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104. Speculations aside. There is only one point in the C text - as far as I have been able to detect - where the glyph suggests a connection with the G text:

Ga2-26
Ω CANCRI (*120)
Τ AQUILAE (*303)

Cb4-17 (480) Cb4-18 Cb4-19 (90) Cb4-20
erua marama tagata noho i to mea kua vaha
Cb4-21 (92) Cb4-22 Cb4-23 (486)
te moa tagata - te maro te tagata
Cb5-1 Cb5-2 (488) Cb5-3
Te ragi tagata - ragi kua hakagana - ki te maro
Cb5-4 Cb5-5 Cb5-6 (100) Cb5-7 (493)
tagata mau matagi ihe toga maa ura hia tagata maú kihikihi erua
Cb5-8 Cb5-9 (495)
te hoko huki kua kake te manu  puoko erua

At the time of Hyadum II the first Greek lettered star in Cancer (its 'leader') had risen heliacally ín MAY 16, which occurred 64 days later than Alcyone (*56 at the time of rongorongo):

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
MAY 14 15 16 (136 = 408 / 3) 17 18 (*58 = 29 + 29) 19 (*59 = *123 - 64)
Ga2-24 (29 + 25) Ga2-25 Ga2-26 (29 + 27) Ga2-27 (π) Ga2-28 Ga2-29
φ Gemini (118.4) DRUS = χ Carinae (119.9) Ω CANCRI (120.2) 8h (121.7)

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

ρ Puppis (122.0), HEAP OF FUEL = μ Cancri (122.1), ζ Monocerotis(122.3),  ψ Cancri (122.6), REGOR = γ Velorum (122.7) TEGMINE = Ζ Cancri (123.3)
July 17 (*118) 18 19 (200) 20 (*121 = 11 * 11) 21 22 / 7 (*123)
°July 13 14 15 (196) 16 17 (*118 = 4 * 29½) 18
'June 20 SOLSTICE 22 (200 - 27) 23 ST JOHN'S DAY 25 (*96)

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... 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 ...

... The evening of 23 June, St. John's Eve, is the eve of celebration before the Feast Day of Saint John the Baptist. The Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:36, 56-57) states that John was born about six months before Jesus; therefore, the feast of John the Baptist was fixed on 24 June, six months before Christmas Eve ...

"June 6 (157) Maro 7 8 9 (*80 = *121 - 41) HANGA TE PAU 11 (*82 = *96 - *14)
Makoi named the place Hanga Te Pau, 'the landing site of Ira'. So that they would remember (? he aringa, literally, 'as face'), the open side of Hanga Te Pau was given this name. Ira got up. They all climbed to the top of the hill. They climbed up on the tenth day of the month of June 'Maro'. They reached the side crater (te manavai) and looked around carefully. Makoi said, 'This is the Manavai of Hau Maka.' They climbed farther and reached the top. They saw the dark abyss and the large hole (of the crater Rano Kau). They all said, 'Here it is, young men, the dark abyss of Hau Maka.' They made camp and constructed a house. Kuukuu got up, worked the ground, and heaped up the earth for the yam roots. They climbed farther and reached the top. They saw the dark abyss and the large hole (of the crater Rano Kau). They all said, 'Here it is, young men, the dark abyss of Hau Maka.' They made camp and constructed a house.

Metoro informed Bishop Jaussen that Cb4-20 was kua vaha - an opening. And this is indeed what we can imagine by comparing Ga2-25 with Ga2-26:

The top was basically the same but the bottom was opening up.

Vaha

Hollow; opening; space between the fingers (vaha rima); door cracks (vaha papare). Vahavaha, to fight, to wrangle, to argue with abusive words. Vanaga. 1. Space, before T; vaha takitua, perineum. PS Mgv.: vaha, a space, an open place. Mq.: vaha, separated, not joined. Ta.: vaha, an opening. Sa.: vasa, space, interval. To.: vaha, vahaa, id. Fu.: vasa, vāsaà, id. Niuē: vahā. 2. Muscle, tendon; vahavaha, id. Vahahora (vaha 1 - hora 2), spring. Vahatoga (vaha 1 - toga 1), autumn. 3. Ta.: vahavaha, to disdain, to dislike. Ha.: wahawaha, to hate, to dislike.  Churchill.

Furthermore, if the top of a glyph should represent the Sky above and its bottom the Sea, or perhaps the Middleworld, the Ruler (always above) was evidently characterized by rain (ua):

ua

At the time of Julius Caesar the Old Sun was here on his way to meet with his destiny.

... But the time of his predestined defeat by the dark brother, Tezcatlipoca, was ever approaching, and, knowing perfectly the rhythm of his own destiny, Quetzalcoatl would make no move to stay it. Tezcatlipoca, therefore, said to his attendants, 'We shall give him a drink to dull his reason and show him his own face in a mirror; then, surely, he will be lost'. And he said to the servants of the good king, 'Go tell your master that I have come to show him his own flesh!' But when the message was brought to Quetzalcoatl, the aging monarch said, 'What does he call my own flesh? Go and ask!' And when the other was admitted to his presence: 'What is this, my flesh, that you would show me?' Tezcatlipoca answered, 'My Lord and Priest, look now at your flesh; know yourself; see yourself as you are seen by others!' And he presented the mirror. Whereupon, seeing his own face in that mirror, Quetzalcoatl immediately cried out, 'How is it possible that my subjects should look upon me without fright? Well might they flee from before me. For how can a man remain among them when he is filled as I am with foul sores, his old face wrinkled and of an aspect so loathsome? I shall be seen no more, I shall no longer terrify my people'. Presented the drink to quaff, he refused it, saying that he was ill; but urged to taste it from the tip of his finger, he did so and was immediately overpowered by its magic. He lifted the bowl and was drunk. He sent for Quetzalpetlatl, his sister, who dwelt on the Mountain Nonoalco. She came, and her brother gave her the bowl, so that she too was drunk. And with all reason forgotten, the two that night neither said prayers nor went to the bath, but sank asleep together on the floor. And in the morning Quetzalcoatl said, in shame, 'I have sinned [hakaturou]; the stain of my name cannot be erased. I am not fit to rule this people. Let them build a habitation for me deep under the ground; let them bury my bright treasures in the earth; let them throw the glowing gold and shining stones into the Precious Waters where I take my nightly bath ...

MAY 16 (136) was 64 days earlier in the Sun calendar than day 200 (July 19). Precession had moved the leading star in Cancer ahead with 64 days. Similarly was heliacal Alcyone now in May 16 (136) and not in day 136 - 64 = 72 (MARCH 13) = 360 / 5.

ALCYONE Ω CANCRI
May 16 136 8 * 17 July 19 200 8 * 25
MARCH 13 72 8 * 9 MAY 16 136 8 * 17
8 * 8 = 64 8 * 8 = 64

But at the time of Hyadum II people may have defined 'heliacal' as the time when the star in question returned to visibility after having been too close to the Sun for observation.

Alcyone would then have been regarded as 'heliacal' in day 72 (MARCH 13) + 16 = 88 (MARCH 29). Similarly should we add 16 days to MAY 16 (136) in order to find its 'heliacal' day: 136 + 16 = 152 (JUNE 1).

ALCYONE Ω CANCRI
May 16 136 8 * 17 July 19 200 8 * 25
MARCH 29 88 8 * 11 JUNE 1 152 8 * 19
8 * 6 = 48 = 64 - 16 8 * 6 = 48 = 64 - 16

The reason for the date Maro 1 (152) given in Ms. E as the time when the canoe of Ira became visible at the horizon seems here to have become clear. Viz., at the time of Hyadum II day 152 had been the 'heliacal' date JUNE 1 when the first star in Cancer had returned to visibility - not at the (true) heliacal position of Castor in "June 1 (152).

July 19 (*120, ω Cancri) - July 12 (*113, Castor) = 7 right ascension days. July 12 (193, Castor) corresponded to "June 1 (152 = 193 - 41) and July 19 (200, ω Cancri) corresponded not only to "June 8 (159) but also to MAY 16 (136) + 16 = 152 (JUNE 1), when Ω Cancri had returned to visibility at the horizon in the east.

By counting the 'rain droplets' describing the Pair of Mountains in the north and in the south we will here find the number to be 80. The 9 'rivers' carry 233 'drops'. 80 + 233 = 313 = 314 - 1. The reason for Gregory XIII to change the Julian equinox date (84) to 4 less was hardly due to a scientific correction of a faulty old date. 8 * 10 = 80.

... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ...

MAY 8 (2 * 64) 9 (152 + 41 - 64) 10 (130) 11 12 13 (*53)
Ga2-18 (2 * 24) Ga2-19 Ga2-20 (130 - 80) Ga2-21 Ga2-22 Ga2-23
Ghost-23 (?)

ρ Gemini (?) (112.1), Eskimo Nebula = NGC2392 Gemini (112.2)

Al Dhirā'-5 (Forearm) / Punarvasu-7 / Mash-mashu-Mahrū-10 (Western One of the Twins)

CASTOR = α Gemini (113.4)

ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA-7 (Pillar for elocution)

υ Gemini (114.0), MARKAB (Κ in ARGO NAVIS) (114.7), ο Gemini (114.8), PROCYON = α Canis Minoris (114.9)

α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7) Mash-mashu-arkū-11 (Eastern One of the Twins)

κ Gemini (116.1), POLLUX = β Gemini (116.2), π Gemini (116.9)

AZMIDISKE (Ξ in ARGO NAVIS) (117.4)
July 11 12 (193) 13 14 (*115) 15 16
°July 7 8 9 10 (*111) 11 12 (193)
'June 14 15 16 17 (*88) 18 19 (*90)
"May 31 Maro 1 (152) 2 3 4 5 (*76 = *53 + 23)

... 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 touched land again. Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land.

MAY 14 15 (500 = 135 + 365) 16 (136 = 408 / 3) 17 (402 - 265) 18 19 (*59)
Nga Kope Ririva Tutuu Vai A Te Taanga (= Ξ, Χ, Ζ in ARGO NAVIS?)
Ga2-24 Ga2-25 Ga2-26 Ga2-27 (π) Ga2-28 Ga2-29 (59)
φ Gemini (118.4) DRUS (Χ in ARGO NAVIS) (119.9) Ω CANCRI (120.2) 8h (121.7)

χ Gemini (121.0), NAOS (Ζ in ARGO NAVIS) (121.3)

Ρ in ARGO NAVIS (122.0), HEAP OF FUEL = μ Cancri (122.1), ζ Monocerotis (122.3),  ψ Cancri (122.6), REGOR (Γ in ARGO NAVIS) (122.7) TEGMINE = ζ Cancri (123.3)
July 17 18 19 (200) 20 (*121 = 11 * 11) 21 22 / 7
°July 13 14 15 (196) 16 17 (*118 = 4 * 29½) 18
'June 20 SOLSTICE (200 - 27 = 159 + 14) 23 ST JOHN'S DAY 25 (*96)
... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... 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 ...
"June 6 (157) Maro 7 8 9 (*80 = *121 - 41) HANGA TE PAU 11 (*82 = *96 - *14)

The canoe reached the islets (off the coast), and Ira saw that there were three such islets. Ira said, 'Hey you, crew of young men, the vision of Hau Maka, our father, which he revealed to me, has come true. There are the handsome sons of Te Taanga, who are standing in the water, for this is the name that the dream soul of Hau Maka gave them. Unforgotten (? kai viri kai viri) are they, these three. And therefore this is the (right) land lying there; this is Te Pito O Te Kainga, which also received its name from the dream soul.'

He ui a Ira.ko te motu etoru.he ki a Ira.he ro korua e kau a repa e ku ketu ana te urunga.a Hau maka o to tatou matua.i hakahi mai ai kia au.ko nga kope ririva tutuu vai a te taanga.te ingoa o te motu ena etoru i nape ai e te kuhane o Hau maka. Ira saw that there were three such islets. (E:17)

Makoi named the place Hanga Te Pau, 'the landing site of Ira'. So that they would remember (? he aringa, literally, 'as face'), the open side of Hanga Te Pau was given this name. Ira got up. They all climbed to the top of the hill. They climbed up on the tenth day of the month of June 'Maro'.

We cannot rule out the possibility that the creators of Manuscript E played with the dates, moving with ease between the diffent frames in a way which resembled the way the rongorongo texts were flowing in precessional time-space.

Cb3-13 (454 = 392 + 62) Cb3-14 (63) Cb3-15
manu rere tagata - hanau hia kiore - henua
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
APRIL 15 16 (106) 17 (*27)
PRAJA-PĀTI = δ Aurigae (*89) *90 (= 106 - 16) *91 = *27 + 64
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
OCTOBER 15 (288) 16 17 (*210)
*272 = 2 * 136 NASH = γ Sagittarii (*273) *274 = *210 + 64

... The ubiquitous 288 was also (cfr JANUARY 3) the day number the Pope Gregory XIII had decided on for launching his new calendar:

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

But at the time of rongorongo - after the precession had corrected his error in not going all the way down to Caesar, only down to 325 AD (the Council of Nicaea)  - day 288 (= 325 - 37) had become the proper place for Antares to rise with the Sun. Tangaroa Uri 15 ("October 15) was when the Royal Double Canoe was reaching Easter Island.

... 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 ...

The yellow urine was an excellent fertilizer and a beckoning sign for the Sun King.

... Gronw Pebyr, who figures as the lord of Penllyn - 'Lord of the Lake' - which was also the title of Tegid Voel, Cerridwen's husband, is really Llew's twin and tanist ... Gronw reigns during the second half of the year, after Llew's sacrificial murder; and the weary stag whom he kills and flays outside Llew's castle stands for Llew himself (a 'stag of seven fights'). This constant shift in symbolic values makes the allegory difficult for the prose-minded reader to follow, but to the poet who remembers the fate of the pastoral Hercules the sense is clear: after despatching Llew with the dart hurled at him from Bryn Kyvergyr, Gronw flays him, cuts him to pieces and distributes the pieces among his merry-men. The clue is given in the phrase 'baiting his dogs'.

