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To repeat:

... Once upon a time there was an old woman who owned a great potato field (mara) where she planted her potatoes in spring and harvested them in autumn. She was famous all around for her many varieties of wonderful potatoes, and she had enough of them to sell at the market place. She planted her potatoes 7 in a row, placing her foot in front of her as a measure from one potato to the next. Then she marked the place with a bean - which would also give nourishment to the surrounding potatoes. Next she changed variety and planted 7 more followed by another bean, and this was the pattern she followed until all her 214 varieties had been put down in their proper places. She had drawn a map which she followed and from where each sort of potato could be located at the proper time for its harvest ...

... A crack opened up in the ground, and the Rat was put down into the pit, to rest there - he hakatopa i te kioe.ki raro ki te rua.he hakarere -

(where) he was nourished by sweet potatoes. - he hangai.hai kumara. Thus he rose up due to the Sweet Potato. - Ai ka hoa no.i te kumara.te raa te raa. [E: 4 = Tori 4]

18 15 57
Gb6-26 (179) Gb7-17 (198) Gb8-2 (214) Ga1-29 (272)
March 21 (445) April 9 (99) April 25 (115) June 22 (173)
SIRRAH ADHIL (*19) ρ Ceti (*35) TEJAT PRIOR (*93)
ALCHITA (*183) SPICA / ALCOR *218 η Sagittarii (*276)
Sept 20 (263) Oct 9 (292) Oct 25 (*218) Dec 22 (356)
"Febr 8 (39) 27 (58) "March 15 (74) "May 12 (132)
"Aug 10 (*142) "Aug 29 (*161) "Sept 14 (*177) "Nov 11 (*235)

... 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 ...

10 Girl ε Aquarii (Albali) Bat Jan 29 (394)
11 Emptiness β Aquarii (Sadalsud) Rat Febr 9 (405)
12 Rooftop α Aquarii (Sadalmelik) Swallow Febr 18 (184 + 230) → Bharani

... Now birds and fishes are born under the sign of the Yin [Moon], but they belong to the Yang [Sun]. This is why birds and fishes both lay eggs. Fishes swim in the waters, birds fly among the clouds. But in winter, the swallows and starlings go down into the sea and change into mussels ...

13 House α Pegasi (Markab) Pig March 5 (179 - 115 = 64)

... In the morning of the world, there was nothing but water. The Loon was calling, and the old man who at that time bore the Raven's name, Nangkilstlas, asked her why. 'The gods are homeless', the Loon replied. 'I'll see to it', said the old man, without moving from the fire in his house on the floor of the sea. Then as the old man continued to lie by his fire, the Raven flew over the sea. The clouds broke. He flew upward, drove his beak into the sky and scrambled over the rim to the upper world. There he discovered a town, and in one of the houses a woman had just given birth ...

Gestation periods.

1 23 13 166 15
Ga2-1 (31) Ga2-25 (55) Ga2-26 Ga3-11 (70) Gb1-8 (237) Gb1-24 (253)
ST JOHN'S DAY (175) July 18 (199) 19 (200) Aug 2 (214) Jan 16 (381) Febr 1 (32)
CANOPUS (*95) DRUS (*119) *120 *134 *301 ε Equulei (*317)
*278 *302 *303 ε Equulei (*317) DRUS (*484) ACUBENS (*135)
CHRISTMAS EVE Jan 17 (382) 18 Febr 1 (397) July 18 (2 * 282) Aug 3 (580)
'May 28 (148) SOLSTICE 'June 22 (173) 'July 6 (187) 'Dec 20 (354) 'Jan 5 (370)
'Nov 27 (331) SOLSTICE 'Dec 22 (356) 'Jan 5 (370) 'June 20 (171) 'July 6 (187)
'May 14 (134) "June 7 (158) 8 (*79) "June 22 (173) "Dec 6 (*260) "Dec 22 (356)
"Nov 13 (*237) "Dec 7 (*261) 8 (342) "Dec 22 (*276) "June 6 (*77) "June 22 (173)

From Sirrah at 0h to Canopus there were *95 right ascension days. This was where Argo Navis was beginning.

Drus (Hard, χ) at the root of the mast came 24 right ascension days later. Canopus (Agastya, Eridu) drank up all the waters which would have tranformed everything into solids:

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...

Thus Argo Navis ran aground (made landfall).

... During his descent the ancestor still possessed the quality of a water spirit, and his body, though preserving its human appearance, owing to its being that of a regenerated man, was equipped with four flexible limbs like serpents after the pattern of the arms of the Great Nummo. The ground was rapidly approaching. The ancestor was still standing, his arms in front of him and the hammer and anvil hanging across his limbs. The shock of his final impact on the earth when he came to the end of the rainbow, scattered in a cloud of dust the animals, vegetables and men disposed on the steps. When calm was restored, the smith was still on the roof, standing erect facing towards the north, his tools still in the same position. But in the shock of landing the hammer and the anvil had broken his arms and legs at the level of elbows and knees, which he did not have before. He thus acquired the joints proper to the new human form, which was to spread over the earth and to devote itself to toil ...

When could the celestial ship be restored again?

... A man had a daughter who possessed a wonderful bow and arrow, with which she was able to bring down everything she wanted. But she was lazy and was constantly sleeping. At this her father was angry and said: 'Do not be always sleeping, but take thy bow and shoot at the navel of the ocean, so that we may get fire.' The navel of the ocean was a vast whirlpool in which sticks for making fire by friction were drifting about. At that time men were still without fire. Now the maiden seized her bow, shot into the navel of the ocean, and the material for fire-rubbing sprang ashore ...

