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263. From 402 (6 February) to 472 (= 16 * 29½) there were 70 days and presumably we could therefore apply this number at the end of side b on the G tablet, which measured out 472 right ascension days:

63 zero 229 169 22 Febr (2-22) 23 (Terminalia) 24 (Bissextum) 25 (421) 6

... 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 ...

Gb6-17 (229 + 170) Gb6-18 → 108 Gb6-19 (401) Gb6-20 (472 - 70)
no star listed (98) ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

 GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)

ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched)  = ε Gemini (100.7) SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7)
June 27 28 29 (180) 30 (*107 - *6)
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) South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)

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

64 398 Dec 27 (361 = 19 * 19) 12-28 → 336 29 → 348 30 (*290 - *6)
462 = 542 - 80 463 542 - 70 - 8 465 466 = 64 + 402
472 (= 1½ * 314 + 1) = 8 * 59 (= 413 + 2 * 29½) = 408 + 64

... Easter Island (te pito o te kainga) is the last of all known islands. Seven lands lie before it, but these do not recommend themselves for settlement. Easter Island is the 'eighth land' (te varu kainga). Actually, we are dealing here with a figure of speech because 'seven' and 'eight' used as qualifying quantities play a traditional role in Oceania (Barthel 1962a). While the number seven is known as a topos in MQS., HAW., and MAO., the topos of the number eight goes far beyond eastern Polynesia (MQS., HAW., TAH.). In TON., the number eight is 'a conventional term signifying many or a well-balanced number' (McKern 1929:17), and on Malaita in the southern Solomon Islands, the physical world in its entirety is referred to as 'eight islands (wālu malau) (Ivens 1927:400). The number eight not only means 'many' but also denotes perfection. Thus, when Easter Island was called 'an eighth land', the expression contained first of all the idea of a 'last' island - an island farthest away from the rest of the islands that make up the oceanic world. At the same time, the expression indicated a special position among the other islands. The idea of groups of seven, which are surpassed by an eight element, seems to belong to the cosmology of Asian high cultures. For example, there are seven planets circling the world axis, which represents the eighth, and therefore central, position ...

Evidently the C tablet has heliacal Vega 16 days after Khufu (Mintaka, male Belt) and Double Double was 16 days after Menkaure (Alnitak, female Girdle):

... Menkaure was allegedly a much more benevolent Pharaoh than his predecessors ...

6 Febr (365 + 37) 7 8 (404 = 420 - 16) 9 (40)
Cb10-9 (631) Cb10-10 → 100 Cb10-11 Cb10-12 (242 = 40 + 202)
 10² (100) + 11² (121) + 12² (144) = 365 = 631 - 266:
2 Febr (33) 3 4 (400) 5 (36) 6 (136 + 266) 7 8 (*324)
132 133 400 - 266 500 - 365 136 137 *58
Ca10-6 Ca10-7 Ca10-8 Ca10-9 Ca10-10 Ca10-11 (266) Ca10-12

Tupu te toromiro

kua noho te vai

te moko te marama

te kava

manu rere

te mauga tuu toga

*78 (= 6 * 13) APRIL 5 (95) Elnath June 10 (161) Mintaka Alnilam Alnitak
*261 (= 9 * 29) OCT 5 (278) 6 Dec 10 (344) Shaula Ras Alhague Wolf Pair

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

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) 
June 11 12 (403 - 240) 13 (164 = 84 + 80) 14

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)
Dec 11 (345 = 84 + 261) 12 (*26 + *240) 13 14

... 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 ...

 

The foundation of Rome was around 2600 years before the time of rongorongo.

"Seamen have called it [Mintaka] the Golden Yard-arm; tradesmen, the L, or Ell, the Ell and Yard, the Yard-stick, and the Yard-wand, as occupying 3° between the outer stars, - the Elwand of Gavin Douglas; Catholics, Our Lady's Wand; and the husbandmen of France and along the Rhine, Râteau, the Rake. In upper Germany it has been the Three Mowers; and it is often the Magi, the Three Kings, the Three Marys, or simply the Three Stars ..." (Allen)

... '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, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well — '

10 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 (176 + 183) 26 (*280 = 7 * 40) 27 (361) 28 29 (363 = 420 - 57)
16 Oct 17 (*210 = 7 * 30) 18 (291) 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)

Moe. To sleep, to lie at full length, to dream, to brood, to place, to cohabit; moe atu, to leave off, to desist; moe atu ra, to adjourn, to postpone; moe hakahepo, to talk in the deep; moe aherepo, somnambulist, sleepwalker; moe hakataha, to sleep on the side; moe no, to oversleep, concubinage; moe tahae, to be a light sleeper; moe tahaga, a sleeper; moe vaeahatu, moe hakaroa, to sleep sprawling; rava moe, to sleep sound; ariga moe ki raro, to lie flat on the ground; tae moe, bachelor; hakamoe, to brood, to fold the wings; to reserve, to lay up; to struggle. P Pau.: moe, sleep. Mgv.: moe, sleep, to lie down, coitus, to shut the eyes. Mq.: moe, to sleep, to lie down; haámoe, to set down on the ground. Ta.: moe, to sleep, to lie down. Moea raruga, lying flat. Moeaivi, thin. Mq.: ivi, haáivi, id. Ta.: ivi, id. Moega, mat. Pau.: moehega, bed. Mgv.: moega, a sleeping mat. Mq.: moena, moeka, mat, floor cloth, bed. Ta.: moea, bed. Moemata, to sleep with the eyes open; mea moemata, phantom. Moemoea, a dream, vision; tikeahaga moemoea, apparition by night. T Mgv., Mq., Ta.: moemoea, dream. Churchill. Mgv. Moemoe, to steal, to purloin at a food distribution. Mq.: moemoe, to seize, to grasp. Churchill. Ta.: 1.  Moemoe, ambush. Ha.: moemoe, id. 2. Moemoe, Phyllanthus simplex. To.: mohemohe, a tree. Churchill. Mq.: Moehu, exiled, banished, prisoner of war. Ma.: morehu, a survivor. Churchill.

... They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead. These confess before him, and when their hearts have been weighed in a balance against a feather, receive, according to their lives, the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin ...

By using the date 5 February (36 + 365 = 401), when Hun-Nal-Ye 'became the sky', for glyph (right ascension day) number 630 (= 10 * 9 weeks) - when he went to the top of the Tree - the numbers seem to fit. The 3 great 'broken stone heaps' on the Gizah cementary plateau in the west marked the following 3 days.

... Väinämöinen set about building a boat, but when it came to the prow and the stern, he found he needed three words in his rune that he did not know, however he sought for them. In vain he looked on the heads of the swallows, on the necks of the swans, on the backs of the geese, under the tongues of the reindeer. He found a number of words, but not those he needed. Then he thought of seeking them in the realm of Death, Tuonela, but in vain. He escaped back to the world of the living only thanks to his potent magic. He was still missing his three runes. He was then told by a shepherd to search in the mouth of Antero Vipunen, the giant ogre. The road, he was told, went over swords and sharpened axes. Ilmarinen made shoes, shirt and gloves of iron for him, but warned him that he would find the great Vipunen dead. Nevertheless, the hero went. The giant lay underground, and trees grew over his head. Väinämöinen found his way to the giant's mouth, and planted his iron staff in it. The giant awoke and suddenly opened his huge mouth. Väinämöinen slipped into it and was swallowed. As soon as he reached the enormous stomach, he thought of getting out. He built himself a raft and floated on it up and down inside the giant ...

630 - 401 = 229 (number of glyphs on side a of the G tablet) and 630 - 365 = 265 = 401 - 36. Which means moving 630 days from the beginning of the text on side a of the C tablet will bring us from September 20 (263) to day 263 + 265 - 365 = 163 (heliacal Alnilam, String of Pearls).

... The water of the kava, however, has a different symbolic provenance. The classic Cakaudrove kava chant, performed at the Lau installation rites, refers to it as sacred rain water from the heavens ... This male and chiefly water (semen) in the womb of a kava bowl whose feet are called 'breasts' (sucu),

(pictures from Lindqvist showing very old Chinese cooking vessels)

and from the front of which, tied to the upper part of an inverted triangle, a sacred cord stretches out toward the chief ... The cord is decorated with small white cowries, not only a sign of chieftainship but by name, buli leka, a continuation of the metaphor of birth - buli, 'to form', refers in Fijian procreation theory to the conceptual acception of the male in the body of the woman. The sacrificed child of the people will thus give birth to the chief.

But the Gregorian calendar is not 366 days long and therefore the correct calculation should be 263 + 265 - 366 = 162 (heliacal Khufu).

At the time of rongorongo Mintaka (Khufu) rose in June 11 (162) in the day after June 10 when the month of Jus Piter (Father Light, the Oak king) was beginning, the month when the Oak Tree was burned alive. And 4 days before Khufu was the Toromiro tree, viz. at Rigel and Capella:

2 Febr (33) 3 4 (400) 5 (36)
132 133 400 - 266 500 - 365
Ca10-6 Ca10-7 Ca10-8 Ca10-9

Tupu te toromiro

kua noho te vai

te moko te marama
Rigel & Capella APRIL 5 (95) Elnath June 10 (161)
*261 (= 9 * 29) OCT 5 (278) 6 Dec 10 (344)

My right ascension dates, e.g. June 10, were defined from the heliacal positions of the stars at the time of rongorongo; I had found it more easy to use right ascension dates than the conventional right ascension hours. But at the time of Gregory XIII the corresponding right ascension day numbers would have been around 4 less. The Toro-miro on Easter Island must have been the tree (miro) of the Door (i.e. of the Bull, Toro in Spanish),

