... In Hindu legend there was a mother goddess called Aditi, who had seven offspring. She is called 'Mother of the Gods'. Aditi, whose name means 'free, unbounded, infinity' was assigned in the ancient lists of constellations as the regent of the asterism Punarvasu. Punarvasu is dual in form and means 'The Doublegood Pair'. The singular form of this noun is used to refer to the star Pollux. It is not difficult to surmise that the other member of the Doublegood Pair was Castor. Then the constellation Punarvasu is quite equivalent to our Gemini, the Twins. In far antiquity (5800 B.C.) the spring equinoctial point was predicted by the heliacal rising of the Twins (see fig. 6.6). By 4700 B.C. the equinox lay squarely in Gemini (fig. 6.7):

Assuming the precession had moved the Sun a quarter earlier, we can count 26000 / 4 = 6500 years which would be equal to 4700 BC + 1800 AD.

The equinoctial marker had once upon a time been at Elnath, at the point (tara) of the northern horn of the Bull.

ko te henua - te rima	e kava	i haga rave ika	ki kikiu - te henua

Cb3-3 (392 + 52 = 444)	Cb3-4	Cb3-5 (54)	Cb3-6 (84 - 29)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Dec 7	*8 (342 = 18 19)**	9	10
'Nov 10 (314 → π)	11	12	13
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
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)~~	*Shur-narkabti-sha-iltanu-5 (Star in the Bull towards the north)* σ Aurigae (80.4), BELLATRIX (Female Warrior) = γ Orionis, SAIF AL JABBAR (Sword of the Giant) = η Orionis (80.7), ELNATH (The Butting One) = β Tauri = γ Aurigae (80.9)	ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL (Thirst-slaking Camels) = β Leporis (81.7)
June 7	8	9	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 ...
'May 11	*12 (132 = 4 33)**	13	14 (499 = 365 + 134)
*Vaitu Nui 27*	**28 (118 = 4 29½)***	29	30

ko te maro - ko te tagata	kua hua te tagata	ko te tagata	25

Cb3-7	Cb3-8 (392 + 57 = 449)	*Cb3-9 (58 = 2 29 = 84 - 26)**
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Dec 11	12 (346 = 210 + 136)	13
'Nov 14	15	16 (320)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
MINTAKA (Belt) = δ Orionis, υ Orionis (82.4), χ Aurigae (82.5), ε Columbae (82.6) 41 = 82.4 - *41.4	**Al Hak'ah-3 (Brand) / Mrigashīrsha-5 (Stag's Head) / Turtle Head-20 (Monkey) / Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur (Little Twins)** ARNEB = α Leporis, Crab Nebula = M1 Tauri (83.0, φ¹ Orionis (83.1), HEKA = λ Orionis, Orion Nebula = M42 (83.2), φ² Orionis (83.6), ALNILAM (String of Pearls) = ε Orionis (83.7)	**Three Stars-21 (Gibbon) / Shur-narkabti-sha-shūtū-6 (Star in the Bull towards the south) / ANA-IVA-9 (Pillar of exit)** HEAVENLY GATE = ζ Tauri, ν Columbae (84.0), ω Orionis (84.2), ALNITAK (Girdle) = ζ Orionis, PHAKT (Phaet) = α Columbae (84.7)
June 11	12	13 (164 = 423 + 41)
'May 15	16 (136 = 346 - 210)	17
"May 1	2	3 (123 = 152 - 29)

manu pao i te hau tea - kua tu	manu rere ki te hau tea - kua tu	manu rere ki te hau tea	kiore - henua
Pao. To cut off, to throw a lance. Churchill. Paopao, spade, shovel, rubbish, to lacerate, to have a quarrel with. Churchill. There are 27 teeth around the tail of the bird above.

*Cb4-13 → 14 29½**	Cb4-14 (477 = 392 + 85)	Cb4-15	*Cb4-16 (87 = 3 29)**
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
no star listed (110)	ALUDRA (Virgin) = η Canis Majoris (111.1), PROPUS = ι Gemini (111.4), GOMEISA (Water-eyed) = β Canis Minoris (111.6) 70.0 = 111.4 - *41.4	ρ Gemini (?) (112.1), Eskimo Nebula = NGC2392 Gemini (112.2) ~~ANTARES (α Scorpii)~~	*Al Dhirā'-5 (Forearm) / Punarvasu-7 / Mash-mashu-Mahrū-10 (Western One of the Twins)* CASTOR = α Gemini (113.4 = 41.4 + 72.0)
*July 9 (10 19)**	10	11	12 (193 = 152 + 41)
'June 12 (190 - 27)	13 (164)	14	15
"May 29 (190 - 41)	30 (150)	31	**Te Maro 1 (8 19)***
... The jaguar learned from the grasshopper that the toad and the rabbit had stolen its fire while it was out hunting, and that they had taken it across the river. While the jaguar was weeping at this, an anteater came along, and the jaguar suggested that they should have an excretory competition. The anteater, however, appropriated the excrement containing raw meat and made the jaguar believe that its own excretions consisted entirely of ants. In order to even things out, the jaguar invited the anteater to a juggling contest, using their eyes removed from the sockets: the anteater's eyes fell back into place, but the jaguar's remained hanging at the top of a tree, and so it became blind. At the request of the anteater, the macuco bird made the jaguar new eyes out of water, and these allowed it to see in the dark. Since that time the jaguar only goes out at night. Having lost fire, it eats meat raw. It never attacks the macuco ...

The powerful Taurus could at that ancient time have been imagined to push the Sky roof high, creating dawn and perhaps therefore inducing Bull-leaping down on the earth.

In the overview below of the positions of the March equinox through the ages we can see that Orion was a special case:

Rigel (the Left Foot of Orion) was down in the south in contrast to the Left Foot of the Charioteer (who had no horse) up above - who carried goats on his back as a Sign of how the Capricorn here had been moved into the past:

From Rigel (*78) to Gredi (*307) there were 229 right ascension days, equal to the number of glyphs on side a of the G tablet.

And from Gredi to Rigel there were 365 - 229 = 136 right ascension days, equal to the number of days from January 1 to May 16 where at the time of rongorongo Alcyone (together with Pleione and Atlas) rose heliacally. Thus Gredi (α Capricorni) was not half a Sun year away from Rigel (α Orionis). Instead it was Al Tarf (The End, β Cancri) which was at the opposite side, *307 - *183 = *124.

The Pleiades (and the other fixed stars) had apparently moved ahead in the Sun calendar from a place which was around 365.25 / 4 = 91.3125 right ascension days earlier. 6500 / 26000 * 365.25 = 91.3125.

136 - 91 = 45 (= 360 / 8). Anciently the return of the Pleiades in the morning sky would have marked day 45 + 16 = 61 counted from January 1. 16° corresponds to 16 days if we count with a year measuring 360 days.