1. The unbroken wing of Rehua is the tail of Scorpio: ... An old native declared: 'Rehua is a star, a bird with two wings; one wing is broken. Under the unbroken wing is Te Waa-o-Tamarereti (the Canoe of Tamarereti is the Tail of Scorpius in this instance) ... If Rehua (which name I will use instead of Ana-mua in what follows) is to be understood by the picture in Ga7-16, then the star could stand for the whole of Scorpio (including its tail) - pars pro toto:
Antares is not in the tail of Scorpio, it is rather to be imagined as the head of the creature. The tail comes later, inside summer (beyond 17h):
Scorpio is the 8th astrological constellation:
But counting from Pisces it will be number 9 and if we should count from the ancient equinoctial sign Taurus it would be number 7. Maybe a location in line a7 implies we should think Rehua is in the 7th month of 'land' in the sky, a land which probably stretches for 7 months. If its beginning is connected with Taurus, then Aldebaran should be in line a1. Line a8 could correspond to Sagittarius and line b1 to Capricorn. Beyond are line b2 which could correspond to Aquarius and line b3 which could represent Pisces. There are no henua signs in line b3 which is reasonable for a location down among the fishes. My conjecture implies the following structure:
Lines b5-b8 maybe should be regarded as 'outside' the structure, because 12 * 29½ = 354:
Another alternative is to stop with Scorpio because there are no Tahitian star pillars in summer. The 'land' in the sky could terminate at the same time as 'land' down on earth (summer) is beginning (when Sun 'comes down to earth'). Ana-roto (Spica in Virgo) is located 46 days earlier than Rehua, which would put her at Ga5-29:
No immediately obvious sign connects Ga5-29 with Virgo, but it is in line a5. If we count 52 * 9 the result is 468, which could be 'shorthand' for 46 and 8. There are 46 days from Spica to Antares and 468 = 168 + 300 = 100 + 368. The latter alternative is reasonable, because it can be understood as 100 days later than the end of the previous year. Furthermore, 46 * 8 = 368. The sting of Scorpio is its last part, at the end of its tail, and earlier we imagined there could be a sign of it in ure in Gb1-7:
237 - 186 = 51, but Scorpio is a long constellation, at least in the Babylonian version:
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