Also Sirius was named as a kuhane station, viz. Te Pou: ... The dream soul went on and came to Te Piringa Aniva. She named the place 'Te Piringa Aniva A Hau Maka O Hiva'. Again the dream soul went on her way and reached Te Pei. She named the place 'Te Pei A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul went on and came to Te Pou. She named the place 'Te Pou A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul went on and came to Hua Reva. She named the place 'Hua Reva A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul went on and came to Akahanga. She named the place 'Akahanga A Hau Maka O Hiva' ... ... The actual props, pillars or posts which separated the sky and earth are called toko in New Zealand, to'o in the Marquesas Islands and pou in Tahiti. In Rapanui tuu and pou are known, with pou meaning column, pillar or post of either stone or wood. Sometimes the word is applied to a natural rock formation with postlike qualities which serves as an orientation point. The star Sirius is called Te Pou in Rapanui and functions in the same way ... Counting from the first kuhane station, the 3 islets 'standing out in the water' off the southwestern corner of the island and belonging not to Hau Maka but to Te Taanga, the Sirius station (Te Pou) is number 8 and Hatinga Te Ko(h)e number 11. Counting from the first station on the island proper their numbers will be 7 respectively 10. The distance from Te Pou to Hatinga Te Koe measures 3 'steps' of the kuhane. To reach Roto Iri Are another and 4th step was necessary. 4 is a dark and unlucky number and 193 days from the March equinox has a Rogo figure with closed beak (and the 'fish' in Ca7-29 is now hanging head down as if dead):
But the name of the heliacal star in RA day 193 is reassuring, Mimosa (β Crucis) implies this is only a temporary 'death'.
... In the evening the leaflets will fold together and the whole leaf droops downward. It then re-opens at sunrise ... And it was in day 193 according to the Gregorian calendar when in rongorongo times Castor rose heliacally, the twin who first died and then was restored to life as a star in the sky. |