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The Eye-catching glyph at ε Aquarii was designed to draw attention:

... The jaguar learned from the grasshopper that the toad and the rabbit had stolen its fire while it was out hunting, and that they had taken it across the river [tahe]. While the jaguar was weeping at this, an anteater came along, and the jaguar suggested that they should have an excretory competition. The anteater, however, appropriated the excrement containing raw meat and made the jaguar believe that its own excretions consisted entirely of ants. In order to even things out [tahe], 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 ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
NOV 26 (*250) 10 DEC 7 (*261) 4 DEC 12 (*266 = *330 - *64)

Girl-10 (Bat)

Emptiness-11 (Rat)

All Hearts' Day

Jan 29 (*314)

BETELGEUZE

Febr 9 (40)

SADALSUD

Febr 13 (45)

θ Piscis Austrini

15
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
JUNE 10 (161) 11 12

... 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 ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
LUCIA DEC 14 (*268) 15 (349)
Gb2-12 Gb2-13 Gb2-14 (229 + 40)

KUH (Weeping) = μ Capricorni (331.4), γ Gruis (331.5)

*290.0 = *331.4 - *41.4
 

No star listed (332)

η Piscis Austrini (333.4)

*292.0 = *333.4 - *41.4
Febr 15 (46 = 411) 16 (229 + 183) 17 (14 * 29½)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
JUNE 13 (*84) 14 15

υ¹ Hydrae (148.4), RAS ELASET BOREALIS (Northern Head of the Lion) = μ Leonis (148.7)

*107.0 = *148.4 - *41.4

TSEEN KE (Heaven's Record) = Φ Velorum (149.9)

ν Leonis (150.1), π Leonis (150.6)
Aug 16 (187 + 41) 17 (229) 18 (150 + 80)

Because January 29 was anciently the last night in the month of Januarius.

A precariously balancing precious water jar divided the occiputal (teke) shadowy side of Janus from that of the alighted face of Janus in front. A complementary dry sign was hovering at the corresponding place on the opposite side of the coin.

... The Ship appears to have no bow ... Aratos wrote: Sternforward Argō by the Great Dog's tail // Is drawn; for hers is not a usual course, // But backward turned she comes, as vessels do // When sailors have transposed the crooked stern // On entering harbour; all the ship reverse, // And gliding backward on the beach it grounds. // Sternforward thus is Jason's Argō drawn ...

The Chinese cue 'Bat' for the night of January 29 could have alluded to Mulu Bat, the Star of Death.

... As a lunar station these stars were the Sogdian Sarwa and the Khorasmian Shushak, the Leader; the Persian Hucru, the Good Goer; and the Coptic Khambalia, [also the name of the star λ] Crooked-clawed, λ being substituted for φ; and it is said that they were the Akkadian Lu Lim the He Goat, Gazelle, or Stag, the original perhaps meaning 'King' and employed for δ. ι alone, according to Hommel, was the Death Star, Mulu Bat ...

Takapau

39 variants of uhi - STOLEN by Teke from his brother Ma'eha [E:58-64]

18

13

7

SIRRAH (*0)

ADHIL (*19)

MIRA (*33)

BHARANI (*41)

ALCHITA (*183)

SPICA (*202)

KHAMBALIA (*216)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (*224)

0h

39 (= 3 * 13)

There were several hanging victims (rau hei) depicted here, beginning at the Tail of the Swan.

rau hei

... Across the bows connecting each double canoe was a floor, covering the chambers containing idols, drums, trumpet shells, and other treasures for the gods and people of Ra'itea; and upon the floor were placed in a row sacrifices from abroad, which consisted of human victims brought for that purpose and just slain, and great fishes newly caught from fishing grounds of the neighboring islands. They were placed upon the floor, parallel with the canoe, alternatively a man and a cavalli fish, a man and a shark, a man and a turtle, and finally a man closed in the line. Behind this grim spectacle stood two or three priests in sacerdotal attire, which consisted of a plain loin girdle, a shoulder cape reaching down to the waist and tipped with fringe, wide or narrow according to their grades, and a circular cap fitting closely to the head - all made of finely braided purau bark bleached white. Seated at the paddles were the navigators and warrior chiefs in gay girdles and capes of tapa and helmets of various shapes, and wise men in plain girdles, capes, and turbans of brown or white tapa. As this terribly earnest procession arrived, the canoes were quietly drawn up along the shore, and the guests were met at the receiving marae by an imposing procession of the dignitaries and warriors of the land grandly attired, and also unarmed, headed by the king, the two primates, Paoa-uri and Paoa-tea, and the priests of the realm, who greeted them in low, solemn tones. Then everybody alike set to work silently disposing of the sacrifices just arrived, combined with others of the same mixed kind prepared by the inhabitants of the land. They strung them through the heads with sennit, and act called tu'i-aha, and then suspended them upon the boughs of the trees of the seaside and inwards, the fish diversifying the ghastly spectacle of the human bodies, a decoration called ra'a nu'u a 'Oro-mata-'oa (sacredness of the host of Warrior-of-long-face) ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
NOV 25 (329) 26 27 28 (355 - 23) 29 *254

... 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 ...

Gb1-20 Gb1-21 (250) Gb1-22 Gb1-23 Gb1-24 Gb1-25
μ², μ¹ Oct. (313.2), DENEB CYGNI (Tail of the Swan) = α Cygni (313.5), β Pavonis (313.6), δ Delphini (313.8)

Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 (Good Fortune of the Swallower) / Dhanishta-24 (Most Famous) / Girl-10 (Bat)

YUE (Battle-Axe) = ψ Capricorni (314.3), GIENAH CYGNI = ε Cygni, η Cephei (314.5), γ Delphini (314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7), ALBALI = ε Aquarii (314.8)

BETELGEUZE (α Orionis)

BATEN ALGIEDI (Belly of the Goat) = ω Capricorni (315.8)

μ Aquarii (316.0) ε Equulei (317.8) No star listed (318)
Jan 28 (393) 29 (*314) 30 31 Febr 1 (32) 2

... 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' ...

 ... The earliest depiction that has been linked to the constellation of Orion is a prehistoric (Aurignacian) mammoth ivory carving found in a cave in the Ach valley in Germany in 1979. Archaeologists have estimated it to have been fashioned approximately 32,000 to 38,000 years ago ... The artist cut, smoothed and carved one side (A) and finely notched the other side (B) and the edges. Side A contains the half-relief of an anthropoidal figure, either human or a human-feline hybrid, known as the 'adorant' because its arms are raised as if in an act of worship.

On side B together with the four edges is a series of notches that are clearly set in an intentional pattern. The edges contain a total of 39 notches in groups of 6, 13, 7 and 13. A further 49 notches on side B are arranged in four vertical lines of 13, 10, 12 and 13 respectively plus a further notch that could be in either of the middle two lines ... The grouping of the notches on the plate suggests a time-related sequence. The total number of notches (88) not only coincides with the number of days in 3 lunations (88.5) but also approximately with the number of days when the star Betelgeuse (α Ori) disappeared from view each year between its heliacal set (about 14 days before the spring equinox around 33,000 BP) and its heliacal rise (approximately 19 days before the summer solstice).

Conversely, the nine-month period when Orion was visible in the sky approximately matched the duration of human pregnancy, and the timing of the heliacal rise in early summer would have facilitated a ‘rule of thumb’ whereby, by timing conception close to the reappearance of the constellation, it could be ensured that a birth would take place after the severe winter half-year, but leaving enough time for sufficient nutrition of the baby before the beginning of the next winter. There is a resemblance between the anthropoid on side A and the constellation Orion. None of these factors is convincing when taken in isolation, because of the high probability that apparently significant structural and numerical coincidences might have arisen fortuitously. However, taken together they suggest that the anthropoid represented an asterism equivalent to today’s constellation of Orion, and that the ivory plate as a whole related to a system of time reckoning linked to the moon and to human pregnancy. If so, then ethnographic comparisons would suggest that the Geißenklösterle culture related their ‘anthropoid’ asterism to perceived cycles of cosmic power and fertility ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON: 9
DEC 1 2 (336 = 4 * 84) 3 4 5 *260
Gb1-26 Gb2-1 Gb2-2 Gb2-3 Gb2-4 Gb2-5

21h (319.6)

ARMUS = η Capricorni (319.0), DORSUM = θ Capricorni (319.3), TSOO = 24 Capricorni (319.7)
DRAMASA = σ Oct., χ Capricorni (320.0), ν Aquarii (320.3), γ Equulei (320.6), ο Pavonis (320.8) α Oct. (321.5), δ Equulei (321.7), φ Capricorni (321.8) KITALPHA (Part of a Horse) = α Equulei (322.0), ALDERAMIN (The Right Arm) = α Cephei (322.9) DAI = ι Capricorni (323.5), β Equulei (323.8) γ Pavonis (324.1), YAN = ζ Capricorni (324.6)
Febr 3 4 (*320) 5 (36) 6 7 (403) 8
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DEC 16 (366 - 16) 17 18 19 20 (12 * 29½) SOLSTICE
Gb2-15 (270) Gb2-16 Gb2-17 Gb2-18 (3 * 91) Gb2-19 Gb2-20 (46)

