255. The cosmic Tree had a
kind of 'Fork' in its top, where the Head of
One Hunaphu was placed as a Sacrifice
after he had lost in the Ball Game. Or as
Ogotêmmeli formulated it - the
Tree with its Fork was like a robber's
stick:
... All was now ready for departure except
that there was no fire in the smithy. The
ancestor slipped into the workshop of the
great Nummo, who are Heaven's smiths, and
stole a piece of the sun in the form of live
embers and white-hot iron. He seized it by
means of a 'robber's stick' the crook of
which ended in a slit, open like a mouth ...
The cosmic Tree of the Mayas was the Milky Way and when each night this
great structure slowly turned itself around the
scenery changed and the Tree became a Canoe which then from its
horizontal orientation began to sink and
lift up its stern:
Is this not the same idea as that of Argo
Navis, where we can find the 'canoe'
stranded at the
very rock bottom, with only its great stern
still visible:
There was a kind of 'Mouth' (a fork, a slit) at the
top of the Tree and the Mayas saw this
opening as belonging to a Crocodile:
Her open jaw was at the cross of Cygnus with
W as in the Woman Cassiopeia midships, while her tail
could be characterized as the opposite of a
jaw, viz.
a head separating Orion below from Gemini above:
To reach Cygnus in the C text we could try
to count
ahead (hia)
beyond the death of Captain Cook at Cb10-8.
Strikingly, we will immediately encounter the
triplet of great pyramids on the Gizah
plateau, those of Khufu, Khafre, and
Menkaure resting on the west bank of the Nile, at
the time when the Full Moon was at the Belt
of Orion and the Sun had reached the Sting
of the Scorpion in right ascension day 265 (=
5 days after the death of poor old Willie
Watman):
... Among the other ritual coincidences,
perhaps the most remarkable was the death of
poor old Willie Watman, seaman A. B., on the
morning of 1 February. Watman was the
first person among Cook's people to die at
Kealakekua: on the ceremonial day, so far as
can be calculated, that the King's living
god Kahoali'i would swallow the eye of the
first human sacrifice of the New Year. And
it was the Hawaiian chief - or by one
account, the King himself - who specifically
requested that old Watman be buried at
Hikiau temple ...
6
Febr (365 + 37) |
7 |
8
(404) |
9
(40) |
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Cb10-9 |
Cb10-10 (632) |
Cb10-11 |
Cb10-12 (242 = 40 + 202) |
ka hahaú
hia
- ko
te rima kua oho |
ku hahaú - kua ka
te ahi i ruga |
e te hau e |
ka oho te kihikihi
o te henua |
PYRAMID OF KHUFU
MINTAKA (Belt) = δ Orionis,
υ Orionis (82.4), χ Aurigae (82.5),
ε Columbae (82.6) |
PYRAMID OF KHAFRE
Al Hak'ah-3 (White Spot) /
Mrigashīrsha-5 (Stag's Head) /
Turtle Head-20 (Monkey) /
Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur (Little Twins)
ARNEB = α Leporis, Crab Nebula = M1
Tauri
(83.0,
φ¹ Orionis
(83.1),
HEKA = λ Orionis,
Orion Nebula = M42
(83.2),
HATYSA = ι Orionis
(83.5),
φ² Orionis
(83.6),
ALNILAM (String of Pearls) =
ε
Orionis
(83.7) |
PYRAMID OF MENKAURE
Three Stars-21 (Gibbon) /
Shur-narkabti-sha-shūtū-6 (Star in
the Bull towards the south) /
ANA-IVA-9 (Pillar of exit)
HEAVENLY GATE = ζ Tauri,
ν
Columbae (84.0),
ω
Orionis
(84.2),
ALNITAK (Girdle) =
ζ
Orionis,
PHAKT (Phaet) = α Columbae
(84.7) |
ο Aurigae (85.8), γ Leporis (85.9)
YANG MUN (α Lupi) |
Al Shaula-17
ALWAID (Mother Camels) = β Draconis,
MAASYM (Wrist) = λ Herculis
(265.1),
SHAULA (Sting) = λ Scorpii
(265.3),
KUMA = ν Draconis
(265.6),
σ
Arae (265.9)
HAMAL (α
Arietis) |
RAS ALHAGUE = α Ophiuchi
(266.1),
SARGAS = θ Scorpii (266.3), μ
Ophiuchi, π Arae (266.5),
NAN HAE
(Southern Sea) = ξ Serpentis
(266.6), AL
DHĪLI (The Wolf) = ω Draconis,
ι Herculis (266.7) |
λ Arae (267.1),
GIRTAB
(Seizer) = κ Scorpii, ο
Serpentis (267.6),
DSIBAN
(Wolf Pair)
= ψ Draconis
(267.9) |
KELB ALRAI (Dog of the Shepherd) =
β Ophiuchi,
μ
Arae (268.1),
KEW HO
(Nine
Rivers) =
μ Herculis
(268.6),
η
Pavonis (268.7),
APOLLYON
= ι Scorpii
(268.9) |
... 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 ...
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After a further 8 days, from 6 February to
14 February (All Heart's Day), the Sun
reached 18h at the terminal point of Captain
Cook:
10 Febr |
11 |
12 (408) |
13 |
2-14 (40 + 5) |
15 |
... Nevertheless, by virtue of a
series of spectacular coincidences,
Cook made a near-perfect ritual exit
on the night of 3 February. The
timing itself was nearly perfect,
since the Makahiki rituals
would end 1 February (±1 day), being
the 14th day of the second Hawaiian
month [Kau-lua]. This helps
explain Mr. King's entry for 2
February in the published Voyage:
'Terreoboo [Kalaniopu'u] and
his Chiefs, had, for some days past,
been very inquisitive abouth the
time of our departure' - to which
his private journal adds, '& seem'd
well pleas'd that it was soon'.
Captain Cook, responding to Hawaiian
importunities to leave behind his
'son', Mr. King [sic!], had even
assured Kalaniopu'u and the
high priest that he would come back
again
the following year. Long after they
had killed him, the Hawaiians
continued to believe this would
happen. Hence the ultimate ritual
coincidence, which was
meteorological: one of the
fertilizing storms of winter,
associated with the advent of Lono,
wreaked havoc with the foremast of
the Resolution, and the British were
forced to return to Kealakekua for
repairs on 11 February 1779
... Mr. King remarks that there were
not as many hundreds of people at
their return to Kealakekua as there
had been thousands when they first
came in. A tabu was in effect, which
was ascribed to the king's absence.
By the best evidence, the British
had interrupted the annual
bonito-fishing rite, the
transition
from the Makahiki season to normal
temple ceremonies. Cook was now
hors cadre. And things fell
apart ...
... Early on Sunday morning,
14 February
1779, Captain Cook went ashore with
a party of marines to take the
Hawaiian king, Kalaniopu'u, hostage
against the return of the
Discovery's cutter, stolen the night
before in a bold maneuver - of
which, however, the amiable old
ruler was innocent. At the decisive
moment, Cook and Kalaniopu'u, the
God and the King, will confront each
other as cosmic adversaries. Permit
me thus an anthropological reading
of the historical texts. For in all
the confused Tolstoian narratives of
the affray - among which the
judicious Beaglehole refuses to
choose - the one recurrent certainty
is a dramatic structure with the
properties of a ritual
transformation. During the passage
inland to find the king, thence
seaward with his royal hostage, Cook
is metamorphosed from a being of
veneration to an object of
hostility. When he came ashore, the
common people as usual dispersed
before him and prostrated face to
earth; but in the end he was himself
precipitated face down in the water
by a chief's weapon, an iron trade
dagger, to be rushed upon by a mob
exulting over him, and seeming to
add to their own honors by the part
they could claim in his death:
'snatching the daggers from each
other', reads Mr. Burney's account,
'out of eagerness to have their
share in killing him'. In the final
ritual inversion, Cook's body would
be offered in sacrifice by the
Hawaiian King
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Cb10-13 |
Cb10-14 (636) |
Cb10-15 |
Cb10-16 |
Cb10-17 |
Cb10-18
(248) |
te moa nui - kua
vaha |
te hokohuki- te
mata |
te matagi ma te rau hei |
te hokohuki -
te
moko |
te kava - te
hokohuki |
te kihikihi i te
rima o te tagata |
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.
