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106. Let's now return to Cb4-20. We ought to secure its right ascension position by moving from the beginning of the text. I have assumed right ascension 0h was close to the Full Moon at glyph number 366 (where the morning was growing on Easter Island):

... In early dawn the rays from the Sun would first reach the high mountain tops and other features high up. After having looked up at this marvellous spectacle the eyes would then be unable for a while to see anything at all down below in the shadows of the valleys. This could explain why we can see only the top of the glyphs early in line Ca14 ...

no glyph
Ca1-1 Ca1-2 Ca1-3 Ca1-4 Ca1-5 Ca1-6
koia ki te hoea ki te henua te rima te hau tea haga i te mea ke ki te henua - tagata honui
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
şSept 16 17 (260) 18 19 20 (*183) 21 (264) EQUINOX
ALCHITA = α Corvi, MINKAR (Beak) = ε Corvi PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis    GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi, ζ Crucis CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi   INTROMETIDA = ε Crucis, ACRUX = α Crucis ALGORAB = δ Corvi, GACRUX = γ Crucis  AVIS SATYRA = η Corvi, KRAZ = β Corvi
Sept 20

'Aug 24

(264 = 237 + 27)

(237 = 242 - 5)

EQUINOX

26

23 (266)

27

24

28 (240)

25 (*5 + 183)

29

(59 + 183 + 27)

30 (242 = 11 * 22)

"Aug 10 11 12 13 14 15 (227) 16
JULY 18 19 (264 - 64) 20 21 22 / 7 (π) 23 24 (*125)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
şMarch 17 18 (77) 19 20 (*365) 21 (0h) 22 23
SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) ALGENIB PEGASI       ANKAA (*5)  
March 21 (0h)

'Febr 22

22

TERMINALIA

23

24

24 (83)

25

JULIAN EQUINOX

26

26

27

27

28 (59)

"Febr 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 (45)
JAN 16 (*301) 17 18 19 20 21 22
357 51
*Ca14-1 *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 (366) *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5
Kua tupu te ata i te henua
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
Sept 18 ο Virginis (*182) ALCHITA (263) 21 GIENAH (*185)
'Aug 22 23 24 (236 = 263 - 27) 25 26
"Aug 8 9 10 (222 = 2 * 111) 11 12 (*144 = *327 - 183)
JULY 15 16 (*118) 17 (199 = 84 + 115) 18 (200 = 383 - 183) 19
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
March 19 (78) 20 SIRRAH (0h) ALGENIB PEGASI 23
'Febr 21 (*337) 22 (52 = 79 - 27) TERMINALIA 24 25
"Febr 6 (37 = 220 - 183) 7 8 (*325 = *366 - 41) 9 10
JAN 14 (*300) 15 16 (366 + 16 = 382) 17 18
Cb2-4 (420 = 392 + 28) Cb2-5 Cb2-6 Cb2-7
te ua koia ra kua tuku ki to mata - ki tona tukuga e kiore - henua - pa rei
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
 COR SERPENTIS = α Serpentis (*237) November 14 15 16 (320)
'Oct 17 (*210 = *237 - *27) 18 19 (292) 20
"Oct 3 (*196 = *237 - *41) 4 (277) 5 6
10 (*173 = *237 - *64) SEPTEMBER 11 (254) (*175) 13
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
Δ Persei

May 14 (*54)

TAU-ONO

*55 (500 = 365 + 135)

Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)

*56 (136)

MENKHIB = Ζ Persei

*57

PORRIMA (Γ Virginis)
'April 17 (290 - 183) 18 (108) 19 (*29 = *56 - *27) 20
"April 3 (*13 = *196 - *183) 4 5 (95 = 136 - 41) 6 (*16)
MARCH 11 12 (135 - 64 = 71) 13 (72 = 255 - 183) 3-14 (73 = 365 / 5)
56
Cb4-17 (480) Cb4-18 Cb4-19 (90) Cb4-20
erua marama tagata noho i to mea kua vaha
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
Jan 12 (377)

SHAM

13 (314 + 64 = 14 * 27)

*298 (378)

14

TARAZED

15 (*300)

ALTAIR

'Dec 16 (350) 17 (13 * 27) 18 19 (*273)
"Nov 24 (336) 25 26 27 (*259)
NOV 10 11 (314) 12 13 (*236)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
July 13

PROCYON

14 (*115)

Α Monocerotis

15

POLLUX

16

AZMIDISKE = Ξ

'June 16 17 (168) 18 19 (*90)
"June 2 3 (154) 4 (*75) 5
MAY 10 (130) 11 12 (*52 = *235 - *183) 13
Cb4-21 (92) Cb4-22 Cb4-23 (486)
te moa tagata - te maro te tagata
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
Jan 16 (*301)

Φ Aquilae

17

Θ Sagittarii

18 (383)

Τ Aquilae

'Dec 20 (354 = 12 * 29˝) SOLSTICE (*275) 22
"Nov 28 (*260) 29 30 (342)
NOV 14 (*237) 15 (318) 16
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
July 17 (*118) 18 19 (200)
Φ Gemini DRUS = Χ Ω Cancri
'June 20 (171 = 9 * 19) SOLSTICE (*92) 22
"June 6 (*77) 7 8 (159)
MAY 14 (*54) 15 16 (136)

We can compare with the corresponding place in the G text:

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 * 29˝) 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'.

