R (Small Washington Tablet)
 

21.  You could never get lost, but you could never be absolutely sure, for it was a humanistic cosmos of probability entanglements where the mantissa carried no weight. And in contrast to modern 'bubbles of ideas' it was a worldwide accepted view - because it included all of Mother Nature and the stars above.

As to the comparison between the pair of lines Ra4 and Aa8 there seems to be a hint in the myth about Maui fishing up Land:

... This act of Maui's, that gave our people the land on which we live, was an event next in greatness to the separation of the Sky and Earth ...

Thus the Separation of Heaven and Earth must have come first. And surely it was an event which occurred up in the domain of the Sky. Later, when Maui fished up Land it was presumably also that an event in the upper regions.

Here we should remember the Chorti diviners:

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual.

When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order.

First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position.

Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...

The feet of Brutus in the daytime illustration below has been marked with quincunx signs, we should have noticed, which presumably means his half of the year carried days and nights - heaven and earth had been separated:

DEC 7 8 9 (7 * 7 * 7) 10 (161 + 183) 11 (345) 12 (*266)
Gb2-6 Gb2-7 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 (35) Gb2-10 Gb2-11 (266)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
BUNDA (Foundation) / KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny) θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)

Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 (Luckiest of the Lucky) / Emptiness-11 (Rat)

TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK (The Flock) = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)
No star listed (326)

CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA = ξ Aquarii (327.5)

SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris)

 

Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)

NASHIRA = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)

Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)

ENIF (The Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 CAPRICORNI, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI =  δ Capricorni (329.8)

*288.0 = *329.4 - *41.4

... 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 ...

Febr 9 (40) 10 (343 + 64) (408 = 43 + 365) 13 All Hearts' Day

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...

°Febr 5 6 7 8 (*324) 9 10 (41)
'Jan 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
"Dec 30 31 "Jan 1 2 3 (368) 4
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
JUNE 7 (*78) 8 9 10 (161) 11 12

Fibonacci: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 ... → 1.618033998 ... = φ = (1 + √5) / 2.

The Knot (Ukdah)

5 Imix 9 Kumk'u

Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)

ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6)

*105.0 = *146.4 - *41.4
VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)

Star-25 (Horse) / ANA-HEU-HEU-PO-5 (Pillar where debates were held)

ALPHARD (The Horse) = α Hydrae (142.3), ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7)

Al Tarf-7 (The End)

ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)

*102.0 = *143.4 - *41.4

A Hydrae (144.1)

VEGA (α Lyrae)

 

Creation of our present world

UKDAH (Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8)

*104.0 = *145.4 - *41.4

ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA

April 25 AD 2025 (115)

MARS (*35)

Aug 10 11 12 13 (*145) 14 15 (227)
°Aug 6 7 8 (220) 9 10 11 (*143)
'July 14 15 16 17 (*118) 18 19 (200)
"June 30 "July 1 2 3 (*104) 4 5 (186)

The Chorti diviners had another sacred ceremony:

... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive. In this ceremony two diviners and their wives sit on benches so that they occupy the corner positions of the cosmic square. They take their seats in the same order as the stones were placed, with the men on the eastern side and the women on the west. The ritual actions of sitting down and lifting upward are done with great precision and care, because they are directly related to the actions done by the gods at Creation. The people represent the gods of the four corners and the clouds that cover the earth. As they rise from their seats, they metaphorically lift the sky. If their lifting motion is uneven, the rains will be irregular and harmful ...

