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101. If the ancient rule was to wait for the return to visibility of the relevant stars, which as a rule of thumb could be expected to be 16 days, then the star at heliacal spring equinox (March 20, 79) would be expected to become visible again in day 79 + 16 = 95.

Leader: Ringa pakia! Uma tiraha! Turi whatia! Hope whai ake! Waewae takahia kia kino!

Leader: Ka mate, ka mate
Team: Ka ora, ka ora
Leader: Ka mate, ka mate
Team:
Ka ora, ka ora

All together :
Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru
Nāna nei i tiki mai whakawhiti te rā
Ā upane, ka upane
Ā upane, ka upane
Whiti te rā, hī!

Leader: Slap the hands against the thighs! Puff out the chest!
Bend the knees! Let the hip follow! Stamp the feet as hard as you can!

Leader: ’Tis death, ‘tis death (or: I may die)
Team: ’Tis life, ‘tis life (or: I may live)
Leader: ’Tis death, ‘tis death
Team: ’Tis life, ‘tis life 

All together :
This the hairy man that stands here…
…who brought the sun and caused it to shine
A step upward, another step upward
A step upward, another step upward
The sun shines!

It is death, it is death: it is life, it is life; this is the man who enabled me to live as I climb up step by step toward sunlight.

Day 95 ought to correspond to April 5. But instead we should presumably use the Gregorian view and then March 21 (0h) + 16 becomes April 6 (*16) at glyph number 88 on side b of the tablet:

FEBR 1 (32) 2 3 (399) 4 (*320)

... Sirrah would return to visibility after its close encounter with the blinding rays from the Sun at the time as when the Sun reached Revati (*16). Thus Revati was located *16 + *16 = *32 right ascension days after Markab Pegasi ...

Gb3-27 (88) Gb3-28 Gb3-29 (319) Gb3-30 (91)
PLACE OF THE SUN:

Al Batn Al Hūt-26 (Belly of the Fish) / Revati-28 (Prosperous) / 1-iku (Field Measure)

MIRACH (Girdle) = β Andromedae, KEUN MAN MUN (Camp's South Gate) = φ Andromedae (16.0), ANUNITUM = τ Piscium (16.5), REVATI (Abundant) = ζ Piscium (16.9)

 REGULUS (α Leonis)

ζ PISCIUM:

March 8 AD 2023 (67, 432 4 * 108)

VENUS

ν Phoenicis (17.4),  κ Tucanae (17.6)

*158.0 + *183.0 = 341.0

No star listed (18) ADHIL (Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7)
April 6 (*16) 7 8 (*383) 9 (464)
°April 2 (*12) 3 4 5 (460)
'March 10 (*354) 11 12 13 (72)
"Febr 24 (*340) 25 26 27 (58)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
AUG 2 (214 = 32 + 182) 3 4 (*136) 5
APAMI-ATSA (Child of Waters) = θ Virginis, ψ Hydrae (198.5), DIADEM = α Com. Ber. (198.9)

AL DAFĪRAH (Tuft) = β Com. Ber. (199.4)

*158.0 = *199.4 - *41.4

σ Virginis (200.4)

*159.0 = *200.4 - *41.4

γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4)

*160.0 = *201.4 - *41.4
Oct 5 6 7 (280) 8
°Oct 1 2 3 (*196) 4 (277)
'Sept 8 9 (*172) 10 11 (254)
"Aug 25 26 (*158) 27 28 (240)
Ga5-24 Ga5-25 (135) Ga5-26 (→ Alcyone) Ga5-27

... It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer [ui] for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder ...

