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Probably the mammoth bone calendar had been carved to present a picture of Orion on its top surface - with 39 notches around its border line and 49 on its bottom surface:

... 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.

Egyptian jubilation Phoenician he Greek epsilon Ε (ε)

Wikipedia points at the Egyptian gesture with arms held high as a Sign of jubilation, which may have been the origin (via Phoenician he) of epsilon.

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 ...

Te Taka-pau

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

18

13

7

Gb6-26 (229 + 179 = 408) Gb7-17 (99 + 99) Gb7-31 (4 * 53)

Gb8-8 (11 * 11 + 99)

MARCH 21 (80)

APRIL 9 (99)

APRIL 23 (113)

MAY 1 (121)

SIRRAH (*0)

ADHIL (*19)

MIRA (*33)

BHARANI (*41)

ALCHITA (*183)

SPICA (*202)

KHAMBALIA (*216)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (*224)

0h

39 (= 3 * 13)

Moving withershins in time-space 39 + 49 right ascension days will transport us from Zuben Elgenubi (*224) to *136 (Alcyone).

136 - 88 = 48 (twice 24) and then 365 + 48 = 413 = 14 * 29½. Anciently there were 48 constellations and these could be observed during the nights. But 7 * 7 = 49 constellations would fit nicely with 4 * 91 = 364 days. 365 + 49 = 414 (→ Bharani).

Ga7-1

Ga7-2

Ga7-3 (172)

Ga7-4

Ga7-5

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

MARCH 9 (68)

10

11 (*355)

12

13 (254 - 182)

No star listed (52)

ψ Persei (53.1)

ACRUX (α CRUCIS)

 (235 + 183 - 365 = 53)

δ Persei (54.7)

Al Thurayya-27 (Many Little Ones) / Krittikā-3 (Nurses of Kārttikeya) / TAU-ONO (Six Stones)

ATIKS = ο Persei, RANA (Frog) = δ Eridani (55.1), CELAENO (16 Tauri), ELECTRA (17), TAYGETA (19), ν Persei (55.3), MAIA (20), ASTEROPE (21), MEROPE (23) (55.6)

Hairy Head-18 (Cockerel) / Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)

ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE (28 Tauri), ATLAS (27 Tauri) (56.3)
May 12

13 (*53)

14 (134)

15 (500, erima te rau)

16 (136)

... During the reign of Matua, the Hanau Eepe came [he ea]. They stole [he toke] one side (etahi painga) of the land of he king of Hanau Momoko and moved [he hakaneke] the border [te tita'a koîa] from their side toward the side of the Hanau Momoko. Five hundred [erima te rau] Hanau Eepe stole the land of the king of the Hanau Momoko. [E:53].

... 'Oh, you, why [mo-te-aha] have you violated [toke] the borders of my [tooku] land?' The Hanau Eepe answered, 'There is not enough land [he kainga kore] to live on!' Thereupon the king called out [he rangi] to the Hanau Eepe, 'Here I stand, and I tell all of you: I am taking [he too au] you prisoners [he puru] and I am locking you up in the house of prisoners (hare kopu) for fifty [50, erima te kauatu] years!' Then the king called out [he rangi] to his men, 'Seize [ka too] all of them, and lock up all of the Hanau Eepe! Lock them up [ka puru] for good!' [E:55 → right ascension day corresponding to May 15 (365 + 135 = 500)].

... Matua [A Taana] said to Hotu [A Matua], 'Take along the Hanau Eepe and let them work the land!' Hotu called out to Heke: 'Go and bring the 500 prisoners on board the canoe!' He took all of them along, led them on board the canoe, and left them there. For six days (po ono), mats (moenga) were taken on board the canoe (i.e., the loading of the canoe took six days) ... [E:73-74 → Ga7-3--7-4.]

E:73 → 584 / 8 = 365 / 5 → 40 (February 9) + 33 (→ Mira)

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:

SEPT 7 (250)

8

9 (70 + 183)

10 (135 + 4 * 29½)

11

NUSAKAN (Pauper's Bowl) = β Cor. Bor. (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7), ζ Librae (234.9)

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)

SIRRAH (α Andromedae)

(53 + 182 = 235)

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)

*196.0 = *237.4 - *41.4
π Cor. Borealis, UNUK ELHAIA (Necks of the Serpents) = λ Serpentis (238.1), CHOW = β Serpentis (238.6)

Nov 10 (314 → π)

11

12 (*236 = 8 * 29½) 13 14

... 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 ...

I.e., the structure documented on the mammoth bone seems to correspond to this structure:

BACK SIDE

BORDER LINE

FRONT SIDE

46

37

Ga7-5 (174)

Ga8-18

Ga8-19 (222)

Ga8-20 (223)

Gb2-6 (9 * 29)

Gb2-7 (262)

ALCYONE (*56)

ALHENA

ADARA (*104)

ALZIRR

ALPHARD (*142)

ALTERF (*143.4)

"April 5 (460)

"May 22

23 (95 + 48)

24 (144)

"June 30 (181)

"July 1

49

39

89 - 88

89 → BET-EL-GEUZE

Or maybe better: when counting from Tau-ono at *55 (a more reasonable beginning for the Back side) the star Alhena (γ Gemini, Al-Han'ah, the Brand) would mark the end of 49 dark nights. Then would follow 39 days of dawning from the Virgins (Adara, ε Canis Majoris), to the Horse (Al-Phard, α Hydrae) - corresponding to the dawnng of the front side.

