283. I think we can put in parallel the heliacal stars around my date JUNE 30 with what could have been observed by the nakshatra method had it been used at the time of the Bull.
At that ancient time the Turtle (Tortoise) figure could have been observed in the night sky of high summer and close to the Full Moon (had she been able to reach so far north as to Vega).
... The Sun-god thence climbed up the mother-mountain of the Kushika race as the constellation Hercules, who is depicted in the old traditional pictorial astronomy as climbing painfully up the hill
to reach the constellation of the Tortoise, now called Lyra, and thus attain the polar star Vega, which was the polar star from 10000 to 8000 BC ... ... six Pleiades became paramours of the gods. Only Merope [Mortal] married a mortal, Sisyphus, a notorious trickster who was subsequently condemned to roll a stone eternally up a hill ... The Tortoise came after the South Dipper,
and beyond the pair of heads (cfr those of Hercules and Serpentarius) there were 4 Chinese stations located on her upper carapace.
... Interestingly, since another meaning of shi is 'death', the number 4 is considered unlucky. For example, the floor numbering in hotels sometimes jumps mysteriously from 3 to 5; it is also considered unlucky to give four of something as a present ... Her left back foot then came at the beginning of the Square of Pegasus,
while her right front paw (or rather flipper)
was formed like the neck and head of a Serpent, and this 'serpent head' could have put an end to Kuukuu:
... They all sat down and rested [on the plain of Oromanga], when suddenly they saw that a turtle had reached the shore and had crawled up on the beach. He [Ira] looked at it and said, 'Hey, you! The turtle has come on land!' He said, 'Let's go! Let's go back to the shore.' They all went to pick up the turtle. Ira was the first one to try to lift the turtle - but she didn't move. Then Raparenga said, 'You do not have the necessary ability. Get out of my way so that I can have a try!' Raparenga stepped up and tried to lift the turtle - but Raparenga could not move her. Now you spoke, Kuukuu: 'You don't have the necessary ability, but I shall move this turtle. Get out of my way!' Kuukuu stepped up, picked up the turtle, using all his strength. After he had lifted the turtle a little bit, he pushed her up farther. No sooner had he pushed her up and lifted her completely off the ground when she struck Kuukuu with one fin. She struck downward and broke Kuukuu's spine. The turtle got up, went back into the (sea) water, and swam away. All the kinsmen spoke to you (i.e. Kuukuu): 'Even you did not prevail against the turtle!' They put the injured Kuukuu on a stretcher and carried him inland. They prepared a soft bed for him in the cave and let him rest there. They stayed there, rested, and lamented the severely injured Kuukuu. Kuukuu said, 'Promise me, my friends, that you will not abandon me!' They all replied, 'We could never abandon you!' They stayed there twenty-seven days in Oromanga ...
The Green Serpent began at the South Dipper and then there was a vacant space with a pair of heads depicted before the arrival of the upper shell of the Tortoise. ... 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 as the number of nights the Explorers spent in Oromanga after Kuukuu had been carried down into a cave] 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 ... And the Green Serpent's tail was at the other side of the Pegasus Square, with its middle defined by a 'Rat' (at Sadalsud, β Aquarii, the Luckiest of the Lucky) - implying water:
... 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 ...
... Suddenly a rat came from the middle of the banana plantation. Ure Honu saw it and ran after it. But it disappeared and he could not catch it. On the second day of hoeing, the same thing happened with the rat. It ran away, and he could not catch it. On the third day, he reached the 'head' of the bananas and finished the work in the plantation. Again the rat ran away, and Ure Honu followed it. It ran and slipped into the hole of a stone. He poked after it, lifted up the stone, and saw that the skull was (in the hole) of the stone. (The rat was) a spirit of the skull (he kuhane o te puoko). Ure Honu was amazed and said, 'How beautiful you are! In the head of the new bananas is a skull, painted with yellow root and with a strip of barkcloth around it.' Ure Honu stayed for a while, (then) he went away and covered the roof of his house in Vai Matā. It was a new house. He took the very large skull, which he had found at the head of the banana plantation, and hung it up in the new house. He tied it up in the framework of the roof (hahanga) and left it hanging there ... Figures up in the night sky became figures of speech. And the other way around. Notably Metoro usually said kiore (rat) at a figure to the left of a henua sign, a figure who was no longer eating (kai):
This 'rat' at left was probably expressing how 'water' was in the past. Without sweet water there would be no growth and nothing to eat.
The spirit of the skull of king Hotu A Matua - the 'Rat' - disappeared down into a hole and there it was (presumably) incorporated into his skull. ... Up to the present time, fertility spells for fowls have played an important role. Especially effective were the so-called 'chicken skulls' (puoko moa) - that is, the skulls of dead chiefs, often marked by incisions, that were considered a source of mana. Their task is explained as follows: 'The skulls of the chiefs are for the chicken, so that thousands may be born' (te puoko ariki mo te moa, mo topa o te piere) ...As long as the source of mana is kept in the house, the hens are impregnated (he rei te moa i te uha), they lay eggs (he ne'ine'i te uha i te mamari), and the chicks are hatched (he topa te maanga). After a period of time, the beneficial skull has to be removed, because otherwise the hens become exhausted from laying eggs ...
In Egypt a similar 'kiore' figure personified the Night (Nut):
Before light returned in spring (in the morning) there was darkness and water. At the opposite (daytime) side raindrops would arrive after the dry and hot high summer.
I.e. the Planets (the Explorers) went in the night and therefore they encountered the Bay of Turtles and the Turtle herself when the Sun (creating daytime) was at noon (midsummer).
In day 214 (AUGUST 2) the prosperous (abundant) times were beginning anew (as could be observed close to the Full Moon on Easter Island), and indeed the King (Ariki) began to eat (kai) again, to grow, with his long forearm outstretched in front as if it had been the right paw of the White Tiger, and suggesting the keel of his mighty ship:
... According to Gylfaginning, following the murder of Baldr by Loki, the other gods brought his body down to the sea and laid him to rest on the ship. They would have launched it out into the water and kindled a funeral pyre for Baldr but were unable to move the great vessel without the help of the giantess Hyrrokkin, who was sent for out of Jötunheim. She then flung the ship so violently down the rollers at the first push that flames appeared and the earth trembled, much to the annoyance of Thor. Along with Baldr, his wife Nanna was also borne to the funeral pyre after she had died of grief. As Thor was consecrating the fire with his hammer Mjolnir, a dwarf named Litr began cavorting at his feet. Thor then kicked him into the flames and the dwarf was burned up as well ...
... 'My child', said Makea now in a tone of deep sorrow, 'there has been a bad omen for us. When I performed the tohi ceremony over you I missed out a part of the prayers. I remembered it too late. I am afraid this means that you are going to die ... At the time of rongorongo an observation of Revati (ζ Piscium) close to the Full Moon would have occurred 16 days after 0h which also was the time when Sirrah in the early morning returned to visibility in April 6 (96 = 80 + 16). ... In China, every year about the beginning of April, certain officials called Sz'hüen used of old to go about the country armed with wooden clappers. Their business was to summon the people and command them to put out every fire. This was the beginning of the season called Han-shih-tsieh, or 'eating of cold food'. For three days all household fires remained extinct as a preparation for the solemn renewal of the fire, which took place on the fifth or sixth day after the winter solstice [Sic!] ...
The corresponding position close to the Full Moon at the time of the Bull should have been FEBRUARY 1 (i.e. 64 right ascension days earlier than the time of rongorongo) when Sirrah returned to visibility at the same time as the Sun reached Revati (and Anunitum):
Water (vai) was delivered into the dry basin of the Nile when Sirius returned to visibility after high summer (cfr the long neck in Ga5-7):
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