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141. At the time of rongorongo the end of the Lion figure was at the end of glyph line Ca13. Towards the end of the last ice age the end of the Lion (Deneb Ola) had been at the northern spring equinox. And Leo was succeeded by Virgo who personified summer - the opposite to the icy winter:

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 later Polynesian ear may have heard -ola in Denebola as ola (life), i.e. how 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:

At that ancient time Leo had corresponded to the Father of Light (Jus Piter, Jupiter) and the following Virgo had corresponded to the fertile Mother Earth of summer. Friday (the day of Venus) followed the day of Jupiter (Thursday). And the Nile was reflected in the Milky Way River. On the west bank was the burial place corresponding to autumn equinox. But in Egypt everything was upside down and the sweet water originated from the mountains high up in the south and therefore the ancient Lion in the sky had to be a female, a Sphinx.

... Atea then became the wife of Rua-tupua-nui, Source of Great Growth, and they became the parents of all the celestial beings, first the shooting stars, then the Moon and the Sun, next the comets, then the multitude of stars and constellations, and finally the bright and dark nebulae. When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...

The 3 'stones' (Tau-toru) inside the House of Orion the Giant (Bet-el-geuze) can now be understood as corresponding to those 3 days when the Sun was in his garment of Támah, Tama nui te ra, Timsa, etc., and forced to move slowly at the winter solstice.

... In the Polynesian this [tama na, father in the Efaté language] is distinguished from táma child by the accent tamā or by the addition of a final syllable which automatically secures the same incidence of the accent, tamái, tamana ...

... In Jewish mythology it was the word emet that was carved into the head of the Golem which ultimately gave it life. But when the letter 'aleph' was erased from the Golem's forehead, what was left was 'met' - dead. And so the Golem died ...

Ga1-15 Ga1-16 Ga1-17 → 118 = 4 * 29½
*79 ELNATH = β Tauri *81 KHUFU

MINTAKA = δ Orionis

June 8 9 (160) 10 11
'May 12 (*52) 13 14 15 (135)
"April 28 29 30 (*40) "May 1 (121)
APRIL 5 6 (96 = 160 - 64) 7 8 (*18)
75 76 = 16 + 60 77 = 81 - 4 78 = 98 - 20
Ga1-19 Ga1-20 Ga1-21 → 121 = 11 * 11
KHAFRE

ALNILAM = ε Orionis

MENKAURE

ALNITAK = ζ Orionis

*85
June 12 13 14
'May 16 (136) 17 18
"May 2 3 (123) 4
APRIL 9 (*19) 10 11 (101 = 165 - 64)
79 = 19 + 60 80 = 84 - 4 81 = 101 - 20

121 (Ga1-21) = 11 * 11 and 3 * 121 = 363.

South of the equator, in the homeland of the Polynesians, spring equinox was at the other side of the sky compared to the situation north of the equator. Glyph line Ca14 was thus beginning where the Sun at the time of rongorongo had reached the black Raven (*183 days after 0h).

... This was the place which Metoro had explained (in line Ca14) as where the countryside (atahenua) was growing (kua tupu), rising up into view. Here dawn (ata) broke the shadows (âta) of the night ...

At least from here we should read the glyph text from the positions of the Full Moon. South of the equator the melting ice of winter had caused a Flood when the Raven went thirsty north of the equator.

18
*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
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
March 19 (78) 20 (*365) Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (the 2nd Spout)

SIRRAH (0h)

Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

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

The precession pushed the fixed stars ahead in the Sun calendar. Therefore the glyph text can lead us back in time and from the rongorongo present (1842 AD) to when in Roman times Julius Caesar restored the Sun calendar to be in tune with the stars there were *27 precessional days.

The Pope Gregory XIII tried to repeat this feat in 1582 AD but failed because he moved the day for spring equinox 4 days earlier in the year, presumably causing questions in the minds of for instance the Polynesians.

... When the Pope Gregory XIII updated the Julian calendar he did not revise what had gone wrong before 325 AD (when the Council of Nicaea was held). Thus the stars were still 3-4 days 'out of tune' compared to the calendar ... the Gregorian 'canoe' was 'crooked'. His calendar was not in perfect alignment with the ancient star structure. Because he had avoided to adjust with the effects of the precession between the creation of the Julian calendar and the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD ...

However, at the time of rongorongo, 260 years later, the proper order could be restored because now there were approximately 4 precessional days down to the time of the Pope and the stars were once again positioned as they should in a Sun calendar.

... There is a couple residing in one place named Kui and Fakataka. After the couple stay together for a while Fakataka is pregnant. So they go away because they wish to go to another place - they go. The canoe goes and goes, the wind roars, the sea churns, the canoe sinks. Kui expires while Fakataka swims. Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa. When the baby is born a golden plover flies over and alights upon the reef. (Kua fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai i te papa). And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae).

They go inland at the land. The child nursed and tended grows up, is able to go and play. Each day he now goes off a bit further away, moving some distance away from the house, and then returns to their house. So it goes on and the child is fully grown and goes to play far away from the place where they live. He goes over to where some work is being done by a father and son. Likāvaka is the name of the father - a canoe-builder, while his son is Kiukava. Taetagaloa goes right over there and steps forward to the stern of the canoe saying - his words are these: 'The canoe is crooked.' (kalo ki ama). Instantly Likāvaka is enraged at the words of the child. Likāvaka says: 'Who the hell are you to come and tell me that the canoe is crooked?' Taetagaloa replies: 'Come and stand over here and see that the canoe is crooked.' Likāvaka goes over and stands right at the place Taetagaloa told him to at the stern of the canoe. Looking forward, Taetagaloa is right, the canoe is crooked. He slices through all the lashings of the canoe to straighten the timbers. He realigns the timbers. First he must again position the supports, then place the timbers correctly in them, but Kuikava the son of Likāvaka goes over and stands upon one support. His father Likāvaka rushes right over and strikes his son Kuikava with his adze. Thus Kuikava dies. Taetagaloa goes over at once and brings the son of Likāvaka, Kuikava, back to life. Then he again aligns the supports correctly and helps Likāvaka in building the canoe. Working working it is finished ...

