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No wonder the Land of Easter Island (in time-space) would be very hard to relocate once their cosmographic map had been lost:

... When Ira's canoe reached the islets (off the southwestern coast), Makoi (who was staying behind) shouted [he rangi] the following (after him): 'Eight lands (are there), one has been found (or, an eighth land has been found for the first time, evaru [ēvaru] kainga katahi i ravaa), that is, Te Pito O Te Kainga. During the fast journey, one cannot find the seven lands [ehitu kainga] in the midst of dim twilight. Once (Easter Island) has been lost [ka ngaro ro ēra], not even eight groups of people (i.e., countless boat crews) can find (it) again ... [E:86]

Therefore they decided to write Manuscript E as a guide before it all had become completely forgotten. We have to take seriously every little detail.

... The signs written are extremely exact and every detail carries meaning according to a simple and natural system of logic. Normally a glyph carries many such signs and it is therefore difficult to find two glyphs with exactly the same design and meaning. However, there is no need for nor indication of the glyphs carrying sound values. Sounds are generated by the inspired reader ...

And therefore we have to repeat, time and again. Right ascension day *78 was at heliacal Rigel = *16 days after the Egg (Beid).

Variants of taro brought by Oti from the plantation of Teke:

1

*69

ngeti uri.

a Teke. a Oti.

2

*70 

ngeti tea.

3

*71

he ngaatu.

4

*72

he tuitui koviro.

5

*73

he ketu anga mea.

6

*74

he ketu takarua.

7

HAEDUS II

he teatea.

8

*76

he ngu haha tea.

9

*77 = *66 + *11

he mango.

10

RiGEL (*78)

he hahara rapanui

1

*79

he ti.

1

*80

he kape.

He hahara rapanui ought to indicate how on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) they had another point of reference from where to begin counting (instead of the Pleiades).

... 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 ...

7 he teatea. 8 he ngu haha tea. 9 he mango. 10 he hahara rapanui 1 he ti.

... 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 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 ...

Haha. 1. Mouth (oral cavity, as opposed to gutu, lips). 2. To carry piggy-back. He haha te poki i toona matu'a, the child took his father on his back. Ka haha mai, get onto my back (so I may carry you). Vanaga. 1. To grope, to feel one's way; po haha, darkness, obscure. 2. Mouth, chops, door, entrance, window; haha pipi, small mouth; haha pipiro, foul breath; ohio haha, bit of bridle; tiaki haha, porter, doorkeeper. Churchill. Hahaga. Ridge, summit, wall plate. Maroa hahaga, to measure lands, to walk at a great pace. Churchill.

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.

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)

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.

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 (Head of the Giant) = 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 ...

... the tubers [of kape] had to be kept in the earth-oven for 15 (sic) days in order to eliminate some of the poisonous components ... 2 * 175 (Day of St John) = 350 = 365 - 15. ... Thus the regular old Roman year ended with Februarius 23 and it was 350 nights long, 25 fortnights ...

The Root (Mula) should be at the Full Moon in "April 25 (115) when the Sun rose at Cursa. But with heliacal Rigel at the beginning pf the year there was a kind of misalignment (hahara) - as if inherited from the pair Aldebaran and Antares:

he maika. a Teke. a Oti. [E:67] he taro. a Teke. a Oti. [E:68]

no glyph

3

9

2

HYADUM II (*64)

ALDEBARAN (*68)

RIGEL (*78)
Heart-5 (Fox)

"April 17 (107)

"April 27 (117)

1

ANTARES (*249)

SABIK (*259)

This hahara rapanui was presumably 'underlined' by redundantly repeating the pair of pages numbered 68 and 69, with the first pair of taro variants ngeti uri and ngeti tea located together with the bananas on page 67.

5 he nahoo.  1 ngeti uri.  2 ngeti tea.
JULIAN EQUINOX (84) MARCH 26 27 (*6)

mauga

kai

May 30 (150)

ragi

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

May 28 (148) 29 (88 + 61) 30 (*70)
°May 24 (144) 25 26 (*66)
'May 1 (121) 2 3 (*43)
"April 17 (107) 18 19 (*29)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
SEPT 24 (84 + 183) 25 (*188) 26
HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5) ATRIA = α Tr. Austr. (253.9)
Nov 27 28 29 (333)
°Nov 23 24 (*248) 25 (329)
'Oct 31 'Nov 1 (*225) 2 (306)
"Oct 17 (*210) 18 19 (292)

3 he ngaatu. (*71)

4 he tuitui koviro. 5 he ketu anga mea. 6 he ketu takarua.

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 ...

