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Compared to the Babylonian view Hevelius has drawn out the tail of the Hydra past Raven and put the tip of its tail (π) precisely beyond Thuban:

 

At the time of rongorongo π Hydrae was 213 days after 0h, whereas it would have been only 213 - 75 = 138 days after 0h at the time of Haedus II:

EQUINOX ●MARCH 22 23 24 25 26 (85) 129
APRIL 1 (*11) 2 (92) 3 4 5 6 (96)
Ga1-11 Ga1-12 Ga1-13 Ga1-14 Ga1-15 Ga1-16
HAEDUS II (75.9) 5h (76.1) μ AURIGAE, μ LEPORIS (77.6)  ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (78.1), Flaming Star (78.2), Capella (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

Thuban

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

Arcturus

σ Aurigae (80.4), Bellatrix, Saif al Jabbar (80.7), ELNATH (80.9)
ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)
June 4 5 6 (157 = 314 / 2) 7 8 9 (2 * 80)
'May 8 (128) 9 10 (*50) 11 12 (2 * 66) 13
"April 24 (*34) 25 26 (116 = 4 * 29) 27 28 (2 * 59) 29
●AUGUST 3 4 (216) 5 6 (*138) 7 8 (*140)
AUGUST 14 15 16 17 (229) 18 (*150) 19
Ga6-6 Ga6-7 Ga6-8 (148) Ga6-9 Ga6-10 Ga6-11
MUPHRID (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3) φ Centauri (211.0), υ¹ Centauri (211.1), υ² Centauri (211.8), τ Virginis (211.9) Agena (212.1), θ Apodis (212.5), THUBAN (212.8) 14h (213.1) Neck-2 Al Ghafr-13 / Svāti-15

TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE

π HYDRAE, χ Centauri (213.0), Menkent (213.1) Asellus Tertius, κ VIRGINIS, 14 Bootis (214.8) 15 Bootis (215.2), ARCTURUS (215.4), Asellus Secundus (215.5), SYRMA, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8)
October17 18 19 20 21 (*214) 22 (295)
'September 20 21 EQUINOX 23 (*186) 24 25 (268)
"September 6 7 (250) 8 9 (*172) 10 11 (254)

Or better: Only 213 - 77 = 136 days after the μ twins. There could be the outline of a canoe at left in Ga6-9.

Egyptian water ripples Phoenician mēm Greek mu Μ (μ)

In the empty little gap between the last star of Eridanus (λ, Cursa) and the first star in Orion (Rigel, β) there was a 'temporary death (kava) in water', expressed by μ Leporis and μ Aurigae:

Kava

1. Sour; salty: vai kava, saltwater, sea; te kava o te haíga, acrid underarm smell; tagata kava - tagata kakara i te kava, man with smelly armpits. 2. He-kava te haha, to be thirsty. 3. To turn sour, to become embittered, bad-tempered, exasperated (used with manava): tagata manava kava, bad-tempered, angry man. Vanaga.

Bitter, salt; vai kava, brackish water; hakakava, to embalm; kavakava, acid, sharp, bitter, salt, spiritous, vinegar, poisonous, disagreeable; akavakava, to make sharp; hakakavakava, to make acid. P Pau.: kava, disagreeable to the taste; kavakava, acid, sharp. Mgv.: kava, to be bitter, sour, acid, salt. Mq.: kava, bitter. Ta.: ava, bitter, acid, salt. Kavahia: 1. Comfort, comfortable, to feast; hakakavahia, comfort, comfortable. 2. Repulsive (of food), disgusted; hakakavahia, repulsion. Kavakava, rib; moi kavakava, a house god G. P Mgv.: vakavaka, the breast. Mq.: vakavaka, vaávaá, rib. Ma.: wakawaka, parallel ridges. We shall need all the available material in order to determine the germ sense of this word. Sa.: va'ava'a, the breast-bone of a bird; fa'ava'a, the frame as of a slate. To.: vakavaka, the side. Fu.: vakavaka, the side below the armpit. Ha.: hoowaa, to make furrows. In all these we may see the idea of ridge or depression, or of both, as primal (Rapanui, Samoa, Marquesas, Maori, Hawaii), and as secondary the part of the body where such appearances is common (Mangareva, Tonga, Futuna). Churchill.

Mgv.: kava, the pepper plant and the drink made therefrom. Ta.: ava, id. Mq.: kava, id. Sa.: 'ava, id. Ma.: kawa, a pepper. Kavakava, a fish. Sa.: 'ava'ava, id. Kavapui, a tree. Ta.: avapuhi, a fragrant plant. Mq.: kavapui, wild ginger. Sa.: 'avapui, id. Ha.: awapuhi, id. Churchill.

Mq.: ava, a small fish of sweet water. Sa.. 'ava'ava, a small fish. Ha.: awa, a fish. Kakava, burnt. Sa.: 'a'ava, very hot. Churchill.

Vaka

Canoe, small boat; vaka ama, outrigger canoe. Vaka-ivi, graves under ahu which hold skeletons (lit. 'bone canoe'). Vaka-ure, to lay foundation stones in the outline of a canoe (e.g. for hare paenga); nowadays used in the more general sense, without reference to a special shape of outline. Vanaga.

Canoe, boat, bateau, shallop, barge. Vakapoepoe (vaka - poepoe) boat. P Pau.: vaka, canoe. Mgv.: vaka, canoe, raft. Mq.: vaka, canoe. Ta.: vaa, canoe, boat. Vakavaka, narrow. Mq.: vakavaka, vaávaá, small, fine, thin. Churchill.

... Ancient people were fascinated with the periodic backward loops turned by Mars every two years ...

My intuition insists on some relationship between the sunken Argo Navis and the sinking Hydra. Furthermore, the periodic backward journey of Mars resembles the behaviour of Eridanus, where this River of Life in Death is changing direction as if to give the Sea Beast a foothold: