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Ba10.2

There were 50 right ascension days from heliacal Algenib Persei to the Full Moon at the right ascension line for Vega. In Roman times (27 precessional days earlier than according to my assumed epoch for rongorongo) Ba10-1 would have corresponded to 'June 1.

... 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]

Vega (*281.8) - (152 - 115) = *244 (the Sting, Lesath, ν Scorpii) = *62 (the Egg, Beid, ο¹ Eridani) + *182:

*11 *168
kava Ba9-13 (273 + 80) Ba9-24 (*73) Ca9-13 (*241)
BEID (Egg) = ο¹ Eridani (62.2) HASSALEH VRISCHIKA
MARCH 19 (78) MARCH 30 (89) SEPT 14 (257)
o to kava - kua huri ko to hatu te kava ku huri ïa haati kava
180

15

11

20

2

Ba9-1 (341)

Ba9-17 (357)

Ba9-29 Ba10-1 (390) Ba10-4
MARCH 7 (50 + 16)

MARCH 23 (82)

APRIL 4 (94) APRIL 25 (115) (4 * 29½)

ALGENIB PERSEI = α Persei (50.0)

KAJAM (Club) = ω Herculis (248.3) RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8) VEGA (281.8) Φ Sagittarii (284.0)

May 10 (80 + 50)

26 (146 = 82 + 64)

June 7 (131 + 27) 28 (179) July 1 (182)

'April 13 (53 + 50)

29 (82 + 37)

'May 11 (131)

'June 1 (152)

3 (155)

"March 30 (39 + 50)

"April 15 (105)

27 (117)

"May 18 (138) 21 (141)
Ba10-1 (390) Ba10-2 Ba10-3 Ba10-4 Ba10-5 Ba10-6
ka mai ki te Raa kua vaha ko te henua kua puu ko te henua kua hakaora ia raua - kua hora koia - kua hakatetea ko raua

Vaha. Hollow; opening; space between the fingers (vaha rima); door cracks (vaha papare). Vahavaha, to fight, to wrangle, to argue with abusive words. Vanaga. 1. Space, before T; vaha takitua, perineum. PS Mgv.: vaha, a space, an open place. Mq.: vaha, separated, not joined. Ta.: vaha, an opening. Sa.: vasa, space, interval. To.: vaha, vahaa, id. Fu.: vasa, vāsaà, id. Niuē: vahā. 2. Muscle, tendon; vahavaha, id. Vahahora (vaha 1 - hora 2), spring. Vahatoga (vaha 1 - toga 1), autumn. 3. Ta.: vahavaha, to disdain, to dislike. Ha.: wahawaha, to hate, to dislike.  Churchill.

Hora. Ancient name of summer (toga-hora, winter summer). Vanaga. 1. In haste (horahorau). 2. Summer, April; hora nui, March; vaha hora, spring. 3. 'Hour', 'watch'. 4. Pau.: hora, salted, briny. Ta.: horahora, bitter. Mq.: hoáhoá, id. 5. Ta.: hora, Tephrosia piscatoria, to poison fish therewith. Ha.: hola, to poison fish. Churchill. Horahora, to spread, unfold, extend, to heave to; hohora, to come into leaf. P Pau.: hohora, to unfold, to unroll; horahora, to spread out, to unwrap. Mgv.: hohora, to spread out clothes as a carpet; mahora, to stretch out (from the smallest extension to the greatest), Mq.: hohoá, to display, to spread out, to unroll. Ta.: hohora, to open, to display; hora, to extend the hand in giving it. Churchill.

Tetea. To have many descendants. Vanaga.

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
APRIL 25 26 27 28 (118) 29 30 (366 - 64 - 182)
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

Abhijit-22 (Victorious)

θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA = α Lyrae (281.8)
No star listed (282)

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
Dec 27 28 29 30 (364) 31 Jan 1

I guess we next ought to take a 4-day leap in order to reach Ba10-10 (→ 100), where the Full Moon would be at *290. From December 31 the glyphs here seem to come in pairs:

Ba10-7 (396) Ba10-8 Ba10-9 Ba10-10
ki to ihe kua rere ki ruga o te marama
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
MAY 1 (BELTAINE) 2 (122) 3 4 (370 - 64 - 182)
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

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

19h (289.2)

λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8)

*248.0 = *289.4 - *41.4

 

Al Baldah-19 (City)

AL BALDAH = π Sagittarii, ALPHEKKA (Dish) MERIDIANA = α Cor. Austr. (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)
Jan 2 3 (80 + 288) 4 5 (370)

The Armpit (Ascella) was a place for warming up:

2

Beid (The Egg)

AIN (The Eye)

2

Ca9-17 (325 - 80)

Ca9-20 (248)

kau tuu

Sea

Land

... In the beginning there was nothing but the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider. One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty. By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last found a snail. To endow it with power she placed it under her arm, lay down and slept for three days. Then she let it free, and still hunting about she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated it in the same way. Then she said to the first snail: 'Can you open this room a little, so that we can sit down?' The snail said it could, and opened the shell a little. 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. Old-Spider then made the sun from the second snail, and placed it beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth ...

And as to Nunki there is much to say:

... This [σ Sagittarii] has been identified with Nunki of the Euphratean Tablet of the Thirty Stars, the Star of the Proclamation of the Sea, this Sea being the quarter occupied by Aquarius, Capricornus, Delphinus, Pisces, and Pisces Australis. It is the same space in the sky that Aratos designated as Water ...