10 days after the Pleiades had returned to visibility the cycle of Lono would begin with its final to be reached at the December solstice; 355 - 23 = 332 (November 28). ... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ... We can use the opportunity to take a quick look at the days at the end of November in the C text:
But the enormous amount of information embedded in the text should make us avoid digging down here - we would never come to the end of such a quest. Instead, let us try to think (put two and two together): We know that according to the epoch of rongorongo the pair of heliacal days for the Pleiades were in May 15 (500) - May 16 (136). This was when they rose simultaneously with the Sun. Due to the precession since 'the latter eighteenth century' we may assume a difference of about a day → May 16-17. May 16 (136) + 366 / 2 = 319 (November 15). But in May 16 (136) the rays from the rising Sun would have made any observations of the Pleiades impossible. ... The eye is the symbolic site of subjection. Valeri observes that: 'The two sentiments that permit the transcendence of the self are, according to Hawaiians, desire and respect. One and the other are called kau ka maka, literally, 'to set one's eyes on' ... 'To see' (ike) in Hawaiian (as in French or English) is 'to understand', but it is also 'to know sexually'. Witness to the order, the world of forms generated by the chief, the eye, is the sacrifice of those who violate that order. The left eye of the slain tabu-transgressors is swallowed by Kahoali'i, ceremonial double of the king and living god of his sacrificial rites. Like the sun, chiefs of the highest tabus - those who are called 'gods', 'fire', 'heat', and 'raging blazes' - cannot be gazed directly upon without injury. The lowly commoner prostrates before them face to the ground, the position assumed by victims on the platforms of human sacrifice. Such a one is called makawela, 'burnt eyes' ... Presumably also the rays from the descending Sun would interfere. When the Sun reached the Pleiades the Full Moon would have been (ideally) around day 136 + 183 = 319 (November 15), but the cycle of Lono would take no more than 23 days in order to reach the December solstice; 355 - 23 = 332 (November 18). The C text has its 'breaking' at day 237 (= 8 * 29½ + 1), and 9 * 9 alludes to March 22 (81):
Koti. Kotikoti. To cut with scissors (since this is an old word and scissors do not seem to have existed, it must mean something of the kind). Vanaga. Kotikoti. To tear; kokoti, to cut, to chop, to hew, to cleave, to assassinate, to amputate, to scar, to notch, to carve, to use a knife, to cut off, to lop, to gash, to mow, to saw; kokotiga kore, indivisible; kokotihaga, cutting, gash furrow. P Pau.: koti, to chop. Mgv.: kotikoti, to cut, to cut into bands or slices; kokoti, to cut, to saw; akakotikoti, a ray, a streak, a stripe, to make bars. Mq.: koti, oti, to cut, to divide. Ta.: oóti, to cut, to carve; otióti, to cut fine. Churchill. Pau.: Koti, to gush, to spout. Ta.: oti, to rebound, to fall back. Kotika, cape, headland. Ta.: otiá, boundary, limit. Churchill. A week later (where Metoro used a Capital letter) was the day after November 19:
In spring (north of the equator) the Pleiades would return to visibility about 16 days after May 16, i.e. around day 136 + 16 = 152 (June 1) - which hardly was a coincidence. ... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ... [E:17]
152 + 183 = 335 (December 1). According to the C
text this was the place for 'creating a king' (haka-ariki).
335 (December 1) + 22 (= 23 - 1) = 357 (December
23). This was in the midst between December 21
and December 25.
Likewise was March 23 in the midst between March
21 and March 25, where an exceptionally beautiful
variant of henua marks the place: The
Julian equinox was at 3-25 and when the
Pope Gregory XIII launched his new
calendar it was explained that the
effects of the precession since 325 AD
had been corrected. 3 * 25 = 75 = 350 /
4:
... When Julius
Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC
[45 = 180 / 4] he set March 25 as the
spring equinox. Since a Julian year
(365.25 days) is slightly longer than an
actual year the calendar drifted with
respect to the equinox, such that the
equinox was occurring on about 21 March
in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached
11 March. This drift induced Pope
Gregory XIII to create a modern
Gregorian calendar. The Pope wanted to
restore the edicts concerning the date
of Easter of the Council of Nicaea of AD
325.
So the shift in the
date of the equinox that occurred
between the 4th and the 16th centuries
was annulled with the Gregorian
calendar, but nothing was done for the
first four centuries of the Julian
calendar. The days of 29 February of the
years AD 100, AD 200, AD 300, and the
day created by the irregular application
of leap years between the assassination
of Caesar and the decree of Augustus
re-arranging the calendar in AD 8,
remained in effect. This moved the
equinox four days earlier than in
Caesar's time ...
Which might imply that according to the
Rigel year the cycle of Rogo should begin
22 days earlier than at Ca3-23.
May 12 (132)
no star listed (52)
ψ
Persei (53.1)
δ Persei (54.7)
θ Cor. Borealis (235.3), γ Lupi (235.6),
GEMMA = α Cor. Bor.,
ZUBEN ELAKRAB = γ Librae, QIN = δ
Serpentis, ε Tr. Austr. (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8), υ Librae (235.9)
φ Bootis (236.2), ω Lupi, τ Librae
(236.3), ψ¹ Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor.
Borealis (236.9)
κ
Librae (237.2),
ι Serpentis (237.4),
ψ²
Lupi,
ρ
Oct.
(237.5), γ Cor. Borealis, η Librae (237.7),
COR
SERPENTIS = α Serpentis
(237.9) ...
In other words, the ancient Druidic
religion based on the oak-cult will be
swept away by Christianity and the door
- the god Llyr - will languish forgotten
in the Castle of Arianrhod, the
Corona Borealis. This helps us to
understand the relationship at Rome of
Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who
is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to
Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge
on which the year swung - the ancient
Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her
importance as such is recorded in the
Latin adjective cardinalis - as
we say in English 'of cardinal
importance - which was also applied to
the four main winds; for winds were
considered as under the sole direction
of the Great Goddess until Classical
times ...
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