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386. The Lono circuit on Hawaii took 23 days and began 10 days after the return in late autumn to the visibility of the Pleiades. Looking 10 days earlier than Algol at Gb8-12 we will, however, not find the autumnal reappearance of the Pleiades because the G text was evidently oriented towards the other side of the equator. Nevertheless is Gb8-2 (214 = 224 - 10 = 210 + 4) an exceptional glyph:

2-4 (35) 2-5 (317) 2-6 2-7 2-8 (*324 = 320) 5
FEBR 19 20 (*336 = 4 * 84) 21 (417) 22 (53) TERMINALIA
Gb8-1 Gb8-2 (214 = 2 * 107) Gb8-3 (444 - 229 = 215) Gb8-4 Gb8-5 (217)
no star listed (34) ξ Arietis (35.0), ρ Ceti (35.4), ξ˛ Ceti (35.9)

*359 = *400.4 - *41.4

σ Ceti (36.9) ν Ceti (37.9) ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8)

*403

April 24 (*399) 25 (115 = 345 / 3) 6 (*36) 27 28 (118 = 4 * 29˝)
°April 20 21 (111) 22 (*32) 23 24 (*399)
'March 28 (*372) 29 (88) 30 31 'April 1 (91)
3-14 (73) "March 15 16 (*360) 17 18 (77)
Sumerian SAG Phoenician resh Greek rho Ρ (ρ)

... Resh (Arabic: ۥ) is the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ... The word resh is usually assumed to have come from a pictogram of a head, ultimately reflecting Proto-Semitic *raۥ(i)š-. The word's East Semitic cognate, rēš-, was one possible phonetic reading of the Sumerian cuneiform sign for 'head' (SAG).

... Then I become aware of ... a presence - a faint, ghostly glimmering, like moonglow, that has appeared on the solstice stone. I don't know how long it lasts, a second or two only I would guess, but while it is there it seems less like a projection - which I know it to be - than something immanent within the stone itself. And it seems to function as a herald for it fades almost as soon as it has appeared and in its place the full effect snaps on - instantaneously. It wasn't there, and then it's there. As Chris had described, the effect does curiously resemble a poleaxe, or a flag on a pole, and consists of a 'shaft', narrow at the base but widening a little towards the top, running up the left hand side of the solstice stone, surmounted by a right-facing 'head' or 'flag'. An instant later an almond-shaped spot of light, like an eye, appears a few centimeters to the right of the 'flag' and the effect is complete. Weirdly - I do not claim it has any significance - this flag-on-a-pole symbol is the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph neter, meaning 'god', or 'a god' - and not to be understood at all in the Judaeo-Christian usage of that word but rather as a reference to one of the supernatural powers or principles that guide and balance the universe. Manifested here, in this strange Stone Age temple, it glows, as though lit by inner fire ...

Marija Gimbutas: 'To sleep within the Goddess's womb was to die and to come to life anew'. In a system of reincarnation the old one must die in order to be reborn, of course. At midsummer Sun comes to a standstill, and this must therefore be an occasion when the 'flame of life' had to be transported into a new body.

2-14 (45 = 60 - 15) 2-15 (327) 2-16 (365 + 47 = 412) 2-17 (14 * 29˝) 2-18 (414) 19 3-10 (350)
MARCH 1 (*345) 2 (61) 3 (427 = 343 + 84) 4 (*348 = 12 * 29) 5 (8 * 8) 25 (359 + 6)
Gb8-11 Gb8-12 Gb8-13 (454) Gb8-14 (214 + 12) Gb8-15 (227 → π) Ga1-4
MENKAR (The Nose) = α Ceti (44.7)

3h (45.7)

GORGONEA TERTIA = ρ Persei (45.1), ALGOL (The Demon) = β Persei (45.9)
ι Persei (46.1), MISAM (Next to the Pleiades) = κ Persei (46.2), GORGONEA QUARTA = ω Persei (46.7), BOTEIN (Pair of Bellies) = δ Arietis (46.9) ζ Arietis (47.7) ZIBAL (Young Ostriches) = ζ Eridani (48.0), κ Ceti (48.9)

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ˛ Eridani (68.5)

May 4 (*409) 5 (*45) 6 (491) 7 (12 * 41) 8 (*48 = 148 - 100) 28 (148)
°April 30 °May 1 (*41) 2 (487 = 464 + 23) 3 (8 * 61) 4 (*44 = 144 - 100) 24 (144)
'April 7 (*382) 8 (*18) 9 (464) 10 (5 * 93) 11 (*21 = 121 - 100) 'May 1 (121)
"March 24 (*368) Julian equinox 26 (450) 27 (11 * 41) 28 (*7 = 107 - 100) "April 17 (107)

... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ...

Manacle ziqq Phoenician zayin Greek zeta Ζ (ζ)

... Zeta (uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; Greek: ζήτα ... is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin. Letters that arose from zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З ...

Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn or simply Zay) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads ... It represents the sound [z]. The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In Biblical Hebrew, 'Zayin'  means sword, and the verb 'Lezayen' means to arm. In modern Hebrew, 'zayin' means penis and 'lezayen' is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse and is used in a similar fashion to the English word fuck, although the older meaning survives in 'maavak mezuyan' (armed struggle) and 'beton mezuyan' (armed, i.e., reinforced concrete). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a 'manacle'.

Counting ahead from the beginning of side a, instead of from the end of side b and backwards among the glyphs, the unique reversed manu rere will be perceived to be at another place than what was documented above:

... At the time of rongorongo the day May 28 (148, *68) was where Aldebaran rose with the Sun and 77 days later, in August 13 (225, *145) the Sun had reached the Knot (Ukdah) with the Full Moon at the Foundation (Bunda) ...

First 3-stone place:
MARCH 18 19 (359) 20 (*364)
Gb8-28 (240) Gb8-29 Gb8-30 (59)
May 21 (141) *62 *63
"April 10 (100) 11 12
Itzam-Yeh (7-Macaw, Ursa Major) defeated 28 May, 3149 BC (148)
First 3-stone place 21 May, 3114 BC (141)
Creation of our present world 13 Aug, 3114 BC (225)
Hun-Nal-Ye became the sky 5 Febr, 3112 BC (36)

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 * 29˝ nights.

At the time of rongorongo the day May 28 (148, *68) was where Aldebaran rose with the Sun and 77 days later, in August 13 (225, *145) the Sun had reached the Knot (Ukdah) with the Full Moon at the Foundation (Bunda).

4 MARCH 25 (84) 330 FEBR 19 (50) 110 JUNE 10 (161 = 77 + 84)
Ga1-4 Gb4-15 (335) Gb8-5 (446)
Aldebaran no star listed (34) Ukdah (Knot)
May 28 (*68) April 24 (*399 = *34) Aug 13 (141 + 84 = 225 = 590 - 365)
"April 17 (107) "March 14 (73) "July 3 (*104)
*250 = *68 + 182 *216 = *34 + 182 Bunda (*327 = *145 + 182)

... 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 ...