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A tail marks an end and a head marks a beginning. Heads and tails. The Dragon had his tail mark at Thuban, the ancient Pole star. Once upon a time the tail of the Dragon had risen heliacally in day 214 and at that ancient time the mouth orifice of his (upside down?) head at Arrakis (μ, the Little Shield) had been in day 260.

٭JULY 31 (212)
Ca2-1 (27)
Te heke
MUPHRID (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3)
October 17 (290)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
٭JANUARY 29 (395 = 29 + 366)
Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1
Segin, Mesarthim, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN, φ Phoenicis (27.4)
April 17 (473 = 107 + 366)
٭AUGUST 1 2 (214) 3 4 (*136) 5
Ca2-2 Ca2-3 Ca2-4 (30) Ca2-5 Ca2-6
erua tagata te henua tagata oho ki tona huaga kua oho
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)
October 18 19 20 21 22 (295)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
٭JANUARY 30 31 ٭FEBRUARY 1 2 3
ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8) ALRISHA, χ Phoenicis (29.2), Alamak (29.7) Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 η Arietis (31.9) no star listed (32)
2h (30.4)
κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (30.5)

ALKES

April 18 (108) 19 (*29) *30 + 366 = *396 *214 + 183 = *397 22
Oho

1. To go: ka-oho! go! go away! (i.e. 'goodbye' said by the person staying behind); ka-oho-mai (very often contracted to: koho-mai), welcome! (lit.: come here); ku-oho-á te tagata, the man has gone. Ohoga, travel, direction of a journey; ohoga-mai, return. 2. Also rauoho, hair. Vanaga.

1. To delegate; rava oho, to root. 2. To go, to keep on going, to walk, to depart, to retire; ka oho, begone, good-bye; oho amua, to preced; oho mai, to come, to bring; oho arurua, to sail as consorts; hakaoho, to send, a messenger. 3. Tehe oho te ikapotu, to abut, adjoin; mei nei tehe i oho mai ai inei te ikapotu, as far as, to; kai oho, to abstain, to forego; hakaoho, to put on the brakes. 4. The head (only in the composite rauoho, hair). Churchill.

٭AUGUST 6 7 8 (220)
Ca2-7 Ca2-8 Ca2-9 (35)
manu rere e tara tua tagata oho
ι Lupi, 18 Bootis (216.3), Khambalia (216.4), υ Virginis (216.5), ψ Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8) ASELLUS PRIMUS (217.8) τ Lupi, δ Oct. (218.1), φ Virginis (218.7)

FOMALHAUT

October 23 24 (297) 25
NAKSHATRA DATES:
٭FEBRUARY 4 5 6
θ Arietis (33.3), MIRA (33.7) no star listed (34) ξ Arietis (35.0), ρ Ceti (35.4), ξ² Ceti (35.9)
April 23 24 (114) 25

But at the time of Hyadum II the day numbers had been 14 more, with Arrakis in OCTOBER 1 (274) and Thuban in day 214 + 14 = 228 (AUGUST 16). 274 - 228 = 46 = 260 - 214.

oMARCH 16 17 18 19 (78) 20 EQUINOX
٭MARCH 18 19 (78) 20 EQUINOX 22 23
EQUINOX (80) ●MARCH 22 23 24 25 26
APRIL 1 (91) 2 3 4 5 6
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

Shur-narkabti-sha-iltanu-5
ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7) σ Aurigae (80.4), Bellatrix, Saif al Jabbar (80.7), ELNATH (80.9)
June 4 5 6 (157 = 314 / 2) 7 8 9 (2 * 80)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
oSEPTEMBER 15 16 17 18 (261 = 9 * 29) 19 20
٭SEPTEMBER 17 (260) 18 19 20 21 EQUINOX
●SEPTEMBER 20 21 EQUINOX 23 (266) 24 25 (*188)
OCTOBER 1 2 3 4 (277) 5 6 (*199)
17h (258.7) Mula-19 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) β, γ Arae (263.3), κ Arae (263.5), σ Ophiuchi (263.6)
ARRAKIS (258.7) Sabik (259.7), η SCORPII (259.9)
December 4 5 6 7 (*261) 8 9

In the open mouth of the Dragon's head was, I suggest, a sign (the Salver) which could have indicated the end of summer, 183 days after Haedus II in APRIL 1.

