177 → 354 / 2. We should begin with a new list:
Why is the predicted date for the planet Mars in AD 2027 December 28 instead of January 5 in the diagram above? The dates given in the diagram certainly are to read from the Gregorian (↔ Julian) calendar. Earlier, before the Julian calendar, the significant type of year may have been counted as 350 + 5 nights, possibly ending at the December solstice (day 355 counted from January 1).
We can guess there was influence from ancient Egypt (which Pythagoras had visited). ... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...: In the diagram above we can see how the cardinal points from the beginning of the retrograde path of Mars (at Vrischika) are arriving at day number 6 in the month and so we could expected it to be also in January. This pattern is evidently in contrast to that for the normal path of Mars before the Scorpion, when instead number 7 was used. ... 7 is the mystic number of the earth's surface ...
... Matua [A Taana] said to Hotu [A Matua], 'Take along the Hanau Eepe and let them work the land!' Hotu called out to Heke: 'Go and bring the 500 prisoners on board the canoe!' He took all of them along, led them on board the canoe, and left them there. For six days (po ono), mats (moenga) were taken on board the canoe (i.e., the loading of the canoe took six days) ... [E:73-74] We should also recall from Manuscript E that the Explorers were initially 7 in number, but then Kuukuu (the planter) was struck down by a turtle and they became 6 - as the number of stars in the Pleiades. Finally, when they left Easter Island in order to go home to Hiva Makoi (the geographer) stayed behind and they became only 5. January 5 might have been due to the 5 intercalated days for Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the Night (→ Nut). 365 = 360 + 5. And February might have been regarded as belonging to the old year, with April (→ Opening) as the first month of the new year. ... And then there were Lulal and Laterak, who on the Dendera round zodiac were placed due south of Aries, with Alrisha (the Knot) clearly at the staff of the immortal one. The whip wielded by Laterak looks similar to the cat'o nine tails of Castor (and the februa thongs which Marcus Antonius used for reactivating the Roman ladies) ... There were 6 (or 7) days from February 23 (Terminalia) to the Kalends of March: ... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day') ... ... The brutes of spring caused the downfall of both Captain Cook and Julius Caesar. We are close to the key myth of mankind, that which explains the regeneration of sun and of growth. Once at least some people kept the tradition living. I became interested in what really happened at March 15 and reopened Henrikson to find out: Caesar had been forewarned of the threat by the prophet Spurinna, who told him that a great threat was coming at Idus Martiae or just before [i.e. at 3-14]. The day arrived and Caesar was still living, walking to his meeting with the Senate when he happened to encounter Spurinna and told him jokingly that he was still alive. Spurinna calmely answered that the day had yet not ended ... The dates in the Gregorian (and the Julian) calendar were dates for the SUN. Therefore:
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