... The star could be seen, both by day and night, from the bottom of the central passage of the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Knum Khufu) at Ghizeh, in 30° of north latitude, as also from the similar points in five other like structures; and the same fact is asserted by Sir John Herschel as to the two pyramids at Abousseir ...

The position of the star at the north pole determined the framework for the positions of the cardinal points, and when the star rising with the Sun at spring equinox due to the precession had to be shifted to a star rising earlier in this framework it was similar to how Thuban himself much earlier had changed the previous leader of the framework for the whole sky (viz. Ursa Major, Mayan Itzam-Yeh):

The precessional cycle had anciently been measured out to be 26000 years, and therefore around 26000 / 12 (zodiacal signs) = 2100 years were needed for shifting the stars at the equinoxes from one sign to the next in line:

Although with 13 signs = 12 + the hidden (ngaro) one (the Serpent),

Garo. 1. To disappear, to become lost. He tere, he garo. He ran away and disappeared. He û'i te Ariki, ku garo á te kaíga i te vai kava. The king saw that the land had disappeared in the sea. I te ahiahi-ata he garo te raá ki raro ki te vai kava. In the evening the sun disappears under the sea. Ku garo á te kupu o te tai i a au. I have forgotten the words of the song (lit. the words of the song have become lost to me). Ina koe ekó garo. Don't disappear (i.e. don't go), or: don't get lost on the way. 2. Hidden. Te mana'u garo, hidden thoughts. Kona garo o te tagata, 'people's hidden places': pudenda. Vanaga. To disappear, to stray, to omit, to lose oneself, to pass, absent, to founder, to drown, to sink; garo noa, to go away forever, to be rare; garo atu ana, formerly. Hakagaro, to cover with water; hakagaro te rakerakega, to pardon. Garoa, loss, absence, to be away, to drown, not comprehended, unitelligible. Garoaga, setting; garoaga raa, sunset, west. Garoraa, the sun half-set. Garovukua, to swallow up. Churchill.

... i te toru te kauatu.o te raā.o tangaroa uri.he ūi.a Hotu.i te moai.maea.ko oto uta ...

there would be around 2000 years from one sign to the next. Or 1000 years if the half-months (i.e. also the female counterparts) were counted (the celestial cycle goes from 0h to 23h and there were 12 + 11 = 23 zodiacal constellations depicted in the ceiling at Dendera).

... the first month of the Moriori year, was named Rongo (Lono). On the first of the new year the Moriori launched a small canoe to Rongo, although they built and used only rude craft for their fishing excursions. The canoe was manned by twelve figures symbolizing the personifications of the twelve months. Sometimes twenty-four figures were placed in the canoe, and Skinner interprets the additional twelve as representing the female counterparts of the months. As an old Maori once remarked. 'Everything has its female counterpart ...

When in the time-frame of rongorongo Hamal was observed to culminate (to cross zenith at 21h = ca 0.88 * 24h) it suggested the place of the right ascension line for OCTOBER 8 (→ 8-8), when in the age of the Bull the Sting of the Scorpion had done its job.

... With the Bull at spring equinox and Scorpion at autumn equinox, as parts of the ancient framework, I think it would have been difficult to accept precession moving Taurus later and later into the year. The Sign of Summer should not come later. On the other hand, it would have been easy to accept how precession moved the Sign of Winter later in autumn, implying a longer duration for Summer. When Virgo was pushing the Libra scale-beam with her right big toe it could be a Sign of how precession moved Libra later in the year. South of the equator, though, such an idea would not have been acceptable - Summer Sun should not arrive later in the year. Maybe, therefore, the kuhane of Hau Maka was bound to step on the scale-beam (the 'bamboo') to break it. She created a 'dawn-break'. North of the equator, when the dangerous Scorpius had been pushed away from autumn equinox it would have been easy to accept the fact and to instead insert Libra at equinox. Tradition, however, could have maintained the idea of the claws of the Scorpion being at equinox, and therefore the names for the stars of Libra should be 'claws' (zuben). But the Scorpion kept her claws ...

