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Once again, there could be 8 days before Gregorian day 409 (February 13):

8 (265) Al Baldaah 9   10 11 (268)
5 (36) February 6 7 (403) 8
Ca12-5 Ca12-6 Ca12-7 Ca12-8 (324)
mauga tu taki tagata hoi haatu ka huri ra ki te mauga
ο Pavonis (320.8) φ Capricorni (321.8) Alderamin (322.9), Dai (323.5) γ Pavonis (324.1)
7 August 8 9 10 (222)
4 Murzim 5 (84) 6 7
Miaplacidus (139.3) Tureis (139.8) Markab Velorum (141.5) Al Minhar al Asad (141.6), Alphard (142.3)
Al Baldaah 12 13 (270)   Saad Al Thabib 1 2
February 9 (40) 10 11 12 (408)
Ca12-9 (325) Ca12-10 Ca12-11 Ca12-12
oho te vae ki hukiga o te ra kua oho ra kua ere te tagata - te hetu
Yan (324.6) Alphirk (325.7), Sadalsud (325.9) Castra (327.2), Bunda (327.5) Nashira (328.0)
August 11 12 13 14 (226)
Murzim 8 9 10 11 (90)
ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7), ψ Velorum (143.3), Alterf, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5) A Hydrae (144.1) Ukdah (145.4),  κ Hydrae (145.5) Subra (145.8), ψ Leonis (146.4)

Then, 81 days after November 25 (329), i.e. 81 - 36 = 45 days counted from January 1, Sun was at the tail (Deneb, δ) of the Capricorn (Al Giedi):

Saad Al Thabib 3 4 5 (275)
February 13 (409) 14 (45) 15
Ca12-13 (329) Ca12-14 Ca12-15
oho te vae te vai okahia te henua
Azelfafage, κ Capricorni (328.7), Enif (329.2), 46 Capricorni (329.3) λ Capricorni (329.6), Deneb Algiedi (329.8) Kuh (331.4)
August 15 16 (228) 17
Murzim 12 13 (92) An Nathra 1
Ras Elaset Australis (146.6) Vathorz Prior (147.9), υ¹ Hydrae (148.4) Ras Elaset Borealis (148.7)

Oka

1. Lever, pole; to dig holes in the ground with a sharpened stick, as was done in ancient times to plant vegetables; used generally in the meaning of making plantations. 2. The four sideways poles supporting a hare paega. Okaoka, to jab, to pierce, to prick repeatedly. Vanaga.

Digging stick, stake, joist; to prick, to pierce, to stick a thing into, to drive into, to slaughter, to assassinate; kona oka kai, plantation; pahu oka, a drawer. Okaoka, a fork, to prick, to dig. Okahia, to prick. Churchill.

I cannot avoid comparing with how at dawn the Egyptian Sun Ship is also piercing the 'black cloth' of watery night:

In the nakshatra night of February 14, when υ Carinae (Vathorz Prior) was seen close to the full Moon, the black cloth of night could have been caused by an enormous Tree, great as a Mountain:

Argo Navis was stopped by this Mountain Tree in double fashion, first as defined by Miaplacidus (β), Vathorz Prior (υ), and Tureis (ι), during 3 days from Al Baldah 8 (265). Then came Simiram (ω), Vathorz Posterior (θ) and q Carinae (not yet in my list).

... the oak had made trouble right from the start. When (in the second rune of the Kalevala) Sämpsä Pellervöinen had sowed trees, it was the oak alone that would not grow until four or five lovely maidens from the water, and a hero from the ocean, had cleared the ground with fire and planted an acorn in the ashes; and once it had started, the growth of the tree could not be stopped:

And the summit rose to heaven // And its leaves in air expanded, // In their course the clouds it hindered, // And the driving clouds impeded, // And it hid the shining sunlight, // And the gleaming of the moonlight.

Then the aged Vainamoinen, // Pondered deeply and reflected, // 'Is there none to fell the oak-tree, // And o'erthrow the tree majestic? // Sad is now the life of mortals, // And for fish to swim is dismal, // Since the air is void of sunlight, // And the gleaming of the moonlight.'

'One sought above in the sky, below in the lap of the earth', as we are informed by variants, but then Vainamoinen asked his devine mother for help.

Then a man arose from ocean // From the waves a hero started, // Not the hugest of the hugest, // Not the smallest of the smallest. // As a man's thumb was his stature; // Lofty as the span of woman.

The 'puny man from the ocean', whose 'hair reached down to his heels, the beard to his knees', announces, 'I have come to fell the oak tree / And to splinter it to fragments'.

And so he does. In several variants the oak is said to have fallen over the Northland River, so as to form the bridge into the abode of the dead. Holmberg (quoted by Lauri Honko, 'Finnen', Wb. Myth., p. 369) took the oak for the Milky Way ...