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483. The measure 157 (= 628 / 4) - corresponding to a quarter of a circle - was used in order to reach not only the First Point of Aries from kotia in Ca9-9 (237) but also to reach to the beginning of the Moon calendar from the beginning of the text:

Nov 21 (325) 22 128 March 30 (89) 43
May 22 23 (143) Sept 29 (2 * 136)
Ca3-11 Ca3-12 (63) Ca7-24 (192)
kua hua ki te kotiga te hare pure e tagata noho ki roto
BEID HYADUM I (63.4 = 41.4 + 22.0) MIMOSA
348 / 2 = 174 = 6 * 29 = 236 - 62
May 13 (133) 14 (366 + 134 = 500) 98 Aug 21 (233) 56 Oct 17 (290)
Nov 12 13 (317) Febr 20 (51) April 17 (107)
Ca9-8 (236) Ca9-9 Ca12-20 (336 = 4 * 84) Cb1-1 (393)
ku tupu te poporo kotia kua moe First Point of Aries
314 / 2 = 157 SHERATAN (27.4 = 63.4 - 36.0)
tagata oho rima - ki te marama koia kua oho ki te marama kua moe
Ca6-17 (157) Ca6-18 Ca6-19 Ca6-20
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
"July 15 (196 = 157 + 39) 16 17 Hora Iti 18

... They made camp and rested at the Bay of Flies for a week (etahi pohitu). On the eighteenth day of the month of July (Anakena) they went on from Hanga Takaure. They climbed uphill, went on, and reached Poike. When they arrived, they looked around and named (the place) Poike A Hau Maka. They climbed up farther to Pua Katiki. When they arrived there, they looked around and named (the place) Pua Katiki A Hau Maka. They came down from the height, from the mountain, from Pua Katiki, and reached Maunga Teatea. They looked around and gave the name Maunga Teatea A Hau Maka. They all descended, they all came down from Pua Katiki. They reached Mahatua, saw it, looked around, and gave the name Mahatua A Hau Maka. Then they went on and came to Taharoa. They saw it, looked around, and gave the name Taharoa A Hau Maka ...

'July 29 (210 = 237 - 27) 30 31 'Aug 1
Aug 25 (237)

Extended Net-26b (Ox)

μ Hydrae (157.1)
26

Maru-sha-arkat-Sharru-15 (4th Son behind the King)

SHIR (Possessing Luminous Rays) = ρ Leonis (158.9)
27

p Carinae (159.3)

28

φ Hydrae (160.3)

CLOSE TO THE SUN:

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...

HANGA TAKAURE Poike, Pua Katiki, Maunga Teatea, Mahatua, Taharoa
Bissextum

Febr 24 (420 = 2 * 210)

δ Tucanae (340.1), ρ Cephei (340.2),  ν Gruis (340.3), ζ Aquarii, δ Gruis (340.4), 5/1100 Lac. (340.7), σ Aquarii, 6/650 Lac. (340.9)

*299 = *340.4 - *41.4

PROCYON (α Canis Minoris)
25

υ Oct. (341.0), α/91 Lac. (341.1), HOMAN (Hero) = ζ Pegasi, β Piscis Austrini (341.2), ν Tucanae (341.5), υ Aquarii (341.9)

26

η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (342.4), SITULA (Water-jar) = κ Aquarii (342.7)

*301 = *342.4 - *41.4
27 (58)

ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8)

The measure used for the Moon calendar was evidently 230 (Ca9-2) - 156 (Ca6-16) = 74 right ascension days (i.e. 1/10 of the total number of glyphs on the tablet):

tupu te ure o te henua erua kiore Te marama erua

Ure. 1. Generation; ure matá, warlike, bellicose generation (matá, obsidian, used in making weapons). 2. Offspring; brother; colleague i toou ure ka tata-mai, your colleague has turned up. 3. Friendship, friendly relationship; ku-ké-á te ure, they have become enemies (lit.: friendship has changed). 4. Penis (this definition is found in Englert's 1938 dictionary, but not in La Tierra de Hotu Matu'a). Ure tahiri, to gush, to spurt, to flow; e-ure tahiri-á te toto, blood is flowing in gushes. Ure tiatia moana, whirlwind which descend quickly and violently onto the ocean; whirlpool, eddy. Vanaga. Penis; kiri ure, prepuce, foreskin. P Pau., Mgv., Ta.: ure, penis. Ureure, spiral. Ta.: aureure, id. Urei, to show the teeth. Mgv.: urei, to uncover the eye by rolling back the lids. Churchill. Pau.: Ureuretiamoana, waterspout. Ta.: ureuretumoana, id. Churchill. H. Ule 1. Penis. For imaginative compounds see 'a'awa 1, 'aweule, ulehala, ulehole, ulepa'a, ulepuaa, ule'ulu. Kū ka ule, he'e ka laho, the penis is upright, the scrotum runs away (refers to breadfruit: when the blossom, pōule, appears erect, there will soon be fruit). 2. Tenon for a mortise; pointed end of a post which enters the crotch of a rafter (also called ma'i kāne). Ho'o ule, to form a tenon or post for the crotch of a rafter. 3. To hang. Wehewehe.