The modern date corresponding to OCTOBER 8 would have been deduced to be December 11 (→ 12 'grey' + 11 'blue').

*OCT 7 (200)**	8 (281)	9	10

Ga7-31 (200 = 180 + 20)	Ga7-32	Ga7-33	Ga7-34
LESATH (Sting) = υ Scorpii, δ Arae (264.7), CHOO (Club) = α Arae (264.9)	*Al Shaula-17* ALWAID (Mother Camels) = β Draconis, MAASYM (Wrist) = λ Herculis (265.1), SHAULA (Sting) = λ Scorpii (265.3), KUMA = ν Draconis (265.6), σ Arae (265.9) ~~HAMAL (α ARIETIS)~~	RAS ALHAGUE = α Ophiuchi (266.1), SARGAS = θ Scorpii (266.3), μ Ophiuchi, π Arae (266.5), NAN HAE (Southern Sea) = ξ Serpentis (266.6), AL DHĪLI (The Wolf) = ω Draconis, ι Herculis (266.7)	λ Arae (267.1), GIRTAB (Seizer) = κ Scorpii, ο Serpentis (267.6), DSIBAN (Wolf Pair) = ψ Draconis (267.9)

*Dec 10 (264)**	*11 (345 = 281 + 8 8)**	12	LUCIA
°Dec 6	7 (341)	8	*9 (264)**
*'Nov 13 (237)**	14	15	16 (320)
Tangaroa Uri 30	*"Oct 31 (224)**	"Nov 1 (305)	2
Lesath was a name both for ν (244) and for υ (264) Scorpii, and there were 20 right ascension days from ν to υ. ... Upsilon (uppercase Υ, lowercase υ; Greek: ύψιλον, ýpsilon ... is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, Υ has a value of 400. It is derived from the Phoenician waw ... Waw (wāw 'hook') is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads ... ... Upsilon is known as Pythagoras' letter, or the Samian letter, because Pythagoras used it as an emblem of the path of virtue or vice ...
ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL (Thirst-slaking Camels) = β Leporis (81.7)	*KHUFU* MINTAKA (Belt) = δ Orionis, υ Orionis (82.4), χ Aurigae (82.5), ε Columbae (82.6) 41.0 = 82.4 - *41.4	*KHAFRE* **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)	*MENKAURE* **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)

Ga1-17	Ga1-18	Ga1-19	Ga1-20

This day the Sun reached the right ascension line at β Draconis (Alwaid) at the right eye of the Serpent:

And the Sun would reach his lower jaw (Grumium. ξ Draconis) 5 days later:

OCT 11	12	13	*14 (207)**	15 (288)

Ga8-1	Ga8-2	Ga8-3	Ga8-4	Ga8-5 (208)
KELB ALRAI (Dog of the Shepherd) = β Ophiuchi, μ Arae (268.1), KEW HO (Nine Rivers) = μ Herculis (268.6), η Pavonis (268.7), APOLLYON = ι Scorpii (268.9) 231.0 - 4.0 = *227.0	MULIPHEN (Oaths) = γ Ophiuchi (269.0), BASANISMUS = G Scorpii (269.5), PHERKARD (Dim One of the Two Calves) = δ Ursae Minoris (269.9)	PTOLEMY CLUSTER = M7 Scorpii (270.5), GRUMIUM (Lower Jaw) = ξ Draconis (270.9) 227.0 + 2.0 = 229.0 270 - 229 = 41*	RUKBALGETHI GENUBI (Bending Claw) = θ Herculis (271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5), ETAMIN (Head) = γ Draconis, ν Herculis (271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8)	CAT'S EYE = NGC6543 Draconis (272.2), ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ Ophiuchi (272.9) 231.0 = 272.4 - *41.4

*Dec 14 (268)**	15	16 (350)	17	18
*°Dec 10 (264)**	11 (345)	12	13	14
*'Nov 17 (241)**	18	19	20 (324)	21
*"Nov 3 (227)**	4	(Ko) Ruti 5	6 (310)	7

