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522. The letter α, which Halley had assigned for the principal star in his Robur Carolinum,

was later changed (by others) into β Carinae, also known as Miaplacidus. Allen:

"Miaplacidus is thus written in Burritt's Geography of 1856, but is Maiaplacidus in his Atlas of 1855, the meaning and derivation of which I cannot learn, unless it be in part, as Higgins asserts in his brief work on starnames, from Miyah, the plural of the Arabic , Water ..."

Leo can be seen to urinate at Zosma and Coxa, we can read from the star map above. And when the royal double-canoe was sighted outside the southwest corner of Easter Island Nonoma (Jupiter) was indeed out urinating in the night:

... The canoes of Ava Rei Pua and of Hotu were seen near the (off-shore) islets. On the fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa uri) the canoe of Hotu and the canoe of Ava Rei Pua landed. On the fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa uri), Nonoma left the house during the night to urinate outside. At this point Ira called out to Nonoma, 'Look at the canoe!' Nonoma ran, he quickly went to Te Hikinga Heru (a ravine in the side of the crater Rano Kau) and looked around. There he saw the double canoe way out near the (offshore) islets, and the two (hulls of the canoe) were lashed together. He ran and returned to the front of the house. He arrived and called into the house: 'Hey you! This canoe has arrived during the night without our noticing it!' Ira asked Nonoma, 'Where is the canoe, which you say is lying out there (in the water)?' Nonoma's voice came back: 'It is out there (in the water) close to the (offshore) islets! There it lies, and the two (hulls) are lashed together.' The four of them (corrected for 'the six of them') went out and picked up leaves (on branches) to give signals. They picked them up, went and arrived at Te Hikinga and saw the canoe. Raparenga got up, picked up the leaves, took them in his hands, and waved, waved, waved, waved ... (E:75)

Sons of Hau Maka

Sons of Hua Tava

Ira

Sun

Kuukuu

Mars

Raparenga

Moon

Ringiringi

Mercury

 

Nonoma

Jupiter

Uure

Venus

Makoi

Saturn

Mercury

Jupiter

Venus

Saturn

Sun

Moon

Mars

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Thursday

Friday

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Monday

Tuesday

October 15 is day number 288 in our calendar (if not a leap year) which can be explained as 9 weeks before day 351 (= 13 * 27).

Jan 31 31
Febr 28 59
March 31 90 = 101 - 11
April 30 120
May 31 151
June 30 181 = 80 + 101
July 31 212
Aug 31 243
Sept 30 273 = 3 * 91
Oct 31 304
Nov 30 334
Dec 31 365 = 5 * 73

 Water precedes birth. The Gregorian calendar, for instance, 'was born' in day 288 (= 12 * 24):

... The Julian calendar day Thursday [the day of Jupiter], 4 October 1582 was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday [the day of Venus], 15 October 1582 (the cycle of weekdays was not affected) ...

And from Rogo in Gb6-26 to the end of side b (prior to the 'birth' of side a) there are 63 (= 9 * 7 = 46 + 365 - 348) glyphs:

... 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 around 3h (= 3h / 24h * 365.25 = ca 46 of my right ascension days) compared to an ancient arrangement ...

MAY 2 3 (123 = 107 + 16 = 3 * 41) 4 5
Gb6-25 (229 + 178) Gb6-26 (408 = 471 - 63) Gb6-27 (180) Gb6-28 (136 + 45)

7h (106.5)

no star listed (106)

WEZEN (Weight) = δ Canis Majoris (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9)

no star listed (108)

λ Gemini (109.4), WASAT (Middle) = δ Gemini (109.8)

*68.0 = *109.4 - *41.4
July 5 (186) 6 (*107) 7 8
°July 1 2 (183) 3 (*104) 4
'June 8 9 (*80) 10 (161 = 7 * 23) 11

.. 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 ...

"May 25 (144) 26 27 28 (*68)
DAY 106 107 108 109
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
OCT 31 (= 288 + 16) NOV 1 2 (306) 3 (*227 → 22 / 7 → π)

Al Na'ām-18 (Ostriches) / Uttara Ashadha-21 (Elephant tusk, small bed)

NUNKI = σ Sagittarii (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), MANUBRIUM = ο Sagittarii (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9)

*247.0 = *288.4 - *41.4

19h (289.2)

λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8)

*248.0 = *289.4 - *41.4

Al Baldah-19 (City)

AL BALDAH = π Sagittarii, ALPHEKKA (Dish) MERIDIANA = α Cor. Austr. (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)
ALADFAR = η Lyrae (291.1), NODUS II = δ Draconis (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), τ Draconis (291.7), θ Lyrae (291.8)

... This [σ Sagittarii] has been identified with Nunki of the Euphratean Tablet of the Thirty Stars, the Star of the Proclamation of the Sea, this Sea being the quarter occupied by Aquarius, Capricornus, Delphinus, Pisces, and Pisces Australis. It is the same space in the sky that Aratos designated as Water ...

Jan 3 (368) 4 5 (*290) 6
°Dec 30 (364 = 84 + 280) 31 (*285) °Jan 1 2
'Dec 7 8 9 (*263) 10 (344)
"Nov 23 24 25 (*249) 26 (330)
DAY 288 289 290 291

The bright (1.75) star high up in Robur Carolinum is γ in the Sail (Latin: Vela) of Argo Navis:

... Gamma Velorum (γ Vel, γ Velorum) is a star system in the constellation Vela. At magnitude +1.7, it is one of the brightest stars in the night sky. It has the traditional names Suhail and Suhail al Muhlif, which confusingly also apply to Lambda Velorum. It also has a more modern popular name Regor, which was invented as a practical joke by the Apollo 1 astronaut Gus Grissom for his fellow astronaut Roger Chaffee. Due to the exotic nature of its spectrum (bright emission lines in lieu of dark absorption lines) it is also dubbed the 'Spectral Gem of Southern Skies' ...

Ga2-24 Ga2-25 (55) Ga2-26 (136 - 80) Ga2-27→ π Ga2-28 Ga2-29 Ga3-1 (60)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
July 17

φ Gemini (118.4)

*77.0 = *118.4 - *41.4

18

DRUS (Hard) = χ Carinae (119.9)

19 (200)

ω Cancri (120.2)

20 (80 + 11 * 11)

8h (121.7)

χ Gemini (121.0), NAOS = ζ Puppis (121.3)

21

ρ Puppis (122.0), HEAP OF FUEL = μ Cancri (122.1), ζ Monocerotis (122.3),  ψ Cancri (122.6), REGOR (Roger backwards) = γ Velorum (122.7)

22 / 7

TEGMINE = ζ Cancri (123.3)

23 (204)

AL TARF (The End) = β Cancri (124.3)

RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)

'June 20 Solstice 22 (173 = 200 - 27) 23 24 25 26 (177 = 6 * 29˝)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Jan 16 17 18 19 (384) 20 21 22
ι Sagittarii (301.2), TEREBELLUM = ω Sagittarii, ξ Aquilae (301.3), ALSHAIN (Falcon) = β Aquilae (301.6), φ Aquilae (301.8) ε Pavonis, θ Sagittarii (302.3), γ Sagittae (302.5), μ Pavonis (302.7) τ Aquilae (303.8) 20h (304.4)

η Sagittae (304.2), δ Pavonis (304.4)

*263.0 = *304.4 - *41.4

SHANG WEI (Higher Guard) = κ Cephei (305.2), θ Sagittae (305.4), TSEEN FOO (Heavenly Raft)  = θ Aquilae (Ant.) (305.6), ξ Capricorni (305.8)

*264.0 = *305.4 - *41.4
TSO KE (Left Flag) = ρ Aquilae (306.3 GREDI (Goat) = α Capricorni (307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), ALSHAT (The Sheep) = ν Capricorni (307.9)
'Dec 20 (354) Solstice 22 23 24 25 26 (360)

The line from Canopus (α) to Miaplacidus (β) continues on to Simiram (ω), which rose simultaneously with both the Northern Gazelle

and with Adhafera (*154), which was 59 (= 2 * 29˝) right ascension days after Canopus (*95):

... Epimenides the Cretan - who said that all the Cretans were liers - lived to be 157 years old, or to be 299 or 154:

154
Ca9-8 (8 * 29˝) Ca9-9 Ca9-10
ku tupu te poporo kotia kua rere

Poporo. A plant (Solanum forsteri); poporo haha, a sort of golden thistle. Vanaga. A berry whose juice is mixed with ashes of ti leaves in tattoing. Ta.: oporo, a capsicum plant. The Tahiti oporo is not a degradation of poporo but is the original poro stem augmented by that o which in Tahiti is word-formative in a sense too elusive to find expression in European ideas. Mgv.: poporo, the July season when the leaves fall. Mq.: pororo, dry, arid. Sa.: palolo-mua, July. Ma.: paroro, cloudy weather. Poporohiva, milk thistle. Churchill.

314 / 2 = 584 / 2 - 270 / 2 = 157

... 471 (= 229 + 242) = 1˝ * 314 = 3 * 157 = 300 + 3 * 57, which should remind us of how Epimenides slept for 57 years in a cave (471 + 57 = 2 * 264 = 11 * 48) and how he then lived on to be 157 years (or 299 or 154) ...

tu te rau hei ku hakahonui raua kiore hokohuki te rau hei te moko e te hokohuki
Cb6-12 Cb6-13 (520) Cb6-14 (155 + 366) Cb6-15 (130) Cb6-16 (392 + 131) Cb6-17 Cb6-18
λ Hydrae (153.2) ADHAFERA = ζ Leonis, TANIA BOREALIS (Northern Gazelle) = λ Ursae Majoris, SIMIRAM = ω Carinae (154.7) ALGIEBA (The Mane) = γ Leonis, q Carinae (155.5) TANIA AUSTRALIS (Southern Gazelle) = μ Ursae Majoris (156.0), GHOST OF JUPITER = NGC3242 Hydrae (156.8)

Extended Net-26b (Ox)

μ Hydrae (157.1)

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

SHIR (Possessing Luminous Rays) = ρ Leonis (158.9)
p Carinae (159.3)

... From a point a little to the west of ζ [Adhafera, ζ Leonis] and not much farther from γ - when first observed the radiant point was in Cancer - issue the Leonids, the meteor stream of November 9th to 17th, its maximum now occurring on the 13th to 14th, which about every thirty-three years has furnished such wonderful displays, the last in 1866 and the next due in 1899.

Their first noticed appearance may have been in the year 137, since which date the stream has completed fifty-two revolutions. According to Theophanes of Byzantium, the shower was seen from there in November, 472; but the late Professor Newton, our deservedly great authority on the whole subject of meteors, commenced his list of the Leonids with their appearance on the 13th of October, 902, the Arabian Year of the Stars, during the night of the death of King Ibrahim ben Ahmad, and added:

It will be seen that all these showers are at intervals of a third of a century, that they are at a fixed day of the year, and that the day has moved steadily and uniformly along the calendar, at the rate of about a month in a thousand years. (Allen)

The outline of Carina ends with θ (Vathorz Posterior), where the trunk becomes hidden by foliage.

Egyptian nfr Phoenician teth Greek theta Θ (θ)

... The form of the letter θ suggests a midline ('waist'), although the origin of θ is the Phoenician tēth which means 'wheel'. This in turn could have originated from a glyph named 'good' which in Egypt was nfr ...

... θ is the last star in the Ara constellation, and the ancient meaning of this letter was described as a wheel by the Phoenicians but for the Egyptian it meant 'good'. When the wheel of time has come full cycle around and the upside down fire-altar is in the past the times ahead should be good (or lucky Sa'ad) ...

According to Wilkinson nefer originally depicted the throat and heart of a sheep:

kua tupu te mea ke

Ke. 1. Other; different; different being; hare ké, a different house; e-ké-ro-á... e-ké-ro-á... there are some who... and others who...; me'e ké, something distinct, different: te puaka ina oona kuhane; me'e ké te tagata, he hakari oona, he kuhane, an animal has no soul; man is different, he has a body, and a soul; matu'a ké, the other relatives. 2. Ké te kairua, person who turns up for meals at other people's homes. 3. Used in exclamations: hahau ké! what a cool breeze!; hana ké! how hot! takeo ké! how cold! Vanaga. Other, distinct, different, diverse, otherwise; koona ke, elsewhere; tagata ke, some one else; mea ke, contrary, distinct, otherwise; hakake, feint, stratagem, to feign; hagake, to act contrary. T Pau.: ke, different. Mgv.: ke, another, other, else, different, of partial comparative value. Mq.: ke, é, to be different, changed, no longer the same. Ta.: e, different, strange, other. Churchill.

E, adv. and ppr. Haw., from, away, off, by, through, means of; also, adverbially, something other, something strange, new; adj. contrary, opposed, adverse, other, foreign. Sam.: e, ppr. by, of; ese, other different, strange. Ta., e, ppr. by, through, from; adv. away, off; adj. different, strange, distant; ee, strange. N. Zeal., ke, strange, different. Malg., eze, of, by. Greek, έκ, έξ, from out of, from, by, of; έκει, in that place, opp. to ένθαδε, in some other place than that of the speaker, thither; έκας, afar off. Lat., e, ex, out of, from. Liddell and Scott (Gr.-Engl. Dict., s. v.) say: 'The root of έτ-ερος is said to be the same as Sanskr. ant-aras, Goth. auth-ar, Germ. and-er, Lat. alt-er, aut, French aut-rui, our eith-er, oth-er, itara = alius, also in Sanskrit.' Whatever the root of ant-aras, auth-ar, alter, it seems to me that έκας shows nearer kindred to the Polynesian e, ke, ee, ese, eze, than to forms so developed as ant-ar, ant-ara, &c. (Fornander)

Cb6-19 (526) Cb6-20 (135 = 500 - 365) Cb6-21 (2 * 264 = 22 * 24)
φ Hydrae (160.3) no star listed (161 = 249 - 88) VATHORZ POSTERIOR = θ Carinae (162.1), PEREGRINI = μ Velorum, η Carinae (162.6)

... This [η Carinae] is one of the most noted objects in the heavens, perhaps even so in almost prehistoric times, for Babylonian inscriptions seem to refer to a star noticeable from occasional faintness in its light, that Jensen thinks was η. And he claims it as one of the temple stars associated with Ea, or Ia, of Eridhuš, the Lord of Waters, otherwise known as Oannes˛, the mysterious human fish and greatest god of the kingdom.

š Eridhu, or Eri-duga, the Holy City, Nunki, or Nunpe, one of the oldest cities in the world, even in ancient Babylonia, was that kingdom's flourishing port on the Persian Gulf, but, by the encroachment of the delta, its site is now one hundred miles inland. In its vicinity the Babylonians located their sacred Tree of Life.

˛ Berōssōs described Oannes as the teacher of early man in all knowledge; and in mythology he was even the creator of man and the father of Tammuz and Ishtar, themselves associated with other stars and sky figures. Jensen thinks Oannes connected with the stars of Capricorn; Lockyer finds his counterpart in the god Chnemu of Southern Egypt; and some have regarded him as the prototype of Noah ...

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...

... Canopy ... covering over a throne, etc. XIV (Wycl.). Late ME. canope, canape - medL. canopeum baldacchino, for L. cōnōpēum, -eum, -ium net over a bed, pavilion - Gr. kōnōpeîon Egyptian bed with mosquito curtains, f. kōnōps gnat, mosquito ...

Was king Charles II hiding in a way similar to η Carinae?

... 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 ...

Egyptian courtyard Phoenician heth Greek eta Η (η)

... The letter shape ultimately goes back to a hieroglyph for 'courtyard' ... possibly named hasir in the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, while the name goes rather back to hayt, the name reconstructed for a letter derived from a hieroglyph for 'thread'

... The kaikai are the rythmic songs that are sung to cat's cradles, the string games that are found not only throughout the Pacific but throughout the world. On premissionary Rapa Nui the kaikai, together with their corresponding cat's cradles, were not simple children's games but were used, among other things, to produce magic effect. They were highly important for the study of Rapa Nui's rongorongo. This is because it was apparently with the aid of cat's cradles that the rongorongo experts taught their pupils to learn many of the chants accompanying the incised inscriptions ...

... string games could be resumed after it was clear that the Sun had managed to leave the horizon and was rapidly gaining in altitude: 'Before the sun starts to leave the horizon ... when it shows only on the horizon, ... then string games were no longer allowed as they might lacerate the sun. Once the sun had started to go higher and could be seen in its entirety, string games could be resumed, if one so wished. So the restriction on playing string games was only applicable during the period between the sun's return and its rising fully above the horizon ...

ST JOHN'S DAY JUNE 25 26 (177 = 161 + 16) 27
Ga4-12 (95) Ga4-13 → 14 * 29˝ Ga4-14 Ga4-15
p Carinae (159.3) φ Hydrae (160.3) no star listed (161 = 249 - 88) VATHORZ POSTERIOR = θ Carinae (162.1), PEREGRINI = μ Velorum, η Carinae (162.6)
Aug 27 28 (240) 29 (*161) 30
°Aug 23 24 (236) 25 (*157) 26
'July 31 'Aug 1 2 (214) 3 (20 * 29 = 365 + 215)
"July 17 18 19 (200) 20 (*121)
DAY 159 160 161 162

... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th [161] and ends of July 7th [188]. 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 ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
CHRISTMAS EVE DEC 25 26 (360) 27

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

*301.0 = *342.4 - *41.4
ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8)

ρ Gruis (344.0), MATAR (Rain) = η Pegasi (344.2), η Gruis (344.6), β Oct. (344.7)

λ Pegasi (345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), ε Gruis (345.3), τ Aquarii (345.7), ξ Oct. (345.8), μ Pegasi (345.9)
Febr 26 27 (58 = 2 * 29) 28 (365 + 59 = 424) March 1 (*345)
°Febr 22 23 24 (55) 25
'Jan 30 (*315) 31 'Febr 1 (32) 2
"Jan 16 (*301) 17 18 (383) 19
DAY 342 343 344 345
JUNE 28 29 (180) SIRIUS JULY 1
Ga4-16 Ga4-17 Ga4-18 (101) Ga4-19
ν Hydrae (163.1) no star listed (164)

ALTAIR (α Aquilae)

Wings-27 (Snake)

η Octans (165.4), ALKES (Shallow Basin) = α Crateris (165.6)

*124.0 = *165.4 - *41.4

ANA-TIPU-4 (Upper-side-pillar - where the guards stood)

MERAK (Loin) = β Ursae Majoris (166.2), DUBHE (Bear) = α Ursae Majoris (166.7)

Aug 31 Sept 1 2 (*165) 3 (246)
°Aug 27 28 29 (*161) 30 (242)
'Aug 4 (216) 5 (*137) 6 7
"July 21 22 / 7 23 24 (*125)
DAY 163 164 165 166
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DEC 28 29 30 (364 = 12 * 29 + 16) 31 (*285)
ι Cephei (346.0), λ Aquarii, γ Piscis Austrini, σ Pegasi (346.5) SCHEAT AQUARII =  δ Aquarii (347.0), ρ Pegasi (347.2), δ Piscis Austrini (347.4), FOMALHAUT (Mouth of the Fish) = α Piscis Austrini, τ Gruis (347.8)

*306.0 = *347.4 - *41.4

FUM AL SAMAKAH (Mouth of the Fish)  = β Piscium (348.3), ζ Gruis (348.5), ο Andromedae (348.9)

Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 (Fore Spout) / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 (First of the Blessed Feet) / House-13 (Pig)

SCHEAT PEGASI = β Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), κ Gruis (349.4), MARKAB PEGASI = α Pegasi (349.5)

*308.0 = *349.4 - *41.4
March 2 3 4 (*348) 5 (64)
°Febr 26 27 28 (*344) °March 1 (60)
'Febr 3 4 5 (36) 6 (*322)
"Jan 20 21 22 23 (*308)
DAY 346 347 348 (= 364 - 16) 349
JULY 2 3 (184) 4 (*105)
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 (104 = 2 * 52) Ga4-22

11h (167.4)

χ Leonis, χš Hydrae (167.1), χ˛ Hydrae (167.3)
AL SHARAS (The Ribs) = β Crateris (168.6)

Al Zubrah-9 (The Mane) / Purva Phalguni-11 (First Reddish One)

ZOSMA (Girdle) = δ Leonis (169.2), COXA (Hips) = θ Leonis (169.4)

*128.0 = *169.4 - *41.4
Sept 4 5 (248 = 2 * 124) 6
°Aug 31 °Sept 1 (244 = 2 * 122) 2
'Aug 8 (*140) 9 10 (222)
"July 25 (*126) 26 27 (208)
DAY 167 168 (= 2 * 84) 169
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JAN 1 2 (184 + 183) 3 (368)

23h (350.0)

υ, θ Gruis (350.0), π Cephei (350.6), ι Gruis (350.9)
SIMMAH = γ Piscium (351.7) 

φ Aquarii (352.0), ψ Aquarii (352.4), χ Aquarii (352.6), γ Tucanae, φ Gruis (352.8)

*311.0 = *352.4 - *41.4
March 6 (*350) 7 (66) 8 (432 = 2 * 216)
°March 2 3 4 (63 = *348)
'Febr 7 8 9 (40 = *325)
"Jan 24 25 (*310 = 390) 26
DAY 350 351 (= 288 + 63) 352