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Neither were sacred names chosen haphazardly, for instance should we perhaps read the Easter Island toro in toro-miro as a word fetched from the Spanish toro = bull.

... A man had a daughter who possessed a wonderful bow and arrow, with which she was able to bring down everything she wanted. But she was lazy and was constantly sleeping. At this her father was angry and said: 'Do not be always sleeping, but take thy bow and shoot at the navel of the ocean, so that we may get fire.' The navel of the ocean was a vast whirlpool in which sticks for making fire by friction were drifting about. At that time men were still without fire. Now the maiden seized her bow, shot into the navel of the ocean, and the material for fire-rubbing sprang ashore ...

Unavoidably we will here associate this great creative event with the fact that not only the G tablet but also the D tablet seem to have been designed with the origin of the text at the 'Eye of the Bull' - i.e. the star named Ain (ε Tauri, *65):

´0h

Ga1-1

AIN

MARCH 22 (*1)

´0h

Db6-13 (212)

Da1-1

AIN

Oct 27 (364 - 64)

MARCH 22 (*1)

*220 = *284 - *64

... About Carmenta we know from the historian Dionysus Periergetis that she gave orcales to Hercules and lived to the age of 110 years. 110 was a canonical number, the ideal age which every Egyptian wished to reach and the age at which, for example, the patriarch Joseph died. The 110 years were made up of twenty-two Etruscan lustra of five years each; and 110 years composed the 'cycle' taken over from the Etruscans by the Romans. At the end of each cycle they corrected irregularities in the solar calendar by intercalation and held Secular Games. The secret sense of 22 - sacred numbers were never chosen haphazardly - is that it is the measure of the circumference of the circle when the diameter is 7. This proportion, now known as pi, is no longer a religious secret; and is used today only as a rule-of-thumb formula, the real mathematical value of pi being a decimal figure which nobody has yet been able work out because it goes on without ever ending, as 22 / 7 does, in a neat recurring sequence [3.142857142857 ...]. Seven lustra add up to thirty-five years, and thirty-five at Rome was the age at which a man was held to reach his prime and might be elected Consul ...

And we can see this also from the beginning of the C text.

For the dates in the Sun calendar remained unchanged against the background of the fixed stars - although apparently moving in the calendar due to the precession of the equinoxes and solstices:

0h *236
Ca1-1
March 22 (81, *1)
ALGENIB PEGASI
*1 + *183 = *184
Sept 21 (264. *184)
(*184 - *41 = *143)
koia
Ca9-9 (237) Ca9-10 Ca9-11 Ca9-12 Ca9-13 Ca9-14 (242)
Nov 13 (*237) 14 (135 + 183) 15 16 (320, *240) 17 18
COR SERPENTIS *238 *56 + *183 λ Librae (240.0), β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8) VRISCHIKA SCHEDIR
no star listed TAU-ONO ALCYONE PORRIMA ZAURAK *59
May 14 15 (365 + 135) 16 (136, *56) May 17 (*58) → 2 * 29 19 (139)
"April 3 (93) 4 "April 5 (*15) 6 (96) 7 "April 8 (98)
kotia kua rere ki te marama e moa haati kava e moa

... Kava will make the eyes more sensitive, generating an illusion of returning light ...

   
Ca9-15 Ca9-16 (244) Ca9-17 Ca9-18 (246) Ca9-19 Ca9-20 (248)
Nov 19 20 (324) 21 (80 + 245) 22 23 24 (328)
16h (*243.5) LESATH *245 → 63 + 183 σ SCORPII (*247.0) *248
4h (*60.9) *61 VINDEMIATRIX HYADUM I HYADUM II AIN
May 20 21 (141) 22 23 24 25 (145)
"April 9 10 (100) 11 12 13 14 (104)
LIBERALIA 18 (100 - 23) 19 (78) MARCH 20 21 (80) 22 (145 - 64)
i te mauga pu hia E rima ki te henua koia ku honui erua maitaki ko koe ra

When Metoro said 'hia' it was probably an instruction for Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti to 'Count!' For instance:

 ... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ... → 3-20 ↔ right ascension day *320 at the south pole star Dramasa.

... A very detailed myth comes from the island of Nauru. In the beginning there was nothing but the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider. One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty. By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last found a snail. To endow it with power she placed it under her arm, lay down and slept for three days. Then she let it free, and still hunting about she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated it in the same way. Then she said to the first snail: 'Can you open this room a little, so that we can sit down?' The snail said it could, and opened the shell a little. Old-Spider then took the snail, placed it in the west of the shell, and made it into the moon. Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm. At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky.

Ca9-21 Ca9-22 (250) Ca9-23 Ca9-24 Ca9-25 Ca9-26 (254)
Nov 25 26 (330) 27 28 29 30

... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ...

ANTARES *250 *251 *252 *253  DENEBAKRAB
*66 *67 ALDEBARAN *69 *70 *71
May 26 27 28 29 30 (150) 31 (151)
"April 15 16 17 18 19 20 (110)
MARCH 23 24 25 (84) 26 27 28
ka mau - i te inoino ka iri ka hua i te inoino te hau tea te inoino kua iri kua puo te inoino

... Antares, visible in the morning sky of December-January, came to stand for summer heat; hence the saying, 'Rehua cooks (ripens) all fruit' [hakatupu]. The generally accepted version of the Rehua myth, according to Best, is that Rehua had two wives, the stars on either side of Antares. One was Ruhi-te-rangi or Pekehawani, the personification of summer languor (ruhi), the other Whaka-onge-kai, She-who-makes-food-scarce before the new crops can be harvested ...

*7 *100
Ca10-6 (9 * 29) Ca10-7 (262) Ca13-20 (→ 13 * 20)
Dec 7 (341, *261) Dec 8 March 18 (443, *362)
Sarin (*261.0), ο Ophiuchi (*261.4)

ALRISHA

θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (*262.4) DZANEB (*362.4)

ACUBENS

CAPELLA (*78.4)

THUBAN

*262 + *183 = *445

ARCTURUS

no star listed (*180)
June 7 (158, *78) June 8 Sept 17 (260, *180)
(158 - 41 = 117, *37) "April 28 (→ 4 * 29˝) (*180 - *41 = *139)
(158 - 64 = 94, *14) APRIL 5 (95, *79 - *64) (*139 - *23 = *116)
Tupu te toromiro kua noho te vai -

I am suggesting we should provisionally read toro in the 'Tree' named toro-miro as an allusion to the Spanish word for Bull. In which case this 'Bull Tree' would grow for 260 days after MARCH 22.

In Chile the official language was Spanish.

... On the following day, 20 November 1770, Commander José Bustillo took formal possession of Easter Island 'in the name of the King and of Spain, our Lord and Master Don Carlos the third', renaming the island 'San Carlos'. Several hundred Rapanui - probably members of the Koro 'o 'Orongo tribe of the eastern 'Otu 'Iti - observed the ceremony not far from Poike's parasitic cones Parehe, Teatea, and Vai 'a Heva, on the tops of which the Spaniards had planted three crosses ...

We can perceive a contrast between these 3 'dry trees' planted high up on the Poike (place aloft) peninsula in comparison to the single still living toromiro tree down in the watery crater of Rano Kau on the opposite side of Easter Island.

Kau. 1. To move one's feet (walking or swimming); ana oho koe, ana kau i te va'e, ka rava a me'e mo kai, if you go and move your feet, you'll get something to eat; kakau (or also kaukau), move yourself swimming. 2. To spread (of plants): ku-kau-áte kumara, the sweet potatoes have spread, have grown a lot. 3. To swarm, to mill around (of people): ku-kau-á te gagata i mu'a i tou hare, there's a crowd of people milling about in front of your house. 4. To flood (of water after the rain): ku-kau-á te vai haho, the water has flooded out (of a container such as a taheta). 5. To increase, to multiply: ku-kau-á te moa, the chickens have multiplied. 6. Wide, large: Rano Kau, 'Wide Crater' (name of the volcano in the southwest corner of the island). 7. Expression of admiration: kau-ké-ké! how big! hare kau-kéké! what a big house! tagata hakari kau-kéké! what a stout man! Vanaga. To bathe, to swim; hakakau, to make to swim. P Pau., Mgv., Mq.: kau, to swim. Ta.: áu, id. Kauhaga, swimming. Churchill. The stem kau does not appear independently in any language of Polynesian proper. For tree and for timber we have the composite lakau in various stages of transformation. But kau will also be found as an initial component of various tree names. It is in Viti that we first find it in free existence. In Melanesia this form is rare. It occurs as kau in Efaté, Sesake, Epi, Nguna, and perhaps may be preserved in Aneityum; as gau in Marina; as au in Motu and somewhere in the Solomon islands. The triplicity of the Efaté forms [kasu, kas, kau] suggests a possible transition. Kasu and kas are easy to be correlated, kasu and kau less easy. They might be linked by the assumption of a parent form kahu, from which each might derive. This would appear in modern Samoan as kau; but I have found it the rule that even the mildest aspirate in Proto-Samoan becoming extinct in modern Samoan is yet retained as aspiration in Nuclear Polynesia and as th in Viti, none of which mutations is found on this record. Churchill 2

Kahu. Clothing, dress, habit, cloth, curtain, vestment, veil, shirt, sheet; kahu hakaviri, shroud; kahu nui, gown; rima o te kahu, sleeve; kahu rahirahi, muslin; hare kahi, tent; horega kahu, shirt; hakarivariva ki te kahu, toilet; rakai ki te kahu, toilet; patu ki te kahu, to undress; kahu oruga, royal sail; kahu hakatepetepe, jib; kahu nui, foresail; hakatopa ki te kahu, to set sail; (hecki keho, canvas T.) P Pau.: kahu, dress, garment, native cloth. Mgv.: kahu, cloth, stuff, garment, clothing. Mq.: kahu, habit, vestment, stuff, tunic. Ta.: ahu, cloth in general, vestment, mantle. Chuchill.

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