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But then we have the 'star days', the integeral structure behind the epochs, which defined positions in the Sun calendar.

ka viri te vai mai i haga ia koia hakahumu i te vai kia ki tata

Humu. 1. Tattooing on the feet. (Cf. Ta.: umu, ornament.) 2. (umu). 3. Mq.: To attach, to tie. Ha.: humu, to fasten together by sewing. Churchill. Etua.1. God (atua); hahumuhumu etua, revelation; etuahaga, divinity. 2. Stranger. Churchill. 3. Cooking place, oven (humu). Churchill. Samoa, Maori, Nukuoro, Niue, Tahiti, Hawaii, Mangaia, Marquesas, Mangareva, Paumoto: umu, oven. Tonga: ngotoumu, id. Uvea: ngutuùmu, id. Futuna: ùmu-kai, id. Fotuna: amu, cooking place. Rapanui: umu, oven; humu hare, cook house ... The Polynesian radical is consistently umu. Tonga and Uvea compound with it a word which in Uvea is distinctly ngutu mouth and in Tongan we may feel that ngutu has been specifically differentiated in this composite. In the Futuna composite the latter element is merely kai food ... Particular interest attaches to the discovery of the amu type in Mabulag and Miriam, western and eastern islands of the straits and remote from the New Guinea coast ... The existence of amu in Fotuna affords us reason to regard the type as ancient Proto-Samoan, and that Mabulag and Miriam received it directly and not on secondary loan from Motu. Churchill 2.

Bb9-16 (2 * 171) Bb9-17 (343) Bb9-18 (344) Bb9-19 Bb9-20
Dec 8 9 10 11 (345) 12

... If my comparison is relevant, then the time difference is not half a year (183 right ascension days) but 265 days. Or expressed better: 365 + 85 - 350 = 450 - 350 = 100 days. This suggests the precession had carried the fixed stars ahead with *100 days. My estimate for the precession since the Golden Age of the Bull is *64. But then we should add 16 because at that ancient time they had waited for the return of the star. 64 + 16 = 80 = 100 - 20.

Thus it was not March 21 but March 1 which was relevant - as also the Romans saw it:

... Caesar was forewarned of the threat by the prophet Spurinna, who told him that a great threat was coming at Idus Martiae or just before [i.e. at 3-14]. The day arrived and Caesar was still living. He was walking to his meeting with the Senate when he happened to encounter Spurinna and told him jokingly that he was still alive. Spurinna calmely answered that the day had yet not ended. The Romans divided their months in two parts and the dividing point was Idus, which in some way was connected with full moon. March 15 was the midpoint of March, which is close to spring equinox. The old agricultural year defined the beginning of the year to the time when sun returned, and it was connected with Mars ...

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day') ...

540 / 5 - 20 = 88 (March 21 + 8) = March 1 (366 / 6) + 4 weeks ...

(242, Aug 30) (343 - 100, 31) (244, Sept 1) (245, 2) (246, 3)
OBSERVED CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
*345 = 242 - 80 + 183 *346 FOMALHAUT FUM AL SAMAKAH *348 (= 12 * 29)
March 14 (→ π) 15 (80 - 6) 16 (427 = 244 + 183) 17 (2 * 214) 18 (77)

The Mouth of the Fish could accordingly, I suggest, originally have risen with the Sun around day 244 - 183 = 61 (March 1).

MARCH 26 (85) 27 (*6) 28 29 (88)
Ga1-5 Ga1-6 Ga1-7 Ga1-8
May 29 30 31 June 1 (152)
Bb9-24 (350) Bb9-25 Bb9-26 Bb9-27 (353)
kava o te ariki e huarae - ma to rima - ki te ragi e rere ia mai - ki to huki ko to huki ka to ihe - kua reva te ika

Rae. First (always follows the noun): te tagata ra'e, the first man; (the other ordinal numerals, second, third, etc., precede the noun. Translator's note: ra'e is likely the noun which means forehead, face, in other Polynesian language, e.g. Tahitian rae). Vanaga. 1. Commencement, beginning, to strike up, to essay, to occasion, to proceed, former, primitive, precedent, predecessor, first-fruits; rae ki te mea hou, to innovate; oho rae, to march at the head; tagata rae, advance guard, van; raega, commencement, beginning, occasion, first-fruits. 2. To attack, to provoke; kakai rae, toua rae, to provoke. Churchill.

