and we could count 365 - 270 = 95 as a measure equal to (for instance) the right ascension day distance from 0h to Canopus (according to my assumed epoch for rongorongo). Thus Drus and Canopus should belong together, for 2 points (twin stars) were always needed in order to take (merkhet) a prop(p)er measurement (me).

But beyond Drus the direction of the hull of Argo Navis went downwards, establishing a kind of implicit similarity with the fate of the Crocodile Canoe - i.e. the Milky Way as it had been perceived by the Mayas just before the dawn of August 13 (225) AD 690:

MAY 14

15 (365 + 135 = 500)

16 (136)

Ga2-24

Ga2-25 → Aug 13 4:38 a.m.

Ga2-26

φ Gemini (118.4)

*77.0 = *118.4 - *41.4

DRUS (*95 + *24)

ω Cancri (120.2)

The difference between the measure 24

... from *95 (Canopus) to *380 (1h) there were *285 (= 364 - 79) right ascension days. (25h / 24h = ca 1.04 (= 8 * 13 / 100) ...

and the measure 95

... From FEBRUARY 1 to JANUARY 31 there were 365 days. From January 1 to April 5 there were 365 + 95 = 460 days ...

could (for instance) be explained as due to the precession since the time when our present world had been created. 95 - 24 = 71, which is 1 more than 10 weeks:

(3112 BC + AD 1842) * 365.25 / 26000 = 70 → 10 weeks

... Another name for Mercury was Hermes and Hermes Trismegisthos (thrice-mighty) could have referred to the fact that there were 3.14 * 115.88 = 364.0 days for the cycle of the Earth around the Sun. Although the calendar has 365 days for a year this is due to the fact that the Earth has to turn around an extra day in order to compensate for how the direction to the Sun changes during a year ...

Drus → L. dūrus = hard (as oak) ... The seventh tree is the oak, the tree of Zeus, Juppiter, Hercules, The Dagda (the chief of the elder Irish gods), Thor, and all the other Thundergods, Jehovah in so far as he was 'El', and Allah. The royalty of the oak-tree needs no enlarging upon: most people are familiar with the argument of Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough, which concerns the human sacrifice of the oak-king of Nemi on Midsummer Day. The fuel of the midsummer fires is always oak, the fire of Vesta at Rome was fed with oak, and the need-fire is always kindled in an oak-log. When Gwion writes in the Câd Goddeu, 'Stout Guardian of the door, His name in every tongue', he is saying that doors are customarily made of oak as the strongest and toughest wood and that 'Duir', the Beth-Luis-Nion name for 'Oak', means 'door' in many European languages including Old Goidelic dorus, Latin foris, Greek thura, and German tür, all derived from the Sanskrit Dwr, and that Daleth, the Hebrew letter D, means 'Door' - the 'l' being originally an 'r'. Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... 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 ...

July 17

19 (200 = 136 + 64)

°July 13

15 (196)

'June 20

SOLSTICE

22 (173)

"June 6

8 (159)

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.**

... A sidelight falls upon the notions connected with the stag by Horapollo's statement concerning the Egyptian writing of 'A long space of time: A Stag's horns grow out each year. A picture of them means a long space of time.' Chairemon (hieroglyph no. 15, quoted by Tzetzes) made it shorter: 'eniautos: elaphos'. Louis Keimer, stressing the absence of stags in Egypt, pointed to the Oryx (Capra Nubiana) as the appropriate 'ersatz', whose head was, indeed, used for writing the word rnp = year, eventually in 'the Lord of the Year', a well-known title of Ptah. Rare as this modus of writing the word seems to have been - the Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache (eds. Erman and Grapow), vol. 2, pp. 429-33, does not even mention this variant - it is worth considering (as in every subject dealt with by Keimer), the more so as Chairemon continues his list by offering as number 16: 'eniautos: phoinix', i.e., a different span of time, the much-discussed 'Phoenix-period' (ca. 500 years) ...

