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When Raven received his pair of sticks from the Old Man at the bottom of the 'sea', one multicoloured and one black, this was - I think - the means by which Raven should construct a healthy (ora) new 'world' (a hazardous task).

Ora

1. Healthy; to recover, to be saved (from an illness or a danger): ku-ora-á, ina kai mate, he recovered, he did not die; ku-ora-á te haoa, the wound has healed; e-ora-no-á, he is still alive; ora-hakaou mai, to come back to life; ora ké, what a pleasant breeze! (lit: how healthy!). 2. Stick for spinning top (made from the shell of a sandalwood nut) with which children make the top spin. Vanaga.

1. December, January. Ora nui, November, October. 2. To live, to exist, to draw breath, to survive, to subsist, to be well, healthy, safe, to refresh, a pause, rest, ease; e ko ora, incurable; ora tuhai, previous existence; ora iho, to resuscitate, to revive; ora nui, vigorous; oraga, life, existence; oraga roaroa, oraga roaroa ke, oraga ina kai mou, immortality; oraga kore, lifeless; oraga mau, oraga ihoiho, vivacious; oraora, oraora no iti, to be better; hakaora, to draw breath, to revive, to strengthen, healthy, to sanctify, to animate, to save, to repose, to cure, to rest, to comfort, to assuage; hakaora ina kai mou, to immortalize; hakaoratagata, Messiah, Saviour. 3. To give water to; kua ora te kevare, to water a horse; hakaunu ora, to water. 4. To staunch, to stop the flow of a liquid. 5. To make an escape; hakaora, to discharge, to deliver, to set free. 6. To be awake (probably ara); hakaora to guard. 7. A zephyr, light wind; kona ora, a breezy spot; ahau ora, agreeable breeze. Churchill.

Ola, life, health, well-being, living, livelihood, means of support, salvation; alive, living; curable, spared, recovered, healed; to live; to spare, save, heal, grant life, survive, thrive. Ola loa, long life, longevity, Ola 'ana, life, existence. Wehewehe.

The explorers reach Easter Island in a 'canoe' (vaka). The name of their craft is given as Oraorangaru 'saved from the billows' (Brown 1924:40) or Te Oraora-miro 'the living-wood' (ME:58). The Routledge reference 'Each (man went) on a piece of wood' (RM:278) also seems to refer to the name of the canoe. As far back as 1934, the name was no longer understood. I favor the following explanation: The difficulty in interpreting the name of the canoe of the explorers arises from the name segment oraora. To begin with, the compound form oraora ngaru should be analyzed in comparison with other Polynesian compounds, such as MAO. pare-ngaru 'that which fends off the waves' (i.e., the hull of the boat), TAH. tere-'aru 'that which moves through the waves' (i.e., riding the waves on a board). There are several possible translations for oraora as the reduplication of ora. Te Oraora Miro can be translated as 'the pieces of wood, tightly lashed together' (compare TAH. oraora 'to set close together, to fit parts of a canoe') and be taken to refer to the method of construction of the explorer canoe, while Oraora Ngaru means 'that which parts the water like a wedge', or 'that which saves (one) from the waves, that which is stronger that the waves'. (Barthel 2)

He Anakena Hora iti Hora nui Tagaroa uri  Ko Ruti Ko Koró
'July' 'August' 'September' 'October' 'November' 'December'
Tua haro  Tehetu'upú Tarahao Vaitu nui Vaitu potu He Maro
'January' 'February' 'March' 'April' 'May' 'June'

... The old man gave the Raven two small sticks, like gambling sticks, one black, one multicoloured. He gave him instructions to bite them apart in a certain way and told him to spit the pieces at one another on the surface of the sea. The Raven climbed back up the pole, where he promptly did things backwards, just to see if something interesting would occur, and the pieces bounced apart. It may well be some bits were lost. But when he gathered  what he could and tried again - and this time followed the instructions he had been given - the pieces stuck and rumpled and grew to become the mainland and Haida Gwaii ...

Possibly the multicoloured (daytime) 'stick' had to be inserted into the black (nighttime) stick at a precise location 'midships' in order to create the necessary new time order. One of my early discussions (in Level 3) about the 'calendar of the week' in the glyph text on the Keiti (E) tablet:

I believe that the world of uncivilized mind was well ordered and had a rich self-reflecting structure, like a hologram in which every point is containing the whole picture. Therefore it should be of interest to contemplate the Maya indians' view of the cardinal directions:

Colours are associated with the cardinal directions. In the middle there is blue-green, like in jade. The astronomical observations of the Maya Indians were made with the two crossed sticks and a long hollow tube to concentrate the field of observation. The tube was made by jade, an extraordinary feat of the artisans considering the hardness of this material.

The central colour was blue-green (yax), which should be compared with Polynesian uri (as in Tagaroa Uri).

Uri

1. Dark; black-and-blue. 2. Green; ki oti te toga, he-uri te maúku o te kaiga, te kumara, te taro, te tahi hoki me'e, once winter is over, the grasses grow green, and the sweet potatoes, and the taro, and the other plants. Uriuri, black; very dark. Vanaga.

Uriuri, black, brown, gray, dark, green, blue, violet (hurihuri). Hakahurihuri, dark, obscurity, to darken. P Pau.: uriuri, black. Mgv.: uriuri, black, very dark, color of the deep sea, any vivid color. Mq.: uiui, black, brown. Ta.: uri, black. Churchill.

