201. In order to nourish a
baby fire it was necessary to give him air
and tagata mau matagi could
mean a person who fanned his tiny flames in
order to create a Bright Fire:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cb4-17 (88) |
Cb4-18 |
Cb4-19 |
Cb4-20 (364 / 4) |
Cb4-21 (4 * 121) |
Cb4-22 (485) |
Cb4-23 (18 * 27) |
erua marama |
tagata noho i to mea |
kua vaha |
te moa |
tagata - te maro |
te tagata |
Jan 12 (365 + 12) |
(378 = 290 + 88) |
14 |
15 (88 + 4 * 73) |
16 |
17 |
18 (378 + 5) |
ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.)
(297.4),
SHAM
(Arrow) = α Sagittae
(297.8) |
β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae
(298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8) |
υ Aquilae (299.1),
TARAZED
(Star-striking Falcon) = γ Aquilae
(299.3), δ Sagittae (299.6), π
Aquilae (299.9) |
TYL = ε Draconis
(300.0), ζ Sagittae (300.1),
ALTAIR
(Flying Eagle)
= α Aquilae
(300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5),
BEZEK = η Aquilae (Ant.)
(300.8) |
ι Sagittarii
(301.2),
TEREBELLUM = ω Sagittarii,
ξ Aquilae (301.3),
ALSHAIN
(Falcon) = β Aquilae
(301.6),
Φ
Aquilae
(301.8) |
ε Pavonis, θ Sagittarii (302.3), γ
Sagittae (302.5), μ Pavonis (302.7) |
τ Aquilae (303.8) |
α
Monocerotis
(115.4), σ Gemini (115.7) |
Mash-mashu-arkū-11 (Eastern One
of the Twins) κ
Gemini (116.1),
POLLUX
= β Gemini
(116.2), π Gemini (116.9) |
AZMIDISKE
= ξ Puppis
(117.4) |
Φ
Gemini
(118.4) |
DRUS
= χ Carinae
(119.9) |
ω Cancri
(120.2) |
8h (121.7)
χ
Gemini (121.0),
NAOS
= ζ Puppis
(121.3) |
July 14 (*115) |
(196 = 378 - 182) |
16 |
17 (*300 - *182) |
18 (199) |
19 (*302 - *182) |
20 (*121) |
ºJuly 10 |
11 (192
= 84 + 108) |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
'June 17 (*88) |
18 (169
= 196 - 27) |
19 |
20 |
SOLSTICE |
22 |
23 |
"June 3 |
4 (155 =
196 - 41) |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 (*80 = *121 - *41) |
MAY 11 |
(132 = 314 - 182) |
13 |
14 |
15 (135 = 199 - 64) |
16 |
17 |
111 = 377 - 266 |
112 |
113 |
114 |
115 = 135 - 20 |
116 = 200 - 84 |
117 |
107 |
108 = 378 - 270 |
109 |
110 = 114 - 4 |
111 = 135 - 24 |
112 = 200 - 88 |
113 |
|
|
|
Cb5-1 |
Cb5-2 (488) |
Cb5-3 |
Te ragi |
tagata - ragi |
kua hakagana - ki
te maro |
Jan 19 (365 + 19 = 384) |
20 |
21 |
20h (304.4)
η
Sagittae (304.2), δ Pavonis (304.4) |
SHANG WEI (Higher Guard) = κ Cephei
(305.2), θ Sagittae (305.4),
TSEEN FOO (Heavenly Raft) = θ Aquilae (Ant.)
