vie hanau, midwife. P Pau.: fanauga, child, descendant, progeny. Mgv.: hanau, to be born, to be brought into the world. Mq.: fanau, hanau, to be born, to lie in, to bring into the world. Ta.: fanau, to be born, to lie in. Churchill.

... In A Girl Rings her Boyfriend, a woman who wears traditional dress, including a fiber apron and feather headdress, uses a payphone to talk with her boyfriend. Closer examination reveals her polished nails and a bag that looks like a striped bilum but is worn like a Western-style handbag, signs of her boldness that are just as obvious as placing a telephone call to a man. The displayed posture in which she sits, often used to depict female ancestors as images of fecundity and prosperity, seems incongrous, perhaps underscoring Towa's perception of the inappropriateness of her behavior ... (The artist Oscar Towa is from Papua New Guinea and the quotation from D'Alleva.)