Adding the latitude number of Hawaii (ca 16º) to that of Easter Island we reach 42º, a fact that may have something to do with the appearance of 42 in the rongorongo texts.

The declination of stars is the same all over the world, hard facts which cannot be denied and facts which must be included in the local versions of the 'cosmos map'.

Antares is in our Scorpio constellation, but also the ancient Maya had a scorpion constellation:

"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." (Maya Cosmos)

According to Maya Cosmos their scorpion constellation equals our Scorpio and the snake at the other side of the great tree corresponds to our Sagittarius. The Maya had (at least) 10 zodiacal constellations:

"The lines represent the position of the sun at twenty-eight-day intervals beginning with a position on the west edge of Scorpius. The thirteen zones approximate the zodiacal sequence used by the Precolumbian Maya (based on a chart calculated by Richard Johson)."

Although there are 10 zodiacal signs in the pictures above, 13 'zones' are mentioned. 13 * 28 = 364. Don't we here have an explanation of why in anciently the Polynesians had only 10 months? No, the 10 zodiacal signs are from the Paris codex - where 168 (= 6 * 28) day intervals are used in their enumeration - but two signs are obliterated. Therefore the number of zodiacal months should be 12, not 10.

12 * 28 = 336 is no number we have met before. The 13th missing month is perhaps missing because 12 * 30 is enough to cover the year.

We say we have a decimal system, a system based on 10. Yet we have 9 as the largest one-digit number. 0 is nothing, you cannot count zero. With 13 (meshed with 20) in the 260-day tzolkin, the system is based on 14 (including zero), i.e. based on the cycle of the moon.

13 is enough to 'measure' 14 given that zero = 14 (beginning = end, no distance to count). The 13th missing zodiacal sign is therefore not there because it corresponds to 'zero'. To 'measure' a 13 cycle it is enough to have 12 signs. Our old watches could do without number 12.

We remember:

The picture is partially destroyed and there are two figures (bottom line center) missing, i.e. there probably were 12 zodiacal signs (implying 13 including 'zero').

With Antares (the scorpion constellation) on one side of the world tree, a rattlesnake constellation is on the other side:

The rattles are visible at bottom left, and we can identify the rattles with 'old bones' (though they are, to be more precise, the remains of old skins). The 'old bones' I say because of another picture (in Maya Cosmos):

Here we see one of the Hero Twins dancing with a 'white bone snake' (with two heads).

The zodiac constellations are ordered by rectascension, not by 'latitude', but they come in the same order all over the world.