... The life-force of the earth is water. God moulded the earth with water. Blood too he made out of water. Even in a stone there is this force, for there is moisture in everything. But if Nummo is water, it also produces copper. When the sky is overcast, the sun's rays may be seen materializing on the misty horizon. These rays, excreted by the spirits, are of copper and are light. They are water too, because they uphold the earth's moisture as it rises. The Pair excrete light, because they are also light ... 'The sun's rays,' he went on, 'are fire and the Nummo's excrement. It is the rays which give the sun its strength. It is the Nummo who gives life to this star, for the sun is in some sort a star.' It was difficult to get him to explain what he meant by this obscure statement. The Nazarene made more than one fruitless effort to understand this part of the cosmogony; he could not discover any chink or crack through which to apprehend its meaning. He was moreover confronted with identifications which no European, that is, no average rational European, could admit. He felt himself humiliated, though not disagreeably so, at finding that his informant regarded fire and water as complementary, and not as opposites. The rays of light and heat draw the water up, and also cause it to descend again in the form of rain. That is all to the good. The movement created by this coming and going is a good thing. By means of the rays the Nummo draws out, and gives back the life-force. This movement indeed makes life ...

In this day - when Regulus culminated at 21h - the Sun would reach the Girdle of Andromeda (i.e. her midline at *16.0):

Lower down to be seen in the sky´was the constellation of Pisces with Revati (ζ) and Anunitum (τ).

ο ANDROMEDAE

MARKAB PEGASI

*8

λ ANDROMEDAE

*8

SIRRAH (α)

*8

SCHEDIR

Gb2-29 (55 + 229) Gb2-30 (56, 285) Gb3-3 (64) Gb3-11 (72)

Gb3-19 (80)

DEC 30 (*284) 31 (*285) JAN 8 JAN 16 (*301) JAN 24 (*309)
March 4 (*348) 5 (64) March 13 (72) March 21 (*365, 0h) March 29 (88, *8)

*8

REVATI (ζ)

Gb3-27 (88)

FEBR 1 (32)
April 6 (*16)

Anciently they would here have looked for the return to visibility of Sirrah at the time when the Sun would be at heliacal Mirach (β in Anunitú), but currently they instead ought to think of how the Sun here reached Revati in Pisces.

And here - in March 8 (67) AD 2023 - was the place for the evening planet Venus:

Anunitum (τ) is *16 days after Sirrah at the Topknot of Andromeda - and half a day after φ (at the Knee of her Right Leg) together with β (the star at her Girdle, Mirach, β):

This - the star τ in Anunitú = τ Piscium (together with φ and β) - was evidently where the ancient Mesopotamians had placed their Field Measure (1-Iku). Because here the final of the Square would come into view and Mother Earth return to Life.

Egyptian bread, (-t, female determinant) Phoenician qoph Greek phi Φ(φ)

... is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet ... Its origin is uncertain but it may be that phi originated as the letter qoppa ... In traditional Greek numerals, phi has a value of 500 or 500000 ...

Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1, 2003: 'The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character Q being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ... Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot' ...

... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest.

When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...

Egyptian sticks Phoenician taw Greek chi Χ (χ)
Greek tau Τ (τ)

In Plato's Timaeus, it is explained that the two bands that form the soul of the world cross each other like the letter Χ.

Roman XII = 12 → XIII = 13, with the Nose in between - and later, after the Mouth, the cycle would begin anew (I).

Chi or X is often used to abbreviate the name Christ, as in the holiday Christmas (Xmas). When fused within a single typespace with the Greek letter Rho, it is called the labarum and used to represent the person of Jesus Christ. (Wikipedia)

... tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300 ... Taw is believed to be derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph meaning 'mark' ...

Taw, Tav or Taf is the twenty-second and last letter in many Semitic abjads ... In gematria Tav represents the number 400, the largest single number that can be represented without using the Sophit forms ...

'From Aleph to Taf' describes something from beginning to end; the Hebrew equivalent of the English 'From A to Z' ...

Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew word emet, which means truth. The midrash explains that emet is made up of the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet (Aleph, Mem, and Tav...). Sheqer (falsehood), on the other hand, is made up of the 19th, 20th, and 21st (and penultimate) letters.

Thus, truth is all-encompassing, while falsehood is narrow and deceiving. In Jewish mythology it was the word emet that was carved into the head of the Golem which ultimately gave it life. But when the letter 'aleph' was erased from the Golem's forehead, what was left was 'met' - dead. And so the Golem died ... (Wikipedia)