Obviously September 29 (a
week after equinox) was an important date:
4 |
Dschuba 11 |
12 |
13 |
Azzubra 1 (132) |
September 22 |
23 |
24 |
25 (268) |
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Ca7-17 |
Ca7-18 |
Ca7-19 |
Ca7-20 (188) |
tagata -
marama |
tagata |
kua moe |
puhi te
ahi - rave i te ika |
Pálida (184.6), Megrez
(184.9),
Gienah (185.1),
ε Muscae (185.2) |
Zaniah (185.9),
Chang Sha (186.3) |
Intrometida (187.4), Acrux
(187.5) |
γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ
Centauri (188.1),
Algorab (188.5) |
March 24 (83) |
25 |
26 |
27 |
Saad Al Akhbia 1 |
2 |
3 (314) |
4 |
no star listed |
θ Andromedae (2.7) |
Ankaa, κ Phoenicis (5.0) |
no star listed |
Azzubra 2 |
3 |
4 |
5 (136) |
September 26 |
27 |
28 |
29 (272) |
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Ca7-21 |
Ca7-22 |
Ca7-23 |
Ca7-24 (192) |
te kava - erua
marama |
e marama noho
i tona nohoga |
te hare
pure e
tagata noho ki roto |
Gacrux (188.7), γ Muscae
(189.0),
Avis Satyra (189.3),
Asterion (189.5) |
Kraz (189.7),
α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri
(190.5) |
χ Virginis (190.7), ρ Virginis
(191.4), Porrima, γ Centauri
(191.5) |
β Muscae (192.5) |
March 28 |
29 |
30 |
31 (90) |
Saad Al Akhbia 5 |
6 |
7 |
8 (319) |
no star listed |
Delta (8.4) |
Schedir (8.6),
μ
Phoenicis (8.9), ξ Phoenicis
(9.0), Deneb Kaitos,
η
Phoenicis (9.4) |
no star listed |
Metoro's words here
confirm we are on the right track,
because te
hare pure means the 'house' (te
hare) of a sea-shell (pure).
Hare
House,
family, home. Vanaga.
House,
cabin, habitation, building,
hut, structure; hare iti,
hut; hare itiiti
no, cabin; hare kahu,
tent; hare neinei,
latrine; hare no iti,
cell; hare nunui,
palace; hare pohurihuri,
prison; hare pure,
chapel, church; ki te
hare, at home.
Harepepe, kelp.
Harepiko, a. asylum,
place of refuge; b. ambush,
snare. Harepopo,
shed. Harepopokai,
storehouse. Churchill. |
Pure
Cowrie (Cypraea
caput draconis); pure
vaka, another type of
cowrie, which can float on
the sea like a diminutive
boat (vaka). Vanaga.
1. To
pray, to supplicate,
invocation, prayer; hare
pure, church, chapel;
tae pure, irreverence;
purega, prayer P
Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.:
pure, to pray. In Samoa,
Tonga, Niuē,
Futuna, Uvea, pule
means to command. 2.
A shell T. P Pau.:
hakapurepure, to dye, to
color. Mq.: pué, the
porcelain shell. Ta.:
pure, a mark.
Purepure, spotted,
dappled; ragi purepure,
dappled sky. Purepurea,
spotted. P Pau.:
hakapurepure, to dye, to
color. Mgv.: purepure,
printed cloth;
akapurepure, to paint in
different colors. Mq.:
puépué, covered with
pale scars. Ta.: purepure,
spotted, dappled. Churchill.
Pureva,
rock, stone (small enough to
be thrown by hand). Vanaga.
Pureva, to
throw a stone. Ta.:
Pureva, to be
on the eve of going. Ha.:
puleva, to
float here and there.
Churchill.
Pau.:
Pure-hiva, a butterfly.
Mgv.: pure-rehue, id.
Ta.: pure-hua, a
moth. Mq.: pure-hua,
id. Ma.: pure-hua,
id. Churchill. |
The Rain God is immersed, wading in the sea (among shells
and fishes), in his 6th
station, with a 'snake' in his left
hand and in his right a hewing
implement (a flint stone) ready to
strike down:
From July 25, the day
of St James (with a bivalve on his
shoulder) to the shell in Ca7-24
there are 272 - 206 = 66 days:
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