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Maui lifted up 'Land' with his enchanted fish-hook and the Eagle lifted up in his claws the Dead Man (possibly corresponding to Castor - the Beaver - as the personification of the time of the 'Water').

... This act of Maui's, that gave our people the land on which we live, was an event next in greatness to the separation of the Sky and Earth ...

His feat was comparable to the separation of Sky (Ranginui) and Earth (Papatuanuku) because this place once upon a time had indeed been the place where Sky and Earth were separated:

... They were Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, both sealed together in a close embrace. Crushed between the weight of their bodies were their many children, whose oppression deepened. They yearned to be free; they fought their parents and each other to break loose. Tuumatauenga, virile god of war, thrust and shouted; Tangaroa of the oceans whirled and surged; Tawhirirangimaatea howled with many raging winds; Haumiatiketike and Rongomatane, of wild foods and cultivated crops tried their best but were not successful; and Ruamoko, god of earthquakes, yet to be born, struggled in the confinement of his mother's womb. Of them all, Taane Mahuta, the god of the forests, was the most determined; he set his sturdy feet upon his father's chest, and braced his upper back and shoulders against the bosom of his mother. He pushed; and they parted. So the world; as the Maori understand it; came into being ...

Around 71 * 64 = 4500 years ago the heliacal stars at Ga2-11 had been with the Sun only 41 days after 0h. Precession had since then carried the Sun yet earlier in the year with about 64 days. 41 + 64 = 105 (15 weeks). MAY 1 (121) at Ga2-11 had become July 4 (185) at the time of rongorongo:

Ga2-9 Ga2-10 (40) Ga2-11 Ga2-12
APRIL 29 (*39) 30 MAY 1 (121) 2 (*407)
Mash-mashu-sha-Risū-10 Adara (104.8) ω Gemini (105.4), Alzirr (105.7), Muliphein (105.8), Mekbuda (105.9) 7h (106.5)
θ Gemini (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), Alhena (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9) no star listed (106)
July 2 3 4 (181 + 4) 5
ºJune 28 29 (*100) 30 ºJuly 1 (182)
'June 5 6 7 (*78) 8
"May 22 23 24 (144) 25 (*65)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
OCTOBER 29 (*222) 30 31 NOVEMBER 1 (305)
χ Oct. (286.0), 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)  Al Na'ām-18 / Uttara Ashadha-21 19h (289.2)
NUNKI (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), Manubrium (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9) λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8)
January 1 (366) 2 3 4
ºDecember 28 29 30 (364) 31 (*285)
'December 5 6 7 8 (342)
"November 21 (325) 22 23 24 (*248)

... The tun glyph was identified as a wooden drum by Brinton ... and Marshal H. Saville immediately accepted it ... [the figure below] shows the Aztec drum representation relied on by Brinton to demonstrate his point. It was not then known that an ancestral Mayan word for drum was *tun: Yucatec tunkul 'divine drum' (?); Quiche tun 'hollow log drum'; Chorti tun 'hollow log drum' ...

... The [tun] glyph is nearly the same as that for the month Pax ... except that the top part of the latter is split or divided by two curving lines. Brinton, without referring to the Pax glyph, identified the tun glyph as the drum called in Yucatec pax che (pax 'musical instrument'; che < *te 'wooden). Yucatec pax means 'broken, disappeared', and Quiche paxih means, among other things, 'split, divide, break, separate'. It would seem that the dividing lines on the Pax glyph may have been used as a semantic/phonetic determinative indicating that the drum should be read pax, not tun ... Thus, one may expect that this glyph was used elsewhere meaning 'to break' and possibly for 'medicine' (Yuc. pax, Tzel., Tzo. pox) ...

2 4 10
tun 16 Pax 19 Vayeb 5 Tzek
60 5 300

365 - 65 = 300. The 16th Mayan 20-day long month Pax was probably in autumn. A break in time was both in Tzek and in Pax. And the sound of drums (rutua te pahu, cfr Cb1-6) may have been heard twice in the year, both in Pax and in Vayeb. But not at 0h.

Mago in Ga2-14 has an inside line up but no such down - this was presumably the curving end of the first half of Sun's path, with Wasat ('middle' in the following Gregorian day 185). In Roman times mago in Ga2-14 was at 'June 10, when the month celebrating Father Light (Jupiter) began:

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

Ga2-13 Ga2-14 Ga2-15 Ga2-16 (46) Ga2-17
MAY 3 (*408) 4 5 (125) 6 (*46) 7
Wezen (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9) no star listed (108) λ Gemini (109.4), Wasat (109.8) no star listed (110) Aludra (111.1), Propus (111.4),  Gomeisa (111.6)
July 6 (*107) 7 (188) 8 9 10
ºJuly 2 3 4 (185) 5 6 (*107)
'June 9 (*80) 10 (161) 11 12 13
"May 26 27 28 (*68) 29 30 (150)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOVEMBER 2 3 4 (*228) 5 6 (310)
Al Baldah-19 Aladfar (291.1), Nodus II (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), θ Lyrae (291.8) ω Aquilae (292.1), ρ Sagittarii (292.6), υ Sagittarii (292.7) Arkab Prior (293.0), Arkab Posterior, Alrami (293.2), χ Sagittarii (293.6) Deneb Okab (294.0), α Vulpeculae (294.9)
AL BALDAH, Alphekka Meridiana (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)
January 5 6 7 (372) 8 9
ºJanuary 1 2 3 (*288) 4 5 (370)
'December 9 10 (344) 11 (*265) 12 LUCIA
"November 25 (329) 26 (*250) 27 28 29
 
