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"Dorado, the Goldfish, first published by Bayer among his new southern figures, is still thus known in Germany and Italy, but the French say Dorade; and Flammarion has Doradus, perhaps from confusion with its supposed genitive case. The word is from the Spanish, and refers not to our little exotic cyprionoid, but to the large coryphaena of the tropical seas, of changing colors at death.

... The alternative title Xiphias, the Swordfish, I first find in the Rudolphine Tables of 1627; Halley used it, in addition to Dorado, in his catalogue of 1679; Flamsteed gave both names in his edition of Sharp's catalogue; and the modern Stieler's planisphere still has Schwerdfisch.

Xiphias, however, had appeared in astronomy in the first century of our era, for Pliny applied it to sword-shaped comets, as Josephus did to that 'which for a year (!) had hung over Jerusalem in the form of a sword', - possibly Halley's comet of A.D. 66." (Allen)

With Hanga Takaure beginning in Anakena 11 - in ºJuly 7 (*108) according to our own calendar - we should look for Tama earlier in the text:

The kuhane journey in the night had no dates nor distances measured out:

... The dream soul went on and came to Te Piringa Aniva. She named the place 'Te Piringa Aniva A Hau Maka O Hiva'.  Again the dream soul went on her way and reached Te Pei. She named the place 'Te Pei A Hau Maka O Hiva'.  The dream soul went on and came to Te Pou. She named the place 'Te Pou A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul went on and came to Hua Reva. She named the place 'Hua Reva A Hau Maka O Hiva'.  The dream soul went on and came to Akahanga. She named the place 'Akahanga A Hau Maka O Hiva'.

The dream soul went on. She was careless (?) and broke the kohe plant with her feet. She named the place 'Hatinga Te Koe A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul went on and came to Roto Ire Are. She gave the name 'Roto Ire Are A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul went on and came to Tama. She named the place 'Tama', an evil fish (he ika kino) with a very long nose (he ihu roroa) ...

The explorers made landfall at another spot on the Easter Island proper than where the kuhane had reached the land. But from Te Pou (Sirius) order was established:

"On the fifth day of the month of July ('Anakena'), they all got up, went downhill, went on, and reached Hanga Te Pau. They took the provisions with them, carrying them on their shoulders, went on, and reached Te Pou. They made camp and slept in Te Pou on the tenth day of the month of July ('Anakena'). Then they all got up, carried their provisions on their shoulders, went straight ahead, and followed the path of the dream soul of Hau Maka."

If this is true, then the explorers may have gone from Te Pou to Hanga Takaure in a single day, from Ga2-17 to Ga2-18. Passing on their way the 5 stations Hua Reva, Akahanga, Hatinga Te Koe, Roto Ire Are, and Tama.

However, considering the Gregorian calendar, with ºJuly 1 (= Anakena 5) = Hanga Te Pau, it is more reasonable to assume these 5 stations each could have been given 1 dark night outside the ordinary calendar:

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys.

Sirius followed the Sun and precession did not have any effect on him. Therefore it could have been necessary to define where in the calendar Te Pou ideally should be, and why not 10 days after his true heliacal rising in ºJune 30, the day before Anakena 1. The 'Child' (Tama) would then be the last phase of Te Pou (Sirius).

With Anakena as month number 7 we could read Anakena 10 as 7-10 and an allusion to 71 years for a precessional day. In the Gregorian calendar the 2nd half of the year could be perceived as beginning with heliacal Sirius and given a notch for the completion of this day with ºJuly 1. Similarly, the completion of the dark nights of Te Pou could be carved into the G tablet at Ga2-18, when Antares culminated at midnight - a Sign impossible not to notice.

The nakshatra view could therefore be reflected in the glyphs and also in the 5 nights at the beginning of the Gregorian calendar:

Looking at the face of the Full Moon the Gregorian date ºJanuary 1 could have corresponded to the rising fish and to Hua Reva (Uplifted Fruit).

Reva To hang down; flag, banner. Revareva, 1. To be hanging vertically; to detach oneself from the background of the landscape, such a person standing on top of a hill: ku-revareva-á te tagata i ruga i te maúga. 2. To cast itself, to project itself (of shadows); revareva-á te kohu o te miro i te maeha o te mahina, the shadow of the tree casts itself in the light of the moon. 3. Uvula. Vanaga. To hang, to suspend, flag, banner; hakareva, to hang up; hakarereva, to hang up, to balance; hakarevareva, to wave. T Pau.: reva, a flag; fakarevareva, to hang up, to suspend. Mgv.: reva, a flag, a signal. Mq.: éva, to hang up, to be suspended, to wave a signal. Ta.: reva, a flag, banner; revareva, to wave. The germ sense is that of being suspended ... any light object hung up in the island air under the steady tradewind will flutter; therefore the specification involved in the wave sense is no more than normal observation. Churchill. Mgv.: 1. A plant. Ta.: reva, id. Mq.: eva, id. Sa.: leva, id. Ma.: rewa-rewa, id. 2. To cross, to pass across quickly; revaga, departure. Ta.: reva, to go away, to depart. Ma.: reva, to get under way. Churchill. Ta.: The firmanent, atmosphere. Ha.: lewa, the upper regions of the air, atmosphere, the visible heavens. Churchill.

LEWA, s. Haw., the upper air, region of clouds; v. to swing, float in the air, move back and forth; hoo-lewa, to vibrate, float in the air, carry between two persons, as a corpse, a funeral. Tah., rewa, the firmanent, an abyss; rewa-rewa, to fly about, as a flag. Mangr., rewa, the overhanging firmanent, a tent, a flag. N. Zeal., rewa, the eyelid. Marqu., ewa, to suspend; s. the middle. Sam., leva (of time), long since; v. be protracted. Fiji., rewa, high, height; vaka-rewa, to lift up, to hoist, as a sail. Malg., lifa, v. to fan oneself, s. flight; rafraf, a fan. Goth., luftus, the air. Sax., lyfti, air, arch, vault. O. Engl., lift, air. Lat., limbus (?), fringe, flounce. Sanskr., dev, div, primarily 'jacere, jaculare', according to A. Pictet (Orig. Ind.-Eur., ii. 466), subsequently 'to play at dice', play generally. The permutation of d and l may be observed in the Latin levir, brother-in-law (the husband's younger brother) = Sanskr. devŗi, devara, id. If dev or div has derived the sense of 'throwing dice' from an older sense 'jacere, jaculare', to throw, to hurl, that sense may be a derivative from a still older one, 'to lift up, swing about, be suspended' = the Polynesian lewa, rewa, 'to be suspended, to vibrate'. And thus we can also understand the origin of the Goth. luftus, the Sax. lyfte, the O. Norse loft, Swed. lowera, lofwa, Engl. luff. (Fornander)

The name Akahanga carries -hanga as an indication of a bay = curve and the shark (mago) in Ga2-14 has a curved tail.

ºDecember 31 (365) is one more than 52 weeks and needed in the calendar to make it possible to indicate with a 'notch' the completion of these 52 weeks. January 6 (*291) - Akahanga - could similary have meant the place beyond the night 290 days after March 21, where the old year should move no further, 'drop anchor'.

In the time of Al Sharatain this place in the night sky calendar was 264 (= 364 - 100) days after 'March 21 and in the time of Bharani it was 250 days after "March 21. The straight 'thread' inside the head of mago in Ga2-14 is abruptly cut off.

Hatinga Te Kohe - where the kuhane with her feet broke the 'bamboo stem of time' - could indicate the necessity to make a break (just like how the Turtle somewhat later broke the spine of Kuukuu with one of her flippers).