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258. From the death of Captain Cook in All Heart's Day (2-14, day 45 = 360 / 8) to ε ('Elsie') down in the Well ('Tea-pot'), i.e. from the Leopard at Nash (γ Sagittarii) to the Tapir at μ Gemini (Tejat Posterior), there were 365 + 175 - 353 = 187 (183 + 4) days. 187 + 178 = 365.

1 Horn α Virginis (Spica) Crocodile (202.7) Oct 9 (282)
2 Neck κ Virginis Dragon (214.8) Oct 21 (294)
3 Root α Librae (Zuben Elgenubi) Badger (224.2) Oct 31 (304)
4 Room π Scorpii (Vrischika) Hare (241.3) Nov 17 (321)
5 Heart σ Scorpii Fox (247.0) Nov 23 (327)
6 Tail μ Scorpii (Denebakrab) Tiger (254.7) Nov 30 (334)
7 Winnowing Basket γ Sagittarii (Nash) Leopard (273.7) Dec 19 (353)
December solstice
8 South Dipper φ Sagittarii (?) Unicorn (284.0) Dec 30 (364)
9 Ox / Herd Boy β Capricornii (Dabih) Buffalo (308.0) Jan 23 (388)
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)
13 House α Pegasi (Markab) Pig (349.5) Mar 5 (429)
March equinox
14 Wall γ Pegasi (Algenib) Porcupine (1.8) Mar 22 (81)
15 Legs η Andromedae (?) Wolf (11.4) Apr 1 (91)
16 Bond β Arietis (Sheratan) Dog (27.4) Apr 17 (107)
17 Stomach 4¹ Arietis (Bharani) Pheasant (41.4) May 1 (121)
18 Hairy Head η Tauri (Alcyone) (?) Cockerel (56.1) May 16 (136)
19 Net ε Tauri (Ain) Crow (65.7) May 25 (145)
20 Turtle Head λ Orionis (Heka) Monkey (83.2) Jun 12 (163)
21 Three Stars ζ Orionis (Alnitak) Gibbon (84.7) Jun 13 (164)
June solstice
22 Well μ Gemini (Tejat Posterior) Tapir (95.4) Jun 24 (175)
23 Ghost ρ Gemini ? Goat (112.1) Jul 11 (192)
24 Willow δ Hydrae Stag (129.6) Jul 28 (209)
25 Star α Hydrae (Alphard) Horse (142.3) Aug 10 (222)
26 Extended Net ε Hydrae / μ Hydrae Ox (131.9 / 157.1) Jul 30 (211) / Aug 25 (237)
27 Wings α Crateris (Alkes) Snake (165.6) Sep 2 (245)
28 Chariot γ Corvi (Gienah) Worm (185.1) Sep 22 (265)
September equinox

... 'Tell us a story!' said the March Hare. 'Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice. 'And be quick about it', added the Hatter, 'or you'll be asleep again before it's done.' 'Once upon a time there were three little sisters', the Dormouse began in a great hurry: 'and their names were Elsie [ε], Lacie [λ], and Tillie [τ]; and they lived at the bottom of a well — '

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 ...

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.

... A une certaine saison, on amassait des vivres, on faissait fête. On emmaillottait un corail, pierre de defunt lézard, on l'enterrait, tanu. Cette cérémonie était un point de départ pour beaucoup d'affaires, notamment de vacances pour le chant des tablettes ou de la prière, tanu i te tau moko o tana pure, enterrer la pierre sépulcrale du lézard de sa prière ...

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

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)

 

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 ...

... Beyond the 'death' (sacrifice, rau hei) of 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 [Corona Borealis] 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 ...

9 Febr (*325) 10 11 12 (408) 13 (42) 2-14 († Cook)

... She planted her potatoes 7 in a row, placing her foot in front of her as a measure from one potato to the next. Then she marked the place with a bean - which would also give nourishment to the surrounding potatoes. Next she changed variety and planted 7 more followed by another bean, and this was the pattern she followed until all her 214 varieties had been put down in their proper places. She had drawn a map which she followed and from where each sort of potato could be located at the proper time for its harvest. I was fashinated, when I happened to stumble on this Swedish TV program, because my 'once upon a time' was now and 214 (= 2 * 107) was surely no coincidence. She knew what she was doing. Let's therefore count: 214 * 7 (potatoes) + 213 (beans) = 1711. So what? Probably because 1711 = 59 * 29 ...

... The Hawaiian woman who was interviewed chuckled because the assassination of Captain Cook coincided with the day we have named All Hearts' Day - when in February 14 (2-14) the war-god Kuu returned to power. The assassination of Julius Caesar came a month (29 days) later (and 365 - 29 = 336 = 14 * 24 = 12 * 28) ...

*59 = *325 - *266 *60 *61 *62 *63 12 * 12
Ca10-13 (268) Ca10-14 Ca10-15 Ca10-16 Ca10-17 Ca10-18 (278 - 5)
kua tupu te mea - i te inoino ka tupu te toromiro - i te inoino rima heu ki te vai te moko oho mai te marama te kava
*85 *86 APRIL 13 (103) Betelgeuze (*88) June 18 (169) *90
*268 = *85 + *183 *269 OCT 13 (286) *271 Dec 18 (352) Nash (*273)
16 Febr (412) (14 * 29½) 18 (643 - 229) 19 (50) 20 21
Cb10-19 Cb10-20 (642) Cb10-21 Cb10-22 (202 + 50) Cb11-1 Cb11-2 (254)
te hokohuki - manu rere te kihikihi o te marama te maro o te henua kua vero Te kihikihi - tagata moe ki te ariki - te hokohuki

Probably Metoro said kua vero in order to inform Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti where Christmas was located in the text, viz. 183 days after St John's Day.

ξ Orionis (92.5) Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)

TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)

FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9) Well-22 (Tapir) / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)

δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM ('Roarer') = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)

no star listed (96) β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0)
Solstice June 22 (193 - 20) 23 ST JOHN'S DAY 25 26 (354 / 2)

ι Pavonis (275.1), POLIS = μ Sagittarii (275.9)

MENKAR (α Ceti)

η Sagittarii (276.9) Purva Ashadha-20 (Winnowing basket) KAUS BOREALIS = Λ(acie) Sagittarii (279.3) ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9)
KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii, κ Lyrae (277.5), TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis (277.7), SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis (277.8), KWEI SHE = χ Draconis (277.9) φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS = Ε(lsie) Sagittarii (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), AL  ATHFAR (The Talons of the Falling Eagle) = μ Lyrae (278.6)
Solstice Dec 22 23 X-MAS EVE 25 26 (360)

Sirius was well below the equator and instead of aiming an Arrow up towards the sky its pair of complementary parts, viz. the String and the Bow,  should be used. Which also explains why the arrow head of Sagittarius (below 10° S) was in the Milky Way River:

'Tillie' (τ Sagittarii) was the last star in the South Dipper:

20 Febr 21 22-2 (53) 23 24 (420)

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...

Cb11-1 Cb11-2 (254) Cb11-3 (631 + 16) Cb11-4 (648) Cb11-5
Te kihikihi - tagata moe ki te ariki - te hokohuki ko te inoino - te henua te inoino - te henua te henua
Dec 25 (359) 26 (*280 = 7 * 40) 27 28 29 (363 = 420 - 57)
16 Oct (289) 17 (*210 = 7 * 30) 18 19 20 (293 = 420 - 127)
KAUS BOREALIS = Λacie Sagittarii (279.3) ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9) Abhijit-22 (Victorious)

θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA = α Lyrae (281.8)

no star listed (282) ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8)
25 Febr 26 22-7 (2 * 29) 28 (59) 1 March 2 (426)
(639 + 11 = 650) Cb11-7 Cb11-8 (260) Cb11-9 (9 * 29) Cb11-10 Cb11-11 (→ 11²)
Tagata hua hakahitihiti koia kua tu vai o ako hia te manu tere te marama te ariki

Ako. To sing, to recite: he-ako i te kaikai, to recite the [text accompanying a] string figure kaikai; he-ako i te rîu, to sing rîu. Vanaga. Song. Ako hakaha'uru poki = 'song to make children sleep'. Barthel. Ákoáko, to recite hymns in honour of a deity. Vanaga.

