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Once again. The C tablet is softly rounded and somewhat like the Full Moon face, whereas the G tablet has a more rectangular outline. Form and content should be in harmony and therefore the C text could well have been intended for such nakshatra readings which would turn the northern star positions around to suit the seasons on Easter Island.

 

There is a pair of 'nuts' at the beginning of line Ca4, first a dark one and then a light one:

Ca4-1 (77) Ca4-2 Ca4-3
kua tupu te rakau kua tupu - te kihikihi te hau tea
NODUS I (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), Ras Algethi (260.8)  Sarin (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

Alrisha

ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9)
December 6 (340) 7 (*261 = 9 * 29) 8
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

June 6 (157 = 314 / 2) 7 8

Metoro suggested 'ashes' (kihikihi) for the glyph corresponding to the position of Rigel and Capella.

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)

I guess this old head of light (fire) was said to come alive again at dawn, incorporated in the new generation of growth just as his preceding old dark twin head had done.

Rigel and Capella were very bright stars in contrast to the preceding μ (watery) stars:

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:

When Metoro said kua tupu te rakau for the time prior to Rigel and Capella it could have referred to a dark night sky with the stars still visible, before they would fade away because the Sun was rising. The growth in Ca4-1 was then not a real growth down on earth but something similar, a presentiment of the growth in Ca4-2 representing what would happen down on earth when the Sun really returned.

The Tree (rakau) should be searched for in the night sky and not down on earth, that is my conclusion. And the Sirius pillar (Te Pou) would be at the Full Moon in December 30 (364) when the Sun stood tall in high summer, as possibly was illustrated in Ca4-21:

Ca4-21 Ca4-22 Ca4-23 Ca4-24 (100) Ca4-25
ihe pepe rere ka rere ki tona nohoga te moko manu rere tupu te rakau
ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9) Abhijit-22 no star listed (282) ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), Double Double (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8) South Dipper-8
θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA (281.8) Φ SAGITTARII (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)
December 26 (360) 27 28 29 30 (364)
ν Gemini, β Monocerotis (97.0) no star listed (98) ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

Gemma

ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), Mebsuta (100.7) SIRIUS (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7)
June 26 (177) 27 28 29 30 (181)
Pepe

1. A sketch. 2. Bench, chair, couch, seat, sofa, saddle; here pepe, mau pepe, to saddle; noho pepe, a tabouret. Pepepepe, bedstead. 3. Pau.: butterfly. Ta.: pepe, id. Mq.: pepe, id. Sa.: pepe, id. Ma.: pepe, a moth; pepererau, fin, Mgv.: pererau, wing. Ta.: pereraru, id. Ma.: parirau, id.  Churchill.

Sa.: pepe, a butterfly, a moth, to flutter about. Nukuoro, Fu., Niuē, Uvea, Fotuna, Nuguria, Ta., Mq.: pepe, a butterfly. Ma.: pepe, a grup, a moth; pepepepe, a butterfly; pepeatua, a species of butterfly. To.: bebe, a butterfly. Vi.: mbèbè, a butterfly. Rotumā: pep, id. Churchill 2.

Mq.: Pepepepe, low, flat. Ha.: pepepe, id. Churchill.

... According to the 'Butterflies' chapter in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly is seen as the personification of a person's soul; whether they be living, dying, or already dead ... The Ancient Greek word for 'butterfly' is ψύχη (psychē), which primarily means 'soul', 'mind' ...

... The Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi once had a dream of being a butterfly flying without care about humanity, however when he woke up and realized it was just a dream, he thought to himself 'Was I before a man who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly who dreams about being a man?' In some old cultures, butterflies also symbolize rebirth into a new life after being inside a cocoon for a period of time ...

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Ga1-16 Ca4-21
160 360

But the Tree was hardly covering only a single day:

... the oak had made trouble right from the start. When (in the second rune of the Kalevala) Sämpsä Pellervoinen had sowed trees, it was the oak alone that would not grow until four or five lovely maidens from the water, and a hero from the ocean, had cleared the ground with fire and planted an acorn in the ashes; and once it had started, the growth of the tree could not be stopped: And the summit rose to heaven // And its leaves in air expanded, // In their course the clouds it hindered, // And the driving clouds impeded, // And it hid the shining sunlight, // And the gleaming of the moonlight ...

From December 6 (340) up to and including December 30 (364) there were 25 days and 2 more rakau glyphs, although Metoro preferred another expression for the first of them:

Ca4-13 Ca4-14 Ca4-15 Ca4-16 (92)
kua tuu tona mea te henua te hau tea mauga hua - te henua
ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ Ophiuchi (272.9) Winnowing Basket-7 Zhōngshān (274.0), π Pavonis (274.6) ι Pavonis (275.1), Polis (275.9)

Menkar

18h (273.4)
NASH (273.7), θ Arae (273.8)
December 18 19 20 SOLSTICE (355)
η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI, MENKALINAN, MAHASHIM, γ COLUMBAE (89.3), η Columbae (89.7) μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5) 6h (91.3) ξ Orionis (92.5)
ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)
June 18 19 20 SOLSTICE (172)
Ca4-17 Ca4-18 (94) Ca4-19 Ca4-20
te hau tea tupu te rakau - te henua te hau tea tupu te rakau
η Sagittarii (276.9) Purva Ashadha-20 Kaus Borealis (279.3)
 KAUS MEDIUS, κ Lyrae (277.5), Tung Hae (277.7) φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), Al Athfar (278.6)
December 22 23 24 25 (359)
Al Han'ah-4 / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7  Furud (94.9) Well-22 / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 no star listed (96)
 TEJAT PRIOR (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8) δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR, Mirzam (95.4), CANOPUS (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)
June 22 23 (St John's Eve) 24 (St John's Day)  25 (176)

In rongorongo times there was an Oak Tree stretching high in the northern midsummer while its roots were far down at the southern midwinter, and there were 3 stars in Auriga and 1 in Columba marking where these solstices began: