TAHUA II
55 I have pointed at the possibility to read 500
(the period of the Phoenix) as
equivalent to the sum of 365 and 135 (May 15).
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*20 |
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SHERATAN (*27.4) |
Cb1-2 |
Cb1-3 (395) |
2h (*30.4) |
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Cb1-24 (416) |
Cb2-1
(25) |
Cb2-2 |
Cb2-3 |
GIENAH
(*50) |
May 11
(131) |
May
12 (*52) |
ACRUX |
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Cb2-4
(420) |
Cb2-5 (29) |
Cb2-6 |
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te ua |
koia ra |
kua tuku ki to mata - ki tona
tukuga |
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May 14 (134) |
15 (135 = 500 - 365) |
16 (*56) |
... I'a is the
general name for fishes,' Pratt notes in his Samoan dictionary,
'except the bonito and shellfish (mollusca and crustacea).' ...
... And if the rites were
not duly observed, if the hook was not rightly tied, if the
fisher was so incautious as to mention his eyes, if one of a
hundred faults was committed and the fishing was in vain,
then the fisher acknowledged his ill success abjectly by
saying that (maloā)
he was conquered. Such is the language
Samoans use to the gentleman of the seas, and he is not
i'a ...
... A very detailed myth comes from the
island of Nauru. In the beginning there was nothing but
the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider. One day the Old-Spider
found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object
had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as
it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty. By repeating a
charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could
see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist;
and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough
room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last
found a snail. To endow it with power she placed it under her
arm, lay down and slept for
three days. Then she let it free, and still hunting about
she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated
it in the same way ...
From the culmination of Acrux to Alcyone rising with the Sun
there were 3 days.
And the culmination of Sirrah should occur 'simultaneously' half a year away:
...This mode of reckoning seems to be a
peculiarity of the far north: the Icelanders reckoned in
misseri, half-years, not in whole years, and the rune-staves
divide the year into a summer and a winter half, beginning on
April 14 and October 14 respectively. But in Germany too, 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' ...
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SEPT
7 (250 = 200 + 50) |
8
(*171) |
9 |
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Ga7-1 (250 - 80
= 170) |
Ga7-2 |
Ga7-3
(252 → 36 weeks) |
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NUSAKAN (Pauper's Bowl) = β Cor. Bor. (234.0),
κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7), ζ Librae
(234.9) |
θ Cor. Borealis (235.3), γ Lupi (235.6),
GEMMA = α Cor.
Bor., ZUBEN ELAKRAB = γ Librae, QIN = δ Serpentis, ε Tr. Austr.
(235.7),
μ Cor. Borealis (235.8), υ Librae (235.9)
SIRRAH (α ANDROMEDAE)
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φ Bootis (236.2), ω Lupi, τ Librae (236.3), ψ¹
Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor. Borealis (236.9) |
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Nov
10 (314 → π) |
11 (*235) |
12
(*56 + *180 = *236) |
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°Nov 6 (310) |
7
(*231) |
8 |
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'Oct
14 (287 = 314 - 27) |
15
(*208 = *235 - *27) |
16 |
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"Sept 30 (273 = 314 - 41) |
"Oct
1 |
2
(*195) |
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... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion
based on the oak-cult will be swept away by
Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will
languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod,
the Corona Borealis. This helps us to
understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and
the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess
of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She
was the hinge on which the year swung - the
ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her
importance as such is recorded in the Latin
adjective cardinalis - as we say in
English 'of cardinal importance - which was also
applied to the four main winds; for winds were
considered as under the sole direction of the
Great Goddess until Classical times ... |
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IDEALLY
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON: |
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MARCH 9 (68 = 250 - 182) |
10
(*354 = *171 + *183) |
11 (*355) |
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No star listed (52) |
ψ
Persei (53.1)
ACRUX (α
CRUCIS) |
δ
Persei (54.7) |
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May
12 (132) |
13
(*53) |
14 |
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°May
8 (128) |
9
(*49) |
10 |
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'April 15 |
16
(471 = 288 + 183) |
17
(107) |
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"April 1 (91) |
2
(*377 = *194 + *183) |
3 |
On side a of the C tablet we should remember the eye-catching
pair presumably visualizing how Old Spider was endowing power:
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0h |
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*236 |
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Ca1-1 |
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March 22
(81, *1) |
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ALGENIB
PEGASI |
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*1 + *183 =
*184 |
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Sept 21
(264. *184) |
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(*184 - *41 =
*143) |
| koia |
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*13 |
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*100 |
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Ca10-6 (9 * 29) |
Ca10-7 (262) |
Ca13-20 (→
13 * 20) |
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Dec 7 (341,
*261) |
Dec 8 |
March 18 (443, *362) |
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Sarin
(*261.0), ο Ophiuchi (*261.4)
ALRISHA
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θ Ophiuchi,
ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (*262.4) |
DZANEB
(*362.4)
ACUBENS
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CAPELLA
(*78.4)
THUBAN
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*262 + *183
= *445
ARCTURUS
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no star
listed (*180) |
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June 7
(158, *78) |
June 8 |
Sept 17
(260, *180) |
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(158 - 41
= 117, *37) |
"April 28
(→ 4 * 29½) |
(*180 - *41
= *139) |
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(158 - 64
= 94, *14) |
APRIL 5
(95, *79 - *64) |
(*139 - *23
= *116) |
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Tupu te toromiro |
kua noho te vai |
- |
Acrux and Sirrah evidently formed a pair:
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ACRUX |
*3 |
ALCYONE |
*182 |
SIRRAH
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*3 |
ALCYONE |
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May 13
(133, *53) |
May 16 (136,
*56) |
Nov 11 (315, *235) |
Nov 14 (318,
*238) |
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Gb8-20 |
Gb8-23 |
Ga7-2 (171) |
Ga7-5 (174) |
My arrangement of the glyphs in the table above appears to go
withershins (with the Moon), but the dates are moving with the
Sun. You can measure a cycle beginning anywhere, and also move in
both directions.
And, as we can see, another such pair is described by
Thuban and Alrisha, with Lesath (†)
in the Scorpion reflecting the role of Alcyone (*).
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THUBAN |
*3 |
LESATH |
*182 |
ALRISHA
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*3 |
LESATH |
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June 7
(133 + 25, *78) |
June 10
(161) |
Dec 7 (341,
*261) |
Dec 10
(*264)
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Ca10-6 (261
→
9 * 29) |
Ca10-9 (264) |
Ca4-2 (78
→
3 * 26) |
Ca4-5 (81 →
3 * 27) |
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Tupu te toromiro |
te marama |
kua tupu - te kihikihi |
te rau hei |
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... 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
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The
location of glyph number 78 (*78 → Rigel) seems to visualize the
major stars in the Auriga constellation (where the Charioteer
had lost his Horse);
and where the ashes (te
kihikihi) would form a fertile ground for the fallen head in
which to
sprout (kua tupu).
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*456
→ 45 * 6 =
270 = 3 * 90 |
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Ca4-2 (78) |
Cb6-27 (534) |
| kua tupu - te kihikihi |
kua tupu te kihikihi |
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June 7
(158, *78)
THUBAN
ĸ Leporis (78.0),
RIGEL
(Foot) =
β
Orionis
(78.1),
Flaming Star = IC405
(78.2),
CAPELLA
(Mother Goat) =
α
Aurigae (78.4),
ο
Columbae,
τ
Orionis (78.8)
*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4
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*37.0 -
*220.0 = - *183.0 |
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Dec 7 (341,
*261)
ALRISHA
SARIN =
δ
Herculis (261.0),
ο
Ophiuchi (261.4)
*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4 |
*183.0 =
*220.0 - *37.0 |
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