Dec 30 (*284) 31 (*26 + *259) Jan 1 (366) 2 3 4 (= 426 - 57)
21 Oct (*214) 22 (*26 + *189) 23 (296) 24 25 26 (= 426 - 127)
South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)

Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)

SHELIAK (Tortoise) = β Lyrae, ν Lyrae (285.1), ο Draconis (285.5). λ Pavonis (285.7)

ATLAS (27 Tauri)

χ Oct. (286.0), AIN AL RAMI (Eye of the Archer) = ν Sagittarii (286.2), υ Draconis (286.4), δ Lyrae (286.3), κ Pavonis (286.5), ALYA (Fat Tail) = θ Serpentis (286.6) ξ Sagittarii (287.1), ω Pavonis (287.3), ε Aquilae, ε Cor. Austr., SULAPHAT (Little Tortoise Shell) = γ Lyrae (287.4), λ Lyrae (287.7), ASCELLA (Armpit) = ζ Sagittarii, BERED = ι Aquilae (Ant.) (287.9) Al Na'ām-18 (Ostriches) / Uttara Ashadha-21 (Elephant tusk, small bed)

NUNKI = σ Sagittarii (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), MANUBRIUM = ο Sagittarii (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9)

19h (289.2)

λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τillie Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8)

... 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 ...

... The most important of all drums, he said, was the armpit drum. The Nummo made it. It consists of two hemispherical wooden cups connected through their centres by a slender cylinder. It is like an hour-glass with a very long narrow neck. With this instrument tucked between his left arm and armpit, the drummer, by pressing on the hollow structure of thin wood, can tighten or relax the tension on the skins and so modify the tone. 'The Nummo made it. He made a picture of it with his fingers, as children do today in games with string.' Holding his hands apart, he passed a thread ten times round each of the four fingers, but not the thumb. He thus had forty loops on each hand, making eighty threads in all, which, he pointed out, was also the number of teeth of his jaws. The palms of his hands represented the skins of the drum, and thus to play on the drum was, symbolically, to play on the hands of the Nummo ...

... θ is the last star in the Ara constellation, and the ancient meaning of this letter was described as a wheel by the Phoenicians but for the Egyptian it meant 'good'. When the wheel of time has come full cycle around and the upside down fire-altar is in the past the times ahead should be good (or lucky Sa'ad) ...

"... Alya ... this title belonging by universal recognition to another θ¹ [than θ¹ in Taurus], - that of Serpens ..." (Allen)

"It (θ¹ Serpentis) is the terminal star in the Serpent ..." (Allen)

It seems reasonable to use the facts above as a kind of confirmation of my assumption that the beginning of side a on the C tablet was designed to coincide with the time around southern spring equinox:

no glyph (day zero) 17 Nov (264 + 57) 18 (82 + 240) 19 (323) *4 + *240 21 (325, *245) 22 (326)
Ca1-1 Ca1-2 Ca1-3 Ca1-4 Ca1-5 Ca1-6
koia ki te hoea (instrument for tattooing) ki te henua te rima te hau tea haga i te mea ke ki te henua - tagata honui
Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)

0h (*366)

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)

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

ALPHARD (α Hydrae)

λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4)
March 21 22 (*1) 23 24 Julian equinox 26 (85) (*6 = *246 - *240)
Sept 20 (*183) *184 Equinox 266 Acrux *188 *189 (= *246 - *57)
23 Nov (327) 24 25 26 (*250)
Ca1-7 Ca1-8 Ca1-9 Ca1-10
te ika te honu te manu te henua
ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31), π Andromedae (7.7) ε Andromedae (8.2), DELTA = δ Andromedae (8.4), SCHEDIR (Breast) = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9) 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)
March 28 29 30 31 (90 = 330 - 183 - 57)
*190 Porrima *192 30 (273 = 330 - 57)