TAHUA
 

11.   We have tentatively compared the beginning of side b on the A tablet with the beginning of side b on the C tablet, for instance:

 

Ab1-8 (1335 + 7) Ab1-9 Ab1-10 (90 + 580 + 10 = 1344) Ab1-11

Ab1-12

Ab1-13 (1347)
29 (→ 152 + 150) Oct 30 Halloween Samhain (*225) 2 (306 = 123 + 183) Nov 3 (*227)
20 Aug (*152) 21 Aug 22 Aug 23 Aug 24 Aug (236) 25 Aug (*157)
    ZUBEN ELGENUBI    
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 29 30 Beltaine (50 + 71)   2 3 (123) 4

19 Febr

20 Febr (*336) 21 Febr (29 + 21) 22 Febr Terminalia  
    BHARANI   DENEBOLA MENKAR
Ko te maitaki - ko te maharoga hetuu e roia - e ragi huhuki eaha ia ko te Rei oho ia mai

Haro. To pull; popohaga o te rua raá, i haro i te aka o te miro, on the morning of the second day, they pulled up the anchor of the boat. He haro i te hagu a roto, to draw in air, to breathe. He-haro te vaka i te au , the boat is towed off course in the current. Vanaga. a. to point, to raise the arm, to stretch out the hand or other member, to spread, to point the yards. b. to hoist, to pull up, to entice. c. to stiffen, to grasp, to squeeze. Haroharo, to point, to limp. PS Sa.: falo, to stretch out. To.: falo, to stretch out, to make tense. Fu.: falo, to stretch out, to lay hands on. Churchill.

Hu. 1. Breaking of wind. T Mgv., uu, to break wind. Mq., Ta.: hu, id. 2. Whistling of the wind, to blow, tempest, high wind. P Pau.: huga, a hurricane. Churchill. Mgv.: hu, to burst, to crackle, to snap. Ha.: hu, a noise. Churchill.

ihe tau

 
Cb1-15 (407 = 392 + 15) Cb1-16 (392 + 16 = 408) Cb1-17
Oct 31 (304) Nov 1 (*225) 2

Al Zubānā-14a (Claws) / Visakha-16 (Forked) / Root-3 (Badger)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (Southern Claw) = α Librae (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)
KOCHAB (Kakkab, Babylonian for Star) = β Ursae Min. (225.0), ξ Librae (225.7)  

KE KWAN (Cavalry Officer) = β Lupi (226.3), KE KWAN = κ Centauri (226.4), ZUBEN ELAKRIBI (Claw of the Scorpion) = δ Librae (226.8), π¹ Oct. (226.9)

*185.0 = *226.4 - *41.4 = "Sept 22 (265) = equinox

Bharani-2 (The Bearer) / Stomach-17 (Pheasant)

π Arietis (41.2), MIRAM = η Persei (41.3), BHARANI = 41 Arietis (41.4), τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7)

TA LING (Great Mound) = τ Persei (42.4)

*1.0 = *42.4 - *41.4

ρ Arietis (43.0), GORGONEA SECUNDA = π Persei (43.5), ACAMAR (End of the River) = θ Eridani (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7), λ Ceti (43.9)

DENEBOLA (β Leonis)
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

Niu. Palm tree, coconut tree; hua niu, coconut. Vanaga. Coconut, palm, spinning top.  P Pau., Ta.: niu, coconut. Mgv.: niu, a top; niu mea, coconut. Mq.: niu, coconut, a top. Churchill. The fruit of miro. Buck. T. 1. Coconut palm. 2. Sign for peace. Henry  The sense of top lies in the fact that the bud end of a coconut shell is used for spinning, both in the sport of children and as a means of applying to island life the practical side of the doctrine of chances. Thus it may be that in New Zealand, in latitudes higher than are grateful to the coconut, the divination sense has persisted even to different implements whereby the arbitrament of fate may be declared. Churchill 2.

And then we have carried over information from the G tablet to the C text.

