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The picture on the back of the elderly woman could illustrate the face of a variant of the ao staff:

Ao

Large dance paddle. 1. Command, power, mandate, reign: tagata ao, person in power, in command, ruler. 2. Dusk, nightfall. 3. Ao nui, midnight. 4. Ao popohaga, the hours between midnight and dawn. , to serve (food); ku-âo-á te kai i ruga i te kokohu, the food is served on a platter. Vanaga.

1. Authority, kingdom, dignity, government, reign (aho); topa kia ia te ao, reign; hakatopa ki te ao, to confer rank; ao ariki, royalty; ka tu tokoe aho, thy kingdom come. PS Mgv.: ao, government, reign. Mq.: ao, government, reign, command. Sa.: ao, a title of chiefly dignity; aoao, excellent, surpassing, supreme. 2. Spoon; ao oone, shovel. 3. Dancing club T. 3. Aonui (ao-nui 2), midnight. 4. Pau.: ao, the world. Mgv.: ao, id. Ta.: ao, id. Mq.: aomaama, id. Ma.: ao, id. 5. Pau.: ao, happy, prosperity. Mgv.: ao, tranquil conscience. Ta.: ao, happiness. 6. Mgv.: ao, cloud, mist. Ta.: ao, id. Mq.: ao, id. Sa.: ao, cloud. Ma.: ao, id. 7. Mgv.: ao, hibiscus. 8. Ta.: ao, day. Mq.: ao, day from dawn to dark. Sa.: ao, id. Ma.: ao, id. 9. Ta.: ao, a bird. Ha.: ao, id. 10. Mq.: ao, respiration, breath. Ha.: aho, breath. 11. Mq.: ao, to collect with hand or net. Sa.: ao, to gather. Ma.: ao, to collect. Ta.: aoaia, to collect food and other things with care. Churchill.

*AUGUST 24 (236 = 390 / 2 + 41) 25 (*157 = *314 / 2) 26
"September 20 (*183) 21 (264) EQUINOX
'October 4 (277 = 236 + 41) 5 6 (*199)
October 31 (304 = 263 + 41) November 1 (*225) 2
Al Zubānā-14a / Visakha-16 / Root-3 (Badger)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (Southern Claw) = α Librae (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)

KOCHAB (Kakkab = Star) = β Ursae Min. (225.0), ξ Librae (225.7) KE KWAN (Cavalry Officer) = β Lupi (226.3), KE KWAN = κ Centauri (226.4), ZUBEN ELAKRIBI (Scorpion's Claw?) = δ Librae (226.8), π¹ Oct. (226.9)
Cb1-15 Cb1-16 (408 = 400 + 4 + 4) Cb1-17
e niu tu ki te ariki - e ka hua ra tona rima koia kua iri i ruga o te rima - e o to vaha mea
Bharani-2 / Stomach-17 (Pheasant)

π Arietis (41.2), MIRAM (Announcer?) = η Persei (41.3), BHARANI (Bearer) = 41 Arietis (41.4), τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7)

TA LING (Great Mound) = τ Persei (42.4) ρ Arietis (43.0), GORGONEA SECUNDA = π Persei (43.5), ACAMAR = θ Eridani (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7), λ Ceti (43.9)
*FEBRUARY 22 (53 = 236 - 183) 23 (TERMINALIA) 24
"March 21 (80 = 263 - 183) 22 23
'April 4 (94 = 277 - 183) 5 6
°April 27 (117 = 80 + 37) 28 29
May 1 (121 = 11 * 11 = 80 + 41) 2 3
*AUGUST 27 28 (240)
"September 23 (266) 24 (240 + 27)
'October 7 (*200) 8 (240 + 41)
November 3 (*227) 4 (308 = 240 + 68)
ω Bootis (227.2), NEKKAR (Herdsman) = β Bootis (227.3), σ Librae (227.5), π² Oct. (227.7), NADLAT (Low little ones) = ψ Bootis (227.8), π Lupi (227.9)
15h (228.3)

ZUBEN HAKRABIM (Scorpion's Claw) = ν Librae (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9)

Cb1-18 Cb1-19 (411 - 4 - 4 = 403)
manu moe ra ki to mata
MENKAR (Nose) = α Ceti (44.7) 3h (45.7)

GORGONEA TERTIA = ρ Persei (45.1), ALGOL (Blinking Head of the Demon) = β Persei (45.9)

*FEBRUARY 25 26 (57)
"March 24 (83 = 97 - 14) 25 (57 + 27 = 3 * 28) EQUINOX
'April 7 (97 = 124 - 27) 8 (98 = 57 + 41)
°April 30 °May 1
May 4 5 (5 * 5 * 5)
*AUGUST 29 30 (242 = 2 * 121)
"September 25 (268) 26
'October 9 (282) 10
November 5 6 (310 = 242 + 68)
ω Oct. (229.3), ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8) Al Zubānā-14b

