... Among the Nahyssan of S. Carolina time was measured and a rude chronology arranged by means of strings of leather with knots of various colour, like the Peruvian quipos. The Dakota use a circle as the symbol of time, a smaller one for a year and a larger one for a longer period: the circles are arranged in rows, thus: OOO or O-O-O. The Pima of Arizona make use of a tally. The year-mark is a deep notch across the stick ...

Pictures were then added in order to clarify the correspondences between the ordinal numbers and the positions in the sky.

The picture of a Lion, for instance, could hardly refer to somewhere out at Sea.

... This [σ Sagittarii] has been identified with Nunki of the Euphratean Tablet of the Thirty Stars, the Star of the Proclamation of the Sea, this Sea being the quarter occupied by Aquarius, Capricornus, Delphinus, Pisces, and Pisces Australis. It is the same space in the sky that Aratos designated as Water ...

Similarly, when they began to load the Royal Double Canoe it ought to refer to a place with the Sea in front.

... Hotu's canoe sailed from Maori to Te Pito O Te Kainga. It sailed on the second day of September (hora nui) ... [E:74]

"Aug 27 (239)	5	"Sept 2 (245)	42	"Oct 15 (288)
239 - 16 = 223		245 - 16 = 229		288 - 16 = 272
223 - 41 = 182		229 - 41 = 188		272 - 41 = 231
*182 - 39 = 143**		*188 - 39 = 149**		*231 - 39 = 192**
Aug 12 (223)		Aug 17 (229)		Sept 29 (272)

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)

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):

On Easter Island they had their seasons 'upside down' compared to the normal view north of the equator. Therefore they probably consulted such stars which could be seen to culminate around 21h in August 12.

... Allen has documented all his star culminations at 21h, which could be due to an effort of keeping the culminations at their proper places according to the ancients, 24h (spring equinox) - 21h = 3h = 24h / 8 = 45º. 3h corresponds to 366 / 8 = 45.75 of my right ascension days and *366 - *46 = *320 (Dramasa, σ Octantis) ...

Although Vega was too far in the north for observation they could see Alphekka Meridiana (α Corona Australis), which was at the Sun in January 5 and culminated in the night after Vega:

ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA
Jan 5	219	Aug 13	145
370		590 (225)
*290		510 (145)
145 + 221 = 366

From Nunki (the Star of the Proclamation of the Sea) to Alphekka Meridiana there were only *290 - *288 = 2 days - which hardly could be guessed from the star map above.

... 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 ...