... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer' ...

... We can guess that on Easter Island the Sun light may have been too bright in January for observing such small and faint stars as those in Cancer.

MAY 20 (140 = 204 - 64)	43	JULY 3 (184 = 248 - 64)

Ga3-1 (60)		Ga4-21 (104)
July 23 (204)		Sept 5 (104 + 144)
AL TARF (The End) ~~RAS ALGETHI~~		AL SHARAS (The Ribs)
Jan 22 (387 = 204 + 183)		March 7 (431 = 365 + 66)
GREDI, ALSHAT		*SIMMAH (351.7)**
45 (→ 365 - 320)

Possibly the creator of the G text wished to document on side a of his tablet how in the Golden Age of Taurus day 60 had been where the Goat (α Capricorni) and the Sheep (ν Capricorni) had become domesticated. Similar to how the Wolf earlier had been transformed into the Dog.

At that ancient time they evidently had waited 16 days for the reappearance of the relevant heliacal stars. 64 (precessional depth from my assumed epoch for rongorongo down to that when Ain, the Eye of the Bull, had risen heliacally at 0h) + 16 = 80 (0h). Or counting from the Julian equinox: 84 (0h) = 68 + 16.

The Babylonian name for Capricornus was Goatfish, and with time visualized as running from right to left in the illustration above we can see how the tail (the end) of the Capricorn - like that of Leo - was transmutated into water (with fire at the top).

Leo was on one side of the Milky Way and the Capricorn was on the other side, although both were located at the ecliptic path of the Sun and the other planets:

From 20h at the head of the Goatfish to the head of the Lion at 10h there were around (24 + 10) - 20 = 14 / 24 * 365¼ = 213 days, i.e. 366 / 2 + 30 days. Although *320 * 14h / 24h = ca *187 (→ 213 - 26).

The Milky Way stretched from the region of the Cargo Boat down to Eridu.

At zenith was the Goatfish and at nadir was the head of the Lion.

... The Raised-up-Sky was a region close to Aquila, which seems reasonable because according to the Babylonians the Milky Way was upraised from the place of the Cargo Boat (or the Tea Pot, a part of the South Dipper) beyond which the Eagle & Dead Man were following the Milky Way across the sky ...

The Chinese had the South Dipper at the neck of their Green Serpent and at the opposite side was Leo at the left wing of the hot Red Bird:

Although they clearly had divided the Leo constellation in the middle and shifted their attention downwards by pointing at the Hydra:

March equinox

Wall

γ Pegasi (Algenib)

Porcupine

March 22 (81)

Legs

η Andromedae

Wolf

April 1 (91)

Bond

β Arietis (Sheratan)

Dog

April 17 (107)

Stomach

41 Arietis (Bharani)

Pheasant

May 1 (121)

Hairy Head

η Tauri (Alcyone)

Cockerel

May 16 (136)

Net

ε Tauri (Ain)

Crow

May 25 (145)

Turtle Head

λ Orionis (Heka)

Monkey

June 12 (163)

Three Stars

ζ Orionis (Alnitak)

Gibbon

June 13 (164)

Well

μ Gemini (Tejat Posterior)

Tapir

June 24 (175)

Ghost

q Cancri

→ φ Cancri

Goat

July 11 (192)

→ 25 (206)

Egyptian bread, (-t, female determinant)

Phoenician qoph

Greek phi

Φ(φ)

... is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet ... Its origin is uncertain but it may be that phi originated as the letter qoppa ... In traditional Greek numerals, phi has a value of 500 or 500000 ...

Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1, 2003: 'The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character Q being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ... Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot' ...

... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest.

When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...

Willow

δ Hydrae

Stag

July 28 (209)

= 16 * 13 + 1

Star

α Hydrae (Alphard)

Horse

Aug 10 (222)

= 17 * 13 + 1

The Chinese Horse was located 2 * 71 = 142 right ascension days after the Navel of the Horse:

SIRRAH	141	ALPHARD
"Febr 8 (39)		"June 30 (181)
*11 13 = 143**

Here was the Knot:

JUNE 7

9 (*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 ...

Ga3-19

Ga3-20

Ga3-21 (80)

Ga3-22 (161 - 80)

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), SUB-RA = ο Leonis (145.8)

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

~~ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA~~

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

13 (225)

14 (*146)

15 (227 → π)

°Aug 6

8 (220)

9 (*141)

'July 14

17 (*118)

19 (200)

SIRIUS

"July 1

3 (*104)

4 (185)

Te Anakena 5

... 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

10 (*264)

11 (345)

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)

12 (408)

13 (*329)

All Hearts' Day

°Febr 5 (36)

8 (*324)

10 (41)

'Jan 13 (378)

15 (*300)

18 (383)

"Dec 30

31 (*285)

"Jan 1 (366)

... 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 ...

... These 5 stones brought up from the sacred spring formed the pattern of Tawantinsuyu - Land defined from its 4 coloured corners together with a 5th such (its Head) in the center standing up tall like a Tree (or a Tentpole):