Arcturus was also - and maybe more relevant for us - the 6th item in the Tahitian star pillar list:
The strange Tahitian words can hardly be literally translated as 'a pillar to stand by'. Ana-tahua-taata-metua-te-tupu-mavae should reasonably be compared with the following item Ana-tahua-vahine-o-toa-te-manava (an equally obscure expression). Ana-tahua is the common denominator and given the position of Arcturus in line Cb1 a possible meaning could be 'pillar of ignition':
Taata-metua-te-tupu-mavae in contrast to vahine-o-toa-te-manava seems to distinguish a male (tagata) Arcturus from a female (vahine) Procyon (α Canis Minoris). Tagata metua means a male parent. Neither the Arabic manzil structure nor the Chinese system acknowledges Arcturus as a ruling star. But in the Hindu system it is connected with the 15th station Svāti:
The opposite of a shoot of a plant should be an old tree, a 'parent' (metua). However, this is hardly what is depicted in Cb1-5:
It looks more like a youngster. Maybe it means that when Arcturus (Taata-metua-te-tupu-mavae) was seen close to the Full Moon, then Sun should be like 'the shoot of a plant'. There is a possibility that the outline of the 'youngster' in Cb1-5 could depict 'air' pushing in between Sky and Earth. In rongorongo times Procyon (vahine-o-toa-te-manava) rose heliacally in July 14, a pair of days before a type of glyph which could express the opposite, viz. how 'rain' (ua) once again would connect Sky and Earth:
From the heliacal rising of Arcturus to the heliacal rising of Procyon there were 365¼ + 114.9 - 215.4 = 264¾ days. From the nakshatra position of Arcturus in the night of April 21 (111) to the heliacal rising of Procyon in July 14 (195) there were 12 weeks. The rest of the year covered 364 - 84 = 280 days.
Above I have denoted Chaucer's star number 3 Alrami (Arcturus) with Ch3 and his star number 6 Algomisa (Procyon) with Ch6. Similarly T6 refers to number 6 on the Tahitian list and T7 to its number 7. I guess the Hindu nakshatra station Sravana primarily refers to Altair because of its brightness (0.76):
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