time of the Bull

Ca5-12	Ca5-13 (118)	Ca5-14	Ca5-15	*Ca5-16 (11 11)**
te maitaki	te henua	kua haga te mea ke	manu puoko i tona ahi	kua heu te huki
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
*Nga Kope Ririva Tutuu Vai A Te Taanga* (= Ξ, Χ, Ζ in ARGO NAVIS?)
AZMIDISKE (Ξ)	*Φ Gemini (118)**	DRUS (χ)	Ω Cancri	NAOS (Ζ)
July 16 'June 19 "June 5 MAY 13 (5-13)	17 *20 (91) 6 (157 = 471 / 3)** 14	18 SOLSTICE 7 (500 = 135 + 365)	19 (200) 22 (136 + 37) *8 (79) 16 (136)**	*20 (121) 23 9 17 (57)*
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
*ALTAIR (300)**	Φ AQUILAE		Τ AQUILAE
January 15 'December 19 NOVEMBER 12	16 20 13	17 SOLSTICE 14	18 22 15	19 (384) 23 (357) 16 (320)


Ca5-17	Ca5-18	Ca5-19	*Ca5-20 (5 5 * 5)**
hakahaga-na te honu	tagata moe hakarava hia	ka moe	hakapeka-ga mai
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
HEAP OF FUEL = Μ	TEGMINE = Ζ	AL TARF (The End) = Β Cancri	BRIGHT FIRE = Λ
ST JOHNS DAY	'June 25	*26 (177 = 6 29½)**	27 (361 - 183)
Maro 10	"June 11	12	13 (164)
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
TSEEN FOO (Heavenly Raft) = θ Aquilae (Ant.)	TSO KE (Left Flag) = ρ Aquilae	GREDI = α Capricorni	DABIH = β Capricorni
CHRISTMAS EVE	'December 25	26 (360)	27
... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... 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 ...
Makoi named the place Hanga Te Pau, 'the landing site of Ira'. So that they would remember (? he aringa, literally, 'as face'), the open side of Hanga Te Pau was given this name. Ira got up. They all climbed to the top of the hill. They climbed up on the tenth day of the month of June 'Maro'.


Ca5-21	Ca5-22	*Ca5-23 (2 64)**
'June 28	29	SIRIUS
te Rei	te manu	te henua
		NUNKI = σ Sagittarii
'December 28	29	30 (280 + 84)

It should have been deduced that in Roman times there would have been 4 days from heliacal Al Tarf and nakshatra Gredi - in day 177 = 6 * 29½ counted from 'January 1 - to heliacal Sirius and nakshatra Nunki, and Sirius could then have been imagined as a central 'royal star fish' keeping pace with the Sun. 181 (Sirius) + 11 (from winter solstice to 'January 1) = 192 = 4 * 48. Ptolemaios had 48 constellations:

"Ptolemy scientifically followed with those now known as the ancient forty-eight, in the 7th and 8th books of the Syntaxis, twelve of the zodiac with twenty-one northern and fifteen southern, made up by 1028 [= 2 * 514] stars, including 102 αμόρφωτοι, all probably from Hipparchos, although with some acknowledged alterations by himself ..." (Allen)

Julius Caesar had determined the beginning of the Sun calendar year to a position which was 68 + 16 (minimum distance before returning to visibility) = 84 days earlier than where Aldebaran (*68) once upon a time had been (viz. in MARCH 25, 3-25). 'March 25 was day 84 counted from 'January 1 and in Roman times *68 - 27 (precessional depth from the time of rongorongo to the time of Caesar) = *41 ('May 1) had been the place for the true heliacal rising of Aldebaran.

When Sirius had risen with the Sun in 'June 30 (181) the corresponding star at the Full Moon had been Nunki in 'December 30 (181 + 183 = 364).

... This [σ] has been identified with Nunki of the Euphratean Tablet of the Thirty Stars, the Star of the Proclamation of the Sea, this Sea being the quarter occupied by Aquarius, Capricornus, Delphinus, Pisces, and Pisces Australis. It is the same space in the sky that Aratos designated as Water ...

And when once upon a time Aldebaran had risen with the Sun at the place corresponding to the Julian spring equinox it would have meant the Sun was on his way up from the Southern Hemisphere and that he was here (at Aldebaran) crossing over.

At the time of the Bull Aldebaran should have marked the Navel of the Sun in the same sense as 68 precessional days later (at the time of rongorongo) the topknot of Taranga now was at the Navel of the Sun (Horse) - Al Surrat al Faras (= Sirrah). Or at the navel of the Sky-Father (Wakea), or at the Road of the Spider (ke ku'uku'u).

The unlucky Explorer Kuukuu corresponded to Mars and to the northern spring equinox month of March (in Swedish: Mars) and at that time the equator of the sky was crossed over by the ecliptic path of the Sun and the other moving stars (planets).

... Then three lines are drawn east and west, one across the northern section indicates the northern limit of the Sun (corresponding with the Tropic of Cancer) about the 15th and 16th days of the month Kaulua (i.e., the 21st or 22nd of June) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kane, the black-shining road of Kane. The line across the southern section indicates the southern limit of the Sun about the 15th or 16th days of the month Hilinama (December 22) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kanaloa, the black-shining road of Kanaloa. The line exactly around the middle of the sphere is called ke alanui a ke ku'uku'u, the road of the spider, and also ke alanui i ka Piko a Wakea, the way to the navel of Wakea (the Sky-father). Between these lines are the fixed stars of the various lands, na hokupaa a ka aina. (These are the stars which hang suspended in the zeniths of the Polynesian islands most of which lie within the tropics.) On the sides are the stars by which one navigates ...

I have named the type of glyph in Ca5-20 accordingly:


pito	*quincunx*

Pito

1. Umbilical cord; navel; centre of something: te pito o te henua, centre of the world. Ana poreko te poki, ina ekó rivariva mo uru ki roto ki te hare o here'u i te poki; e-nanagi te pito o te poki, ai ka-rivariva mo uru ki roto ki te hare, when a child is born one must not enter the house immediately, for fear of injuring the child (that is, by breaking the taboo on a house where birth takes place); only after the umbilical cord has been severed can one enter the house. 2. Also something used for doing one's buttons up (buttonhole?). Vanaga.

Navel. Churchill. H Piko 1. Navel, navel string, umbilical cord. Fig. blood relative, genitals. Cfr piko pau 'iole, wai'olu. Mō ka piko, moku ka piko, wehe i ka piko, the navel cord is cut [friendship between related persons is broken; a relative is cast out of a family]. Pehea kō piko? How is your navel [a facetious greeting avoided by some because of the double meaning]? 2. Summit or top of a hill or mountain; crest; crown of the head; crown of the hat made on a frame (pāpale pahu); tip of the ear; end of a rope; border of a land; center, as of a fishpond wall or kōnane board; place where a stem is attached to the leaf, as of taro. 3. Short for alopiko. I ka piko nō 'oe, lihaliha (song), at the belly portion itself, so very choice and fat. 4. A common taro with many varieties, all with the leaf blade indented at the base up to the piko, junction of blade and stem. 5. Design in plaiting the hat called pāpale 'ie. 6. Bottom round of a carrying net, kōkō. 7. Small wauke rootlets from an old plant. 8. Thatch above a door. 'Oki i ka piko, to cut this thatch; fig. to dedicate a house. Wehewehe.