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My star list is incomplete. For instance should I add the stars at the hand and club of Bootes. The last Bootes star in my list is Alkalurops (μ), but the star close to Corona Borealis (χ) is not in my list:

Arcturus 14h 15m 40.35s 14h 15.673m 216.4

ω

15h 02m 06.51s 15h 02.217m 228.2

ψ

15h 04m 26.86s 15h 04.448m 228.8

χ

15h 14m 29.21s 15h 14.487m 231.3

δ

15h 15m 30.10s 15h 15.502m 231.6

ν

15h 31m 46.99s 15h 31.783m 235.7

φ

15h 37m 49.55s 15h 37.826m 237.2
 

ω Bootis

4.80

25° 00′ N

15h 00m

228.2
Nadlat

ψ Bootis

4.52

26° 57′ N

15h 02m

228.8
  χ Bootis

5.28

29° 10′ N

15h 12m

231.3

Princeps

δ Bootis

3.46

33° 19′ N

15h 13m

231.6
 

ν Bootis

4.98

40° 54′ N

15h 29m

235.7
 

φ Bootis

5.25

40° 21′ N

15h 35m

237.2

Arcturus ought to play a part both in the glyph text and in Manuscript E. Its brilliancy (-0.05) should make this unavoidable. Hevelius has drawn it as if it marked the anus of Bootes and the strange word tiaeve together with looking either to the right or to the left could indicate the choice of way past either ρ and σ (up toward Haris, γ) or past Izar (ε) toward Princeps (δ):

... They all formed a line and looked towards the waves. When the wave began to rise, when it began to move faster and faster, they all turned the lower part of their body (? tiaeve) and coasted on top of the wave toward the right side ...

But it is unclear whether right and left refers to the picture of Hevelius (from the outside of the celestial globe) or from the inside (as we normally can see the constellations from below). 'Right' in the manuscript possibly leads, I think, from Arcturus to Hanga Roa. 'Left' in the manuscript would then lead from Arcturus to Apina Iti, which is south of Hanga Roa. I therefore guess 'left' means the path past Izar to Princeps (δ), i.e. not according to the view of Hevelius but according to the normal star maps.

The middle path to Hanga O Rio could then refer to the path to Nekkar (β).

Auva 2 3 (160) 4 5 6 7
October 22 23 24 25 26 27 (300)
Ca8-16 Ca8-17 (216) Ca8-18 Ca8-19 Ca8-20 Ca8-21
- Orongo Tane Mauri-nui Mauri-kero Omutu Tireo
manu rere erima marama
Asellus Tertius, κ Virginis (214.8),  Arcturus (215.4), Asellus Secundus (215.5) Syrma, λ Bootis (215.6), ι Lupi (216.3), Khambalia (216.4), υ Virginis (216.5) ψ Centauri (216.6) Asellus Primus (217.8), τ Lupi (218.1) φ Virginis (218.7), σ Lupi (219.1), ρ Bootis (219.5) Haris (219.7). σ Bootis (220.2), η Centauri (220.4)
April 23 24 25 26 (116) 27 28
Al Muakhar 5 6 7 8 (345) 9 10
no star listed Mira (33.7) no stars listed

Arcturus was rising heliacally close to κ Virginis (the nakshatra star of Mira) and in the opening between Asellus Tertius and Asellus Secundus. The latter names could perhaps tell us that we have turned around from moving right (following Sun) to moving left (following Moon). Asellus Primus came 3 nights later.

Significant seems to be the close connections between 109 Virginis and the pair Izar with ο Bootis, when in the night the Northern Fly was visible close to Moon. October 30 - 182 = Al Muakhar 13 (350):

Auva 8 9 10 11 (168)
October 28 29 30 31 (304)
Ca8-22 Ca8-23 Ca8-24 Ca8-25
tagata i te marama koia ra ki te marama ku hakarava
ρ Lupi (221.0), Toliman (221.2) π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9), Yang Mun (222.1), Rijl al Awwa (222.5) ο Bootis (222.9), Izar (223.0), 109 Virginis (223.3) Zuben Elgenubi (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)
April 29 30 May 1 (121) 2
Al Muakhar 11 12 13 (350) Alrescha 1
no star listed Head of the Fly (39.6), Kaffaljidhma (39.8), Angetenar (40.2) Right Wing (40.9), Bharani (41.4) τ² Eridani (41.7)

(Al Muakhar was ruled by Pollux. I am using past tense because all such things now seem to be totally forgotten and no longer having any dominant effects on human affairs.)

The path from Arcturus leading to 'the left', up to the right shoulder of Bootes according to Hevelius, to δ (Princeps), makes us reach November 7 (to be counted either as 11 * 7 = 77 or as 9 * 7 = 63):

Simak 5 (175) 11 Syrma 4 (187) 11 Az Zubana 3 (199)
November 7 November 19 December 1
Ca9-3 (231) Ca9-15 (243) Ca9-27 (255)
koia kua oho i te mauga pu hia etoru gagata hakaariki kia raua
Princeps (230.6), Zuben Elschemali (230.8), μ Lupi (231.3) 16h (243.5) Denebakrab (254.7), ι Ophiuchi (255.3), Grafias (255.4)
ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), ξ Scorpii (242.7), Acrab, Jabhat al Akrab (243.3), θ Lupi, Rutilicus (243.5)
May 9 (129) May 21 (141) June 2 (153)
Alresha 8 (358) Sheratan 5 Pleione 3 (17)
no star listed 4h (60.9) no star listed
no star listed

This, the 'left' path from Arcuturus, forces us then to go back in time in order to reach Nekkar (β) at the head of Bootes:

12 Auva 13 Simak 1 2 3 4 (174)
November 1 2 3 4 5 6 (310)
Ca8-26 (225) Ca8-27 Ca8-28 Ca8-29 Ca9-1 Ca9-2 (230)
- - - - Ohiro Oata
te ahi ki te rima aueue - te ika tupu te ure o te henua erua kiore Te marama erua
Kochab (225.0) Ke Kwan (226.3), Ke Kwan (226.4) Zuben Elakribi (226.8), Nekkar (227.3) 15h (228.3) λ Lupi (228.9) κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8), χ Bootis (230.3)
π Lupi (227.9), Zuben Hakrabim (228.3)
3 May 4 5 (125) 6 7 8
2 Alrescha 3 4 (354) 5 6 7
no star listed Acamar (43.6) Menkar (44.7) 3h (45.7) no star listed Botein (46.9)
Algol (45.9), Misam (46.2)

Unless we could go directly from Izar and ο Bootis to Nekkar, in which case the distance is equivalent to the path from May 1 to May 5. Nek-kar cannot be avoided, it had the important position when the Auva manzil ended and when Men-kar (α Ceti, the nose of the Sea Beast) could be seen close to the full Moon. 227.3 - 44.7 = 182.6:

As to the star close to the first tine of Corona Borealis, χ Bootis, it rose heliacally in November 6 (310), in RA day 230. This could correspond, according to my suggestions, to the last night in the C text 'Moon calendar', viz. Oata.

1 Hilo (Hiro) ...the first night of each month and the day following it was a good one for planting. Water-melons, gourds, bananas, sugar-cane, taro, potatoes and so on, if planted on this day, would bear well. It was a day highly valued for planting.

On the evening of Hilo there is a low tide until morning. On this night the women fished by hand (in the pools left by the receding sea) and the men went torch fishing. It was a calm night, no tide until morning. It was a warm night without puffs of wind; on the river-banks people caught gobey fish by hand and shrimps in hand-nets in the warm water. Thus passed the famous night of Hilo. During the day, the sea rose washing up on the sand, and returned to its old bed, and the water was rough.

2 Hoaka (Hoata) It is a favorable day for planting, but in the old days it was a day of prayer. The hoaka, or arch over the door of a house, was named after the shape of the Moon on that night, that is, concave with the points curving up on both sides like horns ...

On the evening when Hoaka rises there is low tide until morning, just like the night of Hilo. But if a man is born that night, or perhaps during the day, he will be one who grumbles about not getting his share, a trouble-maker, stingy, unmerciful, conceited. He will be clever about getting things out of others, suave, but uncourteous at heart, a person who has some lovable qualities, however, and is efficient. A woman born on that day will be one to show her teeth, although she will conceal her temper under cover of affable ways. She will be dignified and appear unassuming but be in reality a hypocrite, a vain woman, a woman always loitering about housedoors. These are the laws of birth on this day...

Hilo was translated as 'narrow rim' (of light) and Hoaka as 'clear'. In the Oata night Botein (δ Arietis, the first of the 3 stars in her tail) could be seen close to the full moon.

In the background are the rainclouds from which the Bull, or in Egypt his female counterpart Hathor, emerged in spring:

The Ram is a female creature, because her role is to give birth (the important characteristic of spring). The Aries constellation means the Ewe, which of course I cannot avoid connecting with Polynesian eve:

Eve

1. Placenta, afterbirth (eeve). T Pau.: eve, womb. Ta.: eve, placenta. Ma.: ewe, id. Haw.: ewe, navel string. 2. The rear; taki eeve, the buttocks; hakahiti ki te eeve, to show the buttocks; pupuhi eve, syringe. 3. The bottom of the sea. Churchill.

... They all formed a line and looked towards the waves. When the wave began to rise, when it began to move faster and faster, they all turned the lower part of their body (? tiaeve) and coasted on top of the wave toward the right side. Once they were underway (literally, 'when the turtle was gone'), their eyes looked toward the land at an angle. Ira called out with a loud voice, 'Our ride on the wave is to the right!' (Fast) as on a sled was the ride on the wave, and it brought them to the shore. The place where they landed was given the name 'Hanga Roa'." [When they rode the wave from the 3 islets looking to the right it means they must have gone north. Hawaiin ewe means navel string and the strange tiaeve could allude to Hanga-piko. Piko is Hawaiian for Pito, navel, navelstring etc.].