Once again. In Manuscript E there are lots of signs (hints) conveying meaning and in the part of the text which describes the arrival of Hotu and Ava Rei Pua I have below redmarked a few: ... The canoes of Ava Rei Pua and of Hotu were seen near the (off-shore) islets. 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 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. He ran and returned to the front of the house. He arrived and called into the house: 'Hey you! This canoe has arrived during the night without our noticing it!' Ira asked Nonoma, 'Where is the canoe, which you say is lying out there (in the water)?' Nonoma's voice came back: 'It is out there (in the water) close to the (offshore) islets! There it lies, and the two (hulls) are lashed together.' The four of them (corrected for 'the six of them') went out and picked up leaves (on branches) to give signals. They picked them up, went and arrived at Te Hikinga and saw the canoe. Raparenga got up, picked up the leaves, took them in his hands, and waved, waved, waved, waved. This was seen by the man who understood signals; he looked down and called out the following to the king: 'They are waving, they are signaling the following message: 'The land is bad, the shoots growing out of the ground cannot spread because the algae-like thicket is very long when it is pulled out, when it is ripped out!' (This means that the runners of the yam roots that were planted are unable to prevail against the heavy weeds, which have to be pulled out continually.) King Hotu called to Tuki, 'Signal and answer the following: The homeland is bad too, (because there) the flood brings destruction and the low tide brings relief (this is a reference to the losses caused in Hiva by the rising of the water, or rather, by the subsidence of the land.) (In the meantime) Ira and Nga Tavake had arrived. Tuki signaled and answered the message in this manner - he waved and waved ...
Dates are given for essential points and we can use these dates by interpreting them as Gregorian dates extrapolated back in time to Bharani, for instance in order to understand from where the Explorers could have originated and when they would go home again:
They evidently could have come from a place far down and close to the Phoenix.
North of the equator (or of the Mediterranean) water ran down towards the south and it was imagined that Eridanus flowed out from the toe of Orion, but since Rigel was south of the equater it should be the opposite - the river would end at Rigel, at the beginning of the new year. ... If Tezcatlipoca drilled fire at the pole to 'kindle new stars', if the Chinese Saturn had his seat there too, so could Vishnu's toe have bilocation: one 'above' in the third region, the other in beta Orionis-Rigel (the Arabian word for 'foot'), the 'source' of Eridanus. (And might not Rigel-the-source stand also for Oervandil's Toe, catasterized by Thor?) For Rigel marked the way to Hades in the tradition of the Maori of New Zealand as well as in the Book of Hermes Trismegistos ... The return voyage of the Explorers (planets) could have begun in the night - because their king had now arrived and he ruled in the daytime - which means μ Aurigae could have been their point of departure. Here the path of the ecliptic went down towards the southwest:
For the departure from Hiva and arrival of the King and the Queen to the Island are given the dates Hora Nui 2 respectively Tangaroa Uri 15, which mechanically read means a voyage of 288 - 245 = 43 days. However, if during their voyage there was a 'change of sex' from heliacal days to nakshatra nights the stretch might increase to 183 + 43 = 226 right ascension positions. ... When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ... The Earth had become flat (female) and therefore only 4 cardinal directions remained. Earlier there had been 6 - including nadir and zenith. In Manuscript E this seems to have been emphasized by changing 'the six of them' to 'the four of them'. But at the same time the Full Moon had reached Sheratan and from there volume would return (<). There were 37 days from Sheratan to the Eye (Ain), equal in distance to the time from Vaitu Nui 25 to Maro 1 - equal to the time it took the Explorers to reach landfall. 364 - 2 * 37 = 290.
Had the journey of the King and the Queen ended at day 290, then the distance could have been a nicely 290 - 245 = 45 days (= 360 / 8). Probably there were several 'mental attractors' competing here. For instance would Aldebaran together with "April 17 (*392) had been at the Full Moon in the day after heliacal Antares. And the Pope Gregory XIII had preferred 288 as the birthday for his 'corrected' calendar. Once upon a time everything was very well ordered and therefore we can easily find 183 + 43 = 226 right ascension positions in more places in the text, e.g. at the end of side a:
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