THE D TABLET
 

Let's now complete our documentation of line Db4 with the essential stars:

April 14 (4-14) 15 (105) 16 (107) (108)
Db4-1 (126 + 45) Db4-2 Db4-3 (173) Db4-4 (2 * 87) Db4-5 (126 + 49)
*207 (→ *24 + *183) BENETNASH *209 *210 *211
ALSEIPH (Scimitar) *25 = *208 - *183 POLARIS SHERATAN *28
(107) (108) henua ora

April 19 20 21   22 (112 = 104 + 8) 23
Db4-6 Db4-7 (6 * 29½) Db4-8 Db4-9 (→ 1 + 8) Db4-10 (180)
THUBAN *213 *214 (→ 2-14) ARCTURUS KHAMBALIA
ALRISHA HAMAL *214 - *183 *32 (→ 112 - 80) MIRA

April 24 25 (→ Mercury) 26 27 28 (118 = 4 * 29½)
Db4-11 (181) Db4-12 Db4-13 (→ 14 * 29½) Db4-14 (171 + 13) Db4-15 (185)
*217 FOMALHAUT *219 η Centauri (*220.4) *221 (→ 125 + 86)
*34 ξ Arietis (*35.0) *36 *37 *38 = *221 - *183
Kuukuu Ringiringi Nonoma Uure Makoi

... Hau Maka spoke to his first-born son [atariki] Ira, to Raparenga, and also to the sons of Hua Tava - namely, Kuukuu A Hua Tava, Ringiringi A Hua Tava, Nonoma A Hua Tava, Uure A Hua Tava, and Makoi A Hua Tava. Hau Maka said [he ki] to [kia] Ira: 'Take the crew and launch your canoe; set sail and look for the land in the direction of the rising sun (a roto i te raa) ... [E:15]

... 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. Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died ...

... Take the lower part of a gourd or hula drum, rounded as a wheel (globe), on which several lines are to be marked and burned in, as described hereafter. These lines are called na alanui o na hoku hookele, the highways of the navigation stars, which stars are also called na hoku ai-aina, the stars which rule the land. Stars lying outside these three lines are called na hoku a ka lewa, foreign, strange, or outside stars. The first line is drawn from Hoku-paa, the fixed or North Star, to the most southerly star of Newe, the Southern Cross. (This hour circle coincides with the meridian on an evening in June, when it would divide the visible sky into halves.) The portion (of the sky) to the right or east of this line (the observer is evidently assumed to be facing north) is called ke ala ula a Kane, the dawning or bright road of Kane, and that to the left or west is called ke alanui maawe ula a Kanaloa, the much-traveled highway of Kanaloa. (Kane and Kanaloa were important gods in the Polynesian pantheon, Kane being associated with light, Kanaloa with darkness.) Then three lines are drawn east and west, one across the northern section indicates the northern limit of the Sun (corresponding with the Tropic of Cancer) about the 15th and 16th days of the month Kaulua (i.e., the 21st or 22nd of June) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kane, the black-shining road of Kane. The line across the southern section indicates the southern limit of the Sun about the 15th or 16th days of the month Hilinama (December 22) and is called ke alanui polohiwa a Kanaloa, the black-shining road of Kanaloa. The line exactly around the middle of the sphere is called ke alanui a ke ku'uku'u, the road of the spider ...