... Ebony label EA 32650 from Den's tomb. The upper right register depicts king Den twice: at the left he is sitting in his Hebsed pavilion, at the right he is running a symbolic race around D-shaped markings. This ceremony is connected to the so-called 'race of the Apis bull'. The middle right section reports about the raid of the city 'beautiful door' and about a daughter of Den suffering from an unknown disease. The lower right section reports about the visitation of the 'souls of Peh' at the royal domain 'Wenet'. The left part of the label describes the content of the vessel that once belonged to the label and mentions the high official Hemaka [cfr Hau Maka A Hiva], who was obviously responsible for the delivery of the labeled jar ...

the 25th day of Vaitu Nui would be translated into "April 26 at the beginning of which the figure for the 25th day (Ga1-13) could be firmly incised in the wooden tablet.

... [E:17] On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ...

APRIL 1 (91)

4 (*14)

Ga1-11

Ga1-12

Ga1-13

Ga1-14

HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)

5h (76.1)

ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)

μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)

ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA (Mother Goat) = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

~~THUBAN (α Draconis)~~

"β, 2.9, topaz yellow. Cursa, 3º to the northwest of Rigel in Orion, is the principal star in this constellation, seen from the latitude of New York City. The word is from Al Kursiyy al Jauzah, the Chair, or Footstool, of the Central One, i.e. Orion, formed by β, λ, and ψ [which evidently was omitted in my star list] Eridani with [Sic!] Orionis, and regarded as the support of his left foot; but in earlier astronomy of the nomads it was one of Al Udhā al Na'ām, the Ostrich's Nest, that some extended to ο¹ and ο².

The Century Cyclopedia gives Dhalim as an alternative title, undoubtably from Al Thalīm, the Ostrich; but, although used for β by several writers, this better belong to θ. The Chinese called β Yuh Tsing, the Golden Well." (Allen)

June 4

6 (157)

7 (*78)

°May 31 (151)

°June 1

2 (*73)

'May 8 (128)

10 (*50)

"April 24 (114)

Te Vaitu Nui 25 (E:17)

26 (*36)

... In view of the almost universal prevalence of the Pleiades year throughout the Polynesian area it is surprising to find that in the South Island and certain parts of the North Island of New Zealand and in the neighboring Chatham Islands, the year began with the new Moon after the early morning rising, not of the Pleiades, but of the star Rigel in Orion ...

Egyptian water ripples

Phoenician mēm

Greek mu

Μ (μ)

NAKSHATRA DATES:

OCT 1

3 (*196 = *13 + *183)

4 (277)

17h (258.7)

ARRAKIS = μ Draconis (258.7)

Mula-19 (The Root)

SABIK (The Preceding One) = η Ophiuchi (259.7), η Scorpii (259.9)

NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI (Head of the Giant) = α Herculis (260.8)

SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

~~ALRISHA (α Piscium)~~

Dec 4

6 (*260)

°Nov 30

°Dec 1

2 (*256)

'Nov 7 (*231)

10 (314)

"Oct 24 (*217)

27 (300)

... Fanciful, assuredly, but neither the Milky Way nor the terrestrial Ganges offered any basis for the imagery of a river flowing to the four quarters of the earth 'for the purification of the three worlds'. One cannot get away from the 'implex' and it is now necessary to consider the tale of a new skeleton map, alias skambha: the equinoctial colure had shifted to a position where it ran through stars of Auriga and through Rigel. Skambha, as we have said, was the World Tree consisting mostly of celestial coordinates, a kind of wildly imaginative armillary sphere. It all had to shift when one coordinate shifted ...

... The Maya word cab means earth, world, tierra, the place below,

opposed to caan, the sky. The overwhelming evidence on the glyph and its associations in the pictures and texts is for this same meaning, Earth. A most interesting glyph in this connection is one found in Maudslay's Tikal, plate 74, glyph 13, our form 17.33.

The text on the stela shows that this glyph indicates the passage of one day, from 6 Eb, 0 Pop to 7 Eb, 1 Pop; the sun or kin, preceded by the numeral 1, is seen entering between the caban-sign and what we shall later come to identify as the sky-glyph ...

In the beginning there were only Sky and Earth 'in close embrace', and when Air (like Arrakis) entered in between them it was a fundamental change from 2 to 3.

... The ancient Chinese said: One generates Two, Two generates Three, and Three generates Everything.

And reasonably there should be a Sign of '3' where this event occurred. At left in glyph 17.33 a triplet of 'stones' arranged vertically could have visualized the season of Sky (top), the season of Air (central) and the season of Earth (bottom). But since top and bottom are quite similar the meaning could be the northern sky respectively the southern sky with the equatorial (inhabitable) belt in between ...

The Rigel year (*78) was older than the year of the Bull and an assumed time-space difference of *14 could have determined why the G text was beginning at Hyadum II (*64).

