The 13th place name given by Makoi Makoi. The tree which on T. was called miro, Thespesia populnea. Van Tilburg. Makoikoi, kidney T. Churchill.
... 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 ... was, I have suggested, 'a different kind of eel-snare', which could have referred to where the Tail of the Green Serpent was forming a loop. ... Hereke was here perhaps to be interpreted as here-ke - a different type of (ké) eel-snare (he-re) ...
And number 13 appeared 4 times among the 8 groups of notches on the mammoth plate: ... 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) ... 79 (spring equinox) - 14 = March 6 (65) = heliacal set of Orion. Heliacal rise of Orion = 172 (summer solstice) - 19 = 153 (June 2). 153 (June 2) - 65 (March 6) = 88.
There were 39 notches on the edge of the mammoth ivory:
And 49 notches on its side b:
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