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TAHUA II
49 Also the last glyph on side a of the C tablet should represent the place for Polaris, because 392 (Ca14-29) - 26 (Ca1-26) = 366 (= 183 + 183):
The addition of 366 instead of 365 can be motivated by the fact that the Julian year measured 365¼ days. And we should similarly be able to add 366 / 2 = 183 glyphs to Ca1-26 in order to once again reach Pálida and Algenib Pegasi, although now they should be 'upisde down' (in inverted positions after having 'exchanged sexes'): ... Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...
The last glyph on side a of the A tablet can be compared with Ca7-16:
South of the equatorial belt everything would be upside down - not quite believable until having experienced it by yourself. Gravitation will keep you down to earth and everything else will also seem to be quite normal. Until you notice how the growing (waxing) and waning crescents of the Moon have 'exchanged sexes':
And when reaching the equatorial belt (the home of the Polynesians) all would be shocked to see the crescent of the Moon in form of a boat floating on the horizon.
Perhaps the idea depicted in Ca7-16 was to illustrate how the face of the Sun was leaving inside a boat, sinking down below the horizon in the west and only half of him still remaining in full view. ... The Loy Krathong-feast was held in Sundsvall yesterday. It is a feast for Thai people when they celebrate and thank the Water Goddess. People go down to the sea and put afloat a little boat made of banana leaves. Inside there is a little lighted candle. I wonder what kind of leaves they used here in Sundsvall, not many left on the trees now ... ... on the first day of the year the natives dress in navy uniforms and performs exercises which imitate the maneuvers of ships' crews ...
In September 21 (264 = 80 + 184) the Sun would be (both when rising and when descending, both at noon and at midnight) at the line between δ Ursae Majoris and δ Crucis:
590 → 20 * 29½ and Megrez was at the Root of the Tail.
The old viri in Ga5-11 was 'falling on his face'
because of the equinox in Fall.- at the Corner in Virgo. Here the Sun had gone down past 0º:
It was at the 13th Hindu station - the Raven constellation - and with the explanatory comment: the Hand (Hasta - remarkably similar to the Spanish term for 'goodby', hasta la vista).
It was a time of Deep Emotion, the last station in the Chinese overview and located at the Wing of the Raven (Corvus) - cfr the Wing of Pegasus (Algenib).
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