*223
Ca7-14 Ca7-15 (183) Ca7-16
kua hua - ki te marama kua hahaú hia te marama noho i te nohoga
March 20 (79) 21 (0h) 22 (81)
θ Octantis (*364) SIRRAH ALGENIB PEGASI

Noho, 1. To sit, to stay, to remain, to live (somewhere), to wait; ka-noho, you stay! (i.e. 'good-bye', said by the person leaving). 2. Figuratively: he noho te eve, to be calm, at peace; he noho te mana'u, to concentrate on something, to fix one's attention on; ku-noho á te mana'u o te tagata ki ruga ki te aga, the man thinks constantly of his work. Vanaga. Seat, bench, dwelling, marriage, position, posture, situation, session, sojourn; to sit, to dwell, to reside, to rest, to halt, to inhabit; noho hahatu, to sit cross-legged; noho hakahaga, apathy; noho heenua, countryman; noho kaiga, native; noho kenu, married; noho ke noho ke, to change place; noho muri, to stay behind; noho noa, invariable; noho opata, to stand on a cliff; noho pagaha, badly placed; noho pepe, table; noho tahaga, bachelor, unmarried; noho vie, married, noho no, apathy, stay-at-home, colonist, idler, inhabitant, inactive, immobile, settler, lazy, loiterer. Hakanoho, to abolish, to rent, to lease, to enslave, to dissuade, to exclude, to exempt, to install, to substitute, hostage. Hakanohohia, stopped. Nohoga, seat. Nohoturi, to kneel, genuflexion. Nohovaega, to preside. Churchill.

*14

*3

Cb1-15 (407 = 392 + 15)

Cb2-5 (421, 29)

Cb2-8 (392 + 32)

Cb2-9 (425)

e niu tu koia ra Niu
Oct 31 (304) Nov 14 (318) Nov 17 (321) 11-18 (322)
ZUBEN ELGENUBI (*224) COR SERPENTIS (*238) VRISCHIKA (*241) SCHEDIR
BHARANI (*41) TAU-ONO (*55) ZAURAK = Boat (*58.9) ν Tauri (*59.9)
May 1 (121) May 15 (135 = 500 - 365)

May 18 (→ 51 * 8 = 408)

May 19 (322 - 183)

*4

Cb2-13 (429)

Cb2-14

Cb2-15 Cb2-16 (432)
ihe manu ra kua pua to hau te kahi huga kiore - henua

Hu. 1. Breaking of wind. T Mgv., uu, to break wind. Mq., Ta.: hu, id. 2. Whistling of the wind, to blow, tempest, high wind. P Pau.: huga, a hurricane. Churchill. Mgv.: hu, to burst, to crackle, to snap. Ha.: hu, a noise. Churchill.

Nov 22 (326)

23

24

25 (329)

YED POSTERIOR Heart-5 (Fox)

σ Scorpii (*247.0)

ρ Ophiuchi (*248.1) ANTARES

HYADUM I (*63.4)

HYADUM II

Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (*55 + *10)

no star listed

May 23 (143)

24 (*64 = *56 + *8) 25 (145) 26 (*66)
no glyph
Gb8-30 (242) Ga1-1 Ga1-2

Next natural step should be to try to go back 241 glyphs also in the A text from the pair Vrishika / Schedir to the 2nd Spout at the pair Caph / Sirrah:

Ca7-14 Ca7-15 (183) Ca7-16
kua hua - ki te marama kua hahaú hia te marama noho i te nohoga
March 20 (79) 21 (0h) 22 (81)
θ Octantis (*364) SIRRAH ALGENIB PEGASI
JAN 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383) *237
Gb6-25 (229 + 178) Gb6-26 (408) Gb6-27 (180) Gb6-28
θ Octantis (364.4)

*364.4 - *41.4 = *323.0

Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)

0h (365.25)

CAPH = β Cassiopeiae, SIRRAH = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)
Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)

χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)
3-20 March 21 (80, 0h) 22 (*1) 23 (→ 2 * 41)
°March 16 (*360) Liberalia 18 (54 + 23 = 77) 19 (→ 3 * 121)
2-21 (79 - 27 = 52) 'Febr 22 Terminalia 24 (→ 3 * 140)
"Febr 7 (403) 2-8 (80 - 41 = 39) 2-9 (31 + 9 = 40) 2-10 (41)
SEPT 12 (18 + 237) 13 (256 → 16 * 16) 14 (*177) 15 16
Ga7-6 Ga7-7 Ga7-8 (177) Ga7-9 Ga7-10 (56 + 123)
κ Serpentis (239.3), δ Cor. Borealis, TIĀNRŪ = μ Serpentis (239.5), χ Lupi, (239.6), ω Serpentis (239.7), BA = ε Serpentis, χ Herculis (239.8). κ Cor. Borealis, ρ Serpentis (239.9)

