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Inside a coral atoll the sea is not very deep, inside the Black-Transformer it is very deep. I think we should take the opportunity to here document the different Maya phases of the Milky Way and in which order they occur:

In the left column I have noted how the time in hours changes. I have chosen to put the Black Transformer at the end because it may correspond to te pito in Pb9-33. The Crocodile Tree could then be Pb9-39, or rather *Pb11-32 (Pb9-39 is too close, I guess). And then *Pb11-42 could illustrate the Cosmic Monster and *Pb11-43 the Sky Canoe (which ought to be close to the Cosmic Monster - just a question of the perspective). *Pb11-47 could represent the Black Transformer (the recycling station):

At new year there is a canoe according to Easter Island myths. But it could rather be Pb10-6, a canoe with 'sails' at right, than *Pb11-43:

Pb10-6	Pb10-7	Pb10-8	Pb10-9	Pb10-10	Pb10-11

The Mayan agricultural year is beginning in early February:

"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 ...

Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive. In this ceremony two diviners and their wives sit on benches so that they occupy the corner positions of the cosmic square. They take their seats in the same order as the stones were placed, with the men on the eastern side and the women on the west.

The ritual actions of sitting down and lifting upward are done with great precision and care, because they are directly related to the actions done by the gods at Creation. The people represent the gods of the four corners and the clouds that cover the earth. As they rise from their seats, they metaphorically lift the sky. If their lifting motion is uneven, the rains will be irregular and harmful." (Maya Cosmos)

By coincidence (of course) there is a square in the sky too, the Pegasus square (with rectascension 0^h, i.e. the square rises with the sun at spring equinox north of the equator).

Stones are tau in Polynesian, and the stars are like stones because they said Tautoru (Three Stones, The Belt of Orion) and Tauono (Six Stones, The Pleiades). Tau also meant season or year - not strange because seasonal time was governed by which star appeared at the horizon in the east.

I have never observed the Pegasus square, but Orion I always notice when it is up. I think Orion has the outline of a great 'square' and in its middle are the three stars of the belt. I guess this was the original 'Square' with a triplet of fire stones in the middle. Time ought to start there, by lighting a new fire.

Wouldn't it then be more natural to change the order in the table into:

In the beginning there is no light, then creation occurs. A canoe is needed at the beginning because there are no land. The canoe sinks and the surviving female (with baby inside) has to swim. Land is reached and the trees can raise the sky up. I have eliminated the Cosmic Monster because I cannot locate him in the Polynesian pattern (although he presumably is the monster eel (Tuna).

South of the equator things often (r)evolve in opposite order. The Sky Canoe should not sink but rise from the deep, which explains why 8 and 10 come in the wrong order in the new table. And now I dare to put in also Tuna. This is how it should look: