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228. Once again. From the day of Simmah (γ at the mouth of the Southern Fish in Pisces) to where the left elbow of Andromeda pushed the back side of the Northern Fish (η Andromedae) there were *11 + *366 - *351 = 26 right ascension days:

10
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 (104 = 182 - 78) Ga4-22 (*169 - *64 = 105)
11h (167.4)

χ Leonis, χ¹ Hydrae (167.1), χ² Hydrae (167.3)

AL SHARAS (The Rib) = β Crateris (168.6) Al Zubrah-9 (The Mane) / Purva Phalguni-11 (First Reddish One)

ZOSMA (Girdle) = δ Leonis (169.2), COXA (Hips) = θ Leonis (169.4)

23h (350.0)

υ, θ Gruis (350.0), π Cephei (350.6), ι Gruis (350.9)

SIMMAH = γ Piscium (351.7) φ Aquarii (352.0), ψ Aquarii (352.4), χ Aquarii (352.6), γ Tucanae, φ Gruis (352.8)
Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 (118 = 4 * 29½) Ga5-9
no star listed (180) π Virginis (181.0), θ Crucis (181.5) 12h (182.6)

ο Virginis (182.1), η Crucis (182.5)

ALCHITA (The Southern Tent) = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR (Beak) = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)
η Tucanae (363.0), ψ Pegasi (363.1), 32 Piscium (363.2), π Phoenicis (363.4), ε Tucanae (363.6), τ Phoenicis (363.9) θ Oct. (364.4) Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)

0h (365.25)

CAPH (Hand) = β Cassiopeiae,
SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)
Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)

Ga5-10 (120) Ga5-11
PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis (184.6), MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris (184.9) Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28 (Worm)

GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9)

χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7) σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7)
Ga5-12 Ga5-13 (123) Ga5-14 Ga5-15 Ga5-16
CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3) INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5) γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB = δ Corvi (188.5), GACRUX = γ Crucis (188.7) γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7) α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7)

ALDERAMIN (α Cephei)

no star listed (4) ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

ALPHARD (α Hydrae)

λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4) ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31), π Andromedae (7.7) ε Andromedae (8.2), DELTA = δ Andromedae (8.4), SCHEDIR = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9)
Ga5-17 Ga5-18 (128) Ga5-19 Ga5-20 (182 - 52) Ga5-21
Al Áwwā'-11 (The Barker) / Shur-mahrū-shirū-18 (Front or West Shur)

Sombrero Galaxy = M104 Virginis (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA = γ Virginis, γ Centauri (191.5)

ι Crucis (192.2), β Muscae (192.5), MIMOSA = β Crucis (192.9) no star listed (193) κ Crucis (194.4), ψ Virginis (194.5), μ Crucis, λ Crucis (194.6), ALIOTH (Fat Tail) = ε Ursae Majoris, ι Oct. (194.8) MINELAUVA = δ Virginis (195.1), COR CAROLI = α Canum Ven. (195.3)
ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), DENEB KAITOS (Tail of the Sea Beast) = β Ceti, η Phoenicis (9.4), AL NITHĀM (String of Pearls) = φ¹ Ceti (9.6) ACHIRD (Woman with Luminous Rays) = η Cassiopeiae (10.7) Legs-15 (Wolf)

ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4)

 

CIH (Whip) = γ Cassiopeiae, λ Tucanae (12.4), φ³ Ceti (12.6), μ Andromedae (12.8) φ4 Ceti (13.2)

My rule of thumb to add 183 to a heliacal right ascension day in order to find the opposite side of the year (the positition in the nakshatra night) here leads to placing the Whip in Cassiopeia 182 days earlier than Alioth. In the C text we instead had the Legs in Andromeda at the opposite side of Alioth:

*Ca14-12 → 14 * 13 = 182 → 4.14 (378 → Saturn) → 14 * 16 = 224 *Ca14-17
te kihikihi o te henua - kua haga hia kua pua te vero te henua kiore - te henua
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), DENEB KAITOS (Tail of the Sea Beast) = β Ceti, η Phoenicis (9.4), AL NITHĀM (String of Pearls) = φ¹ Ceti (9.6) ACHIRD (Woman with Luminous Rays) = η Cassiopeiae (10.7) Legs-15 (Wolf)

ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4)

CIH (Whip) = γ Cassiopeiae, λ Tucanae (12.4), φ³ Ceti (12.6), μ Andromedae (12.8) φ4 Ceti (13.2) no star listed (14)

... At the beginning of 44 B.C. - when Ceasar was still alive - the Senate decided to raise statues of him in all the temples and to sacrifice to him on his birthday in the month Quintilis, which in honour of him was renamed July. He was raised to the status of a god (among the other gods of the state) under the name Jupiter Julius. Marcus Antonius, who this year was consul together with Ceasar, became high priest and responsible for the ceremonies. In the middle of February, at the time of the old feast of Lupercalia [cfr Lupus = Wolf], he ran around naked and whipped the Roman ladies with thongs made from goat-skin [februa], in order to promote their fertility ...

