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195. At heliacal Sirius (Te Pou, the Pillar) was day 181 counted from January 1 and it meant a new halfyear was about to begin.

... 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 ...

Therefore we ought to keep an eye also on the stars close to the Full Moon at the opposite side of this halfyear. Assuming they were 183 (= 366 / 2) right ascension days away we will find Nunki (σ Sagittarii) to be 183 days away from Sirius - given that we are using the Gregorian calendar according to how its days were related to the stars at the time of the Pope:

Cb3-20 Cb3-21 Cb3-22 Cb4-1 (464) Cb4-2 (73)
kiore - henua manu rere i te taketake te henua - mau i te taketake manu rere kiore - henua
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON ON EASTER ISLAND:
CHRISTMAS EVE Dec 25 26 (360 = 177 + 183) 27 28
ºDec 20 SOLSTICE 22 23 (357 = 361 - 4) CHRISTMAS EVE
274 275 276 (= 360 - 84) 277 (= 357 - 80) 278 = 96 + 182
no star listed (96) β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) no star listed (98) ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)

ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched) = ε Gemini (100.7)
CORRESPONDING HELIACAL DATES:
June 25 26 (177 = 354 / 2) 27 28 29
SOLSTICE ºJune 22 23 ST JOHN'S DAY 25 (176 = 180 - 4)
92 93 = 177 - 84 = 173 - 80 94 95 96 = 176 - 80
Cb4-3 (466 → 366 + 100) Cb4-4 Cb4-5 Cb4-6 (77) Cb4-7
te hakaua te henua te Rei te ua kiore - henua
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON ON EASTER ISLAND:
SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7)

 

τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4) Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-9 (Twins of the Shepherd)

ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), ALHENA = γ Gemini (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9)

ADARA (Virgins) = ε Canis Majoris (104.8) ω Gemini (105.4), ALZIRR (The Button) = ξ Gemini (105.7), MULIPHEIN (Oaths) = γ Canis Majoris (105.8), MEKBUDA (Contracted) = ζ Gemini (105.9)
Dec 29 (*101 + *182) 30 (*284) 31 Jan 1 (366) 2
279 280 281 282 = 366 - 84 283
CORRESPONDING HELIACAL DATES TOGETHER WITH THEIR NAKSHATRA STARS:
June 30 (*284 - *183) July 1 2 (183 = 365 - 182) 3 (*104) 4 (185)
ºJune 26 27 (*98 = *102 - *4) 28 29 (180 = 366 - 186) SIRIUS (181)
'June 3 4 5 6 (157 = 184 - 27) 7 (*78 = 185 - 107)
"May 20 (140 = 181 - 41) 21 22 23 24 (*64 = 185 - 121)
APRIL 27 28 (182 - 64 = 118) 29 30 (120 = 184 - 64) MAY 1 (*41 = *101 - *60)
97 98 = 118 - 20 = 182 - 84 99 100 101 = 181 - 80 = 185 - 84
South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)

Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)

SHELIAK (Tortoise) = β Lyrae, ν Lyrae (285.1), ο Draconis (285.5). λ Pavonis (285.7)

ATLAS (27 Tauri)

χ Oct. (286.0), AIN AL RAMI (Eye of the Archer) = ν Sagittarii (286.2), υ Draconis (286.4), δ Lyrae (286.3), κ Pavonis (286.5), ALYA = θ Serpentis (286.6) ξ Sagittarii (287.1), ω Pavonis (287.3), ε Aquilae, ε Cor. Austr., SULAPHAT (Little Tortoise Shell) = γ Lyrae (287.4), λ Lyrae (287.7), ASCELLA (Armpit) = ζ Sagittarii, BERED = i Aquilae (Ant.) (287.9)  Al Na'ām-18 (Ostriches) / Uttara Ashadha-21 (Elephant tusk, small bed)

NUNKI = σ Sagittarii (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), MANUBRIUM = ο Sagittarii (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9)

Ga2-7 Ga2-8 (36) Ga2-9 Ga2-10 Ga2-11

... The most important of all drums, he said, was the armpit drum. The Nummo made it. It consists of two hemispherical wooden cups connected through their centres by a slender cylinder. It is like an hour-glass with a very long narrow neck. With this instrument tucked between his left arm and armpit, the drummer, by pressing on the hollow structure of thin wood, can tighten or relax the tension on the skins and so modify the tone. 'The Nummo made it. He made a picture of it with his fingers, as children do today in games with string.' Holding his hands apart, he passed a thread ten times round each of the four fingers, but not the thumb. He thus had forty loops on each hand, making eighty threads in all, which, he pointed out, was also the number of teeth of his jaws. The palms of his hands represented the skins of the drum, and thus to play on the drum was, symbolically, to play on the hands of the Nummo. But what do they represent? Cupping his two hands behind his ears, Ogotemmêli explained that the spirit had no external ears but only auditory holes. 'His hands serve for ears,' he said; 'to enable him to hear he always holds them on each side of his head. To tap the drum is to tap the Nummo's palms, to tap, that is, his ears.' Holding before him the web of threads which represented a weft, the Spirit with his tongue interlaced them with a kind of endless chain made of a thin strip of copper. He coiled this in a spiral of eighty turns, and throughout the process he spoke as he had done when teaching the art of weaving. But what he said was new. It was the third Word, which he was revealing to men ...

The position of Ga2-7 will then be after the culmination at 21h of Gemma (α Corona Borealis) in June 28 and before the culmination at 21h of Atlas, Alcyone, and Pleione in December 30. I.e., Ga2-7 should be at φ in the South Dipper - and at the other side of the sky compared to the Unicorn, the Monoceros constellation:

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

Egyptian bread, (-t, female determinant) Phoenician qoph Greek phi Φ(φ)

... is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet ... Its origin is uncertain but it may be that phi originated as the letter qoppa ... In traditional Greek numerals, phi has a value of 500 or 500000 ...

Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1, 2003: 'The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character Q being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ... Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot' ...

... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest.

When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...

In Cb3-22 there is an aperture of some kind held up in front at day 360. Another aperture is in front of Nunki in Ga2-10, at the Armpit (Latin Axilla) of the Archer.

Ga2-7 could have referred to right ascension day *280 at the time of the Pope, which star position would have been observed close to the Full Moon in ºJune 26 (day 354 / 2) in the year AD 1582 (= 1842 - 260). And the 'broken arm' at left could have illustrated where anciently the 'Smith' had collided with Mother Earth, either as defined from the heliacal position of Sirius at the time of rongorongo or from the nakshatra postion of the South Dipper at the time of the Pope.

... During his descent the ancestor still possessed the quality of a water spirit, and his body, though preserving its human appearance, owing to its being that of a regenerated man, was equipped with four flexible limbs like serpents after the pattern of the arms of the Great Nummo. The ground was rapidly approaching. The ancestor was still standing, his arms in front of him and the hammer and anvil hanging across his limbs. The shock of his final impact on the earth when he came to the end of the rainbow, scattered in a cloud of dust the animals, vegetables and men disposed on the steps. When calm was restored, the smith was still on the roof, standing erect facing towards the north, his tools still in the same position. But in the shock of landing the hammer and the anvil had broken his arms and legs at the level of elbows and knees, which he did not have before. He thus acquired the joints proper to the new human form, which was to spread over the earth and to devote itself to toil ...

And the 'fishhook' in Ga2-11 could have illustrated how at the time of Gregory XIII the Sun would have risen together with Sirius in ºJune 30:

 ... Thus was dry land fished up by Maui, which had lain beneath the sea ever since the great rains that were sent by the Sky father and the god of winds. The Maori people say that the north island of Aotearoa, which certainly is shaped much like a fish, is Te Ika a Maui; and according to some tribes the south island is the canoe from which he caught it. And his hook is the cape at Heretaunga once known as Te matau a Maui, Maui's Fishhook (Cape Kidnappers). In some of the other islands which lie across the sea towards Hawaiki, the people say that theirs is the land that Maui pulled up from below ...

Gregory XIII 205 Julius Caesar
MAY 1 (*41) NOV 23 24 (*248)
Ga2-11 (41) Gb1-18 (41 + 183 + 23) Gb1-19 (248)
ºJune 30 (181)

heliacal SIRIUS

'June 30 (364 - 183)

"June 16 (350 - 183)

'July 1 (182)

17 (168 = 182 - 14)

ºDec 30 (181 + 183)

NUNKI (*288)

'Dec 30 (364)

nakshatra SIRIUS

31 (*285)

"Dec 17 (*271 = *285 - 14)

... The fish came near the surface then, so that Maui's line was slack for a moment, and he shouted to it not to get tangled. But then the fish plunged down again, all the way to the bottom. And Maui had to strain, and haul away again. And at the height of all this excitement his belt worked loose, and his maro fell off and he had to kick it from his feet. He had to do the rest with nothing on. [He was naked as a newborn child.]

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 detail of how the loincloth was dropped (fell off) to be put on again only after the 'Fish' had been secured may have referred to how the dates of Maro (the dry month of June) should be abandoned (dropped), at for instance heliacal Sirius because in the Gregorian calendar ºJune 30 came 4 days later.

Cb4-8 Cb4-9 (80) Cb4-10 (473) Cb4-11 (= Cb4-15 - 4) Cb4-12
manu mau kai rere ki te kai ka kake ki te kai hakavari te gao o te manu (ausgestrichen: manu rere ki te hau tea) kiore  henua

Vari

1. Menstruation, period (also: tiko). 2. To tack, to veer (nautical); ku-vari-mai-á te miro, the boat arrives, have veered [around Rano Kau]. Vanaga. About, circumference, to turn in a circle; hakavari, pliant, to bend, square; varivari, about, to go around; vavari, a garland; varikapau, circumference, to surround, a compass, to admire; hiriga varikapau, to go in a ring; pa varikapau, to close in; varitakataka (vari-taka 3) to surround. Churchill.

Pau.: Vari, marsh, mire, dirt. Ta.: vari, dirt, mud. Rar.: vari, mud. Churchill. Mgv.: Vari, paste well diluted. Mq.: vaivai, to dilute, to thin. Ha.: waliwali, soft, pasty. Churchill.

... 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 ...

... 'I wan't a clean cup', interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move [hop] one place on.' He moved as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from the change; and Alice was a good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upsed the milk-jug into his plate [creating the Milky Way river] ...

Cb4-13 (→ 413 = 477 - 64) Cb4-14 (85 = 477 - 392) Cb4-15 Cb4-16
manu pao i te hau tea - kua tu manu rere ki te hau tea - kua tu manu rere ki te hau tea kiore - henua
Cb4-17 (88 = 480 - 392) Cb4-18 Cb4-19 Cb4-20 (91 = 364 / 4)
erua marama tagata noho i to mea kua vaha