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525. On Easter Island they preferred to use Rigel instead of the Pleiades for marking the beginning of the year:

... In view of the almost universal prevalence of the Pleiades year throughout the Polynesian area it is surprising to find that in the South Island and certain parts of the North Island of New Zealand and in the neighboring Chatham Islands, the year began with the new Moon after the yearly morning rising, not of the Pleiades, but of the star Rigel in Orion ...

We have found the Pleiades early on side b of the C tablet:

te ua koia ra kua tuku ki to mata - ki tona tukuga e kiore - henua - pa rei
Cb2-4 (420 = 7 * 60) Cb2-5 (29) Cb2-6 Cb2-7
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

DAY 237

238

239

240

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 ...

"April 3 4 5 6 (96)
MARCH 11 12 (135 - 64 = 71) 13 14 (→ π)
DAY 54 55 56 57

 

298

Kua pu ia tagata ariga erua 14
... The ancient names of the month were: Tua haro, Tehetu'upú, Tarahao, Vaitu nui, Vaitu poru [probably: potu], He Maro, He Anakena, Hora iti, Hora nui, Tagaroa uri, Ko Ruti, Ko Koró ...
Cb14-1 (722 = 392 + 330) Cb14-2 (331)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Sept 10

ο¹ Centauri (173.8)

11 (254)

GIAUZAR = λ Draconis (174.0), ξ Hydrae (174.3), ο² Centauri, λ Centauri (174.8)

'Aug 14 (226 = 253 - 27) 15
DAY 173 (= 240 + 299 - 366) 174
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
March 11 (137 + 299 - 366 = 70) 12 (71 = 254 - 183)
no star listed (356 = 57 + 299)

ι Phoenicis (357.3), ι Piscium (357.4), λ Andromedae (357.9)

*316.0 = *357.4 - *41.4
'Febr 12 (43 = 226 - 183) 13 (44 = 71 - 27)
43 + 16 = 59 (Tehetu'upú 28) Tarahao 1 (60 = 71 - 11)
"Jan 29 (= 59 - 30) 30 (= 71 - 41)
JAN 6 (= 70 - 64) 7 (372 = 364 + 8)
DAY 356 (= 11 + 345) 357 (= 346 + 11 = 316 + 41)
kokoti hia te henua - tagata hakaitiiti - i te henua
Cb14-17 (346 = 331 + 15) Cb14-18 Cb14-19 (392 + 348 = 740)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Sept 26 27 28 (271 = 88 + 183)
γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7) α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7)

ALDERAMIN (α Cephei)

Al Áwwā'-11 (The Barker) / Shur-mahrū-shirū-18 (Front or West Shur)

Sombrero Galaxy = M104 Virginis (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA = γ Virginis, γ Centauri (191.5)

*150.0 = *191.4 - *41.4

'Aug 30 31 'Sept 1 (244 = 271 - 27)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
March 27 28 29 (88 = 61 + 27)
λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4)

*148.0 + *183.0 = *331.0 = *6.4 - *41.4 + *366.0

ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31), π Andromedae (7.7)

ε Andromedae (8.2), DELTA = δ Andromedae (8.4), SCHEDIR (Breast) = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9)

*150.0 + *183.0 = *333.0 = *8.4 - *41.4 + *366.0

'Febr 28 29 'March 1 (61 = 244 - 183)
Tarahao 16 17 18 (77 = 88 - 11)

Rigel (*78) will be found early on side a. Counted beyond March 31 (when the Full Moon was at Achird) Rigel should come 78 - 10 = 68 glyphs later:

no glyph koia ki te hoea ki te henua te rima te hau tea haga i te mea ke ki te henua - tagata honui

Hoe. Hoe 1. Paddle. Mgv.: hoe, ohe, id. Mq., Ta.: hoe, id. 2. To wheeze with fatigue (oeoe 2). Arero oeoe, to stammer, to stutter; Mgv. oe, to make a whistling sound in breathing; ohe, a cry from a person out of breath. Mq.: oe, to wheeze with fatigue. 3. Blade, knife; hoe hakaiu, clasp-knife, jack-knife; hoe hakanemu, clasp-knife; hoe pikopiko, pruning knife. 4. Ta.: oheohe, a plant. Ma.: kohekohe, id. Churchill.T. Paddle. E hoe te heiva = 'and to paddle (was their) pleasure'. Henry. Hoea, instrument for tattooing. Barthel.

