45.
The last day of the northern equinoctial year was at
Cb7-11 and this was the day which most frequently
corresponded to the astronomically correct date for the
equinox - not 0h but the preceding day:
...
Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21
March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically
speaking, on 20 March in most years)
...
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Cb7-7 |
Cb7-8 |
Cb7-9 (545) |
Cb7-10 |
Cb7-11 |
Cb7-12 |
Cb7-13 (157) |
|
rere te manu |
te hoko huki |
te moko |
te hokohuki |
te maitaki |
te hau tea |
te rau hei |
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CLOSE TO THE SUN: |
|
*361
March 16 (75) |
*362
17 |
*363
18 |
*364
19 |
*365
EQUINOX |
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SIRRAH
0h |
ALGENIB PEGASI
22 |
|
'February 17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21
(52) |
22 |
TERMINALIA |
|
"February 3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7
(*324) |
8 |
9
(40) |
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JANUARY 11 |
12 |
13 |
14
(*300) |
15 |
16 |
(366
+ 17 = 383) |
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CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON: |
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DENEBOLA, ALARAPH (Unarmed)
September 15
|
*179
16 |
*180
17 |
*181
18 |
ο
Virginis
19 |
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ALCHITA
20 |
*184
21
(264) |
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ºSeptember 11 |
12 |
13 |
14
(*177) |
15 |
16 |
17
(260) |
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'August 19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24
(8 * 29½) |
25 |
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"August 5 |
6
(218) |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
(*143 = 11 * 13) |
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JULY
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17
(*118) |
18 |
19
(200) |
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*5 = *365 - *360 |
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A similar glyph arrives 40 days later in the
text, also here explained by Metoro as te maitaki:
| Maitaki
Clean, neat, pure, pretty, nice,
beautiful, handsome; tagata rima
maitaki, clean-handed man, correct man.
Vanaga. 1. Good. Henua maitaki = the good
earth. 2. Shine. Marama maitaki = the
shining moon. Barthel. Ce qui est bon. Jaussen
according to Barthel.
Meitaki, good,
agreeable, efficacious, excellent, elegant,
pious, valid, brilliant, security, to please, to
approve (maitaki); ariga meitaki,
handsome, of pleasant mien; mea meitaki ka
rava, to deserve; meitaki ke,
marvelous, better. Hakameitaki, to make
good, to amend, to do good, to bless, to
establish. Meitakihaga, goodness. PS
Pau.: maitaki, good. Mgv.: meitetaki,
beautiful, good. Mq.: meitai, good,
agreeable, fit, wise, virtuous. Ta.: maitaiki,
good, well. Niuē:
mitaki,
good. Maitakia,
clean. Churchill. |
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Cb1-13 |
Cb1-14 |
Cb1-15 |
Cb1-16 (408) |
Cb1-17 |
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eaha te nuku erua |
koia kua huki |
e niu tu |
ki te ariki - e ka hua ra tona rima |
koia kua iri i ruga o te rima - e o to vaha
mea |
|
CLOSE TO THE SUN: |
|
(*101 + 121)
October 29 |
*223
30 |
ZUBEN ELGENUBI
31
(304) |
KOCHAB (*104 + 121)
November 1 |
*226
2 |
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18 (261 = 9 * 29) |
"September 19 |
20 (*183) |
21 |
Equinox |
|
AUGUST 26 |
27 |
28 |
29
(*161 = *225 - 64) |
30
(242) |
|
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON: |
|
Bharani |
*42
2 |
*43
3 |
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35
Arietis (Head)
April 29 |
39
Arietis (Right Wing)
30 |
BHARANI (*41)
May
1 (121 = 11 * 11) |
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"March 19 |
20 |
21 (80 = 121
- 41) |
22 |
23 |
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FEBRUARY 24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28
(59) |
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177 |
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Cb8-24 |
Cb8-25 |
Cb8-26 |
Cb8-27
(590) |
Cb8-28 |
Cb8-29
(200) |
