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23. I decided to move the assumed observatory from Easter Island (27º S) down to 65º S in order to get a better view of the night of October 23 AD 2023:

The planet Mercury is where it ought to be, viz. as always close to the Sun (here indicated by the greater yellow sphere).

And at this time of the year Mercury will be possible to observe.

... Ganz ähnlich is der Name 'Gott von Duazag' des Gottes Nabū ... zu erklären. Er bezeichnet ihn als den Gott des Wachtstums, welches als aus dem Osten stammend betrachtet wird, weil die Sonne, die das Wachstum bringt, im Osten aufgeht. Dass aber Nabū als Ost-Gott aufgefasst wurde, hängt damit zusammen, dass sein Stern, der Mercur, nur im Osten oder Westen sichtbar ist ...

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HYADUM II

 

*30

 

 

*29

 

*24

Ga1-1

Ga2-1 (31)

Ga3-1 (60)

Ga4-1 (84)

AIN (*65)

CANOPUS (*95)

AL TARF (*124)

RAS ELASET BOREALIS (*148)

*27

JULY 10 (*111) *30 AUG 9 (*141 = *205 - *64)
Ga5-1 (111) Ga6-1 (141)
Θ CRATERIS (*175.0) HEZE (*205.0)
MANUS CATENATA (*358 = *175 + *183) ACHERNAR (*205 - *182 = *23)

Heze is ζ Virginis, located *80 right ascension days before the last day of December.

Manacle ziqq Phoenician zayin Greek zeta Ζ (ζ)

... Zeta (uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; Greek: ζήτα ... is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin. Letters that arose from zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З ...

Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn or simply Zay) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads ... It represents the sound [z]. The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In Biblical Hebrew, 'Zayin'  means sword, and the verb 'Lezayen' means to arm. In modern Hebrew, 'zayin' means penis and 'lezayen' is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse and is used in a similar fashion to the English word fuck, although the older meaning survives in 'maavak mezuyan' (armed struggle) and 'beton mezuyan' (armed, i.e., reinforced concrete). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a 'manacle'.

... Maui at first assumed the form of a kiore, or rat, to enter the body of Hine. But tataeko, the little whitehead, said he would never succeed in that form. So he took the form of a toke, or earth-worm. But tiwaiwaka the fantail, who did not like worms, was against this. So Maui turned himself into a moko huruhuru, a kind of caterpillar that glistens. It was agreed that this looked best, and so Maui started forth, with comical movements. The little birds now did their best to comply with Maui's wish. They sat as still as they could, and held their beaks shut tight, and tried not to laugh. But it was impossible. It was the way Maui went in that gave them the giggles, and in a moment little tiwaiwaka the fantail could no longer contain himself. He laughed out loud, with his merry, cheeky note, and danced about with delight, his tail flickering and his beak snapping. Hine nui awoke with a start. She realised what was happening, and in a moment it was all over with Maui. By the way of rebirth he met his end ...

To repeat:

*30

*7

*18

Ga1-21

Ga2-22 (52)

Ga3-1 (60) Ga3-20 (79)

June 14 (*85)

July 15 (*116)

July 23 (*124) Aug 11 (*143)

APRIL 11 (*21)

MAY 12 (*52)

MAY 20 (*60)

JUNE 8 (*79)

YANG MUN

(SOUTH GATE OF THE WOLF)

"Nov 3 (*227)

POLLUX (β) + MARS

May 14 (*54) AD 2023

19 AL TARF (β) + MARS

June 3 (*74) AD 2023

10 ALTERF (λ) + MARS

June 14 (*85) AD 2023

32
"Dec 4 (*258) *7

"Dec 12 (*266)

*18

*285 ("Dec 31)

79 - 21 = 2 * 29 = 64 - 6 = 58 = 30 + 32 - 4

The last glyph on side a of the G tablet is number 229, and 2 * 29 = 58 = 300 - 242 (number of glyphs on side b of the G tablet).

... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ...

5
Ga4-1 (84) Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4 Ga4-5 (88)
Aug 16 (*148) 17 (229) 18 19 20 (200 + 32)
JUNE 13 (*84) 14 (165) 15 16 17 (168)
"July 6 (*107) 7 (188) 8 9 10 (191 = 168 + 23)

10h REGULUS + MARS

July 10 (*111) AD 2023

RAS ELASET BOREALIS *149 *150 *151
23 JULY 10 (*111) 11 12 (193) 13 14 (*115)
Ga5-1 (111) Ga5-2 Ga5-3 Ga5-4 (88 + 26) Ga5-5 (115)
Θ CRATERIS (*175.0) *176 ξ Virginis (*177.0) 93 LEONIS (*178.0) + MARS

Aug 24 AD 2023 (236, *156)

PHEKDA
MANUS CATENATA *359 *360 DZANEB
JULY 15 16 17 (*118 → 4 * 29½) 18 (199)
Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 (118) Ga5-9
*180 π Virginis (*181.0) *182 ALCHITA
Sept 17 (260) 18 19 20 (263)
*363 *364 SIRRAH ALGENIB PEGASI
March 19 20 0h 22

263 (Raven) - 145 (May 25 → Crow) = 118 = 472 / 4 = 354 - 236.

 phase

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

JULY 19 (200) 20 (*121)
Ga5-10 (120) Ga5-11
*2 σ Andromedae (*3.0)
Sept 21 (*184 = *120 + *64) Equinox (265 = 236 + 29)

ZANIAH

viri JULY 20

Viri. 1. To wind, to coil, to roll up; he viri i te hau, to wind, coil a string (to fasten something). 2. To fall from a height, rolling over, to hurl down, to fling down. Viriviri, round, spherical (said of small objects). Viviri te henua, to feel dizzy (also: mimiro te henua). Vanaga. To turn in a circle, to clew up, to groom, to twist, to dive from a height, to roll (kaviri). Hakaviri, crank, to groom, to turn a wheel, to revolve, to screw, to beat down; kahu hakaviri, shroud. Viriga, rolling, danger. Viriviri, ball, round, oval, bridge, roll, summit, shroud, to twist, to wheel round, to wallow. Hakaviriviri, to roll, to round; rima hakaviriviri, stroke of the flat, fisticuff. P Pau.: viriviri, to brail, to clew up; koviriviri, twisting. Mgv.: viri, to roll, to turn, to twist; viviri, to fall to the ground again and again in a fight. Mq.: vii, to slide, to roll, to fall and roll. Ta.: viri, to roll up, to clew up. Viritopa, danger. Mgv.: Viripogi, eyes heavy with sleep. Mq.: viipoki, swooning, vertigo. Churchill. Viti: vili, to pick up fallen fruit or leaves ... In Viti virimbai has the meaning of putting up a fence (mbai fence); viri does not appear independently in this use, but it is undoubtedly homogenetic with Samoan vili, which has a basic meaning of going around; virikoro then signifies the ring-fence-that-goes-about, sc. the moon. In the Maori, aokoro is the cloud-fence ... Churchill 2.

JULY 21 7-22 (*123) 23 24 25
Ga5-12 Ga5-13 (123) Ga5-14 Ga5-15 Ga5-16
*4 ANKAA (*5.0) *6 *7 SCHEDIR
LONG SANDBANK ACRUX γ Com. Berenicis (*188.0) γ Muscae (*189.0) *190
Sept 23 (266) 24 25 26 27 (270)

... It inaugurates the most accurate solar calendar known to the ancient world, with 365¼ days per year. It declares the deceased princess Berenike a goddess and creates a cult for her, with women, men, ceremonies, and special 'bread-cakes'. Lastly it orders the decree to be incised in stone or bronze in both hieroglyphs and Greek, and to be publicly displayed in the temples. The traditional Egyptian calendar had 365 days: twelve months of thirty days each and an additional five epagomenal days. According to the reform, the 5-day 'Opening of the Year' ceremonies would include an additional 6th day every fourth year. The reason given was that the rise of Sothis advances to another day in every 4 years, so that attaching the beginning of the year to the heliacal rising of the star Sirius would keep the calendar synchronized with the seasons. This Ptolemaic calendar reform failed, but was finally officially implemented in Egypt by Augustus in 26/25 BCE, now called the Alexandrian calendar, with a sixth epagomenal day occurring for the first time on 29 August 22 BCE. Julius Caesar had earlier implemented a 365¼ day year in Rome in 45 BCE as part of the Julian calendar ...

JULY 26 27 28 29 (210) 30 (*131 = *314 - *183)
Ga5-17 Ga5-18 (128) Ga5-19 Ga5-20 Ga5-21
ξ Phoenicis (*9.0) *10 η Andromedae (*11.4) CIH (*12.4) *13
PORRIMA *192 *193 ALIOTH JAN 29 (*314)
Sept 28 (*191) 29 30 (273 = 3 * 91) Oct 1 (*194) 2 (211 + 64 = 275)

From the last day of September to Benetnash (η Ursae Majoris) there were 16 right ascension days.

Ga5-22 Ga5-23 Ga5-24 Ga5-25 (135) Ga5-26 Ga5-27 Ga5-28
VINDEMIATRIX 13h (*197.8) DIADEM *199 *200 *201 SPICA
Oct 3 4 5 (278) 6 7 8 9 (282)
April 4 5 6 (96) 7 8 9 10 (100)
*14 1h (*15.2) ANUNITUM

REGULUS

*17 *18 ADHIL KSORA (*20)

... Though Andromeda has its roots most firmly in the Greek tradition, a female figure in Andromeda's place appeared in Babylonian astronomy. The stars that make up Pisces and the middle portion of modern Andromeda formed a constellation representing a fertility goddess, sometimes named as Anunitum or the Lady of the Heavens ...

Ga6-1 (141) Ga6-2 Ga6-3 Ga6-4 (12 * 12)
HEZE (*205.0) *206 *207 BENETNASH (*208)
ACHERNAR *24 (= *206 - *182) *25 POLARIS
April 13 4-14  (104 = 80 + 24) 15 16 (106 = 471 - 365)
Oct 12 (285) 13 (104 + 182 = 286) 14 15 (288 = 80 + 208)
AUG 9 (285 - 64 = 221) 10 11 12 (224 = 288 - 64)