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A 5th and different vae is positioned at February 24 and with a year beginning in March the month numbers will be 2 less than in the Gregorian calendar. Decem-ber means the 10th month although Julius Caesar inserted July and August between June and Septem-ber (the 7th month). February will then be the 12th month - corresponding to the 12th month December in the Gregorian calendar.

Therefore Ca12-24 'corresponds to' December 24 and the December solstice can be alluded to in Ca12-21:

Saad Al Thabib 11 12 13 14 15 (285)
February 21 22 23  24 25 (56)
Ca12-21 Ca12-22 Ca12-23 (339) Ca12-24 Ca12-25
te niu ku hakatu ua te maitaki - kupega tuku hia mai mata hakatuu te vae paupau te niu tutuu
ε Cephei (337.2), Ancha (337.4) ρ Aquarii (338.2) Sadachbia (338.6), π Aquarii (339.5) ρ Cephei (340.2), ζ Aquarii (340.4), Alrediph (340.5) σ Aquarii (340.9), Homan (341.2)
August 23 24 (236) 25 26 27
An Nathra 7 8 9 (101) 10 11
Simiram, Adhafera, Tania Borealis (154.7), Algieba, q Carinae (155.5) Tania Australis (156.0) μ Hydrae (157.1) no star listed Shir (158.9), p Carinae (159.3)
  Saad Balaa 1 2
26 (422) 27 (58)
Ca12-26 Ca12-27
oho te rima o te niu a hagahaga
υ Aquarii (341.9), η Aquarii (342.1) Situla (342.7)
August 28 (240) 29
An Nathra 12 13 (105)
φ Hydrae (160.3) no star listed

When Metoro said te vae paupau at Ca12-23 it was probably to make a contrast with the previous 4 glyphs te vae oho. December 24 is Christmas Eve and a time of birth - not of going away.

Ca12-9 (325)

Ca12-13 (329)

Ca12-16 (332) Ca12-18 (334) Ca12-24 (340)
Akleel 12 13 (222) Qalb al Akraab 1 2 3 4
December 23 X-mas Eve X-mas Day 26 (360) 27 28
Ca10-22 (277) Ca10-23 Ca10-24 Ca10-25 Ca10-26 Ca10-27
tupu te raau i vai oka hia te moko te marama te kava manu kara etahi te mauga pu hia
η Sagittarii (276.9), Kaus Medius, κ Lyrae (277.5) Tung Hae (277.7), Kaus Australis (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4) Al Athfar (278.6), Kaus Borealis (279.3) ν Pavonis (280.4) κ Cor. Austr. (280.9), θ Cor. Austr. (281.0) Vega (281.8)
June 24 25 26 27 28 29 (180)
Albatain 12 13 (40) Al Tuwaibe' 1 2 3 4
Furud (94.9), Tejat Posterior, Mirzam (95.4) Canopus (95.6), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9) no stars listed ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5) ψ4 Aurigae (100.5)

In the night sky of late February the last stars at the keel of Argo Navis were visible with Moon, Simiram (ω) with q and p arriving 4 days later.

Hevelius has drawn the Tree (Robur Carolinum) with its trunk between β (Miaplacidus) and Simiram. Its diameter is 154.7 - 139.3 = slightly more than 15 days, counted from manzil day 265 (Al Baldaah 8):

8 (265) Al Baldaah 9 10
5 (36) February 6 7 (403)
Ca12-5 Ca12-6 Ca12-7
mauga tu taki tagata hoi haatu ka huri ra
ο Pavonis (320.8) φ Capricorni (321.8) Alderamin (322.9), Dai (323.5)
7 August 8 9
4 Murzim 5 (84) 6
Miaplacidus (139.3) Tureis (139.8) Markab Velorum (141.5)

... Robur Carolinum, Charles' Oak, the Quercia of Italy and the Karlseiche of Germany, was formally published by Halley in 1679 in commemoration of the Royal Oak of his patron, Charles II, in which the king had lain hidden for twenty-four hours after his defeat by Cromwell in the battle of Worcester, on the 3rd of September 1651 ...

In the idiom of rongorongo the Oak probably became a Coconut Tree (niu):

niu Ca12-21 Ca12-25 Ca12-26

We have ourselves turned the Oak into a Christmas Tree.

The cycle of solar time is closed when a new Sun has been born and the old Sun has gone to the left (oho). At manzil day 265 Metoro said mauga tu taki:

Taki

Dieffenbach, in his 'Travels in New Zealand', mentions that a title or appellation of the chiefs there was 'Taki o te Wenua', and explains it to mean 'the root of the land'. As the New Zealanders also came from the Samoan group, it seems as if what once was a national appellation, in course of time became the title of a chief. If Diffenbach's interpretation of the title is correct, it corresponds to the Hawiian Kumu-honua, the name of the first man. The same author also mentions, p. 67, a place where chiefs go after death, and says it is called Taki-wana ... when a chief dies he first goes to Taki-wana, where his left eye remains and becomes a star. Then he goes to Reinga and further. Spirits sometimes leave the nether world and come back on earth and communicate with the living ... Reinga was a place near the North Cape, New Zealand, where the spirits of the dead collected previous to their final departure. Fornander.