*239.5 = *243.5 - *4.0

λ Librae (240.0), β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8)

*240.4 - *41.4 = *199.0

*240.0 + *80.0 = 320.0

Iklīl al Jabhah-15 (Crown of the Forehead) / Anuradha-17 Following Rādhā) / Room-4 (Hare)

ξ Lupi, λ Cor. Bor.(241.1), ZHENG = γ Serpentis,  θ Librae (241.2), VRISCHIKA = π Scorpii (241.3), ε Cor. Borealis (241.5),  DSCHUBBA = δ Scorpii (241.7), η Lupi (241.9)

*241.5 = *243.5 - *2.0

υ Herculis (242.3), ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4), ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), θ Draconis (242.6), ξ Scorpii (242.7)

*242.4 - *41.4 = *201.0

*242.5 = *243.5 - *1.0

SCHEDIR

16h (243.5)

ACRAB = β Scorpii, JABHAT AL ACRAB = ω Scorpii (243.3), θ Lupi, RUTILICUS = β Herculis (243.5), MARFIK = κ Herculis (243.7), φ Herculis (243.8)

Nov 15 (82 + 237) 16 17 (121 + 200) 18 (*242) 19
°Nov 11 12 (*236) 13 14 (318) 15
'Oct 19 20 21 (*214) 22 (295) 23
"Oct 5 (41 + 237) 6 (*199) 7 (280) 8 (*201) 9

First, though, it will be convenient to here summarize some of the relevant pieces of what we earlier have documented as regards the A text.

Side a on the C tablet evidently ends at Polaris (*26, April 16) and its side b should then begin at October 17 (290, *210) - after having turned the tablet around.

Arcturus (*215, October 22) would therefore be at Cb1-6, whereas our earlier investigations have resulted in the idea that on the A tablet Arcturus should be already at the first glyph on side b. I.e., Cb1-6 - Ab1-1 = 5 positions earlier in the A text:

 
Aa8-80 (1329) Aa8-81 (666) Aa8-82 Aa8-83 Aa8-84 Aa8-85 (1334)
ki to hatu huri ma to ua mata - mae tae e ui hia mai kua oho te tagata ki te henua -
Oct 16 (260 + 29) 17 (290) 18 (472 - 181) 19 20 21 (294)
      THUBAN    
April 16 (314 * 1½) 17 (16 * 29½) (365 + 108 = 473) 19 ALKES 21 (111)

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.

Huri. 1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga. 1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill. Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

... Väinämöinen set about building a boat, but when it came to the prow and the stern, he found he needed three words in his rune that he did not know, however he sought for them. In vain he looked on the heads of the swallows, on the necks of the swans, on the backs of the geese, under the tongues of the reindeer. He found a number of words, but not those he needed. Then he thought of seeking them in the realm of Death, Tuonela, but in vain. He escaped back to the world of the living only thanks to his potent magic. He was still missing his three runes. He was then told by a shepherd to search in the mouth of Antero Vipunen, the giant ogre. The road, he was told, went over swords and sharpened axes. Ilmarinen made shoes, shirt and gloves of iron for him, but warned him that he would find the great Vipunen dead. Nevertheless, the hero went. The giant lay underground, and trees grew over his head. Väinämöinen found his way to the giant's mouth, and planted his iron staff in it. The giant awoke and suddenly opened his huge mouth. Väinämöinen slipped into it and was swallowed. As soon as he reached the enormous stomach, he thought of getting out. He built himself a raft and floated on it up and down inside the giant. The giant felt tickled and told him in many and no uncertain words where he might go, but he did not yield any runes. Then Väinämöinen built a smithy and began to hammer his iron on an anvil, torturing the entrails of Vipunen, who howled out magic songs to curse him away. But Väinämöinen said, thank you, he was very comfortable and would not go unless he got the secret words. Then Vipunen at last unlocked the treasure of his powerful runes. Many days and nights he sang, and the sun and the moon and the waves of the sea and the waterfalls stood still to hear him. Väinämöinen treasured them all and finally agreed to come out. Vipunen opened his great jaws, and the hero issued forth to go and build his boat at last ...

Ab1-1 (671) Ab1-2 (2 * 336) Ab1-3 Ab1-4
Oct 22 (295)

ARCTURUS (*215)

23 (*216) 24 25 (*218, *584)

FOMALHAUT

13 Aug (408 - 183) 14 Aug (*146, *512) (*513 19 * 27 = 9 * 57) 16 Aug (*514)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 22 (112, *32) 23 24 25 (115, *35)
12 Febr (408 - 365 = 43) 13 Febr (*329) All the 'hearts' (*514 - *183 = *331)
Te hoea rutua te pahu - rutua te maeva - atua rerorero - atua ata tuu

Ab1-5 ( → 25 * 27 = 15 * 45) Ab1-6 Ab1-7 (1341)
Oct 26 (412 - 6 - 107) = 299 Oct 27 (*220)

ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9)

17 Aug (229 = 299 - 70) 18 Aug (*150) 19 Aug
16 Febr (412) 17 Febr (413 14 * 29½ (14 * 29½ + 1) → *41.4 Bharani
atua ata Rei - tuu te Rei hemoa i ako te vai

Ako. To sing, to recite: he-ako i te kaikai, to recite the [text accompanying a] string figure kaikai; he-ako i te rîu, to sing rîu. Vanaga. Song. Ako hakaha'uru poki = 'song to make children sleep'. Barthel. Ákoáko, to recite hymns in honour of a deity. Vanaga.

 

Ab1-8 (1335 + 7) Ab1-9 Ab1-10 (90 + 580 + 10 = 1344) Ab1-11

Ab1-12

Ab1-13 (1347)
29 (→ 152 + 150) Oct 30 Halloween Samhain (*225) 2 (306 = 123 + 183) Nov 3 (*227)
20 Aug (*152) 21 Aug 22 Aug 23 Aug 24 Aug (236) 25 Aug (*157)
    ZUBEN ELGENUBI    
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 29 30 Beltaine   2 (50 + 72) 3 (123) 4

19 Febr

20 Febr (*336) 21 Febr (29 + 21) 22 Febr Terminalia (*340)
    BHARANI   DENEBOLA MENKAR
Ko te maitaki - ko te maharoga hetuu e roia - e ragi huhuki eaha ia ko te Rei oho ia mai

Haro. To pull; popohaga o te rua raá, i haro i te aka o te miro, on the morning of the second day, they pulled up the anchor of the boat. He haro i te hagu a roto, to draw in air, to breathe. He-haro te vaka i te au , the boat is towed off course in the current. Vanaga. a. to point, to raise the arm, to stretch out the hand or other member, to spread, to point the yards. b. to hoist, to pull up, to entice. c. to stiffen, to grasp, to squeeze. Haroharo, to point, to limp. PS Sa.: falo, to stretch out. To.: falo, to stretch out, to make tense. Fu.: falo, to stretch out, to lay hands on. Churchill.

Hu. 1. Breaking of wind. T Mgv., uu, to break wind. Mq., Ta.: hu, id. 2. Whistling of the wind, to blow, tempest, high wind. P Pau.: huga, a hurricane. Churchill. Mgv.: hu, to burst, to crackle, to snap. Ha.: hu, a noise. Churchill.

ihe tau

Ab1-14 Ab1-15 Ab1-16 Ab1-17 Ab1-18 Ab1-19 Ab1-20
e honu paka e kana ia - kana rei ia - e heheu ia e pure ia ka tuu i te ragi

Paka. 1. Dry; to become dry (of things); pakapaka, to dry out. Te paka is also the name of the moss-covered areas, between the small lakes of volcano Rano Kau, through which one can pass without getting one's feet wet. 2. To go, to depart; he-paka-mai, to come; he-oho, he-paka, they go away. 3. To become calm (of the sea): ku-paka-á te tai. Pakahera, skull, shell, cranium; pakahera puoko tagata, human skull; pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Gutu pakapaka, scabbed lips. Hau paka, fibres of the hauhau tree, which were first soaked in water, then dried to produce a strong thread. Moa gao verapaka, chicken with bald neck. Ariki Paka, certain collateral descendents of Hotu Matu'a, who exercised religious functions. Vanaga. 1. Crust, scab, scurf; paka rerere, cancer; pakapaka, crust, scabby. 2. Calm, still. 3. Intensive; vera paka, scorching hot; marego paka, bald; nunu paka, thin. 4. To arrive, to come. 5. To be eager. 6. To absorb. 7. Shin T. Pakahera, calabash, shell, jug. Pakahia, to clot, curdle, coagulate. Pakapaka, dry, arid, scorching hot, cooked too much, a desert, to fade away, to roast, a cake, active; toto pakapaka, coagulated blood; hakapakapaka, to dry, to broil, to toast. Pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Churchill.

