Ga7-18 has no mata in front, otherwise it was designed to be the same as in Ga4-20, which came 84 days earlier and at the time when the Full Moon was at JANUARY 1. The Julian equinox came 84 days counted from the beginning of the year.
South of the equator Aldebaran (Ana-muri) was thought of as the opposite of Ana-mua (Antares) - i.e. Aldebaran implied the Sun was at a dark place, at a place for tattooing. The face (mata) of the Sun was no longer as bright as before. ... He continued travelling until he reached the house of Uetonga, whose name all men know: he was the tattoo expert of the world below, and the origin and source of all the tattoo designs in this world. Uetonga was at work tattooing the face of a chief. This chief was lying on the ground with his hands clenched and his toes twitching while the father of Niwareka worked at his face with a bone of many sharpened points, and Mataora was greatly surprised to see that blood was flowing from the cheeks of that chief. Mataora had his own moko, it was done here in the world above, but it was painted on with ochre and blue clay. Mataora had not seen such moko as Uetonga was making, and he said to him, 'You are doing that in the wrong way, O old one. We do not do it thus.' 'Quite so,' replied Uetonga, 'you do not do it thus. But yours is the way that is wrong. What you do above there is tuhi, it is only fit for wood. You see,' he said, putting forth his hand to Mataora's cheek, 'it will rub off.' And Uetonga smeared Mataora's make-up with his fingers and spoiled its appearance. And all the people sitting round them laughed, and Uetonga with them ... When the Sun reached 23h, his position among the stars would have corresponded to the ancient JANUARY 1 - i.e. with growing light ahead as regarded from a point north of the equator. The corresponding place south of the equator would have been JULY 2.
The Lion had as Canopus consumed all the waters and naturally he had to urinate afterwards:
... The life-force of the earth is water. God moulded the earth with water. Blood too he made out of water. Even in a stone there is this force, for there is moisture in everything. But if Nummo is water, it also produces copper. When the sky is overcast, the sun's rays may be seen materializing on the misty horizon. These rays, excreted by the spirits, are of copper and are light. They are water too, because they uphold the earth's moisture as it rises. The Pair excrete light, because they are also light ... 'The sun's rays,' he went on, 'are fire and the Nummo's excrement. It is the rays which give the sun its strength. It is the Nummo who gives life to this star, for the sun is in some sort a star.' It was difficult to get him to explain what he meant by this obscure statement. The Nazarene made more than one fruitless effort to understand this part of the cosmogony; he could not discover any chink or crack through which to apprehend its meaning. He was moreover confronted with identifications which no European, that is, no average rational European, could admit. He felt himself humiliated, though not disagreeably so, at finding that his informant regarded fire and water as complementary, and not as opposites. The rays of light and heat draw the water up, and also cause it to descend again in the form of rain. That is all to the good. The movement created by this coming and going is a good thing. By means of the rays the Nummo draws out, and gives back the life-force. This movement indeed makes life ...
There were 80 days from Zosma (the girdle of the Lion) and Coxa (his hips) to Antares. I.e., the distance from "July 27 (208) to 288 ("October 15, Tagaroa Uri 15) corresponded to the distance from January 1 to 0h (the Gregorian equinox). However, according to Manuscript E the Sun king left his old homeland in Hora Nui 2, which should have corresponded to "September 2 rather than to "July 27 (Anakena 27). ... Hotu's canoe sailed from Maori to Te Pito O Te Kainga. It sailed on the second day of September (hora nui) ... 245 ("September 2) - 208 ("July 27) = 37 days = 41 - 4, i.e. according to the Gregorian calendar the Sun would reach °September 2 (245) when the precessional distance down to the time of Bharani was *41 - 4 = 37 days. Manuscript E seems here to have documented that the Sun calendar (the Gregorian calendar) should be used only up to Zosma and Coxa.
The sky would then release much water and the Sun would disappear behind the clouds, no longer possible to use for determining time. Instead of his rays (fire, 'excrement') there would be water (rain, 'urine'):
Urinating in the night was a sign for the Sun to come to Easter Island: ... 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 ... Zosma and Coxa were at the Full Moon 288 days after Hyadum II:
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