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242. Possibly the Great Bear (Ursa Major, Itzam-Yeh, Seven-Macaw) had been defeated because he had by way of the precession become 'evil'

... EVIL ... f. IE. base *up- (see OVER, UP), the primary sense being 'exceeding due limits' ...

and taken over what did not belong to him, viz. a part of 'the forearm':

This would explain why Mars (Tyr as in Tues-day) had lost his right hand:

And in Norse mythology there was a Beast - as in Brutus who in March brought down Caesar, born in July -

... The brutes of spring caused the downfall of both Captain Cook and Julius Caesar. We are close to the key myth of mankind, that which explains the regeneration of sun and of growth. Once at least some people kept the tradition living. I became interested in what really happened at March 15 and reopened Henrikson to find out: Caesar had been forewarned of the threat by the prophet Spurinna, who told him that a great threat was coming at Idus Martiae or just before [i.e. at 3-14]. The day arrived and Caesar was still living, walking to his meeting with the Senate when he happened to encounter Spurinna and told him jokingly that he was still alive. Spurinna calmely answered that the day had yet not ended.

The Romans divided their months in two parts and the dividing point was Idus, which in some way was connected with full moon. March 15 was the midpoint of March, which is close to spring equinox. The old agricultural year defined the beginning of the year to the time when sun returned, and it was connected with Mars ...

viz. the wolf Fenrir who could have corresponded to the Opener of the Way in ancient Egypt:

... 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.' ...

The Wolf was standing on A, the Plough - i.e. the beginning - and anciently it could have been the right Foreleg of the Bull which had been devoured:

... When they were there, and had executed their father's commission, the young men felt a wish to enquire to which of them the kingdom of Rome was to come; and we are told that these words were uttered from the bottom of the cave - 'Young men, whichever of you shall first kiss your mother, he shall possess the sovereign power at Rome' ... Brutus judged that the expression of Apollo had another meaning, and as if he had accidentally stumbled and fallen, he touched the earth with his lips, considering that she was the common mother of all mankind ...

How much the Wolf had taken over would gradually increase through the millenia and the right hand of Mars may eventually have become his right forearm all the way up to his elbow (turi-rima).

When that happened it was enough, and the radical solution should have been to cut-off Ursa Major completely from the beginning, from his position at the North Pole:

The proper method could have been to cut off his Fat Tail (Alioth, ε) and let the corresponding part of Ursa Minor carry the torch (beacon):

The name Sorrowing Maidens (Benetnash) for η Ursae Majoris, *208) could then be explained as due to this awful ancient 'castration'.

... The name [Benetnash] derives from the Arabic phrase meaning 'The leader of the daughters of the bier'. The daughters of the bier, i.e. the mourning maidens, are the three stars of the handle of the Big Dipper, Alkaid, Mizar, and Alioth; while the four stars of the bowl, Megrez, Phecda, Merak, and Dubhe, are the bier ...

Ursa Major was on one side of the North Pole and the tip of the tail of Ursa Minor on the other. Polaris (*26) + *182 = *208 (Benetnash). The right hand of Mars could have been regarded as his left hand south of the equator, where everything was 'upside down' (and therefore right would become left and vice versa):

*Ca14-24 *Ca14-25 *Ca14-26 *Ca14-27 *Ca14-28 *Ca14-29 (392)
te henua te honu kau manu kake rua te henua te honu te rima
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Oct 11 HEZE (*205) 13 14 (*207) BENETNASH 16 (289 = 655 - 366)
"Aug 31 "Sept 1 (244) 2 (*165 = 142 + 23) 3 (*166 = 207 - 41) 4 5 (248)
AUG 8 9 10 (*142) 11 12 13 (225)
2 Aug 3 4 (*136) 5 6 7 (*145 - *6)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 11 (365 + 101) 12 ACHERNAR (*23) 14 (104) 15 (*25) POLARIS
"March 1 2 3 (427) 4 (63) 5 6 (*350)
FEBR 6 7 (403 = 38 + 365) 8 (*324 = 404 - 80) 9 (40) 10 11 (407 = 327 + 80)
31 Jan 1 Febr 2 3 4 5

There were 14 right ascension days from Alioth at the root of the fat tail of Ursa Major to the tip of her tail at Benetnash. Polaris (*26) + *168 (= 182 - 14 = 12 * 14) = *194 (Alioth):

*Ca14-12 → 14 * 13 = 182 → 4.14 (Bharani) (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) 4 (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 the heliacal days to the 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 day 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 from the time of rongorongo 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 ahead. 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) ...

A corresponding event (corresponding to the defeat of Itzam-Yeh) could in Manuscript E have been when Kuukuu (alias Mars) tried to lift the Turtle (te honu) but was mortally injured when her flipper broke his spine:

Sons of Hau Maka Sons of Hua Tava
Ira Sun Kuukuu Mars Nga Tavake A Te Rona
Raparenga Moon Ringiringi Mercury Te Ohiro A Te Runu
  Nonoma Jupiter
Uure Venus
Makoi Saturn

... They all sat down and rested [on the plain of Oromanga], when suddenly they saw that a turtle had reached the shore and had crawled up on the beach. He [Ira] looked at it and said, 'Hey, you! The turtle has come on land!' He said, 'Let's go! Let's go back to the shore.' They all went to pick up the turtle. Ira was the first one to try to lift the turtle - but she didn't move. Then Raparenga said, 'You do not have the necessary ability. Get out of my way so that I can have a try!' Raparenga stepped up and tried to lift the turtle - but Raparenga could not move her. Now you spoke, Kuukuu: 'You don't have the necessary ability, but I shall move this turtle. Get out of my way!' Kuukuu stepped up, picked up the turtle, using all his strength. After he had lifted the turtle a little bit, he pushed her up farther. No sooner had he pushed her up and lifted her completely off the ground when she struck Kuukuu with one fin. She struck downward and broke Kuukuu's spine.The turtle got up, went back into the (sea) water, and swam away. All the kinsmen spoke to you (i.e. Kuukuu): 'Even you did not prevail against the turtle!'

They put the injured Kuukuu on a stretcher and carried him inland. They prepared a soft bed for him in the cave and let him rest there. They stayed there, rested, and lamented the severely injured Kuukuu. Kuukuu said, 'Promise me, my friends, that you will not abandon me!' They all replied, 'We could never abandon you!' They stayed there twenty-seven days in Oromanga. Everytime Kuukuu asked, 'Where are you, friends?' they immediately replied in one voice, 'Here we are!' They all sat down and thought. They had an idea and Ira spoke, 'Hey, you! Bring the round stones (from the shore) and pile them into six heaps of stones!' One of the youths said to Ira, 'Why do we want heaps of stone?' Ira replied, 'So that we can all ask the stones to do something.' They took (the material) for the stone heaps (pipi horeko) and piled up six heaps of stone at the outer edge of the cave. Then they all said to the stone heaps, 'Whenever he calls, whenever he calls for us, let your voices rush (to him) instead of the six (of us) (i.e., the six stone heaps are supposed to be substitutes for the youths). They all drew back to profit (from the deception) (? ki honui) and listened. A short while later, Kuukuu called. As soon as he had asked, 'Where are you?' the voices of the stone heaps replied, 'Here we are!' All (the youths) said, 'Hey, you! That was well done!' ...