271. Details should not be overlooked, nor underestimated. Kochab was drawn with the niu type of glyph, but with the central part of its apex smoothly rounded as if hinting this could be the place for a dry old skull:
This thought-provoking detail could possibly have been meant to illustrate the fact that Kochab was not only up in the north but also in the west, viz. at the opposite side of heliacal Bharani in the east - as if there had been a spirit level across and joining them, so the Sun could quickly (instantaneously) fly from one hemisphere to the other. (†)
... 'Awake, oh Wind, oh Whirlwind // Rage with great rage, oh heavens, // Within thy boat, wind, place him // Within thy ship, oh east wind // With all thy swiftness sweep him // To Pohjola the gloomy ...
... Hau Maka had a dream. The dream soul of Hau Maka moved in the direction of the sun (i.e., toward the East). When, through the power of her mana, the dream soul had reached seven lands, she rested there and looked around carefully. The dream soul of Hau Maka said the following: 'As yet, the land that stays in the dim twilight during the fast journey has not been reached.' The dream soul of Hau Maka continued her journey and, thanks to her mana, reached another land. She descended on one of the small islets (off) the coast. The dream soul of Hau Maka looked around and said: 'These are his three young men.' She named the three islets 'the handsome youths of Te Taanga, who are standing in the water' ...
But this was in the ancient past and at the time of rongorongo the Libra beam had been pushed away:
In fact, cardinal points were 'points' and not seasons. In the blink of an eye a cardinal point was transported from the present to the past: ... Then I become aware of ... a presence - a faint, ghostly glimmering, like moonglow, that has appeared on the solstice stone. I don't know how long it lasts, a second or two only I would guess, but while it is there it seems less like a projection - which I know it to be - than something immanent within the stone itself. And it seems to function as a herald for it fades almost as soon as it has appeared and in its place the full effect snaps on - instantaneously. It wasn't there, and then it's there. As Chris had described, the effect does curiously resemble a poleaxe, or a flag on a pole, and consists of a 'shaft', narrow at the base but widening a little towards the top, running up the left hand side of the solstice stone, surmounted by a right-facing 'head' or 'flag'. An instant later an almond-shaped spot of light, like an eye, appears a few centimeters to the right of the 'flag' and the effect is complete. Weirdly - I do not claim it has any significance - this flag-on-a-pole symbol is the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph neter, meaning 'god', or 'a god' - and not to be understood at all in the Judaeo-Christian usage of that word but rather as a reference to one of the supernatural powers or principles that guide and balance the universe. Manifested here, in this strange Stone Age temple, it glows, as though lit by inner fire.'
... The Mnajdra Temple is located on Malta and very ancient, dating to the time before the pyramids. Marija Gimbutas: 'To sleep within the Goddess's womb was to die and to come to life anew'. In a system of reincarnation the old one must die in order to be reborn, of course. At midsummer Sun comes to a standstill, and this must therefore be an occasion when the 'flame of life' had to be transported into a new body ... The Foot of Virgo (Rijl Al Awwa) had pushed Libra back in time (ahead in the year) with 41 right ascension days, pushed α Librae (the Southern Claw, Zuben Elgenubi) from day 263 to day 263 + 41 = 304 (October 31).
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