(305.6), ξ Capricorni (305.8) |
TSO KE (Left Flag) = ρ Aquilae
(306.3) |
ρ Puppis
(122.0),
HEAP OF FUEL
= μ Cancri
(122.1),
ζ Monocerotis (122.3), ψ Cancri
(122.6),
REGOR = γ Velorum
(122.7) |
TEGMINE
= ζ Cancri
(123.3) |
AL TARF
(The End) = β Cancri
(124.3)
RAS
ALGETHI (α Herculis)
|
July 21 |
22 (→π) |
23 (204) |
'June 24 (St John's Day) |
25 |
26 (204 - 27 = 6 * 29½) |
114 = 175 - 61 |
115 |
116 (= 4 * 29) |
... Later on in this series of
rituals, the Chorti go
through a ceremony they call raising
the sky. This ritual takes place at
midnight on the twenty-fifth of
April [i.e., day 80 + 35 = 115
counted from 1 January] and
continues each night until the rains
arrive. In this ceremony two
diviners and their wives sit on
benches so that they occupy the
corner positions of the cosmic
square. They take their seats in the
same order as the stones were
placed, with the men on the eastern
side and the women on the west. The
ritual actions of sitting down and
lifting upward are done with great
precision and care, because they are
directly related to the actions done
by the gods at Creation. The people
represent the gods of the four
corners and the clouds that cover
the earth. As they rise from their
seats, they metaphorically lift the
sky. If their lifting motion is
uneven, the rains will be irregular
and harmful ... |
Midsummer is the flowering season of
the oak, which is the tree of
endurance and triumph, and like the
ash is said to 'court the lightning
flash'. Its roots are believed to
extend as deep underground as its
branches rise in the air - Virgil
mentions this - which makes it
emblematic of a god whose law runs
both in Heaven and in the Underworld
... The month, which takes its name
from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on
June 10th and ends of July 7th.
Midway comes St. John's Day, June
24th, the day on which the oak-king
was sacrificially burned alive. The
Celtic year was divided into two
halves with the second half
beginning in July, apparently after
a seven-day wake, or funeral feast,
in the oak-king's honour
... |
|
|
|
|
Cb5-4
(490) |
Cb5-5 |
Cb5-6 (100) |
Cb5-7 (392 + 101) |
tagata mau matagi |
ihe toga maa |
ura hia |
tagata maú
kihikihi erua |
Jan 22 |
23 |
24 |
25 (390) |
GREDI
= α Capricorni
(307.2), σ
Capricorni (307.5),
ALSHAT (The Sheep)
= ν
Capricorni
(307.9) |
Al Sa’d al Dhabih-20
(Lucky One of the Slaughterers) /
Ox / Herd Boy-9 (Buffalo)
DABIH
= β Capricorni
(308.0), κ Sagittarii (308.1),
SADIR (Hen's Breast) = γ Cygni
(308.4),
PEACOCK
= α Pavonis
(308.7) |
KHUFU
MINTAKA
(δ Orionis)
OKUL
= π
Capricorni
(309.6),
BOS
= ρ
Capricorni
(309.9)
ARNEB (α
Leporis)
|
KHAFRE
ALNILAM
(ε Orionis)
ο Capricorni (310.2), θ Cephei
(310.5)
HEKA (λ
Orionis)
|
χ Cancri (125.2),
BRIGHT FIRE
= λ Cancri
(125.4) |
AVIOR = ε Carinae
(126.4),
Φ
Cancri
(126.8) |
ο Ursa Majoris (127.4) |
Pushya-8 (Nourisher)
υ Cancri (128.1),
Θ
Cancri
(128.2) |
July 24 (*5 * 5 * 5) |
25 |
26 |
27 (208 = 390 - 182) |
117 |
118 |
119 |
120 = 208 - 88 |
|
... The bereaved and
sorrowing Isis, meanwhile, wandering
over the world in her quest - like
Demeter in search of the lost
Persephone - came to Byblos, where
she learned of the wonderful tree.
And, placing herself by a well of
the city, in mourning, veiled and in
humble guise - again like Demeter -
she spoke to none until there
approached the well the handmaidens
of the queen, whom she greeted
kindly. Braiding their hair, she
breathed upon them such a wondrous
perfume that when they returned and
Astarte saw and smelt the braids she
sent for the stranger, took her into
the house, and made her the nurse of
her child. The great goddess gave
the infant her finger instead of
breast to suck and at night, having
placed him in a fire to burn away
all that was mortal, flew in the
form of a swallow around the pillar,
mournfully chirping. But the child's
mother, Queen Astarte, happening in
upon this scene, shrieked when she
spied her little son resting in the
flames and thereby deprived him of
the priceless boon. Whereupon Isis,
revealing her true nature, begged
for the pillar and, removing the
sarcophagus, fell upon it with a cry
of grief so loud that the queen's
child died on the spot ... |
However, the design of Cb5-4
suggests someone who is blowing, who has
plenty of wind.
Matagi.
Wind, air, breeze, squall, tempest,
rhumb. P Pau.: matagi, the
air, wind. Mgv.: matagi,
wind. Mq.: metani, metaki,
wind, air. Ta.: matai, wind.
Churchill. |
Mau. 1. Very, highly; ûka
keukeu mau, very hard-working
girl. 2. To be plentiful; he-mau
to te kaiga, the island abounds
in food. 3. Properly. Ma'u.
1. To carry, to transport;
he-ma'u-mai, to bring;
he-ma'u-atu, to remove, ma'u
tako'a, to take away with
oneself; te tagata hau-ha'a i
raro, ina ekó ma'u-tako'a i te
hauha'a o te kaiga nei ana mate;
bienes terrenales cuando muere
→
a rich man in this world world
cannot take his earthly belongings
with him when he dies. 2. To fasten,
to hold something fast, to be firm;
ku ma'u-á te veo, the nail
holds fast. 3. To contain, to hold
back; kai ma'u te tagi i roto,
he could not hold his tears back.
Vanaga.
1. As soon as,
since. 2. Several; te mau tagata,
a collective use. 3. Food, meat;
mau nui, abundance of food,
provision, harvest; mau ke avai,
abundance. 4. End, to take away. 5.
To hold, to seize, to detain, to
arrest, to retain, to catch, to
grasp. 6. Certain, sure, true,
correct, to confide in; mau roa,
indubitable, sure. 7. Fixed,
constant, firm, stable, resolute,
calm; tae mau, not fixed,
unstable; mau no, stable;
hakamau, to make firm, to
attach, to consolidate, to tie, to
assure; pena hakamau, bridle;
hakamau ihoiho, to
immortalize; hakamau iho,
restoration. 8. To give, to accord,
to remit, to satisfy, to deliver; to
accept, to adopt, debt; to embark,
to raise. Mamau. To arrest.
Churchill.
OR. All. Fischer.
T. 1. Really. E ari'i mau teie
vahine = this woman really is a
princess. 2. Things. Te mau
mautai = plenty of things. 3.
Hold. A toro te a'a, a mau te one
= the roots spread and held the
sand. Henry. |
When Menkaure (→ Alnitak, the
Girdle) culminated (at 21h) - together with
Phakt (α
Columbae) - the Sun was at the Stag (δ
Hydrae), implying a place with fire:
... A sidelight falls upon the notions
connected with the stag by Horapollo's
statement concerning the Egyptian writing of
'A long space of time: A Stag's horns grow
out each year. A picture of them means a
long space of time.' Chairemon (hieroglyph
no. 15, quoted by Tzetzes) made it shorter:
'eniautos: elaphos'. Louis Keimer,
stressing the absence of stags in Egypt,
pointed to the Oryx (Capra Nubiana)
as the appropriate 'ersatz', whose head was,
indeed, used for writing the word rnp
= year, eventually in 'the Lord of the
Year', a well-known title of Ptah. Rare as
this modus of writing the word seems to have
been - the Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen
Sprache (eds. Erman and Grapow), vol. 2,
pp. 429-33, does not even mention this
variant - it is worth considering (as in
every subject dealt with by Keimer), the
more so as Chairemon continues his list by
offering as number 16: 'eniautos: phoinix',
i.e., a different span of time, the
much-discussed 'Phoenix-period' (ca. 500
years).