The date at Ga2-26 was probably connected to heliacal MAY 16 (136), whereas the date at Cb4-20 evidently could have referred to heliacal November 13 (*236).

80 + *236 = 136 + 180 = 316 = 79 (the on average astronomically correct day number for the northern spring equinox) * 4:

HELIACAL: 177 HELIACAL:
Ω CANCRI Ga2-27 (π) Cb4-19 (482) ALTAIR
MAY 16 (136 = 408 / 3) NAOS TARAZED NOVEMBER 13 (*236)

I.e., in both texts we should evidently define time heliacally. At Cancer time turned around and this was the 'birth place' of land (henua). At the Eagle the old ruler had to be lifted off and saved from the 'waters of the Nile', to be able to come back (reincarnate) half a year later.

  

... What happens after (or happened, or will happen sometime, for this myth is written in the future tense), is told in the Völuspa, but it is also amplified in Snorri's Gylfaginning (53), a tale of a strange encounter of King Gylfi with the Aesir themselves, disguised as men, who do not reveal their identity but are willing to answer questions: 'What happens when the whole world has burned up, the gods are dead, and all of mankind is gone? You have said earlier, that each human being would go on living in this or that world.' So it is, goes the answer, there are several worlds for the good and the bad. Then Gylfi asks: 'Shall any gods be alive, and shall there be something of earth and heaven?' And the answer is: 

'The earth rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive, for neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and they dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard. There come also the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, and bring along his hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from the other world. All sit down and converse together. They rehearse their runes and talk of events of old days. Then they find in the grass the golden tablets that the Aesir once played with.

Two children of men will also be found safe from the great flames of Surt. Their names, Lif and Lifthrasir, and they feed on the morning dew and from this human pair will come a great population which will fill the earth. And strange to say, the sun, before being devoured by Fenrir, will have borne a daughter, no less beautiful and going the same ways as her mother.'

Then, all at once, concludes Snorri's tale wryly, a thunderous cracking was heard from all sides, and when the King looked again, he found himself on the open plain and the great hall had vanished ...

... In late September or early October 130, Hadrian and his entourage, among them Antinous, assembled at Heliopolis to set sail upstream as part of a flotilla along the River Nile. The retinue included officials, the Prefect, army and naval commanders, as well as literary and scholarly figures. Possibly also joining them was Lucius Ceionius Commodus, a young aristocrat whom Antinous might have deemed a rival to Hadrian's affections. On their journey up the Nile, they stopped at Hermopolis Magna, the primary shrine to the god Thoth. It was shortly after this, in October [in the year A.D.] 130 - around the time of the festival of Osiris - that Antinous fell into the river and died, probably from drowning. Hadrian publicly announced his death, with gossip soon spreading throughout the Empire that Antinous had been intentionally killed. The nature of Antinous's death remains a mystery to this day, and it is possible that Hadrian himself never knew; however, various hypotheses have been put forward.

One possibility is that he was murdered by a conspiracy at court. However, Lambert asserted that this was unlikely because it lacked any supporting historical evidence, and because Antinous himself seemingly exerted little influence over Hadrian, thus meaning that an assassination served little purpose. Another suggestion is that Antinous had died during a voluntary castration as part of an attempt to retain his youth and thus his sexual appeal to Hadrian. However, this is improbable because Hadrian deemed both castration and circumcision to be abominations and as Antinous was aged between 18 and 20 at the time of death, any such operation would have been ineffective. A third possibility is that the death was accidental, perhaps if Antinous was intoxicated. However, in the surviving evidence Hadrian does not describe the death as being an accident; Lambert thought that this was suspicious.

Another possibility is that Antinous represented a voluntary human sacrifice. Our earliest surviving evidence for this comes from the writings of Dio Cassius, 80 years after the event, although it would later be repeated in many subsequent sources. In the second century Roman Empire, a belief that the death of one could rejuvenate the health of another was widespread, and Hadrian had been ill for many years; in this scenario, Antinous could have sacrificed himself in the belief that Hadrian would have recovered. Alternately, in Egyptian tradition it was held that sacrifices of boys to the Nile, particularly at the time of the October Osiris festival, would ensure that the River would flood to its full capacity and thus fertilize the valley; this was made all the more urgent as the Nile's floods had been insufficient for full agricultural production in both 129 and 130. In this situation, Hadrian might not have revealed the cause of Antinous's death because he did not wish to appear either physically or politically weak. Conversely, opposing this possibility is the fact that Hadrian disliked human sacrifice and had strengthened laws against it in the Empire ...