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Once again. According to Manuscript E the dream soul of Hau Maka (sleeping soundly in Hiva) searched for a place where the King could live, i.e. a residence.

... Everywhere the dream soul looked around for a residence for the king. The dream soul went to Maunga Teatea and gave him the name 'Maunga Teatea A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul of Hau Maka looked around. From Maunga Teatea she looked to Rangi Meamea (i.e., Ovahe).

The dream soul spoke the following: 'There it is - ho! - the place - ho! - for the king - ho! - to live (there in the future), for this is (indeed) Rangi Meamea.' The dream soul descended and came to Mahatua. She named the place 'Mahatua A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul continued to look around for a residence for the king. Having reached Taharoa she named the place 'Taharoa A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul moved along and reached Hanga Hoonu. She named the place 'Hanga Hoonu A Hau Maka O Hiva'.

The dream soul came to Rangi Meamea and looked around searchingly. The dream soul spoke: 'Here at last is level land where the king can live.' She named the place 'Rangi Meamea A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The mountain she named 'Peke Tau O Hiti A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul moved along a curve from Peke Tau O Hiti to the mountain Hau Epa, which she named 'Maunga Hau Epa A Hau Maka O Hiva'.

The dream soul went to the other side of the mountain Hau Epa. As soon as the dream soul looked around, she saw the sand (beach), which was very white and light. She remained there and explored everything. After she had looked around carefully, the dream soul of Hau Maka said, 'Ah! This is the place that will serve as a residence for the king. She named the place 'Oromanga A Hau Maka O Hiva' and also named the neighboring bay 'Hanga Moria One A Hau Maka O Hiva'.

The dream soul stepped forth lightly and reached Papa O Pea. She carefully looked around for a place where the king could settle down after his arrival and gather his people around (? hakaheuru). Having assembled his people (?) and having come down, he would then go from Oromanga to Papa O Pea, so went the speech of the dream soul. She named the place 'Papa O Pea A Hau Maka O Hiva'. She then hastened her steps toward Ahu Akapu. There she looked again for a residence of the king. Again the dream soul of Hau Maka spoke: 'May the king assemble his people (?) and may he come in the midst of his people from Oromanga to Papa O Pea. When the king of Papa O Pea has assembled his people (?) and has come to this place, he reaches Aha Akapu. To stay there, to remain (for the rest of his life) at Ahu Akapu, the king will abdicate (?) as soon as he has become an old man'. She named the place 'Ahu Akapu A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The (entire) land she named 'Te Pito O Te Kainga A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul turned around and hurried back to Hiva, to its (Home)land, to Maori. She slipped into the (sleeping) body of Hau Maka, and the body of Hau Maka awakened. He arouse and said full of amazement 'Ah' and thought about the dream ...

Later the Explorers would reach Rangi Meamea (Purple Sky) in "July 23. I have here translated meamea with 'purple' because anciently that was the colour for the King - and of the Sea according to Homer.

23 / 7 = 22 / 7 + 1 → π + 1 → 414 = 14 * 29½ + 1. This suggests "July 23 could have been regarded as the date for a conjuntion between the Sun and the Moon.

JUNE 28 29 (180)

SIRIUS

JULY 1 (*102)
Ga4-16 Ga4-17 (100) Ga4-18 Ga4-19
ν Hydrae (163.1)

no star listed (164)

ALTAIR (α Aquilae)

Wings-27 (Snake)

η Octans (165.4), ALKES (Shallow Basin) = α Crateris (165.6)

*124.0 = *165.4 - *41.4

ANA-TIPU-4 (Upper-side-pillar - where the guards stood)

MERAK (Loin, not Lion) = β Ursae Majoris (166.2), DUBHE (Bear) = α Ursae Majoris (166.7)
Aug 31 Sept 1 2 (*165) 3 (246)
°Aug 27 28 29 (*161 → °June 10) 30 (242)
'Aug 4 (216) 5 (*137) 6 7
"July 21 22 / 7 → π Te Anakena 23 (204) 24 (*125)

... They remained in Hanga Hoonu for five days. On the twenty-third day of the month of July ('Anakena'), they reached Rangi Meamea ... [E:25-26]

The Chinese Emperor was drawing his bow at Sirius but he did not use an arrow ('teka'). His expectant servant in front of him - probably a female we can see from her 'crocodile' girdle - seems to be waiting for the resulting rain drops. It was the place in the sky named after a dry shallow basin (Al Kes).

From "July 23 (204) to the night when Sirius culminated (at 21h) there were 366 - 204 = 162 days. Or we could rather say that when the Sun was at Al-kes it was a day zero, in which case the distance to "January 1 would be 366 - 205 = 161 (→ the number of Fibonacci → the Golden Mean) right ascension days.

... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th [161] 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 ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
DEC 7 8 9 10 11 (345) 12 (*266)
Gb2-6 (32) Gb2-7 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (82 + 183) Gb2-11 (266)
BUNDA (Foundation) / KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny) θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)

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

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

Febr 9 (40) 10 11 12 (408) 13 (*329) All Hearts' Day
°Febr 5 (36) 6 7 8 (*324) 9 (40) 10
'Jan 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
"Dec 30 (364) Ko Koró (→ kórē) 31 "Jan 1 2 3 4

... 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 ...

... In the inscriptions of Dendera, published by Dümichen, the goddess Hathor is called 'lady of every joy'. For once, Dümichen adds: Literally ... 'the lady of every heart circuit'. This is not to say that the Egyptians had discovered the circulation of the blood. But the determinative sign for 'heart' often figures as the plumb bob at the end of a plumb line coming from a well-known astronomical or surveying device, the merkhet. Evidently, 'heart' is something very specific, as it were the 'center of gravity' ... See Aeg.Wb. 2, pp. 55f. for sign of the heart (ib) as expressing generally 'the middle, the center'.

And this may lead in quite another direction. The Arabs preserved a name for Canopus - besides calling the star Kalb at-tai-man ('heart of the south') ... Suhail el-wezn, 'Canopus Ponderosus', the heavy-weighing Canopus, a name promptly declared meaningless by the experts, but which could well have belonged to an archaic system in which Canopus was the weight at the end of the plumb line, as befitted its important position as a heavy star at the South Pole of the 'waters below'. Here is a chain of inferences which might or might not be valid, but it is allowable to test it, and no inference at all would come from the 'lady of every joy'. The line seems to state that Hathor (= Hat Hor, 'House of Horus') 'rules' the revolution of a specific celestial body - whether or not Canopus is alluded to - or, if we can trust the translation 'every', the revolution of all celestial bodies. As concerns the identity of the ruling lady, the greater possibility speaks for Sirius, but Venus cannot be excluded; in Mexico, too, Venus is called 'heart of the earth'. The reader is invited to imagine for himself what many thousands of such pseudo-primitive or poetic interpretations must lead to: a disfigured interpretation of Egyptian intellectual life ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JUNE 7 8 (*79) 9 10 (161) 11 12
The Knot (Ukdah)

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)

UKDAH (Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8)

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

Aug 10 11 12 13 (*145) 14 15 (227)
°Aug 6 7 8 (220) 9 10 11 (*143)
'July 14 15 16 17 (*118) 18 19 (200)
SIRIUS "July 1 2 3 (*104) 4 (185) Te Anakena 5

At the time of rongorongo Sirius stood like a pillar at day zero in June 30, 181 (*101), and 101 days later came Spica in October 9, 282 (*202). The flag of Brazil has uplifted Spica with a little dot far down marking Dramasa (σ Octantis, the South Pole star). In between we can perceive the Southern Cross, and between Spica and the Southern Cross is the Tail of the Hydra (γ Hydrae, Al Dhanab al Shuja) - in the day before Spica but below the curved band. To the right is the Scorpion with Antares placed at the opposite side compared to Procyon (α Canis Minoris), below O in ORDEM. Alphard (α Hydrae) is below M. Sirius and 4 more stars in Canis Major are noted below Alphard, together with Canopus. In addition to 8 stars in the Scorpion we can also see 3 more stars to the left which mark the Southern Triangle (Triangulum Australe). Altogether there are 26 + 1 = 27 stars:

... They stayed (there longer). On the fifth day of the month of July (Anakena) [day 186 + 41 = 227], 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!...

Ga3-19 Ga3-20 (79) Ga3-21 Ga3-22 Ga3-23 Ga3-24

Te Pou (the Pillar) was an Easter Island name for Sirius, the exceptional star which in ancient Egypt had caused the earth to become inundated by the rising waters of the Nile (the Milky Way) - i.e. had made Mother Earth fertile again.

... Pliny wants to assure us that 'the whole sea is conscious of the rise of that star, as is most clearly seen in the Dardanelles, for sea-weed and fishes float on the surface, and everything is turned up from the bottom'. He also remarks that at the rising of the Dog-Star the wine in the cellars begins to stir up and that the still waters move ...

... 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 ...

At the time of the Bull (*64 right ascension days before the time-frame of rongorongo) the Full Moon would have been at the right ascension line for Vega in JUNE 9, and the following day (10 / 6 as in the headgear of the Mad Hatter) was number 161. Presumably the implication was that here Father Light (Jus Piter) abruptly went up to the north pole - i.e. where it had been around half a precessional cycle ago. At this time of the year and at the north pole the Sun would never set.