Tui. 1. To sew mats, to make strings. E-tahi tuitui reipá i Te Pei, ekó rava'a e-varu kaukau; i-garo ai i Hiva, i te kaiga, a necklace of mother-of-pearl is on te Pei, few will find it (lit: eight groups of people); it has remained in Hiva, in our homeland. 2. The three stars of Orion's Belt. Vanaga.

Aga. Work; to work, to make, to build, to create: O te atua i-aga-ai i te ragi, i te henua. God made heaven and earth. Vanaga. Agahuru (hagahuru, hagauru). Agai (hagai). Agatahi (aga-tahi) one, (hagatahi); agatahi ahi atu, day before yesterday; hagatahi ahi, yesterday. Churchill.

Ketu. To bound, to climb over, to leap, to jump, to raise (keetu). Mq. ketu, to raise, to lift. Ketuketu, to spread out, hihi ketuketu, to turn back the eyelids. Churchill. Pau.: Ketuketu, to dig. Ta.: etuetu, id. Mq.: ketu, to dig up with the snout. Ma.: ketu, id. Churchill. Mq.: ketuketu, to snuff a candle. Sa.: eueu, id. Churchill.

Taka, takataka. Circle; to form circles, to gather, to get together (of people). Vanaga. 1. A dredge. P Mgv.: akataka, to fish all day or all night with the line, to throw the fishing line here and there. This can only apply to some sort of net used in fishing. We find in Samoa ta'ā a small fishing line, Tonga taka the short line attached to fish hooks, Futuna taka-taka a fishing party of women in the reef pools (net), Maori takā the thread by which the fishhook is fastened to the line, Hawaii kaa in the same sense, Marquesas takako a badly spun thread, Mangareva takara a thread for fastening the bait on the hook. 2. Ruddy. 3. Wheel, arch; takataka, ball, spherical, round, circle, oval, to roll in a circle, wheel, circular piece of wood, around; miro takataka, bush; haga takataka, to disjoin; hakatakataka, to round, to concentrate. P Pau.: fakatakataka, to whirl around. Mq.: taka, to gird. Ta.: taa, circular piece which connects the frame of a house. Churchill.Takai, a curl, to tie; takaikai, to lace up; takaitakai, to coil. P Pau.: takai, a ball, to tie. Mgv.: takai, a circle, ring, hoop, to go around a thing. Mq.: takai, to voyage around. Ta.: taai, to make into a ball, to attach. Churchill. Motu takarua, west wind. Vanaga.

MARCH 28 29 (88 = 39 + 49) 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 ...

... The earliest depiction that has been linked to the constellation of Orion is a prehistoric (Aurignacian) mammoth ivory carving found in a cave in the Ach valley in Germany in 1979. Archaeologists have estimated it to have been fashioned approximately 32,000 to 38,000 years ago ... The artist cut, smoothed and carved one side (A) and finely notched the other side (B) and the edges. Side A contains the half-relief of an anthropoidal figure, either human or a human-feline hybrid, known as the 'adorant' because its arms are raised as if in an act of worship. On side B together with the four edges is a series of notches that are clearly set in an intentional pattern. The edges contain a total of 39 notches in groups of 6, 13, 7 and 13. A further 49 notches on side B are arranged in four vertical lines of 13, 10, 12 and 13 respectively plus a further notch that could be in either of the middle two lines ... The grouping of the notches on the plate suggests a time-related sequence. The total number of notches (88) not only coincides with the number of days in 3 lunations (88.5) but also approximately with the number of days when the star Betelgeuse (α Ori) disappeared from view each year between its heliacal set (about 14 days before the spring equinox around 33,000 BP) and its heliacal rise (approximately 19 days before the summer solstice). Conversely, the nine-month period when Orion was visible in the sky approximately matched the duration of human pregnancy, and the timing of the heliacal rise in early summer would have facilitated a ‘rule of thumb’ whereby, by timing conception close to the reappearance of the constellation, it could be ensured that a birth would take place after the severe winter half-year, but leaving enough time for sufficient nutrition of the baby before the beginning of the next winter. There is a resemblance between the anthropoid on side A and the constellation Orion. None of these factors is convincing when taken in isolation, because of the high probability that apparently significant structural and numerical coincidences might have arisen fortuitously. However, taken together they suggest that the anthropoid represented an asterism equivalent to today’s constellation of Orion, and that the ivory plate as a whole related to a system of time reckoning linked to the moon and to human pregnancy. If so, then ethnographic comparisons would suggest that the Geißenklösterle culture related their ‘anthropoid’ asterism to perceived cycles of cosmic power and fertility ...

