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358. When Hun-Nal-Ye 'entered or became the sky' (och ta chan) it was in February 5:

First 3-stone place

21 May (141), 3114 BC

Itzam-Yeh defeated

28 May (148), 3149 BC

Creation of our present world

13 August (225), 3114 BC

Hun-Nal-Ye became the sky

5 February (36), 3112 BC

(3149 - 3112) / 71 = 0.52 < (26.6 - 26)

21 May, 3114 BC - 13 August, 3114 BC = 225 - 141 = 84 (= 12 * 7)

21 May, 3114 BC - 5 February, 3112 BC = 542, which 'happens to be' the sum of 365 days and 6 * 29½ nights.

148 (May 28) - *70 = 78 (19 March)

And supposing this coincided with when the Sun had reached DECEMBER 3 (= 31 + 5 - 64 + 365 = 337 = 4 * 84 + 1) it ought to correspond to Gb2-2, where the Gregorian calendar had °February 1 (32) and where at the time of Bharani the day would have been "December 26 (360 = 337 + 23).

DECEMBER 3 (337)

"December 26 (360 = 337 + 23)

°February 1 (32 = 337 + 60 - 365)

Notably Dramasa (σ Octantis, the South Pole star) and χ Capricorni (320.0) were evidently positioned at Gb2-1, which seems to be similar to when the Mayas described how Hun-Nal-Ye entered the sky, viz. by alighting at the top of the ceiba sacred tree. Down in the south the top was in the south, like when in ancient Egypt they regarded the direction up as down in the south.

... After the sky was raised high above the earth, props or poles were erected between them and light entered, dispelling the darkness and bringing renewed life. One detail which is iconographically of interest is whether the god responsible for separating Earth and Sky did so by raising the Sky with his upraised arms and hands, as in Tahiti and elsewhere, or with his feet as in New Zealand ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
5-17 5-18 5-19 5-20 (140) 5-21 (*61) 5-22
JUNE 1 (152) 2 3 4 5 (156 = 12 * 13) 6 (*77)
Ga3-13 (72) Ga3-14 (73) Ga3-15 Ga3-16 Ga3-17 Ga3-18 (77)
ν Cancri (136.0), TALITHA AUSTRALIS = κ Ursae Majoris (136.1), ω Hydrae (136.8) 9h (137.0)

σ¹ Ursa Majoris (137.0), κ Cancri (137.3), τ Cancri (137.4), ALSUHAIL = λ Velorum (137.5), σ² Ursa Majoris (137.6), τ Ursa Majoris (137.7), ξ Cancri (137.8)

κ Pyxidis (138.0), ε Pyxidis (138.5) π Cancri (139.2), MIAPLACIDUS = β Carinae (139.3), TUREIS = ι Carinae (139.8) no star listed (140) θ Pyxidis (141.5), MARKAB VELORUM = κ Velorum (141.5), AL MINHAR AL ASAD = κ Leonis (141.6), λ Pyxidis (141.9)
Aug 4 (216) 5 6 7 8 (220) 9 (*141)
°July 31 °Aug 1 2 (214) 3 4 (*136) 5
'July 8 9 (190) 10 11 12 (193) 13 (*114)
ST JOHN'S DAY (175) "June 25 (11 * 16) 26 27 He Maro 28 29 (*100)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
11-16 (320 = 335 - 15) 11-17 11-18 11-19 11-20 11-21
DEC 1 2 (336 = 256 + 80) 3 4 5 6 (*260)
Gb1-26 Gb2-1 (256 = 16 * 16) Gb2-2 Gb2-3 (29) Gb2-4 Gb2-5 (260)
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 = α Equulei (322.0), ALDERAMIN = α Cephei (322.9) DAI = ι Capricorni (323.5), β Equulei (323.8) γ Pavonis (324.1), YAN = ζ Capricorni (324.6)
Febr 3 (399) 4 5 (401) 6 7 (403) 8 (*324)
°Jan 30 (*315) 31 (396) °Febr 1 2 3 (399) 4 (*320)
'Jan 7 (*292) 8 (373) 9 10 (*295) 11 12 (377)
CHRISTMAS EVE "Dec 25 26 (360) 27 Ko Koró 28 29 (*283 = *260 + *23)

... the Palenque scribes repeated Creation again and described it as 'it was made visible, the image at Lying-down-Sky, the First-Three-Stone-Place'. Then we learned that five hundred and forty-two days later (1.9.2 in the Maya system), Hun-Nal-Ye 'entered or became the sky' (och ta chan). This 'entering' event occurred on February 5, 3112 B.C. The act of 'entering the sky' is recorded on another extraordinary painted pot.

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-Creation event, as we believe it does, then Itzam-Yeh was defeated in 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 ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
5-23 (*63) 5-24 5-25 (5 * 29) 5-26 (146 = 2 * 73) 5-27 5-28 (*68)
JUNE 7 (*78) 8 9 10 (161) 11 12
Ga3-19 Ga3-20 → 320 Ga3-21 (80) Ga3-22 Ga3-23 Ga3-24
The Knot (Ukdah) Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)

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

VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)
Star-25 (Horse) / ANA-HEU-HEU-PO-5 (Pillar where debates were held)

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

Al Tarf-7 (The End)

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

A Hydrae (144.1)

VEGA (α Lyrae)

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

*104 = *145.4 - *41.4

Aug 10 11 12 13 (*145) 14 15 (227 → π)
°Aug 6 7 8 (220) 9 10 11 (*143)
'July 14 15 16 17 (*118) 18 19 (200)
SIRIUS (181) "July 1 2 (79 + 104) 3 (*104) 4 He Anakena 5

... They stayed (there longer). On the fifth day of the month of July (Anakena) [day 186 + 41 = 227], they all got up, went downhill, went on, and reached Hanga Te Pau. They took their provisions with them, carrying them on their shoulders, went on, and reached Te Pou. They made camp and slept in Te Pou on the tenth of the month of July (Anakena). Then they all got up, carried their provision on their shoulders, went straight ahead, and followed the path of the dream soul of Hau Maka. They came to Hua Reva and said, This is Hua Reva A Hau Maka!...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
11-22 11-23 11-24 11-25 (329) 11-26 (*250) 11-27
*261 (= 9 * 29) 8 9 10 11 (345) DEC 12 (*266)
Gb2-6 (32) Gb2-7 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (229 + 36) 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 (Tail of the Goat) =  δ Capricorni (329.8)

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

... 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 ...

All Hearts' Day
NORTH-EAST NORTH-WEST SOUTH-WEST SOUTH-EAST  
Febr 9 (40) 10 11 12 (408) (*329 - *87 = 11 * 27)
°Febr 5 6 7 8 (*324) (13 * 25 = *325) 10 (41)
378 = 365 + 13 'Jan 14 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
"Dec 30 Ko Koró 31 "Jan 1 2 3 (368) Tua Haro 4