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45  If the rongorongo texts basically were designed in order to illustrate the Gregorian calendar, then the flow of glyphs should be in parallel with the flow of heliacal right ascension days and the corresponding stars. This we have already found to be a plausible proposition.

But the stars high up in the polar regions ought then to be located not at the glyphs representing their heliacal dates but instead at the dates when they where were bound to culminate in the night (at 21h).

  (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼)   Day of culmination
Fomalhaut March 4 (428, 63) *235 October 25 (663)
Lacerta Febr 24 (420, 55) *235 Oct 17 (655)

This implies we should presumably count 8 glyphs backwards from Ab1-3 in order to find the culmination of the Lizard. And 673 (Ab1-3) - 8 = 665 (Aa8-80):

Aa8-80 (665) Aa8-81 Aa8-82 Aa8-83 Aa8-84 Aa8-85 (670)
LACERTA Oct 17 18 19 20 21
6 Febr (*322) 7 8 (39) 9 (*325) 10 (41) 11
ki to hatu huri ma to ua mata mae tae e ui hia mai kua oho te tagata ki te henua

Huri. 1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga. 1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill. Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

The eye-catching design of Aa8-80 could illustrate the special polar region at the top, to be reached only by boat. This seems to be atated e.g. in the center of the top side of the Phaistos disc:

... The coracle is the same old harvest basket in which nearly every antique Sun-god makes his New Year voyage; and the virgin princess, his mother, is always waiting to greet him on the bank ...

 

Ab1-1 Ab1-2 Ab1-3 Ab1-4 (674 → 90 + 584)
ARCTURUS Oct 23 (296, *216) FOMALHAUT 25 (*331 + *70 - *183)
12 Febr (31 + 12 = 43) 13 Febr All Hearts' Day 15 (*360 -  *29 = *331)
Te hoea - rutua te pahu - rutua te maeva  atua rerorero atua ata tuu

Notably 331 = 261 + 70 = 9 * 29 + 70, which implies that October 25 could be counted as 9 * 29 + 2 * 70 - 183 = 261 + 140 - 183 =  401 - 183 = 298 - 80. Which might explain why atua ata tuu has a pair of mata in front. Day 270 (← 2 * 70) counted from January 1 is September 27.

Furthermore, line Aa1 carries 90 glyphs, which suggests we perhaps should count 664 (side b) + 90 (Aa1) in order to reach 754. Which number in turn might have been perceived as 354 (= 12 * 29½) + 400. Or as 584 (Venus) + 2 * 85 (→ day 285 = December 31).

 
Ab1-5 Ab1-6 Ab1-7
26 Oct 27 (*220) 28
(482 - 70 = 412) 17 Febr (365. 48) (14 * 29½ + 1) → *41.4 Bharani
atua ata Rei - tuu te Rei hemoa i ako te vai

Which we then ought to compare with the C text: Cb1-9 (401) - 8 = 393 (Cb1-1)

386

Cb1-1

Cb1-2 Cb1-3 Cb1-4 (396) Cb1-5
E tupu - ki roto o te hau tea ki te henua - te maro rutua - te pahu
LACERTA Oct 18 19 20 21 (*214)
NAKSHATRA VIEW:
April 17 (107) 18 19 20 21 (41 + 71 = 111)
6 Febr (*322) 7 8 (39) 9 (*325) 10 (41)
Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku (Front of the Head of Ku)

SHERATAN (*27)

*28 *29 Arku-sha-rishu-ku (Back of the Head of Ku)

 HAMAL

*31

Cb1-6 (398)

Cb1-7

Cb1-8

Cb1-9 (400 + 1)

Cb1-10

Cb1-11

Oct 22 (295)

23

24

FOMALHAUT

26 27 (300)

April 22 (112)

23 (296 - 183) 24 (365 + 114)

25 (115, 480)

26 (46´+ 70 = 116) 27 (117, 482 - 365)

... In April 25 the Explorers left their old homeland and half a year later, in October 25, they returned.

... On the twenty-fifth day [raa] of the first month ('Vaitu Nui'), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day [te raa po rae] of the month of June ('Maro'), the bow [te ihu] of Ira's canoe touched land again ... [E:17]

... Ira left [for Hiva, for Maori, i ōho ai a Ira.ki hiva.ki maori] on the twenty-fifth day of the month of October ('Tangaroa Uri') ... [E:86]

11 Febr (42)

12 Febr (31 + 12) 13 Febr (44) All Hearts' Day (*360 -  *29 = *331) 16 (482 - 70 = 412)

The current star at the north pole, Polaris (´*26), was followed by the day when Lacerta culminated (at 21h) - which day (remarkably) coincided with the First Point of Aries (Sheratan, *27) rising together with the Sun at 0h in Roman times.

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