... 4 March 1779. The British ships are again at Kaua'i, their last days in the islands, some thirteen months since their initial visit. A number of Hawaiian men come on board and under the direction of their women, who remain alongside in the canoes, the men deposit navel cords of newborn children in cracks of the ships' decks (Beaglehole 1967:1225). For an analogous behavior observed by the missionary Fison on the Polynesian island of Rotuma, see Frazer (1911, 1:184). Hawaiians are connected to ancestors (auumakua), as well as to living kinsmen and descendants, by several cords emanating from various parts of the body but alike called piko, 'umbilical cord'. In this connection, Mrs. Pukui discusses the incident at Kaua'i: I have seen many old people with small containers for the umbilical cords... One grandmother took the cords of her four grandchildren and dropped them into Alenuihaha channel. 'I want my granddaughters to travel across the sea!' she told me. Mrs. Pukui believes that the story of women hiding their babies' pikos in Captain Cook's ship is probably true. Cook was first thought to be the god Lono, and his ship his 'floating island'. What woman wouldn't want her baby's piko there? (Pukui et al. 1972, 1:184) ...

Piko. 1. To twist (vi); twisted, bent; haga piko, bend formed by part of the coast. 2. To hide (vi); hidden; kahi piko, tuna fish meant as a gift for someone, and which is kept hidden away from others. 3. Slip knot (used with fishing lines). Vanaga. 1. Post; moa tara piko, cock with long spurs. 2. Crooked, tortuous; piko mai piko atu, sinuosity; hakapiko, pliant, to bend; pikopiko, crooked; hoe pikopiko, pruning knife; veo pikopiko, arrow that flies ill. 3. To hide oneself, to lie in wait, to set a trap, to take refuge, to withdraw, to beat a retreat, security, ambush, padlock; piko reoreo, false security; piko etahi, to withdraw one after another; pikoga, asylum, receptacle, refuge, retreat, snare. Churchill. H. Piko Umbilical cord. Hawaiians are connected to ancestors (aūmakua), as well as to living kinsmen and descendants, by several cords emanating from various parts of the body but alike called piko, 'umbilical cord'. Islands of History. H. Piko 1. Navel, navel string, umbilical cord. Fig. blood relative, genitals. Cfr piko pau 'iole, wai'olu. Mō ka piko, moku ka piko, wehe i ka piko, the navel cord is cut (friendship between related persons is broken; a relative is cast out of a family). Pehea kō piko? How is your navel? (A facetious greeting avoided by some because of the double meaning.) 2. Summit or top of a hill or mountain; crest; crown of the head; crown of the hat made on a frame (pāpale pahu); tip of the ear; end of a rope; border of a land; center, as of a fishpond wall or kōnane board; place where a stem is attached to the leaf, as of taro. 3. Short for alopiko. I ka piko nō 'oe, lihaliha (song), at the belly portion itself, so very choice and fat. 4. A common taro with many varieties, all with the leaf blade indented at the base up to the piko, junction of blade and stem. 5. Design in plaiting the hat called pāpale 'ie. 6. Bottom round of a carrying net, kōkō. 7. Small wauke rootlets from an old plant. 8. Thatch above a door. 'Oki i ka piko, to cut this thatch; fig. to dedicate a house. Wehewehe.


Bb3-38 (537 = 542 - 5)	Bb3-39	*Bb3-40 (118 = 4 29½)**
ma to kava - kua huri te hatu	ki te henua	ma te maitaki
... In Hindu legend there was a mother goddess called Aditi, who had seven offspring. She is called 'Mother of the Gods'. Aditi, whose name means 'free, unbounded, infinity' was assigned in the ancient lists of constellations as the regent of the asterism Punarvasu. Punarvasu is dual in form and means 'The Doublegood Pair'. The singular form of this noun is used to refer to the star Pollux. It is not difficult to surmise that the other member of the Doublegood Pair was Castor. Then the constellation Punarvasu is quite equivalent to our Gemini, the Twins. In far antiquity (5800 BC) the spring equinoctial point was predicted by the heliacal rising of the Twins ... Maitaki. Clean, neat, pure, pretty, nice, beautiful, handsome; tagata rima maitaki, clean-handed man, correct man. Vanaga. 1. Good. Henua maitaki = the good earth. 2. Shine. Marama maitaki = the shining moon. Barthel. Ce qui est bon. Jaussen according to Barthel. Meitaki, good, agreeable, efficacious, excellent, elegant, pious, valid, brilliant, security, to please, to approve (maitaki); ariga meitaki, handsome, of pleasant mien; mea meitaki ka rava, to deserve; meitaki ke, marvelous, better. Hakameitaki, to make good, to amend, to do good, to bless, to establish. Meitakihaga, goodness. PS Pau.: maitaki, good. Mgv.: meitetaki, beautiful, good. Mq.: meitai, good, agreeable, fit, wise, virtuous. Ta.: maitaiki, good, well. Niuē: mitaki, good. Maitakia, clean. Churchill.
Nov 22	23 (327)	24
YED POSTERIOR (Hand Behind) = ε Ophiuchi, RUKBALGETHI SHEMALI (Northern Knee of the Giant) = τ Herculis (246.6). δ Apodis (246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8)	*Heart-5 (Fox)* σ Scorpii (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7)	ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM (Club) = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8)
... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...
RIGHT ASCENSION LINES AT THE FULL MOON:
*Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)* HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4) 22.0 = 63.4 - *41.4	HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)	*Net-19 (Crow)* AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)

... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ...

Bb3-41 (540 = 3 * 180 = 175 + 365)

Bb3-42 (541 - 421 = 120)

Bb3-43 (542 = 177 + 365)

mai tae vere hia - ki te pito o te henua

e nuku hoi

kua here te toa - i ruga o 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.

Pito. 1. Umbilical cord; navel; centre of something: te pito o te henua, centre of the world. Ana poreko te poki, ina ekó rivariva mo uru ki roto ki te hare o here'u i te poki; e-nanagi te pito o te poki, ai ka-rivariva mo uru ki roto ki te hare, when a child is born one must not enter the house immediately, for fear of injuring the child (that is, by breaking the taboo on a house where birth takes place); only after the umbilical cord has been severed can one enter the house. 2. Also something used for doing one's buttons up (buttonhole?). Vanaga. Navel. Churchill.

Nov 25 → 9 * 25 = 225

26 (330)

Al Kalb-16 (The Heart) / Jyeshtha-18 (Eldest) / ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)

ANTARES = α Scorpii (249.1), MARFIK (Elbow) = λ Ophiuchi, φ Ophiuchi (249.5), ω Ophiuchi (249.8)

γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7)

HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0)

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

Egyptian sticks

Phoenician taw

Greek chi

Χ (χ)

Greek tau

Τ (τ)

In Plato's Timaeus, it is explained that the two bands that form the soul of the world cross each other like the letter Χ.

Roman XII = 12 → XIII = 13, with the Nose in between - and later, after the Mouth, the cycle would begin anew (I).

Chi or X is often used to abbreviate the name Christ, as in the holiday Christmas (Xmas). When fused within a single typespace with the Greek letter Rho, it is called the labarum and used to represent the person of Jesus Christ. (Wikipedia)

... tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300 ... Taw is believed to be derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph meaning 'mark' ...

Taw, Tav or Taf is the twenty-second and last letter in many Semitic abjads ... In gematria Tav represents the number 400, the largest single number that can be represented without using the Sophit forms ...

'From Aleph to Taf' describes something from beginning to end; the Hebrew equivalent of the English 'From A to Z' ...

Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew word emet, which means truth. The midrash explains that emet is made up of the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet (Aleph, Mem, and Tav...). Sheqer (falsehood), on the other hand, is made up of the 19th, 20th, and 21st (and penultimate) letters.

Thus, truth is all-encompassing, while falsehood is narrow and deceiving. In Jewish mythology it was the word emet that was carved into the head of the Golem which ultimately gave it life. But when the letter 'aleph' was erased from the Golem's forehead, what was left was 'met' - dead. And so the Golem died ... (Wikipedia)

RIGHT ASCENSION LINES AT THE FULL MOON:

No star listed (66)

No star listed (67)

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN (The Follower) = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)

May 26

27 (80 + 67 = 147)

28 (148 = 225 - 77)

Also the Furrow of Heaven was 'crooked' (piko):

... As a kind of proof I will offer the resemblance between glyph number 542 and the Pithagorean letter:

Epimenides stated that all Cretans lied, which was an example of curved (unbounded, infinite) logic, because he himself was a Cretan. This was the opposite of the straightforward linear logic at the other side of the coin - the kind we in the industrialized western culture have entangled ouselves in.

... They go inland at the land. The child nursed and tended grows up, is able to go and play. Each day he now goes off a bit further away, moving some distance away from the house, and then returns to their house. So it goes on and the child is fully grown and goes to play far away from the place where they live. He goes over to where some work is being done by a father and son. Likāvaka is the name of the father - a canoe-builder, while his son is Kiukava. Taetagaloa goes right over there and steps forward to the stern of the canoe saying - his words are these: 'The canoe is crooked.' (kalo ki ama). Instantly Likāvaka is enraged at the words of the child. Likāvaka says: 'Who the hell are you to come and tell me that the canoe is crooked?' Taetagaloa replies: 'Come and stand over here and see that the canoe is crooked.' Likāvaka goes over and stands right at the place Taetagaloa told him to at the stern of the canoe. Looking forward, Taetagaloa is right, the canoe is crooked. He slices through all the lashings of the canoe to straighten the timbers. He realigns the timbers. First he must again position the supports, then place the timbers correctly in them, but Kuikava the son of Likāvaka goes over and stands upon one support. His father Likāvaka rushes right over and strikes his son Kuikava with his adze. Thus Kuikava dies. Taetagaloa goes over at once and brings the son of Likāvaka, Kuikava, back to life. Then he again aligns the supports correctly and helps Likāvaka in building the canoe. Working working it is finished ...

The beginning of the B text was evidently located with the Full Moon on the brink of the bridge across the Milky Way at the constellation of Auriga, with ε (Al-maaz, the Male Goat) at a place corresponding to MARCH 31 (90) according to the Golden Age of the Bull (*64 right ascension days earlier than my assumed era for rongorongo):

... Ogotemmêli had his own ideas about calculation. The Dogon in fact did use the decimal system, because from the beginning they had counted on their fingers, but the basis of their reckoning had been the number eight and this number recurred in what they called in French la centaine, which for them meant eighty. Eighty was the limit of reckoning, after which a new series began. Nowadays there could be ten such series, so that the European 1,000 corresponded to the Dogon 800. But Ogotemmêli believed that in the beginning men counted by eights - the number of cowries on each hand, that they had used their ten fingers to arrive at eighty, but that the number eight appeared again in order to produce 640 (8 x 10 x 8). 'Six hundred and forty', he said, 'is the end of the reckoning.' According to him, 640 covenant-stones had been thrown up by the seventh Nummo to make the outline in the grave of Lébé ...

And after 1½ years = 3 * 175 = 3 * 7 * 25 = 21 * 25 (= 5 * 105) right ascension days the Full Moon would then be found on the other side of the Milky Way at the bridge of Perseus 525 (= 350 + 175) glyphs later:

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON
In OCT 1 (274 = 91 + 183):	*25	In SEPT 6 (249 = 66 + 183):
the place of APRIL 1 (91)		the place of MARCH 5 (66)
June 4 (91 + 64 = 155)		May 12 (130 = 66 + 64)

Ba1-1		Bb3-25 (421 + 103 = 414 + 110)
*HAEDUS II (75)**		*ALGENIB PERSEI (50)**
"April 24 (114 = 91 + 23)		"March 30 (89 = 66 + 23)
524 = 160 + 364 = 414 (→ Bharani) + 110 = 314 + 420 / 2
... About Carmenta we know from the historian Dionysus Periergetis that she gave orcales to Hercules and lived to the age of 110 years. 110 was a canonical number, the ideal age which every Egyptian wished to reach and the age at which, for example, the patriarch Joseph died. The 110 years were made up of twenty-two Etruscan lustra of five years each; and 110 years composed the 'cycle' taken over from the Etruscans by the Romans. At the end of each cycle they corrected irregularities in the solar calendar by intercalation and held Secular Games. The secret sense of 22 - sacred numbers were never chosen haphazardly - is that it is the measure of the circumference of the circle when the diameter is 7. This proportion, now known as pi, is no longer a religious secret; and is used today only as a rule-of-thumb formula, the real mathematical value of pi being a decimal figure which nobody has yet been able work out because it goes on without ever ending, as 22 / 7 does, in a neat recurring sequence [3.142857142857 ...]. Seven lustra add up to thirty-five years, and thirty-five at Rome was the age at which a man was held to reach his prime and might be elected Consul. (The same age was fixed upon by a Classically-minded Convention as the earliest at which an American might be elected President of the United States.) ...

From Al-gol at the Full Moon up to and including Al-genib there were 6 days:


Bb3-19	Bb3-20 → 320	Bb3-21 (520)	Bb3-22 (100)	Bb3-23	Bb3-24	Bb3-25 (524)
E tagata hakatu ki to ika e vaha te ika	ma te ua	kua pua te hahine	kua tere ko to haga	ki te tagata haga	ki tona mea ke - kua oho koia ki te haga	mai moe koia ki te mago - kua haga i tona mea ke
RIGHT ASCENSION LINES AT THE FULL MOON:
MENKAR (The Nose) = α Ceti (44.7)	3h (45.7) GORGONEA TERTIA = ρ Persei (45.1), ALGOL (The Demon) = β Persei (45.9)	ι Persei (46.1), MISAM (Next to the Pleiades) = κ Persei (46.2), GORGONEA QUARTA = ω Persei (46.7), BOTEIN (Pair of Bellies) = δ Arietis (46.9)	ζ Arietis (47.7)	ZIBAL (Young Ostriches) = ζ Eridani (48.0), κ Ceti (48.9)	τ Arietis (49.7)	ALGENIB PERSEI = α Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8) ~~GIENAH (γ Corvi)~~

RIGHT ASCENSION AT THE SUN:
Nov 3	4	5	6 (310)	7	8	9
ω Bootis (227.2), NEKKAR (Herdsman) = β Bootis (227.3), σ Librae (227.5), π² Oct. (227.7), NADLAT (Mean Little Ones) = ψ Bootis (227.8), π Lupi (227.9)	15h (228.3) ZUBEN HAKRABIM = ν Librae (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9)	ω Oct. (229.3), ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8)	*Al Zubānā-14b (Claws)* χ Bootis (230.3), PRINCEPS = δ Bootis (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (Northern Claw) = β Librae (230.8)	μ Lupi, γ Tr. Austr. (231.3), ο Librae (231.8)	ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), PHERKAD (The Dim One of the Two Calves) = γ Ursae Min. (232.6), ε Librae (232.7), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9) 191.0 = 232.4 - 41.4	ALKALUROPS (The Herdsman's Lance) = μ Bootis (233.1), ED ASICH (Male Hyena) = ι Draconis (233.2)

44 = 409	*410	*411	*412	48 = 413	→ BHARANI	*50
May 4	*5 (125 = 5 25)**	6	7	*8 (2 64)**	9	10 (130)
"March 24	25 (125 - 41)	26	27	28	29 (88)	30

And from the Breast of Cassiopeia (te hipu) culminating at 21h in November 18 (322),


*Bb3-33 (111 = 2 266 - 421)**	*Bb3-34 (13 41 = 542 - 9 = 168 + 365)**
mai tae tu	ki te hipu
Hipu. Calabash, shell, cup, jug, goblet, pot, plate, vase, bowl, any such receptacle; hipu hiva, melon, bottle; hipu takatore, vessel; hipu unuvai, drinking glass. P Mgv.: ipu, calabash, gourd for carrying liquids. Mq.: ipu, all sorts of small vases, shell, bowl, receptacle, coconut shell. Ta.: ipu, calabash, cup, receptacle. Churchill.
Nov 17	18 (322)
*Iklīl al Jabhah-15 (Crown of the Forehead) / Anuradha-17 (Following Rādhā) / Room-4 (Hare)* ξ Lupi, λ Cor. Bor.(241.1), ZHENG = γ Serpentis, θ Librae (241.2), VRISCHIKA = π Scorpii (241.3), ε Cor. Borealis (241.5), DSCHUBBA (Front of Forehead) = δ Scorpii (241.7), η Lupi (241.9)	υ Herculis (242.3), ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4), ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), θ Draconis (242.6), ξ Scorpii (242.7) ~~SCHEDIR (Breast) α Cassiopeiae~~ 201.0 = 242.4 - *41.4

RIGHT ASCENSION LINES AT THE FULL MOON:
ZAURAK (Boat) = γ Eridani (58.9)	λ Tauri (59.3), ν Tauri (59.9)

OCT 1 (91 + 183):	*25	SEPT 6 (66 + 183):	*192	Nov 18 (322):	6	Nov 25 (329):
APRIL 1 (91)		MARCH 5 (66)		*322 - 41 - 80 = 201 = "Oct 8 (281)**		*329 - 41 - 80 = 208 = "Oct 15 (288)**
June 4 (91 + 64 = 155)		May 12 (130 = 66 + 64)		*322 - 41 - 80 = 201 = "Oct 8 (281)**		*329 - 41 - 80 = 208 = "Oct 15 (288)**

Ba1-1		Bb3-25 (414 + 110)		Bb3-34 (112 + 421)		*Bb3-41 (3 180)**
*HAEDUS II (75)**		*ALGENIB PERSEI (50)**		*ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4)**		*ANTARES (249)**
"April 24 (114 = 91 + 23)		"March 30 (89 = 66 + 23)		"Oct 8 (281)		"Oct 15 (288)

there appears to have emanated a kind of Cosmic String Theory:

... string games could be resumed after it was clear that the Sun had managed to leave the horizon and was rapidly gaining in altitude: 'Before the sun starts to leave the horizon ... when it shows only on the horizon ... then string games were no longer allowed as they might lacerate the sun. Once the sun had started to go higher and could be seen in its entirety, string games could be resumed, if one so wished. So the restriction on playing string games was only applicable during the period between the sun's return and its rising fully above the horizon ...