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491. On Hawaii they counted 33 days from the return of the Pleiades in the evening sky to the winter solstice:

... 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 ...

te ua koia ra kua tuku ki to mata - ki tona tukuga e kiore - henua - pa rei

Pa. 1. Mgv.: pa, an inclosure, a fenced place. Ta.: pa, inclosure, fortification. Mq.: pa, inclosure. Sa.: pa, a wall. Ma.: pa, a fort. 2. Mgv.: pa, to touch. Sa.: pa'i, id. Ma.: pa, id. 3. Mgv.: pa, to prattle. Ta.: hakapapa, to recount. 4. Mq.: pa, a hook in bonito fishing. Sa.: pa, a pearlshell fishhook. Ma.: pa, a fishhook. Pau.: hakapa, to feel, to touch. Mgv.: akapa, to feel, to touch, to handle cautiously.

Cb2-4 (420 = 7 * 60) Cb2-5 Cb2-6 (30) Cb2-7
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
May 14

δ Persei (54.7)

15 (500 = 365 + 135)

Al Thurayya-27 (Many Little Ones) / Krittikā-3 (Nurses of Kārttikeya) / TAU-ONO (Six Stones)

ATIKS = ο Persei, RANA (Frog) = δ Eridani (55.1), CELAENO (16 Tauri), ELECTRA (17), TAYGETA (19), ν Persei (55.3), MAIA (20), ASTEROPE (21), MEROPE (23) (55.6)

16 (136)

Hairy Head-18 (Cockerel) / Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)

ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE (28 Tauri), ATLAS (27 Tauri) (56.3)
17

MENKHIB (Next to the Pleiades = ζ Persei (57.6)

PORRIMA (γ Virginis)
'April 17 18 (108) 19 (475 = 19 * 25) 20
"April 3 4 5 6 (96)
MARCH 11 12 (135 - 64 = 71) 13 14 (→ π)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Nov 13

κ Librae (237.2), ι Serpentis (237.4), ψ² Lupi, ρ Oct. (237.5), γ Cor. Borealis, η Librae (237.7),  COR SERPENTIS = α Serpentis (237.9)

*196.0 = *237.4 - *41.4

14

π Cor. Borealis, UNUK ELHAIA (Necks of the Serpents) = λ Serpentis (238.1), CHOW = β Serpentis (238.6)

15

κ Serpentis (239.3), δ Cor. Borealis, TIĀNRŪ = μ Serpentis (239.5), χ Lupi, (239.6), ω Serpentis (239.7), BA (= Pa) = ε Serpentis, χ Herculis (239.8). κ Cor. Borealis, ρ Serpentis (239.9)

16 (320)

λ Librae (240.0), β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8)

*199.0 = *240.4 - *41.4

'Oct 17 18 19 (292 = 4 * 73) 20
"Oct 3 4 (277) 5 6
SEPT 10 11 12 (255 = 3 * 85) 13

Counting from Alcyone at the Sun in May 16 (136) and 16 days ahead ought to lead to her return to visibility in the early morning of day 136 + 16 = 152 (June 1):

ku kikiu - i te henua koia ra tagata tua ivi - te henua tagata tua ivi - ki te henua

Ivi. 1. Bone; fishbone. 2. Ivi-tia, sewing needle. 3. Ivi tika, spine, vertebra. 4. Ivi atua, being of the other world. 5. Ivi tumu atua, seer, wizard. 6. Ivi heheu swordfish. Vanaga. 1. Bone, needle; ivi ika, fishbone; ivi ohio, needle; ivi tika, fishbone, backbone; kiko o te ivi tika, pancreas; ivi heheu, cachalot; ivi tupapaku, skeleton; ivi uha, to grow (of mankind); tooa te kiko e ivi i hakarere, to strip the flesh from the bones; kai ivi, to eat remnants; kore te ivi, cooked too much. 2. Parent, family, ancestry. Churchill. To bend down to allow someone to climb on one's back to be carried (haha); he-ti-atu a Kaiga i te tua ivi, he-haha-mai Huri Avai, Kaiga bent his back and Huri Avai climbed on his shoulders. Vanaga.

