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243. Let's now return to the Mayas:

... Once again. According to the Mayas there were 542 days from the last Creation to the time when Hun-Nal-Ye entered (became) the sky (och ta chan). I have copied from my preliminary glyph type dictionary at toki: ... the Palenque scribes repeated Creation again and described it as 'it was made visible, the image at Lying-down-Sky, the First-Three-Stone-Place'. Then we learned that five hundred and forty-two days later (1.9.2 in the Maya system), Hun-Nal-Ye 'entered or became the sky' (och ta chan). This 'entering' event occurred on February 5, 3112 BC ...

Itzam-Yeh defeated 28 May, 3149 BC (148)
First 3-stone place 21 May, 3114 BC (141)
Creation of our present world 13 Aug, 3114 BC (225)
Hun-Nal-Ye became the sky 5 Febr, 3112 BC (36)
(3149 - 3112) / 71 = 0.52 < (26.6 - 26)

21 May, 3114 BC - 13 August, 3114 BC = 225 - 141 = 84 (= 12 * 7)

21 May, 3114 BC - 5 February, 3112 BC = 542, which 'happens to be' the sum of 365 days and 6 * 29½ nights.

148 (May 28) - *70 = 78 (19 March)

August 13 (225) - *70 = 155 (4 June). The stars would (on average) have moved 70 right ascension days ahead since then, since the time when the Luckiest of the Lucky had risen with the Sun at the beginning of December and the Full Moon had been at the beginning of June at Al Terf (the End), i.e. at the beginning of the Knot (Ukdah) at the neck of the Water Serpent (Hydra):

This ought to have been when the waters of late autumn were finished, when the Hydra (water serpent) had been bound like a prisoner,

  

as could have been observed in the night sky when in early December (the 10th month) the Full Moon had been at the neck of the Hydra - which ought to have meant the Sun was soon about to be reborn as a child.

 
Ca12-9 (325) Ca12-10   Ca12-11 Ca12-12
oho te vae ki hukiga o te ra   kua oho ra kua ere te tagata - te hetu
Oho. 1. To go: ka-oho! go! go away! (i.e. 'goodbye' said by the person staying behind); ka-oho-mai (very often contracted to: koho-mai), welcome! (lit.: come here); ku-oho-á te tagata, the man has gone. Ohoga, travel, direction of a journey; ohoga-mai, return. 2. Also rauoho, hair. Vanaga. 1. To delegate; rava oho, to root. 2. To go, to keep on going, to walk, to depart, to retire; ka oho, begone, good-bye; oho amua, to preced; oho mai, to come, to bring; oho arurua, to sail as consorts; hakaoho, to send, a messenger. 3. Tehe oho te ikapotu, to abut, adjoin; mei nei tehe i oho mai ai inei te ikapotu, as far as, to; kai oho, to abstain, to forego; hakaoho, to put on the brakes. 4. The head (only in the composite rauoho, hair). Churchill.
1 Dec (*325 - *70) 2 (336 = 14 * 24)   3 4 (338 = 408 - 70)
Febr 9 (40 = 365 - 325) 10   11 12 (408 = 328 + 80)
KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny)

Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 (Luckiest of the Lucky) / Emptiness-11 (Rat)

TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD (Luckiest of the Lucky) = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)
no star listed (326)   CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA (Foundation) = ξ Aquarii (327.5)

SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)

Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)

NASHIRA (Fortunate One) = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE (Horse's Foot Track) = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)

2 June 3 (336 - 182 = 154)   4 (*75 = *145 - *70) 5
Aug 11 12   13 (225 = 42 + 183) 14 (408 - 182 = 226)
Al Tarf-7 (The End)

ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF (The End) = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)

A Hydrae (144.1)

VEGA (α Lyrae)

  UKDAH (The Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA (Mane) = ο Leonis (145.8) Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)

ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS (Head of the Lion) = ε Leonis (146.6)

I.e. we could compare the left (internal nighttime insight) view of line Ca12 with the heliacal (outside right eyesight) reading of line Gb2:

DEC 7 8 9 10 11 (345) 12 (*330 - *64)
1 Dec 2 3 4 5 (339 = 345 - 6) 6 (*260)
Gb2-6 Gb2-7 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 (264) Gb2-10 (365 - 100) Gb2-11
KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny)

Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 / Emptiness-11 (Rat)

TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD (Luckiest of the Lucky) = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)
no star listed (326) CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA (Foundation) = ξ Aquarii (327.5)

SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)

Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)

NASHIRA (Fortunate One) = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE (Horse's Foot Track) = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)

Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)

ENIF (the Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS (the Dancer) = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 Capricorni, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI (Tail of the Goat) =  δ Capricorni (329.8)

θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)
Febr 9 (40) 10 11 12 (408) 13 (365 + 44) All Hearts' Day
°Febr 5 6 7 8 (*324) 9 (40) 10
'Jan 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
"Dec 30 31 "Jan 1 2 3 (368) 4

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen;

and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

10 Girl ε Aquarii (Albali) Bat (314.8) Jan 29 (394)
11 Emptiness β Aquarii (Sadalsud) Rat (325.9) Feb 9 (405)
12 Rooftop α Aquarii (Sadalmelik) Swallow (334.6) Feb 18 (414)

... His temple-palace was composed of four radiant apartments: one toward the east, yellow with gold; one towards the west, blue with turquoise and jade; one toward the south, white with pearls and shells; one towards the north, red with bloodstones - symbolizing the cardinal quarters of the world over which the light of the sun holds sway. And it was set wonderfully above a mighty river that passed through the midst of the city of Tula; so that every night, precisely at midnight, the king descended into the river to bathe; and the place of his bath was called 'In the Painted Vase', or 'In the Precious Waters' ...

The first 3-stone place came 84 (as in the day number for the Julian equinox) days before the Creation in 13 Aug, 3114 BC (225, *145), and 225 - 84 = 141 (21 May) was at glyph number 327 (Ca12-11) - 84 = 243 (= 9 * 27), i.e. at the 'hole' (cave) in the mountain (mauga) from where to count (hia):

... The sun was associated with water among other ancient peoples too, e.g. among the early Babylonians and among the Maya indians: 'But beyond their role as points of communication with the Underworld, James Brady of George Washington University has told us that in the Maya mind caves were intimately associated with mountains, and that it is in such caves that it was and still is believed that fertilizing rain is created before being sent into the sky; even today ceremonies are held inside them at the onset of the rainy season ...

SEPT 16 17 (254 + 6 = 260) 18   19 (80 + 182) 20 21
10 Sept (337 - 84) (254 = 324 - 70) 12   13 (*177 = 6 * 29½) 15 (*248 - *70)
 
Ca9-15 Ca9-16 Ca9-17   Ca9-18 Ca9-19 Ca9-20 (248)
i te mauga pu hia E rima ki te henua koia ku honui   erua maitaki ko koe ra
Nov 19 20 (324) 21   22 23 24 (*248 = *178 + *70)
'Oct 23 24 25   26 (299) 27 (*220 = *247 - *27) 28
"Oct 9 10 11 (284 = 325 - 41)   12 13 14 (*207 = *248 - *41)
16h (243.5)

ACRAB (Scorpion) = β Scorpii, JABHAT AL ACRAB (Forehead of the Scorpion) = ω Scorpii (243.3), θ Lupi, RUTILICUS = β Herculis (243.5), MARFIK (Elbow) = κ Herculis (243.7), φ Herculis (243.8)

ψ Scorpii (244.6), LESATH (Sting) = ν Scorpii (244.8) χ Scorpii (245.1), YED PRIOR (Hand in Front) = δ Ophiuchi, δ Tr. Austr. (245.5)   YED POSTERIOR (Hand Behind) = ε Ophiuchi, RUKBALGETHI SHEMALI (Knee, rukbah, of Broken Palm-branch)  = τ Herculis (246.6). δ Apodis (246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8) Heart-5 (Fox)

σ Scorpii (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7)

ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8)

... 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 ...

MARCH 18 19 (78 = 142 - 64) 20   0h MARCH 22 (*1) 23
(155 - 84 = 71) (72 = 254 - 182) π (3-14, 73)   15 March 16 17
May 21 (*61) 22 (72 + 70) 23 (325 - 182)   24 (12 * 12) 25 (290 / 2) 26 (146)
'April 24 25 (115) 26 (116 = 4 * 29)   27 28 (118 = 4 * 29½) 29 (146 - 27)
"April 10 (*61 - *41) 11 (101) 12   13 4-14 (104) 15
υ Persei (61.2) BEID (Egg) = ο¹ Eridani (62.2), μ Persei (62.8)

VINDEMIATRIX ( ε Virginis)

Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)

HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4)

  HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2) Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)

no star listed (66)
Egyptian eye Phoenician ayin Greek omicron Ο (ο)

... The letter name is derived from Proto-Semitic *ayn-, eye, and the Phoenician letter had an eye-shape, ultimately derived from the jr hieroglyph ... To this day, ‘ayin in Hebrew, Arabic and Maltese means 'eye' and 'spring' (‘ayno in Neo-Aramaic).

84 days before 4 June (155) - my restored date for the Mayan Creation - was day 71 (= 26,000 / 365¼) when the Full Moon ought to have reached the first 3-stone place 2 days before π (3-14, 14 March, 73 = 365 / 5). At that time the Sun would have been half a year away at the tail of the Scorpion, at a place of death (†) - whereas in contrast the Full Moon would have been at the Egg (*), at Beid in the River (Eridanus).

