78. Key players in the night could have been Uranus and Venus (↔ Virgo):
Uranus (369 + ⅔) - Sun (364 + ¼) = 5 + (8 / 12 - 3 / 12) = 5 + 5 / 12. In ancient Egypt they needed 5 intercalated nights for the gods to be born: ... 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 ...: On Easter Island they counted with 6 such 'sleeping mats': ... 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]
Supposing these ideas were intended to be 'read from the stars', then we ought to cautiously move ahead around 195 (July 14) - 157 (June 6) = 38 glyphs in the G text as counted from Gb4-1 (321 = 229 + 92). Gb4-4 (324) + 35 = 359 (Gb5-6):
Uranus was so far away from Earth that its synodic circuit would not be much different from the cycle of the year. Had Uranus been located infinitely far away his cycle would have coincided completely with that of the Sun. It should be remembered that the text on the C tablet measures 392 + 348 = 740 glyphs (days), which we now can guess was intended to point at twice the circuit of Uranus. June 6 (157) - March 14 (73) = 84 (12 weeks) ↔ Julian equinox ('March 25). Achernar (*23) + *35 = *58 (Zaurak).
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