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THE D
TABLET
We have experience from the C tablet, where the act of following the text from the top of side a (at heliacal Polaris) to the bottom of side b was necessary in order to follow the flow of the glyphs.
Metoro explained that the sky was 'moving'. The rongorongo texts had this habit, we now can understand, in order to change the order from heliacal to nakhshatra stars. The heliacal stars moved down and the Full Moon stars moved up. ... Atea then became the wife of Rua-tupua-nui, Source of Great Growth, and they became the parents of all the celestial beings, first the shooting stars, then the Moon and the Sun, next the comets, then the multitude of stars and constellations, and finally the bright and dark nebulae. When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...
In other words we can expect heliacal *65, the day at Ain, to be followed by Da1-1 at nakshatra *66 + *183 = *249:
... 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 ... The third husband of Atea was named Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful.
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