In rongorongo times the first Toucan star (α) rose with the Sun in February 21:
This was also where the θ star in Aquarius (Ancha) rose heliacally and when Sun reached the Stellion (Lacerta). Possibly the 'good' (te maitaki) time in the past expressed by Metoro for the left part in Ca12-22 (where we can read 12 together with 22 as a Sign for the completion of a double π cycle) means Terminalia was ahead. ... The form of the letter θ suggests a midline ('waist'), although the origin of θ is the Phoenician tēth which means 'wheel'. This in turn could have originated from a glyph named 'good' which in Egypt was nfr
Anciently 22 (= 7 * π) was probably a Sign, and two and twenty good four-wheeled wains could hardly mean simply 22 * 4 = 88 wheels but rather 4 completed double cycles. ... Odysseus and his fleet were now in a mythic realm of difficult trials and passages, of which the first was to be the Land of the Cyclopes, 'neither nigh at hand, nor yet afar off', where the one-eyed giant Polyphemus, son of the god Poseidon (who, as we know, was the lord of tides and of the Two Queens, and the lord, furthermore, of Medusa), dwelt with his flocks in a cave. 'Yes, for he was a monstrous thing and fashioned marvelously, nor was he like to any man that lives by bread, but like a wooded peak of the towering hills, which stands out apart and alone from others.' Odysseus, choosing twelve men, the best of the company, left his ships at shore and sallied to the vast cave. It was found stocked abundantly with cheeses, flocks of lambs and kids penned apart, milk pails, bowls of whey; and when the company had entered and was sitting to wait, expecting hospitality, the owner came in, shepherding his flocks. He bore a grievous weight of dry wood, which he cast down with a din inside the cave, so that in fear all fled to hide. Lifting a huge doorstone, such as two and twenty good four-wheeled wains could not have raised from the ground, he set this against the mouth of the cave, sat down, milked his ewes and goats, and beneath each placed her young, after which he kindled a fire and spied his guests ... Possibly the form of the Greek letter θ, with a waist drawn horizontally across a single 'eye', had to be changed south of the equator into a pair of mata:
However, the normal maitaki glyph has not 2 mata but 3 cycles, maybe because mata-mata means the negation of the Sun mata, a bad Sign. And when counting beyond 364 days we need to add another (Moon) mata. 107 * 3.14 = 336 = 3 * 112. Each 112-night long mata would then be divided into halves, i.e. into a pair of cycles 8 weeks long. 48 * 7 = 336:
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