χ Bootis (230.3), PRINCEPS (Leader) = δ Bootis (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI  (Northern Claw) = β Librae (230.8)

Cb1-20 Cb1-21 (413 = 354 + 59)
e nuku mata hoea
ι Persei (46.1), MISAM (Next to the Pleiades) = κ Persei (46.2), GORGONEA QUARTA = ω Persei (46.7), BOTEIN (Pair of Bellies) = δ Arietis (46.9) ζ Arietis (47.7)
*FEBRUARY 27 28 (59 = 2 * 29½)
"March 26 (85) 27
'April 9 10 (100)
°May 2 3 (123)
May 6 7 (127 = 59 + 68)
μ Lupi, γ Tr. Austr. (231.3), ο Librae (231.8) ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), PHERKAD (The Dim One of the Two Calves) = γ Ursae Min. (232.6), ε Librae (232.7), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9) ALKALUROPS (The Club) = μ Bootis (233.1), ED ASICH = ι Draconis (233.2)
Cb1-22 Cb1-23 Cb1-24 (416 - 4 - 4 = 408)
ko te rima kua oo ki te vai ma te ua
ZIBAL = ζ Eridani (48.0), κ Ceti (48.9) τ Arietis (49.7) ALGENIB PERSEI = α Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

GIENAH (γ Corvi)

The primary sign of Hercules was his club (Al Kalurops), and with this he was able to produce rain by rattling it inside a hollow piece of wood:

... He carries an oak-club, because the oak provides his beasts and his people with mast and because it attracts lightning more than any other tree. His symbols are the acorn; the rock-dove, which nests in oaks as well as in clefts of rocks; the mistletoe, or Loranthus; and the serpent. All these are sexual emblems. The dove was sacred to the Love-goddess of Greece and Syria; the serpent was the most ancient of phallic totem-beasts; the cupped acorn stood for the glans penis in both Greek and Latin; the mistletoe was an all-heal and its names viscus (Latin) and ixias (Greek) are connected with vis and ischus (strength) - probably because of the spermal viscosity of its berries, sperm being the vehicle of life.

This Hercules is male leader of all orgiastic rites and has twelve archer companions, including his spear-armed twin, who is his tanist or deputy. He performs an annual green-wood marriage with a queen of the woods, a sort of Maid Marian. He is a mighty hunter and makes rain, when it is needed, by rattling an oak-club thunderously in a hollow oak and stirring a pool with an oak branch - alternatively, by rattling pebbles inside a sacred colocinth-gourd or, later, by rolling black meteoric stones inside a wooden chest - and so attracting thunderstorms by sympathetic magic ...

"Alkalurops was the Arabian adaptation of Καλαυροψ,used by Hesychios for the Herdsman's Club, Crook, or Staff, analogous to the Pόπαλον of Hyginus and the Clava of the Latins." (Allen)

The ua (rain making club) has a low forehead - imitating the low dark clouds with rain.

Ua

1. Cause, reason why something happens or is done; he ûa te ua, au i-ta'e-iri-ai ki tooku hare, because of the rain, I did not go home; ua kore, without cause, without reason. 2. Ceremononial stave with a human face carved at one extremity. Vanaga. Cfr toko. 1. A long club T. 2. Mgv.: ua, the genitalia. Ta.: hua, id. Mq.: hua, id. Ha.: hua, testicles. 3. Ta.: ua, the back of the neck. Ma.: ua, id. Sa.: ua, the neck. 4. Ta.: ua, a land crab which shears iron. Ma.: uka, lobster. Sa.: uga, the hermit crab. Churchill.

Ûa. Rain; 1. ûa hakamito, persistent, but not strong, rain; 2. ûa kura, fine rain, drizzle; 3. ûa matavaravara, strong rain; 4. ûa parera, torrential rain; 5. ûa tai, rain followed by fair weather at sea. Ehu ûa, drizzle. Vanaga. Ûaûa. Tendons, muscles. 1. Hau ûaûa kio'e, line made from rats' tendons. 2. Ûaûa toto, vein, artery. 3. Ûaûa piki, spasm. Vanaga.

1. Rain; hoa mai te ua, to rain; mou te ua, to cease raining. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ua, rain. 2. Vein, artery, tendon (huahua 1) (uha G); ua nene, pulse; ua nohototo, artery, ua gaei, pulse. Uaua, vein, tendon, line; kiko uaua, muscle T. Hakauaua, to mark with lines. P Pau.: tare-ua, tendon. Mgv., Mq., Ta.: uaua, vein, tendon. Churchill.

U'a. Of the tide, to reach its maximum; tai u'a, high tide. Vanaga. Wave, surge; tai ua, high tide. Churchill. Uá. Ata uá, morning twilight. Uáuá, to reside; resident; noho uáuá to settle somewhere; ina koe ekó noho uáuá, do not establish yourself there. Vanaga.