Ca1-1 Ca1-2 Ca1-3 Ca1-4 Ca1-5 Ca1-6
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Sept 20 (263) 21 Equinox 23 24 25 26
ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis (184.6), MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris (184.9)

Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28 (Worm)

GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9)

*144.0 = *185.4 - *41.4

CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3) INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5)

*146.0 = *187.4 - *41.4

γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB = δ Corvi (188.5), GACRUX = γ Crucis (188.7) γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7)

... Raven gazed up and down the beach. It was pretty, but lifeless. There was no one about to upset, or play tricks upon. Raven sighed. He crossed his wings behind him and strutted up and down the sand, his shiny head cocked, his sharp eyes and ears alert for any unusual sight or sound. The mountains and the sea, the sky now ablaze with the sun by day and the moon and stars he had placed there, it was all pretty, but lifeless. Finally Raven cried out to the empty sky with a loud exasperated cry. And before the echoes of his cry faded from the shore, he heard a muffled squeak. He looked up and down the beach for its source and saw nothing. He strutted back and and forth, once, twice, three times and still saw nothing. Then he spied a flash of white in the sand. There, half buried in the sand was a giant clamshell. As his shadow fell upon it, he heard another muffled squeak. Peering down into the opening between the halves of the shell, he saw it was full of tiny creatures, cowering in fear at his shadow ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
March 21 (80)

Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)

0h (365.25)

CAPH (Hand) = β Cassiopeiae, SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)
22

Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)
23

χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)

24

σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7)

Julian equinox

no star listed (4)

26 (85 = 185 - 100)

ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

ALPHARD (α Hydrae)

27

λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4)

*148.0 + *183.0 = *331.0 = *6.4 - *41.4 + *366.0

te ika te honu
Ca1-7 Ca1-8
α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7)

ALDERAMIN (α Cephei)

Al Áwwā'-11 (The Barker) / Shur-mahrū-shirū-18 (Front or West Shur)

Sombrero Galaxy = M104 Virginis (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA = γ Virginis, γ Centauri (191.5)

*150.0 = *191.4 - *41.4

ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31), π Andromedae (7.7)

ε Andromedae (8.2), DELTA = δ Andromedae (8.4), SCHEDIR (Breast) = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9)

*150.0 + *183.0 = *333.0 = *8.4 - *41.4 + *366.0

te manu te henua   te Rei kua hakagana te henua honu te henua
Ca1-9 Ca1-10 (29 - 19) Ca1-11 Ca1-12 Ca1-13 Ca1-14 Ca1-15
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Sept 29 30 (3 * 91 = 273)   Oct 1 2 3 4 (277) 5
ι Crucis (192.2), β Muscae (192.5), MIMOSA = β Crucis (192.9) no star listed (193)

κ Crucis (194.4), ψ Virginis (194.5), μ Crucis, λ Crucis (194.6), ALIOTH (Fat Tail) = ε Ursae Majoris, ι Oct. (194.8)

*153.0 = *194.4 - *41.4
MINELAUVA = δ Virginis (195.1), COR CAROLI = α Canum Ven. (195.3)

δ Muscae (196.5) , VINDEMIATRIX (Grape Gatherer) = ε Virginis (196.8)

13h (197.8)

ξ¹ Centauri (197.1), ξ² Centauri (197.9)
APAMI-ATSA (Child of Waters) = θ Virginis, ψ Hydrae (198.5), DIADEM = α Com. Ber. (198.9)

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

'Sept 2 3 (246 = 2 * 123)   4 5 6 7 8
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
March 30 31   April 1 (91) 2 3 4 5

ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), DENEB KAITOS (Tail of the Sea Beast) = β Ceti, η Phoenicis (9.4), AL NITHĀM (String of Pearls) = φ¹ Ceti (9.6)

