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Once again. It has so far not been quite clear how to read the glyphs - do they refer to stars at the Sun, to the stars which culminate, to stars close to the Full Moon, or to some other point of reference?

In the C text we have now demonstrated that the glyphs on side a of the tablet were in parallel with the current dates according to the Gregorian calendar and thus also in parallel with the heliacal stars according to my assumed epoch for the rongorongo texts. This epoch was in tune with the epoch of Bharani / Zuben Elgenubi.

For instance, the current position of π Aurigae (*89.4) was a reflection of its position at *89.4 - *41.4 (current position of Bharani) = *48.0 (= 48 days after 0h according to the epoch of Bharani):

... 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 ...

Ca1-1

March 22 (81)

 

Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)

 

75 kua tupu te rakau kua tupu - te kihikihi te hau tea

Kihikihi, lichen; also: grey, greenish grey, ashen. Vanaga. Kihikihi, lichen T, stone T. Churchill. The Hawaiian day was divided in three general parts, like that of the early Greeks and Latins, - morning, noon, and afternoon - Kakahi-aka, breaking the shadows, scil. of night; Awakea, for Ao-akea, the plain full day; and Auina-la, the decline of the day. The lapse of the night, however, was noted by five stations, if I may say so, and four intervals of time, viz.: (1.) Kihi, at 6 P.M., or about sunset; (2.) Pili, between sunset and midnight; (3) Kau, indicating midnight; (4.) Pilipuka, between midnight and surise, or about 3 A.M.; (5.) Kihipuka, corresponding to sunrise, or about 6 A.M. ... (Fornander)

Ca4-1 (7 * 11) Ca4-2 (6 * 13) Ca4-3 (79)
June 6 (314 / 2)

μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)

June 7 (81 + 77) 

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)
June 8 (159 = 3 * 53)

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

 

ARCTURUS (α Bootis) 
Sept 21 (264)

PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis (184.6), MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris (184.9)

Dec 6 (340 = 157 + 183)

NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8)

7 (264 + 77)

SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

8 (342 = 3 * 114)

ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9)

*221.0 = *262.4 - *41.4
9
Ca4-13 (89)

kua tuu tona mea

June 18 (169)

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

Dec 18 (352)

CAT'S EYE = NGC6543 Draconis (272.2), ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ Ophiuchi (272.9)

*231.0 = *272.4 - *41.4

The position of the first rakau glyph in the text (Ca4-13) might alternatively be regarded as a reference to the star ζ Serpentis (*272.4) = *231.0 (its position at the time of Bharani) + *41.4 (the precession since then). This star was at the Full Moon in June 18 and at the Sun in December 18.

However, the creator of the C text has made it quite clear that what counted was the line between Capella (*78.4 = *37.0 + *41.4) and Rigel.

... 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 ...

Because this right ascension line was 11 days earlier than π Aurigae - a direct consequence of January 1 (366) being located 11 days after the December solstice (355).

He made it clear by assigning all his rakau glyphs to be in parallel with the first day of new cycles:

Ca4-12 (88) Ca4-13 → 14 * 29½
te hokohuki kua tuu tona mea

June 17 (168 = 88 + 80 = 408 - 320)

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)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae)

June 18

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

Dec 17 (351)

RUKBALGETHI GENUBI = θ Herculis (271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5), ETAMIN = γ Draconis, ν Herculis (271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8)

BHARANI (41 Arietis)

Dec 18

CAT'S EYE = NGC6543 Draconis (272.2), ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ Ophiuchi (272.9)

*231.0 = *272.4 - *41.4
10
Ca4-24 (100) Ca4-25 (88 + 13)
manu rere tupu te rakau
June 29 June 30 (SIRIUS)
Dec 29 Dec 30 (364)
7
Ca5-4 Ca5-5 Ca5-6 (111)
te henua kua iri i te rakau ihe tamaiti

Iri. 1. To go up; to go in a boat on the sea (the surface of which gives the impression of going up from the coast): he-eke te tagata ki ruga ki te vaka, he-iri ki te Hakakaiga, the men boarded the boat and went up to Hakakainga. 2. Ka-iri ki puku toiri ka toiri. Obscure expression of an ancient curse. Vanaga. Iri-are, a seaweed. Vanaga.

July 8

λ Gemini (109.4), WASAT (Middle) = δ Gemini (109.8)

*68.0 = *109.4 - *41.4

 

July 9

no star listed (110)

July 10 (191)

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

... 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 ...

149

Ca10-5 (260 = 88 + 172)

Ca10-6

kua oho te rima kua kai - ihe nuku hoi Tupu te toromiro
Dec 6 (340 = 157 + 183)

NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI (Head of the Giant) = α Herculis (260.8)

Dec 7 (264 + 77)

SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

June 6 (314 / 2)

μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)

June 7 (81 + 77)

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)

Due to the ancient master astronomers the rakau glyphs were also often in good coordination with the culminations (at 21h) of the important stars.

135
Cb1-5 (260 + 137) Cb1-6 (88 + 310)
rutua - te pahu - rutua te maeva
April 21 (477 = 340 + 137) April 22 (478 = 80 + 398)