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

The Foot of Orion (Rigel) ought to be at the origin - at origo like ri'o -

and with the first pair of taro variants (without the preceding article he) at the end of page E:67 there was a suggestion that the 'banana season' continued.

origo (he ri'o)

5 types of banana shoots (he maika) from the plantation of Teke:

Teke. Occiput. Teketeke, short (not tall); also: teke. Vanaga. Teke ki nei, as far as, until (? tehe 1). Teketeke, crest, ridge. Churchill.

1 he koro tea. 2 he hihi. 3 he pukapuka. 4 he pia.

he maika [E:67]

-

origo (*63)

he ri'o

1

*1 (*64)

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.

Koro. 1. Father (seems to be an older word than matu'a tamâroa). 2. Feast, festival; this is the generic term for feasts featuring songs and banquetting; koro hakaopo, feast where men and women danced. 3. When (also: ana koro); ana koro oho au ki Anakena, when I go to Anakena; in case, koro haga e îa, in case he wants it. Vanaga. If. Korokoro, To clack the tongue (kurukuru). Churchill. Ma.: aokoro, pukoro, a halo around the moon. Vi.: virikoro, a circle around the moon. There is a complete accord from Efaté through Viti to Polynesia in the main use of this stem and in the particular use which is set to itself apart. In Efaté koro answers equally well for fence and for halo. In the marked advance which characterizes social life in Viti and among the Maori the need has been felt of qualifying koro in some distinctive manner when its reference is celestial. In Viti virimbai has the meaning of putting up a fence (mbai fence); viri does not appear independently in this use, but it is undoubtedly homogenetic with Samoan vili, which has a basic meaning of going around; virikoro then signifies the ring-fence-that-goes-around, sc. the moon. In the Maori, aokoro is the cloud-fence. Churchill 2.

Hihi ketuketu, to turn back the eyelids.

Kihipuka, corresponding to sunrise, or about 6 A.M. Tiputa. Pau.: To bore, to perforate. Ta.: tiputa, to pierce. Mq.: tiputa, id. Ha.: kipuka, an opening. Churchill.

MARCH 20 (*364) 0h 22 (*1) 23 24 (83)
no glyph
Gb8-30 (242) Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3

Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)

HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4)

*22.0 = *63.4 - *41.4
HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)

Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)
no star listed (66) no star listed (67)

... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ...

May 23 24 25 (145) 26 (*66) 27
°May 19 20 21 (*61) 22 (142) 23
'April 26 27 28 (118) 29 (*39) 30
"April 12 (*22) 13 14 (104) 15 (*25) 16 (471 = 314 * 1½)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
19 SEPT 20 (*183) 21 (264) EQUINOX 23
YED POSTERIOR (Hand Behind) = ε Ophiuchi, RUKBALGETHI SHEMALI (Northern Knee of the Giant) = τ Herculis (246.6). δ Apodis (246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8)

Heart-5 (Fox)

σ Scorpii (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7)
ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM (Club) = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8)

Al Kalb-16 (The Heart) / Jyeshtha-18 (Eldest) / ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)

ANTARES = α Scorpii (249.1), MARFIK (Elbow)  = λ Ophiuchi, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)
γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7)

... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...

Nov 22 23 (327) 24 25 (*249) 26
°Nov 18 19 20 (*244) 21 (325) 22
'Oct 26 27 (300) 28 29 (*222) 30
"Oct 12 13 (286) 14 15 (*208) 16

When the creators of Manuscript E came up with the name Teke (Occiput) they could have been inspired by the 6 (ono, as in Tau-ono) unique 'occiput-birds' at the end of side b on the G tablet. To make their writings understandable they had to take account of the glyphs on the G tablet (which text had been published recently).

1

1

1

1

496

498

500

136

138

140

... A sidelight falls upon the notions connected with the stag by Horapollo's statement concerning the Egyptian writing of 'A long space of time: A Stag's horns grow out each year. A picture of them means a long space of time.' Chairemon (hieroglyph no. 15, quoted by Tzetzes) made it shorter: 'eniautos: elaphos'. Louis Keimer, stressing the absence of stags in Egypt, pointed to the Oryx (Capra Nubiana) as the appropriate 'ersatz', whose head was, indeed, used for writing the word rnp = year, eventually in 'the Lord of the Year', a well-known title of Ptah. Rare as this modus of writing the word seems to have been - the Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache (eds. Erman and Grapow), vol. 2, pp. 429-33, does not even mention this variant - it is worth considering (as in every subject dealt with by Keimer), the more so as Chairemon continues his list by offering as number 16: 'eniautos: phoinix', i.e., a different span of time, the much-discussed 'Phoenix-period' (ca. 500 years) ...