... In each of the Nakshatras there is a 'yoga', a key star that marks a station taken by the moon in its monthly (twenty-seven- or twenty-eight-day course) through the stars. (The sidereal period of the moon, twenty-seven days and a fraction , should be distinguished from the synodic, or phase-shift period of 29.5 days, which is the ultimate antecedent of our month.) In ancient times the priest-astronomers (Brahmans) determined the recurrence of the solstices and equinoxes by the use of the gnomon. Later they developed the Nakshatra system of star reference to determine the recurrence of the seasons, much as the Greeks used the heliacal rising of some star for the same purpose. An example of the operation of the Nakshatra system in antiquity can be seen in figure 6.9

Here we see that the spring equinox occurred when the sun was at its closest approach to the star Aldebaran (called Rohini by the Hindus) in our constellation Taurus. But, of course, the phenomenon would not have been visible because the star is too close to the sun for observation. The astronomers would have known, however, that the equinoctial point was at Aldebaran by observing the full moon falling near the expected date or near a point in the sky exactly opposite Aldebaran (since the full moon is 180º from the sun), that is, near the star Antares ...

Although the Moon calendar presumably was used anew each month there was only one month when the Full Moon face coincided with September 28, viz. at the time when the Sun was at Porrima as a sign for the final of the northern summer half of the year - which could be deduced from looking at the Breast of Cassiopeia as a sign for the people on Easter Island that a new year had been born:

... In the morning of the world, there was nothing but water. The Loon was calling, and the old man who at that time bore the Raven's name, Nangkilstlas, asked her why. 'The gods are homeless', the Loon replied. 'I'll see to it', said the old man, without moving from the fire in his house on the floor of the sea. Then as the old man continued to lie by his fire, the Raven flew over the sea. The clouds broke. He flew upward, drove his beak into the sky and scrambled over the rim to the upper world. There he discovered a town, and in one of the houses a woman had just given birth. The Raven stole the skin and form of the newborn child. Then he began to cry for solid food, but he was offered only mother's milk ...

te kava - erua marama		e marama noho i tona nohoga	te hare pure e tagata noho ki roto
Hare. House, family, home. Vanaga. House, cabin, habitation, building, hut, structure; hare iti, hut; hare itiiti no, cabin; hare kahu, tent; hare neinei, latrine; hare no iti, cell; hare nunui, palace; hare pohurihuri, prison; hare pure, chapel, church; ki te hare, at home. Harepepe, kelp. Harepiko, a. asylum, place of refuge; b. ambush, snare. Harepopo, shed. Harepopokai, storehouse. Churchill. Pure. Cowrie (Cypraea caput draconis); pure vaka, another type of cowrie, which can float on the sea like a diminutive boat (vaka). Vanaga. 1. To pray, to supplicate, invocation, prayer; hare pure, church, chapel; tae pure, irreverence; purega, prayer P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: pure, to pray. In Samoa, Tonga, Niuē, Futuna, Uvea, pule means to command. 2. A shell T. P Pau.: hakapurepure, to dye, to color. Mq.: pué, the porcelain shell. Ta.: pure, a mark. Purepure, spotted, dappled; ragi purepure, dappled sky. Purepurea, spotted. P Pau.: hakapurepure, to dye, to color. Mgv.: purepure, printed cloth; akapurepure, to paint in different colors. Mq.: puépué, covered with pale scars. Ta.: purepure, spotted, dappled. Churchill. Pureva, rock, stone (small enough to be thrown by hand). Vanaga. Pureva, to throw a stone. Ta.: Pureva, to be on the eve of going. Ha.: puleva, to float here and there. Churchill. Pau.: Pure-hiva, a butterfly. Mgv.: pure-rehue, id. Ta.: pure-hua, a moth. Mq.: pure-hua, id. Ma.: pure-hua, id. Churchill.

