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There were 80 days from JULY 2 to the Heart (σ) of the Scorpion and then there were 4 more days to Ga7-18:

JULY 2 3 (184) 4  5 6 (*107) 75
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 (104) Ga4-22 Ga4-23 Ga4-24 (107)
χ Leonis, χ¹ Hydrae, χ² Hydrae AL SHARAS (The Rib) = β Crateris (168.6) ZOSMA (Girdle) = δ Leonis, COXA (Hips) = θ Leonis

χ Aquarii

φ Leonis σ Leonis, ι Leonis
CROSS-BARS
KERB = τ Pegasi  υ Pegasi (*354)
JANUARY 1 (366) 2 3 (*288) 4 5

SEPTEMBER 20 21 EQUINOX 23 24 (*187) 25 (268)
Ga7-14 Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17 Ga7-18 Ga7-19 (188)
Heart-5

σ Scorpii (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7)

ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8) Al Kalb-16 / Jyeshtha-18 / 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) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5)
November 23 (327) 24 25 26 (*250) 27 28
°November 19 20 (324) 21 22 (*246) 23 24
'October 27 (300) 28 29 (*222) 30 31 'November 1
"October 13 14 Tangaroa Uri 15 16 17 (290) 18 (*211)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
MARCH 22 23 24 EQUINOX 26 (*370) 27
Net-19

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)

no star listed (66) no star listed (67) Rohini-4 / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

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

no star listed (69) no star listed (70)
May 25 (*65) 26 27 (*432) 28 (513) 29 30 (150)
°May 21 22 23 (*428) 24 25 26 (146)
'April 28 (*403) 29 30 (*40) 'May 1 2 3 (123)
"April 14 (104) 15 16 (*26) 17 (*392) 18 (473) 19

From Zosma and Coxa to Antares there were 80 days:

JULY 4 (185) 79 EQUINOX (*185)
ZOSMA, COXA

χ Aquarii

ANTARES

no star listed

JANUARY 3 (368) MARCH 24 (*368)

When Hotu A Matua arrived in Tangaroa Uri 15 it was in day 288 (= 80 + 185 + 23 = "October 15). But should he once upon a time have left Hiva in JUNE 30, then his 'sea voyage' would have stretched from Sirius at Alkes (*101) to Antares at the equinox (*185), i.e. for 84 right ascension nights.

JUNE 28 29 (180) SIRIUS JULY 1 (*102)
Ga4-16 Ga4-17 (100) Ga4-18 Ga4-19
ν Hydrae (163.1) no star listed (164)

ALTAIR (α Aquilae)

Wings-27

η Oct. (165.4), ALKES = α Crateris (165.6)

ANA-TIPU-4 (Upper-side-pillar - where the guards stood)

MERAK = β Ursae Majoris (166.2), DUBHE = α Ursae Majoris (166.7)

August 31 September 1 2 (*165) 3 (246)
°August 27 28 29 (*161) 30 (242)
'August 4 (216) 5 (*137) 6 7
"July 21 22 / 7 23 (204) 24 (*125)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
DECEMBER 28 29 30 (364) 31 (*285)
ι Cephei (346.0), λ Aquarii, γ Piscis Austrini, σ Pegasi (346.5) SCHEAT AQUARII =  δ Aquarii (347.0), ρ Pegasi (347.2), δ Piscis Austrini (347.4), FOMALHAUT = α Piscis Austrini, τ Gruis (347.8) FUM AL SAMAKAH = β Piscium (348.3), ζ Gruis (348.5), ο Andromedae (348.9) Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 / House-13

SCHEAT PEGASI = β Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), κ Gruis (349.4), MARKAB PEGASI = α Pegasi (349.5)

March 2 3 4 (*348) 5 (64)
°February 26 27 28 (*344) °March 1 (60)
'February 3 4 5 (36) 6 (*322)
"January 20 21 22 23 (*308)

At my assumed time for rongorongo Alkes would have been at the Sun in September 2 (= 64 precessional days later than JUNE 30). This could have made the creators of Manuscript E state that the royal double canoe had left Maori in Hora Nui 2 ("September 2).

Maybe there was a kind of logic here connected with the equation 80 - 60 = 20. The cycle of the Moon measured 384 (= 13 * 29½ + ½) nights and that of the Sun 384 - 20 = 364 days, 20 days less. And the Pope had decided 0h should be at day 80 in his calendar, i.e. counting from day 364 + 20 = 384 (= 300 + 84) there were 80 - 20 = 60 days to 0h.

16 Pax 17 Kayab 18 Cumhu
60
19 Vayeb
5
1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip (60) 4 Zotz (80)
80

Up in the right corners of Kayab and Pop there were similar signs (infixes), although that in Pop had a form which combined the circle with the square. Gates says such infix signs means yellow (kan) - as the colour of the sun. However, they are not the same as the quincunx, because the 4 'pillars' in the infixes are only partly visible.

And then the quincunx had to be separated from yet another type: Gates: 'This sign [kan, yellow] must first be definitely separated from the glyph with five small circles [completely] within, as distinct from the corner positions shown here. In its present form it is proven to equal yellow, by its use in series.' I think the full yellow face of the true Sun emerged only in stages - he was not reborn in an instant.

From the time of the Bull to the time of rongorongo there were 64 precessional days. But from Leo urinating in front of Raven to Nonoma urinating where Hotu A Matua arrived to Easter Island there were 80 right ascension nights. King Hotu was the Full Moon king whereas Leo represented the Sun. Moving from daytime Leo to nighttime Hotu could therefore require adding not only 80 but 183 + 80 = 263 days.