There are numerous Egyptian words for 'the
year', and the same goes for other ancient
languages. Thus we propose to understand
eniautos as the particular cycle
belonging to the respective character under
discussion: the mere word eniautos
('in itself', en heauto; Plato's
Cratylus 410D) does not say more that just
this. It seems unjustifiable to render the
word as 'the year' as is done
regularly nowadays, for the simple reason
that there is no such thing as the
year; to begin with, there is the tropical
year and sidereal year, neither of them
being of the same length as the Sothic year.
Actually, the methods of Maya, Chinese, and
Indian time reckoning should teach us to
take much greater care of the words we use.
The Indians, for instance, reckoned with
five different sorts of 'year', among which
one of 378 days, for which A. Weber did not
have any explanation. That number of days,
however, represents the synodical revolution
of Saturn. Nothing is gained by the violence
with which the Ancient Egyptian astronomical
system is forced into the presupposed
primitive frame.
The eniautos of the Phoenix would be
the said 500 (or 540) years; we do not know
yet the stag's own timetable: his 'year'
should be either 378 days or 30 years,
but there are many more possible periods to
be considered than we dream of - Timaios
told us as much. For the time being the only
important point is to become fully aware of
the plurality of 'years', and to keep an eye
open for more information about the
particular 'year of the stag' (or the Oryx),
as well as for other eniautio,
especially those occurring in Greek myths
which are, supposedly, so familiar to us, to
mention only the assumed eight years of
Apollo's indenture after having slain Python
(Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, ch.
21, 421C), or that 'one eternal year (aidion
eniauton)', said to be '8 years (okto
ete)', that Cadmus served Ares
...
...
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. 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 ...
The period
of the Fire Bird (Phoenix) was 500
'years' and 365 + 135 = 500 was the day
number for May 15 (when counted from January
1 in the previous year), and at that time
the Sun reached the 6 stones (Tau-ono)
in the Pleiades. Or it was 540 = the day
number for St John (135 + 40 = 175 = June
24, i.e. a week before July 1).
|
|
|
|
Cb5-8 (500 - 6) |
Cb5-9 (495) |
Cb5-10 (104) |
Cb5-11 |
te hoko huki |
kua kake te manu
puoko erua |
E nuku mata |
te kihikihi o te
ariki - te hokohuki |
Jan 26 |
27 (392) |
28 |
29 (*314 = 394 - 80) |
MENKAURE
ALNILAK
(ζ Orionis)
ROTTEN MELON = ε Delphini,
φ Pavonis (311.2), η Delphini
(311.4), ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis
(311.7)
PHAKT (α
Columbae)
|
ROTANEV = β Delphini,
ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni
(312.6), κ Delphini (312.7),
SVALOCIN =
α
Delphini,
υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8) |
μ², μ¹ Oct.
(313.2),
DENEB CYGNI
(Tail of the Swan)
= α Cygni
(313.5), β
Pavonis (313.6),
δ
Delphini
(313.8) |
Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 (Good
Fortune of the Swallower)
/
Dhanishta-24 /
Girl-10 (Bat)
YUE
(Battle-Axe) = ψ Capricorni
(314.3),
GIENAH
CYGNI
=
ε
Cygni,
η Cephei (314.5),
γ
Delphini
(314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7),
ALBALI
(Swallower) = ε Aquarii
(314.8)
BETELGEUZE (α Orionis)
|
Āshleshā-9 (Embrace) /
Willow-24 (Stag)
π¹ Ursa Majoris,
Δ
Hydrae (129.6),
AL
MINHAR AL SHUJĀ
(Nose of the Serpent) = Σ
Hydrae,
MUSEIDA
= π² Ursae Majoris
(129.9)
RAS
ALHAGUE (α Ophiuchi)
|
Al Nathrah-6
(The Gap)
BEEHIVE
= ε Cancri,
η
Pyxidis
(130.4),
XESTUS
= ο Velorum
(130.5),
ζ
Pyxidis
(130.7),
ASCELLUS BOREALIS
= γ Cancri,
β
Pyxidis
(130.9) |
Extended Net-26a (Ox) /
Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-12
(Southeast Star in the Crab)
η
Hydrae
(131.0),
ASCELLUS
AUSTRALIS = δ
Cancri
(131.4),
KOO
SHE (Bow and Arrow) =
Δ Velorum
(131.6),
α
Pyxidis
(131.8),
ε
Hydrae
(131.9) |
ι Cancri (132.0),
ρ
Hydrae
(132.4) |
July 28 |
29 (210 = 392 - 182) |
30 |
31 |
'July 1 |
2 |
3 (*104) |
4 (185 =
212 - 27) |
"June 17 (168 = 209 - 41) |
18 |
19 |
20 (*91 = *132 - *41) |
121 (= 80 +
41) |
122 |
123 |
124 |
Egyptian
door |
|
Phoenician
dalet |
|
Greek
delta |
Δ
(δ) |
... Delta
(uppercase Δ, lowercase δ)
... is the fourth letter of
the Greek alphabet. In the
system of Greek numerals it
has a value of 4. It was
derived from the Phoenician
letter Dalet.