Cb2-22 (46 = 30 + 16) Cb2-23 Cb2-24 Cb2-25
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
June 1 (152 = 136 + 16)

π4 Orionis (72.1), ο¹ Orionis (72.4), π5 Orionis (72.8)

*31.0 = *72.4 - *41.4

2

π¹ Orionis (73.0), ο² Orionis (73.4), HASSALEH = ι Aurigae (73.6), π6 Orionis (73.9)

*32.0 = *73.4 - *41.4

3

ALMAAZ (The Male Goat) = ε Aurigae (74.7), HAEDUS I = ζ Aurigae (74.8)

4 (365 + 155 = 520)

HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)

'May 5 (125 = 152 - 27) 6 7 8 (2 * 64)
"April 21 (111 = 152 - 41) 22 23 24
MARCH 29 (88 = 152 - 64) 30 31 APRIL 1
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Dec 1

Ophiuchi (255.3), GRAFIAS (Claws) = ζ Scorpii (255.4)

*214.0 = *255.4 - *41.4

2 (336 = 320 + 16)

κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), CUJAM (Club) = ε Herculi (256.9)

3

no star listed (257)

4

17h (258.7)

ARRAKIS = μ Draconis (258.7)
'Nov 4 5 6 (310 = 337 - 27) 7
"Oct 21 22 (295 = 336 - 41) 23 24
SEPT 28 29 (272 = 2 * 136) 30 OCT 1

And December 21 should be 36 days after Alcyone at the Full Moon:

henua kua hoi kua ka te ahi o te henua o te henua kua hoi ko te henua kua vero te ahi kiore - henua
Cb3-16 Cb3-17 (66 = 30 + 36) Cb3-18 Cb3-19 (460 = 392 + 68) Cb3-20
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
June 20

6h (91.3)

ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)

*50.0 = *91.4 - *41.4
Solstice

ξ Orionis (92.5)

22

Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)

TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)

*52.0 = *93.4 - *41.4
23

FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)

24 (365 + 175 = 540)

Well-22 (Tapir) / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)

δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM (The Roarer) = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS (Canopy) = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)

*54.0 = *95.4 - *41.4
'May 24 25 26 (146 = 173 - 27) 27 28
"April 30 (130) "May 1 2 3 4
APRIL 17 18 (108 = 172 - 64) 19 20 21
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Dec 20 (354)

Zhōngshān (274.0), π Pavonis (274.6)

Solstice

ι Pavonis (275.1), POLIS = μ Sagittarii (275.9)

MENKAR (α Ceti)
22

η Sagittarii (276.9)

Purva Ashadha-20 (Winnowing Basket)

23

KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii, κ Lyrae (277.5), TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis (277.7), SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis (277.8), KWEI SHE = χ Draconis (277.9)

24

φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS = ε Sagittarii (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), AL  ATHFAR (The Talons of the Falling Eagle) = μ Lyrae (278.6)

*237.0 = *278.4 - *41.4
'Nov 23 (354 - 27 = 327) 24 25 (329 = 146 + 183) 26 27
"Nov 9 (354 - 41 = 313) → π 11 12 13
OCT 17 18 (291 = 355 - 64) 19 20 21

... As has already been mentioned, the Delphians worshipped Dionysus once a year as the new-born child, Liknites, 'the Child in the Harvest Basket', which was a shovel-shaped basket of rush and osier used as a harvest basket, a cradle, a manger, and a winnowing-fan for tossing the grain up into the air against the wind, to separate it from the chaff. The worship of the Divine Child was established in Minoan Crete, its most famous early home in Europe. In 1903, on the site of the temple of Dictaean Zeues - the Zeus who was yearly born in Rhea's cave at Dicte near Cnossos, where Pythagoras spent 'thrice nine hallowed days' of his initiation - was found a Greek hymn which seems to preserve the original Minoan formula in which the gypsum-powdered, sword-dancing Curetes, or tutors, saluted the Child at his birthday feast. In it he is hailed as 'the Cronian one' who comes yearly to Dicte mounted on a sow and escorted by a spirit-throng, and begged for peace and plenty as a reward for their joyful leaps ...

There were 420 (7 * 60) glyphs from Sirrah at the Full Moon to Cb2-4. And then there were 320 (= 8 * 40) glyphs to the end of the text. Possibly the Pleiades year was counted as 320 right ascension days. 84 + 320 = 364 + 40.

On Hawaii the Rogo (Lono) effigy was set off on its circuit 23 days before the December solstice. And 64 - 41 = 23, which possibly means we should use the time-frame of Bharani when naming dates. When the Sun reached the Club of Hercules (Cujam) in December 2 (336 = 320 + 16), then one could count 336 - 64 = 272 (= 2 * 136) in order to find SEPTEMBER 29 (→ 72 * 9 = 648) at the time of the Bull. And 272 + 23 = 295 (10 lunar synodic months) "October 22 when the Sun reached Cujam.

Notably the star at the south Pole, Dramasa, was located precisely at right ascension line *320 (= 400 - 80).