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When Mother Nature came alive again in spring, marvellously regenerating it all, then the old dry year of straw had to go in order not to disturb the wonderful scenery.

... What happens after (or happened, or will happen sometime, for this myth is written in the future tense), is told in the Völuspa, but it is also amplified in Snorri's Gylfaginning (53), a tale of a strange encounter of King Gylfi with the Aesir themselves, disguised as men, who do not reveal their identity but are willing to answer questions: 'What happens when the whole world has burned up, the gods are dead, and all of mankind is gone? You have said earlier, that each human being would go on living in this or that world.' So it is, goes the answer, there are several worlds for the good and the bad. Then Gylfi asks: 'Shall any gods be alive, and shall there be something of earth and heaven?' And the answer is:

'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.'

Then, all at once, concludes Snorri's tale wryly, a thunderous cracking was heard from all sides, and when the King looked again, he found himself on the open plain and the great hall had vanished ...

There could have been an abrupt transfer of old winter from spring to the winter solstice, we have seen, to day 104 (April 14, 4-14) + 183 + 68 (precessional depth down to the time of Aldebaran) = 355 (December 21).

And there could have been a complementary transfer of dead summer across to spring. The Babylonian zodiac illustrates how a bound and immobilized Dead Man would be carried along the path of the Milky Way:

... All 'change stations' are found invariably in two regions: one in the South between Scorpius and Sagittarius, the other in the North between Gemini and Taurus; and this is valid through time and space, from Babylon to Nicaragua. Why was it ever done in the first place? Because of the Galaxy, which has its crossroads with the ecliptic between Sagittarius and Scorpius in the South, and between Gemini and Taurus in the North ... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul ...

If the front side (a) of a rongorongo tablet was heliacal (dominated by the light from the Sun) and the back side (b) was illustrating the time of the Full Moon against the background of the fixed stars, then a continuation of the reading from the end of the back side on to the beginning of side a ought to imply a return from star time to heliacal, a rebirth in order to complete the cycle - as in Faka-taka, the mother of Tae-tagaloa (Not-tangaroa):

... There is a couple residing in one place named Kui and Fakataka. After the couple stay together for a while Fakataka is pregnant. So they go away because they wish to go to another place - they go. The canoe goes and goes, the wind roars, the sea churns, the canoe sinks. Kui expires while Fakataka swims. Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa. When the baby is born a golden plover flies over and alights upon the reef. (Kua fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai i te papa). And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae) ...

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.

Taka Taka, takataka. Circle; to form circles, to gather, to get together (of people). Vanaga. 1. A dredge. P Mgv.: akataka, to fish all day or all night with the line, to throw the fishing line here and there. This can only apply to some sort of net used in fishing. We find in Samoa ta'ā a small fishing line, Tonga taka the short line attached to fish hooks, Futuna taka-taka a fishing party of women in the reef pools (net), Maori takā the thread by which the fishhook is fastened to the line, Hawaii kaa in the same sense, Marquesas takako a badly spun thread, Mangareva takara a thread for fastening the bait on the hook. 2. Ruddy. 3. Wheel, arch; takataka, ball, spherical, round, circle, oval, to roll in a circle, wheel, circular piece of wood, around; miro takataka, bush; haga takataka, to disjoin; hakatakataka, to round, to concentrate. P Pau.: fakatakataka, to whirl around. Mq.: taka, to gird. Ta.: taa, circular piece which connects the frame of a house. Churchill. Takai, a curl, to tie; takaikai, to lace up; takaitakai, to coil. P Pau.: takai, a ball, to tie. Mgv.: takai, a circle, ring, hoop, to go around a thing. Mq.: takai, to voyage around. Ta.: taai, to make into a ball, to attach. Churchill.

On the C tablet glyph number 368 (*Ca14-5) was at the southern spring equinox and 392 (glyphs on side a) - 368 = 24 can therefore be added to 348, the number of glyphs on side b. 740 (total number of glyphs on the tablet) - 368 = 372 (= 24 + 348) was the glyph number at Starry (Asterion, β Canes Venatici, the northern of the pair of dogs). This was at the central vero in line Ca14:

*JULY 12	13	14 (*115)	15	16	17 (*186 - 68)
September 18 (9 * 29)	19	20 (*183)	21 (264)	Equinox	23
π Virginis (181.0), θ Crucis (181.5)	12h (182.6) ο Virginis (182.1), η Crucis (182.5)	ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR (Nose) = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)	PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis (184.6), MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris (184.9)	Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28  GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9)	CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3)
*Ca14-1	*Ca14-2	*Ca14-3 (366)	*Ca14-4	*Ca14-5	*Ca14-6
Kua tupu te ata i te henua					kua ruku te manu
March 19 (78)	20	21 (0h)	22 (81 + 366)	23 (*368)	24 (449)
η Tucanae (363.0), ψ Pegasi (363.1), 32 Piscium (363.2), π Phoenicis (363.4), ε Tucanae (363.6), τ Phoenicis (363.9)	θ Oct. (364.4)	Al Fargh al Thāni (Rear Spout) -25 0h (365.25) CAPH (Hand) = β Cassiopeiae, SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)	Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14 ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)	χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)	σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7)
*JANUARY 11	12	13	14	15	16

*JULY 18	19 (200)	20 (*121)	21	22 / 7
September 24 (*187)	25	26	27 (270)	28
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 (Starry) = 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)	Al Áwwā'-11 / Shur-mahrū-shirū-18 (Front or West Shur?) Sombrero Galaxy = M104 Virginis (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA = γ Virginis, γ Centauri (191.5)
*Ca14-7 (370)	*Ca14-8	(372 = 12 * 31)	*Ca14-10	*Ca14-11
te kihikihi - te hoea	te kihikihi - o te vai - te kihikihi	te vero	te henua	te heke
Julian equinox	March 26	27 (*372)	28	29 (454 = 88 + 366)
'February 26	27	28 (*345 = *372 - 27)	'March 1 (60)	2
"February 12 (*329)	13	All Hearts' Day	15	16 (413 = 14 * 29½)
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 (Breast) = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9)
*JANUARY 17	18	(384 = 354 + 30)	20	21

In Manuscript E the star Bharani (41 precessional days earlier than the time of rongorongo) seems to have been used for timing the events of the Explorers (the movements of the planets in the night when the daytime Sun had not yet arrived).

And side a on the G tablet evidently began at Ain (the Eye), 4 precessional days after Aldebaran (68 precessional days before the time of rongorongo), which made for an interesting parallel in structure regarding the key number 27 (= 3 * 3 * 3):

Time of rongorongo	= Roman times + 27 days
Time of Bharani	= Aldebaran times + 27 (= 68 - 41)

Furthermore, 183 + 27 = 210: