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TAHUA
8. The force of curiousity will then push us ahead in the A text in order to reach November 28:
Because 10 days (glyphs) after November 18 (and the 2nd breaking of the coconut) the Ship with the effigy of Rongo (Lono) onboard should begin to move, to come alive: ... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades .... ... 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 ...
Possibly this Ship has been depicted in the 2nd apartment on the bottom (underside) of the Phaistos disc:
Ab1-38 (at the culmination of Schedir) was probably intended to visualize a rising Kahi:
Kahi. Tuna; two sorts: kahi aveave, kahi matamata. Vanaga. Mgv.: kahi, to run, to flow. Mq.: kahi, id. Churchill. Rangitokona, prop up the heaven! // Rangitokona, prop up the morning! // The pillar stands in the empty space. The thought [memea] stands in the earth-world - // Thought stands also in the sky. The kahi stands in the earth-world - // Kahi stands also in the sky. The pillar stands, the pillar - // It ever stands, the pillar of the sky. (Moriori creation myth according to Legends of the South Seas.) In my glyph catalogue for the Phaistos disc the Ship became number 27:
And the total number of the glyphs on the disc is 241 (not 242) - a number which 'happens to' coincide with the right ascension day of Vrischika:
Maybe 'the Crab' (Vrischika) was a Coconut Crab: ... Early India knew it [Scorpius] as Āli, Viçrika, or Vrouchicam, - in Tamil, Vrishaman; but later on Varāha Mihira said Kaurpya, and Al Birūni, Kaurba, both from the Greek Scorpios. On the Cingalese zodiac it was Ussika ...
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