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214 = 314 - 100 was where in rongorongo times the 2nd Chinese lunar station Neck, governed by κ Virginis, rose with the Sun. In the C text this is a very special place:

I tried to translate rutua - te pahu - rutua te maeva as 'sound of drums - sound of sky moving'. But in Manuscript E the word rutua was instead used for describing the powerful sound of the incantantions of the 10 helpers of the King:

... Honga came and gazed in the direction below (i.e., toward the west). He called out to the noteworthy ruler (? ariki motongi) Hotu: 'There is the canoe of the queen! It will be the first one to land!' At this news King Hotu replied to Honga, 'Recite (rutu) ('powerful incantations') as though the ten brothers of the chief (ariki maahu) were one whole (?)'

Rutu 1. To read, to recite, to pronounce words solemnly; he-rutu i te kohau motu, to read the rongorongo tablets; hare rutu rogorogo mo hakama'a ki te ga poki ite kai, i te rogorogo, rongorongo school, house in which children were taught reading and writing the rongorongo signs. 2. To pelt with stones. 3. To gather in great numbers (of people). Vanaga. Sound. Rutu-rongorongo = the sound of recitation. Barthel. T. Beat. Henry. To recite; tae rutu, irreverence. Churchill. Pau.: rutu, a drum. Mgv.: rutu, to beat, to cause to resound. Ta.: rutu, a drum, to drum. Mq.: utu, to drum. Sa.: lutu, to shake a rattle. Churchill.

To gather in great numbers in order to pelt with stones (stars) - rutua - could have been a method of getting rid of  the 'winter fur' (the 'covering', Al Ghafr):

"The Hajj is associated with the life of Islamic prophet Muhammad from the 7th century, but the ritual of pilgrimage to Mecca is considered by Muslims to stretch back thousands of years to the time of Abraham. During Hajj, pilgrims join processions of hundreds of thousands of people, who simultaneously converge on Mecca for the week of the Hajj, and perform a series of rituals: each person walks counter-clockwise seven times around the Ka'aba (the cube-shaped building and the direction of prayer for the Muslims), runs back and forth between the hills of Al-Safa and Al-Marwah, drinks from the Zamzam Well, goes to the plains of Mount Arafat to stand in vigil, spends a night in the plain of Muzdalifa, and performs symbolic stoning of the devil by throwing stones at three pillars. The pilgrims then shave their heads, perform a ritual of animal sacrifice, and celebrate the three day global festival of Eid al-Adha ... The days of Eid have been singled out in the Hadith as 'days of remembrance' [i.e., 'not forgotten' - kai viri kai viri.]." (Wikipedia)

... The canoe reached the islets (off the coast), and Ira saw that there were three such islets. Ira said, 'Hey you, crew of young men, the vision of Hau Maka, our father, which he revealed to me, has come true. There are 'the handsome sons of Te Taanga, who are standing in the water', for this is the name that the dream soul of Hau Maka gave them. Unforgotten (? kai viri kai viri) are they, these three. And therefore this is the (right) land lying there; this is Te Pito O Te Kainga, which also received its name from the dream soul.' (Manuscript E p. 17.)

215 + 185 = 400 is the approximate number carefully hidden among the tresses of Pachamama (the Earth Mother):

Counting to 185 may have begun when Hotu Matua came with his summer to Easter Island. 288 (Tagaroa Uri 15) + 185 = 473 (= 16 * 29½ + 1).

Counted from January 1 there were 215 days to heliacal Arcturus in Tagaroa Uri 22.