*Maúre* Ca7-21	*Ina-ira* Ca7-22 → π	*Rakau* *Ca7-23 → 216 = 3 / 5 365**	Omotohi Ca7-24 (192)
Sept 26	27 (270)	28	*29 (2 136)**
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7)	α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7) ~~ALDERAMIN (α Cephei)~~	*Al Áwwā'-11 (The Barker) / Shur-mahrū-shirū-18 (Front or West Shur)* Sombrero Galaxy = M104 Virginis (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA = γ Virginis, γ Centauri (191.5) 150.0 = 191.4 - *41.4	ι Crucis (192.2), β Muscae (192.5), MIMOSA = β Crucis (192.9)
... The Sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica L.) is a creeping annual or perennial herb often grown for its curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched, re-opening within minutes. Mimosa pudica is native to Brazil, but is now a pantropical weed. Other names given to this curious plant are Humble plant, TickleMe plant, Shame plant, Sleeping Grass, Prayer plant, Touch-me-not, Makahiya (Philippines, meaning 'shy'), Mori Vivi (West Indies), mate-loi (false death) (Tonga) ... In the evening the leaflets will fold together and the whole leaf droops downward. It then re-opens at sunrise ... Rau hei. 1. Branch of mimosa. 2. Killed enemy. 3. Hanged 'fish'. 'Branche du mimosa (signe de mort), ennemie túe (poisson suspendu)' according to Jaussen. Barthel.
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4) 45.0 = 86.4 - 41.4	ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31), π Andromedae (7.7)	ε Andromedae (8.2), DELTA = δ Andromedae (8.4), SCHEDIR (Breast) = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9) 333 = 150 + *183	ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), DENEB KAITOS (Tail of the Sea Beast) = β Ceti, η Phoenicis (9.4), AL NITHĀM (String of Pearls) = φ¹ Ceti (9.6) 334 = 375.4 - *41.4

The end of the northern summer seems accordingly to have coincided with the first day after day 270 (= 9 * 30 = 15 * 18 = 5 * 54 = 3 * 90), suggesting a regular year with 360 days (equal to the number of degrees in a circle).

Counting from the beak of the 'fish bird' clockwise to where the eye of the Mayan astronomer seizes (haru) one of the 24 leading stars - as we can see in the picture above - there are 9 hours.

But 5 * 30 = 15 * 10 = 3 * 50 = 150 = 300 / 2 was the right ascension distance from Bharani to Porrima, suggesting a regular year with only 10 months:

Delta (→ 4)			δ Andromedae	8.4	March 29 (88)	0
Eta (→ 7)			η Phoenicis	9.4	March 30	1
Eta (→ 7)			η Andromedae	11.4	April 1 (91)	3
Gamma (→ 3)			Cih (Whip) (γ Cassiopeiai)	12.4	April 2 (92)	4
1	*Al Sharatain*	Pair of Signs	β Arietis (Sheratan), γ (Mesarthim)	27.4	April 17 (107)	19
Musca Borealis			35 (Head of the Fly), 39 (Kaffaljidhma), and 41 Arietis (Bharani)	41.4	May 1 (121)	33	0
2	*Al Dabarān*	Follower	α Tauri (Aldebaran), θ¹, θ²´, γ (Hyadum I), δ (Hyadum II), ε (Ain)	63.4	May 23 (143)	55	22
3	*Al Hak'ah*	White Spot	λ Orionis (Heka), φ¹, φ²	83.4	June 12 (163)	75	42
4	*Al Han'ah*	Brand	γ Gemini (Alhena), μ (Tejat Posterior), ν, η (Tejat Prior), ξ (Alzirr)	93.4	June 22 (173)	85	52
5	*Al Dhirā'*	Forearm	α Gemini (Castor), β (Pollux)	113.4	July 12 (193)	105	72
6	*Al Nathrah*	Gap	ε Cancri (Beehive)	130.4	July 29 (210)	123	90
7	*Al Tarf*	End	ξ Cancri, λ Leonis (Alterf)	143.4	Aug 11 (223)	135	102
8	*Al Jabhah*	Forehead	η Leonis (Al Jabhah), α (Regulus), ζ (Adhafera), γ (Algieba)	152.4	Aug 20 (232)	144	111
9	*Al Zubrah*	Mane	δ Leonis (Zosma), θ (Coxa)	169.4	Sept 6 (249)	161	128
10	*Al Sarfah*	Turn	β Leonis (Denebola)	178.3	Sept 15 (258)	170	137
11	*Al Áwwā'*	Barker	β (Alaraph), η (Zaniah), γ (Porrima), δ (Minelauva), ε Virginis (Vindemiatrix)	191.5	Sept 28 (271)	183	150

