124. Let's now follow the path of Mars from August 23 AD 2022 and ahead from there. Is it really possible that the diagram which I have copied - illustrating the retrograde motion of the planet - could be applied as a road map for the year AD 2022?
I suppose the copied diagram was intended to give merely a rough outline of the stars in the background, and not to be read as a star map in the rongorongo sense. But presumably we can identify the star above the center betrween December 6 and January 20 as β Tauri (El-Nath, the Butting One, *80). 80 + 80 = 160 (June 9). ... 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 ...
Therefore we should only rely on the dates given in the diagram and put them in parallel with the glyphs in the G text:
The sight line between λ & ν Tauri and from there up to the ecliptic illustrates how it would be possible to find the right ascension position of a planet on the ecliptic even if there were no stars visible close by. The ecliptic, on the other hand, was no problem because it was repeatedly etched into their minds each cloudless night when it was visualized by the planets.
From the night at 03h in August 23 AD 2022 to 03h in September 7 (250, *170) there should be 31 + 7 - 23 = 15 days. *155 + *15 = *170. According to Cartes du Ciel we could here observe Mars just above the straight line between Ain (the Eye of the Bull) and τ (Tau Tauri): ... 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 ...
According to my old astronomy book this star (τ) - marked by a red dot - is just above the eclitpic:
 Although I have not listed τ (Tau Tauri) we can see that the position of Mars ought to correspond to that of Aldebaran:
... He continued travelling until he reached the house of Uetonga, whose name all men know: he was the tattoo expert of the world below, and the origin and source of all the tattoo designs in this world. Uetonga was at work tattooing the face of a chief. This chief was lying on the ground with his hands clenched and his toes twitching while the father of Niwareka worked at his face with a bone of many sharpened points, and Mataora was greatly surprised to see that blood was flowing from the cheeks of that chief. Mataora had his own moko, it was done here in the world above, but it was painted on with ochre and blue clay. Mataora had not seen such moko as Uetonga was making, and he said to him, 'You are doing that in the wrong way, O old one. We do not do it thus.' 'Quite so,' replied Uetonga, 'you do not do it thus. But yours is the way that is wrong. What you do above there is tuhi, it is only fit for wood. You see,' he said, putting forth his hand to Mataora's cheek, 'it will rub off.' And Uetonga smeared Mataora's make-up with his fingers and spoiled its appearance. And all the people sitting round them laughed, and Uetonga with them ...
The Tahitian star pillar list has the 'foot' of Aldebaran (Ana-mua) as the place for tattooing.
The enigmatic number 235 → 250 - 15 was possibly a reference to the angle of obliquity:
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