The Ancient Astronomy of Easter Island: Venus and Aldebaran

Abstract

One additional position of the famous Mataveri calendar of Easter Island has been interpreted. New data on the watchings of Venus and Aldebaran have been rendered. Some reports about the sun, the moon as well as Sirius are of our interest, too.

Archaeoastronomy; 10 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, 2 photographs

References in corpus (3)

• The Astronomical and Ethnological Components of the Cult of Bird-Man on Easter Island
• On the Observations of the Sun in Polynesia
• Easter Island: the Tongariki and Mataveri Solar Observatories Used a Common Methodology

Cited by in corpus (2)

• The Ancient Astronomy of Easter Island: Aldebaran and the Pleiades
• The Ancient Astronomy of Easter Island: Canopus and the Legendary King Hotu-Matua