ο Aurigae (85.8), γ Leporis (85.9) ~~YANG MUN (α Lupi)~~	μ Columbae, SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis (86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6)	υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae, δ Leporis (87.7), TZE (Son) = λ Columbae (87.9)	*Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)* χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE = α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)	η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI (Lord of Created Beings) = δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM (Wrist) = θ Aurigae, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7) 48.0 = 89.4 - 41.4 μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)*

Ga1-21	Ga1-22	Ga1-23	Ga1-24	Ga1-25 Ga1-26

As to Thuban (α) we have seen how it was at the culmination line for 21h in June 7:

APRIL 1 (91)	2	3	*4 (14)**

Ga1-11	Ga1-12	Ga1-13	Ga1-14
HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)	5h (76.1) ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)	μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)	ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA (Little Goat) = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8) 37.0 = 78.4 - 41.4 ~~THUBAN (α Draconis)~~*
... In view of the almost universal prevalence of the Pleiades year throughout the Polynesian area it is surprising to find that in the South Island and certain parts of the North Island of New Zealand and in the neighboring Chatham Islands, the year began with the new Moon after the yearly morning rising, not of the Pleiades, but of the star Rigel in Orion ... From Aldebaran there was a great expansion stretching all the way between Rigel and Capella. Kokoro. Width, expanse; wide, spacious. Te kokoro o te hare, the expanse of a wide house. Vanaga. To widen, to expand. Churchill.
June 4	5	6 (157 = 314 / 2)	*7 (78)**
°May 31 (151)	°June 1	*2 (73)**	3
'May 8 (128)	9	*10 (50)**	11
"April 24 (114)	Vaitu Nui 25 (115) (E:17)	*26 (36)**	27
... On the twenty-fifth day [raa] of the first month ('Vaitu Nui'), Ira and Makoi set sail. (i te rua te angahuru marima raa o te vaitu nui.i oho.mai ai a ira.ko Makoi).
DAY 75 - 64 = 11	12 (= 115 - 84 - 19)	13	14
*11 Roro Hau* a mana ai rea	*12 Vai Poko* a raa mata turu	13 Ko Te Hereke a kino ariki	*14 Hatu Ngoio* a taotao ika
8 he ngu haha tea taro guhu haha tea	9 he mango taro magó	10 he hahara rapanui taro harahara rapanui	1 he ti
Mago. Spotted dogfish, small shark. Vanaga. Mogo, shark. P Pau.: mago, id. Mgv. mago, id. Mq. mano, mako, mono, moko id. T. maó, id. In addition to this list the word is found as mago in Samoa, Maori, Niuē, and in Viti as mego. It is only in Rapanui and the Marquesas that we encounter the variant mogo. Churchill. Hara. Harahara 1. Misaligned (of roofing, basketware, etc.); e harahara nó te kete, the basket is misaligned (its strips are not parallel. 2. A sort of taro. 3. Latrine, defecating ground. Vanaga. 1. Pandanus. P Mgv.: ara, puhara, pandanus (tree); hara, a bunch of pandanus fruit, old pandanus. Mq.: faá haá, pandanus. Ta.: fara, id. 2. Error, mistake, oversight, wrong; to err, to confound, to mistake; manau hara, illusion; toua hara, discussion without knowing the object. P Mgv.: ara, arara, defective, abortive, to miss, to fail, a fault, a quarrel; hara, a fault, a mistake, an error, a dispute, a quarrel, undisciplined. Mq.: hara, a rake, libertine. Ta.: hara, sin, fault, crime. Churchill. Haha. 1. Mouth (oral cavity, as opposed to gutu, lips). 