Rooftop-12 (Swallow)

22h (334.8)

KAE UH (Roof) = ο Aquarii (334.0), AL KURHAH (White Spot) = ξ Cephei (334.4), SADALMELIK (Lucky King) = α Aquarii, AL DHANAB (The Tail) = λ Gruis (334.6), ι Aquarii, ν Pegasi (334.7)

*293.0 = *334.4 - *41.4
ι Pegasi (335.0), ALNAIR (The Bright One) = α Gruis (335.1), μ Piscis Austrini, υ Piscis Austrini (335.3), WOO (Pestle) = π Pegasi (335.7), BAHAM = θ Pegasi (Good Luck of the Two Beasts), τ Piscis Austrini (335.8) ζ Cephei (336.2), λ Cephei (336.3), -/270 Lac. (336.7), λ Piscis Austrini (336.8)

μ Gruis (337.0), ε Cephei (337.2), 1/325 Lac. (337.3), ANCHA (Hip) = θ Aquarii (337.4), ψ Oct. (337.5), α Tucanae (337.9)

*296.0 = *337.4 - *41.4

*337.4 = *169.4 (Coxa, the Hip in Leo) + *168

Al Sa'ad al Ahbiyah-23 (Lucky Star of Hidden Things) / Shatabisha-25 (Comprising a Hundred Physicians)

 ε Oct. (338.1), ρ Aquarii (338.2), 2/365 Lac. (338.5), SADACHBIA = γ Aquarii (338.6), π Gruis (338.9)

β/172 Lac. (339.2), 4/1100 Lac. (339.4), π Aquarii (339.5)

*298.0 = *339.4 - *41.4

CASTOR (α Gemini)
Febr 18 (10 * 41.4) 19 20 21 22 (53) TERMINALIA

There were 10 + 54 = 64 (= 364 - 300 = 294 - 230 = 300 - 236) days from December 21 (355) to February 23 (54).

36

3

23

OCT 21 (*214)

 

35

 

NOV 26 (*250)

27

28 (355 - 23)

 

3

 

DEC 2

 

18

 

SOLSTICE

Ga8-11 (214)

Gb1-21 (250)

Gb1-22

Gb1-23

Gb2-1 (4 * 64)

Gb2-20 (275)

*278

*314

*315

*316

*320

*339

X-MAS EVE

Jan 29

30

31 (396)

Febr 4 (400)

Terminalia

We can see that when Lono was sent off on his circuit this corresponded to the time when the Full Moon was in January 31 according to the Gregorian calendar (at my assumed epoch for rongorongo).

But the Hawaiians were evidently - at least during this time of the year - instead relying on the positions of the stars as they would have stood in epoch of the Golden Age of the Bull (when Ain - his Eye - had been at 0h).

... A man had a daughter who possessed a wonderful bow and arrow, with which she was able to bring down everything she wanted. But she was lazy and was constantly sleeping. At this her father was angry and said: 'Do not be always sleeping, but take thy bow and shoot at the navel of the ocean, so that we may get fire.' The navel of the ocean was a vast whirlpool in which sticks for making fire by friction were drifting about. At that time men were still without fire. Now the maiden seized her bow, shot into the navel of the ocean, and the material for fire-rubbing sprang ashore ...

January 31 (396) - 64 (precessional distance down to the Golden Age) = 332 (= 355 - 23).

... For the East we have the glyph Ahau-Kin, the Lord Sun, the Lord of Day; for the West we have Manik-Kin, exactly corresponding to the term Chikin, the biting or eating of the Sun, seizing it in the mouth.

This was the position of μ Aquarii in the night sky.

Egyptian water ripples Phoenician mēm Greek mu Μ (μ)
Egyptian cobra in repose Phoenician nūn Greek nu Ν (ν)

When the effigy of Lono returned the Full Moon would have been in February 23 = DECEMBER 25 in the night when the Beaver (Castor) was culminating (at 21h). The Julian calendar had spring equinox in 3-25 and this was 9 months later. The midpoint between the Gregorian 3-21 (80) and the Julian 3-25 (84) should be day 23 (2 * 41).