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Let's return to the words of Metoro. His erua tamaiti means 'twins' (literally 'two children'), which, however, does not necessarily refer to the Gemini twins:

Al Tuwaibe' 6 7 8 (413) 9 (49)
July 1 2 3 4 (185)
(178) (179) (180) (181)
Ca4-26 (102) Ca4-27 Ca4-28 Ca4-29
erua tamaiti kua vaha te mago erua
ψ6 Aurigae (101.7),  τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4)  ψ8 Aurigae (103.2) Alhena (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9) Adara (104.8), ω Gemini (105.4)
Al Tuwaibe' 10 (50) 11 12 13
July 5 (186) 6 7 8
Ca5-1 Ca5-2 (107) Ca5-3 Ca5-4
E hua ki te henua - ka huki te hau tea - te henua kua hua te henua
Muliphein (105.8) Wezen (107.1) no stars listed
Heka 1 2 3 4 (57)
July 9 10 11 12 (193)
Ca5-5 Ca5-6 (111) Ca5-7 Ca5-8
kua iri i te rakau ihe tamaiti erua mago
Wasat (109.8) Aludra (111.1) Gomeisa (111.6), ρ Gemini (112.1) Castor (113.4)

But ihe tamaiti at Ca5-6 - a glyph which is drawn in the same way as Ca4-27 - is support for the idea of a reference to the Gemini pair, because the heliacal rising of Castor is close by. A single 'eye' could indicate a state of mortality (e.g. because Metoro said ihe). Tamaiti in Ca4-26 would then be Pollux.

My rule of thumb according to which a pair becomes the negation of the single - for example kaikai (nothing to eat = no Sun) as the opposite of kai (eating) - possibly should be used also in order to interpret the meaning of the 2nd identical tamaiti in Ca5-6. Furthermore, Metoro said ihe tamaiti and ihe could here mean 'spear' (the point of which will 'kill').

Ihe

A fish. Vanaga.

1. Mgv.: ihe, a fish. Mq.: ihe, id. Sa.: ise, id. Ma.: ihe, the garfish. 2. Ta.: ihe, a lance. Ha.: ihe, a spear. Churchill

There are 60 days from another pair of twins in line Ca2, and possibly they are female (because of their 'nipples' at bottom and their plump bodies):

Alrescha 1 2 3 4 (354) 5
May 2 (122) 3 4 5 6
Ca2-16 Ca2-17 Ca2-18 Ca2-19 (45) Ca2-20
erua tamaiti ki te huaga o te hoi hatu e tagata poo pouo te vai
 no stars listed  Acamar (43.6) Menkar (44.7) 3h (45.7) Algol (45.9)

The word tama-iti does not say if the 'little child' is a little boy or a little girl.

122 (May 2) = 2 * 61 and 350 + 122 = 472.

Al Sufi (who may have been the one who first described the star cluster at ο Velorum) has a picture for Gemini where 15 (?) toes are outside the rectangular frame:

We can compare with the 14 toe marks in the 3rd Rain God station:

Pushing feet and toes into the soft earth could correspond to an act of impregnating, a sign of generating offspring.

In the 4th Rain God station, where he turns around, we can imagine the 'Tree' located partly on one side and partly on the other side - like when Capella is on one side of the Milky Way with Canopus and Sirius on the other:

Capella

α Aurigae

0.08

Milky Way

Sirius

α Canis Majoris

-1.46

Canopus

α Carinae

-0.72

The 5th station of the Rain God should consequently come after the June solstice. He is there shown sitting for himself down inside the earth. The monster head at bottom of the Milky Way tree, which is turned around in the 4th station, has in the 5th station a mirror image looking forward and used by the Rain God like a cusion to sit upon.