2. To carry piggy-back. He haha te poki i toona matu'a, the child took his father on his back. Ka haha mai, get onto my back (so I may carry you). Vanaga. 1. To grope, to feel one's way; po haha, darkness, obscure. 2. Mouth, chops, door, entrance, window; haha pipi, small mouth; haha pipiro, foul breath; ohio haha, bit of bridle; tiaki haha, porter, doorkeeper. Churchill. Ha. 1. Four. 2. To breathe. Hakaha'a, to flay, to skin. Vanaga. 1. Four. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ha, id. 2. To yawn, to gape. 3. To heat. 4. Hakaha, to skin, to flay; unahi hakaha, to scale fish. Mgv.: akaha, to take to pieces, to take off the bark or skin, to strip the leaves off sugarcane. 5. Mgv: ha, sacred, prohibited. Mq.: a, a sacred spot. Sa.: sa, id. Churchill. ... Thuban had been the star at the North Pole when the great Egyptian pyramids where built. ... The star could be seen, both by day and night, from the bottom of the central passage of the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Knum Khufu) at Ghizeh, in 30° of north latitude, as also from the similar points in five other like structures; and the same fact is asserted by Sir John Herschel as to the two pyramids at Abousseir ... For some reason, too, it had taken their fancy to place the Great Pyramid almost exactly on the 30th parallel at latitude 29º 58' 51". This, a former astronomer royal of Scotland once observed, was 'a sensible defalcation from 30º', but not necessarily in error: For if the original designer had wished that men should see with their body, rather than their mental eyes, the pole of the sky from the foot of the Great Pyramid, at an altitude before them of 30º, he would have had to take account of the refraction of the atmosphere, and that would have necessitated the building standing not at 30º but at 29º 58' 22' ... Hatu. 1. Clod of earth; cultivated land; arable land (oone hatu). 2. Compact mass of other substances: hatu matá, piece of obsidian. 3. Figuratively: manava hatu, said of persons who, in adversity, stay composed and in control of their behaviour and feelings. 4. To advise, to command. He hatu i te vanaga rivariva ki te kio o poki ki ruga ki te opata, they gave the refugees the good advice not to climb the precipice; he hatu i te vanaga rakerake, to give bad advice. 5. To collude, to unite for a purpose, to concur. Mo hatu o te tia o te nua, to agree on the price of a nua cape. 6. Result, favourable outcome of an enterprise. He ká i te umu mo te hatu o te aga, to light the earth oven for the successful outcome of an enterprise. Vanaga. 1. Haatu, hahatu, mahatu. To fold, to double, to plait, to braid; noho hatu, to sit crosslegged; hoe hatu, clasp knife; hatuhatu, to deform. 2. To recommend. Churchill. In the Polynesian dialects proper, we find Patu and Patu-patu, 'stone', in New Zealand; Fatu in Tahiti and Marquesas signifying 'Lord', 'Master', also 'Stone'; Haku in the Hawaiian means 'Lord', 'Master', while with the intensitive prefix Po it becomes Pohaku, 'a stone'. Fornander. Goio. Mgv.: a black seabird. Mq.: koio, noio, a bird. Ha.: noio, a small black bird that lives on fish. Churchill.