Math had similarly made a stag of his rival Gilvaethwy, earlier in the story. It seems likely that Llew's mediaeval successor, Red Robin Hood, was also once worshipped as a stag. His presence at the Abbot's Bromley Horn Dance would be difficult to account for otherwise, and stag's horn moss is sometimes called Robin Hood's Hatband. In May, the stag puts on his red summer coat. Llew visits the Castle of Arianrhod in a coracle of weed and sedge. The coracle is the same old harvest basket in which nearly every antique Sun-god makes his New Year voyage; and the virgin princess, his mother, is always waiting to greet him on the bank.

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.

The tradition preserved by Hyginus in his Poetic Astronomy that the constellation Capricorn ('He-goat') was Zeus's foster-brother Aegipan, the Kid of the Goat Amalthea whose horn Zeus also placed among the stars, shows that Zeus was born at mid-winter when the Sun entered the house of Capricorn. The date is confirmed by the alternative version of the myth, that he was suckled by a sow - evidently the one on whose back he yearly rode into Dicte - since in Egypt swine's flesh and milk were permitted food only at the mid-winter festival.

That the Sun-gods Dionysus, Apollo and Mithras were all also reputedly born at the Winter solstice is well known, and the Christian Church first fixed the Nativity feast of Jesus Christ at the same season, in the year A.D. 273. St. Chrysostom, a century later, said that the intention was that 'while the heathen were busied with their profane rites the Christians might perform their holy ones without disturbance', but justified the date as suitable for one who was 'the Sun of Righteousness'. Another confirmation of the date is that Zeus was the son of Cronos, whom we have securely identified with Fearn, or Bran, the god of the F month in the Beth-Luis-Nion. If one reckons back 280 days from the Winter Solstice, that is to say ten months of the Beth-Luis-Nion calendar, the normal period of human gestation, one comes to the first day of Fearn. (Similarly, reckoning 280 days forward from the Winter Solstice, one comes to the first day of the G month, Gore, sacred to Dionysus; Dionysus the vine and ivy-god, as opposed to the Sun-god, was son to Zeus.) Cuchulain was born as the result of his mother's swallowing a may-fly; but in Ireland may-flies often appear in late March, so his birthday was probably the same ...

1 Horn α Virginis (Spica) Crocodile (202.7) Oct 9 (282) 282 = 265 + 17
2 Neck κ Virginis Dragon (214.8) Oct 21 (294) 294 = 282 + 12
3 Root α Librae (Zuben Elgenubi) Badger (224.2) Oct 31 (304) 304 = 295 + 9
4 Room π Scorpii (Vrischika) Hare (241.3) Nov 17 (321) 321 = 304 + 17
5 Heart σ Scorpii Fox (247.0) Nov 23 (327) 327 = 321 + 6
6 Tail μ Scorpii (Denebakrab) Tiger (254.7) Nov 30 (334) 334 = 327 + 9
7 Winnowing Basket γ Sagittarii (Nash) Leopard (273.7) Dec 19 (353) 353 = 334 + 19
December solstice
APRIL 18 (92 + 16) 19 20 21 (111 = 175 - 64) 22 (*32)
Cb3-16 (457) Cb3-17 Cb3-18 Cb3-19 (68) Cb3-20 (24 + 45)
henua kua hoi kua ka te ahi o te henua o te henua kua hoi ko te henua kua vero te ahi kiore - henua
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
Ξ Orionis  TEJAT PRIOR = Η Gemini FURUD = Ζ Canis Majoris TEJAT POSTERIOR = Μ Gemini *96
 SOLSTICE June 22 (173) 23 ST JOHNS DAY 25
'May 25 26 (146 = 173 - 27) 27 28 (*68) 29
"May 11 12 (173 - 41 = 132) 13 14 (*54) 15
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
*275 Η Sagittarii KAUS MEDIUS = Δ Sagittarii KAUS AUSTRALIS = Ε Sagittarii KAUS BOREALIS = Λ Sagittarii
OCTOBER 18 (291) 19 20 21 (*214 = *31 + 183) 22 (295 = 359 - 64)
SOLSTICE 22 (173 + 183 = 356) 23 (*94 + 183 = *277) CHRISTMAS EVE December 25
'October 24 25 (356 - 27 = 329) 26 (*250) 27 28
"November 10 (314) 11 12 (*236) 13 14
APRIL 23 24 25 (115) 26
Cb3-21 Cb3-22 Cb4-1 (464) Cb4-2 (73)
manu rere i te taketake te henua - mau i te taketake manu rere kiore - henua

... The specific epithet taketake is Māori for long established, ancient, or original ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
OCTOBER 23 (*216) VEGA (*281 = *217 + 64) 25 26 (299 = *283 + 80 - 64)

"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)." (E:86)