In a leap year there must be a gap somewhere as compared to the ordinary year, and I think this gap ought to be in the odd day February 29:
The moe bird in Ca13-3 has its tail drawn like an upside down 3-fingered right hand with no thumb. As to Metoro's e kua noi it suggests the early dawn:
... The first of all foreign visitors on Easter Island was the Dutch admiral Jacob Roggeveen., who approached the island in the evening twilight of Easter Sunday, 1722. As the sun rose above the sea next morning the Dutchmen brought their ships close inshore and observed a mixed crowd of fair-skinned and dark-skinned people who had lit fires before some enormous statues standing in a row. The people ashore were squatting in front of the statues, with their heads bent while they alternatively raised and lowered their arms. When the sun rose they prostrated themselves on the ground facing the sunrise, their fires still flickering before the stone colossi. The statues were even then so old and eroded that Roggeveen could with his bare fingers break pieces away from the decomposed surface, wherefore he concluded that the giant figures were simply molded from clay and soil mixed with pebbles. The Dutchmen left the island after a single day's visit ... Although Sun worship in Polynesia has been denied by such other authours - excepting Heyerdahl - which I have read, we ought to look for clues in the direction of the rising Sun (northeast). Calendar makers have few other options than looking at the sky: ... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive ... We should now be better prepared to evaluate the meaning of this date February 9:
February 9 is the 40th day in the Gregorian calendar. We can read this date as 2-9, possible to allude to the leap day February 29, twenty days later. Or we could read this date as 12-9 which agrees with Ca12-9. This in turn could refer to December 9:
Right ascension day 325 (Ca12-9) could allude to the ancient date for the March equinox, determined by Julius Caesar. Sun in Ca12-10 is in front but leaning slightly to the left, although the top and sharply pointed vertex flame is oriented straight up. But in Ca12-12 the Sun has changed appearance and is now definitely in front. In the Arabic moon calendar the manzil Saad Al Thabih (The Lucky One of the Slaughterers) was beginning when Al Baldaah just had ended, with day 270 from the beginning of the manzil calendar:
At the other side of the nawaa The Three Saads, the manzil Saad Alahbia is in the following nawaa, in another season, around spring equinox: ... γ [Aquarii], 4.1, greenish, on the right arm at the inner edge of the Urn, and the westernmost star in the Y, is Sadachbia, from Al Sa'd al Ahbiyah, which has been interpreted the Lucky Star of Hidden Things or Hiding-places, because when it emerged from the sun's rays all hidden worms and reptiles, buried during the preceding cold, creep out of their holes! But as this word Ah Biyah is merely the plural of Hibā', a Tent, a more reasonable explanation is that the star was so called from its rising in the spring twilight, when, after the winter's want and suffering, the nomads' tents were raised on the freshening pastures, and the pleasent weather set in. This idea renders Professor Whitney's 'Felicity of Tents' a happy translation of the original ... The manzil Al Baldaah is not the same as the manzil Saad Balaa, which comes 4 weeks later. Saad Al Saud, which follows Saad Balaa, was ruled by the star 'Saadalsud'. The name Sadalsud (β Aquarii) was 'liberally translated the Luckiest of the Lucky, from its rising with the sun when the winter had passed and the season of gentle, continuous rain had begun'. In rongorongo times the Sadalsud rose with the Sun in February 10, i.e. 29 days before the manzil Saad Al Saud was beginning (March 11). What star was 'Saad Balaa'? From what Allen has written I conclude it should be Albali (ε Aquarii), a star which was a Chinese 'star pillar':
... ε [Aquarii] was Al Bali, the brightest one of the 21st manzil, Al Sa'd al Bula', the Good Fortune of the Swallower, which included μ and ν; these last also known as Al Buläān in the dual. Kazwini said that this strange title came from the fact that the two outside stars were more open than α and β of Capricorn, so that they seemed to swallow, or absorb, the light of the other! Allen has informed us that the 22nd manzil was Saad Al Saud, which follows Saad Balaa, and together with evidence in the Chinese structure we can be fairly certain the star 'Saad Balaa' means Albali - the star who was 'the Good Fortune of the Swallower'. In rongorongo times Albali rose with the Sun in the day after the RA π day (314). From there to the beginning of the manzil Saad Balaa there were 422 (February 26) - 395 (January 30) = 27 days.
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