202. So the culmination of Sirius (at 21h according to my assumed era for rongorongo) defined where one half of the year was beginning and that of Wega was where the other (primordial) half of the year had begun.

... 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) ...

Mankind followed behind the Gods. Mankind was weak and the Gods were strong.

... It is an interesting fact, although one little commented upon, that myths involving a canoe journey, whether they originate from the Athapaskan and north-western Salish, the Iroquois and north-eastern Algonquin, or the Amazonian tribes, are very explicit about the respective places allocated to passengers. In the case of maritime, lake-dwelling or river-dwelling tribes, the fact can be explained, in the first instance, by the importance they attach to anything connected with navigation: 'Literally and symbolically,' notes Goldman ... referring to the Cubeo of the Uaupés basin, 'the river is a binding thread for the people. It is a source of emergence and the path along which the ancestors had travelled. It contains in its place names genealogical as well as mythological references, the latter at the petroglyphs in particular.' A little further on ... the same observer adds: 'The most important position in the canoe are those of stroke and steersman. A woman travelling with men always steers, because that is the lighter work. She may even nurse her child while steering ... On a long journey the prowsman or stroke is always the strongest man, while a woman, or the weakest or oldest man is at the helm ...

... After the great flood had at long last receded, Raven had gorged himself on the delicacies left by the receding water, so for once, perhaps the first time in his life, he wasn't hungry. But his other appetites, his curiosity and the unquenchable itch to meddle and provoke things, to play tricks on the world and its creatures, these remained unsatisfied. Raven gazed up and down the beach. It was pretty, but lifeless. There was no one about to upset, or play tricks upon. Raven sighed. He crossed his wings behind him and strutted up and down the sand, his shiny head cocked, his sharp eyes and ears alert for any unusual sight or sound. The mountains and the sea, the sky now ablaze with the sun by day and the moon and stars he had placed there, it was all pretty, but lifeless. Finally Raven cried out to the empty sky with a loud exasperated cry. And before the echoes of his cry faded from the shore, he heard a muffled squeak. He looked up and down the beach for its source and saw nothing. He strutted back and and forth, once, twice, three times and still saw nothing. Then he spied a flash of white in the sand. There, half buried in the sand was a giant clamshell. As his shadow fell upon it, he heard another muffled squeak. Peering down into the opening between the halves of the shell, he saw it was full of tiny creatures, cowering in fear at his shadow. Raven was delighted. Here was a break in the monotony of the day. But how was he to get the creatures to come out of their shell and play with him? Nothing would happen as long as they stayed inside the giant clamshell ...

... The divine first appears abstractly, as generative-spirit-in-itself. Only after seven epochs of the po, the long night of the world's self-generation, are the gods as such born - as siblings to mankind. God and man appear together, and in fraternal strife over the means of their reproduction: their own older sister. Begun in the eighth epoch of creation, this struggle makes the transition to the succeeding ages of the ao, the 'day' or world known to man. Indeed the struggle is presented as the condition of the possibility of human life in a world in which the life-giving powers are divine. The end of the eighth chant thus celebrates a victory: 'Man spread about now, man was here now; / It was day [ao].' And this victory gained over the god is again analogous to the triumph achieved annually over Lono at the New Year, which effects the seasonal transition, as Hawaiians note, from the time of long nights (po) to the time of long days (ao). The older sister of god and man, La'ila'i, is the firstborn to all the eras of previous creation. By Hawaiian theory, as firstborn La'ila'i is the legitimate heir to creation; while as woman she is uniquely able to transform divine into human life. The issue in her brothers' struggle to possess her is accordingly cosmological in scope and political in form. Described in certain genealogies as twins, the first two brothers are named simply in the chant as 'Ki'i, a man' and 'Kane, a god'. But since Ki'i means 'image' and Kane means 'man', everything has already been said: the statuses of god and man are reversed by La'ila'i's actions. She 'sits sideways', meaning she takes a second husband, Ki'i, and her children by the man Ki'i are born before her children by the god Kane ... In the succeeding generations, the victory of the human line is secured by the repeated marriages of the sons of men to the daughters of gods, to the extent that the descent of the divine Kane is totally absorbed by the heirs of Ki'i ...

JAN 19 (384 = 13 * 29½ + ½)	20	21
Gb3-14 (75 → 182 - 107)	Gb3-15	Gb3-16 (229 + 77 = 306)
Gb7-1 (182 = 265 - 183)	Gb7-2 (229 + 183 = 412)	Gb7-3 (413 → 14 * 29½)
PLACE OF THE SUN:
σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7)	No star listed (4)	ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0) ALPHARD (α Hydrae)
March 24 (*3, *368)	3-25 (84, Julian equinox)	26 (365 + 85 = 450, *370)
°March 20 (*364)	0h	22 (81)
'Febr 25 (*341)	26 (422)	27 (58)
"Febr 11 (*327)	12 (408)	13 (*329)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
JULY 20 (201 = 19 + 182)	21	22 → 22 / 7 →π
Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28 (Worm) GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9) *144.0 = *185.4 - *41.4	CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3)	INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5) *146.0 = *187.4 - *41.4
Equinox	Sept 23 (266)	24 (*187)
°Sept 18 (261 → 9 * 29)	19	20 (*183)
'Aug 26 (*158 = *185 - *27)	27	28 (*160)
"Aug 12 (*144 = *185 - *41)	13 (225)	14 (*146)
Ga5-11 (121 → May 1, 121)	Ga5-12	Ga5-13 (123 = 306 - 183)

The birth of the primordial half of the year could evidently be observed at the place for the night of "August 13 (225) corresponding to the current date September 23 (266 = 225 + 41). I.e., the Raven constellation would come 41 days later than where it anciently (in the era of Bharani) had arrived.

