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Once again. We have established a probable correlation between the beginnning of the A text and the First Point of Aries in Roman times. This enables us to put the glyphs (and heliacal stars) in the A text in parallel with those in the C text:

FEBR 11 12 (408) 13 14 (45) 15
Ca14-29 Cb1-1 Cb1-2 Cb1-3 Cb1-4 (396)
te rima E tupu - ki roto o te hau tea ki te henua - te maro
ANA-NIA-10 (Pillar-to-fish by)

χ Ceti (26.1), POLARIS = α Ursae Minoris, BATEN KAITOS = ζ Ceti (26.6), METALLAH = α Trianguli (26.9)

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)

*354.0 = *30.4 - *41.4
16 April 17 (107) 18 19 (80 + 29) 20
20 (79) 'March 21 22 23 24

... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March [*364] in most years) ...

6 (65) "March 7 8 9 10 (*354)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AUG 13 14 15 16 (*148) 17 (229)
no star listed (209) 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)
Oct 16 17 (290) 18 19 20
'Sept 19 20 21 (264) EQUINOX 23
"Sept 5 6 7 (250) 8 9
FEBR 16 17 (413 = 14 * 29½)
Cb1-5 Cb1-6 (6 + 392)
rutua - te pahu - rutua te maeva

DELTOTUM (Δ) = β Trianguli (31.2), ι Trianguli (31.7), η Arietis (31.9)

ξ¹ Ceti (32.1)
April 21 (111) 22 (*32)
Julian equinox 'March 26 (85)
"March 11 (*355) 12 (436 = 365 + 71)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AUG 18 (*150) 19 (231 = 48 + 183)

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
21 Oct 22 (295)
24 'Sept 25 (*188)
10 "Sept 11 (254)

Maeva. T. 1. Move. Rangi-maeva = Moving Sky (name of a marae). 2. Greet, greeting. Henry.

Although instead of sounding the drums (rutua te pahu) in front of Arcturus at the Full Moon (as in the C text) Metoro seems to have referred to such a thunder 111 (April 21) - 108 (April 18) = 3 days earlier in the A text:

FEBR 12 (408) 13 14 (45) 15
Ab1-1 Ab1-2 Ab1-3 Ab1-4
Te hoea rutua te pahu rutua te maeva  atua rerorero - atua ata tuu

Ata 1. Dawn, first light before sunrise; ku-hamu-á te ata, dawn has broken; ku-tehe-á te ata, it's already dawn (lit.: the lights have flown). 2. Particle inserted between the imperative prefix ka and the verb to signify 'well, carefully, intelligently': ka-ata-hakarivariva, prepare it well. Between the prefix e and kahara it expresses 'to make sure that, to take good care that...' : e-ata-kahara koe o oona, be careful not to get dirty; e-ata-kahara koe o kori te moa o te tahi pa, be sure not to steal chickens of another property. 3. More: iti, small; ata iti, smaller; he-ata-ata iti-iti ró, the smallest of all. Vanaga. Âta 1. Shadow: he-veveri te poki, ana tikea toona âta, the child is frightened at seeing his shadow; person's reflection (in mirror, in water): he âta oou-á, it's your own reflection. 2. To be frightened by a shadow: he-âta te îka, the fish are frightened (and they flee) by people's shadows. Vanaga. 1. Image, picture, portrait, design; to draw, to paint (shadow sense). P Mgv: ata, image, likeness, portrait, shadow of a human being, form, shape, appearance, imprint, impression. Mq.: ata, image, statue, portrait, shadow, surface; to design, to mark. Ta.: ata, shade, shadow appearance, form, representation of an object, cloud, cloudy. 2. Transparency, end of day, sunset (bright sense); e ata, red clouds; ku ata, transparent; ata mea, ata tea, ata tehe, dawn, daybreak, sunrise; ataata, end of day, sunset. P Mgv.: ata, morning or evening twilight, daybreak, dawn; ata haihai, evening twilight, a beautiful sunset; ataiai, twilight, clouds red with the sunset; atakurakura, a beautiful sunrise or sunset; atareureu, dawn, the first peep of day, morning twilight. Mq.: ata, to appear, to rise, to shine (of stars); ata uá, morning twilight; ataata, diaphanous, transparent. Ta.: ata, twilight. 3. A designation of space; ata hakahohonu, abyss; ata hakaneke mai, nearby, close at hand; ata tapa, lateral, marginal. 4 ? Ata kimikimi, to inquire; ata puo, to hill a plant; ata ui, to examine, to taste. Churchill. Atahenua (ata 3 - henua 1), landscape, countryside. Atakai: 1. Generous, hospitable, beneficent, indulgent, liberal, obliging; prodigality, indulgence; rima atakai, benevolent, generous, open-handed; gift, liberality. 2. Calm, unperturbed, grateful. Churchill. Ata-ta T, evening (? ataata). Atatehe (ata 2 - tehe 1), dawn; popohaga atatehe, morning, early in the morning. Churchill.

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)

*354.0 = *30.4 - *41.4

... The present limit of the celestial polar regions can be defined from the declination of the star γ Andromedae ... Its current place is at declination 42º 05' N. In other words the measure across the polar regions should be 2 * (90º - 42º 05') = 2 * 47º 55' = 95º 50' or around 96º. The width of the polar regions is thus around 2 * 96º = 192º and 360 - 192 = 168 = 2 * 84 (→ Julian spring equinox).

April 17 (80 + 27 = 107) 18 19 20
'March 21 (0h) 22 23 24
"March 7 8 9 10 (*354)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AUG 14 15 16 (*148) 17 (229)
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)
Oct 17 (290) 18 19 20
'Sept 20 21 (264) EQUINOX 23
"Sept 6 7 (250) 8 9

... The sky should be moving (rutua te maeva) at the Caracal - when the Full Moon would have been at right ascension day *29.4 + *365¼ / 2 = *212 = at Thuban.

... 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' ...

A

March 22

81

81 - 27 = '54

Febr 23

ALGENIB (γ Pegasi)

C

March 25

84

84 - 27 = '57

Febr 26 DZANEB (ω Piscium)

A

April 18

108

108 - 27 = '81

March 22

MEGREZ (δ Ursae Majoris)

C

April 21

111

111 - 27 = '84

March 25

ACRUX (α Crucis)