The Sun had two wives and we can be fairly certain which one corresponded to Virgo and which one corresponded to Andromeda. ... Hamiora Pio once spoke as follows to the writer: 'Friend! Let me tell of the offspring of Tangaroa-akiukiu, whose two daughters were Hine-raumati (the Summer Maid - personified form of summer) and Hine-takurua (the Winter Maid - personification of winter), both of whom where taken to wife by the sun ... Now, these women had different homes. Hine-takurua lived with her elder Tangaroa (a sea being - origin and personified form of fish). Her labours were connected with Tangaroa - that is, with fish. Hine-raumati dwelt on land, where she cultivated food products, and attended to the taking of game and forest products, all such things connected with Tane ... By using the term 'corresponded' instead of 'equal to' we can avoid much trouble. There was a similarity between Andromeda and the Winter Maid on one hand and between Virgo and the Summer Maid on the other. That is enough - nothing more can be gained by trying to assume an unreasonable and hard to prove equality or identity. Undeniably, though, Manus Catenata (ι in Andromeda) was at the opposite side of the sky compared to ω Virginis:
The first star in Virgo was ω (o-mega), but Manus Catenata (ι) - representing the chained hand of Andromeda - had ο (o-mikron) rising 10 days earlier, which happened to occur 348 (= 12 * 29) days after 0h at the time of rongorongo:
When Raven tumbled down to the surface of the water and then climbed down to encounter himself in older days it meant he could not travel beyond Sirrah (α Andromeda). ... Next morning, amid the wailing that engulfed the town, she told what she had seen. The one-eyed people of the sky dressed in their dancing clothes, paddled the child out to mid-heaven in their canoe and pitched him over the side. He turned round and round to the right as he fell from the sky back to the water. Still in his cradle, he floated on the sea. Then he bumped against something solid. 'Your illustrious grandfather asks you in', said a voice. The Raven saw nothing. He heard the same voice again, and then again, but still he saw nothing but water. Then he peered through the hole in his marten-skin blanket. Beside him was a grebe. 'Your illustrious grandfather asks you in', said the grebe and dived. Level with the waves beside him, the Raven discovered the top of a housepole made of stone. He untied himself from his cradle and climbed down the pole to the lowermost figure. Hala qaattsi ttakkin-gha, a voice said: 'Come inside, my grandson.' Behind the fire, at the rear of the house, was an old man white as a gull. 'I have something to lend you', said the old man. 'I have something to tell you as well. Dii hau dang iiji: I am you.' Slender bluegreen things with wings were moving between the screens at the back of the house. Waa'asing dang iiji, said the old man again: 'That also is you.' Because Raven (Corvus) began at the opposite side of the year, in the day after ο Virginis (= 7 days after ω):
Bayer had opportonity to assign his Greek letters freely at the South Pole, where no ancient traditions had to be considered and his hands were free:
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