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509. There are around 80 right ascension nights from the Digging Stick man at Tau-ono to the Flipper Turtle at 21h:

CLOSE TO THE SUN: 75
Nov 13 14 15 16 (320)
'Oct 17 (290) 18 19 20
Cb2-4 (420 = 740 - 320) Cb2-5 (392 + 29) Cb2-6 (30 = 108 - 78) 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 (80 + 27) 18 (108 = 135 - 27) 19 20
BISSEXTUM (54 - 55) 56 (8 WEEKS) 57 (= 137 - 64 - 16)

... 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 ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Jan 31 Febr 1 (32) 2 3 4 (*320) 350 - 29 = *321
'Jan 4 5 (370 = 740 / 2) 6 7 8 9
Cb5-13 (107) Cb5-14 (392 + 108) Cb5-15 (365 + 136) Cb5-16 (422 + 80) Cb5-17 (503) Cb5-18 (584 - 80)
μ Aquarii (316.0) ε Equulei (317.8) no star listed (318)

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)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Aug 1

γ Pyxidis (133.6)

2 (214 = 32 + 182)

ζ Hydrae (134.1), ρ Cancri (134.2), ζ Oct. (134.3), ο Cancri (134.6), δ Pyxidis (134.9)

3

ACUBENS = α Cancri, TALITHA BOREALIS = ι Ursae Majoris (135.0), σ Cancri (135.2), ρ Ursa Majoris (135.6)

4

ν Cancri (136.0), TALITHA AUSTRALIS = κ Ursae Majoris (136.1), ω Hydrae (136.8)

5

9h (137.0)

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

*96.0 = *137.4 - *41.4
6 (584 → Venus)

κ Pyxidis (138.0), ε Pyxidis (138.5)

'July 5 6 (*107) 7 8 9 (190) 10
DAY 133 134 135 136 (= 120 + 16) 137 138

Hora Iti 20 in Manuscript E could have corresponded to 16 nights beyond August 4 (216 = 6 * 6 * 6), i.e. nights when the Pleiades yet could not be observed in the early mornings:

... He (i.e., Ira) said, 'Let's go! We shall go to Papa O Pea'. They all got up and moved on. On the twentieth day of the month of August ('Hora Iti') they went to Papa O Pea. They all went and came to Papa O Pea, looked around in Papa O Pea, and gave the name 'Papa O Pea A Hau Maka'. They stayed five days in Papa O Pea ...

North of the equator the Sun was still strong in early August and correspondingly on Easter Island the Sun was still strong in early February.

80 nights earlier, in day 216 (August 4) - 80 = 136 (May 16) the rays from the Sun were also strong. 136 + 16 = 152 (June 1) was the day when the Explorers sighted Easter Island:

... [E:17] On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ...

May 16 (136) 79 August 4 (216)
Te Maro 1 (152) Hora Iti 20 (232)

Vaitu Nui 25 could then correspond to April 25 - 16 = April 9 (99).

... After five complete cycles totaling 2920 days, the movement of Venus fill eight idealized years of 365 days each and come within hours of spanning 99 lunations. (Popol Vuh)

8 * 365 = 5 * 584 = 2920 days, and 99 * 29.5 = 2920½. Thus 5 Venus cycles are joined to 8 Earth years in a way similar to how 7 'Sun flames' are joined to 6 'Moon flames'. 7 * 60 = 6 * 70.

And 99 Moon cycles are also joined to 5 Venus cycles (and to 8 Earth years):

99 Moon cycles

5 Venus cycles

8 years

2920 (= 40 * 73) nights

 

... 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 ...