This was evidently a very important place, we will remember:

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DEC 7 (*261) 8 9 (7 * 7 * 7) 10 11 (345) 12 (*266)
Gb2-6 (9 * 29) Gb2-7 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 (35) Gb2-10 Gb2-11 (266)
BUNDA (Foundation) / KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny) θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)

Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 (Luckiest of the Lucky) / Emptiness-11 (Rat)

TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK (The Flock) = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)
No star listed (326)

CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA = ξ Aquarii (327.5)

SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)

 

Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)

NASHIRA = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)

Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)

ENIF (The Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 CAPRICORNI, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI =  δ Capricorni (329.8)

*288.0 = *329.4 - *41.4
Febr 9 (40) 10 (343 + 64) (408 = 43 + 365) 13 All Hearts' Day

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...

°Febr 5 6 7 8 (*324) 9 10 (41)
'Jan 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
"Dec 30 31 "Jan 1 2 3 (368) 4
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
JUNE 7 (*78) 8 9 10 (161) 11 12

Fibonacci: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 ... → 1.618033998 ... = φ = (1 + √5) / 2.

... 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 ...

The Knot (Ukdah)

5 Imix 9 Kumk'u

Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)

ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6)

*105.0 = *146.4 - *41.4
VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)

Star-25 (Horse) / ANA-HEU-HEU-PO-5 (Pillar where debates were held)

ALPHARD (The Horse) = α Hydrae (142.3), ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7)

Al Tarf-7 (The End)

ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)

*102.0 = *143.4 - *41.4

A Hydrae (144.1)

VEGA (α Lyrae)

 

Creation of our present world

UKDAH (Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8)

*104.0 = *145.4 - *41.4

ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA

Aug 10 11 12 13 (*145 = 290 / 2) 14 15 (227)
°Aug 6 7 8 (220) 9 (13 * 17) 10 11 (*143)
'July 14 15 16 17 (*118 = 4 * 29½) 18 19 (200)
SIRIUS "July 1 2 3 (*104 = 4 * 26) 4 5 (186)

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.

.. In three magnificent texts at the site of Koba, scribes recorded it as one of the largest finite numbers we humans have ever written. According to these inscriptions, our world was created on the day 4 Ahaw 8 Kumk'u. On this day all the cycles of the Maya calendar above twenty years were set at thirteen - that is to say, the cycles of 400 years, 8,000 years, 160,000 years, 32,000,000 years, and so on, all the way up to a cycle number extending to twenty places (2021 * 1360-day year). 

In our calendar, this day fell on August 13, 3114 BC. To understand what this means, we need a little scale. The thirteens in this huge number act like the twelve in our cycles - the next hour after twelve is one.

Thirteen changed to one as each of these cycles in the Maya calendar was completed, therefore, we have the following sequence:

13.

13.

13.

0.

0.

0.

1.

5 Imix

9 Kumk'u

(Aug. 14, 3114 B.C.)

13.

13.

13.

0.

0.

1.

0.

11 Ahaw

3 Pop

(Sept. 2, 3114 B.C.)

13.

13.

13.

0.

1.

0.

0.

13 Ahaw

3 Kumk'u

(Aug.7, 3113 B.C.)

13.

13.

13.

1.

0.

0.

0.

2 Ahaw

8 Mak

(May 1, 3094 B.C.)

13.

13.

1.

0.

0.

0.

0.

3 Ahaw

13 Ch'en

(Nov. 15, 2720 B.C.)

13.

13.

13.

0.

0.

0.

0.

4 Ahaw

3 K'ank'in

(Dec. 23, A.D. 2012)

13.

1.

0.

0.

0.

0.

0.

10 Ahaw

13 Yaxk'in

(Oct. 15, A.D. 4772)

1.

0.

0.

0.

0.

0.

0.

7 Ahaw

3 Zotz'

(Nov. 22, A.D. 154587)

... This pot depicts one of the Hero Twins (One-Ahaw in the Classic texts and One-Hunaphu in the K'iche' Popol Vuh) and a great bird who is trying to land in a huge ceiba tree heavy with fruit. This mythical bird is Itzam-Yeh, Classic prototype of Wuqub-Kaqix, 'Seven-Macaw', of Popol Vuh fame. In that story, in the time before the sky was lifted up to make room for the light, the vainglorious Seven-Macaw imagined himself to be the sun. Offended by his pride, the Hero Twins humbled him by breaking his beautiful shining tooth with a pellet from their blowgun. This pot shows One-Ahaw aiming at the bird as he swoops down to land in his tree. As Itzam-Yeh lands on his perch, the text tells us he is 'entering or becoming the sky'. 

This particular 'sky-entering' is not the one mentioned in the Palenque text. It is the final event that occurred in the previous creation before the universe was remade. Before the sky could be raised and the real sun revealed in all its splendor, the Hero Twins had to put the false sun, Itzam-Yeh, in his place. If the date on this pot corresponds to that pre-Columbian event, as we believe it does, then Itzam-Yeh was defeated on 12.18.4.5.0.1 Ahaw 3 K'ank'in (May 28, 3149 B.C.). After the new universe was finally brought into existence, First Father also entered the sky by landing in the tree, just as Itzam-Yeh did ...