|
te
maitaki |
kua
hua
te
kahi |
te
ahine
poo
puo |
ki
te
huaga |
ki
te
huaga |
te
kahi |
|
CLOSE TO THE SUN: |
|
Bharani |
*42
2 |
*43
3 |
*44
4 |
|
35
Arietis
(Head) April
29 |
39
Arietis
(Right
Wing)
30 |
BHARANI
(*41)
May
1
(121) |
|
"March
19 |
20 |
21
(80
=
121
-
41) |
22 |
23 |
24 |
|
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON: |
|
*222
October
29 |
*223
30 |
ZUBEN
ELGENUBI
31
(304) |
KOCHAB
November
1 |
*226
2 |
*227
3 |
|
"September
18 |
19 |
20 |
21
(264) |
EQUINOX |
23 |
There were 41
precessional
days down to the
time of Bharani
and the pair of
maitaki
glyphs could
therefore refer to the
times when the
Sun moved across
the equator from
the southern
hemisphere to
the northern:
|
time
of rongorongo |
37 |
time
of Bharani |
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Cb7-11 (155) |
Cb7-12 |
Cb7-13 (314 / 2) |
Cb8-24
(195) |
Cb8-25
(392 / 2) |
Cb8-26 |
|
March 20 (79) |
SIRRAH |
22 |
"March 19 (78) |
20 |
BHARANI |
Also the G text is drawing attention to
the similarity between the time of Sirrah and the time
of Bharani, although here evidently visualized against the stars
in the background of the Full Moon:
|
time
of rongorongo |
39 |
time
of Bharani |
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Ga5-6 (4 * 29) |
Ga5-7 |
Ga5-8 (118) |
Ga6-18 (158) |
Ga6-19 |
Ga6-20 (4 * 40) |
|
September 17 |
(261 = 9 * 29) |
ο Virginis |
"September 18 |
α Apodis |
ZUBEN ELGENUBI |
|
March 18 |
(78
= 6 * 13) |
20
(*365) |
"March 19 |
20
(*365) |
BHARANI |
The bird in Ga5-8 seems to represent
heliacal ο
Virginis
|
Egyptian eye |
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Phoenician ayin |
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Greek omicron |
Ο (ο) |
|
... The
letter name is derived from
Proto-Semitic
*‘ayn-,
eye, and the Phoenician letter had an
eye-shape, ultimately derived from the
jr hieroglyph ... To this day,
‘ayin in Hebrew,
Arabic and Maltese means 'eye' and
'spring' (‘ayno
in Neo-Aramaic). |
and the bird in Ga6-19 was perhaps the
leading star in the Bird of Paradise constellation:
... In Bayer's Uranometria from the year 1603 the
Bird of Paradise is depicted among the constellations in
the southern sky. The name Apus means 'without feet'.
The great paradise birds of East India have exceedingly
beautiful feathers but very ugly feet. When anciently
the natives tried to sell these birds to the Europeans
they therefore first cut off their feet ...
The glyph type
named maitaki by Metoro has usually 3 'eyes':
And there are coins from India which
exhibit stamped similar signs on them and these signs
are usually named after the caduceus of Hermes:
But I am not convinced the idea was to
illustrate a caduceus, instead we should rather consider the
night sky view of an observer close to the equator:
The Sun rose in the east and descended in
the west after 180º,
having drawn a straight line across the sky. Then he had to
continue for another 180º straight across under the
earth before returning again in the east.
The pair of 'mata'
could for instance represent the northern and the
southern hemispheres, the pair of wives of the Sun (or
of Rehua who ripens all offspring):
...
Antares, visible in the morning sky of December-January,
came to stand for summer heat; hence the saying, 'Rehua
cooks (ripens) all fruit'. The generally accepted
version of the Rehua myth, according to Best, is
that Rehua had two wives, the stars on either
side of Antares. One was Ruhi-te-rangi or
Pekehawani, the personification of summer languor (ruhi),
the other Whaka-onge-kai,
She-who-makes-food-scarce before the new crops can be
harvested
...
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3 *
13 |
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Cb7-11 (155) |
Cb8-24
(195) |
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310
/ 2 |
392
/ 2
- 1 |
| Mata
1. Tribe, people; te mata
tûai-era-á, the ancient tribes. 2. Eye;
mata ite, eyewitness. 3. Mesh: mata
kupega. 4. Raw, uncooked, unripe, green,
matamata, half-cooked, half-ripe.
Kahi matamata,
a tuna fish. Vanaga.
1. The eye; mata neranera,
mata kevakeva, mata mamae, to be
drowsy; mata keva, mataraparapa,
matapo, blind; mata hakahira,
squint eyed; mata pagaha, eye strain. 2.
