I think the date June 18 was important:
Numbers are elusive, but June 17 is Gregorian day 168. Maybe the 4 days from June 18 to the solstice were considered as the beginning of the season of the 'Tree' (rakau). There should be symmetry and 168 (from January 1 to June 18) ought to be followed by another cycle of 168 nights. 168 + 168 = 336 (= 48 weeks). The number of constellations was 48 according to Ptolemaios. 168 = 80 + 88, where 88 equals the synodic cycle of Mercury and where 88 also happened to be the RA day for Betelgeuze - which could be concluded from observing Apollyon (in the tail of the Scorpion) close to the full moon:
From Betelgeuze (88.3) - as the 'tail of Orion' - to Praja-pāti (89.3) there is only 1 day, and the latter star is at the very top of Auriga:
Praja-pāti (δ), Menkalinan (β), and Mahashim (θ), were rising simultaneously and on the other side of the Milky Way. Therefore they could in June 18 have formed a Sign that the Milky Way had been crossed (†). The rakau glyphs could then hardly symbolize the Milky Way. Instead they ought to refer to the new 'land' (on the other side of the 'river') beginning after day 168. All this of course referring to the time of myth when 6h was 0h (i.e. about 6h / 24h * 26000 = 6500 years ago). Capella (α) is one of the brightest stars in the Sky and its position is on the other side of the Milky Way, on the border to the new land:  And in the rongorongo text Capella probably is - we can observe from the glyph - the top 'ball' in Ca4-1:
The pair of 'balls' at left, one above the other, should correspond to Menkalinan (β) and to Mahashim (θ), and the one to the right of Capella to Almaaz (ε). But the star at the top of Auriga, Praja-pāti (δ), is not in the glyph. I was wrong in assigning 'the Lord of Created Beings' to June 6. From Polaris to Capella the distance is 78.4 - 26.6 = ca 52 days:
I have here assigned 3 days for each of these great stars. The 'head' at center in Gregorian day 471 (= 1.5 * 314) should be connected with the head in June 7, and 78 - 26 = 52. 107 (April 17) + 50 = 157 (= 0.5 * 314). Thus there is 'half a circle' from April 16 to June 6 (157). Possibly Polaris rules line Ca2 and Capella line Ca4, which so far are the only upside down lines we have examined. 'Leader' stars (α) should be at the beginning. Perhaps Orion of today is the picture in the night sky of the Cemetery for buried old kings, with Auriga as the opposite place higher up and above the ecliptic. There we can see how the Charioteer is kneeling down (pepe) as if in gratitude for having survived 'the flood'. The irregular 'nut' at bottom in Ca4-1 is hardly Betelgeuze, its position is wrong for that. Instead the star map above suggests it could be Heka - where indeed we can imagine there once was a lost star corresponding to the head of Orion. ... Al Maisān, the title of γ Geminorum, by some error of Firuzabadi was applied to this star [Heka] as Meissa, and is now common for it. Al Sufi called it Al Tahāyī; but Al Ferghani and Al Tizini knew it as Rās al Jauzah, the Head of the Jauzah, which it marks. The original Arabic name, Al Hak'ah, a White Spot, was from the added faint light of the smaller φ¹and φ² in the background, and has descended to us as Heka and Hika. These three stars were another of the Athāfiyy [tripods used for cooking] of the Arabs; and everywhere in early astrology were thought, like all similar groups, to be of unfortunate influence in human affairs. They constituted the Euphratean lunar station Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur, the Little Twins, a title also found for γ and η Geminorum; and individually were important stars among the Babylonians, rising to them with the sun at the summer solstice, and, with α and γ, were known as Kakkab Sar, the Constellation of the King ... In the Hindu nakshatra system this was the 5th station Mrigarshirsha:
The diamond of the following Ardra station suggests a connection with the form of the 'head' in Ca4-2. Betelgeuze is α Orionis, but in rongorongo times this star rose heliacally 10 days later, in June 17 (day 168). Instead it was Rigel (β) which had the position in June 7. In the G text there could be a glyph play on the 'tear-drop' of Ardra, because the left 'eye' has vanished (been dropped) in Ga1-18:
En passent we can notice the similarity in structure between Ga1-23 and Ca4-16. 92 - (63 + 24) = 5. There seems to be a 'band' around the 'nut' in Ca4-1 which suggests it could represent the head of Hotu A Matua (down in his 2nd hole): ... Night came, midnight came, and Tuu Maheke said to his brother, the last-born: 'You go and sleep. It is up to me to watch over the father.' (He said) the same to the second, the third, and the last. When all had left, when all the brothers were asleep, Tuu Maheke came and cut off the head of Hotu A Matua. Then he covered everything with soil. He hid (the head), took it, and went up. When he was inland, he put (the head) down at Te Avaava Maea. Another day dawned, and the men saw a dense swarm of flies pour forth and spread out like a whirlwind (ure tiatia moana) until it disappeared into the sky. Tuu Maheke understood. He went up and took the head, which was already stinking in the hole in which it had been hidden. He took it and washed it with fresh water. When it was clean, he took it and hid it anew. Another day came, and again Tuu Maheke came and saw that it was completely dried out (pakapaka). He took it, went away, and washed it with fresh water until (the head) was completely clean. Then he took it and painted it yellow (he pua hai pua renga) and wound a strip of barkcloth (nua) around it. He took it and hid it in the hole of a stone that was exactly the size of the head. He put it there, closed up the stone (from the outside), and left it there. There it stayed ... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
