59		520		*13 37**		270
	Ab1-1		Ab7-26		Aa5-7		Aa8-26
*580 = 20 29**			*26 29 = 755 - 1**
*1334 = 5 254 + 64 = 46 * 29 = 1335 - 1 = 5 * 267 - 1 267 = September 24**
236 (Moon) + 263 (Venus) = 499. ... Notably the Raven, who was ascending in day 236 (= 8 * 29½) in Roman times ('August 24), had moved ahead due to the precession with 27 days to 'a clean cup' in day 263 at the time of rongorongo ...

OCT 26 (299)	*27 (220)**	28	29	30	31

Ga8-16	Ga8-17 (220)	Ga8-18	Ga8-19	Ga8-20	Ga8-21
ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8) 242.0 = 283.4 - *41.4	*South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)* Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)	SHELIAK (Tortoise) = β Lyrae, ν Lyrae (285.1), ο Draconis (285.5). λ Pavonis (285.7) ~~ATLAS (27 Tauri)~~	χ Oct. (286.0), AIN AL RAMI (Eye of the Archer) = ν Sagittarii (286.2), υ Draconis (286.4), δ Lyrae (286.3), κ Pavonis (286.5), ALYA (Fat Tail) = θ Serpentis (286.6) 245.0 = 286.4 - *41.4	ξ Sagittarii (287.1), ω Pavonis (287.3), ε Aquilae, ε Cor. Austr., SULAPHAT (Little Tortoise Shell) = γ Lyrae (287.4), λ Lyrae (287.7), ASCELLA (Armpit) = ζ Sagittarii, BERED = i Aquilae (Ant.) (287.9) 246.0 = 287.4 - *41.4	*Al Na'ām-18 (Ostriches) / Uttara Ashadha-21 (Elephant tusk, small bed)* NUNKI = σ Sagittarii (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), MANUBRIUM = ο Sagittarii (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9) 247.0 = 288.4 - *41.4
... I wan't a clean cup, interrupted the Hatter: let's all move one place on. He moved as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from the change; and Alice was a good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upset the milk-jug into his plate ...
Dec 29 (363)	April 11 + 263	*31 (285)**	Jan 1	2	3 (368)
°Dec 25 (359)	*26 (280)**	27	28	29	30 (364)
'Dec 2 (336)	*3 (257)**	4	5	6	7 (341)
"Nov 18 (312)	*19 (243)**	20	21	22	23 (327)
... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ...
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
APRIL 27	*28 (4 29½)**	29	30 (302 - 183)	*MAY 1 (11 11)**	*2 (42)**
SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7) 60.0 = 101.4 - *41.4	τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4) 61.0 = 102.4 - *41.4	*Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-9 (Twins of the Shepherd)* θ Gemini (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), ALHENA = γ Gemini (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9)	ADARA (Virgins) = ε Canis Majoris (104.8)	ω Gemini (105.4), ALZIRR (Button) = ξ Gemini (105.7), MULIPHEIN (Oaths) = γ Canis Majoris (105.8), MEKBUDA (Contracted) = ζ Gemini (105.9) 64.0 = 105.4 - *41.4	7h (106.5) No star listed (106)

*June 30 (101)**	July 1	2	*3 (104)**	4	5 (186)
°June 26	27	28	*29 (100)**	30	°July 1 (182)
'June 3	4	5	*6 (77)**	7	8 (159)
"May 20	21	22	*23 (63)**	24	25 (145)

584 + 6 = 590 = 20 * 29½. I.e. we can guess the text on side a of the A tablet was related to the Moon and its side b to Venus.

Both Moon and Venus were two-fold.

... When I asked if I could bring one of the archaeologists along on the promised visit to his cave, Atan Atan was at first reluctant, but on second thought he found that this could do no harm since the cave was now mine and would be emptied anyhow. The objects, however, were to be taken directly on board the ship and not shown to anyone before we left the island. Whatever was said and done afterwards would not matter to him, he added.

The stone skull with the peculiar pits on top brought to mind a small and crude stone cranium already found archaeologically behind the Vinapu temple plaza on the south side of the island, and a second examination of this piece showed much to our surprise that here also two deep pits had been carved on the forehead, asymmetrically on each side of the sagittalis ...