Ga2-18 Ga2-19 Ga2-20 (50) Ga2-21 Ga2-22 Ga2-23
MAY 8 (*413) 9 10 (130) 11 12 13 (*53)
Ghost-23 Al Dhirā'-5 / Punarvasu-7 / Mash-mashu-Mahrū-11 ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7) Mash-mashu-arkū-12 Azmidiske (117.4)
ρ GEMINI (112.1), Eskimo Nebula (112.2)

Antares

CASTOR (113.4) υ Gemini (114.0), Markab Puppis (114.7), ο Gemini (114.8), PROCYON (114.9) κ Gemini (116.1), POLLUX (116.2), π Gemini (116.9)
July 11 12 (193) 13 14 15 (196) 16
ºJuly 7 (*108) 8 9 10 11 (384 / 2) 12
'June 14 15 16 17 (*88) 18 19
"May 31 (151) "June 1 2 (*73) 3 4 5
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOV 7 (*231) 8 9   10 (314) 11 12
ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), Albireo (295.5) μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8), κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9) ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.) (297.4), Sham (297.8) β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae (298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8) υ Aquilae (299.1), Tarazed (299.3), δ Sagittae (299.6), π Aquilae (299.9) Sravana-23
ζ Sagittae (300.1), ALTAIR (300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5), Bezek (300.8)
January 10 11 12 (377) 13 14 15
ºJanuary 6 7 (372) 8 9 10 (*295) 11
'December 14 15 16 (350) 17 18 19
"November 30 "December 1 2 (336) 3 4 5 (*259)
Ga2-24 (54) Ga2-25 Ga2-26
MAY 14 15 (500) 16 (136)
φ Gemini (118.4) Drus (119.9) ω Cancri (120.2)
July 17 (*118 = 472 / 4) 18 19 (200)
ºJuly 13 14 (195) 15 (*116)
'June 20 (171 - 80 + 366 = *457) Solstice 22 (*93)
"June 6 (*77) 7 (*444) 8 (525)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOVEMBER 13 (*237) 14 15 (319)
ι Sagittarii (301.2), Terebellum, ξ Aquilae (301.3), Alshain (301.6), φ Aquilae (301.8) ε Pavonis, θ Sagittarii (302.3), γ Sagittae (302.5), μ Pavonis (302.7) τ Aquilae (303.8)
January 16 (*301) 17 1-18 (383)
ºJanuary 12 13 (378) 14 (*299)
'December 20 (354) Solstice 22
"December 6 (*260) 7 8 (342)

The 'claw of the Eagle' in Ga2-26 resembles that in Cb4-20, which is a rare opportunity for comparison between the rongorongo texts and reasonably it should therefore be at the time of a very important event:

... Ga2-26 can be compared with Cb4-20:

Cb4-17 (480) Cb4-18 Cb4-19 Cb4-20 (91)
erua marama tagata noho i to mea kua vaha
ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7) POLLUX (116.2) Azmidiske (117.4)
Markab Puppis (114.7), PROCYON (114.9)
July 13 (*480) 14 15 (196) 16
ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.) (297.4), Sham (297.8) β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae (298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8) υ Aquilae (299.1), Tarazed (299.3), δ Sagittae (299.6), π Aquilae (299.9) Sravana-23
ζ Sagittae (300.1), ALTAIR (300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5), Bezek (300.8)
January 12 (377) 13 14 15 (*300)

Cb4-20 is glyph 91 (= 7 * 13) counted from the beginning of side b, i.e. counted from October 17 (290) - or from 'September 20 (263). Ga2-26 is glyph 56 (= 7 * 8) counted from the beginning of side a, i.e. counted from November 23 (327) - or from 'October 27 (300). There is a 3 day difference between the positions of this type of glyph in the texts ...

Possibly this great event was defined from day *300 at nakshatra Altair in the C text but in the G text from heliacal ω Cancri in MAY 16 (136) - as an allusion to Temennu (the Foundation Stone, Alcyone) rising with the Sun in May 16 (64 days earlier):

(229 or 2 * 229) Gb8-18 Gb8-19 Gb8-20 (461) Gb8-21 Gb8-22 Gb8-23 (235)
MARCH 7 8 9 10 (*354) 11 (70) 12 13
ALGENIB PERSEI (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

Gienah

no star listed (51) no star listed (52) no star listed (53)

Acrux

no star listed (54) Al Thurayya-27 / Krittikā-3 / Hairy Head-18 / Temennu-4
Atiks, Rana (55.1), CELAENO, ELECTRA, TAYGETA (55.3), MAIA, ASTEROPE, MEROPE (55.6) ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE, ATLAS (56.3)
TAU-ONO
May 10 (*50) 11 12 13 14 (134) 15 (500) 16
'April 13 14 15 16 (471) 17 (107) 18 19 (*29)
"March 30 31 "April 1 2 (457) 3 (93) 4 5 (*15)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
SEPTEMBER 6 7 8 9 (*172) 10 11 12 (255)
Alkalurops (233.1) Nusakan (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7) θ Cor. Borealis (235.3), γ Lupi (235.6), Gemma, Zuben Elakrab, Qin, ε Tr. Austr. (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8)

Sirrah

φ Bootis (236.2), ω Lupi (236.3), ψ¹ Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor. Borealis (236.9) ι Serpentis (237.4), ρ Oct., ψ² Lupi (237.5), γ Cor. Borealis (237.7), Unuk Elhaia (237.9) π Cor. Borealis, Cor Serpentis (238.1), 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)
November 9 10 (314) 11 12 (*236) 13 14 15
'October 13 14 15 (288) 16 17 (*210) 18 19
"September 29 30 (*193) "October 1 2 3 (12 * 23) 4 5

At the time of the Hyades Gate the Queen of Sailing would have risen with the Sun in MARCH 13, the day before 3-14. And ships are always female.