ADDENDA
10c. As to the bird looking back in June 30 (when Sirius was bound to rise together with the Sun);
we surely ought to go back in time to Hb1-36, i.e. to the place in time-space 101 right ascension days earlier.
4 * 101 = 404 = 354 + 50. And from Sirrah to Spica there were twice 101 days:
The glyph at July 1 (182) could evidently be expressing the reversal of the glyph at March 21 (80). In between was the season when the sky roof steadily was beeing raised higher and higher. Thus this triplet of half-seen 'eyes' (mata e toru) in Hb1-35 seems to illustrate the very special quarter of the year when the Sun would be shining high and bright, a season which all regarded as very good (maitaki).
Maitaki. Clean, neat, pure, pretty, nice, beautiful, handsome; tagata rima maitaki, clean-handed man, correct man. Vanaga. 1. Good. Henua maitaki = the good earth. 2. Shine. Marama maitaki = the shining moon. Barthel. Ce qui est bon. Jaussen according to Barthel. Meitaki, good, agreeable, efficacious, excellent, elegant, pious, valid, brilliant, security, to please, to approve (maitaki); ariga meitaki, handsome, of pleasant mien; mea meitaki ka rava, to deserve; meitaki ke, marvelous, better. Hakameitaki, to make good, to amend, to do good, to bless, to establish. Meitakihaga, goodness. PS Pau.: maitaki, good. Mgv.: meitetaki, beautiful, good. Mq.: meitai, good, agreeable, fit, wise, virtuous. Ta.: maitaiki, good, well. Niuē: mitaki, good. Maitakia, clean. Churchill. Then came the rain clouds caused by the Sun reaching Sirius.
And from there was the decline which ended at Spica in the constellation of the Virgin - below the ecliptic plane down into Mother Earth as if a planted acorn..
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