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November 7 means the seventh day in the ninth month, and there are reasons to believe 9 weeks measured the time before the front side of the year would appear:

Alterf 5 6 7 (112) 8
September 2 3 4 5 6 (249)
Ca6-25 Ca6-26 Ca6-27 Ca6-28 (168) Ca7-1
tagata marama koia ra marama kua Rei te vae
Alkes (165.6), Merak (166.2) 11h (167.4)  no star listed  Al Sharas (168.6), Zosma (169.2), Coxa (169.4)
Dubhe (166.7)
March 4 5 6 7 (66) 8
61 Simak 5 (175)
November 7
Ca9-3 (231)
koia kua oho
Princeps (230.6), Zuben Elschemali (230.8), μ Lupi (231.3)
May 9 (129)
Alresha 8 (358)
no star listed

For instance are there probably 63 days from March 21 to the first glyph on the front side of the G tablet.

231 = 33 weeks, and Metoro said koia kua oho ('who leaves'). Then follow 5 days before the Pleiades are due to appear close to the full moon in the night sky:

Simak 6 7 (177) 8 9 10
November 8 9 10 (314) 11 12
Ca9-4 Ca9-5 Ca9-6 Ca9-7 Ca9-8 (236)
ki te vai kua moe ku hakaraoa e rima no ona ku tupu te poporo
ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5) Pherkad (232.6), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9), Alkalurops (233.1) Nusakan (234.0) θ Cor. Borealis (235.3) γ Lupi (235.6), Gemma, Zuben Elakrab, Qin (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8), ω Lupi (236.3)
May 10 (130) 11 12 13 14
Alrescha 9 10 (360) 11 12 13
Algenib Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2) ξ Tauri (50.8) no stars listed

The little vai raised high in Ca9-4 is day 5 counted from kiore looking ahead in Ca8-29. Algenib Persei rose heliacally in day 130 (May 10) and Nusakan 184 days later (in Gregorian day 314). Nusakan is the first tine in Corona Borealis:

Bootes is on one side of the sky and Perseus on the other. Both appear to have beheaded a woman. This could be coincidence of course, but it is more likely to represent a general pattern - the same structural idea which has placed a bright Phoenix at the opposite side of the black Raven. Bootes stands on terra firma but Perseus has winged sandals. The opposite side of the sky is also the opposite otherwise, e.g. with the back of the head of Queen Berenice contra the front side of the head of the Gorgon Medusa.

May 15 is manzil day 364 when in rongorongo times the first 5 stars of the Pleiades were rising heliacally. The remaining 6 stars (Tau-ono) rose the day after. The koti glyph in Ca9-9 probably illustrates the time division separating the old year from the new (which is 'running ahead', kua rere, in the first day after the twice 26 weeks of the previous year):

Simak 11   12
Nov. 13 14
Ca9-9 Ca9-10
kotia kua rere
ψ¹ Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor. Borealis (236.9), ι Serpentis (237.4), ψ² Lupi (237.5)  γ Cor. Borealis (237.7), Unuk Elhaia (237.9), π Cor. Borealis, Cor Serpentis (238.1)
May 15 16 (136)
Alrescha 14 15 (365)
Atiks, Rana (55.1), Celaeno, Electra, Taygeta (55.3) Maia, Asterope, Merope (55.6), Alcyone (56.1), Pleione, Atlas (56.3)
13 (183) Syrma 1 2 3
Nov. 15 16 17 (321) 18
Ca9-11 Ca9-12 Ca9-13 Ca9-14 (242)
ki te marama e moa haati kava e moa
Chow (238.6), κ Serpentis (239.3), δ Cor. Borealis, Tiānrǔ (239.5) χ Lupi, (239.6), ω Serpentis (239.7), Ba, χ Herculis (239.8). κ Cor. Borealis, ρ Serpentis (239.9) ρ Scorpii (240.8), ξ Lupi, λ Cor. Borealis (241.1), Zheng (241.2), Vrischika (241.3), ε Cor. Borealis (241.5)  Dschubba (241.7), η Lupi (241.9), υ Herculis (242.3), ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4)
May 17 18 19 20
Sheratan 1 2 3 4
no star listed Menkhib (57.6) Zaurak (58.9), λ Tauri (59.3) ν Tauri (59.9)

Right ascension 16h (or 4h) has a glyph with a hole, and November 19 (or May 21) is day 12 beyond 'day 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

Metoro saw a mauga pu (mountain with a hole), which is consistent with his normal view of this type of glyph (mauga). 243 = 3 * 3 * 3 * 3 * 3.

The Easter Island month named Te-hetu'u-pú is the 2nd in the list:

... The ancient names of the month were: Tua haro, Tehetu'upú, Tarahao, Vaitu nui, Vaitu poru [potu ?], He Maro, He Anakena, Hora iti, Hora nui, Tagaroa uri, Ko Ruti, Ko Koró.

Supposing this list was beginning not with January but with April, then the month 'of origin' (pu) would be May:

... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month ('Vaitu Nui'), Ira and Makoi set sail ...

