.. A man had a daughter who possessed a wonderful bow and arrow, with which she was able to bring down everything she wanted. But she was lazy and was constantly sleeping. At this her father was angry and said: 'Do not be always sleeping, but take thy bow and shoot at the navel of the ocean, so that we may get fire.' The navel of the ocean was a vast whirlpool in which sticks for making fire by friction were drifting about.

At that time men were still without fire. Now the maiden seized her bow, shot into the navel of the ocean, and the material for fire-rubbing sprang ashore.

Then the old man was glad. He kindled a large fire, and as he wanted to keep it to himself, he built a house with a door which snapped up and down like jaws and killed everybody that wanted to get in ...

Although there were 4 intercalated dark nights after 'June 3 (6-3) - which was 27 days before heliacal Sirius in 'June 30 (6-30). Notice the empty eye sockets in July 1 up to and including July 4 (185) - perhaps corresponding to the 4 precessional days down to the time of Gregory XIII:

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0h	*1	39	*41	187	*229
no glyph
HYADUM II	AIN		NUNKI		ALRAMI
May 24 (144)	25 (81 + 64)		July 4 (185)		Jan 8 (373 = 309 + 64)
ºMay 20 (140)	21 (81 + 60)		SIRIUS		*ºJan 4 (289 = 229 + 60)*
MARCH 21	22 (81)		MAY 1 (121)		*NOV 5 (309 = 80 + 229)**

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230 (= 294 - *64)	16º	247 (= 311 - *64)	154	37 (= 101 - *64)

Gb1-1		*Gb1-18 (→ 4 29½)**		Gb6-20 (402 = 230 + 172)
*DENEB OKAB (294)**		*311 (= 391 - 80)		*SIRIUS (101)**
Jan 9 (374 = 310 + 64)		Jan 26 (391 = 365 + 26)		June 30 (181 = 177 + 4)
ºJan 5 (370 = 740 / 2)		ºJan 22 (387 = 365 + 22)		*ºJune 26 (177 = 6 29½)**
'Dec 13 (→ 12-13 → 156)		SIRIUS (364 = 391 - 27)		6-3 (181 - 27 = 347 + 172 - 365)
NOV 6 (310)		NOV 23 (327 = 391 - 64)		*37 = 310 + 172 - 366 - 80
NOV 6 (310)		*156 = 12 13**
... At this time of the year we have special buns, yellow from saffron and formed like a pair of interconnected curves. In another picture is illustrated how in Sweden December 13 is celebrated with candles and singing: Obviously this time of the year once must have been a kind of 'candlemas'. Precession makes the dates of celebration move earlier and earlier, and according to the Julian calendar December 13 was the darkest day in the year. Thus the day of Lucia (who has a crown of candles in her hair) is expressing the same idea as Candlemas. No wonder people in the street here in Sweden had no explanation for Kyndelsmäss - in Sweden the candles are instead kindled 12 days before Christmas Day ... ... But the people knew that he was in possession of fire, and the stag determined to steal it for them. He took resinous wood, split it and stuck the splinters in his hair. Then he lashed two boats together, covered them with planks, danced and sang on them, and so he came to the old man's house. He sang: 'O, I go and will fetch the fire.' The old man's daughter heard him singing, and said to her father: 'O, let the stranger come into the house; he sings and dances so beautifully.' The stag landed and drew near the door, singing and dancing, and at the same time sprang to the door and made as if he wanted to enter the house. Then the door snapped to, without however touching him. But while it was again opening, he sprang quickly into the house. Here he seated himself at the fire, as if he wanted to dry himself, and continued singing. At the same time he let his head bend forward over the fire, so that he became quite sooty, and at last the splinters in his hair took fire. Then he sprang out, ran off and brought the fire to the people ...

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... The great stone Moai of Easter Island were at one time equipped with beautiful inlaid eyes of white coral and red scoria. In a number of cases - though not at Ahu Akivi - sufficient fragments have been found to make restoration possible, showing that the figures originally gazed up at an angle towards the sky. It is therefore easy to guess why this island was once called Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi, 'Eyes Looking at Heaven'. On a moonlit night its hundreds of 'living' statues scanning the stars with glowing coral eyes would have seemed like mythic astronomers peering into the cosmos. And in the heat of the day those same eyes would have tracked the path of the sun, which the ancient Egyptians called the 'Path of Horus' or the 'Path of Ra'. This was also the 'path' pursued by the Akhu Shemsu Hor, the 'Followers of Horus', for whom the exclamation Ankh'Hor - 'the god Horus Lives' - would have been an everyday usage.

The principal astronomical alignments of the great temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia are towards sunrise on the December solstice and sunrise on the March equinox - respectively midwinter and the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere. The two moments in the year when Easter Island traditions say that the Moai of Ahu Akivi come alive and are 'particularly meaningful' are the June solstice and the September equinox - respectively midwinter and the beginning of spring in these southern latitudes. Rigorous archaeoastronomical studies by William Mulloy, William Liller, Edmundo Edwards, Malcolm Clark and others have confirmed that the east façade of Ahu Akivi does have a very definite equinoctial orientation and, indeed, that 'the complex was designed to mark the time of the equinoxes' ...

Gb6-21 (403)

Gb6-22

Gb6-23

Gb6-24 (177)

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN NORTH OF THE EQUATOR:

July 1 (*102)

ALHENA (*103)

July 3 (184)

July 4 (181 + 4)

ºJune 27

28 (*99)

29 (180)

SIRIUS (*101)

'June 3 (*75 = *102 - 27)

4 (156 = 183 - 27)

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

... When Aries took over after Taurus - i.e. when western civilization had to be rebuilt again after the devastation caused by the Santorini explosion around 1650 BC - Aldebaran was no longer rising with the Sun at the equinox, and the distance from Bharani (*41) to Aldebaran (*68) was 27 days. Likewise did Antares no longer rise with the Sun at the southern equinox but in day 265 + 27 = 292 (= 4 * 73 = 365 - 73).

However, by using the faulty Gregorian calendar - not corrected for the 4 extra precessional days before the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD - the date Tagaroa Uri 15 had to be 4 days earlier in the C text than at day 292. Counted from 0h this became 292 - 4 = 288 (= 2 * 144 = 12 * 24 = 8 * 36 = 4 * 72 = 360 - 72), which was in full agreement with the date Gregory XIII had decided to use for launching his 'crooked canoe' (calendar):


Ga7-14	Ga7-15	Ga7-16 (185)	Ga7-17	Ga7-18	Ga7-19
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN NORTH OF THE EQUATOR:
		ANTARES
Nov 23	24	(329 = 325 + 4)	*26 (250)**	27	28
°Nov 19	20	21 (325)	*22 (246)**	23	24
'Oct 27 (300)	28	*29 (222)**	30	31 (= 17 + 14)	'Nov 1
"Oct 13	14	Tagaroa Uri 15	*16 (209)**	17 (290)	18
SEPT 20	*21 (184)**	EQUINOX	23	24	25 (268)

... Gregory XIII launched his 'crooked canoe' in °October 15 (288 = 2 * 144) and this date of birth was suitable also for the arrival of the Sun King to 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. At this point Ira called out to Nonoma, 'Look at the canoe!' Nonoma ran, he quickly went to Te Hikinga Heru (a ravine in the side of the crater Rano Kau) and looked around. There he saw the double canoe way out near the (offshore) islets, and the two (hulls of the canoe) were lashed together. He ran and returned to the front of the house. He arrived and called into the house: 'Hey you! This canoe has arrived during the night without our noticing it!' Ira asked Nonoma, 'Where is the canoe, which you say is lying out there (in the water)?' Nonoma's voice came back: 'It is out there (in the water) close to the (offshore) islets! There it lies, and the two (hulls) are lashed together.' The four of them (corrected for 'the six of them') went out and picked up leaves (on branches) to give signals. They picked them up, went and arrived at Te Hikinga and saw the canoe. Raparenga got up, picked up the leaves, took them in his hands, and waved, waved, waved, waved ...

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*365	0h	*1	61	*63

Gb6-25	Gb6-26 (408)	Gb6-27 (180)		Gb8-30 (471)
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN NORTH OF THE EQUATOR:
Equinox	SIRRAH	ALGENIB PEGASI	61	HYADUM I
Equinox	March 21	22 (81)	61	May 23 (143 = 59 + 84)
... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ...
Gregory XIII	°March 17	18 (77)	61	°May 19 (139)
Roman times	'Febr 22 (53)	Terminalia		'April 26 (116)
Time of Bharani	"Febr 8	9 (40)		"April 12 (102)
Time of Aldebaran	JAN 16	17 (= 363 + 20 - 366)		EQUINOX (79)
361	362	*363 = 1 - 4 + 366**		425 = 366 + 59
*65 (= 5 13 = 365 - 300)**

My dates above are extrapolations in a way which could have been used by everyone, based on the equation 71 years = 1 right ascension day, for instance 16 (JANUARY 16) = 80 (March 21) - *64, i.e. with 26000 years (cycle of the precession) / 365¼ (Julian year) = approximately 71 (= 355 / 5).

If a calendar at the time of Aldebaran had been based not on the true heliacal positions of the stars but on the dates when they returned to visibility, then my date JANUARY 16 above should indicate the true heliacal star position would have been 16 days earlier, viz. in DECEMBER 31.

... The Sothic cycle was based on what is referred to in technical jargon as 'the periodic return of the heliacal rising of Sirius', which is the first appearance of this star after a seasonal absence, rising at dawn just ahead of the sun in the eastern portion of the sky. In the case of Sirius the interval between one such rising and the next amounts to exactly 365.25 days - a mathematically harmonious figure, uncomplicated by further decimal points, which is just twelve minutes longer than the duration of the solar year ...

And then, at that ancient time the true heliacal date corresponding to March 20 (79) would have been 79 - 64 - 16 = -1 = 366 - 1 = 365. At the time of rongorongo precession had moved the stars 64 + 16 = 80 right ascension days ahead since the beginning. But the Gregorian calendar was 4 days out of tune with the stars and therefore the correct precessional movement should be estimated as 80 + 4 = 84 days - i.e. down to the time of Betelgeuze. However, should we count from 0h (March 21) this beginning of time ought to have been at heliacal Praja-pāti (Lord of Created Beings, δ Aurigae):

... δ, 4.1, yellow, is on the head of the Charioteer. It is unnamed with us, but, inconspicuous as it is, the Hindus called it Praja-pāti, the Lord of Created Beings, a title also and far more appropriately given to Orion and to Corvus. The Sūrya Siddhānta devotes considerable space to it; but 'why so faint and inconspicuous a star should be found among the few of which Hindu astronomers have taken particular notice is not easy to discover.' ...

*2	*3	*4	ANKAA (α Phoenicis)	*6

Gb6-27	Gb7-1	Gb7-2	*(→ 14 29½)**	Gb7-4 (414)
March 23	24	3-25 (84)	26 (1 + 84 = 85)	27
JAN 18	19	20	21	22
364	365	366	*1 (= 5 - 4)**	2 (= 22 - 20)

The glyph type at heliacal Ankaa (in day 1 after the Julian equinox) was tamaiti:


tamaiti	Gb7-3

Tama. 1. Shoot (of plant), tama miro, tree shoot; tama tôa, shoot of sugarcane. 2. Poles, sticks, rods of a frame. 3. Sun rays. 4. Group of people travelling in formation. 5. To listen attentively (with ear, tariga, as subject, e.g. he tama te tariga); e-tama rivariva tokorua tariga ki taaku kî, listen carefully to my words. Tamahahine, female. Tamahine (= tamahahine), female, when speaking of chickens: moa tamahine, hen. Tamâroa, male. Vanaga.

1. Child. P Pau.: tama riki, child. Mgv.: tama, son, daughter, applied at any age. Mq.: tama, son, child, young of animals. Ta.: tama, child. Tamaahine (tama 1 - ahine), daughter, female. Tamaiti, child P Mq.: temeiti, temeii, young person. Ta.: tamaiti, child. Tamaroa, boy, male. P Mgv.: tamaroa, boy, man, male. Mq.: tamaóa, boy. Ta.: tamaroa, id. 2. To align. Churchill.

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 ... Churchill 2

... take thy bow and shoot at the navel of the ocean ...

Moving 85 precessional days down and ahead we will find the Lord of Created Beings at Ga1-25 (and we can imagine a pair of boats lashed together where the Sun fire created a Rainbow):


Ga1-22	Ga1-23 → 403 - 280	Ga1-24	*Ga1-25 → 5 5 * 5**	Ga1-26

μ Columbae, SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis (86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6)	υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae, δ Leporis (87.7), TZE (Son) = λ Columbae (87.9)	Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by) χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE = Α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7) ~~ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae)~~	η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI = Δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN = Β Aurigae, MAHASHIM = Θ Aurigae, and Γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7)	Μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)
June 15	16	17 (168)	18	19
°June 11	12	13 (164)	14	*15 (86)**
'May 19	20	21 (141)	22	*23 (63)**
"May 5	6	7 (127)	8	*9 (49)**
APRIL 12	13	14 (104)	15	*16 (26)**
82	83	*84 (= 12 7)**	*85 (= 5 17)**	86

The 8th (varu) Tahitian star pillar was Betelgeuze and here was the Babylonian Crook, visualized as a man sitting down, hence the added information - a pillar to sit by:

... Here he seated himself at the fire, as if he wanted to dry himself, and continued singing. At the same time he let his head bend forward over the fire, so that he became quite sooty, and at last the splinters in his hair took fire. Then he sprang out, ran off and brought the fire to the people ...