... The Mnajdra Temple is located on Malta and very ancient, dating to the time before the pyramids. Marija Gimbutas: 'To sleep within the Goddess's womb was to die and to come to life anew'. In a system of reincarnation the old one must die in order to be reborn, of course. At midsummer Sun comes to a standstill, and this must therefore be an occasion when the 'flame of life' had to be transported into a new body ...

... Then I become aware of ... a presence - a faint, ghostly glimmering, like moonglow, that has appeared on the solstice stone. I don't know how long it lasts, a second or two only I would guess, but while it is there it seems less like a projection - which I know it to be - than something immanent within the stone itself. And it seems to function as a herald for it fades almost as soon as it has appeared and in its place the full effect snaps on - instantaneously. It wasn't there, and then it's there. As Chris had described, the effect does curiously resemble a poleaxe, or a flag on a pole, and consists of a 'shaft', narrow at the base but widening a little towards the top, running up the left hand side of the solstice stone, surmounted by a right-facing 'head' or 'flag'. An instant later an almond-shaped spot of light, like an eye, appears a few centimeters to the right of the 'flag' and the effect is complete. Weirdly - I do not claim it has any significance - this flag-on-a-pole symbol is the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph neter, meaning 'god', or 'a god' - and not to be understood at all in the Judaeo-Christian usage of that word but rather as a reference to one of the supernatural powers or principles that guide and balance the universe. Manifested here, in this strange Stone Age temple, it glows, as though lit by inner fire.'

... Neter, the Egyptian hieroglyph for 'God', could be equivalent to the toki type of glyph:


*neter*	*toki*	Ga2-1

Heavenly waters were sent down into the bowels of the earth and from there green grass and everything else emerged.

... What happens after (or happened, or will happen sometime, for this myth is written in the future tense), is told in the Völuspa, but it is also amplified in Snorri's Gylfaginning (53), a tale of a strange encounter of King Gylfi with the Aesir themselves, disguised as men, who do not reveal their identity but are willing to answer questions: 'What happens when the whole world has burned up, the gods are dead, and all of mankind is gone? You have said earlier, that each human being would go on living in this or that world.' So it is, goes the answer, there are several worlds for the good and the bad. Then Gylfi asks: 'Shall any gods be alive, and shall there be something of earth and heaven?' And the answer is: 'The earth rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive, for neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and they dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard. There come also the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, and bring along his hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from the other world.

All sit down and converse together. They rehearse their runes and talk of events of old days. Then they find in the grass the golden tablets that the Aesir once played with.

Two children of men will also be found safe from the great flames of Surt.

Their names, Lif and Lifthrasir, and they feed on the morning dew and from this human pair will come a great population which will fill the earth. And strange to say, the sun, before being devoured by Fenrir,

will have borne a daughter, no less beautiful and going the same ways as her mother.' Then, all at once, concludes Snorri's tale wryly, a thunderous cracking was heard from all sides, and when the King looked again, he found himself on the open plain and the great hall had vanished ...

The open plain (→ planets) may have referred to the ecliptic plane, where the planets moved - the stars which were not fixed (not 'dead' but 'alive' and moving). Or the open plain could have been the surface of Mother Earth herself.

... Considering the fact that the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ...

Everything which was carríed onboard the Royal Double Canoe was essential for life. The enumeration of species in Manuscript E, which I have suggested was beginning at Algenib Pegasi (*1), had the bitter taro named kape 80 species (days) later, the posionous plant which needed 15 days in the earth oven (the womb of Mother Earth) to become harmless.

This could mean we should count 15 kinds of species (right ascension days) ahead from kape in order to arrive at a star which would 'return the life anew'. *81 + *15 = *96 (and 350 + 15 = 365).

... their separation from the sun is just beyond the minimum distance 16° that a star may be from the sun and still be visible ...

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.

1 he ti.

1 he kape.

Ti by lying with Tattooing made the ti plant (he ti ki ai ki roto ki a he ta ka pu te ti). Burnt ti leaves were used to produce the black dye for tattooing.

... To be in heat, to copulate, to embrace; concupiscence, fornication, impurity; lascivious, impure (ai) ...

Kape. 'Bitter-taro' (Alocasia macrorrhiza). In 1957 kape was still cultivated in much the same way as dry taro. It is a type of food to be eaten during times of famine. According to Fuentes (1960:856), the tubers had to be kept in the earth-oven for 15 (sic) days in order to eliminate some of the poisonous components. Barthel 2. Arum, yam. Churchill.

