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287. The circle of the distribution of right ascension lines in the Chinese overview map below includes Signs:

For instance is the pair of lines at the quincunx tent in Cancer defining a narrow time space:

Last 4 of the 7 places which Makoi saw by himself:

Possibly these places were alluding also to the change from the Julian spring equinox to the Gregorian spring equinox:

... When the Pope rearranged the day for spring equinox from number 84 ('March 25) to number 80 (ºMarch 21) the earlier Julian structure was buried, was covered up (puo). At the same time the Pope deliberately avoided to correct the flow of Julian calendar days for what he may have regarded as 4 unneccesary leap days prior to the Council of Nicaea. Thus his balance sheet for days was in order. The day numbers counted from the equinox were increased with 4 and this was equal to allowing the 4 'unneccessary' leap days to remain in place. But he had moved spring equinox to a position which was 4 days too early compared to the ancient model ... These '4 unneccessary leap days' (prior to the Council of Nicaea) were equal in number to the precessional distance in time between the Pope and the time of rongorongo. The Gregorian calendar could therefore be easily understood by the Easter Islanders. The Pope had created a 'crooked calendar' but since his time the precession had fixed it ...

MAY 25 (5-25) 26 (*266) 27 28 (348)
Ga3-6 Ga3-7 Ga3-8 Ga3-9 (68)
Āshleshā-9 (Embrace) / Willow-24 (Stag)

π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ Hydrae (129.6), AL MINHAR AL SHUJĀ = σ Hydrae, MUSEIDA = π² Ursae Majoris (129.9)

RAS ALHAGUE (α Ophiuchi)

Al Nathrah-6 (Gap)

BEEHIVE (Exhalation of Piled-up Corpses) = ε Cancri, η Pyxidis (130.4), XESTUS = ο Velorum (130.5), ζ Pyxidis (130.7), ASCELLUS BOREALIS = γ Cancri, β Pyxidis (130.9)

Extended Net-26a (Ox) / Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-12 (Southeast Star in the Crab)

η Hydrae (131.0), ASCELLUS AUSTRALIS = δ Cancri (131.4), KOO SHE (Bow and Arrow) = δ Velorum (131.6), α Pyxidis (131.8), ε Hydrae (131.9)

ι Cancri (132.0), ρ Hydrae (132.4)
July 28 29 (*130) 30 31 (212)
°July 24 25 26 (*127) 27 (208)
'July 1 2 3 (*104) 4 (185)
"June 17

Te Kioe Uri

18

Te Piringa Aniva

19 (*90)

Te Pei

Te Maro 20 (171 = 185 - 14)

TE POU

NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOVEMBER 24 25 (*249) 26 27 (331)
ROTANEV = β Delphini, ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7), SVALOCIN = α Delphini, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8) μ², μ¹ Oct. (313.2), DENEB CYGNI (Tail of the Swan) = α Cygni (313.5), β Pavonis (313.6), δ Delphini (313.8) Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 (Good Fortune of the Swallower) / Dhanishta-24 (Most Famous) / Girl-10 (Bat)

YUE (Battle-Axe) = ψ Capricorni (314.3), GIENAH CYGNI = ε Cygni, η Cephei (314.5), γ Delphini (314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7), ALBALI = ε Aquarii (314.8)

BATEN ALGIEDI (Belly of the Goat) = ω Capricorni (315.8)
Jan 27 28 (393) 29 (*314) 30
°Jan 23 24 25 (*310) 26
'Dec 31 'Jan 1 2 3 (*288)
"Dec 17 18 19 (*273) 20 (354)

When it grew light, Makoi arose again. He went off to further explore the area. He went along and came to the 'dark rat'. He looked around and said: 'Here we are at the dark rat of Hau Maka'. He gave it the name Te Kioe Uri A Hau Maka. He went on and came to Te Piringa Aniva. When he arrived there, he looked around and gave the name Te Piringa Aniva. He went on and came to Te Pei, looked around, and said, 'Here it is!' So he gave the name Te Pei A Hau Maka. He went on, all alone he went on, and came to Te Pou. When he arrived there, he looked around and again said, 'Here it is!' and gave the name Te Pou A Hau Maka.

For some reason nothing was said about Te Manavai, which in the journey of the kuhane came between Poko Uri and Te Kioe Uri.

... The dream soul climbed up and reached the rim of the crater. As soon as the dream soul looked into the crater, she felt a gentle breeze coming toward her. She named the place 'Poko Uri A Hau Maka O Hiva'.  The dream soul continued her search for a residence for King Matua. The dream soul of Hau Maka reached (the smaller crater) Manavai and named the place 'Te Manavai A Hau Maka O Hiva'.  The dream soul went on and reached Te Kioe Uri. She named the place 'Te Kioe Uri A Hau Maka O Hiva' ...

... Manavai Hollow where rainwater accumulates; anciently, small, round gardens, preferably situated in low shady spots, where the mahute tree was grown. Vanaga. 1. Brain. 2. Valley, ravine, river, torrent, brook; manavai miro, orchard, Mq.: manavai, valley, brook. Ta.: anavai, river, brook. It scarcely appears that these are fully coordinate. In Tahiti anavai has a clear etymology, ana meaning the bed of a stream. In Rapanui and in the Marquesas mana most readily associates with maga, as water in a forked bed. Churchill ...

However, Manuscript E seems to offer an explanation in the way Makoi remembered how he documented the name: ... I wrote (ta) Te Manavai A Hau Maka on the surface of a banana leaf (kaka), and this is how I left it ...

Ira did not like the way Makoi had given names when he was out on his own. He had written Te Manavai A Hau Maka on a banana leaf, which suggested the form of the Moon. The Chinese list has Hydra where we otherwise would have expected Leo. But Makoi was destined to remain on Easter Island when the Explorers later on went home.

We can therefore understand how it could be suitable to use not the dates at the time of the Bull but the dates at the time of Bharani, when day 354 ("December 20) was at the Full Moon and Makoi named "June 20 (354 - 183 = 171) Te Pou A Hau Maka - the Pillar - also a name for Sirius, but that power came 10 days later.

... He got up, the path went uphill, and he came (back) to the house. It was dark when he reached the house. When he came to the yam plantation of Kuukuu, he sat down. Night was falling. Ira asked Makoi the following question: 'How did you fare when you wandered, when you went searching, when you found yourself on the path of the dream soul of the father?' Makoi replied, 'There are indeed all those places. I did not forget them at all (? kai viri kai viri) when I saw them (text corrected, i-ui-nei). I alone saw no fewer than four of my [sic!] places, and I returned here only because night was falling.' Then Ira spoke again: 'How did you name them, last-born?'  Makoi replied, 'This is what happened, this is how I gave the names. I wrote (ta) Te Manavai A Hau Maka on the surface of a banana leaf (kaka), and this is how I left it.' This is how Makoi remembered it.

No sooner had he said this, when Ira gew angry and quarrelled with Makoi. He said the following (to him): 'You did not pay attention, last-born, and you did not give the (full) name. This is how it should be: the Manavai of Hau Maka of Hiva, in memory (mo aringa ora) of the father, of his dream soul.' Makoi replied, 'In Hiva the land belongs to him - this land here is mine, not his!' [E:21] ...

Instead a more convenient time-space to use was that of Bharani, where *14 right ascension days had to be added in order to reach the creation of Julius Caesar and *41 in order to reach the time of rongorongo.

... The Arab astronomers had evidently decided to use *41.4 (→ 414 = 14 * 29½ + 1) as the cardinal point (the Heart) of that part of the year which ended at the hips (Coxa) of Leo:

 

 

Delta

δ Andromedae

8.4

March 29 (88)

0

-

Zero

η Andromedae

11.4

April 1 (91)

 

 

Whip

Cih (γ Cassiopeiai)

12.4

April 2 (92)

1

Al Sharatain

Pair of Signs

β Arietis (Sheratan), γ (Mesarthim)

27.4

April 17 (107)

 

 

Musca Borealis

35 (Head of the Fly), 39 (Kaffaljidhma), and 41 Arietis (Bharani)

41.4

May 1 (121)

2

Al Dabarān

Follower

α Tauri (Aldebaran), θ¹, θ²´, γ (Hyadum I), δ (Hyadum II), ε (Ain)

63.4

May 23 (143)

3

Al Hak'ah

White Spot

λ Orionis (Heka), φ¹, φ²

83.4

June 12 (163)

4

Al Han'ah

Brand

γ Gemini (Alhena), μ (Tejat Posterior), ν, η (Tejat Prior), ξ (Alzirr)

93.4

June 22 (173)

5

Al Dhirā'

Forearm

α Gemini (Castor), β (Pollux)

113.4

July 12 (193)

6

Al Nathrah

Gap

ε Cancri (Beehive)

130.4

July 29 (210)

7

Al Tarf

End

ξ Cancri, λ Leonis (Alterf)

143.4

Aug 11 (223)

8

Al Jabhah

Forehead

η Leonis (Al Jabhah), α (Regulus), ζ (Adhafera), γ (Algieba)

152.4

Aug 20 (232)

9

Al Zubrah

Mane

δ Leonis (Zosma), θ (Coxa)

169.4

Sept 6 (249)

10

Al Sarfah

Turn

β Leonis (Denebola)

178.3

Sept 15 (258)

11

Al Áwwā'

Barker

β (Alaraph), η (Zaniah), γ (Porrima), δ (Minelauva), ε Virginis (Vindemiatrix)

191.5

Sept 28 (271)

Julius Caesar had arranged the Belly of the Hairy Goat (Baten Algiedi, ω)

to be at the opposite side of day 185 ('July 4).

... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 180 days remaining until the end of the year. The Aphelion, the point in the year when the Earth is farthest from the Sun, occurs around this date ...

... The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen [13] American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire ...

... It might be argued that from 1776 to the time I have suggested for the G text the precession of the equinoxes must have moved ω Gemini ahead ... and that the date of the Declaration of Independence just by coincidence happens to be July 4. However, the aphelion is moving in the year:

... Currently, the annual perihelion happens at about 14 days after the December Solstice, thus on or about January 4. At perihelion, the Earth is about ... 147,098,070 kilometers ... from the Sun. (The eccentricity of the orbit also varies slowly over many millennia.) Likewise, the annual aphelion currently occurs in early July, about 14 days after the June Solstice. At this time, the distance of the aphelion is currently about ... 152,097,700 kilometers ... On a very long time scale, the dates of the perihelion and of the aphelion progress through the seasons, and they make one complete cycle in 22,000 to 26,000 years ...

APRIL 30 MAY 1 (*41) 2 3 4 5-5 (125)
Ga2-10 Ga2-11 (41) Ga2-12 Ga2-13 Ga2-14 Ga2-15
ADARA (Virgins) = ε Canis Majoris (104.8) ω Gemini (105.4), ALZIRR (Button) = ξ Gemini (105.7), MULIPHEIN (Oaths) = γ Canis Majoris (105.8), MEKBUDA (Contracted) = ζ Gemini (105.9) 7h (106.5)

no star listed (106)

WEZEN (Weight) = δ Canis Majoris (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9) no star listed (108)  λ Gemini (109.4), WASAT (Middle) = δ Gemini (109.8)
July 3  4 (aphelion) 5 (186) 6 7 8
ºJune 29 (180) Sirius ºJuly 1 2 3 4
'June 6 7 (*78) 8 9 10 (161) 11

 ... 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 ...

"May 23 24 (*64) 25 26 27 28 (148)

... A 'new land' was 'born' by the Declaration of Independence, it was drawn up (like the Declaration itself) in July 4 (day number 186 because it was a leap year) ...

The creators of Manuscript E should have been aware of when the Sun was as far away as possible, and the days for their independence from the Sun and his calendar - created north of the equator (initially by Caesar) - should therefore be documented by Makoi when he went out on his own naming Te Pou not at JUNE 30 but at Te Maro 20 when Baten Algiedi was at the Full Moon. 'July 4 (185) was a day of Saturn (Makoi) and his Te Pou A Hau Maka (omitting O Hiva) was the 7th kuhane station on the island proper.

MAY 1 (121) + 64 = 185 (July 4) and 185 - 27 = 158 ('June 7) = 14 + 144 ("May 24).

... My calculations, though, are not of much value per se, because the dates for the 'helions' wobble:

Year

Perihelion

Aphelion

Date

Time

Date

Time

2007

January 3

19:43

July 6

23:53

2008

January 2

23:51

July 4

07:41

2009

January 4

15:30

July 4

01:40

2010

January 3

00:09

July 6

11:30

2011

January 3

18:32

July 4

14:54

2012

January 5

00:32

July 5

03:32

2013

January 2

04:38

July 5

14:44

2014

January 4

11:59

July 4

00:13

2015

January 4

06:36

July 6

19:40

2016

January 2

22:49

July 4

16:24

2017

January 4

14:18

July 3

20:11

2018

January 3

05:35

July 6

16:47

2019

January 3

05:20

July 4

22:11

2020

January 5

07:48

July 4

11:35

In such circumstances the magic of numbers surely will take over ...

... From the outset, Americans celebrated independence on July 4, the date shown on the much-publicized Declaration of Independence, rather than on July 2, the date the resolution of independence was approved in a closed session of Congress. Historians have long disputed whether Congress actually signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, even though Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin all later wrote that they had signed it on that day. Most historians have concluded that the Declaration was signed nearly a month after its adoption, on August 2, 1776, and not on July 4 as is commonly believed ...