March 30 31 (455) April 1 (91) 2 3 4
'March 3 (427) (2 * 214) 5 (64 = 91 - 27) 6 7 (2 * 31 + 4) 8 (6 * 72)
JAN 25 (390) 26 27 (365 + 27) 28 29 30
18 Jan 19 (384) 20 (= 91 - 71) 21 22 23

... We can for instance see how at the time of the Gate of the Goat - which here indeed ought to be the relevant time - the shadow tree in Gb1-21 was connected with a point 300 days after ●JANUARY 19 (384 = 13 * 29½ + ½) - on average the coldest day in the year north of the equator ...

I have consistently tried to solve the problem of half 365¼ not being an integer by assigning 183 days from heliacal to nakshatra nights. This leads to October 1 (274) = 91 (April 1) + 183, with 22 / 7 (22 July) - as a Sign of the value of π (approximately equal to the result of the division 22 / 7) - equal to the last day in September (3 * 91 = 273) - 70 (the precessional distance down to the time when Itzam-Yeh was shot down) and with heliacal Alioth in the following day, in 204 = 274 - 70.

On the other hand, when counting to the nakshatra night at the time of his Fall (as in autumn) my method leads to 71 precessional nights down to the time when he 'fell on his face'. 71 'happens to be' equal to the number of years necessary in order to move the positions of the fixed stars (in relation to the cardinal points of the Sun) with 1 right ascension day. 26000 (assumed length of the precessional cycle) / 365¼ (the Julian length of a year) = 71. Therefore the last day in March at the time of rongorongo corresponded to day 365 + 90 - 71 = 384 (= 2 * 182) = 19 January at the time when the shining tooth of Itzam-Yeh was shot down.

366 (= 384 - 18) 367 (= 455 - 88) 365 + 3 369 740 / 2 371
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
Sept 29 30 (273 = 3 * 91) Oct 1 (84 + 190) 2 3 4
'Sept 2 3 (246 = 6 * 41) 4 5 6 7
JULY 27 28 29 (210 = 7 * 30) 30 31 AUG 1
21 July 22 / 7 (273 - 70) 23 (84 + 120) 24 25 26
ι Crucis (192.2), β Muscae (192.5), MIMOSA = β Crucis (192.9) no star listed (193) κ Crucis (194.4), ψ Virginis (194.5), μ Crucis, λ Crucis (194.6), ALIOTH (Fat Tail) = ε Ursae Majoris, ι Oct. (194.8) MINELAUVA = δ Virginis (195.1), COR CAROLI = α Canum Ven. (195.3) δ Muscae (196.5), VINDEMIATRIX (Grape Gatherer) = ε Virginis (196.8) 13h (197.8)

ξ¹ Centauri (197.1), ξ² Centauri (197.9)

... 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 A.D. The Julian equinox was in the 3rd month of the year and in its 25th day (3-25) ...

However, this fact should not disturb us, because the positions documented in the rongorongo texts maybe should be read from glyphs grasped in pairs.

Furthermore, the Wolf was the one who 'opened the way' for the Sun and therefore we probably ought at his place to read the glyphs heliacally - i.e. to shift view from 182 to 183 so to say:

... 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.'

Ga5-19 (129) Ga5-20 (182 - 2 * 26)
April 1 (91) 2
20 (= 91 - 71) 21 Jan
Legs-15 (Wolf)

ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4)

CIH (Whip) = γ Cassiopeiae, λ Tucanae (12.4), φ³ Ceti (12.6), μ Andromedae (12.8)
no star listed (193) κ Crucis (194.4), ψ Virginis (194.5), μ Crucis, λ Crucis (194.6), ALIOTH (Fat Tail) = ε Ursae Majoris, ι Oct. (194.8)
→ 4.14 (378 → Saturn)
kua pua te vero
κ Crucis (194.4), ψ Virginis (194.5), μ Crucis, λ Crucis (194.6), ALIOTH (Fat Tail) = ε Ursae Majoris, ι Oct. (194.8) MINELAUVA = δ Virginis (195.1), COR CAROLI = α Canum Ven. (195.3)
Oct 1 (84 + 190) 2
23 (84 + 120) 24 July
Legs-15 (Wolf)

ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4)

CIH (Whip) = γ Cassiopeiae, λ Tucanae (12.4), φ³ Ceti (12.6), μ Andromedae (12.8)