Bitterness by doing it with Bad-taste produced the kape (mangeongeo ki ai ki roto he rakerake ka pu te kape).

APRIL 6 (96 = 3 * 32)

7 (*17)

Ga1-16

Ga1-17

Shur-narkabti-sha-iltanu-5 (Star in the Bull towards the north)

σ Aurigae (80.4), BELLATRIX (Female Warrior) = γ Orionis, SAIF AL JABBAR (Sword of the Giant) = η Orionis (80.7), ELNATH (The Butting One) = β Tauri = γ Aurigae (80.9)

*39.0 = *80.4 - *41.4

ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL (Thirst-slaking Camels) = β Leporis (81.7)

June 9 (*445 = *365 + *80)

10 (161)

... 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 ...

°June 5 (156)

6 (*77)

'May 13

14 (*54)

"April 29 (*39)

Vaitu Nui 30

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

OCT 6 (279 = 9 * 31)

7 (*200)

β, γ Arae (263.3), κ Arae (263.5), σ Ophiuchi (263.6)

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

... 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´...


uo ('imprisoned')	akbal (night)	quincunx (yellow)

... we see the Xul-animal, all his facial marks appearing, hanging by his tail from the sky-band. With tail and both paws he holds flaming torches. Above in the text [Dresden Codex, 55.g.] we can see our form 19.3.1;

... the superfix is a club [cfr Choo, α Arae], constantly appearing as an instrument of attack; it is neither spear nor knife, and also shows the same marks as are seen on wooden posts, for the knots; the prefix we shall later see defined as the conventionalized flames of firewood ... These three elements united, the cauac, or Storm, relámpago, rayo or lightning bolt as rendered in the above cited vocabularies, with the club or stick as superfix, and the flames as prefix, give a complete compound for 'thunderbolt' ...

Dec 9 (343 = 7 * 49 = 279 + 8 * 8)

10 (161 + 183)

°Dec 5 (339)

6 (*260)

'Nov 12 (*236 = 8 * 29½)

13 (317 = 161 + 12 * 13)

"Oct 29 (*222)

Tangaroa Uri 30

First among these 15 days inside the 'earth oven' (umu) there were 'thirstslaking camels' (*81 at kape). Then came a pair of great female trees (such which delivered strings etc).

... the first pair of trees (hauhau and mahute) [in the immigrant lists according to manuscript E], indispensable to the island's economy, are followed by a second pair of plants that share the same environment. They are ngaatu (Scirpus riparius) and tavari (Polygonum acuminatum). Both grow in the water lakes, used by the Easter Islanders for a variety of purposes. Rushes (SPAN. totora) were one of the most important raw materials on an island lacking an ample supply of wood. Made into mats, rushes served as beds, as packing material, and as material for the construction of huts and canoes, and they were used to make masks, hats, and many types of baskets.

... I have had a photograph taken for you, showing you the natives in the very act of producing fire, and have also sent you the identical sticks used on that occasion. You will notice that the wood is of a soft and spongy nature. It grows abundantly on these islands, and is a variety known as the Hibiscus tiliaceus, and called by the natives 'Purau' and 'Fau', pronounced 'Purow' and 'Fow', 'ow' being sounded as in the word 'how' ...

1 he hauhau.

1 he mahute.

1 he ngaatu

... The planting of rushes in the crater lakes is supposed to have been the work of the culture hero Ure. Proceeding from Anakena, Ure planted the top part of the plant in Rano Aroi, the stem in Rano Raraku, and the bottom part in Rano Kau (ME:364) ...

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 ...

1	Cipactli (alligator)	11	Ozomatli (monkey)
2	Ehecatl (wind)	12	Malinalli (grass)
3	Calli (house)	13	Acatl (reed)
4	Cuetzpallin (lizard)	14	Ocelotl (jaguar)
5	Coatl (serpent)	15	Cuauhtli (eagle)
6	Miquitztli (death)	16	Coz-cacuauhtli (buzzard)
7	Mazatl (deer)	17	Ollin (movement)
8	Tochtli (rabbit)	18	Tecpatl (flint knife)
9	Atl (water)	19	Quiahuitl (rain)
10	Itzcuintli (dog)	20	Xochitl (flower)
*20 13 = 260 and 13 * 13 = 169 = 260 - 91.**

APRIL 8

9 (*19)

10 (100 = 88 + 12)

Ga1-18

Ga1-19

Ga1-20

KHUFU

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

*41 = *82.4 - *41.4

KHAFRE

Al Hak'ah-3 (Brand) / 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)

June 11

12 (163 = 136 + 27 = 263 - 100)

13 (*84)

°June 7

9 (*80)

'May 15 (365 + 135 = 500)

16 (136 = 8 * 29½ - 100)

17 (*57)

The Julian calendar had been 10 days ahead at the time when Gregory XIII launched his new calendar and then 2 more (days ahead) would have to be subtracted if the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar had happened later at the time when the King of Spain took command over Easter Island in 20 November (324) AD 1770. Which means 10 + 2 number of taro varieties could have referred not only to a change in the number of months but also to number of days needed to add in order to return from the Gregorian to the Julian dates.