... the bird, being sent with a cup for water, loitered at a fig-tree till the fruit became ripe, and then returned to the god with a water-snake in his claws and a lie in his mouth, alleging the snake to have been the cause of the delay. In punishment he was forever fixed in the sky with the Cup and the Snake; and, we may infer, doomed to everlasting thirst by the guardianship of the Hydra over the Cup and its contents. From all this came other poetical names for our Corvus - Avis Ficarius, the Fig Bird; and Emansor, one who stays beyond his time; and a belief, in early folk-lore, that this alone among birds did not carry water to its young ...

The era of Bharani (*41.4) was in turn *27 right ascension nights behnd that for Aldebaran (*68) → the First Point of Taurus:

The structure seems to have remained more or less the same while the times rolled on.

Therefore also Venus as Morning Star ought to have 27 nights at the beginning:

Phase of Venus	Observed periods	Periods in the Mayan 'map'	Difference
Evening star	263	250	- 13
Black	8	8	0
Morning star	263	236 = 8 * 29½	- 27
Black	50	90	+ 40
Sum	584	584	0

In other words, the 'First Point of Venus' (as Morning star) should be at the date April 17 according to its proper era.

We could then try to move on beyond Aldebaran (*68) and add a further *27 right ascension days. And this would bring us to right ascension day *95 → the 'First Point of Argo Navis' → Canopus.

175 (Canopus) - 115 (ξ Arietis) = 60.

→ *365 - *285 →  March 21 - December 31.

... Currently, according to my assumed era for rongorongo, the Point to watch was evidently defined by heliacal ξ Arietis:

	*225		*107
Ga2-1 (80 + 31 = 111)		Gb4-16 (336 ↔ 4 * 84)		Gb8-2 (443 = 229 + 2 * 107)
CANOPUS (*95)	305	Ξ ARIETIS (*400, *35)	0	Ξ ARIETIS (*400, *35)
St John's Day (175 → 350 / 2)		April 25 (480, 115)		April 25 (480, 115)

I have not listed the culmination date for Canopus, but with the culmination (at 21h) of Sirius at Gb2-8 we ought to search around 6 glyphs earlier:

... 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]

By the way, the current date is November 6 AD 2023.

Gb2-6 (9 * 29)	Gb2-7	Gb2-8	Gb2-9 (35)	Gb2-10 (265)
PLACE OF THE SUN
BUNDA (Foundation) / KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny) ... β and ξ also constituted the Persian lunar station Bunda and the similar Coptic Upuineuti, the Foundation; but β alone marked the sieu Heu, Hiu, or Hü, Void, anciently Ko, the central one of the seven sieu which, taken together, were known as Heung Wu, the Black Warrior, in the northern quarter of the sky. It is found in Hindu lists as Kalpeny, of unknown signification. On the Euphrates it was Kakkab Nammaχ, the Star of Mighty Destiny, that may have given origin to the title of the manzil [Al Sa'd al Su'ud], as well as to the astrologers' name for it - Fortuna Fortunarum. Al Firuzabadi of Khorasan, editor of Al Kāmūs, the great Arabic dictionary of the 14th century, called some of the smaller stars below this Al Au'ā, the plural of Nau', a Star, but without explanation, and they certainly are inconspicious ...
Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 (Luckiest of the Lucky) / Emptiness-11 (Rat) TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK (The Flock) = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9) March 14 AD 2024 (Π) MARS	No star listed (326)	CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA (Foundation) = ξ Aquarii (327.5) SIRIUS (α Canis Majoris	Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat) NASHIRA (Fortunate One) = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE (Tail of the Hen) = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)	Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat) ENIF (The Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 CAPRICORNI, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI =  δ Capricorni (329.8) *288.0 = *329.4 - *41.4
Febr 9 (40)	10	11	12 (408)	13 (345 + 64)
°Febr 5 (36)	6	7	8 (*324)	9 (40)
'Jan 13 (378)	14	15 (*300)	16	17
"Dec 30 (364)	31	"Jan 1	2	3 (368, *288)
DEC 7 (11 * 31 = 341)	8	9	10	11 (345)
THE NAKSHATRA VIEW:
Al Tarf-7 (The End) ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5) *102.0 = *143.4 - *41.4	A Hydrae (144.1) WEGA (α Lyrae)	Creation of our present world UKDAH (Knot) = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8) ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA *104.0 = *145.4 - *41.4	5 Imix 9 Kumk'u Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion) ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6) *105.0 = *146.4 - *41.4	VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)
UKDAH (THE KNOT) ... σ, 4.6, was Ulug Beg's Al Minhar al Shujā', the Snake's Nose. τ¹, 4.9, flushed white, and τ², 4.6, lilac, with ι and the 5th magnitude A, form the curve in the neck, Ptolemy's Καμπή; but Kazwini knew them as Ukdah, the Knot ...
Aug 11	12	13 (225)	14	15 (227)
"July 1	2	3 (*104)	4	5
JUNE 8	9	10 (161)	11	12
Ga3-20 → Dramasa	Ga3-21	Ga3-22	Ga3-23	Ga3-24
... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... 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 ...

Which points at "December 25 (the solstice day corresponding to the Julian spring equinox date):