The beginning of counting was 1, 2, 3 ... and the glyph type which Metoro defined as hanau (birth etc) was arranged both before and after the ariki with 3 flaming feathers on his forehead:

hanau

Hanau. 1. Race, ethnic group. Hanau eepe, the thick-set race; hanau momoko, the slender race (these terms were mistranslated as 'long-ears' and 'short-ears'). 2. To be born. Hanau tama, pregnant woman; vî'e hanau poki, midwive (also: vî'e hakaa'u). Vanaga. To be born; vie hanau, midwife. P Pau.: fanauga, child, descendant, progeny. Mgv.: hanau, to be born, to be brought into the world. Mq.: fanau, hanau, to be born, to lie in, to bring into the world. Ta.: fanau, to be born, to lie in. Churchill.

The Explorers sighted 3 islets ahead, outside the southwestern corner of the mainland, in the first day of Te Maro, and interpreting ihe tau in Ga2-20


ihe tau	*Te Maro 1 (72)**

as the glyph for this day it becomes understandable why Manuscript E described it with words referring to the (pointed) bow of their canoe:

MAY 8	9	10 (130)	11	12	*13 (53)**

Ga2-18	(50) Ga2-19	Ga2-20 (50)	Ga2-21	Ga2-22	Ga2-23
Eskimo Nebula = NGC2392 Gemini (112.2) ~~ANTARES (α Scorpii)~~	*Al Dhirā'-5 (The Forearm)/* Punarvasu-7 (Doublegood Pair) / *Mash-mashu-Mahrū-10 (Western One of the Twins)* CASTOR = α Gemini (113.4)	*ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA-7 (Pillar for elocution)* υ Gemini (114.0), MARKAB PUPPIS = κ Puppis (114.7), ο Gemini (114.8), PROCYON = α Canis Minoris (114.9)	α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7)	*Mash-mashu-arkū-11 (Eastern One of the Twins)* κ Gemini (116.1), POLLUX = β Gemini (116.2), π Gemini (116.9)	AZMIDISKE = ξ Puppis (117.4)
July 11	12 (193)	*13 (114)**	14	15	16
°July 7	8	9	10	*11 (112)**	12 (193)
'June 14	15	16	17 (168)	18	*19 (90)**
"May 31 (151)	"June 1	*Te Maro 1 (72)**	3 (154)	4	5
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOV 7	8	9	10 (314)	11	*12 (236)**
ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), ALBIREO (Ab Ireo) = β Cygni (295.5)	ALSAFI (Fire Tripod) = σ Draconis (296.0), μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8), κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9)	ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.) (297.4), SHAM (Arrow) = α Sagittae (297.8)	β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae (298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8)	υ Aquilae (299.1), TARAZED (Starstriking Falcon) = γ Aquilae (299.3), δ Sagittae (299.6), π Aquilae (299.9)	*Sravana-23* TYL = ε Draconis (300.0), ζ Sagittae (300.1), ALTAIR (Flying Eagle) = α Aquilae (300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5), BEZEK = η Aquilae (Ant.) (300.8)
Jan 10	11	12	13 (378)	14	*15 (300)**
°Jan 6	7 (372)	8	9	*10 (295)**	11
'Dec 14	15	16 (350)	17	18	*19 (273)**
"Nov 30	"Dec 1	2 (336)	3	4	*5 (259)**

Ihe. A fish. Vanaga. 1. Mgv.: ihe, a fish. Mq.: ihe, id. Sa.: ise, id. Ma.: ihe, the garfish. 2. Ta.: ihe, a lance. Ha.: ihe, a spear. Churchill.

... The garfish (Belone belone) is a pelagic, oceanodromous needlefish found in brackish and marine waters of the Eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic Sea, etc. The fish lives close to the surface and has a migratory pattern similar to that of the mackerel. They feed on small fish and leap out of the water when hooked. The garfish are oviparous and the eggs are often found attached to objects in the water by tendrils on the egg's surface. Garfish have unusually green bones which discourages many people from eating them. Many consider garfish to be delicious fried, baked or barbecued. Its pelvic fins are located in a posterior position as are its dorsal and anal fins. They are positioned for posterior flexing of the body ...