... The 'fire-wood sticks' emerging from the whirlpool (the navel of the sea) could have originated from the remnants of the 'Old Ship'.

... They go inland at the land. The child nursed and tended grows up, is able to go and play. Each day he now goes off a bit further away, moving some distance away from the house, and then returns to their house. So it goes on and the child is fully grown and goes to play far away from the place where they live. He goes over to where some work is being done by a father and son. Likāvaka is the name of the father - a canoe-builder, while his son is Kiukava. Taetagaloa goes right over there and steps forward to the stern of the canoe saying - his words are these: 'The canoe is crooked.' (kalo ki ama). Instantly Likāvaka is enraged at the words of the child. Likāvaka says: 'Who the hell are you to come and tell me that the canoe is crooked?' Taetagaloa replies: 'Come and stand over here and see that the canoe is crooked.' Likāvaka goes over and stands right at the place Taetagaloa told him to at the stern of the canoe. Looking forward, Taetagaloa is right, the canoe is crooked. He slices through all the lashings of the canoe to straighten the timbers. He realigns the timbers. First he must again position the supports, then place the timbers correctly in them, but Kuikava the son of Likāvaka goes over and stands upon one support. His father Likāvaka rushes right over and strikes his son Kuikava with his adze. Thus Kuikava dies. Taetagaloa goes over at once and brings the son of Likāvaka, Kuikava, back to life. Then he again aligns the supports correctly and helps Likāvaka in building the canoe. Working working it is finished ...

Possibly 290 days later:

23

173

89

Ga1-30 Ga2-1 (31) Ga2-25

Ga2-26 (56)

Gb3-29

Gb3-30 (320)

290 = 26 + 264

... Vainamoinen set about building a boat, but when it came to the prow and the stern, he found he needed three words in his rune that he did not know, however he sought for them. In vain he looked on the heads of the swallows, on the necks of the swans, on the backs of the geese, under the tongues of the reindeer. He found a number of words, but not those he needed. Then he thought of seeking them in the realm of Death, Tuonela, but in vain. He escaped back to the world of the living only thanks to his potent magic. He was still missing his three runes. He was then told by a shepherd to search in the mouth of Antero Vipunen, the giant ogre. The road, he was told, went over swords and sharpened axes. Ilmarinen made shoes, shirt and gloves of iron for him, but warned him that he would find the great Vipunen dead. Nevertheless, the hero went. The giant lay underground, and trees grew over his head. Vainamoinen found his way to the giant's mouth, and planted his iron staff in it. The giant awoke and suddenly opened his huge mouth. Vainamoinen slipped into it and was swallowed. As soon as he reached the enormous stomach, he thought of getting out. He built himself a raft and floated on it up and down inside the giant. The giant felt tickled and told him in many and no uncertain words where he might go, but he did not yield any runes. Then Vainamoinen built a smithy and began to hammer his iron on an anvil, torturing the entrails of Vipunen, who howled out magic songs to curse him away. But Vainamoinen said, thank you, he was very comfortable and would not go unless he got the secret words. Then Vipunen at last unlocked the treasure of his powerful runes. Many days and nights he sang, and the sun and the moon and the waves of the sea and the waterfalls stood still to hear him. Vainamoinen treasured them all and finally agreed to come out. Vipunen opened his great jaws, and the hero issued forth to go and build his boat at last ...

23

173

89

Ga1-30 Ga2-1 (31) Ga2-25

Ga2-26 (56)

Gb3-29

Gb3-30 (320)

ST JOHN'S DAY (175) July 18

19 (200)

April 8 (463)

9 (99)

CANOPUS (*95)

DRUS (*119)

*120

*383

ADHIL (*19)
290 = 26 + 264

But already 68 days after Canopus came the last part of the Keel (Carina), viz. Eta (Eridu) - belonging to the Lord of Waters (Oannes):

70
23

39
Ga1-30 Ga2-1 (31) Ga2-25

Ga2-26 (56)

Ga4-13 (96)

Ga4-14

Ga4-15

ST JOHN'S DAY (175) July 18

19 (200)

Aug 28

29

30 (242)

CANOPUS (*95)

DRUS (*119)

*120

*160

*161

ERIDU (*162)

... This [η Carinae] is one of the most noted objects in the heavens, perhaps even so in almost prehistoric times, for Babylonian inscriptions seem to refer to a star noticeable from occasional faintness in its light, that Jensen thinks was η. And he claims it as one of the temple stars associated with Ea, or Ia, of Eridhu¹, the Lord of Waters, otherwise known as Oannes², the mysterious human fish and greatest god of the kingdom.

¹ Eridhu, or Eri-duga, the Holy City, Nunki, or Nunpe, one of the oldest cities in the world, even in ancient Babylonia, was that kingdom's flourishing port on the Persian Gulf, but, by the encroachment of the delta, its site is now one hundred miles inland. In its vicinity the Babylonians located their sacred Tree of Life.

² Berōssōs described Oannes as the teacher of early man in all knowledge; and in mythology he was even the creator of man and the father of Tammuz and Ishtar, themselves associated with other stars and sky figures. Jensen thinks Oannes connected with the stars of Capricorn; Lockyer finds his counterpart in the god Chnemu of Southern Egypt; and some have regarded him as the prototype of Noah.