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139. We had better repeat and consolidate. Reculer pour mieux sauter. The right ascension days were visible close to the Full Moon and when Sirrah was observed at the Full Moon it could be deduced the Sun had reached the star Alchita in the Raven constellation. Sirrah (*366) = *183 (Alchita) + *366 / 2. At the time of the Pope, however, the Sun would have been at Acrux in ºSeptember 20 (*183) when the Full Moon was at 0h.

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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):
ºSept 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)

... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
ºMarch 17 18 (77) 19 20 (*365) 21 (0h) 22 23
SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) = α Andromedae ALGENIB PEGASI       ANKAA = α Phoenicis (5.0)  
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 17 18 19 20 (= 84 - 64) 21 22
236 105
Ca9-15 (6 + 237) Ca9-16 Ca9-17 (245) Ca9-18 Ca9-19 Ca9-20 (248)
i te mauga pu hia E rima ki te henua koia ku honui erua maitaki ko koe ra
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
*60 (= 140 - 80) *61 = *244 - *183 BEID (Egg) HYADUM I HYADUM II Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye)

May 20 (140) 21 22 (325 - 183) 23 24 (145 = 104 + 41)
ºMay 16 (136) 17 18 (321 - 183) 19 20 (141 = 104 + 37)
'April 23 (113) 24 25 (298 - 183) 26 27 (4 * 29½ = 104 + 14)
"April 9 (100 = 283 - 183) 11 (101) 12 4-13 → 14 * 29½ 14 (104)
MARCH 17 18 (77 = 260 - 183) 19 (78 = 101 - 23) (*365) (*366) *1 = * 65 - *64

... A very detailed myth comes from the island of Nauru. In the beginning there was nothing but the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider.

One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty. By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last found a snail. To endow it with power she placed it under her arm, lay down and slept for three days. Then she let it free, and still hunting about she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated it in the same way. Then she said to the first snail: 'Can you open this room a little, so that we can sit down?' The snail said it could, and opened the shell a little. Old-Spider then took the snail, placed it in the west of the shell, and made it into the moon. Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm. At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky. Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died. Old-Spider then made the sun from the second snail, and placed it beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
*243 (= 323 - 80) *244 YED PRIOR = δ Ophiuchi YED POSTERIOR = ε Ophiuchi Heart-5 (Fox)

σ SCORPII

*248
Nov 19 (86 + 237) 20 (324) 21 (285 + 41) 23 24
ºNov 5 (82 + 237) 16 (320) 17 (285 + 37) 19 20
'Oct 23 (59 + 237) 24 25 (285 + 14) 27 (300) 28
"Oct 9 (45 + 237) 10 (283) 11 12 (285) 13 14
SEPT 16 (22 + 237) 17 (260) 18 19 (285 - 23) 20 21 (264)

The lines of right ascension ought to be counted from Sirrah in the night and the Sun days then found out by adding or subtracting 183 days. The glyph numbers agree with the right ascension days close to the Full Moon - as they would have been at the time of rongorongo. The star positions at the time of Hyadum II could be found out by subtracting *64, and *248 (November 24) - *64 = *184 (SEPTEMBER 21) which means that at that ancient time the northern autumn equinox would come immediately after the standing man in glyph number 248, where his peculiar ears (> <) may have illustrated this equinox. As to the Chinese 5th station Heart with the cue Fox, i.e. the tiny star Alcor high up in Ursa Major and straight above Spica:

... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...

... In the inscriptions of Dendera, published by Dümichen, the goddess Hathor is called 'lady of every joy'. For once, Dümichen adds: Literally ... 'the lady of every heart circuit'. This is not to say that the Egyptians had discovered the circulation of the blood. But the determinative sign for 'heart' often figures as the plumb bob at the end of a plumb line coming from a well-known astronomical or surveying device, the merkhet. Evidently, 'heart' is something very specific, as it were the 'center of gravity' ... See Aeg.Wb. 2, pp. 55f. for sign of the heart (ib) as expressing generally 'the middle, the center'.

