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190. According to the Hindu nakshatra system also the Orion constellation had a pair of stations:

ARIES:
1 Ashvini β and γ Arietis Horse's head April 17 (107)
wife of the Ashvins Sheratan and Mesarthim
2 Bharani 35, 39, and 41 Arietis Yoni, the female organ of reproduction May 1 (121)
the bearer  Musca Borealis
TAURUS:
3 Krittikā M 45 Tauri Knife or spear May 15 (135)
the nurses of Kārttikeya The Pleiades
4 Rohini α Tauri Cart or chariot, temple, banyan tree May 28 (148)
the red one Aldebaran
ORION:
5 Mrigashīrsha λ, φ¹, and φ² Orionis Stag's head June 12 (163)
the deer's head Heka
6 Ardra α Orionis Teardrop, diamond, a human head June 17 (168)
the moist one Betelgeuze

There were 163 (June 12) - 107 (April 17) = 8 weeks from the Head of the Horse to the Head of the Stag.

In the C text there should then be 8 weeks = 56 glyphs (days) from the beginning of side b to Heka.  Sheratan (*27) + *56 = *83 (Heka). However there were only 55 days (glyphs) due to the difference between 366 and 365. The Head of the Fly came after 11 calendar days instead of after 12 days:

7
Cb1-1 (393) Cb1-2 Cb1-3 Cb1-4 (366 + 30)
E tupu - ki roto o te hau tea ki te henua - te maro
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)

 SEGIN = ε Cassiopeia, MESARTHIM = γ Arietis, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN (Pair of Signs) = β Arietis, φ Phoenicis (27.4)

ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8) ALRISHA (The Knot) = α Piscium, χ Phoenicis (29.2), ALAMAK (Caracal) = γ Andromedae (29.7) Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 (Back of the Head of Ku)

2h (30.4)

κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (Sheep) = α Arietis (30.5)

ALKES (α Crateris)

April 17 (290 - 183) 18 (108) 19 (*29) 4-20
34
Cb1-12 (354 + 50) Cb1-13 Cb1-14 (350 + 8 * 7) Cb1-15 (407)
manu rere - kua rere ga manu - ki te ragi eaha te nuku erua koia kua huki e niu tu
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9) 31 Bootis (222.0), YANG MUN (South Gate) = α Lupi (222.1), RIJL AL AWWA (Foot of the Barker) = μ Virginis (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9) IZAR (Girdle) = ε Bootis (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (No Feet) (223.3), μ Librae (223.8) Al Zubānā-14a / Visakha-16 (Forked) / Root-3 (Badger)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (Southern Claw) = α Librae (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)

KOCHAB (Kakkab, the Star) = β Ursae Min. (225.0), ξ Librae (225.7)
Oct 28 (301) 29 30 (366 - 63) 31 (304 = 80 + *225) Nov 1
17 (260) (*222 - *41) "Sept 19 (*182) 20 21 (264)
AUG 25 26 (*222 - *64) 27 (239 = 303 - 64) 28 (60 + 180) 29 (241 = 58 + 183)
217 - 218 219 220 (= 240 - 20) 221
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8) μ Arietis (39.4), HEAD OF THE FLY = 35 Arietis (39.6), KAFFALJIDHMA (Part of a Hand) = γ Ceti, θ Persei (39.8) π Ceti, ο Arietis (40.0), ANGETENAR (Bend in the River) = τ¹ Eridani, μ Ceti (40.2), RIGHT WING = 39 Arietis (40.9) Bharani-2 (Yoni) / Stomach-17 (Pheasant)

π Arietis (41.2), MIRAM (Next to the Pleiades) = η Persei (41.3), BHARANI = 41 Arietis (41.4), τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7)

TA LING (Great Mound) = τ Persei (42.4)
28 (118) (4 * 29½ + 1) April 30 May 1 (121) 2
"March 18 19 (*364) 3-20 (*365) 0h (*366) "March 22 (*1)
FEBR 23 BIS-SEXTUM 25 (8 * 7 = 120 - 64) 26 (*343 = *366 - 23) 2-27 (2 * 29)
34 - 35 36 37 = 41 - 4 38 = 58 - 20
399 - 400 (= 35 + 365) 401 402 403 = 407 - 4

The sequence of heliacal star dates in the text seems here to make a jump ahead with 1 place, because *366 = 365 + 1 and from Arcturus, Syrma (*215) to Zuben Elgenubi (*224) there were not 9 but 8 glyphs. Likewise were there 9 precessional days from *32 to *41 (Bharani).

The sky dome was moving said Metoro where the Full Moon reached Mira. Maeva. T. 1. Move. Rangi-maeva = Moving Sky (name of a marae). 2. Greet, greeting. Henry.

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...

Cb3-1 (50) Cb3-2 (443) Cb3-3 Cb3-4 (445) Cb3-5 (54)
E vae ra - ka oho - ki te henua - kua huki ku kikiu - te henua ko te henua - te rima e kava i haga rave ika

... Traditionally, remark, the kava root was chewed to make the infusion: The sacrificed child of the people is cannibalized by the young chiefs. The water of the kava, however, has a different symbolic provenance. The classic Cakaudrove kava chant, performed at the Lau installation rites, refers to it as sacred rain water from the heavens ... This male and chiefly water (semen) in the womb of a kava bowl whose feet are called 'breasts' (sucu)

and from the front of which, tied to the upper part of an inverted triangle, a sacred cord stretches out toward the chief ... The cord is decorated with small white cowries, not only a sign of chieftainship but by name, buli leka, a continuation of the metaphor of birth - buli, 'to form', refers in Fijian procreation theory to the conceptual acception of the male in the body of the woman. The sacrificed child of the people will thus give birth to the chief. But only after the chief, ferocious outside cannibal who consumes the cannibalized victim, has himself been sacrificed by it. For when the ruler drinks the sacred offering, he is in the state of intoxication Fijians call 'dead from' (mateni) or 'dead from kava' (mate ni yaqona), to recover from which is explicitly 'to live' (bula). This accounts for the second cup the chief is alone accorded, the cup of fresh water. The god is immediately revived, brought again to life - in a transformed state ...