Hotu

Ta.: hotu, to produce fruit, Sa.: fotu, id. Mgv.: akahotu, the September season. Churchill.

H.: Hoku,  Night of the full moon. When this moon set before daylight it was called Hoku Palemo, Hoku that slips away. When it set after daylight it was called Hoku Ili, grounded Hoku. Ka mahina o Hoku, the full moon of the night Hoku. Cf. hōkū, star. Hō kū, star. (PPN fetu'u). Wehewehe.

JULY 4 (*105) + 183 = JANUARY 3 (*288) and then *288 + 80 = *368 (MARCH 24). Here, in the midst of the night, Ira was inside his house and from there he could not see the ship which had arrived to the 3 islets outside the corner in the southwest.

... On the fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa uri) the canoe of Hotu and the canoe of Ava Rei Pua landed. On the fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa uri), Nonoma [Jupiter] left the house during the night to urinate outside. At this point Ira called out to Nonoma, 'Look at the canoe!' Nonoma ran, he quickly went to Te Hikinga Heru (a ravine in the side of the crater Rano Kau) and looked around. There he saw the double canoe way out near the (offshore) islets, and the two (hulls of the canoe) were lashed together ...

The Gregorian calendar is a Sun calendar and therefore its heliacal stars had advanced with 64 - 4 = 60 days ahead in the year since the time of the Bull. Antares was no longer rising with the Sun at the northern autumn equinox and instead its place had been taken by Avis Satyra (η Corvi):

JULY 21 7-22 (*123) 23 24 25 (206)
Ga5-12 Ga5-13 (123) Ga5-14 Ga5-15 Ga5-16
CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3) INTROMETIDA = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5) γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB = δ Corvi (188.5), GACRUX = γ Crucis (188.7) γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7) α MUSCAE (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7)

ALDERAMIN (α Cephei)

September 23 24 (*187) 25 (268) 26 27
°September 19 20 (*183) 21 (264) EQUINOX 23
'August 27 28 (240) 29 (*161) 30 31
"August 13 14 (*146) 15 (227) 16 17
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JANUARY 20 21 (*306) 22 23 (388) 24
no star listed (4) ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

ALPHARD (α Hydrae)

λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4) ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31), π Andromedae (7.7) ε Andromedae (8.2), DELTA = δ Andromedae (8.4), SCHEDIR = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9)
March 25 (84) 26 27 28 (*372) 29 (*8)
0h °March 22 23 24 (*368) 25 (*4)
'February 26 27 28 (59) 'March 1 2 (*346)
"February 12 13 (*329) 14 (45) 15 16

And at the time of Bharani (the place of birth), 23 precessional days later than at the time of the Bull, the Chines House station would have been in "January 23 (*308).

December solstice
8 South Dipper φ Sagittarii (?) Unicorn (284.0) Dec 30 (364) 364 = 353 + 11
9 Ox / Herd Boy β Capricornii (Dabih) Buffalo (308.0) Jan 23 (388) 388 = 364 + 24
10 Girl ε Aquarii (Albali) Bat (314.8) Jan 29 (394) 394 = 388 + 6
11 Emptiness β Aquarii (Sadalsud) Rat (325.9) Feb 9 (405) 405 = 394 + 11
12 Rooftop α Aquarii (Sadalmelik) Swallow (334.6) Feb 18 (414) 414 = 405 + 9
13 House α Pegasi (Markab) Pig (349.5) Mar 5 (429) 429 = 364 + 65

*349 (March 5) - 41 (precessional depth down to Bharani) = *308 ("January 23). March 5 (64) - 41 = 23.

Possibly this Pig referred to the peculiar phenomenon described as Copulating Peccaries by the Mayas. The Maize Tree - with the top bird on his head and standing on the 3 stones of Orion - had these peccaries close by at his right side, below where newborn twins were delivered in his arms:

We can translate the copulating Xmulkane and Xpiakok with the Gemini twins, which implies one of them had to be male and the other female:

... 'The earth rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive, for neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and they dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard. There come also the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, and bring along his hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from the other world. All sit down and converse together. They rehearse their runes and talk of events of old days. Then they find in the grass the golden tablets that the Aesir once played with. Two children of men will also be found safe from the great flames of Surt. Their names Lif and Lifthrasir, and they feed on the morning dew and from this human pair will come a great population which will fill the earth. And strange to say, the sun, before being devoured by Fenrir, will have borne a daughter, no less beautiful and going the same ways as her mother ...

From this it becomes clear that the 3 islets outside the southwestern corner of the island ought to have corresponded to the Belt stars of Orion.

Tui

1. To sew mats, to make strings. E-tahi tuitui reipá i Te Pei, ekó rava'a e-varu kaukau; i-garo ai i Hiva, i te kaiga, a necklace of mother-of-pearl is on te Pei, few will find it (lit: eight groups of people); it has remained in Hiva, in our homeland. 2. The three stars of Orion's Belt. Vanaga.

And the Pegasus Square fits in nicely, because this was the inundated field. This was the fertile ground at the very beginning, not yet expanded into the 3rd dimension:

BABYLONIAN ECLIPTIC CONSTELLATIONS:
0  1-iku Field measure  τ (Anunitum) Piscium 16.5 April 6 (96)
1 Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku Front of the Head of Ku β (Sheratan), γ (Mesarthim) Arietis 27.4 April 17 (107)
2 Arku-sha-rishu-ku Back of the Head of Ku α (Hamal) Arietis 30.5 April 20 (110)