59		520		*13 37**		270
	Ab1-1 (→ 11)		*Ab7-26 (→ 12 36)**		Aa5-7		*Aa8-26 (→ 12 41)**
*580 = 20 29**			*26 29 = 755 - 1**
*1334 = 5 254 + 64 = 46 * 29 = 1335 - 1 = 5 * 267 - 1 267 = September 24**
236 (Moon) + 263 (Venus) = 499. ... Notably the Raven, who was ascending in day 236 (= 8 * 29½) in Roman times ('August 24), had moved ahead due to the precession with 27 days to 'a clean cup' in day 263 at the time of rongorongo ...

"May 1 (121 = 11 * 11)

3 (*43)

... the real surprise revealed by Bauval's astronomical calculations was this: despite the fact that some aspects of the Great Pyramid did relate astronomically to the Pyramid Age, the Giza monuments as a whole were so arranged as to provide a picture of the skies (which alter their appearance down the ages as a result of the precession of the equinoxes) not as they had looked in the Fourth Dynasty around 2500 BC, but as they had looked - and only as they had looked - around the year 10,450 BC ...

... According to Gylfaginning, following the murder of Baldr by Loki, the other gods brought his body down to the sea and laid him to rest on the ship. They would have launched it out into the water and kindled a funeral pyre for Baldr but were unable to move the great vessel without the help of the giantess Hyrrokkin, who was sent for out of Jötunheim. She then flung the ship so violently down the rollers at the first push that flames appeared and the earth trembled, much to the annoyance of Thor. Along with Baldr, his wife Nanna was also borne to the funeral pyre after she had died of grief. As Thor was consecrating the fire with his hammer Mjolnir, a dwarf named Litr began cavorting at his feet. Thor then kicked [gaatu] him into the flames and the dwarf was burned up as well ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

OCT 8

10 (283)

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)~~

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)

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

Dec 11 (345)

°Dec 7 (*261 = 9 * 29)

9 (343 = 7 * 7 * 7

'Nov 14 (318)

16 (*240)

"Oct 31 (304)

"Nov 1 (*225)

... 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). 'To quibble away such a coincidence', remarks Schröder, 'or to ascribe it to chance, is in my opinion to drive skepticism beyond its limits.' ...

I.e. the list of 'all sorts of things' could have begun at right ascension day *84 (presumably referring to day 84 = Julian equinox). And *84 + *16 = *100:

he huru o te me'e [E:69] Huru. Custom, tradition, behaviour, manners, situation, circumstances; poki huru hare, child who stays inside (to keep a fair complexion); te huru o te tagata rivariva, a fine person's behaviour; pehé te huru o Hiva? what is the situation on the mainland? Huruhuru, plumage, feathers (the short feathers, not the tail feathers), fleece of sheep. Vanaga. Samoa: sulu, a torch; to light by a torch; sulusulu, to carry a torch; susulu, to shine (used of the heavenly bodies and of fire). Futuna: susulu, the brightness of the moon. Tonga: huluaki, huluia, huluhulu, to light, to enlighten; fakahuhulu, to shine; iuhulu, a torch or flambeau, to light with a torch. Niuē: hulu, a torch; huhulu, to shine (as the moon). Maori: huru, the glow of the sun before rising, the glow of fire. Churchill 2.
1	he	*ngaatu (84)**	a Oti.
1		tavari
1		riku
1		ngaoho
1		naunau.
1		uku koko
1		nehenehe
1		poporo.
1		kavakava atua
1		kohe.
1		nehenehe [sic!]
1		pua
1		harahara
1		hua taru.
1		makere
1		hata.
1		*tuere heu. (100)**
1		tureme
1		matie.
1		pua nakonako.
1		ipu ngutu

... 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 (Dichelachne sciurea), matie grass, and the two kinds of cockroaches makere and hata.' Oti and all his assistants went and took the hauhau tree with them. All kinds of things [te huru o te mee] (i.e., plants) and insects [?] were taken along ... [E:69]