... After they had departed from Pu Pakakina they reached Vai Marama and met a man. Ira asked, 'How many are you?' He answered, 'There are two of us.' Ira continued asking, 'Where is he (the other)?' To that he answered, 'The one died.' Again Ira asked, 'Who has died?' He replied, 'That was Te Ohiro A Te Runu.' Ira asked anew, 'And who are your?' He answered, 'Nga Tavake A Te Rona.' [E:46]


rona	*NAOS (121)**

... Nga Tavake spoke to Te Ohiro: 'The land is sinking into the sea and we are lost!' ...

HELIACAL STARS:

ε Pavonis, θ Sagittarii (302.3), γ Sagittae (302.5), μ Pavonis (302.7)

τ Aquilae (303.8)

20h (304.4)

304.4 = 118.4 + 186.0

η Sagittae (304.2), δ Pavonis (304.4)

*263.0 = *77.0 + *186.0

SHANG WEI (Higher Guard) = κ Cephei (305.2), θ Sagittae (305.4), TSEEN FOO (Heavenly Raft) = θ Aquilae (Ant.) (305.6), ξ Capricorni (305.8)

*264.0 = *305.4 - *41.4

TSO KE (Left Flag) = ρ Aquilae (306.3)

... Why has the Left Flag (Tso Ke, ρ Aquilae) not been indicated in the star map for Aquila? It looks suspicious ...

Jan 17

19 (384)

NOV 17

19 (320)

kua hahaú ia koia

e rere koia

ki ruga mai kia au

kua rere mai ki te toga

eaha te manu rere toki - ki te henua

... in the ceremonial course of the coming year, the king is symbolically transposed toward the Lono pole of Hawaiian divinity ... It need only be noticed that the renewal of kingship at the climax of the Makahiki coincides with the rebirth of nature. For in the ideal ritual calendar, the kali'i battle follows the autumnal appearance of the Pleiades, by thirty-three days - thus precisely, in the late eighteenth century, 21 December, the winter solstice. The king returns to power with the sun. Whereas, over the next two days, Lono plays the part of the sacrifice ...

... 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 ...



Ga3-1 (60)	Ga3-2	Ga3-3	Ga3-4	Ga3-5	Ga3-6	Ga3-7 (66)
MAY 20 (140)	21	22	23	24	25 (145)	26

Bb9-33 (359)	Bb9-34	Bb9-35	Bb9-36	Bb9-37	Bb9-38 (364)	Bb9-39
AL TARF (The End) = β Cancri (124.3) ~~RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)~~	χ Cancri (125.2), BRIGHT FIRE = λ Cancri (125.4) 84.0 = 125.4 - *41.4	AVIOR = ε Carinae (126.4), φ Cancri (126.8) 85.0 = 126.4 - *41.4	Ο Ursae Majoris (127.4) 86.0 = 127.4 - *41.4	*Pushya-8 (Nourisher)* υ Cancri (128.1), θ Cancri (128.2)	*Āshleshā-9 (Embrace) / Willow-24 (Stag)* π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ HYDRAE (129.6), AL MINHAR AL SHUJĀ = σ Hydrae, MUSEIDA = π² Ursae Majoris (129.9) ~~RAS ALHAGUE (α Ophiuchi)~~	*Al Nathrah-6 (Gap)* BEEHIVE (Exhalation of Piled-up Corpses) = ε Cancri, η Pyxidis (130.4), XESTUS = ο Velorum (130.5), ζ Pyxidis (130.7), ASCELLUS BOREALIS = γ Cancri, β Pyxidis (130.9) 89.0 = 130.4 - *41.4

July 23 (204)	24	25	26	27	28	29 (210)
Jan 22	23	24	25 (390)	26	27 (365 + 27)	28 (393)
NOV 22	23	24 (325)	25 (390 - 64)	26	27	28 → Lono
eaha te manu rere	ki te hokohuki	kua haga i te mea ke	ki te tuuga o to toga	e tagata rere	mai ki te totoga e	kua haga ko te mea ke