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TRANSLATIONS
According to Allen: "... the bird, being sent with a cup for water, loitered at a fig-tree till the fruit became ripe, and then returned to the god with a water-snake in his claws and a lie in his mouth, alleging the snake to have been the cause of the delay. In punishment he was forever fixed in the sky with the Cup and the Snake; and, we may infer, doomed to everlasting thirst by the guardianship of the Hydra over the Cup and its contents. From all this came other poetical names for our Corvus - Avis Ficarius, the Fig Bird; and Emansor, one who stays beyond his time; and a belief, in early folk-lore, that this alone among birds did not carry water to its young ..." If, as I suspect, Corvus equals GD11:
then he may be the summer solstice solar bird. The one who stays beyond his time, Emansor, is a suitable name for sun at solstice. If he delays until fruit ripens, then his season may be longer than that, though figs perhaps ripen just after summer solstice. Sun is high in the sky - he must be a bird - and the heat makes people thirsty. In South America, the Sherente Indians associate the star χ in Orion (Asare) with the sun and with thirst, while the moon was associated with the Pleiades (Sururu). As the moon stands in opposition to the sun ('dark' contra 'light' etc) - and Sururu is in opposition to Asare - we can confidently suggest that Sururu belongs to the end of the rainy period and Asare to the start of the dry season. The Pleiades arrive just before Orion, the mighty hunter (a male person). The opposition between the powers of darkness and light is also found as part of the Corvus package: "The Greeks called it Κόραξ, Raven; and the Romans, Corvus. Manilius designating it as Phoebo Sacer Ales, and Ovid as Phoebeïus Ales, mythology having made the bird sacred to Phoebus Apollo in connection with his prophetic functions, and because he assumed its shape during the conflict of the gods with the giants." (Allen) Phoebus means 'the shining one' I learn from Wikipedia. As to Ales we remember alea jacta est (the dice has been thrown) and der Schicksalskammer (i in the picture):
If it is due to the precession of the equinoxes, that the Sherente of our time define the border line between 'water' and 'land' between the Pleiades and χ Orionis - whereas earlier it was Corvus who 'first set foot on land' - then we have a measure of time depth between these two different definitions. "... nor is the association of Corvus with Hydra evident, although there is a Euphratean myth, from far back of classical days, making it one of the monster ravens of the brood of Tiāmat that Hydra represented; and upon a tablet appears a title that may be for Corvus as the Great Storm Bird, or Bird of the Desert, to which Tiāmat gave sustenance, just as Aratos described Κόραξ pecking the folds of the Hydra. The prominent stars of Corvus have otherwise been identified with the Akkadian Kurra, the Horse. The Hebrews knew it as 'Ōrebh, or Ōrev, the Raven; and the Chinese as a portion of their great stellar division the Red Bird, while its individual stars were an Imperial Chariot ruling, or riding upon, the wind. In later days it has been likened to Noah's Raven flying over the Deluge, or alighting on Hydra, as there was no dry land for a resting place; or one of those that fed the prophet Elijah; but Julius Schiller combined its stars with those of Crater in his Ark of the Covenant." (Allen) Spring equinox moves 'backwards': Taurus → Aries → Pisces → Aquarius, 'inhabiting' each sign during ca 26,000 / 12 = 2,200 years. Given that 'water' is equal to 'winter' and spring equinox the time when the 'giants' (rulers of darkness) are defeated by the 'gods' (rulers of light who live on dry land), then Corvus once was hovering above the 'water'. Where is Corvus located? It is not one of the twelve zodiacal signs, but we must define its location referring to the zodiac. According to Klepešta:
If Corvus is identified with summer solstice, then by reason of the precession we can calculate like this: Define Taurus as spring equinox. From Taurus via Gemini, Cancer, and Leo we reach Virgo by 4 steps. From spring equinox to summer solstice we need only 3 steps (months). Therefore we must locate Corvus at summer solstice earlier than Taurus at spring equinox. We must go a further ca 2,200 years back in time. Taurus at spring equinox is somewhat less than 3 * 2,200 years ago, and we can reach Corvus at summer solstice somewhat less than 4 * 2,200 years ago, in other word ca 8,800 -2,000 = 6,800 BC. That sounds too early. Maybe we should place Corvus later than summer solstice? Virgo is later than Leo and Leo should be at summer solstice. Therefore the arrival of Corvus ought to be located some 360 / 12 = 30 degrees / days later than summer solstice. The Hyades (HYA in the picture above) are located below Leo. If Leo defines the summer, then the Hyades are 'in the water' (in the opposite place) by reason of being below. Water runs downhill. Corvus too is down 'in the water' and below the 'surface' (presumably the straight line, the celestial equator, in the picture below):
The curved line is the path of the sun against the background of the stars. Autumn equinox - where sun dives down into the 'water' corresponds with the location of Corvus. Summer solstice lies at the feet of Gemini (at χ Orionis?) and winter solstice is inaugurated by Scorpio. Doesn't this imply that GD11 should be located at autumn equinox and GD26 just before winter solstice? According to The Raw and the Cooked Corvus [misspelled ? Cervus] ('the flying heron') appears as the little 4-star 'square' while our Leo (center top left) is 'the crab' in South America, which once again makes one think of the precession. Moving one step from Cancer to Leo takes ca 2,200 years. But solstice (summer north of the equator and winter south of the equator) is now late in June, while Cancer as zodiacal sign is located in July and Leo in August. The carapace of the crab probably means solstice. We must remember: '... The hero of the Bororo myth [M1] is called Geriguiguiatugo, a name whose possible etymology I have already discussed ... I indicated at that point that the etymology put forward by the Salesians would eventually be confirmed. They break down the name into atugo 'jaguar' (a detail whose significance has been stressed, since the Bororo hero occupies the position of master of fire, like the jaguar in the Ge myths) and geriguigui 'land tortoise' which is also the name of the southern constellation, Corvus. It is therefore possible that Geriguiguiatugo is Corvus, just as Asare is χ Orionis ...' Their 'crab' (our Leo) has a twin below the water, the 'land tortoise' (geriguigui) equal to our Corvus. Both animals are defined by carapaces. I guess that south of the equator we need to flip the map around - and look: we find our Leo down in the water. Let's make a crab of him. But Corvus is flying in the air and we need not rething so much, it is earth and water which are redefined, not the sky. South of the equator he is seen flying above the earth, however, not above the water. If we let him land at solstice (we are looking back in time) then he must be a land crab, or better 'land tortoise'. The rongorongo GD17 (hônu):
I have earlier located at winter solstice (on Rapa Nui). That should be in the midst of the 'water' and appropriate for a sea turtle. If GD11 (manu rere)
is located at summer solstice, he is flying over dry land. And Corvus indeed is seen flying over dry land too. However, we have just seen that he nowadays is located at spring equinox (south of the equator) when / where the 'deluge' is over. In the calendar of the week we find GD11 in Sunday, Thursday and Saturday. Thursday is when / where the Stranger King is taking commmand over the land. The Stranger King 'is' the sun and therefore GD11 also appears in Sunday. But Saturday? The sun must be there too, he is just taking a rest. We should compare Saturday with winter solstice. Furthermore Saturn is an incarnation of the raven. '... The crow was a bird much consulted by augurs and symbolic, in Italy as in Greece, of long life. Thus it is possible that another name for Cronos, the sleeping Titan, guarded by the hundred-headed Briareus, was Bran, the Crow-god. The Cronos myth, at any rate, is ambivalent: it records the supersession and ritual murder, in both oak and barley cults, of the Sacred King at the close of his term of office; and it records the conquest by the Achaean herdsmen of the pre-Achaean husbandmen of Greece. At the Roman Saturnalia in Republican times, a festival corresponding with the old English Yule, all social restraints were temporally abandoned in memory of the golden reign of Cronos. I call Bran a Crow-god, but crow, raven, scald-crow and other large black carrion birds are not always differentiated in early times. Corone in Greek also included the corax, or raven, and the Latin corvus, raven, comes from the same root as cornix, crow. The crows of Bran, Cronos, Saturn, Aesculapius and Apollo are, equally, ravens ...' The Stranger King is a Sacred King. |