Glyph line Ca14 can be read as viewing the positions of 0h as they had been in the interval between the rongorongo present and the time of Caesar.

*Ca14-24 (→ 336) *Ca14-25 (→ 350) *Ca14-26 (→ 364) *Ca14-27 (→ 378) *Ca14-28 (→ 392) *Ca14-29 (392)
te henua te honu kau manu kake rua te henua te honu te rima
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
Oct 11 (265 + 19) HEZE (ζ Virginis) 13 (*206) 14 (104 + 183) BENETNASH 16 (289)
ºOct 7 (261 + 19) 8 (*201) 9 10 11 12 (285 = 365 - 80)
'Sept 14 (238 + 19) 15 16 17 (260) 18 19 (*182)
"Aug 31 (224 + 19) "Sept 1 2 (*165) 3 4 5 (248)
AUG 8 (201 + 19) 9 10 11 12 (*144 = 208 - 64) 13 (225 = 15 * 15)
181 + 19 = 200 201 = 205 - 4 202 = 222 - 20 203 = 20 + 183 204 205

... The name [Benetnash] derives from the Arabic phrase meaning 'The leader of the daughters of the bier'. The daughters of the bier, i.e. the mourning maidens, are the three stars of the handle of the Big Dipper, Alkaid, Mizar, and Alioth; while the four stars of the bowl, Megrez, Phecda, Merak, and Dubhe, are the bier ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
April 11 (82 + 19) 12 ACHERNAR (End of the River) 4-14 (104) BATEN KAITOS (Belly of the Fish) ANA-NIA-10 (Pillar-to-fish by)

POLARIS

ºApril 7 (78 + 19) 8 9 10 (100) 11 (*21) 12
'March 15 (*360) 16 17 18 (77 = 104 - 27) 19 (*364) 20
"March 1 (41 + 19) 2 3 4 (63) 5 (*350) 6
FEBR 6 (101 - 64 = 37) 7 8 9 (40) 10 (*327) 11
364 + 19 = 383 18 = 201 - 183 19 20 = 40 - 20 21 22

Polaris was the 10th and last of the Tahitian star pillars (Ana). Here new Land should be 'fished up' from the deeps. The Sea was beginning at Nunki (*288) and could possibly have stretched for 15 weeks, because 15 * 7 = 105 and *288 + *105 = *393 = *27 (Sheratan) + *366.

... This [σ Sagittarii] has been identified with Nunki of the Euphratean Tablet of the Thirty Stars, the Star of the Proclamation of the Sea, this Sea being the quarter occupied by Aquarius, Capricornus, Delphinus, Pisces, and Pisces Australis. It is the same space in the sky that Aratos designated as Water ...

... The brothers of Maui sat trembling in the middle of the canoe, fearing for their lives. For now the water was frothing and heaving, and great hot bubbles were coming up, and steam, and Maui was chanting the incantation called Hiki, which makes heavy weights light. At length there appeared beside them the gable and thatched roof of the house of Tonganui, and not only the house, but a huge piece of the land attached to it. The brothers wailed, and beat their heads, as they saw that Maui had fished up land, Te Ika a Maui, the fish of Maui. And there were houses on it, and fires burning, and people going about their daily tasks. Then Maui hitched his line round one of the paddles laid under a pair of thwarts, and picked up his maro, and put it on again ...

The month of Father Light (Jus Piter), June, was on Easter Island named Maro (also meaning dry, or loin-cloth) and the winter solstice occured in June 21 (*92), i.e. 10 days after Mintaka had risen with the Sun. South of the equator winter solstice was at the opposite side of the calendar year. Thus Orion (and all the other stars) had moved ahead with around 11 (= 366 - 355 = from December 21 to January 1) + 80 + *82 (Mintaka) = 173 precessional days since the time when Orion had been at the northern winter solstice. 173 * 71 = 1842 AD + 10441 BC.

The Julian spring equinox would be reached after 4 more glyphs:

Cb1-1 (393) Cb1-2 Cb1-3 Cb1-4 (396)
E tupu - ki roto o te hau tea ki te henua - te maro
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
*210 *211 THUBAN (Dragon) *213
Oct 17 (290 = 107 + 183) 18 19 (*212 = *29 + 183) 20
ºOct 13 (*23 + 183) 14 (*211 - 4) 15 (288) 16
'Sept 20 (*183) 21 (264 = 287 - 37 EQUINOX 23
"Sept 6 (249 = 66 + 183) 7 8 (*171 = *354 - 183 9 (252 = 293 - 41)
AUG 14 15 (227 = 264 - 37) 16 (*148) 17
206 = 290 - 84 207 = 227 - 20 208 = 25 + 183 209 = 213 - 4

... The ubiquitous 288 was also (cfr JANUARY 3, *288) 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 ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 (Dog) / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1 (Front of the Head of Ku)

SHERATAN

*28 ALRISHA (The Knot) HAMAL
April 17 (107) 18 19 (*29) 20
ºApril 13 (*23) 4-14 (104) 15 16
'March 21 (*366) 22 (*1) 23 JULIAN EQUINOX
"March 7 (66) 8 9 (*354 = *368 - *14) 10
FEBR 12 (43) 13 (*330) 2-14 (45) 15
364 + 25 = 389 390 = 207 + 183 25 = 45 - 20 26 = 30 - 4