MAY 17	2	20 (140)	39	JUNE 29	30 (181)	JULY 1	2	3 (248 - 64)

Ga2-27 → π		Ga3-1 (60)		Ga4-17	Ga4-18	Ga4-19	Ga4-20	Ga4-21 (104)
July 20		23 (204)		Sept 1	2	3	4	5 (104 + 144)
NAOS 8h		AL TARF (The End) ~~RAS ALGETHI~~		no star listed ~~ALTAIR~~	ALKES	DUBHE	*167	AL SHARAS (The Ribs)
Jan 19		22 (204 + 183)		March 3	4 (63)	5	6	7
*20h (304.4)**		GREDI, ALSHAT		FOMALHAUT	*348	*349	MAN WITH 2 FACES	*SIMMAH (351.7)**
NOV 16 (320)		*19 (243)**		DEC 29	30 (364)	*31 (285)**	JAN 1	2
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... According to a variety of sources of the legend, the Argo was said to have been planned or constructed with the help of Athena. According to other legends it contained in its prow a magical piece of timber from the sacred forest of Dodona, which could speak and render prophecies. Argo Navis is the only one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy that is no longer officially recognised as a constellation. It was unwieldy due to its enormous size: were it still considered a single constellation, it would be the largest of all. In 1752, the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille subdivided it into Carina (the keel, or the hull, of the ship), Puppis (the poop deck), and Vela (the sails). When Argo Navis was split, its Bayer designations were also split. Carina has the α, β and ε, Vela has γ and δ, Puppis has ζ, and so on. The constellation Pyxis (the mariner's compass) occupies an area which in antiquity was considered part of Argo's mast (called Malus). However, Pyxis is not now considered part of Argo Navis, and its Bayer designations are separate from those of Carina, Puppis and Vela ...

Here it must be mentioned that in the C text we can find a quite rare phenomenon - a glyph which is very similar to a glyph in the G text. The common denominator was evidently Aquila:

*120

τ Aquilae (*303)

MAY 16 (136 = 200 - 64)

Jan 18 (383)

Ga2-26

ALTAIR (*300)

*117

Jan 15 (380)

MAY 13 (133)

Cb4-20

... Moon returns to the same place in the sky after about 24 hours and 50 minutes, which means the tidal period will be half as long (12 hours and 25 minutes) ... 24h 50' corresponds to (24 + 50/60) * 365¼ / 24 = ca 380 right ascension days (= 364 + 16). Presumably the difference between 380 (Moon) and 364 (Sun) - which happened to correspond to the difference between when the star returned to visibility and its true heliacal position - motivated the addition of an extra cycle ...

Possibly it was a coincidence, but we should not avoid noticing the resemblance between the name Cargo Boat and the Boat Argo. Word play was an integral part of the game - necessary for supporting the whole and for making it into an 'implex', a complex structure of associations - beautiful and loaded with meaning.

... Language forms an excellent defense against the kind of misuse which Plato speaks about with surprising earnestness in Phaedrus ...

... The mythic landscape was an 'implex', by which term is meant a world of implications. ... Fanciful, assuredly, but neither the Milky Way nor the terrestrial Ganges offered any basis for the imagery of a river flowing to the four quarters of the earth 'for the purification of the three worlds'. One cannot get away from the 'implex' and it is now necessary to consider the tale of a new skeleton map, alias skambha: the equinoctial colure had shifted to a position where it ran through stars of Auriga and through Rigel. Skambha, as we have said, was the World Tree consisting mostly of celestial coordinates, a kind of wildly imaginative armillary sphere. It all had to shift when one coordinate shifted ...