... From the natives of South Island [of New Zealand] White [John] heard a quaint myth which concerns the calendar and its bearing on the sweet potato crop. Whare-patari, who is credited with introducing the year of twelve months into New Zealand, had a staff with twelve notches on it. He went on a visit to some people called Rua-roa (Long pit) who were famous round about for their extensive knowledge. They inquired of Whare how many months the year had according to his reckoning. He showed them the staff with its twelve notches, one for each month. They replied: 'We are in error since we have but ten months. Are we wrong in lifting our crop of kumara (sweet potato) in the eighth month?' Whare-patari answered: 'You are wrong. Leave them until the tenth month. Know you not that there are two odd feathers in a bird's tail? Likewise there are two odd months in the year.' The grateful tribe of Rua-roa adopted Whare's advice and found the sweet potato crop greatly improved as the result. We are not told what new ideas he acquired from these people of great learning in exchange for his valuable advice. The Maori further accounted for the twelve months by calling attention to the fact that there are twelve feathers in the tail of the huia bird and twelve in the choker or bunch of white feathers which adorns the neck of the parson bird ...

The ancient Egyptians knew the year was longer then 360 days and they had a myth which explained why:

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

After the end of their regular year with 360 days there followed 5 extra days before the next regular cycle began.

The regular sequence of glyphs in the C text could similarly have originated from 6 extra days, not 5 because the year was slightly longer than 365 days.

Counting from the exceptional Ca1-6 and 180 days (glyphs) ahead will bring us from September 26 to glyph number 186, to the night when the Full Moon (ideally) was at the Long Sand-bank (15 * 15 = 225 days after 0h at the time of Bharani):

no glyph	koia	ki te hoea	ki te henua	te rima te hau tea	haga i te mea ke	ki te henua - tagata honui
	Hoe. Hoe 1. Paddle. Mgv.: hoe, ohe, id. Mq., Ta.: hoe, id. 2. To wheeze with fatigue (oeoe 2). Arero oeoe, to stammer, to stutter; Mgv. oe, to make a whistling sound in breathing; ohe, a cry from a person out of breath. Mq.: oe, to wheeze with fatigue. 3. Blade, knife; hoe hakaiu, clasp-knife, jack-knife; hoe hakanemu, clasp-knife; hoe pikopiko, pruning knife. 4. Ta.: oheohe, a plant. Ma.: kohekohe, id. Churchill.T. Paddle. E hoe te heiva = 'and to paddle (was their) pleasure'. Henry. Hoea, instrument for tattooing. Barthel.

	Ca1-1	Ca1-2	Ca1-3	Ca1-4	Ca1-5	Ca1-6
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
March 21 (80) *Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)* 0h (365.25) CAPH (Hand) = β Cassiopeiae, SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)	22 *Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)* ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)	23 χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)	24 σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7)	Julian equinox no star listed (4)	26 (85 = 185 - 100) ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0) ~~ALPHARD (α Hydrae)~~	27 λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4) 45.0 = 86.4 - 41.4

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Sept 20 (263)	21	Equinox	23	24	25	26
ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)	PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis (184.6), MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris (184.9)	*Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28 (Worm)* GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9) 144.0 = 185.4 - *41.4	CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3)	INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5) 146.0 = 187.4 - *41.4	γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB = δ Corvi (188.5), GACRUX = γ Crucis (188.7)	γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7)
... Raven gazed up and down the beach. It was pretty, but lifeless. There was no one about to upset, or play tricks upon. Raven sighed. He crossed his wings behind him and strutted up and down the sand, his shiny head cocked, his sharp eyes and ears alert for any unusual sight or sound. The mountains and the sea, the sky now ablaze with the sun by day and the moon and stars he had placed there, it was all pretty, but lifeless. Finally Raven cried out to the empty sky with a loud exasperated cry. And before the echoes of his cry faded from the shore, he heard a muffled squeak. He looked up and down the beach for its source and saw nothing. He strutted back and and forth, once, twice, three times and still saw nothing. Then he spied a flash of white in the sand. There, half buried in the sand was a giant clamshell. As his shadow fell upon it, he heard another muffled squeak. Peering down into the opening between the halves of the shell, he saw it was full of tiny creatures, cowering in fear at his shadow ...