*334.0 = *375.4 - *41.4

ACHIRD (Woman with Luminous Rays) = η Cassiopeiae (10.7)

Legs-15 (Wolf)

ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4)

*336.0 = *377.4 - *41.4

CIH (Whip) = γ Cassiopeiae, λ Tucanae (12.4), φ³ Ceti (12.6), μ Andromedae (12.8)

*337.0 = *378.4 - *41.4

φ4 Ceti (13.2) no star listed (14)

1h (15.2)

β Phoenicis (15.1), υ Phoenicis, ι Tucanae (15.6), ζ Phoenicis (15.7)
'March 3 4 (63 = 9 * 7) 5 6 7 8 9

tagata tuu rima ki ruga te maitaki te henua Rei hata ia tagata rogo

Hata. 1. Table, bureau. P Pau.: afata, a chest, box. Mgv.: avata, a box, case, trunk, coffin. Mq.: fata, hata, a piece of wood with several branches serving as a rack, space, to ramify, to branch; fataá, hataá, stage, step, shelf. Ta.: fata, scaffold, altar. 2. Hakahata, to disjoint; hakahatahata, to loosen, to stretch. P Pau.: vata, an interval, interstice. Mgv.: kohata, the space between two boards, to be badly joined; akakohata, to leave a space between two bodies badly joined; hakahata, to be large, broad, wide, spacious, far off. Mq.: hatahata, fatafata, having chinks, not tightly closed, disjointed. Ta.: fatafata, open. 3. Hatahata, calm, loose, prolix, vast. Mgv.: hatahara, broad, wide, spacious, at one's ease. Ta.: fatafata, free from care. Mq.: hatahata, empty, open. 4. Hatahata, tube, pipe, funnel. Churchill. Sa.: fata, a raised house in which to store yams, a shelf, a handbarrow, a bier, a litter, an altar, to carry on a litter; fatāmanu, a scaffold. To.: fata, a loft, a bier, a handbarrow, to carry on a bier; fataki, a platform. Fu.: fata, a barrow, a loft; fatataki, two sticks or canes attached to each other at each side of a house post to serve as a shelf. Niuē: fata, a cage, a handbarrow, a shelf, a stage, (sometimes) the upper story of a house. Uvea: fata, a barrow, a bier. Fotuna: fata, a stage. Ta.: fata, an altar, a scaffold, a piece of wood put up to hang baskets of food on; afata, a chest, a box, a coop, a raft, a scaffold. Pau.: fata, a heap; afata, a box, a chest. Ma.: whata, a platform or raised storehouse for food, an altar, to elevate, to support. Moriori: whata, a raft. Mq.: fata, hata, hataá, shelves. Rapanui: hata, a table. Ha.: haka, a ladder, an artificial henroost; alahaka, a ladder. Mg.: ata, a shelf; atamoa, a ladder; atarau, an altar. Mgv.: avata, a coffer, a box. Vi.: vata, a loft, a shelf; tāvata, a bier. The Samoan fata is a pair of light timbers pointed at the ends and tied across the center posts of the house, one in front, the other behind the line of posts; rolls of mats and bales of sennit may be laid across these timbers; baskets or reserved victuals may be hung on the ends. The litter and the barrow are two light poles with small slats lashed across at intervals. The Marquesan fata is a stout stem of a sapling with the stumps of several branches, a hat tree in shape, though found among a barehead folk. These illustrations are sufficient to show what is the common element in all these fata identifications, light cross-pieces spaced at intervals. With this for a primal signifaction it is easy to see how a ladder, a raft, a henroost, an altar come under the same stem for designation. Perhaps Samoan fatafata the breast obtains the name by reason of the ribs; it would be convincing were it not that the plumpness of most Samoans leaves the ribs a matter of anatomical inference. Churchill 2. ... Teke said to Oti, 'Go and take the hauhau tree, the paper mulberry tree, rushes, tavari plants, uku koko grass, riku ferns, ngaoho plants, the toromiro tree, hiki kioe plants (Cyperus vegetus), the sandalwood tree, harahara plants, pua nakonako plants, nehenehe ferns, hua taru grass, poporo plants, bottle gourds (ipu ngutu), kohe plants, kavakava atua ferns, fragrant tuere heu grass, tureme grass (Diochelachne sciurea), matie grass, and the two kinds of cockroaches makere and hata.' ... The division into quarters of a 28-series can be applied to the main phases of the moon during the visible period as was as to a (reflex of the old world?) sidereal month. The separate subgroup (29 makere - 30 hata) consists of the names of two types of cockroaches, but in related eastern Polynesian languages these names can also be explained on a different level. MAO. makere, among others, 'to die', and whata, among others, 'to be laid to rest on a platform', deserve special attention. The theme hinted at is one of death and burial. In our scheme they occur at just that time when the moon 'has died'! This lends further support to the lunar thesis. Barthel 2.