Dec 16 (85 + 265) 17 (351) 18 19
(250, Sept 5) (251, 6) (252, 7) (253, 8)
JULY 5 (186) 6 (251 - 64) GREDI (188) 8 (253 - 64)
OBSERVED CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 (108 = 188 - 80) Ga4-26
KERB *354 = 251 - 80 + 183 *355 *356

... With α Andromedae [Sirrah → Navel] and γ Pegasi [Kerb], as the Three Guides, it [Caph → Phoenician Kaph, Hand] marks the equinoctial colure, itself exceedingly close to that great circle; and, being located on the same side of the pole as is Polaris, it always affords an approximate indication of the latter's position with respect to that point. This same location, 32º from the pole, and very near to the prime meridian, has rendered it useful for marking sidereal time. When above Polaris and nearest the zenith the astronomical day begins at 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds; when due west the sidereal time is 6 hours; when south and nearest the horizon, 12 hours, and when east, 18 hours; this celestial clockhand then moving on the heavenly dial contrary to the motion of the hands of our terrestrial clocks, and at but one half the speed ...

... τ, 4.5, with υ, was Al Sufi's Sa'd al Na'amah, which Knobel thinks should be Al Na'āim, the Cross-bars over a well; but they also were known as Al Karab, the Bucket-rope. The usual titles for τ - Markab and Sagma or Salma - are from Bayer, but the last two should be Salm, a Leathern Bucket ...

Metoro tried to inform Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti that Bb9-16 was ka viri ki vai. 171 + 183 = 354, but south of the equator this place might have been regarded as 2 * 171 + 83 = 425 (→ Ga4-25).

Vai. Water, liquid, juice. 1. Vai tagata, semen, sperm (also: takatea). 2. Vai kava, saltwater, sea, ocean. Vanaga. (Sweet) water. Vai-kura = blood. Barthel. 1. Water, liquid, fluid, sap, juice, gravy, fresh water as differing from tai seawater; hakavai to dissolve, to liquefy, to melt. P Pau.: ana-vai, a brook. Mgv.: vai, water. Mq.: vai, water, liquid, juice. Ta.: vai, sweet water, sap, juice. Vaihu (vai-u), milk. T Mq., Ta.: vaiu, milk. Vaipuga (vai-puna), spring water. P Mgv.: vaipuna, water which springs from among stones. Mq.: vaipuna, spring water. Ta.: vaipuna, a spring. Vaitahe (vai-tahe 1), river. 2. Pau.: Vai, to exist. Ta.: vai, to be, to exist. Vaiora, to survive. Sa.: vaiola, the spring 'water of life?' Ma.: waiora, water of life. Vaitoa (vai-toa 2), sugar. Mgv.: vaito, id. Vaituru (vai-turu 1), water conduit. Vaivai, weak. PS Mq.: vaivai, soft, pleasant, agreeable. Sa., To.: vaivai, weak. Pau.: Vaiho, to set down, to place. Ta.: vaiiho, to place. Ma.: waiho, to set down. Pau.: Hakavaivai, to delay. Ta.: vaivai, to rest a bit. Ta.: Vaianu, a plant. Mq.: Vaimata, tears. Ha.: waimaka, id. Vaitahe, a flood. Sa.: vaitafe, a river. Ha.: waikahe, running water, flood. Vaitupu, spring water. To.: vaitubu, well water. Unuvai, to drink water; hipu unuvai, drinking glass. Churchill. Sa., Fakaafo, To., Fu., Niuē, Uvea, Nukuoro, Ta., Rar., Tongareva, Mq., Mgv., Fotuna, Nuguria, Vaté: vai, water. Rapanui: vai, juice, liquid, water. Aniwa: vai, tavai, water. Ma., Ha.: wai, id. Sikayana: wai, wuai, id. Vi.: wai, water. Rotumā: vai, voi, id. Churchill 2.