Nov 4 5 6 (310) 7 8 (301 + 11) 9 10 (314)
SEPT 1 2 (*165) 3 4 5 6 7 (250)
ZUBEN HAKRABIM   ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI        
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
ALGOL     ZIBAL (*48.0)   ALGENIB PERSEI

GIENAH

 
May 5 (125) 6 7 8 9 10 (*50) 11

 
Ab1-21 Ab1-22 Ab1-23 Ab1-24 Ab1-25 Ab1-26 Ab1-27 Ab1-28
ka maroa te ragi - e ragi maú ia e ruku te manu ki te ika - mo tui no te ariki - nuku hakapiri te aha - no te ariki - e hau tui ika - mo te ragi mo te manu
SIRRAH Nov 12 (316) 13 COR SERPENTIS   Nov 15 16 (320) VRISCHIKA SCHEDIR
May 12 13 (133) 14 (499) TAU-ONO ALCYONE May 17 ZAURAK ν Tauri
MARCH 9 10 11 12 13 3-14 IDUS 16 (75)

Mo. For (prep.): mo te aha, what for? (also: mo he); moira, because of this; mo aha-mai-á, ana oho au, what use is it to me, if I go? Vanaga. 1. For (moo); ika ke avai mo, abuse (bad treatment too great for); riva mo tere, navigable (fit for voyaging); pu moo naa, hiding-place (hole for hiding); koona moo tomo, port (place for entering); moo iharaa, ordinary; moo te oone, shovel (for the sand). PS Mgv.: mo, for. Sa., To., Fu., Niuē, Ma., Aniwa: mo, id. 2. In order that (moo); mo okorua, to accompany, to adjoin (in order to be two-together); moo arai, to join (in order to be together). 3. A negative value (moo); moo aneira, inopportune. Churchill.

Ab1-29 Ab1-30 (700) Ab1-31 Ab1-32 Ab1-33
Nov 19 20 21 (325) 22 23
LIBERALIA MARCH 18 19 20 21 (80)

Ab1-34 Ab1-35 Ab1-36 Ab1-37 (707) Ab1-38
Nov 24 25 26 27 28 (332)
MARCH 22 23 24 25 (84) 26
Ab1-39 Cb2-20
Nov 29
Ab1-40 (670 + 40 = 710) Cb2-21 (392 + 45)
Nov 30 (334)

Going back from Ab1-40 at November 30 (334 → 1334 - 1000) to March 21 (80) implies a first step to Vrischika in November 17 (334 - 13 = 321 (*241) and then back to Halloween in October 31 (304), from which the distance to 0h should be 304 - 80 = 224 days (→ 32 weeks):

*17 *13
Ab1-10 (680) Ab1-27 (697) Ab1-40 (710)
ZUBEN ELGENUBI (*224) VRISCHIKA (*241) Nov 30 (334, *254)

Halloween (October 31, 304, *224) should be 10 days after Aa8-85 (670), the last glyph on side a at October 21 (294, *214).

We can then count from my table over the Tahua text and find that 0h (March 21, 80) ought to be at glyph number 456 (= 670 - 294):

456 → 45 * 6 = 270 = 9 * 30 and 4 * 56 = 224 = 32 * 7.

a1 90 90 b1 82 82
a2 85 175 b2 85 167
a3 76 251 b3 77 244
a4 82 333 b4 80 324
a5 83 416 b5 80 404
a6 40 456 b6 92 496
44 500
a7 85 585 b7 84 580
a8 85 670 b8 84 664
sum 456 + 214 sum 664

.Here is Aa6-40 (→ 10 * 64):

Aa6-39 Aa6-40 (456) Aa6-41 Aa6-42 Aa6-43 Aa6-44 (460) Aa6-45

 

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