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μ Columbae,
SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis
(86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6) |
υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2),
WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae,
δ Leporis (87.7),
TZE (Son) = λ Columbae
(87.9) |
Ardra-6 (The Moist One) /
ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)
χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1),
BETELGEUZE
(House of the Giant) = α Orionis
(88.3), ξ Columbae
(88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)
ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae
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η Leporis (89.0),
PRAJA-PĀTI
(Lord of Created Beings) = δ Aurigae,
MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the
Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM
(Wrist) = θ Aurigae,
and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae
(89.4), η Columbae (89.7) |
μ Orionis (90.3),
χ² Orionis (90.5) |
6h (91.3)
ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5),
π Columbae (91.6)
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MULIPHEN
(Oaths) = γ Ophiuchi (269.0),
BASANISMUS = G
Scorpii (269.5),
PHERKARD (The
Dim One of the Two Calves) = δ Ursae
Minoris (269.9) |
PTOLEMY
CLUSTER = M7 Scorpii (270.5),
GRUMIUM (Lower
Jaw) = ξ Draconis (270.9) |
RUKBALGETHI
GENUBI (Bending Claw) = θ Herculis
(271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5),
ETAMIN (Head)
=γ Draconis, ν Herculis
(271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8) |
Cat's Eye = NGC6543 Draconis
(272.2), ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ
Ophiuchi (272.9) |
Winnowing Basket-7 (Leopard)
18h (273.4)
NASH
(Point) = γ Sagittarii
(273.7), θ Arae (273.8) |
ZHŌNGSHĀN = ο
Herculis (274.0), π Pavonis
(274.6) |
... As has already been mentioned,
the Delphians worshipped Dionysus
once a year as the new-born child,
Liknites, 'the Child in the
Harvest Basket', which was a
shovel-shaped basket of rush and
osier used as a harvest basket, a
cradle, a manger, and a
winnowing-fan for tossing the grain
up into the air against the wind, to
separate it from the chaff. The
worship of the Divine Child was
established in Minoan Crete, its
most famous early home in Europe. In
1903, on the site of the temple of
Dictaean Zeues - the Zeus who was
yearly born in Rhea's cave at Dicte
near Cnossos, where Pythagoras spent
'thrice nine hallowed days' [27] of
his initiation - was found a Greek
hymn which seems to preserve the
original Minoan formula in which the
gypsum-powdered, sword-dancing
Curetes, or tutors, saluted the
Child at his birthday feast. In it
he is hailed as 'the Cronian one'
who comes yearly to Dicte mounted on
a sow and escorted by a
spirit-throng, and begged for peace
and plenty as a reward for their
joyful leaps ...
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Beyond the death (sacrifice,
rau hei)
of Captain Cook (Lono) a
tribute-canoe of offerings was set adrift for
Kahiki (Tahiti),
homeland of the gods, and the first star in
Argo Navis (viz. Canopus, *95) was at the
Sun 5 days after this basket
/ cradle / coracle, rising heliacally in
June 24 (80 + *95) = St John's Day and half
a year away from Christmas Eve.
... Gronw Pebyr, who figures as the lord of
Penllyn - 'Lord of the Lake' - which was
also the title of Tegid Voel, Cerridwen's
husband, is really Llew's twin and tanist
... Gronw reigns during the second half of
the year, after Llew's sacrificial murder;
and the weary stag whom he kills and flays
outside Llew's castle stands for Llew
himself (a 'stag of seven fights'). This
constant shift in symbolic values makes the
allegory difficult for the prose-minded
reader to follow, but to the poet who
remembers the fate of the pastoral Hercules
the sense is clear: after despatching Llew
with the dart hurled at him from Bryn
Kyvergyr, Gronw flays him, cuts him to
pieces and distributes the pieces among his
merry-men. The clue is given in the phrase
'baiting his dogs'. Math had similarly made
a stag of his rival Gilvaethwy, earlier in
the story. It seems likely that Llew's
mediaeval successor, Red Robin Hood, was
also once worshipped as a stag. His presence
at the Abbot's Bromley Horn Dance would be
difficult to account for otherwise, and
stag's horn moss is sometimes called
Robin Hood's Hatband. In May, the stag
puts on his red summer coat.
Llew visits the Castle of Arianrhod in a
coracle of weed and sedge. The coracle is
the same old harvest basket in which nearly
every antique Sun-god makes his New Year
voyage; and the virgin princess, his mother,
is always waiting to greet him on the bank
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