Ca3-21 (→ March 21 → Gregorian equinox) Ca3-22 (73) Ca3-23 Ca3-24 Ca3-25 (→ March 25→ Julian equinox)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Dec 1

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

*214.0 = *255.4 - *41.4

2 (336)

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)

5

Mula-19 (The Root)

SABIK (The Preceding One) = η Ophiuchi (259.7), η Scorpii (259.9)
DAY 255 256 257 258 259
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
June 1 (152)

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

HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)

5

5h (76.1)

ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)

*35.0 = *76.4 - *41.4

DAY 72 73 74 75 76
kua tupu te rakau kua tupu - te kihikihi te hau tea
Ca4-1 Ca4-2 (10 + 68 = 78) Ca4-3
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Dec 6 (340 = 157 + 183) 7 (*261 = *78 + *183) 8
NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8) SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9)

*221.0 = *262.4 - *41.4

DAY 260 261 = 9 * 29 262
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)  ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)

June 6 (157 = 314 / 2) 7 (*78) 8
'May 10 (*50 = *77 - * 27) 11 12 (132 = 118 + 14)
"April 26 (*36 = *77 - *41) 27 28 (118)
APRIL 3 (*13 = *77 - *64) 4 5 (95 = 118 - 23)
DAY 77 78 = 3 * 26 79

Kua pu ia 17 i te henua - te honu 2 te Rei
no star listed (356) α Cassiopeiae (8.6) α Cassiopeiae (8.6) η Andromedae (11.4)
Cb14-1 Cb14-19 Ca1-8 Ca1-11
March 11 (70) March 29 (88) March 29 (88) April 1 (91)
Tehetu'upú 28 (59) Tarahao 18  (77) Tarahao 18  (77) Tarahao 21 (80 = 91 - 11)
'Febr 12 (43 = 70 - 27) 'March 2 (61) 'March 2 (61) 'March 5 (64 = 80 - 16)
"Jan 29 (59 - 30) "Febr 16 (29 + 18) "Febr 16 (47) "Febr 19 (91 - 41 = 50)
JAN 6 (= 70 - 64) JAN 24 (6 + 18) JAN 24 (= 88 - 64) JAN 27
DAY 356 (= 11 + 345) DAY 374 DAY 8 (= 374 - 366) DAY 11
te Rei 63 Rei hata ia 2 kua tupu - te kihikihi
η Andromedae (11.4) η Aurigae (75.9) RIGEL (78.1)
Ca1-11 Ca3-24 (11 + 64) Ca4-2 (78)
April 1 (91) June 4 (155) June 7 (158)
Tarahao 21 (80 = 91 - 11) Vaitu potu 24 (144) Vaitu potu 27 (147)
'March 5 (64 = 80 - 16) 'May 11 (64 + 64) 'May 14 (131)
"Febr 19 (91 - 41 = 50) "April 24 (114) "April 27 (117)
JAN 27 APRIL 1 (91 = 155 - 64) APRIL 4 (94)
DAY 11 DAY 75 (= 155 - 80) DAY 78

Significanty Hevelius has illustrated η Andromedae at the back side of the northern of the pair of Fishes.