... In late September or early October 130, Hadrian and his entourage, among them Antinous, assembled at Heliopolis to set sail upstream as part of a flotilla along the River Nile. The retinue included officials, the Prefect, army and naval commanders, as well as literary and scholarly figures. Possibly also joining them was Lucius Ceionius Commodus, a young aristocrat whom Antinous might have deemed a rival to Hadrian's affections. On their journey up the Nile, they stopped at Hermopolis Magna, the primary shrine to the god Thoth. It was shortly after this, in October [in the year A.D.] 130 - around the time of the festival of Osiris - that Antinous fell into the river and died, probably from drowning. Hadrian publicly announced his death, with gossip soon spreading throughout the Empire that Antinous had been intentionally killed. The nature of Antinous's death remains a mystery to this day, and it is possible that Hadrian himself never knew; however, various hypotheses have been put forward. One possibility is that he was murdered by a conspiracy at court. However, Lambert asserted that this was unlikely because it lacked any supporting historical evidence, and because Antinous himself seemingly exerted little influence over Hadrian, thus meaning that an assassination served little purpose. Another suggestion is that Antinous had died during a voluntary castration as part of an attempt to retain his youth and thus his sexual appeal to Hadrian. However, this is improbable because Hadrian deemed both castration and circumcision to be abominations and as Antinous was aged between 18 and 20 at the time of death, any such operation would have been ineffective. A third possibility is that the death was accidental, perhaps if Antinous was intoxicated. However, in the surviving evidence Hadrian does not describe the death as being an accident; Lambert thought that this was suspicious. Another possibility is that Antinous represented a voluntary human sacrifice. Our earliest surviving evidence for this comes from the writings of Dio Cassius, 80 years after the event, although it would later be repeated in many subsequent sources. In the second century Roman Empire, a belief that the death of one could rejuvenate the health of another was widespread, and Hadrian had been ill for many years; in this scenario, Antinous could have sacrificed himself in the belief that Hadrian would have recovered. Alternately, in Egyptian tradition it was held that sacrifices of boys to the Nile, particularly at the time of the October Osiris festival, would ensure that the River would flood to its full capacity and thus fertilize the valley; this was made all the more urgent as the Nile's floods had been insufficient for full agricultural production in both 129 and 130. In this situation, Hadrian might not have revealed the cause of Antinous's death because he did not wish to appear either physically or politically weak. Conversely, opposing this possibility is the fact that Hadrian disliked human sacrifice and had strengthened laws against it in the Empire ...

... In myth the threads of a story return to their origin. Our present story is the Beginning:

The Decree of Canopus is a bilingual inscription in two languages, and in three scripts. It was written in three writing systems: Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Greek, on an ancient Egyptian memorial stone stele, the Stone of Canopus. The inscription is a decree by Egyptian priests honoring Pharaoh Ptolemy III Euergetes; Queen Berenice, his wife; and Princess Berenice in 238 BC ...

The inscription touches on subjects such as military campaigns, famine relief, Egyptian religion and governmental organization in Ptolemaic Egypt. It mentions the king's donations to the temples, his support for the Apis and Mnevis cults, which enjoyed huge success in the Macedonian - Egyptian world, and the return of divine statues which had been carried off by Cambyses. It extols the king's success in quelling insurgencies of native Egyptians, operations referred to as 'keeping the peace.' It reminds the reader that during a year of low inundation, the government had remitted taxes and imported grain from abroad ...

... It inaugurates the most accurate solar calendar known to the ancient world, with 365¼ days per year. It declares the deceased princess Berenike a goddess and creates a cult for her, with women, men, ceremonies, and special 'bread-cakes'. Lastly it orders the decree to be incised in stone or bronze in both hieroglyphs and Greek, and to be publicly displayed in the temples.

The traditional Egyptian calendar had 365 days: twelve months of thirty days each and an additional five epagomenal days. According to the reform, the 5-day 'Opening of the Year' ceremonies would include an additional 6th day every fourth year. The reason given was that the rise of Sothis advances to another day in every 4 years, so that attaching the beginning of the year to the heliacal rising of the star Sirius would keep the calendar synchronized with the seasons. This Ptolemaic calendar reform failed, but was finally officially implemented in Egypt by Augustus in 26/25 BCE, now called the Alexandrian calendar, with a sixth epagomenal day occurring for the first time on 29 August 22 BCE.Julius Caesar had earlier implemented a 365¼ day year in Rome in 45 BCE as part of the Julian calendar ...

I think the calendar reform of Ptolemy III Euergetes hinged on the myth of the golden tresses of Berenike (his wife) being placed inside a sacred 'naos', and remaining there, in this 'cave', only for a short while before mysteriously disappearing ...