te honu paka te henua honu kau te mata te honu kua heheu

Paka. 1. Dry; to become dry (of things); pakapaka, to dry out. Te paka is also the name of the moss-covered areas, between the small lakes of volcano Rano Kau, through which one can pass without getting one's feet wet. 2. To go, to depart; he-paka-mai, to come; he-oho, he-paka, they go away. 3. To become calm (of the sea): ku-paka-á te tai. Pakahera, skull, shell, cranium; pakahera puoko tagata, human skull; pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Gutu pakapaka, scabbed lips. Hau paka, fibres of the hauhau tree, which were first soaked in water, then dried to produce a strong thread. Moa gao verapaka, chicken with bald neck. Ariki Paka, certain collateral descendents of Hotu Matu'a, who exercised religious functions. Vanaga. 1. Crust, scab, scurf; paka rerere, cancer; pakapaka, crust, scabby. 2. Calm, still. 3. Intensive; vera paka, scorching hot; marego paka, bald; nunu paka, thin. 4. To arrive, to come. 5. To be eager. 6. To absorb. 7. Shin T. Pakahera, calabash, shell, jug. Pakahia, to clot, curdle, coagulate. Pakapaka, dry, arid, scorching hot, cooked too much, a desert, to fade away, to roast, a cake, active; toto pakapaka, coagulated blood; hakapakapaka, to dry, to broil, to toast. Pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Churchill.

Vaitu Nui 21 22 23 24 25 (115 → Mercury) 26 (100 + 16)
*Ca14-18 *Ca14-19 *Ca14-20 (77 + 306) (6 + 378) (385 = 270 + 115) *Ca14-23
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
5 (159 + 302) 6 (462 - 366 = 96) April 7 8 9 (465) 10 (100)
9 (132 + 302) 10 (435 - 366 = 69) 'March 11 12 13 14 (73) → π
"Febr 23 (6 * 70) 24 (462 - 41 = 421) 25 26 27 (*345) 28 (59 = 2 * 29½)
31 (95 + 302) 1 (398 - 366 = 32) FEBR 2 3 4 5 (100 - 64)

... 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 BC ...

DEC 7 8 9 10 (345 = 162 + 183) 12 (*266)
1h (15.2)

β Phoenicis (15.1), υ Phoenicis, ι Tucanae (15.6), η Ceti, ζ Phoenicis (15.7)

*79 + *302 - *366 = *15

Al Batn Al Hūt-26 (Belly of the Fish) / Revati-28 (Prosperous) / 1-iku (Field Measure)

MIRACH (Girdle) = β Andromedae, KEUN MAN MUN (Camp's South Gate) = φ Andromedae (16.0), ANUNITUM = τ Piscium (16.5), REVATI (Abundant) = ζ Piscium (16.9)

 REGULUS (α Leonis)

ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6)

*342.0 = *383.4 - *41.4

no star listed (18) ADHIL (Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7) KSORA (Knee) = δ Cassiopeiae (20.1), ω Andromedae (20.6), γ Phoenicis (20.8)

... Though Andromeda has its roots most firmly in the Greek tradition, a female figure in Andromeda's place appeared in Babylonian astronomy. The stars that make up Pisces and the middle portion of modern Andromeda formed a constellation representing a fertility goddess, sometimes named as Anunitum or the Lady of the Heavens ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
6 (342 + 302 - 365) 7 (*200) 8 (281) Oct 9 10 11 (284)
"Aug 26 27 28 (*80 * 2 = *160) 29 (241 = 282 - 41) 30 31
JUNE 7 8 9 (*160 - *80 = *80) 10 (161 = 241 - 80) 11 12
AL DAFĪRAH (Tuft) = β Com. Ber. (199.4)

*158.0 = *199.4 - *41.4

σ Virginis (200.4)

*159.0 = *200.4 - *41.4

γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4)

*160.0 = *201.4 - *41.4

Al Simāk-12 (Lofty) / Chitra-14 (Bright One) / Horn-1 (Crocodile) / Sa-Sha-Shirū-20 (Virgin's Girdle) / ANA-ROTO-3 (Middle pillar)

MIZAR = ζ Ursae Majoris (202.4), SPICA = α Virginis, ALCOR = 80 Ursae Majoris (202.7)

SADALMELIK (α Aquarii)

*161.0 = *202.4 - 41.4
71 VIRGINIS (203.6) no star listed (204)