The Fat Tail of the Bear caused trouble, and therefore it would be good (maitaki) to move Ursa Major out of the way:

Ga5-12 Ga5-13 (123) Ga5-14 Ga5-15 Ga5-16
CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3) INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5) γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7) γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7) α MUSCAE (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7)

ALDERAMIN (α Cephei)

no star listed (4) ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

ALPHARD (α Hydrae)

λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4) ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31), π Andromedae (7.7) ε Andromedae (8.2), DELTA = δ Andromedae (8.4), SCHEDIR = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9)

Or why not cut her tail off:

According to the structure of the Arabs order seems to have been restored 3 days after Delta, where the months of winter were followed by April and the months of summer - which order perhaps could have stretched for 180 days until the Sun reached the 'change station' Porrima in day 271:

... The (not) barking dogs of Louhi were probably mentioned in order to define the location in Pohjola where Ilmarinen had landed, because the e'eventh station of the Arabs - The Barker (Al Áwwā') - was defined by γ Virginis (Porrima), where there was a kind of 'change station',

... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini. In fact, he states explicitly (I,12.5) that this 'Gate' is 'where the Zodiac and the Milky Way intersect'. Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ... Considering the fact that the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ...

with one path leading up, another leading down, and a 3rd leading straight ahead at 0º, the path in the middle between 'the cap' and 'the cup', between the twin halves of the 'clamshell':

... There, half buried in the sand was a giant clamshell. As his shadow fell upon it, he heard another muffled squeak. Peering down into the opening between the halves of the shell, he saw it was full of tiny creatures, cowering in fear at his shadow ...

    Delta δ Andromedae 8.4 March 29 (88)
0 - Zero η Andromedae 11.4 April 1 (91)
    Whip Cih (γ Cassiopeiai) 12.4 April 2 (92)
1 Al Sharatain Pair of Signs β Arietis (Sheratan), γ (Mesarthim) 27.4 April 17 (107)
    Musca Borealis 35 (Head of the Fly), 39 (Kaffaljidhma), and 41 Arietis (Bharani) 41.4 May 1 (121)
2 Al Dabarān Follower α Tauri (Aldebaran), θ¹, θ²´, γ (Hyadum I), δ (Hyadum II), ε (Ain) 63.4 May 23 (143)
3 Al Hak'ah White Spot λ Orionis (Heka), φ¹, φ² 83.4 June 12 (163)
4 Al Han'ah Brand γ Gemini (Alhena), μ (Tejat Posterior), ν, η (Tejat Prior), ξ (Alzirr) 93.4 June 22 (173)
5 Al Dhirā' Forearm α Gemini (Castor), β (Pollux) 113.4 July 12 (193)
6 Al Nathrah Gap ε Cancri (Beehive) 130.4 July 29 (210)
7 Al Tarf End ξ Cancri, λ Leonis (Alterf) 143.4 Aug 11 (223)
8 Al Jabhah Forehead η Leonis (Al Jabhah), α (Regulus), ζ (Adhafera), γ (Algieba) 152.4 Aug 20 (232)
9 Al Zubrah Mane δ Leonis (Zosma), θ (Coxa) 169.4 Sept 6 (249)
10 Al Sarfah Turn β Leonis (Denebola) 178.3 Sept 15 (258)
11 Al Áwwā' Barker β (Alaraph), η (Zaniah), γ (Porrima), δ (Minelauva), ε Virginis (Vindemiatrix) 191.5 Sept 28 (271)

The distance from Simmah to η Andromedae when counted more precisely was ca *11.4 + *365.25 - *351.7 = *24.95 (and not 26 right ascension days). But by assigning Delta at the back side of Andromeda as a point of origin (origo) from where to count, order could be kept in the Sun calendar. The name Simmah for γ in Pisces (at the mouth of the southern of the modern pair of fishes) probably originated from the Babylonian name Šim-mah for the whole of the Fish-swallow.

"... A scoliast on Aratos, commented on by Grotius, said that the 'Chaldeans' called the northernmost Fish Χελιδόνιας ιχθύς, shown with the head of a swallow, a representation that Scaliger attibuted to the appearance of the bird in the spring, when the sun is in this region of the sky ..." (Allen)

... Now birds and fishes are born under the sign of the Yin, but they belong to the Yang. This is why birds and fishes both lay eggs. Fishes swim in the waters, birds fly among the clouds. But in winter, the swallows and starlings go down into the sea and change into mussels ...

... 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 ...

It could be useful for us to count the glyphs where Metoro said hia in the C text. On side a there were 16 such places and on side b there were 20. None of them coincided with heliacal Delta. But when the Sun reached the last day of March at Ca14-13, viz. at the belly (η) of Cassiopeia, this was (according to Metoro) a day from where to count.