 

Ca13-11 (354 = 248 + 106) Ca13-12 Ca13-13 Ca13-14 Ca13-15
e toru gagata, tuhuga nui, tuhuga roa, tuhuga marakapa* - ma te hokohuki te tapamea - te kihikihi

* Jaussen: kapa chant.

te vaha erua - te maro tagata kara te roturotu - te maro ka pu te niu - mai tae huki hia ka pu te niu
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
Sept 8 (251 = 145 + 106) 9 (252 = 69 + 183) 10 11 (254) 12 (*175 = 255 - 80)
ºSept 4 (247 = 141 + 106) 5 6 7 (250) 8 (*171)
'Aug 12 (224 = 118 + 2 * 53) 13 (225 = 252 - 27) 14 15 (227 → π) 16 (*148)
"July 29 (210 = 104 + 106) 30 (211 = 252 - 41) 31 "Aug 1 2 (214)
JULY 6 (187 = 81 + 106) 7 (188 = 252 - 64) 8 9 (190) 10 (*111 = 191 - 80)

Mgv.: niu, the coconut palm when young, ripening into nikau.

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
*354 (= *248 + 106) March 9 (69) 3-10 11 MANUS CATENATA
*350 (= *244 + *106) ºMarch 5 (65) 3-6 7 8 (*354)
*327 (= *221 + *106) 'Febr 11 (42 = 69 - 27) 12 (*329) 13 2-14
*313 (= *207 + *106) "Jan 28 (= 69 - 41) 29 (*315) 30 31
JAN 3 (*290 = 264 - 80 + 106) 4 (371 = 69 - 64 + 366) 5 6 7 (*294 = *354 - *60)

At the time of the Pope the chained hand (Manus Catenata) of Andromeda had been at the Full Moon in day number 12 * 29½ = 354 of the equinoctial year.

Ca13-16 Ca13-17 Ca13-18 (361) Ca13-19 Ca13-20 (→ 260)
oho te vae tagata puoko erua tagata puo pouo vero hia -
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
Sept 13 (256) 14 (*177 = *360 - *183) DENEB-OLA 16 17 (*180)
ºSept 9 (252 = 69 + 183) 10 (*173) 11 12 (255) 13
'Aug 17 (229) 18 (*150) 19 20 21
"Aug 3 (215) 4 (*136) 5 6 7
JULY 11 (192) 12 13 14 15 (196 = 88 + 108)

The Polynesian ear probably heard -ola in Denebola as ola (life) - i.e. this was the place where the Lion of Summer (ho-ra) ended, where he had his tail, deneb.

 

"tenebræ, Holy Week devotion (matins and lauds) at which candles lighted at the beginning are successively put out. XVII. L. (pl.), parallel to Skr. támah, g. támasah, Lith. tamsà, Lett. timsa darkness, and referred to *tem∂srā and cogn. with Skr., Baltic. and Celtic forms." (English Etymology)

 

... Like archaic China and certain Amero-Indian societies, Europe, until quite recently, celebrated a rite involving the extinguishing and renewal of domestic fires, preceded by fasting and the use of the instruments of darkness. This series of events took place just before Easter, so that the 'darkness' which prevailed in the church during the service of the same name (Tenebrae), could symbolize both the extinguishing of domestic fires and the darkness which covered the earth at the moment of Christ's death. In all Catholic countries it was customary to extinguish the lights in the churches on Easter Eve and then make a new fire sometimes with flint or with the help of a burning-glass. Frazer brings together numerous instances which show that this fire was used to give every house new fire ...