Therefore 3 stones at the Full Moon ought to have marked a place of death for the Sun,

... 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 ...

... The Heka triplet is where we otherwise would have expected to see a bright single star representing Orion's head (when looking from a location in the northern hemisphere) ... λ and the two stars phi furnish an easy refutation of the popular error as to the apparent magnitude of the moon's disc, Colas writing of this in the Celestial Handbook of 1892: In looking at this triangle nobody would think that the moon could be inserted in it; but as the distance from λ to φ¹ is 27', and the distance from φ¹ to φ² is 33', it is a positive fact; the moon's mean apparent diameter being 31' 7''. This illusion, prevalent in all ages, has attracted the attention of many great men; Ptolemy, Roger Bacon, Kepler, and others having treated of it. The lunar disc, seen by the naked eye of an uninstructed observer, appears, as it is frequently expressed 'about the size of a dinner-plate', but should be seen as only equal to a peppercorn ...

and 3 days after MARCH 19 (78) was right ascension day *1, i.e. 3 days after Beid (life inside) was the Eye (life outside).

3 days after the Elbow (Marfik, κ Herculis) was the Hand Behind (ε Ophiuchi). Here (at Ca9-18) we can see 3 'stones' arranged vertically with a tightly drawn string of measurement in the middle. Perhaps this could represent the first 3-stone place. Although there was a pair of these maitaki (good) glyphs:

... In Hindu legend there was a mother goddess called Aditi, who had seven offspring. She is called 'Mother of the Gods'. Aditi, whose name means 'free, unbounded, infinity' was assigned in the ancient lists of constellations as the regent of the asterism Punarvasu. Punarvasu is dual in form and means 'The Doublegood Pair'. The singular form of this noun is used to refer to the star Pollux. It is not difficult to surmise that the other member of the Doublegood Pair was Castor. Then the constellation Punarvasu is quite equivalent to our Gemini, the Twins ...

From Castor to Pollux there were 3 days.

Maybe we should read at least this part of the C text as referring to the place defined from the Full Moon. South of the equator heliacal Ain was not a place of birth but its opposite - i.e. when observed close to the Full Moon it marked the same season as that half a year away and north of the equator when the Sun reached Ain.

On the other hand, at the beginning of side a on the G tablet we probably should read the text heliacally. And then we can understand how a pair of 3-stone maitaki glyphs could refer to the 3 noteworthy stars Alcyone, Pleione, and Atlas - although the name Tau-toru (3 'stones' = 3 stars) alternatively could refer to the 3 Belt Stars of Orion.

MARCH 7 8 9 10 (*354) 11 (70) 12 (436) 13
1 March 2 3 4 (*348) 5 (64) 6 (430) 7
(229 + 229) Gb8-18 (230) Gb8-19 (460) Gb8-20 Gb8-21 Gb8-22 Gb8-23
ALGENIB PERSEI = α Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

GIENAH (γ Corvi)

σ Persei (51.6) no star listed (52) ψ Persei (53.1)

ACRUX (α CRUCIS)

δ Persei (54.7)

ATIKS = ο Persei, RANA (Frog) = δ Eridani (55.1), ν Persei (55.3),

CELAENO (16 Tauri), ELECTRA (17), TAYGETA (19),  MAIA (20), ASTEROPE (21), MEROPE (23) (55.6) TAU-ONO (6 Stones)

Hairy Head-18 (Cockerel) / Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)

ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE (28 Tauri), ATLAS (27) (56.3) 3 Stones (TAU-TORU)

May 10 (130) 11 12 (*418 = *348 + *70) 14 (500 = 430 + 70) 16
'April 13 4-14 (104) 15 16 17 (*392) 18 (473) 19
"March 30 31 (90) "April 1 2 3 (*378) 4 5 (460)
3-14 (73) MARCH 15 16 (440) 17 18 19 20 (*364)
8 March 9 10 11 (70) 12 13 π
Gb8-24 (465) Gb8-25 Gb8-26 Gb8-27 Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30 (242)
MENKHIB (Next to the Pleiades) = ζ Persei (57.6)

PORRIMA (γ Virginis)

ZAURAK (The Boat) = γ Eridani (58.9) λ Tauri (59.3), ν Tauri (59.9) 4h (60.9)

JĪSHUĬ (Piled-up Waters) = λ Persei (60.7)

COR CAROLI (α Canum Ven.)

υ Persei (61.2) BEID (Egg) = ο¹ Eridani (62.2), μ Persei (62.8)

VINDEMIATRIX ( ε Virginis)

Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)

HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4)

May 17 (137) 18 19 20 21 22 23
'April 20 21 22 23 24 25 (115) 26
"April 6 7 8 9 (99) 10 11 12

From these 3 (Alcyone, Pleione, Atlas) there were 8 days to glyph position zero on side a of the G tablet.