Early I noticed the 'lost limb' in the hua poporo glyphs, where 1 of 4 'berries' sometimes was missing:
Basically rakau and hua poporo are similar and I therefore had them both in the same compartment in my glyph type catalogue.
There are several rakau glyphs in the C text but only one true hua poporo:
The 'tree' at right in Ca1-20 seems to visualize a contrast to the preceding hua poporo. Here, I think, there ought to have been 8 'fish bones', but 1 of them is missing. It was 'made to stick in the throat' (haka-raoa) according to Metoro.
| Raoa Pau.: To choke on a fishbone. Mgv.: roa, a bone stuck in the throat. Ta.: raoa, to choke on a bone. Sa.: laoa, to have something lodged in the throat. Ma.: raoa, to be choked. Churchill. |
Another interpretation, more reasonable, is though to understand it as a word play involving haka-ra-oa, 'make (the fight of) the (Old) Sun stop':
| Oa 1. Oa atikea, ignorant, not to know. 2. Mq.: oa, to end (of war). Sa.: ola, id. Churchill. |
After 365 days (counted from April 10 in the previous year) only ashes (te kihikihi) remained of the Old Fire.
| Kihi Kihikihi, lichen; also: grey, greenish grey, ashen. Vanaga.
Kihikihi, lichen T, stone T. Churchill.
The Hawaiian day was divided in three general parts, like that of the early Greeks and Latins, - morning, noon, and afternoon - Kakahi-aka, breaking the shadows, scil. of night; Awakea, for Ao-akea, the plain full day; and Auina-la, the decline of the day. The lapse of the night, however, was noted by five stations, if I may say so, and four intervals of time, viz.: (1.) Kihi, at 6 P.M., or about sunset; (2.) Pili, between sunset and midnight; (3) Kau, indicating midnight; (4.) Pilipuka, between midnight and surise, or about 3 A.M.; (5.) Kihipuka, corresponding to sunrise, or about 6 A.M. ... (Fornander) |
There were 80 days from April 11 to heliacal Sirius:
| April 11 (101) |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
75 |
| October 11 |
12 (285) |
13 |
14 |
15 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Ca1-21 |
Ca1-22 |
Ca1-23 |
Ca1-24 |
Ca1-25 |
| tagata huki |
manu rere |
- |
- |
kiore ki te huaga |
| δ Phoenicis (21.5) |
no star listed (22) |
Achernar (23.3) |
no star listed (24) |
no star listed (25) |
| no star listed (204) |
Heze (205.0) |
ε Centauri (206.3) |
no star listed (207) |
τ Bootis (208.2), Benetnash (208.5), ν Centauri (208.7), μ Centauri, υ Bootis (208.8) |
| 80 |
| June 30 (181) |
July 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
| December 30 |
31 |
January 1 (366) |
2 |
3 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Ca4-25 |
Ca4-26 |
Ca4-27 |
Ca4-28 |
Ca4-29 |
| tupu te rakau |
erua tamaiti |
kua vaha te mago erua |
| SIRIUS (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7) |
τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4) |
ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), Alhena (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9) |
Adara (104.8) |
ω Gemini (105.4), Alzirr (105.7), Muliphein (105.8) |
| Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8) |
Sheliak, ν Lyrae (285.1), λ Pavonis (285.7) |
Ain al Rami (286.2), δ Lyrae (286.3), κ Pavonis (286.5), Alya (286.6) |
ξ Sagittarii (287.1), ω Pavonis (287.3), ε Aquilae, ε Cor. Austr., Sulaphat (287.4), λ Lyrae (287.7), Ascella, Bered (Ant.) (287.9) |
Nunki (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), Manubrium (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9) |
Possibly the Church decided March 21 (80) should be the day of spring equinox (although more often the equinox occorred in March 20) because there were 80 days from April 11 to heliacal Sirius. The Church could have adopted an old and well known pattern when making the year begin with January 1 instead of with April 11.
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