Ca8-27 (156 + 70) Ca8-28 Ca8-29 (392 + 228 = 620) Ca9-1 Ca9-2 (230)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
'Oct 6 (209 + 70) 7 (280) 8 9 10
Nov 2 (236 + 70)

KE KWAN (Cavalry Officer) = β Lupi (226.3), KE KWAN = κ Centauri (226.4), ZUBEN ELAKRIBI (Claw of the Scorpion) = δ Librae (226.8), π¹ Oct. (226.9)

*185.0 = *226.4 - 41.4
3

ω Bootis (227.2), NEKKAR (Herdsman) = β Bootis (227.3), σ Librae (227.5), π² Oct. (227.7), NADLAT (Mean Little Ones) = ψ Bootis (227.8), π Lupi (227.9)

4 (125 + 183 = 308)

15h (228.3)

ZUBEN HAKRABIM = ν Librae (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9)
5

ω Oct. (229.3), ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8)

6 (310)

Al Zubānā-14b (Claws)

χ Bootis (230.3), PRINCEPS = δ Bootis (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (Northern Claw) = β Librae (230.8)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
May 3

ρ Arietis (43.0), GORGONEA SECUNDA = π Persei (43.5), ACAMAR (End of the River) = θ Eridani (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7), λ Ceti (43.9)

DENEBOLA (β Leonis)
4

MENKAR (The Nose) = α Ceti (44.7)

5 (125)

3h (45.7)

GORGONEA TERTIA = ρ Persei (45.1), ALGOL (The Demon) = β Persei (45.9)
6

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)

7

ζ Arietis (47.7)

This leaves 740 - 74 = 666 days for the rest of the text - i.e. the number of the Beast:

... The Beast is a figure in the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament describing an elaborate metaphor. The Beast is an animal with seven heads coming out of a sea who makes himself an enemy of the Christian Church ... The Number of the Beast is described in the Book of Revelation 13:18. From the King James translation: Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six ...

... 666 is an abundant number. It is the sum of the first 36 natural numbers (i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + ... + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666), and thus a triangular number. Since 36 is both square and triangular, 666 is the sixth number of the form n²(n² + 1) / 2  ...and the eighth number of the form n(n + 1)(n²+ n + 2) / 8 ... 666 is the sum of the squares of the first seven prime numbers (i.e. 2² + 3² + 5² + 7² + 11² + 13² + 17² = 666) ...The Roman numeral representation of the number 666 (DCLXVI) uses once each the Roman numeral symbols with values under 1,000, occurring in descending order of their respective values (D = 500, C = 100, L = 50, X = 10, V = 5, I = 1) ...

... Here the 'belching out of the waters of the flood' occurs at left, and north of the equator east lies at left. South of the equator east lies at right:

Aa6-64 (480) Aa6-65 Aa6-66 Aa6-67 Aa6-68 Aa6-69 Aa6-70
i to moa ko te vai hopu o te moa e he goe kua moe ki to vaha o to ika mea o te maitaki kua noho te ariki e mago

To. 1. Particle sometimes used with the article in ancient legends; i uto to te hau, the ribbon was in the float. 2. To rise (of the sun) during the morning hours up to the zenith: he-to te raá. Vanaga. 1. Of. T Pau., Ta.: to, of. Mgv.: to, genitive sign. Mq.: to, of, for. 2. This, which. Churchill. Mgv.: To, to make a canoe of planks. Mq.: to, to build a canoe. Sa.: to, to build. Churchill.

Hopu. 1. To wash oneself, to bathe, 2. Aid, helper, in the following expressions: hopu kupega, those who help the motuha o te hopu kupega in handling the fishing nets; hopu manu, those who served the tagata manu and, upon finding the first manutara egg, took it to Orongo. Vanaga. Bath; to bathe, to cleanse (hoopu). Pau.: hopu, bath; to bathe. Ta.: hopu, to dive. Churchill. Mq.: hopu, to embrace, to clasp about the body. Ma.: hopu, to catch, to seize. Churchill.

Goe. Milky Way. Vanaga.

Aa6-71 Aa6-72 Aa6-73 (490) Aa6-74 Aa6-75 Aa6-76
e moa te ika hagai i te ariki o to ua ko te kai hagai o te ariki ma to ua mae tae tagi te vai tagi hoti mai ai i te vai

The ua sign in Aa6-66 maybe is to be read as the flood which ends the last creation = the 1st half year. Maybe the water carrier (Aquarius) is the god who definitely kills the old sun (the last 'creation' in an indefinite series of 'suns'). The number 666 of Aa6-66 is the number of the beast and 1334 (the number of glyphs on the Tahua tablet) = 666 + 668. The 'beast' may be the strange creature which extinguishes the old fire, the Cosmic Dragon according to Maya ...

... His temple-palace was composed of four radiant apartments: one toward the east, yellow with gold; one towards the west, blue with turquoise and jade; one toward the south, white with pearls and shells; one towards the north, red with bloodstones - symbolizing the cardinal quarters of the world over which the light of the sun holds sway. And it was set wonderfully above a mighty river that passed through the midst of the city of Tula; so that every night, precisely at midnight, the king descended into the river to bathe; and the place of his bath was called 'In the Painted Vase', or 'In the Precious Waters' ...

... 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 [Homan], 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 ...