Letters that
come from delta include
Latin D and Cyrillic Д. A
river delta (originally, the
Nile River delta) is so
named because its shape
approximates the upper-case
letter delta (the shape is a
triangle) ...
Dalet
(dāleth, also spelled
Daleth or Daled)
is the fourth letter of many
Semitic alphabets ... The
letter is based on a glyph
of the Middle Bronze Age
alphabets, probably called
dalt 'door' (door in
Modern Hebrew is delet),
ultimately based on a
hieroglyph depicting a door.
...
Sorrowing, then, the two
women placed Osiris's coffer
on a boat, and when the
goddess Isis was alone with
it at sea, she opened the
chest and, laying her face
on the face of her brother,
kissed him and wept. The
myth goes on to tell of the
blessed boat's arrival in
the marshes of the Delta,
and of how Set, one night
hunting the boar by the
light of the full moon,
discovered the sarcophagus
and tore the body into
fourteen pieces, which he
scattered abroad; so that,
once again, the goddess had
a difficult task before her.
She was assisted, this time,
however, by her little son
Horus, who had the head of a
hawk, by the son of her
sister Nephtys, little
Anubis, who had the head of
a jackal, and by Nephtys
herself, the sister-bride of
their wicked brother Set.
Anubis, the elder of the two
boys, had been conceived one
very dark night, we are
told, when Osiris mistook
Nephtys for Isis; so that by
some it is argued that the
malice of Set must have been
inspired not by the public
virtue and good name of the
noble culture hero, but by
this domestic inadventure.
The younger, but true son,
Horus, on the other hand,
had been more fortunately
conceived - according to
some, when Isis lay upon her
dead brother in the boat,
or, according to others, as
she fluttered about the
palace pillar in the form of
a bird.
The four
bereaved and searching
divinities, the two mothers
and their two sons, were
joined by a fifth, the
moon-god Thoth (who appears
sometimes in the form of an
ibis-headed scribe, at other
times in the form of a
baboon), and together they
found all of Osiris save his
genital member, which had
been swallowed by a fish.
They tightly swathed the
broken body in linen
bandages, and when they
performed over it the rites
that thereafter were to be
continued in Egypt in the
ceremonial burial of kings,
Isis fanned the corpse with
her wings and Osiris
revived, to become the ruler
of the dead. He now sits
majestically in the
underworld, in the Hall of
the Two Truths, assisted by
forty-two assessors, one
from each of the principal
districts of Egypt; and
there he judges the souls of
the dead. These confess
before him, and when their
hearts have been weighed in
a balance against a feather,
receive, according to their
lives, the reward of virtue
and the punishment of sin
...
|
When Betelgeuze culminated
(at 21h) it was in day 314 (→ π) counted
from 0h and 185 days after the culmination
of the Head of the Serpent-holder.
|