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Depending on the era the northern spring equinox would be connected (bound with a knot) to different significant stars. When the era was changed (because it could be observed that the precession had moved the Sun much too early as perceived against the fixed stars) it meant the knot would have to be opened up and then all the fixed stars would suddenly be allowed to move ahead in unison due to the new place for 0h. The sky was moving (rutua te maeva), said Metoro, which may have been meant to indicate such a change in the position of 0h.

ki te henua - tagata honui

391

te pahu

Ca1-6

Cb1-6 (6 + 392)

λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4)

*6.4 - *41.4 + *366.0 = *331.0

= *148.0 + '183.0

ξ¹ Ceti (32.1)

γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7)

*331 - *183 = *148 = *189 - *41

Al Ghafr-13 (The Cover) / Svāti-15 (Very Good) / TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE-6 (a pillar to stand by)

15 Bootis (215.2), ARCTURUS = α Bootis (215.4), ASELLUS SECUNDUS (2nd Ass Colt) = ι Bootis (215.5), SYRMA (Train of the Virgin's Robe) = ι Virginis, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8)

*174.0 = *215.4 - *41.4 = *148 + *26
Egyptian djed Phoenician sāmekh Greek xi Ξ (ξ) 

... In rongorongo times the last Greek lettered star in Orion (ξ) rose with the Sun in June 21. The letter seems to have originated from the Phoenician letter samekh (tent peg, supporting prop), which in turn may have been derived from the ancient Egytian djed column ...

 rutua te maeva

atua rerorero

atua hiko ura

hiko o tea

Maeva. T. 1. Move. Rangi-maeva = Moving Sky (name of a marae). 2. Greet, greeting. Henry.

Rerorero. 1. To write, to draw; rerorero i te igoa, to sign. 2. To rape. Vanaga. To crush, to bruise. Churchill.

Hiko. 1. To ask (for something). 2. To filch, to pilfer. Hikohiko, to snatch by force; robbery by assault. Vanaga. Hikohiko keke, hide-and-seek. Churchill. Pau.: 1. To glean. Mgv.: kohi, to gather, to collect. Ta.: ohi, to glean. Mq.: kohi, id. Ma.: kohi, to gather. 2. Bamboo. Mgv.: kohe, id. Ta.: ohe, id. Mq.: kohe, id. Sa.: 'ofe, id. Ma.: kohe, a plant name. 3. Diarrhea. Ta.: ohi, dysentery. Churchill. Mgv.: kohiko, a small bag mounted in the fruit-picking fork. Mq.: kohiko, a small net. Churchill.

Cb1-7

Cb1-8 (400 = 366 + 34)

Cb1-9

Cb1-10

γ, δ Trianguli (33.0), χ Persei (33.2), 10 Trianguli (33.5), θ Arietis (33.3), MIRA (Astonishing) = ο Ceti (33.7)

No star listed (34)

ξ Arietis (35.0), ρ Ceti (35.4), 12 Trianguli (35.8), ξ² Ceti (35.9)

*360.0 = *35.4 - *41.4

σ Ceti (36.9)

ι Lupi, 18 Bootis (216.3), KHAMBALIA (Crooked-Clawed) = λ Virginis (216.4), υ Virginis (216.5), ψ Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8)

*175.0 = *216.4 - *41.4

ASELLUS PRIMUS (1st Ass Colt) = θ Bootis (217.8)

τ Lupi, δ Oct. (218.1), φ Virginis (218.7)

FOMALHAUT (α Piscis Austrini)

σ Lupi (219.1), ρ Bootis (219.5), HARIS (Keeper) = γ Bootis (219.7)

ka higa te ao ko te henua ra ma te hoi atua

manu rere - kua rere ga manu - ki te ragi

Hoki. To return, to go back, to come back; ka hoki ki rá, go back there! ana oho koe ki Hiva, e hoki mai ki nei, if you go to the mainland, do come back here again. Vanaga. 1. Also, what; ki ra hoki, precisely there; pei ra hoki, similitude, likeness; pei ra hoki ta matou, usage. P Pau.: hokihoki, often. Mgv.: hoki, also, and, likewise. Mq.: hoi, surely. Ta.: hoi, also, likewise. 2. To return, to turn back, to draw back, to give back, to tack; mau e hoki mai, to lend; hoki hakahou, to carry back; hoki amuri, to retrograde; hakahoki, to bring back, to send back, to carry back, to restore, to renew, to revoke, to remove, to dismiss, to pay, to pardon, to compress; hakahokia, given up; hakahokihaga, obligation. P Pau.: hokihoki, to persist, to insist; fakahoki, to give back. Mgv.: hoki, to return, to retrace one's steps; oki, to return, to come back. Ta.: hoi, to return, to come back. Ta.: mahoi, the essence or soul of a god. Churchill.