... When Gwion writes in the Câd Goddeu, 'Stout Guardian of the door, His name in every tongue', he is saying that doors are customarily made of oak as the strongest and toughest wood and that 'Duir', the Beth-Luis-Nion name for 'Oak', means 'door' in many European languages including Old Goidelic dorus, Latin foris, Greek thura, and German tür, all derived from the Sanskrit Dwr, and that Daleth, the Hebrew letter D, means 'Door' - the 'l' being originally an 'r'.

and this Easter Island sacred tree evidently corresponded to the Oak. It grew where at the time of Taurus the right ascension date would have been APRIL 4 (94) = 158 (June 7) - 64 and at the time of Gregory XIII the corresponding equation would have been 154 (°June 3) - 60 = APRIL 4 (94).

In the text on the G tablet the curious quartet of figures following Sirius close to the Full Moon in December 30 (364, *284) should then be possible to understand, because whereas the Girdle (Alnitak) was at the Sun in June 13 = 16 days before it once again became visible when Double Double rose with the Sun, i.e. in day 404 (February 8, 2-8) + 16 = 420 (= 7 * 60, February 24), the corresponding position at Gb6-24 was 4 days later than February 24. In February 24 (2-24) the Armpit star was at the Full Moon, *287 - *88 = *199 days after Betelgeuze.

... Rigel (β) was at the beginning of Orion with Bet-el-Geuze - the House of the Giant, a name derived from Ibt al Jauzah, the Armpit of the Central One - at the other side, on the brink of the River. Centrally located on the Giza plateau were 3 great pyramids, like three gigantic stones for creating a new fire. Ibt (armpit) ought to be i(e)b (heart) with suffix -t for female:

6 Febr (365 + 37) 7 8 (404 = 420 - 16) 9 (40)
Cb10-9 (631) Cb10-10 → 100 Cb10-11 Cb10-12 (242)
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
9(0) + 10(0) + 11(0) + 12(0) = 42(0)
14 weeks 14 weeks  14 - 3 = 11 weeks 12 weeks
14 * 14 + 77 = 273 days = 294 - 21 days 84 days
357 days = 378 - 21 days = 54 - 3 weeks = 420 - 63 days = 60 weeks - 9 weeks
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
June 11 12 (403 - 240) 13 (164 = 84 + 80) 14
MINTAKA (Belt) = δ Orionis ALNILAM (String of Pearls) = ε Orionis ALNITAK (Girdle) = ζ Orionis *85
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Dec 11 (84 + 261) 12 (*26 + *240) 13 (404 - 57) 14 (348 = 264 + 84)
SHAULA (Sting) = λ Scorpii AL DHĪLI (The Wolf) = ω Draconis DSIBAN (Wolf Pair) = ψ Draconis *269
26 Febr 27 28 (420 + 4) 2-29 (60)
Gb6-21 (174) Gb6-22 (404) Gb6-23 Gb6-24 (229 + 6 * 29½)
12 * 13 = 156 (= 2 * 78 = 140 + 16 = 3 * 52) 15 * 15 = 225 (= 590 - 365 = 3 * 75)
156 + 225 = 381 days = 471 - 90 days = 365 + 16 days = 3 * 127 days
(12 + 13) * 7 = 175 (= 350 / 2) days (15 + 15) * 7 = 210 (= 420 / 2) days
175 + 210 = 385 = 381 + 4 days
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
July 1 2 3 (241 - 57) 4 (185)
Khufu + *20 Khafre + *20 Menkaure + *20 *105 (= 185 - 80)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Dec 31 Jan 1 2 (424 - 57) 3 (368 = 185 + 183)
*285 (= *102 + *183) *286 (= *226 + *20) ASCELLA (Armpit) = ζ Sagittarii NUNKI = σ Sagittarii

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

Day 364 (December 30) = 4 * 91 = 52 weeks and 364 - 80 = *284 was where the Full Moon was at Sirius - i.e. with Water due ahead:

... In ancient Egypt they thought Sirius was behind the yearly rise of the Nile ...

 
Ga2-11 (41) Gb1-18 (247 = 41 + 183 + 23)
ºJune 30 (181) - heliacal Sirius 182 'December 30 (364) - nakshatra Sirius
ºDecember 30 (364 = 181 + 183) 'June 30 (181 = 364 - 183)
23 = precessional depth from the time of Gregory XIII down to Roman times
151 22 Febr (2-22) 23 (54) 24 (420 = 7 * 60) 25
Gb6-17 (399) Gb6-18 Gb6-19 Gb6-20
APRIL 24 (*399) 25 (115) 26 27
June 27 28 29 (180) (364 + 155 + 27 - 365)
Dec 27 28 29 nakshatra Sirius

... 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: