521. Once again. The stars were in principle fixed and therefore not influenced by how the precession moved the cardinal points of the Sun. It was the Moon god (in the night) who had invented the numbers, letters, and all the other such internal conceptions. Easter Island, for instance, was first discovered during the night by a dream soul (kuhane). ... Ira, Raparenga, Uure, Nonoma, and Ringiringi got up and left the 'Dark abyss of Hau Maka' (i.e., Rano Kau), arrived at Hanga Te Pau, put the canoe into the water, and sailed off to Hiva, to Maori. Ira left on the twenty-fifth day of the month of October (Tangaroa Uri). When Ira's canoe reached the islets (off the southwestern coast), Makoi (who was staying behind) shouted the following (after him): Eight lands (are there), one has been found (or, an eighth land has been found for the first time, evaru kainga katahi i revaa), that is, Te Pito O Te Kainga. During the fast journey, one cannot find the seven lands in the midst of dim twilight. Once (Easter Island) has been lost, not even eight groups of people (i.e., countless boat crews) can find (it) again. - Ruhi to the right, Pu to the left, necklace around the neck of Hinariru at Papa O Rae! [E:86] Allen has documented the dates for the culminations of important stars not as they were observed at 24h (= 0h) but at 21h. Probably this was because the precession had moved the night sky ahead with around 3h (= 3h / 24h * 365.25 = ca 46 of my right ascension days) compared to an ancient arrangement. When Halley created Robur Carolinum he may therefore have thought 246 (September 3) - 46 = 200: .. Robur Carolinum, Charles' Oak, the Quercia of Italy and the Karlseiche of Germany, was formally published by Halley in 1679 in commemoration of the Royal Oak of his patron, Charles II, in which the king had lain hidden for twenty-four hours after his defeat by Cromwell in the battle of Worcester, on the 3rd of September 1651 ...
And then he could have adjusted 200 with 16 days due to the ancient custom of defining time from where a specific star returned to visibility (instead of from its true heliacal day). 200 - 16 = 184 (JULY 3):
From the Full Moon at Fomalhaut, the Mouth of the Fish (cfr Ga4-21 where Simmah, γ, was at the mouth of the southern fish in Pisces),
to the Sun at the female Girdle and Hips there were 5 days. ... 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 ... And here the Lion (in South America the Puma) 'changed sex' from 'male' to 'female': ... When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...
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