In contrast to the 'Tree' - growing tall - we can expect the opposite in the following station. Time will begin anew from a position far down (like the beginning of a rongorongo text). Argo Navis could be the place where to look. To be more precise, we should look for clues at the very bottom, in the Keel (Carina):

I have placed Canopus as the monster head at the bottom of the 'Tree' and the rest of the Keel has apparently another character. The first star to rise in the Keel proper should therefore be χ Carinae:

Heka 10 11 (64)
July 18 19 (200)
Ca5-14 Ca5-15 (120)
kua haga te mea ke manu puoko i tona ahi
no star listed χ Carinae (119.9)
Heka 12 (65) 13 Alhena 1 2 3 (69)
July 20 (201) 8h (121.7) 22 23 24 (205)
Ca5-16 Ca5-17 (122) Ca5-18 Ca5-19 Ca5-20 (125)
kua heu te huki hakahagana te honu tagata moe hakarava hia ka moe hakapekaga mai
Naos (121.3) Heap of Fuel (122.1) Tegmine (123.3), Regor (123.7) Al Tarf (124.3) Bright Fire (125.4)

Here the 'bird head' (manu puoko) is 'in his fire' (i tona ahi), according to Metoro.

Ahi

Fire; he-tutu i te ahi to light a fire. Ahiahi = evening; ahiahi-ata, the last moments of light before nightfall. Vanaga.

1. Candle, stove, fire (vahi); ahi hakapura, match; ahi hakagaiei, firebrand waved as a night signal. P Mgv.: ahi, fire, flame. Mq.: ahi, fire, match, percussion cap. Ta.: ahi, fire, percussion cap, wick, stove. 2. To be night; agatahi ahi atu, day before yesterday. 3. Pau.: ahi, sandalwood. Ta.: ahi, id. Mq.: auahi, a variety of breadfruit. Sa.: asi, sandalwood. Ha.: ili-ahi, id. Ahiahi, afternoon, night; kai ahiahi, supper. P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ahiahi, afternoon, evening. Ahipipi (ahi 1 - pipi 2) a spark, to flash. Churchill.

Perhaps Metoro thought the position of the bird was comparable to being in an earth-oven (umu):

Umu

Cooking pit, Polynesian oven (shallow pit dug in the ground, in which food is cooked over heated stones); the food cooked in such a pit for a meal, dinner, or banquet; umu pae, permanent cooking pit, in a stone enclosure.; umu paepae, permanent cooking pit with straw cover for protection from rain and wind; umu keri okaoka, temporary cooking pit without stone enclosure; umu ava, very large temporary cooking pit, made for feasts; umu takapú, exclusive banquet, reserved for certain groups of persons, for instance the relatives of a deceased family member; umu tahu, daily meals for hired workers; umu parehaoga, inaugural banquet (made on occasion of a communal enterprise or feastival); umu ra'e, banquet for fifth or sixth month of pregnancy; umu pâpaku, banquet on occasion of the death of a family member. Vanaga.

Cooking place, oven (humu). Churchill.

Samoa, Maori, Nukuoro, Niue, Tahiti, Hawaii, Mangaia, Marquesas, Mangareva, Paumoto: umu, oven. Tonga: ngotoumu, id. Uvea: ngutuùmu, id. Futuna: ùmu-kai, id. Fotuna: amu, cooking place. Rapanui: umu, oven; humu hare, cook house ... The Polynesian radical is consistently umu. Tonga and Uvea compound with it a word which in Uvea is distinctly ngutu mouth and in Tongan we may feel that ngutu has been specifically differentiated in this composite. In the Futuna composite the latter element is merely kai food ... Particular interest attaches to the discovery of the amu type in Mabulag and Miriam, western and eastern islands of the straits and remote from the New Guinea coast ... The existence of amu in Fotuna affords us reason to regard the type as ancient Proto-Samoan, and that Mabulag and Miriam received it directly and not on secondary loan from Motu. Churchill 2.

... The image is that of a reed boat with a whale's or sea monster's head at the bow, and a skull-like mask at the stern. At the top of the stern is a five-sided umu, or Easter Island fireplace, and on deck is a hare paenga, or lenticular reed house, with a square doorway on the starboard side. On the same side, a wide channel surrounded by a V-shaped groove leads down from the deck aft ...