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118. At the time of rongorongo Virgo had moved ahead in the year to a place which was half the equinoctial cycle ('year') away from its natural origin at the northern spring equinox. 26000 / 2 = 13000 = 1842 AD + 11158 BC (there was no year 0), and 12500 BC (Spica) - 11158 BC = 1342 (= 71 * 18.9):

From 14000 BC to 6200 AD there are 20200 years - possibly alluding to the place of Spica in modern times, viz. *202. And 26000 - 20200 = 5800, possibly alluding to 2 * 29½, but also to 8 (dark nights before Venus returned as Morning Star) + 50 (dark nights before Venus returned as Evening Star).

Spica (12500 BC) + (14000 - 12500) = *202.7 + 1500 / 71 = *223.8 (μ Librae):

 

When Alnilak (ζ Orions) once upon a time had risen with the Sun at 0h then Spica would have been 118 right ascension days later in the year, viz. in day *118:

MARCH 29 (88) 30 31 APRIL 1
Ca9-27 (255) Ca10-1 (256 = 4 * 64) Ca10-2 Ca10-3
etoru gagata hakaariki kia raua Erua inoino kua hua te vai
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
π4 Orionis (72.1), ο¹ Orionis (72.4), π5 Orionis (72.8) π¹ Orionis (73.0), ο² Orionis (73.4), HASSALEH = ι Aurigae (73.6), π6 Orionis (73.9) ALMAAZ = ε Aurigae (74.7), HAEDUS I = ζ Aurigae (74.8) HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)
June 1 (152) 2 3 4 (155)
APRIL 2 3 4 5
Ca10-4 Ca10-5 (260) Ca10-6 (9 * 29) Ca10-7
te kiore - te inoino kua oho te rima kua kai - ihe nuku hoi Tupu te toromiro - kua noho te vai
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7) 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)

THUBAN (α Draconis)

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

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)

June 5 6 7 (*78) 8
Vaitu Nui 25 (115) "April 26 27 28
APRIL 6 7 8 9 10 (100 = 164 - 64)
Ca10-8 Ca10-9 (264 = 305 - 41) Ca10-10 Ca10-11 Ca10-12
te moko te marama te kava manu rere te mauga tuu toga
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
     MINTAKA = δ Orionis  ALNILAM = ε Orionis ALNITAK = ζ Orionis, HEAVENLY GATE = ζ Tauri, PHAKT = α Columbae
June 9 10 (161) 11 12 13 (*84 = 3 * 28)
'May 13 14 (134 = 161 - 27) 15 16 17 (*57 = 3 * 19)
"April 29 30 (120 = 161 - 41) "May 1 (11 * 11) 2 3 (*43)
84 * 71 = 1842 AD + 4122 BC *0 = (100 - 80) - 20

183 + 116 INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
FEBRUARY 3 4 5 (36) 6 7 (403 = 365 + 38)
Cb8-4 Cb8-5 Cb8-6 (177) Cb8-7 (570) Cb8-8
te hokohuki te moko - vero hia tagata honui e ha mata
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
AUGUST 5 6 7 (219 = 36 + 183) 8 (*140) 9
  SPICA, ALCOR    
October 8 9 (*202 = *84 + *118) 10 (283) 11 12
'September 11 12 (*175) 13 (256) 14 15
"August 28 29 (*161) 30 (242 = 177 + 65) 31 "September 1
*117 *118 *119 *120 = *140 - 20 *121

The layout of the 3 great Gizah pyramids was probably intended to reflect the 3 Belt Stars in the center of Orion. However, precise measurements pointed not at 4122 BC when Orion (Alnitak, ζ) was at 0h but to the time when the hind quarters of Leo had been at 0h.