Ferdon ... who conducted personal interrogations among the Easter Islanders in his own work team at Orongo, and who was to participate in the opening of Atan Atan's cave, wrote: 'I later learned from quite a different source that such depressions were for placing ground human bone to create maximum power for this key, or guardian stone.' Obviously, this was not an idea originating with Atan Atan and his cave.

On March 18, the day preceding the nocturnal cave visit, I attended an Easter Island wedding in Hangaroa village. During the outdoor feast that followed I was approached by old Victoria Atan, Tahutahu, who grabbed my hand with both of hers and clung on to me, asking me with a friendly but most intense look to bring 'good luck' for herself and her family. It was not then quite clear what she meant, but next day it became evident as two of her nephews performed a rather ludicrous and bizarre rite made up for the occasion in the mess tent of our camp.

Atan Atan and his brother Esteban had asked if they could come to us for a Norwegian meal for 'good luck'. They explained that later that night we were to eat from their own umu takapu, or ceremonial earth oven, which their aunt Tahutahu was to prepare in the neighborhood of the cave.

Esteban Atan was brought along, said Atan, to make up an even number since I had asked to bring along my companion, Ferdon. An uneven number caused 'bad luck'. When I next asked for the participation even of the expedition photographer ... Atan Atan once more felt ill at ease, until again he made our number even: instead of sending away his brother he insisted that his brother's best friend, Henrique Teao, be brought with us also. The senior brother, Pedro Atan, was ill with influenza, but Henrique Teao was just then bringing along logs to our camp to serve as skids, as the group that had formerly erected the statue were now to reveal how these stone giants were transported.

Henrique, who later drowned at sea with his friend Esteban Atan when they tried to escape from the island, had just then started to bring me secret sculptures, and it is not unlikely that the two Atan brothers were aware of the fact.

Our Easter Island maid was relieved for the occasion by the ship's steward as our select little group sat down to a Scandinavian smörgaasbord and whispered about our secrets. The three islanders first made the sign of the cross and murmured a little grace, whereupon Atan Atan looked up and explained as if almost embarrassed, that this was otra cosa parte, 'something apart' from what was to follow.

From then on all conversation continued in a hoarse whisper, and a special phrase composed in Rapanui by Atan Atan was to be repeatedly whispered by each of us as if to convince ourselves, if not the invisible aku-aku, that we were all related 'Long-ears' eating of a Norwegian curanto.

As night fell, Atan Atan became visibly grave and solemn. When the six of us climbed into the expedition jeep to cross the island, beads of perspiration appeared on his face, and he repeatedly had to wipe them away although Ferdon and I, observing his emotions closely, agreed that the night air was anything but warm.

By way of camouflage we filled the back of the jeep with bundles of washing to be delivered at the Vaitea sheep ranch, and further on near Hangaroa village we stole away from the jeep on foot. We left Henrique behind as a guard while we climbed a wall to cross a stony field that took us towards the part of the scattered village area where Esteban Atan lived.

Atan Atan was now almost hysterical. He was terrified that someone might stumble and hurt himself and stated repeatedly that this would mean 'bad luck' for the enterprise. Frequently he reiterated that he was convinced we should have 'good luck' because he had always been kind to others so that his aku-aku was satisfied and no one had yet hurt himself on his land. Nevertheless he was visibly worried about the photographer, who was not a young man. He grabbed his arm and almost dragged him along. The photographer hung awkwardly onto Atan's shoulder as they both struggled to keep their balance across the boulder-strewn fields ...

Atan Atan	Esteban Atan	Henrique Teao
Thor Heyerdahl	Ferdon	The Photographer

FEBR 5 (36)	6	7 (403)	*8 (324)**

Gb7-18	Gb7-19 (200)	Gb7-20 (430)	Gb7-21

Gb4-1	Gb4-2 (93)	Gb4-3	Gb4-4 (324)
KSORA (Knee) = δ Cassiopeiae (20.1), ω Andromedae (20.6), γ Phoenicis (20.8)	δ Phoenicis (21.5)	υ Andromedae (22.9)	ACHERNAR (End of the River) = α Eridani (23.3), χ Andromedae (23.6), τ Andromedae (23.9
April 10 (100 = 465)	11 (101 = 364 - 263)	12	*4-13 (23)**
°April 6 (96)	7	8	*9 (19)**
3-14 (73)	'March 15	*16 (360)**	17
"Febr 28 (59)	*"March 1 (345)**	2	3 (427)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AUG 7	*8 (140)**	9	10 (222)
71 VIRGINIS (203.6)	No star listed (207)	HEZE = ζ Virginis (205.0), Southern Pinwheel Galaxy = M83 Hydrae (205.7)	ε Centauri (206.3), κ Oct. (206.4) 165.0 = 206.4 - *41.4

*Oct 10 (2 324)**	*11 (204)**	12 (285)	13
°Oct 6	*7 (200)**	8	9 (282)
*'Sept 13 (4 64)**	*14 (177)**	15	16
"August 30 (242)	*31 (163)**	"Sept 1	2

Ga5-29	Ga5-30 (140)	Ga6-1	Ga6-2

... The Sun promised to move more slowly in order to make longer days for fishing. And as if by design day 144 on side a of the G tablet marked the Pillar-to-fish-by:

AUG 9 (84 + 137)	10 (222)	11 (80 + 143)	*12 (208 - 64)*	*13 (145)**

Ga6-1 (141)	Ga6-2 (222 - 80)	Ga6-3	Ga6-4 (144)	Ga6-5 (290 / 2)
HEZE = ζ Virginis (205.0), Southern Pinwheel Galaxy = M83 Hydrae (205.7)	ε Centauri (206.3), κ Oct. (206.4) 165.0 = 206.4 - *41.4	No star listed (207)	τ Bootis (208.2), BENETNASH (Leader of the Daughters of the Bier) = η Ursae Majoris (208.5), ν Centauri (208.7), μ Centauri, υ Bootis (208.8)	No star listed (209)

Oct 12 (285)	13	14	*15 (208)**	16
°Oct 8	9	10	*11 (204)**	12 (285)
'Sept 15	16	17 (260)	18	*19 (182)**
Hora Nui 1	2 (245)	"Sept 3	4	*5 (168)**
... On the first day of the month of September ('Hora Nui') they went up to the yam plantation of Kuukuu - i te raa Po rae o hora nui i iri ai ki runga ki the uhi a kuukuu ... [E:46]. ... Hotu's canoe sailed from Maori to Te Pito O Te Kainga. It sailed on the second day of September (hora nui) ... [E:74]
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
*FEBR 8 (324)**	9 (40)	10	11	12 (408)
ACHERNAR (End of the River) = α Eridani (23.3), χ Andromedae (23.6), τ Andromedae (23.9)	ALSEIPH (Scimitar) = φ Persei (24.5), τ Ceti (24.7)	No star listed (25)	*ANA-NIA-10 (Pillar-to-fish by)* χ Ceti (26.1), POLARIS = α Ursae Minoris, BATEN KAITOS = ζ Ceti (26.6), METALLAH = α Trianguli (26.9)	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

*4-13 → 14 29½**	April 14	15	16 (471)	17 (107)
°April 9	10 (100)	11	*12 (22)**	13
'March 17	18	19 (78)	*20 (364)**	0h
"March 3	4	5 (64)	*6 (350)**	7

The glyphs in the rongorongo texts have a tendency to group into pairs, e.g.:


Bb3-33 (111)	Bb3-34	Bb3-35 → 256 + 79	Bb3-36 → 256 + 80
Sept 11 (254 = 270 - 16)	12 (355 - 100)	*13 (4 64)**	14 (257 = 273 - 16)
mai tae tu	ki te hipu	gutu huri	e toa maro
Gutu. 1. Lips, mouth, beak, snout (goutu); gutu ahu, swollen lip; gutu hiti, thick lip; gutu mokomoko, pointed lip; gutu no, vain words; gutu pakapaka, scabbed lips; gutu raro, lower lip; gutu ruga, upper lip. Gutugutu, snout. P Pau.: gutu, lip, beak, bill. Mgv.: gutu, the chin, the mouth of a fish. Mq.: nutu, beak, snout. Ta.: utu, lip, mouth, beak, snout. Gutupiri, attentively. Gututae, attentively; gututae mekenu, a small mouth. Gututika, tattoing on the lips. 2. Pau.: Gutuafare, to save, to economize. Ta.: utuafare, family, residence. 3. Pau.: Guturoa, to grimace, to pout. Mgv.: guturoa, to grimace. Churchill. Huri. 1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga. 1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill. Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

Bb3-37 (115 → April 25)	Bb3-38	Bb3-39 → 78 + 39	Bb3-40 (118)
Sept 15	16	17 (260)	*18 (118 + 11 13)**
kua vero hia raua - ki to maro	ma to kava - kua huri te hatu	ki te henua	ma te maitaki
... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ... [E:17] ... Metoro's hia ought to have been a suggestion to Bishop Jaussen to count: e.g. 179 (June 28) - 84 (Julian equinox) = 175 (ºJune 24) - 80 (Gregorian equinox) = *95 (Canopus) ...

Bb3-41 (119 → 80 + 39)	Bb3-42	*Bb3-43 (11 11)**	Bb4-1
Sept 19	20 (263)	21 (584 - 320)	Equinox
mai tae vere hia - ki te pito o te henua	e nuku hoi	kua here te toa - i ruga o to maro	Kua huki - ko te maro
Here. 1. To catch eels in a snare of sliding knots; pole used in this manner of fishing, with a perforation for the line. 2. To tie, to fasten, to lash; rasp made of a piece of obsidian with one rough side; cable, tie; figuratively: pact, treatise. Vanaga. 1. To lash, to belay, to knot the end of a cord, to lace, to tie, to fasten, to knot; to catch in a noose, to strangle, to garrote; here pepe, to saddle; moa herea, a trussed fowl; hehere, collar, necklet; herega, bond, ligament; heregao, scarf, cravat. 2. Hakahere. To buy, to sell, to barter, to part with, to pay for, to do business, to compensate, to owe, to disburse, to expiate, to indemnify, to rent out, to hire, to traffic, to bargain, to bribe; merchant, trader, business, revenge; tagata hakahere, merchant, trader; hakahere ki te ika, to avenge; hakaherega, ransom, redemption; hakahererua, to exchange, to avenge. 3. Here ei hoiho, incense. Churchill. Hereke, festering wound, cracked skin. Barthel 2.

Bb4-2 (123)	Bb4-3	Bb4-4	Bb4-5
Sept 23 (266)	24	25 (268)	26
ko te vere - a uta	ko te vere - i te ragi - kua here to maro	i te maitaki o to maro	i te maharoga i to maro
Vere. 1. Beard, moustache (vede G); vere gutu, moustache; verevere, shaggy, hairy, tow, oakum. Mgv.: veri, bristly, shaggy, chafed (of a cord long in use). Mq.: veevee, tentacles. Ta.: verevere, eyelash. 2. To weed (ka-veri-mai, pick, cut-grass T); verevere, to weed. P Mgv.: vere, to weed. Mq.: veéveé, vavee, id. 3. Verega, fruitful, valuable; verega kore, unfruitful, valueless, contemptible, vain, futile, frivolous; tae verega, insignificant, valueless; mataku verega kore, scruple. Mgv.: verega, a design put into execution; one who is apte, useful, having a knowledge how to do things. 4. Ta.: verevere, pudenda muliebria. Ma.: werewere, id. (labia minora). Churchill. Sa.: apungaleveleve, apongaleveleve, a spider, a web. To.: kaleveleve, a large spider. Fu.: kaleveleve, a spider, a web. Niuē: kaleveleve, a cobweb. Nukuoro: halaneveneve, a spider. Uvea: kaleveleve, a spider. Mgv.: pungaverevere, a spider. Pau.: pungaverevere, cloth. Mg.: pungaverevere, a cobweb. Ta.: puaverevere, id. Mao.: pungawerewere, puawerewere, puwerewere, a spider. Ha.: punawelewele, a spider, a web. Mq.: pukaveevee, punaveevee, id. Vi.: lawa, a fishing net; viritālawalawa, a cobweb; butalawalawa, a spider. Churchill 2. Maharo. To admire something, to be astonished, to watch something with delight, interest, or amazement. Maharoga, object of admiration. Vanaga. To glorify, to flatter, to admire, to amaze, to astonish, to enchant, to astound; eulogy, boasting; maharo hia ia a, to vaunt; maharohaga, flattery. P Pau.: maharo, to wonder at, to marvel. Mgv.: maharo, to praise, to vaunt, commendation. Mq.: mahaó, to praise, admirable, astonishing. Churchill.