Tau. Year (ta'u), he-hoa ite ta'u, to confess to a crime committed long ago, by publishing it in the form of a kohau motu mo rogorogo (rongorongo tablet). Vanaga. 1.To hang (tau), to perch (said of chickens on tree branches at night); rock on the coast, taller than others so that something can be deposited on it without fear of seeing it washed away by the waves; hakarere i ruga i te tau, to place something on such a rock; tau kupega, rope from which is hung the oval net used in ature fishing. 2. Pretty, lovely; ka-tau! how pretty! Vanaga. 1. Year, season, epoch, age. P Pau.: tau, a season, period. Mgv.: tau, a year, the season of breadfruit. Mq.: tau, year. Ta.: tau, season, time. 2. Fit, worthy, deserving, opportune; tae tau, impolite, ill-bred, unseemly; pei ra tau, system. PS Mgv.: tau, fit, suitable, proper. Sa.: tau, right, proper. To.: tau, becoming, fit, proper, agreeable. Fu.: tau, fit, proper. 3. To perch. P Pau.: tau, a perch for a bird. Mgv.: tau, to mount on a person's back. Mq.: tau, to perch, to rest on. Ta.: tau, to perch, to alight on. 4. To hang; hakatau, necklace; hakatautau, to append. P Pau.: fakatautau, to hang up. Mq.: tautau, id. Ta.: faatautau, id. 5. Anchor; kona tau, anchorage, port. P Mq.: katau, anchor. Ta.: tau, id. 6. To fight; hakatau, challenge, to defy, to incite; hakatautau, to rival. P Ma.: whakatatau, to quarrel. Churchill. Pau.: fakatau, indolent. Ta.: faatau, id. Fakatautau, to delay, to defer. Ta.: haatautau, id. Churchill. The Malay word for 'year' is taun or tahun. In all Polynesian dialects the primary sense is 'a season', 'a period of time'. In the Samoan group tau or tausanga, besides the primary sense of season, has the definite meaning of 'a period of six months', and conventionally that of 'a year', as on the island of Tonga. Here the word has the further sense of 'the produce of the year', and derivatively 'a year'. In the Society group it simply means 'season'. In the Hawaiian group, when not applied to the summer season, the word keeps its original sense of 'an indefinite period of time', 'a life-time, an age', and is never applied to the year: its duration may be more or less than a year, according to circumstances. So far our authority (Fornander, I, 124; cp. 119). It seems however to be questionable whether the original sense is not the concrete 'produce of the seasons', rather than the abstract 'period of time'. It is significant that on the Society Islands the bread-fruit season is called te tau, and the names of the other two seasons, te tau miti rahi and te tau poai, are formed by adding to this name. Nilsson.

Kau, v. Haw., to hang up, suspend, to tie or gird on, to put or place a thing, to fall upon, to put on, as a burden, to set or fix, as boundaries of a land, or a decree, to promulgate, as a law; in a neuter sense, to light down, as a bird, as a spiritual influence; adj. a setting of the sun, a resting, a roost for fowls; kau-a, to hesitate, be in doubt, suspense, to beg off; kau-o, to draw, as a load; morally, to endure, to incline to, to pray for some special blessing; kau-oha, a dying charge, bequest, covenant, commission, command; kau-kai, to wait for an event, to expect; kau-kau, to take counsel, to resolve, to chide, to reprove, to explain, make clear; kau-la, a rope, cord, tendon, a prophet, a seer; kau-la-i, to hang up, put up in the sun; kau-lana, fame, report, renown; ma-kau, be ready, prepared; akau, the right hand (dexter), to be right, to the north, north. In the Southern dialects we find: Tong., tau, to hang, overhang, impend, extend to, fit, be suitable; ma-tau, the right hand; ta-tau, equal, like (balanced); tau-la, a cable; tau-ranga, an anchoring place. Sam., tau, to rest on, light on, fall on; faa-ta-tau, to compare; tau, what is proper and right; tau-au, to tend towards, either decline or increase; tau-me, stretch up the hand and not reach, to desire and not obtain; tau-i, reward, payment, revenge; tau-la, an anchor, to anchor, the priest of a god; tau-la-i, to hang up to; tau-langa, a sacred offering, an anchorage; tau-lalo, let the hands drop in fighting, be conquered; tau-tau, to hang, hang up; ma-tau, right-hand side, an axe; faa-tau, equally, alike; v. to buy, barter, sell; faa-tau-oa, a merchant. Marqu., tau, to carry on the back; tau-tau, suspended, hung up; ta-tau, to count, reckon; tau-a, a rope, a priest; a-tau, ka-tau, an anchor. N. Zeal., tau, besided previous meanings, to meet; ma-tau, expert, dexterous, shrewd. Tah., tau, to hang upon, an anchor; tau-ai, to hang up, spread out, as clothes to dry; tau-i, price, cost, to exchange, buy; tau-ra, cord, a troop, crowd, be inspired, a prophet; tau-e, a swing, see-saw; tau-piri, tail for a kite; tau-mata, a visor, a mask; tau-mi, a breastplate, plastron; a-tau, right hand, to the right. Fiji., tau, to fall, as of rain, to fall upon; tau-ca, to place or put down a thing; tau-nga, a swinging shelf. Malg., mang-hatau, mana-tao, to place, put. (Fornander)

Kao. 1. Side, edge, rim; kao gutu (or just kao), labia minora. 2. Steep, almost perpendicular; thin, skinny. Motu Kaokao, name of one of the islets opposite Orongo, with a steep shape. Vanaga. Cloth, clothing, garb. (Perhaps a variant of kahu.) Kaokao, side, flank, ribs, lateral. P Pau.: kaokao, the side, flank. Mgv.: kaokao, the side, flank. Mq.: kaokao, id. Ta.: aoáo, id. In Nuclear Polynesia this is particularized, in Samoa to the armpit, in Tonga and Futuna to the sides of the canoe. Therefore it may be considered a borrowing from the Tongafiti. Churchill.