Face, expression, aspect, figure, mien,
presence, visage, view; mata mine,
mata hakataha, mata pupura, mata
hakahiro, to consider. 3. Raw, green,
unripe. 4. Drop of water. 5. Mesh; hakamata,
to make a net. 6. Cutting, flint. 7. Point,
spear, spike (a fish bone). 8. Chancre.
Matamata, sound of water. Churchill.
There is a wide range of
significations in this stem. It will serve to
express an opening as small as the mesh of a net
or as large as a door of a house; it will serve
to designate globular objects as large as the
eye or as small as the bud on a twig or the drop
of rain, and designating a pointed object it
answers with equal facility for the sharpened
tip of a lance or the acres of a headland; it
describes as well the edge of a paddle or the
source from which a thing originates. Churchill
2.
Matá.
Black obsidian spear points, all belonging to
the Late Period which began ca 1680. Heyerdahl
3. |
... when
it was desired to denote the whole year, the combined
phrase 'winter and summer' was employed, or else
equivalent concrete expressions such as 'in bareness and
in leaf', 'in straw and in grass'
...
... All the
natives of the South Sea islands are great swimmers.
Both men, women and children could almost be called
amphibians, because they spend a good portion of their
day swimming, diving, bathing and doing all those and
similar sports in the midst of the breakers and the
surging sea
rolling
in over the coral banks. The more the sea is heaving,
the more the islander feels at home in this his right
element. These islanders seem to be very fond of
children, especially their neighbours’, which they until
quite recently did not hesitate to eat. That in addition
to the repulsive murder of their own children,
especially as regards girls, results in a quite
considerable reduction in the number of the children.
But otherwise the children are as merry and free from
sorrow as their parents. They learn to swim almost as
soon as they begin to walk. The children are very amused
by swinging and by sending up paper kites. They also
have a rather peculiar game, which consists of keeping
their eyes wide open with the help of a stiff straw of
grass pushing the eye-lids apart
...
We should look
at yet another
example:
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Cb1-18 |
Cb1-19 |
Cb1-20 |
Cb1-21 (413) |
Cb1-22 |
Cb1-23 |
Cb1-24 |
|
manu moe ra |
ki to mata |
e nuku mata |
hoea |
ko te rima |
kua oo ki te vai |
ma te ua |
|
CLOSE TO THE SUN: |
|
*227
November 3 |
(*107 + 121)
4 |
*229
5 |
(*109 + 121)
6
(310) |
*231
7 |
(*111 + 121)
8 |
*233
9 |
|
"Sept 23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27
(270) |
28 |
29
(*192) |
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AUGUST 31 |
SEPTEMBER 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5
(*168) |
6
(249) |
|
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON: |
|
*44
May 4 |
ALGOL
5-5 (5
* 5 * 5) |
*46
6 |
*47
7 |
*48
8 |
*49
9 |
ALGENIB PERSEI
10 |
|
"March 24 |
EQUINOX |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 (88) |
30 |
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MARCH 1 |
2 (61) |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
Obviously also the famous blinking star
marking the Devil's Head had once upon a time been at
0h. But here Metoro avoided the expression te maitaki.
|
To
1. Particle sometimes used with
the article in ancient legends; i uto to te
hau, the ribbon was in the float. 2. To rise
(of the sun) during the morning hours up to the
zenith: he-to te raá. Vanaga.
1. Of. T Pau., Ta.: to,
of. Mgv.: to, genitive sign. Mq.: to,
of, for. 2. This, which. Churchill.
Mgv.: To, to make a
canoe of planks. Mq.: to, to build a
canoe. Sa.: to, to build. Churchill. |
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time
of Algol |
133 |
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ALGOL
(*45
+
183
=
*228)
|
Cb1-20 |
Cb1-21
(413
= 14
*
29½) |
|
SEPTEMBER 1 |
2
(245 = 490 / 2) |
3 (2
* 123) |
|
EQUINOX |
"March 26 (*5) |
27 |
|
time
of rongorongo |
37 |
time
of Bharani |
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|
Cb7-11 (155) |
Cb7-12 |
Cb7-13 (314 / 2) |
Cb8-24
(195) |
Cb8-25
(392 / 2) |
Cb8-26 |
|
March 20 (79) |
SIRRAH (*0) |
22 |
"March 19 (78) |
20 |
BHARANI (*41.4) |
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