"... the real surprise revealed by Bauval's astronomical calculations was this: despite the fact that some aspects of the Great Pyramid did relate astronomically to the Pyramid Age, the Giza monuments as a whole were so arranged as to provide a picture of the skies (which alter their appearance down the ages as a result of the precession of the equinoxes) not as they had looked in the Fourth Dynasty around 2500 BC, but as they had looked - and only as they had looked - around the year 10,450 BC." (Hancock)

10450 BC + 1842 AD = 12292 = 71 * 173.1. At the time of the Bull this place had been where the Sun rose in JULY 8 (7-8, day 189), i.e. 4 days after Zosma (δ Leonis) and Coxa (θ Leonis):

JULY 2 3 (184) 4 (*105)
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 (104) Ga4-22
    ZOSMA (Girdle) = δ Leonis, COXA (Hips) = θ Leonis
*83 *84 *85 = *105 - 20
JULY 5 6 (*107) 7 8 (189)
Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 (108) Ga4-26
    τ Leonis (172.8)  
*86 *87 *88 = 108 - 20 *89

"Curiously enough, Egypt does enjoy a special geographical situation: as is well known, the latitude and longitude lines which intersect just beside the Great Pyramid (30º north and 31º east) cross more dry land than any others. Curiously, too, at the end of the last Ice Age, when millions of square miles of glaciation were melting in northern Europe, when rising sea levels were flooding coastal areas all around the globe, and when the huge volume of extra moisture released into the atmosphere through the evaporation of the ice fields was being dumped as rain, Egypt benefited for several thousands of years from an exceptionally humid and fertile climate." (Hancock)

APRIL 6 7 8 9 10 (100 = 164 - 64)
Ca10-8 Ca10-9 (264 = 305 - 41) Ca10-10 Ca10-11 Ca10-12
te moko te marama te kava manu rere te mauga tuu toga
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
    MINTAKA = δ Orionis

KHUFU

 ALNILAM = ε Orionis

KHAFRE

ALNITAK = ζ Orionis

MENKAURE

June 9 10 (161) 11 12 13 (*84 = 3 * 28)
'May 13 14 (134 = 161 - 27) 15 16 17 (*57 = 3 * 19)
"April 29 30 (120 = 161 - 41) "May 1 (11 * 11) 2 3 (*43)
84 * 71 = 1842 AD + 4122 BC *0

... Menkaure was allegedly a much more benevolent Pharaoh than his predecessors. According to legends related by Herodotus, he wrote the following:

This Prince (Mycerinus) disapproved of the conduct of his father, reopened the temples and allowed the people, who were ground down to the lowest point of misery, to return to their occupations and to resume the practice of sacrifice. His justice in the decision of causes was beyond that of all the former kings. The Egyptians praise him in this respect more highly than any other monarchs, declaring that he not only gave his judgements with fairness, but also, when anyone was dissatisfied with his sentence, made compensation to him out of his own purse and thus pacified his anger.

The Gods however ordained that Egypt should suffer tyrannical rulers for a hundred and fifty years according to this legend. Herodotus goes on:

An oracle reached him from the town of Buto, which said 'six years only shalt thou live upon this earth, and in the seventh thou shalt end thy days'. Mycerinus, indignant, sent an angry message to the oracle, reproaching the god with his injustice - 'My father and uncle,' he said 'though they shut up the temples, took no thought of the gods and destroyed multitudes of men, nevertheless enjoyed a long life; I, who am pious, am to die soon!'

There came in reply a second message from the oracle - 'for this very reason is thy life brought so quickly to a close - thou hast not done as it behoved thee. Egypt was fated to suffer affliction one hundred and fifty years - the two kings who preceded thee upon the throne understood this - thou hast not understood it'. Mycerinus, when this answer reached him, perceiving that his doom was fixed, had lamps prepared, which he lighted every day at eventime, and feasted and enjoyed himself unceasingly both day and night, moving about in the marsh-country and the woods, and visiting all the places he heard were agreeable sojourns. His wish was to prove the oracle false, by turning night into days and so living twelve years in the space of six ...