Furthermore, *212.8 (Thuban) - *30.5 (Hamal) = *182.3 - i.e. when the Full Moon was at the right ascension line for Thuban it could be deduced that the Sun was at Hamal (i.e. by using the Hindu nakshatra method).

... In ancient times the priest-astronomers (Brahmans) determined the recurrence of the solstices and equinoxes by the use of the gnomon. Later they developed the Nakshatra system of star reference to determine the recurrence of the seasons, much as the Greeks used the heliacal rising of some star for the same purpose. An example of the operation of the Nakshatra system in antiquity can be seen in figure 6.9

AUG 14	15	*16 (148)**	17 (229)	18	19

Ga6-6	Ga6-7	Ga6-8 (148)	Ga6-9	Ga6-10	Ga6-11
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
MUPHRID (Solitary Star) = η Bootis (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3)	φ Centauri (211.0), υ¹ Centauri (211.1), υ² Centauri (211.8), τ Virginis (211.9)	AGENA (At the Knee) = β Centauri (212.1), θ Apodis (212.5), THUBAN (Dragon) = α Draconis (212.8)	14h (213.1) π Hydrae, χ Centauri (213.0), MENKENT (Shoulder of the Centaur) = θ Centauri (213.1)	*Neck-2 (Dragon)* ASELLUS TERTIUS (3rd Ass Colt) = κ Bootis, κ Virginis, 14 Bootis (214.8)	*Al Ghafr-13 (The Cover) / Svāti-15 (Very Good) / TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE-6 (a pillar to stand by)* 15 Bootis (215.2), ARCTURUS = α Bootis (215.4), ASELLUS SECUNDUS (2nd Ass Colt) = ι Bootis (215.5), SYRMA (Train of the Virgin's Robe) = ι Virginis, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8) 174.0 = 215.4 - *41.4
Oct 17 (290)	18	19	20	*21 (214)**	22
°Oct 13	14	*15 (208)**	16	17 (290)	18
'Sept 20	21	EQUINOX	*23 (186)**	24	25 (268)
"Sept 6	7	8	*9 (172)**	10	11 (254)
DAY 210	211	212	213 (= 229 - 16)	*214 (= 2 107)**	215
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
FEBR 12	13	2-14 (45)	15	*16 (332)**	17 (413)
*Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 (Dog) / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1 (Front of the Head of Ku)* SEGIN = ε Cassiopeia, MESARTHIM = γ Arietis, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN (Pair of Signs) = β Arietis, φ Phoenicis (27.4) 351.0 = 27.4 - *41.4	ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8)	ALRISHA (The Knot) = α Piscium, χ Phoenicis (29.2), ε Trianguli (29.4), ALAMAK (Caracal) = γ Andromedae (29.7) 353.0 = 29.4 - *41.4	*Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 (Back of the Head of Ku)* 2h (30.4) κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (Sheep) = α Arietis (30.5) ~~ALKES (α Crateris)~~	DELTOTUM = β Trianguli (31.2), ι Trianguli (31.7), η Arietis (31.9)	ξ¹ Ceti (32.1)

April 17 (107)	18 (365 + 108)	19	*20 (395)**	21 (111)	22
°April 13	4-14	15	*16 (471 = 1½ 314)**	17 (107)	18
'March 21	22	23	*24 (368)**	EQUINOX	26 (85)
"March 7	8	9	*10 (354)**	11	12
DAY 27	28	29 = 212 - 183	30	31	32

Evidently, once upon a time Thuban had ruled that Hamal (presumably king Oto Uta) should be the first king of a flock of 10:

... Strassmeier and Epping, in their Astronomishes aus Babylon, say that there its stars formed the third of the twenty-eight ecliptic constellations, - Arku-sha-rishu-ku, literally the Back of the Head of Ku, - which had been established along that great circle milleniums before our era; and Lenormant quotes, as an individual title from cuneiform inscriptions, Dil-kar, the Proclaimer of Dawn, that Jensen reads As-kar, and others Dil-gan, the Messenger of Light. George Smith inferred from the tablets that it might be the Star of the Flocks; while other Euphratean names have been Lu-lim, or Lu-nit, the Ram's Eye; and Si-mal or Si-mul, the Horn star, which came down even to late astrology as the Ram's Horn. It also was Anuv, and had its constellation's titles I-ku and I-ku-u, - by abbreviation Ku, - the Prince, or the Leading One, the Ram that led the heavenly flock, some of íts titles at a different date being applied to Capella of Auriga. Brown associates it with Aloros, the first of the ten mythical kings of Akkad anterior to the Deluge, the duration of whose reigns proportionately coincided with the distances apart of the ten chief ecliptic stars beginning with Hamal, and he deduces from this kingly title the Assyrian Ailuv, and hence the Hebrew Ayil; the other stars corresponding to the other mythical kings being Alcyone, Aldebaran, Pollux, Regulus, Spica, Antares, Algenib, Deneb Algedi, and Scheat ...

Lahun, Maya number 10, has a bared jaw-bone and the preceding number 9 (Bolon) has spots on his face.

183 (white) + 107 (orange) + 75 (dark) = 365.