When King Hotu Matua came to Easter Island his Queen Ava Rei Pua was onboard. The name Hotu could refer to the Full Moon and perhaps his Queen therefore represented the complementary side of the month, viz. New Moon - where a new month was created.

... When the new moon appeared women assembled and bewailed those who had died since the last one, uttering the following lament: 'Alas! O moon! Thou has returned to life, but our departed beloved ones have not. Thou has bathed in the waiora a Tane, and had thy life renewed, but there is no fount to restore life to our departed ones. Alas ...

Hotu

Ta.: hotu, to produce fruit, Sa.: fotu, id. Mgv.: akahotu, the September season. Churchill.

H.: Hoku,  Night of the full moon. When this moon set before daylight it was called Hoku Palemo, Hoku that slips away. When it set after daylight it was called Hoku Ili, grounded Hoku. Ka mahina o Hoku, the full moon of the night Hoku. Cf. hōkū, star. Hō kū, star. (PPN fetu'u). Wehewehe.

But according to Manuscript E the King had another queen (or the same with another name) - viz. Vakai. I cannot avoid associating this name with vaha kai:

vaha kai

Vaha-kai may have been shortened into Va-kai.

Kai

1. Ina kai; verbal negation (but not used with the imperative); ina kai kai matou, we have not eaten. 2. To eat; meal. 3. Fruits or produces of the land, vegetables, edible plants. 4. Figuratively: he-kai ite rogorogo, to recite the inscriptions kohau rogorogo (as spiritual food). 5. Eclipse: ku-kai-á te raá, te mahina, the sun, the moon has been eaten (eclipsed). Vanaga.

1. Negative; kai rogo, to fast; kai oho, to forego; kai maa, to be ignorant, to doubt; vave kai kohe, inaccessible; ina kai, see ina 1. Ta.: ai, no. 2. To undergo, to suffer. 3. Sharp, cutting. T Mgv.: koi, koikoi, pointed, sharp, adapted for cutting; kokoi, prickly, stinging, irritating. Mq.: koi, sharp, cutting. Ta.: oi, sharp, keen. Since this is the only language which has kai in this sense the possibility of typographical error should not be overlooked. The form koi outside of Southeast Polynesia is found in Maori, Rarotonga and Hawaii. 4. To eat, to feed, to feast; food, meat, a meal, repast; kai nui, provision, intemperate, voracious; kai no iti, sober, temperate; hue ki te kai, to victual; kai taria te kai, abundance, to abound; hakapee no kai hoao, abundance, to abound. Kaia, eaten. P Pau.: kai, food, to eat. Mgv.: kai, food, nourishment, to eat. Mq.: kai, ai, food, to eat. Ta.: ai, to eat. 5. Hakakai, to take, to attack. Mgv.: kai, to receive. Mq.: ai, to catch some one, to seek to surprise. Ta.: ai, to receive, to get possession of, to become master of. Churchill.

Kaihue, a heap of food. Kaikino, selfish, avaricious, faithless, ingrate, miserly, rascal. Mq.: kaikino, selfish, stingy, avaricious. Kaipurua, issue, outlet, egress. Kaitagata, cannibal; paoa kaitagata, cannibal, savage.  Kaiu, nursling, suckling. Pau.: kaiu, a child at the breast. Mq.: kaiu, child at the breast, unweaned, suckling, young of animals. Ta.: aiu, nursling. Churchill.

Pau.: Fakakai, earring. Ta.: faaai, ear ornament. Mq.: hakakai, id. Ma.: whakakai, id. Kaikaia, a league, a plot. Mgv.: kaia, cruel, cannibal. Ta.: aiaa, fault, sin. Mq.: kaia, quarrelsome. Ma.: kaia, to steal. Kaito, brave, robust. Ta.: aito, brave. Ma.: kaitoa, a brave man. Kaitoa, well and good! Ta.: aitoa, good! Ma.: kaitoa, id. Kaitura, bravery, manhood. Ta.: turatura, honored, exalted. Churchill.