Hetu

Hetu 1. To (make) sound; figuratively: famous, renowned. 2. To crumble into embers (of a bonfire). Hetu'u. Star, planet; hetu'u popohaga morning star; hetu'u ahiahi evening star; hetu'u viri meteorite. Vanaga

Hetu 1. Star (heetuu); hetu rere, meteor; hetu pupura, planet. P Pau.: hetu, star. Mgv.: etu, id. Mq.: fetu, hetu, id. Ta.: fetu, fetia, id. The alternative form fetia in Tahiti, now the only one in common use, need not be regarded as an anomaly in mutation. It seems to derive from Paumotu fetika, a planet. Its introduction into Tahiti is due to the fashion of accepting Paumotu vocables which arose when the house of Pomare came into power. 2. Capital letter (? he tu). 3. To amuse. 4. To stamp the feet. Hetuhetu, to calk, to strike the water. Hetuke, sea urchin. Churchill.

Pu

1. To come forward to greet someone met on the road; to walk in front, to go in front: ka-pú a mu'a, let them go first. 2. Pú a mu'a, to intervene, to come to someone's rescue; he-pú-mai a mu'a, he-moaha, he came to my rescue and saved my life. 3. Ancient expression: ai ka-pú, ai ka-pú, tell us frankly what you think. 4. Hole, opening, orifice; well; circumference, rotundity; swirling water; pú-haga, vaginal orifice; pú-henua (also just henua), placenta. He pú henua nó te me'e aau, he-oti-á; ina-á me'e ma'u o te rima i-topa-ai koe, a placenta was all you had, it is a past thing now; you held nothing in your hands when you were born (stern words said to children to make them realize that they must not be demanding, since they were born naked and without possessions). 5. To dig out (tubers): he-pú i te uhi, to dig out yams. Vanaga.

1. A trumpet. P Mgv.: pu, a marine shell. Mq.: pu, conch shell. Ta.: pu, shell, trumpet. 2. A small opening, hole, mortise, stirrup, to pierce, to perforate, to prick; pu moo naa, hiding place; taheta pu, fountain, spring; hakapu, to dowel, to pierce, to perforate. PS Sa., Fu., Niuē: pu, a hole. Churchill.

Mq.: Pu, source, origin. Ma.: pu, root, origin, foundation. Churchill.

Rutilicus (β Herculis) was Sun's position at 16h (November 19), a time which north of the equator meant winter was ahead. When on Easter Island Rutilicus was observed in the night close to the full Moon it would have been 4h (May 21), also a sign of winter ahead. The man with a club (instead of a serpent) came tumbling down:

Possibly, therefore, Te-hetu'u-pú was a month similar to November, when some star close to RA position 243.5 - 181 = 62.5 (such as Beid, ο¹ Eridani) could be seen in the nakshatra sky to announce that summer was ahead.

This could imply the first month in the list, Tua haro, was similar to October ('the 8th month'):

Azzubra 6 (137)   7 8 9
September 30 (273) October 1 2 3
Ca7-25 (193) Ca7-26 Ca7-27 Ca7-28
tagata i te marama koia ra ki te marama kua moe ra
Mimosa (192.9) ψ Virginis (194.5) Alioth (194.8), Minelauva (195.1), Cor Caroli (195.3) δ Muscae (196.5)
April 1 (91) 2 3 4
Saad Al Akhbia 9 10 11 (322) 12
Achird (10.7), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4) Cih (12.4) no stars listed
Tua

1. Back, shoulder, tu'a ivi, shoulder blade; tu'a ivi more, lumbago; moa tu'a ivi raá, 'sun-back chicken': chicken with a yellow back which shines in the sun. 2. Behind (a locative adverb, used with i, ki, a, o, etc). Tu'a-papa, pelvis, hips. Vanaga.

1. Behind, back, rear; ki tua, after; o tua, younger; taki tua, perineum. 2. Sea urchin, echinus. The word must have a germ sense indicating something spinous which will be satisfactorily descriptive of the sea urchin all spines, the prawn with antennae and thin long legs, and in the Maori the shell of Mesodesma spissa. Tuaapapa, haunch, hip, spine. Tuahaigoigo, tattooing on the back. Tuahuri, abortion; poki tuahuri, abortive child. Tuaivi, spine, vertebræ, back, loins; mate mai te tuaivi, ill at ease. Tuakana, elder, elder brother; tuakana tamaahina, elder sister. Tuamouga, mountain summit. Tuatua, to glean. Mgv. tua: To fell, to cut down. Ta.: tua, to cut. Mq.: tua, to fell, to cut down. Ma.: tua, id. Tuaki, to disembowel. Ma.: tuaki, to clean fish. Tuavera, the last breadfruit spoiled by the wind. Ta.: tuavera, burnt by the sun. Churchill.

Haro

To pull; popohaga o te rua raá, i haro i te aka o te miro, on the morning of the second day, they pulled up the anchor of the boat. He haro i te hagu a roto, to draw in air, to breathe. He-haro te vaka i te au , the boat is towed off course in the current. Vanaga.

a. to point, to raise the arm, to stretch out the hand or other member, to spread, to point the yards. b. to hoist, to pull up, to entice. c. to stiffen, to grasp, to squeeze. Haroharo, to point, to limp. PS Sa.: falo, to stretch out. To.: falo, to stretch out, to make tense. Fu.: falo, to stretch out, to lay hands on.

From September 30 (273) to November 19 (323) there are 50 days, the same as the distance from March 21 to the heliacal rising of Algenib Persei in May 10 (130).

323 (November 19) - 130 (May 10) = 193. We could therefore possibly find the Easter Island day corresponding to the day north of the equator by adding 193.