The multicoloured stick ought to be upright whereas the black stick should remain horizontal and on the midline ('surface of the sea'). The resulting cosmic order could be visualized as a cross.

The first star to rise in the Crux 'cross beam construction' was θ and this happened 3 days after the 'Tail of the Lion' (Denebola).

Egyptian nfr Phoenician teth Greek theta Θ (θ)

... The form of the letter θ suggests a midline ('waist'), although the origin of θ is the Phoenician tēth which means 'wheel'. This in turn could have originated from a glyph named 'good' which in Egypt was nfr ...

... θ is the last star in the Ara constellation, and the ancient meaning of this letter was described as a wheel by the Phoenicians but for the Egyptian it meant 'good'. When the wheel of time has come full cycle around and the upside down fire-altar is in the past the times ahead should be good (or lucky Sa'ad) ...

In the following day rose η Crucis with the Sun and in rongorongo times this was at 12h. The first Raven stars (Alchita and Minkar) came 183 days after 0h:

Ga5-4 Ga5-5 Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 Ga5-9 (119)
Al Sarfah-10 / Uttara Phalguni-12 Phekda, β Hydrae  (179.3), η Crateris (179.9)

Deneb Cygni

no star listed π Virginis (181.0), θ Crucis (181.5) 12h (182.6) Alchita, Ma Wei (183.1), Minkar (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)
93 Leonis (178.0), DENEBOLA (178.3), Alaraph (178.6) ο Virginis (182.1), η Crucis (182.5)
Hora Nui 15 16 17 (260) 18 19 (*182) 20
ºSept 11 12 (*175) 13 14 15 (258) 16
'Aug 19 20 (*152) 21 22 23 24 (236)
"Aug 5 (*137) 6 7 8 (220) 9 10
σ Phoenicis (360.4) φ Pegasi (361.7) Dzaneb (362.4) η Tucanae (363.0), ψ Pegasi (363.1), 32 Piscium (363.2), π Phoenicis (363.4), ε Tucanae (363.6), τ Phoenicis (363.9) no star listed (364) Al Fargh al Thāni-25
0h (365.25)
Caph, SIRRAH (0.5), ε Phoenicis (0.8)
Tarahao 16 (75 = 31 + 28 + 16) 17 (365 + 31 + 29 + 17 = 442) 18 (77 = 443 - 366) 19 (444) 20 (445) 21 (80 = 446 - 366)
ºMarch 13 3-14 (73) 15 16 17 (*360) 18 (77)
'Febr 18 (414) 19 (50) 20 (*336) 21 22 Terminalia
"Febr 4 (400) 5 (36) 6 7 8 (*324) 9
Ga5-10 Ga5-11 (121)
Pálida (184.6), Megrez (184.9) Hasta-13 / Chariot-28
GIENAH (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), Zaniah (185.9)
Hora Nui 21 (*184) Equinox (265)
ºSeptember 17 (*180) 18 (261)
'August 25 (237) 26 (*158)
"August 11 (*143) 12 (224)
Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14 χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)
ALGENIB PEGASI (1.8)
Tarahao 22 (81 = 31 + 28 + 22) 23 (448 = 366 + 82)
ºMarch 19 (78 = 443 - 365) 20 (444 = 365 + 31 + 28 + 20)
Bissextum (55 = *340 + 80 - 365) 'Feburary 25 (55 = 22 * 5 / 2)
"February 10 (*326) 11 (42 = *327 + 80 - 365)

For many years I had been convinced the picture in Ga5-7 illustrated the day when the Sun 'penetrated the hairy hide of winter night'. The high neck of the running figure with an oval in front seemed to describe spring. Together with the following peculiar bird resting on a little egg - possibly ο Virgini - the meaning seemed clear.

The wings of this bird was evidently a viri turned down 'on its face' and her beak was closed - she was silent not to reveal where her egg was. Now the meaning has become more precise, because viri in Ga5-8 (58) should be compared with viri 3 days later (61). The true equinox was in day 22 of the 7th month (Hora Nui) and not in Hora Nui 19. Not at 12h but 3 days later. I.e., when θ Andromedae was close to the Full Moon and the Sun was at Gienah (γ Corvi) and at ζ Crucis.

Throwing stick? Phoenician gimel Greek gamma Γ (γ)

... In its unattested Proto-Canaanite form, the letter [gimel] may have been named after a weapon that was either a staff sling or a throwing stick, ultimately deriving from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph ... Bertrand Russell posits that the letter's form is a conventionalized image of a camel. The letter may be the shape of the walking animal's head, neck, and forelegs. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states 'It is hard to imagine how gimel = 'camel' can be derived from the picture of a camel ... The word gimel is related to gemul, which means 'justified repayment', or the giving of reward and punishment.

The Swedish word gammal means 'old' (and dry like a stick).

Manacle ziqq Phoenician zayin Greek zeta Ζ (ζ)

... Zeta (uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; Greek: ζήτα ... is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin. Letters that arose from zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З ...

Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn or simply Zay) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads ... It represents the sound [z]. The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In Biblical Hebrew, 'Zayin'  means sword, and the verb 'Lezayen' means to arm. In modern Hebrew, 'zayin' means penis and 'lezayen' is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse and is used in a similar fashion to the English word fuck, although the older meaning survives in 'maavak mezuyan' (armed struggle) and 'beton mezuyan' (armed, i.e., reinforced concrete). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a 'manacle'.