Mgv.: Kaiota, raw food. Ta.: aiota, raw, ill cooked. Ma.: kaiota, id. Churchill.

Ta.: Ai, a bet, a wager, a game. Mq.: kai, to throw lots, to lose a game. Sa.: 'ai, a count toward the score of a game. Ma.: kai, a puzzling toy. Aihamu, to eat leavings. Mq.: kaihamu, id. Churchill.

Mq.: Kaiheehee, to go from place to place to enjoy feasts. Sa.: 'aisee, to beg food at feasts. Kaihue, thief. Ha.: aihue, to steal. Kaika, a meal, feast. Sa.: 'aiga, meal. Ha.: aina, id. Kaioto, a sort of hemorrhage, piles. Sa.: 'ailoto, a cancerous ulcer. Kaitu, to perfume oneself during a tabu period when it was forbidden. Ha.: aiku, to break a tabu. Churchill.

AI, v. Haw., to eat; s. food, vegetable food, in distinction from ia, meat; ai-na, for ai-ana, eating, means of eating, fruits of the land; hence land, field, country. New Zeal., kai, to eat; kainga, food, meal, home, residence, country. Tong., kai, to eat. Sam., 'ai, to eat; ainga, family, kindred. Marqu., kaika, kainga, food, meal. Tagal., cain, to eat.

Zend., gaya, life; gaetha, the world; gava, land, country. Vedic, gaya, house, family (A. Pictet). Sanskr., ghâsa, food; ghas, devour. Greek, αία, γαια, γη, different forms occurring in Homer, land, country, cultivated land; γειος, indigenous; γειτων, a neighbour; ήια, provisions for a journey. Goth., gawi, gauja, country, region. Germ., gau. Lat., ganea, eating-house; ganeo, glutton. Lith., goyas; Ant. Slav. and Russ., gai, 'past-rage', nemus. Polish, gay, id.

Mr. A. Pictet, in his 'Les Origines Indo-Europ.', vol. II. p. 15, says that the Vedic and Zend gay 'n'ont surement aucun rapport avec le grec γαια.' This assertion evokes a doubt, inasmuch as, as late a in Homer's time, two other dialectical variations of this word existed in the Greek, viz. αία and δα or δη, in δη-μητηρ, contracted from some ancient form in δαια, as γη and γα, from γαια. As neither of these can be supposed to be derived from, or to be a phonetic corruption of, the other, it seems to me that they must have come down abreast from primeval times, thus indicating that the original root was differently pronounced by various sections of the still united Aryan stock; and I believe that this root, in its archaic forms, still survives in the Polynesian ai and kai, to eat.

The Sanskrit go, land, the earth, from which Benfey derives a hypthetical gavyd and a Greek γαfια - by elimination γαια - is probably itself a contraction from the Vedic and Zend gaya, as the Greek γη and γα, as the ancient Saxon and , pagus, regio, and the ancient Slav. gai, nemus, are contractions from derivations of that ancient root still found in Polynesia. The above derivatives in sound and sense certainly refer themselves better to some ancient ai of kai, food, the fruits of the forest or the roots of the field, than to the Sanskrit go, bull, cow, cattle; for the Aryan family undoubtedly had one or more names for eating and for food before its various divisions applied themselves to the herding of cattle. The Sanskrit ghas, ghâsa, the Latin ganea, ganeo, point strongly to the underlying original sense of eating and food.

According to Professor A. H. Sayce, in 'Introduction to the Science of Language', vol ii. p. 19, it is probable that the Latin edere, to eat, is a compound word = e-dere, like ab-dere, con-dere, cre-dere, and others, thus leaving e as the root. How far that e may have been a dialectical variant or a phonetic decay of an older form more nearly allied to the Polynesian ai, kai, I leave to abler philologists to determine. (Fornander)

The Ecliptic Pole lies close to where a line from ζ to δ would cross a line from χ to ξ. This point seems to have been marked under NGC 6543 (the Cat's Eye) in the chart below:

 

Thuban

14h 04m 23.43s

14h 04.391m

213.8

NGC 6543 17h 58m 33.42s 17h 58.557m 273.2