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN NORTH OF THE EQUATOR:
NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI (Head of the Giant) = α Herculis (260.8) SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9) β, γ Arae (263.3), κ Arae (263.5), σ Ophiuchi (263.6) LESATH (Sting) = ν Scorpii, δ Arae (264.7), CHOO (Club) = α Arae (264.9)
Dec 6 (340) 7 8 9 10 (*264)
ºDec 2 (336 = 2 * 168) 3 4 5 6 (*260)
'Nov 9 10 (314 → π) 11 12 (*236) 13
"Oct 30 31 (300) "Nov 1 2 3 (*157 = 314 / 2)
OCT 3 (276 = 340 - 64) 4 5 6 7 (*200)
256 = 340 - 84 257 258 259 260 (*180)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON ON EASTER ISLAND:
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) λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)

Shur-narkabti-sha-iltanu-5 (Star in the Bull towards the north)

σ Aurigae (80.4), BELLATRIX (Female Warrior) = γ Orionis, SAIF AL JABBAR (Sword of the Giant) = η Orionis (80.7), ELNATH = β Tauri (80.9)

ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL (Thirst-slaking Camels) = β Leporis (81.7)
June 6 7 8 9 10 (161)
ºJune 2 3 4 5 6 (157 = 80 + *77)
'May 10 (130) 11 12 13 14
"April 26 27 28 (118 = 4 * 29½) 29 30 (120)
APRIL 3 (93) 4 5 6 7
73 (→ π) 74 75 76 77 (= 260 - 183)

Or one could say there were 12 * 12 = 144 right ascension days from *78 (the Foot of Orion, Rigel) to the Foot of the Barker (μ Virginis, Rijl al Awwa, *222). Cb3-2 (443) - Cb1-12 (404) = 39 (= 3 * 13) = 183 - 144.

Cb3-6 Cb3-7 (392 + 56) Cb3-8 Cb3-9 (450)
ki kikiu - te henua ko te maro - ko te tagata kua hua te tagata ko te tagata
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON ON EASTER ISLAND:
KHUFU

MINTAKA (Belt) = δ Orionis, υ Orionis (82.4), χ Aurigae (82.5), ε Columbae (82.6)

KHAFRE

Al Hak'ah-3 (White Spot) / Mrigashīrsha-5 (Deer's Head) / Turtle Head-20 (Monkey) / Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur (Little Twins)

ARNEB = α Leporis, Crab Nebula = M1 Tauri (83.0, φ¹ Orionis (83.1), HEKA = λ Orionis, Orion Nebula = M42 (83.2), φ² Orionis (83.6), ALNILAM (String of Pearls) = ε Orionis (83.7)

MENKAURE

Three Stars-21 (Gibbon) / Shur-narkabti-sha-shūtū-6 (Star in the Bull towards the south) / ANA-IVA-9 (Pillar of exit)

HEAVENLY GATE = ζ Tauri, ν Columbae (84.0), ω Orionis (84.2),  ALNITAK (Girdle) = ζ Orionis, PHAKT (Phaet) = α Columbae (84.7)

ο Aurigae (85.8), γ Leporis (85.9)

YANG MUN (α Lupi)

 

... Al Maisān, the title of γ Geminorum, by some error of Firuzabadi was applied to this star as Meissa, and is now common for it. Al Sufi called it Al Tahāyī; but Al Ferghani and Al Tizini knew it as Rās al Jauzah, the Head of the Jauzah, which it marks.

The original Arabic name, Al Hak'ah, a White Spot, was from the added faint light of the smaller φ¹and φ² in the background, and has descended to us as Heka and Hika.

These three stars were another of the Athāfiyy [tripods used for cooking] of the Arabs; and everywhere in early astrology were thought, like all similar groups, to be of unfortunate influence in human affairs. They constituted the Euphratean lunar station Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur, the Little Twins, a title also found for γ and η Geminorum; and individually were important stars among the Babylonians, rising to them with the sun at the summer solstice, and, with α and γ, were known as Kakkab Sar, the Constellation of the King ...

June 11 12 13 (164) 14
"May 1 (*41) 2 3 4

... 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 ...

Cb3-10 Cb3-11 Cb3-12 Cb3-13 Cb3-14 (63) Cb3-15 (456)
te taketake henua kiore - henua manu rere tagata - hanau hia kiore - henua
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON ON EASTER ISLAND:
 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 (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 (Lord of Created Beaings) = δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM (Wrist) = θ Aurigae, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7) μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)  

ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)

 

5 days 6h (91.3)

... A vertical line could be drawn down from the little star at the head of the Charioteer, viz. Praja-pāti (Lord of Created Beings, δ), to Menkalinan (Shoulder of the Rein-holder, β), and to Mahashim (θ, Wrist - sic!) - i.e. they were rising at the same right ascension time - with π Aurigae (the tiny star just above Menkalinan) only a fraction of a day later. Further down was the Pigeon of Noah - waving her leaves - with η Columbae, the star at her right eye, also rising at the right ascension line defined by the Lord of Created Beings: