15. When Maui fished up the Land of New Zealand the proper procedures were not followed: ... 'Now while I'm away,' he said, 'show some common sense and don't be impatient. Don't eat food until I come back, and whatever you do don't start cutting up the fish until I have found a priest and made an offering to the gods, and completed all the necessary rites. When I get back it will be all right to cut him up, and we'll share him out equally then. What we cannot take with us will keep until we come back for it.' Maui then returned to their village. But as soon as his back was turned his brothers did the very things that he had told them not to. They began to eat food, which was a sacrilege because no portion had yet been offered to the gods. And they started to scale the fish and cut bits off it. When they did this, Maui had not yet reached the sacred place and the presence of the gods. Had he done so, all the male and female deities would have been appeased by the promise of portions of the fish, and Tangaroa would have been content. As it was they were angry, and they caused the fish of Maui to writhe and lash about like any other fish. That is the reason why this land, Aotearoa, is now so rough and mountainous and much of it so unuseful to man. Had the brothers done as Maui told them it would have lain smooth and flat, an example to the world of what good land should be. But as soon as the sun rose above the horizon the writhing fish of Maui became solid underfoot, and could not be smoothed out again. This act of Maui's, that gave our people the land on which we live, was an event next in greatness to the separation of the Sky and Earth ... I think the measure 123 right ascension days in some way corresponded to the upper (and dry) 'carapace' ('land') of the 'Earth Turtle', the 'little bald woman', ... The ancient Chinese believed that with the arrival of the dry season the earth and sky ceased to communicate. The Spirit of drought was personified by a little bald woman with eyes at the top of her head. While she was present, the sky refrained from sending rain, so as not to harm her.Hills and rivers are the first to suffer from drought. It deprives hills of their trees, i.e. their hair, and rivers of their fish, which are their people. The same word, wang, means mad, deceitful, lame, hunchbacked, bald and Spirit of drought ... because there were 123 glyphs incised on the upper half of the Phaistos Disc.
We have to consider how this idea will fit with my early counting to 123 days from Ga2-27 (→ 22 / 7 = π → 314) up to and including Ga7-10. When a 'land' is smaller than it would have been if smooth and flat it means something must have gone badly wrong. ... This island was once a great land. The reason it became so small is because Uoke lifted the earth with a (mighty) pole and then let it sink (into the sea). It was because of the very bad people of Te Pito O Te Henua that Uoke lifted the land (and let it crumble) until it became very small. From the uplifted Te Pito O Te Henua, (they) came to the landing site of Nga Tavake, to Te Ohiro. In Rotomea (near Mataveri) they disembarked and climbed up to stay at Vai Marama (a waterplace near Mataveri). During the next month, they moved on to Te Vare (on the slope of the crater Rano Kau). When they saw that the (land-) lifting Uoke also approached (their present) island, Nga Tavake spoke to Te Ohiro: 'The land is sinking into the sea and we are lost!' But Te Ohiro warded off the danger with a magic chant. In Puku Puhipuhi, Uoke's pole broke, and, in this way, at least Nga Tavake's landing site remained (of the formerly great land) ... At this point in our discussion it should be pointed out that Cancer is not located down in the Milky Way river, instead Cancer can be perceived as having been 'uplifted':
And the event could have taken place around 9h (→ Ga3-14) - 6h ago. 3h / 24h * 365¼ = ca 46 right ascension precessional days. ... Allen has documented all his star culminations at 21h, which could be due to an effort of keeping the culminations at their proper places according to the ancients, 24h (spring equinox) - 21h = 3h = 24h / 8 = 45º. 3h corresponds to 366 / 8 = 45.75 of my right ascension days and *366 - *46 = *320 (Dramasa, σ Octantis) ...
The high point of this tremendous feat by Maui of lifting the ecliptic 'fish' thus seems to have occurred around 46 * 71 = 3266 years ago, i..e. around AD 1842 - 3266 = 1424 BC (from where a powerful and lasting period with no rain would cause the downfall of the Bronze Age empires of the Middle East). ... 26000 / 365.25 = 71 ... ... Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ... Considering the fact that the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ... 6h corresponds to 3 months after 0h and the Gregorian spring equinox ('the separation of the Sky and Earth').
When Uoke (→ cfr Swedish Våg = Libra) 'liberated' Heaven and Earth from each other,
i.e. lifted up a great piece of the 'land' - presumably meaning the ecliptic plane - into midair, it implied the other side had to go down into the 'water' (become like a submarine). And possibly we should count 123 - 100 = 23 → 46 / 2:
This idea seems to have been expressed by the Babylonians when they contrasted their inundated Field below the uplifted Milky Way river (of life souls) with a place completely devoid of water (deserted), where the Milky Way had been pushed down to the Abyss:
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