178	tagata - marama	tagata	kua moe	puhi te ahi - rave i te ika
	Puhi. 1. To blow; to light a fire; to extinguish, to blow out; he-puhi te umu, to light the fire for the earth oven. 2. To fish for lobsters at night using a bait (but during the day one calls it hî); puhiga, night fishing spot. Vanaga. To blow; puhi mai, to spring up; pupuhi, wind, fan, to blow, puffed up, to blow fresh, to ferment, to swell, to bloat, to spring out, to gush, yeast; pupuhi vai, syringe; pupuhi eve, squirt; pupuhi heenua, volley; pupuhi nunui, cannon; pupuhi nui, swivel gun; ahuahu pupuhi, amplitude; vai pupuhi, water which gushes forth; pupuhihia, to carry on the wind; hakapupuhi, to gush, leaven, volatilize; puhipuhi, to smoke, to smoke tobacco, a pipe. Churchill.

	*Maharu* Ca7-17 (185)	*Ohua* Ca7-18	*Otua* Ca7-19	-
	*Maharu* Ca7-17 (185)	*Ohua* Ca7-18	*Otua* Ca7-19	Ca7-20
	Haru. Haruharu. To rob, to steal, to arrest, to seize, to cling, to grasp unexpectedly, to take by force; robber (aruaru, aaru). Pau.: haru, to extort, to carry off, to usurp. Ta.: haru, robber, to seize by force. Churchill. ... All was now ready for departure except that there was no fire in the smithy. The ancestor slipped into the workshop of the great Nummo, who are Heaven's smiths, and stole a piece of the sun in the form of live embers and white-hot iron. He seized it by means of a 'robber's stick' the crook of which ended in a slit, open like a mouth. He dropped some of the embers, came back to pick them up, and fled towards the granary; but his agitation was such that he could no longer find the entrances. He made the round of it several times before he found the steps and climbed onto the flat roof, where he hid the stolen goods in one of the skins of the bellows, exclaiming: 'Gouyo!', which is to say. 'Stolen!'. The word is still part of the language, and means 'granary'. It is a reminder that without the fire of the smithy and the iron of hoes there would be no crops to store ...
	CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
	Equinox *Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28 (Worm)* GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9) 144.0 = 185.4 - *41.4	Sept 23 (266) CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3) 45 + 180 = 225 = 266 - 41	24 INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5) 146.0 = 187.4 - *41.4	25 γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB = δ Corvi (188.5), GACRUX = γ
	CLOSE TO THE SUN:
	March 23	24 (266 - 183 = 83)	25 (Julian equinox)	26
	χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)	σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7)	no star listed (4)	ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0) ~~ALPHARD (α Hydrae)~~

We can compare with the Hawaiian Moon calendar:

Rob	Fruit	Back
Mohalu	Hua	Akua
Maharu	Ohua	Otua
W	Z	H

Egyptian tusk

Phoenician shin

Greek sigma

Σ (σ, ς)

Wikipedia: Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) literally means 'teeth, 'press', and 'sharp' ...

The symbol Σ is currently used as an expression for 'sum'. The Phoenician shin is oriented in another way, similar to how Cassiopeia is read in the night when in a low position - as Celestial W when below the pole, in contrast to the Celestial M when above it.

Greek sigma therefore resembles Cassiopeia in between, when she was in the west at the time when the Sun was rising in the east.

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'.

... Ravens, unlike geese, loons and many other birds, do not in fact have penises - a fact recorded and accounted for in several ways in Northwest Coast mythology ... Live holothurians, when handled, have the disconcerting habit of transforming themselves suddenly from soft to hard or limp to stiff and back again. If handled enough, they will also ejaculate, disgorging their own viscera in apparent self-defence. This behavior is efficiently explained in a story Arthur Lewis told in Tsimshian to Gwüsk'aayn in the 1930s. The first holothurian, Lewis says, was the cast-off penis of the Raven ...

... Sea cucumbers have also inspired thousands of haiku in Japan, where they are called namako (ナマコ), written with characters that can be translated 'sea mice'. In English translations of these haiku, they are usually called 'sea slugs'; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term 'sea slug' originally referred to holothurians (in the 18th century), though biologists now use the name only for the nudibranch molluscs, marine relatives of land slugs. Almost 1,000 Japanese holothurian haiku translated into English appear in the book Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! by Robin D. Gill ...