RIGEL
 

In November 28 the people on Hawaii would set off an effigy of Lono (Rogo) on a circuit leading up to the December solstice, it was said, and it was a cycle measuring 23 days:

Ca9-21 Ca9-22 (250) Ca9-23 Ca9-24 (9 * 28) (460 225) Ca9-26 (254)
Nov 25 26 27 28 29 (333) 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 ...

Puo. (Also pu'a); pu'o nua, one who covers himself with a nua (blanket), that is to say, a human being. Vanaga. 1. To dress, to clothe, to dress the hair; puoa, clothed; puoa tahaga, always dressed. 2. To daub, to besmear (cf. pua 2); puo ei oone, to daub with dirt, to smear. 3. Ata puo, to hill up a plant. Churchill.

... When the man, Ulu, returned to his wife from his visit to the temple at Puueo, he said, 'I have heard the voice of the noble Mo'o, and he has told me that tonight, as soon as darkness draws over the sea and the fires of the volcano goddess, Pele, light the clouds over the crater of Mount Kilauea, the black cloth will cover my head ...

 

Ca9-27 (255 ↔ 355 - 100)
Dec 1 (335 = 152 + 183)
GRAFIAS = ζ Scorpii (*255.4)
*255 + *183 = '438, *73
June 1 (152)
etoru gagata hakaariki kia raua
Ka ki atu a Tu raua ko Roko ki a Rehua.

However, the text on the C tablet appears to indicate that the ideal circuit for Rogo should begin with the Full Moon in June 1.

Metoro told about Rehua (Antares) and Roko (Rogo) at the same time, whereas on Hawaii they looked for the Pleiades in the evening of November 18.

*249 (Antares) - *55 (Tau-ono) = *194 *183 + *11. Our Gregorian calendar has the year beginning 11 days after the December solstice, because the Pope Gregory XIII found it necessary to update the Julian structure.

To restore order in the resulting mess I suggest we should consider the reason for looking for star culminations at 21h (instead of at 24h = 0h):

... Allen has documented all his star culminations at 21h, which could be due to an effort of keeping the culminations at their proper places according to the ancients, 24h (spring equinox) - 21h = 3h = 24h / 8 = 45º. 3h corresponds to 366 / 8 = 45.75 of my right ascension days and *366 - *46 = *320 (Dramasa, σ Octantis) ...

Above at Ca9-25 (92 * 5 = 460 and 9 * 25 = 225) the design of the glyph seems to indicate a point of balance (equilibrium) in darkness ('covered up')..

225 suggests (→) the date for the Creation of our present world, viz. with the Full Moon ideally at Agust 13 (225 ↔ 15 * 15).

And 460 → 100 + 360. In other words: to begin counting from April 10 (100) instead of from January 1.

North of the equator (as on Hawaii) it was the Pleiades which decided the time of the year and not the pair Rigel and Antares.

90° - 24° = 66° ↔ *66 → ideal place for the Full Moon when the Sun in November 25 rose at Antares.

As if by chance November 18 was the date when Schedir, the Breast of Cassipeia, culminated at 21h:

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.

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