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According to Manuscript E the kuhane of Hau Maka flew over Easter Island in the night following the southern coastline and then turned towards the north at Hanga Takaure. Going north from Hanga Takaure means moving upwards, because the peninsula Poike ('the place aloft') is high ground.

... The dream soul went on and came to One Tea. She named the place 'One Tea A Hau Maka O Hiva'. She went on and reached Hanga Takaure. She named the place 'Hanga Takaure A Hau Maka O Hiva'.

The position of Hanga Taka-Ure is precisely where the strange geographical feature of Ko te Umu o te Hanau Eepe (the Earth-oven for the thick-set race, 'the Long-ears') is beginning.

... The Long-ear people were strong, they ruled. They lived out there on Poike, the headland, where the ground is not covered with heavy stones. They stretched their ears with ornaments, those people, they made them long ...

Taka

Taka, takataka. Circle; to form circles, to gather, to get together (of people). Vanaga.

1. A dredge. P Mgv.: akataka, to fish all day or all night with the line, to throw the fishing line here and there. This can only apply to some sort of net used in fishing. We find in Samoa ta'ā a small fishing line, Tonga taka the short line attached to fish hooks, Futuna taka-taka a fishing party of women in the reef pools (net), Maori takā the thread by which the fishhook is fastened to the line, Hawaii kaa in the same sense, Marquesas takako a badly spun thread, Mangareva takara a thread for fastening the bait on the hook. 2. Ruddy. 3. Wheel, arch; takataka, ball, spherical, round, circle, oval, to roll in a circle, wheel, circular piece of wood, around; miro takataka, bush; haga takataka, to disjoin; hakatakataka, to round, to concentrate. P Pau.: fakatakataka, to whirl around. Mq.: taka, to gird. Ta.: taa, circular piece which connects the frame of a house. Churchill.

Takai, a curl, to tie; takaikai, to lace up; takaitakai, to coil. P Pau.: takai, a ball, to tie. Mgv.: takai, a circle, ring, hoop, to go around a thing. Mq.: takai, to voyage around. Ta.: taai, to make into a ball, to attach. Churchill.

Ure

1. Generation; ure matá, warlike, bellicose generation (matá, obsidian, used in making weapons). 2. Offspring; brother; colleague i toou ure ka tata-mai, your colleague has turned up. 3. Friendship, friendly relationship; ku-ké-á te ure, they have become enemies (lit.: friendship has changed). 4. Penis (this definition is found in Englert's 1938 dictionary, but not in La Tierra de Hotu Matu'a). Ure tahiri, to gush, to spurt, to flow; e-ure tahiri-á te toto, blood is flowing in gushes. Ure tiatia moana, whirlwind which descend quickly and violently onto the ocean; whirlpool, eddy. Vanaga.

Penis; kiri ure, prepuce, foreskin. P Pau., Mgv., Ta.: ure, penis. Ureure, spiral. Ta.: aureure, id. Urei, to show the teeth. Mgv.: urei, to uncover the eye by rolling back the lids. Churchill.

Pau.: Ureuretiamoana, waterspout. Ta.: ureuretumoana, id. Churchill.

H. Ule 1. Penis. For imaginative compounds see 'a'awa 1, 'aweule, ulehala, ulehole, ulepa'a, ulepuaa, ule'ulu. Kū ka ule, he'e ka laho, the penis is upright, the scrotum runs away (refers to breadfruit: when the blossom (pōule) appears erect, there will soon be fruit). 2. Tenon for a mortise; pointed end of a post which enters the crotch of a rafter (also called ma'i kāne). Ho'o ule, to form a tenon or post for the crotch of a rafter. 3. To hang. Wehewehe.

In legend this is the ditch of fire (an 'earth oven', umu) where the 'Long-ears' where exterminated, and presumably it alludes to 10h, which time according to ancient tradition possibly was regarded as the hottest time of the year.

... One of the final rites consisted in a frenzied dance which was prolonged until after dark, in spite of the exhausted state of the participants. The Arapaho called it 'gambling against the sun', and the Gros-Ventre 'the dance against the sun'. The aim was to counteract the opposition of the intense heat of the sun, who had tried to prevent the ceremony taking place by radiating his warm rays every day during the period preceding the dance ...

The Indians, then, looked upon the sun as a dual being: indispensable for human life, yet at the same time representing a threat to mankind by its heat, a presage of prolonged drought. One of the motifs of the Arapaho dancers' body-paintings shows them being 'consumed by fire' ...

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.

I guess we should pinpoint Hanga Takaure on our C map as August 21-24:

Hanga Takaure
An Nathra 5 6 7 8 (100)
August 21 22 23 24 (236)
Ca6-13 Ca6-14 Ca6-15 Ca6-16
manu teketeke ki ruga takaure kua aha te takaure i te henua ma te rima
Sadalmelik (334.6)      
 Regulus (152.7), λ Hydrae (153.2)  no star listed Simiram, Adhafera, Tania Borealis (154.7), Algieba (155.5) Tania Australis(156.0) 

The end of the southern coastline flight of the kuhane should then be with manzil night 100 (= Gregorian day 236). In manzil day 101 her path upwards would begin, with RA night 157 (= 314 / 2). 80 + 157 = 237 = 136 + 101.

(233 + 234 + 235 + 236) / 2 = 469 (i.e. 1 more than 468). (61 * 3 + 61 * 4 + 61 * 5 + 61 * 6) / 3  = 183.

In G a slightly different map seems to be used, maybe beginning 4 days earlier than Regulus:

Ga3-23 (*146) Ga3-24 Ga4-1 (85)
Subra (145.8), ψ Leonis (146.4) Ras Elaset Australis (146.6) Vathorz Prior (147.9), υ¹ Hydrae (148.4)
August 14 15 16 (228)
Murzim 11 12 13 (92)
Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4 Ga4-5 Ga4-6 (90) Ga4-7
Ras Elaset Borealis (148.7)  Tseen Ke (149.9), ν Leonis (150.1) π Leonis (150.6) 10h (152.2) Regulus (152.7), λ Hydrae (153.2)  no star listed
υ² Hydrae (151.8), Al Jabhah (152.4)
August 17 18 19 20 (232) 21 22
An Nathra 1 2 3 4 5 6

The star Tseen Ke is φ Velorum and according to Hevelius located at the last shield, before my red line leads up to the top of the oak Robur Carolinum:

... 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 ...

But perhaps the whole hexagonal fore sail, from λ (Alsuhail) to μ (Peregrini, up in the Oak) covers Hanga Takaure.

Peregrini (162.6) - Alsuhail (137.5) = 25 days (a square of 'fire'):

21
Ga3-14 (74) Ga3-15
9h (137.0) Alsuhail (137.5), σ² Ursa Majoris (137.6), τ Ursa Majoris (137.7), ξ Cancri (137.8)
ω Hydrae (136.8), σ¹ Ursa Majoris (137.0), κ Cancri (137.3)
August 5 (217) 6
Murzim 2 (81) 3
Ga4-13 (*160) Ga4-14 Ga4-15
φ Hydrae (160.3)   no stars listed 
August 28 29 30 (242)
An Nathra 12  13 Alterf 1 (106)
Ga4-16 (100) Ga4-17 (*164) Ga4-18 Ga4-19
Peregrini (162.6), ν Hydrae (163.1)  no stars listed  Alkes (165.6), Merak (166.2)
August 31 September 1 (244) 2 3
Alterf 2 (107) 3 4 5

August 31 (243) coincides with manzil day 107 and also with glyph 100.