 

... And so they waited there in the darkness at the place where the sun rises. At length the day dawned, a chilly grey at first, then flaming red. And the sun came up from his pit, suspecting nothing. His fire spread over the mountains, and the sea was all glittering. He was there, the great sun himself, to be seen by the brothers more closely than any man had ever seen him. He rose out of the pit until his head was through the noose, and then his shoulders. Then Maui shouted, and the ropes were pulled, the noose ran taut. The huge and flaming creature struggled and threshed, and leapt this way and that, and the noose jerked up and down and back and forth; but the more the captive struggled, the more tightly it held. Then out rushed Maui with his enchanted weapon, and beat the sun about the head, and beat his face most cruelly. The sun screamed out, and groaned and shrieked, and Maui struck him savage blows, until the sun was begging him for mercy. The brothers held the ropes tight, as they had been told, and held on for a long time yet. Then at last when Maui gave the signal they let him go, and the ropes came loose, and the sun crept slowly and feebly on his course that day, and has done ever since. Hence the days are longer than they formerly were. It was during this struggle with the sun that his second name was learned by man. At the height of his agony the sun cried out: 'Why am I treated by you in this way? Do you know what it is you are doing. O you men? Why do you wish to kill Tama nui te ra?' This was his name, meaning Great Son of the Day, which was never known before ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
March 14 (→ π) 15 (*360) 16 DZANEB 18 (77 = 260 - 183)
ºMarch 10 (69) 11 (*356) 12 (*354 + *3) 13 (72) 3-14
'Febr 15 (46 = 73 - 27) 16 (*333) 17 18 19 (50)
"Febr 1 (32 = 73 - 41) 2 (*319) 3 4 5 (36)
9 (375 = 73 - 64 + 366) JAN 10 (*296) 11 12 13

When around 10500 BC the Leo constellation had risen with the Sun at the northern spring equinox (0h) Orion would have been there a quarter of a year earlier in midwinter. Right ascension increases towards the east. From Betelgeuze (*88) to Regulus (*152) there were *64 right ascension days. The Sphinx pointed at Leo and the 3 great pyramids towards the triplet of stars in Orion's Belt (Tau-toru) which came earlier in the year:

From Regulus (α Leonis, *152) in one year to Denebola (β Leonis, *178) in the next year there were 26 + 366 = 392 right ascension days, equal to the number of glyphs on side a of the C tablet. March 17 (76, *362) - 27 = 49 ('February 18, *335) when in Roman times Dzaneb (ω Piscium) had risen with the Sun.

*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)
ºSept 14 15 (*178) 16 17 (260) 18
'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
177 = *181 - 4 178 = 118 + 60 179 = 199 - 20 180 181

... After the great flood had at long last receded, Raven had gorged himself on the delicacies left by the receding water, so for once, perhaps the first time in his life, he wasn't hungry. But his other appetites, his curiosity and the unquenchable itch to meddle and provoke things, to play tricks on the world and its creatures, these remained unsatisfied. 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 (and nakshatra dates):
March 19 (78) 20 (*365) SIRRAH (0h) ALGENIB PEGASI 23
ºMarch 15 16 17 (*362) 18 19 (78)
'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
360 = 177 + 183 361 362 = 366 - 4 363 (= 360 + 3) 364 = 384 - 20

... Heracles's rescue of Hesione, parallelled by Perseus's rescue of Andromeda ... is clearly derived from an icon common in Syria and Asia Minor: Marduk's conquest of the Sea-monster Tiamat, an emanation of the goddess Ishtar, whose power he annulled by chaining her to a rock. Heracles is swallowed by Tiamat, and disappears for three days before fighting his way out. So also, according to a Hebrew moral tale apparently based on the same icon, Jonah spent three days in the Whale's belly; and so Marduk's representative, the king of Babylon, spent a period in demise every year, during which he was supposedly fighting Tiamat ... Marduk's or Perseus's white solar horse here becomes the reward for Hesione's rescue. Heracles's loss of hair emphasizes his solar character: a shearing of the sacred king's locks when the year came to an end, typified the reduction of his magical strength, as in the story of Samson ... When he reappeared, he had no more hair than an infant ...

... In China, every year about the beginning of April, certain officials called Sz'hüen used of old to go about the country armed with wooden clappers. Their business was to summon the people and command them to put out every fire. This was the beginning of the season called Han-shih-tsieh, or 'eating of cold food'. For three days all household fires remained extinct as a preparation for the solemn renewal of the fire, which took place on the fifth or sixth day after the winter solstice [Sic!].