Rere. To jump; to run; to fly. Rere-taúra, to carry a child astride on one's shoulder: ku rere-taúra-á i te poki e te matu'a ki te gao, the mother carries her child astride her neck. Vanaga. 1. To fly, to run, to leap, to scale, to be carried away by the wind; ika rere, flying fish; rere aruga, to rebound; hetuu rere, meteor, flying star. Hakarere, to leap. P Pau.: rere, to soar, to fly; fakarere, to precede. Mgv., Ta.: rere, to fly, to leap. 2. To come, to reach to. Mq.: éé mai, to come. 3. To swerve, to deviate. (4. Hakarere, to cease, desist, postpone, quit, vacation; tae hakarere, perseverance. Mq.: rere, to disappear. 5. Hakarere, to save, preserve, put, place, reserve, burden, destine. 6. Hakarere, to abandon, forsake, give up, depose, expose, leave, omit, abjure, repudiate; hakarere ki te hau, uncover the head; hakarere ki te vie, to divorce, hakarere ki raro, to put down, tooa te kiko e ivi i hakarere, to strip off the flesh. Mq.: éé, to run away, to escape. 7. Hakarere? Ikapotu hakarere, to abut, to adjoin; e tahi hakarere, synonym.) Churchill. Vi.: Lele, the end of a branch farthest from the body of a tree; leletha, to bend a branch in order to gather the fruit on it. Churchill 2. In the present phase of Polynesian lele so much means to fly that the plainest way of particularizing birds is to describe them as the flying animals, manulele. But to manifest that flight, an exercise or balancing of wings, was by no means the primordial sense, for how could that give rise to a description of water in the water-courses? It will be no end to mass the several significations which lele exhibits ... Flight of birds ... Wind drive ... Meteors ... To leap ... To run ... Flow of water ... To swim ... To sail ... These several activities are exercised in earth, air, and water. The common factor is the swift motion. The means of motion cut no figure. It is an invisible means in the driving of the wind, the flash of the meteor silent athwart the sky on its lethal errand, the slip and slide of the stream in its deep course, the set of the sea, the gliding of the canoe upon its surface. Churchill 2.

Cb1-11 (403)

Cb1-12 (4 * 101)

CLOSE TO THE SUN:

27 (117 = 91 + 26)

April 28 (118 = 4 * 29½)

ν Ceti (37.9)

ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8)

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

σ Bootis (220.2), η Centauri (220.4)

*179.0 = *220.4 - *41.4

ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9)

Oct 27 (300 = 273 = 3 * 91)

28

Counting from the very special Cb1-16 (→ 4 * 29) and 16 days ahead we will find April 28. In the G text the corresponding very special Gb7-30 (→ 210) was connected with FEBRUARY 17:

FEBR 17 (413 = 477 - 64)

18 (414 = 365 + 49)

Gb7-30 (440 = 229 + 211)

Gb7-31 (63 weeks = 414 + 27)

ξ¹ Ceti (32.1)

γ, δ Trianguli (33.0), χ Persei (33.2), 10 Trianguli (33.5), θ Arietis (33.3), MIRA (Astonishing) = ο Ceti (33.7)

April 22 (365 + 112 = 477)

23 (113)

°April 18 (473) 19 (109)
'March 26 (450) 27 (86)
"March 12 (436) 13 (72)

The Back of the Head of Ku (the 2nd Babylonian ecliptic constellation) was at Hamal and the Front of the Head of Ku was at Sheratan. Possibly the idea of the front of a head coming first and the back of a head 3 days later once upon a time had been tranferred from Cetus to Aries. Which would explain why the head of Aries usually was depicted as turned around:

For anciently it was probably the Full Moon (going withershins, rising in the west and descending in the east) who had its face coming first. Waxing Moon grew first and then came Waning Moon.

Cb1-1 (393) Cb1-2 Cb1-3 Cb1-4 (396) Cb1-5
April 17 (91 + 16)

Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 (Dog) / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1 (Front of the Head of Ku)

SEGIN = ε Cassiopeia, MESARTHIM = γ Arietis, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN (Pair of Signs) = β Arietis, φ Phoenicis (27.4)

*351.0 = *27.4 - *41.4
18 (108)

ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8)

19

ALRISHA (The Knot) = α Piscium, χ Phoenicis (29.2), ε Trianguli (29.4), ALAMAK (Caracal) = γ Andromedae (29.7)

*353.0 = *29.4 - *41.4
20

Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 (Back of the Head of Ku)

2h (30.4)

κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (Sheep) = α Arietis (30.5)

ALKES (α Crateris)
21 (111)

DELTOTUM = β Trianguli (31.2), ι Trianguli (31.7), η Arietis (31.9)