MARCH 31 (90, 455, '10) APRIL 1   2 (80 + 12) 3 (93)
Ga1-10 Ga1-11 Ga1-12 Ga1-13 ↔ 378 - 365
Gb5-22 (146 2 * 73) Gb5-23 Gb5-24 (92 + 365 - 80 = 377) Gb5-25 (378 → Saturn)
ALMAAZ (The Male Goat) = ε Aurigae (74.7), HAEDUS I = ζ Aurigae (74.8) HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)

Aug 14 AD 2024 (226, *146)

MARS & JUPITER

5h (*76.1)

ε Leporis (76.0), ι Tauri (76.2), CURSA (Footstool) = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7), Ψ (65) Eridani (76.8)

*35.0 = *76.4 - *41.4

Dec 6 AD 2022 (340, *260)

MARS

μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)
June 3 4 (*75)   5 (40 + 4 * 29) 6 (157 ↔ 314 / 2)
°May 30 (150) 31 °June 1 (*72) 2 (153)
'May 7 8 (128) 9 (*414 ↔ *49 + *365) 10 (*50 ↔ *77 - *27)
"April 23 24 (*399) 25 (115 = 156 - 41) 26 (*36 = *77 - *41)

... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive. In this ceremony two diviners and their wives sit on benches so that they occupy the corner positions of the cosmic square. They take their seats in the same order as the stones were placed, with the men on the eastern side and the women on the west. The ritual actions of sitting down and lifting upward are done with great precision and care, because they are directly related to the actions done by the gods at Creation. The people represent the gods of the four corners and the clouds that cover the earth. As they rise from their seats, they metaphorically lift the sky. If their lifting motion is uneven, the rains will be irregular and harmful ...

hakaariki

5h

Ariki 1. King, ruler, member of the nobility, Ariki henua, king; members of the royal family, descending from Hotu Matu'a; noble, nobility, chief. 2. Divine being, superior being. Ariki Paka, certain collateral descendents of Hotu Matu'a, who exercised religious functions. Vanaga. Chief, king, lord, headman in general. Hakaariki, to make one a king. P Pau., Mgv.: ariki, chief. Mq.: aiki, id. Ta.: arii, id. The Marquesan use both aiki and hakaiki in the same sense; the latter forms with Mangarevan akariki a subordinate couple in Southeast Polynesia. Since akariki is the only form in Mangareva and the Marquesas have both we may regard this as indicative of the influence of Mangareva upon the Marquesas. In Tonga we find only eiki; the vowel change is quite in the Tongan manner, the dropping of the liquid is most unusual; the eiki form appears once more in Mangarevan ataeiki (also a language in which it is unusual to drop the liquid) in the sense 'to do nothing and to dress richly in a luxurious way'. Churchill.

... The Mahabharata insists on six as the number of the Pleiades as well as of the mothers of Skanda and gives a very broad and wild description of the birth and the installation of Kartikeya 'by the assembled gods ... as their generalissimo', which is shattering, somehow, driving home how little one understands as yet. The least which can be said, assuredly: Mars was 'installed' during a more or less close conjunction of all planets; in Mbh. 9.45 (p. 133) it is stressed that the powerful gods assembled 'all poured water upon Skanda, even as the gods had poured water on the head of Varuna, the lord of waters, for investing him with dominion'. And this 'investiture' took place at the beginning of the Krita Yuga, the Golden Age ...

THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
SEPT 29 30 (273 = 3 * 91)   OCT 1 2 (*195)
κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), CUJAM (Club) = ε Herculi (256.9) No star listed (257)

17h (*258.7)

ARRAKIS = μ Draconis (258.7)

Mula-19 (The Root)

SABIK (The Preceding One) = η Ophiuchi (259.7), η Scorpii (259.9)
Dec 2 (336 ↔ 4 * 84) 3 4 5 (*259)
°Nov 28 29 30 (*254) °Dec 1
'Nov 5 6 (*230) 7 8
"Oct 22 (295 = 336 - 41) 23 24 25 (*218 → 21 * 8 = 168)
Ga7-23 (192) Ga7-24 Ga7-25 Ga7-26

These ideas should be kept in mind when we are looking at line Ra4 respectively line Aa8:

Ra4-11 Ra4-12 Ra4-13 Ra4-14 Ra4-15
Ra4-16 Ra4-17 Ra4-18 Ra4-19 Ra4-20 → May 14
Ra4-21 Ra4-22 Ra4-23) Ra4-24 Ra4-25 (108)

 

Aa8-55 Aa8-56 Aa8-57 Aa8-58 (→ 8 * 58 = 464) Aa8-59
ki te henua - ki te ragi kua heu ia - kua rere ki te pepe mai tae ia ki te nuku - honu kua vero ia ki te honu e kau te honu
Sept 21 (264) ZANIA (η Virginis)

GIENAH (γ Corvi)

Equinox

*186

*4 + *183

→ *227 - *41 + *1

*188

Sept 25

3 days of cold food

Pepe. 1. A sketch. 2. Bench, chair, couch, seat, sofa, saddle; here pepe, mau pepe, to saddle; noho pepe, a tabouret. Pepepepe, bedstead. 3. Pau.: butterfly. Ta.: pepe, id. Mq.: pepe, id. Sa.: pepe, id. Ma.: pepe, a moth; pepererau, fin, Mgv.: pererau, wing. Ta.: pereraru, id. Ma.: parirau, id. Harepepe, kelp. Here pepe, to saddle. Churchill. Sa.: pepe, a butterfly, a moth, to flutter about. Nukuoro, Fu., Niuē, Uvea, Fotuna, Nuguria, Ta., Mq.: pepe, a butterfly. Ma.: pepe, a grup, a moth; pepepepe, a butterfly; pepeatua, a species of butterfly. To.: bebe, a butterfly. Vi.: mbèbè, a butterfly. Rotumā: pep, id. Churchill 2. Mq.: Pepepepe, low, flat. Ha.: pepepe, id. Churchill.

Kau. To move one's feet (walking or swimming).

Vero To throw, to hurl (a lance, a spear). This word was also used with the particle kua preposed: koía kua vero i te matá, he is the one who threw the obsidian [weapon]. Verovero, to throw, to hurl repeatedly, quickly (iterative of vero). Vanaga. 1. Arrow, dart, harpoon, lance, spear, nail, to lacerate, to transpierce (veo). P Mgv.: vero, to dart, to throw a lance, the tail; verovero, ray, beam, tentacle. Mq.: veó, dart, lance, harpoon, tail, horn. Ta.: vero, dart, lance. 2. To turn over face down. 3. Ta.: verovero, to twinkle like the stars. Ha.: welowelo, the light of a firebrand thrown into the air. 4. Mq.: veo, tenth month of the lunar year. Ha.: welo, a month (about April). Churchill. Sa.: velo, to cast a spear or dart, to spear. To.: velo, to dart. Fu.: velo, velosi, to lance. Uvea: velo, to cast; impulse, incitement. Niuē: velo, to throw a spear or dart. Ma.: wero, to stab, to pierce, to spear. Ta.: vero, to dart or throw a spear. Mg.: vero, to pierce, to lance. Mgv.: vero, to lance, to throw a spear. Mq.: veo, to lance, to throw a spear. Churchill 2.

Aa8-60 Aa8-61 (1310) Aa8-62 Aa8-63 Aa8-64 Aa8-65 (1314)
e kua noho ma to ihe - eko te honu nuku ma te mahora kua honu ia kua mata hihi rarua mai ki te honu
*189 Sept 27 (270)

*190

PORRIMA (γ) *192 *193 Oct 1 (274)

354 - 80

Mahora. Mgv.: to spread, to stretch out, level. Ta.: mahora, to be spread out, level. Mq.: mahoa, to spread out, to display, level. Sa.: mafola, to be spread out. Ma.: mahora, id. Churchill.

Nuku. 1. Pau.: nuka, crowd, throng. Ta.: nuú, army, fleet. Mg.: nuku, a host, army. 2. Mgv.: nuku, land, country, place. Sa.: nu'u, district, territory, island. Churchill

And then we can guess the figure in Aa8-66 might have alluded to Maui fishing up land:

Aa8-66

Aa8-67

Aa8-68

kua mau te manu - i to ika kua noho i te henua - i te ragi ma to ua

Ua. 1. Cause, reason why something happens or is done; he ûa te ua, au i-ta'e-iri-ai ki tooku hare, because of the rain, I did not go home; ua kore, without cause, without reason. 2. Ceremononial stave with a human face carved at one extremity. Vanaga. Cfr toko. 1. A long club T. 2. Mgv.: ua, the genitalia. Ta.: hua, id. Mq.: hua, id. Ha.: hua, testicles. 3. Ta.: ua, the back of the neck. Ma.: ua, id. Sa.: ua, the neck. 4. Ta.: ua, a land crab which shears iron. Ma.: uka, lobster. Sa.: uga, the hermit crab. Churchill. Ûa. Rain; 1. ûa hakamito, persistent, but not strong, rain; 2. ûa kura, fine rain, drizzle; 3. ûa matavaravara, strong rain; 4. ûa parera, torrential rain; 5. ûa tai, rain followed by fair weather at sea. Ehu ûa, drizzle. Vanaga. Ûaûa. Tendons, muscles. 1. Hau ûaûa kio'e, line made from rats' tendons. 2. Ûaûa toto, vein, artery. 3. Ûaûa piki, spasm. Vanaga. 1. Rain; hoa mai te ua, to rain; mou te ua, to cease raining. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ua, rain. 2. Vein, artery, tendon (huahua 1) (uha G); ua nene, pulse; ua nohototo, artery, ua gaei, pulse. Uaua, vein, tendon, line; kiko uaua, muscle T. Hakauaua, to mark with lines. P Pau.: tare-ua, tendon. Mgv., Mq., Ta.: uaua, vein, tendon. Churchill. U'a. Of the tide, to reach its maximum; tai u'a, high tide. Vanaga. Wave, surge; tai ua, high tide. Churchill. Uá. Ata uá, morning twilight. Uáuá, to reside; resident; noho uáuá to settle somewhere; ina koe ekó noho uáuá, do not establish yourself there. Vanaga.

Oct 2 (275, *195) Oct 3 Oct 4 (*197)
"Aug 22 (234, *154) "Aug 23 (276 - 41 = 235)

"Aug 24 (236 ↔ 8 * 29½)

"Febr 21 (*336, 416, 51) "Febr 22 (235 - 182 = 53)  "Febr 23 (54 ↔ 2 * 27 ↔ π)

... The ordinary year in the previous Roman calendar consisted of 12 months, for a total of 355 days. In addition, a 27-day intercalary month, the Mensis Intercalaris, was sometimes inserted between February and March. This intercalary month was formed by inserting 22 days after the first 23 or 24 days of February; the last five days of February, which counted down toward the start of March, became the last five days of Intercalaris. The net effect was to add 22 or 23 days to the year, forming an intercalary year of 377 or 378 days ...

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...

April 2 (92 = 51 + 41, *12, 457, *377)

April 3 (*13, 458 - 80 = *378)

→ 4-13 → 413 (→ 14 * 29½) - (365 - 355)

→ SATURN

April 4 (*14 = *197 - *183)

Dec 6 (340 275 + 65)

POLARIS

Dec 7 (341, *261 → 9 * 29)

ALRISHA

342 → 18 * 19) + 3 = Dec 11

  (HAMAL)

Which in turn could be reason for coordinating Aa8-68 with the 2nd Chorti ceremony, because it was coinciding with the beginning of a season of rain - to ua. And by adding a week (a wake) to day 54 ("Februay 23, Terminalia) we should ideally reach day 61 ("March 1). They had counted 6 days from "February 24 (→ 2-24 → 224) to the Kalends of March ("March 1).

We should here remember te ua preceding the Pleiades star cluster, presumably referring to the current time era:

Cb2-4 (420)

May 15 (500)

ALCYONE

This glyph (number 420 = 7* 60 = 6* 70) probably indentified where the rains ideally should have been stopped, because the ua sign is here reversed:

ua

May 14

Separation of Heaven and Earth

Febr 14 (45, 410, *330)

Raising the Sky

April 25 (115, 480, *400)

 

End of Spring

May 15 (135, 500, *420)

Maui Fishing Up Land

June 29 (180, 545, *465)

When Maui struggled with the great Tonga Nui fish his maro (loin-cloth) came off, which means it should have happenied in the month of Maro = June.

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