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The first of the 19 sons of Tu (Ku) was Rogo:

... the progeny of Tu increased: Rongo, Tane, Tangaroa, Rongomai, Kahukura, Tiki, Uru, Ngangana, Io, Iorangi, Waiorangi, Tahu, Moko, Maroro, Wakehau, Tiki, Toi, Rauru, Whatonga - these were the sons ...

Although Metoro only rarely mentioned Rogo in his readings for Bishop Jaussen I once anyhow decided to name one of my glyph types Rogo:

Rogo

At Ca3-25 - perhaps alluding to March 25, the date chosen by Julius Caesar for the northern spring equinox - Metoro said tagata rogo and the position in timespace was presumably related to the southern spring equinox. Because at the time of Rigel (٭) - my notation is here a star with 6 'points' (tara), not the usual 5-stars asterisk for nighttime births (*) - the nakshatra star was here Cursa (like the point of a great fish-hook).

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

Egyptian water ripples Phoenician mēm Greek mu Μ (μ)

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

٭AUGUST 1 2 (214) 3 4 (*136) 5 35
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
٭SEPTEMBER 10 11 12 (*175) 13 (256)
Ca3-17 (68) Ca3-18 Ca3-19 Ca3-20
tapamea - tagata rima iri te henua te hokohuki te kava te kiore i te henua
HAN (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5) ATRIA (253.9) Tail-6
Wei, η Arae (254.3), DENEBAKRAB (254.7)
November 27 28 29 (333) 30
NAKSHATRA DATES:
٭MARCH 11 12 13 (72) π
Rohini-4 / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4

ANA-MURI

no star listed (69) no star listed (70) Tabit (71.7), π² Orionis (71.9)
ALDEBARAN (68.2), Theemin (68.5)
May 28 29 30 31 (151)
'May 1  (*41) 2 3 (123) 4
٭SEPTEMBER 14 15 16   17 (*180) 18 (261)
Ca3-21 Ca3-22 (73) Ca3-23 Ca3-24 Ca3-25
tagata tuu rima ki ruga te maitaki te henua Rei hata ia tagata rogo
ι Ophiuchi (255.3), Grafias (255.4) κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), Cujam (256.9) no star listed (257) 17h (258.7) Mula-19
ARRAKIS (258.7) Sabik (259.7), η SCORPII (259.9)
December 1 2 (336) 3 4 5
NAKSHATRA DATES: NAKSHATRA DATES:
٭MARCH 15 16 17 18 19 (78)
π4 Orionis (72.1), ο¹ Orionis (72.4), π5 Orionis (72.8) π¹ Orionis (73.0),ο² Orionis (73.4), HASSALEH (73.6), π6 Orionis (73.9) Almaaz (74.7), HAEDUS I (74.8) HAEDUS II (75.9) 5h (76.1)
ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)
June 1 2 3 4 5 (156)
٭SEPTEMBER 19 20 (*183) 21 (264)
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 8
NAKSHATRA DATES:
٭MARCH 20 21 (0h) 22
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) 7 8

At the time of rongorongo Cursa rose with the Sun in June 5, i.e. at 5h and in day 156 counted from January 1.

At the time of Rigel heliacal Cursa would have been 78 days earlier, in ٭MARCH 19 (78). 156 = 2 * 78, and 78 was probably alluding to the synodic cycle of Mars (780 days).

Cursa at the end of Eridanus could, however, hardly have marked the birth of a new spring Sun. And Rogo had probably position 2 in the row of 5 children of Nut. He could have represented the horizon (Horus) in the east, because Horus was the 2nd son of Nut.

... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ...

Rei hata ia of Metoro would then of course have referred to the previous day, when Osiris (representing death) would have been born:

 
 

... The basic myth of dynastic Egypt was that of the death and resurrection of Osiris, the good king, 'fair of face', who was born to the earth-god Geb and sky-goddess Nut. He was born together with his sister-wife, the goddess Isis, during the sacred interval of those five supplementary days that fell between one Egyptian calendric year of 360 days and the next. He and his sister were the first to plant wheat and barley, to gather fruit from trees, and to cultivate the vine, and before their time the races of the world had been savage cannibals. But Osiris's evil brother, Set, whose sister-wife was the goddess Nephtys, was mortally jealous both of his virtue and of his fame, and so, stealthily taking the measure of his good brother's body, he caused a beautifully decorated sarcophagus to be fashioned and on a certain occasion in the palace, when all were drinking and making merry, had it brought into the room and jestingly promised to give it to the one whom it should fit exactly. All tried, but, like the glass slipper of Cinderella, it fitted but one; and when Osiris, the last, laid himself within it, immediately a company of seventy-two conspirators with whom Set had contrived his plot dashed forward, nailed the lid upon the sarcophagus, soldered it with molten lead, and flung it into the Nile, down which it floated to the sea ...

Hata

1. Table, bureau. P Pau.: afata, a chest, box. Mgv.: avata, a box, case, trunk, coffin. Mq.: fata, hata, a piece of wood with several branches serving as a rack, space, to ramify, to branch; fataá, hataá, stage, step, shelf. Ta.: fata, scaffold, altar. 2. Hakahata, to disjoint; hakahatahata, to loosen, to stretch. P Pau.: vata, an interval, interstice. Mgv.: kohata, the space between two boards, to be badly joined; akakohata, to leave a space between two bodies badly joined; hakahata, to be large, broad, wide, spacious, far off. Mq.: hatahata, fatafata, having chinks, not tightly closed, disjointed. Ta.: fatafata, open. 3. Hatahata, calm, loose, prolix, vast. Mgv.: hatahara, broad, wide, spacious, at one's ease. Ta.: fatafata, free from care. Mq.: hatahata, empty, open. 4. Hatahata, tube, pipe, funnel. Churchill.

Sa.: fata, a raised house in which to store yams, a shelf, a handbarrow, a bier, a litter, an altar, to carry on a litter; fatāmanu, a scaffold. To.: fata, a loft, a bier, a handbarrow, to carry on a bier; fataki, a platform. Fu.: fata, a barrow, a loft; fatataki, two sticks or canes attached to each other at each side of a house post to serve as a shelf. Niuē: fata, a cage, a handbarrow, a shelf, a stage, (sometimes) the upper story of a house. Uvea: fata, a barrow, a bier. Fotuna: fata, a stage. Ta.: fata, an altar, a scaffold, a piece of wood put up to hang baskets of food on; afata, a chest, a box, a coop, a raft, a scaffold. Pau.: fata, a heap; afata, a box, a chest. Ma.: whata, a platform or raised storehouse for food, an altar, to elevate, to support. Moriori: whata, a raft. Mq.: fata, hata, hataá, shelves. Rapanui: hata, a table. Ha.: haka, a ladder, an artificial henroost; alahaka, a ladder. Mg.: ata, a shelf; atamoa, a ladder; atarau, an altar. Mgv.: avata, a coffer, a box. Vi.: vata, a loft, a shelf; tāvata, a bier. The Samoan fata is a pair of light timbers pointed at the ends and tied across the center posts of the house, one in front, the other behind the line of posts; rolls of mats and bales of sennit may be laid across these timbers; baskets or reserved victuals may be hung on the ends. The litter and the barrow are two light poles with small slats lashed across at intervals. The Marquesan fata is a stout stem of a sapling with the stumps of several branches, a hat tree in shape, though found among a barehead folk. These illustrations are sufficient to show what is the common element in all these fata identifications, light cross-pieces spaced at intervals. With this for a primal signifaction it is easy to see how a ladder, a raft, a henroost, an altar come under the same stem for designation. Perhaps Samoan fatafata the breast obtains the name by reason of the ribs; it would be convincing were it not that the plumpness of most Samoans leaves the ribs a matter of anatomical inference. Churchill 2.

... Teke said to Oti, 'Go and take the hauhau tree, the paper mulberry tree, rushes, tavari plants, uku koko grass, riku ferns, ngaoho plants, the toromiro tree, hiki kioe plants (Cyperus vegetus), the sandalwood tree, harahara plants, pua nakonako plants, nehenehe ferns, hua taru grass, poporo plants, bottle gourds (ipu ngutu), kohe plants, kavakava atua ferns, fragrant tuere heu grass, tureme grass (Diochelachne sciurea), matie grass, and the two kinds of cockroaches makere and hata.' ... The division into quarters of a 28-series can be applied to the main phases of the moon during the visible period as was as to a (reflex of the old world?) sidereal month. The separate subgroup (29 makere - 30 hata) consists of the names of two types of cockroaches, but in related eastern Polynesian languages these names can also be explained on a different level. MAO. makere, among others, 'to die', and whata, among others, 'to be laid to rest on a platform', deserve special attention. The theme hinted at is one of death and burial. In our scheme they occur at just that time when the moon 'has died'! This lends further support to the lunar thesis. Barthel 2.

In the G text and at the time of rongorongo a similarly formed Rogo person was present at 0h:

61
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 (408) Gb6-27 Gb6-28 (181)
JANUARY 15 16 (*301) 17 18 (383)
θ Octantis (364.4) Al Fargh al Thāni-25 Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14 χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)
0h (365.25)
Caph, SIRRAH (0.5), ε Phoenicis (0.8) ALGENIB PEGASI (1.8)
March 20 EQUINOX (80) 22 23
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JULY 17 18 19 (200) 20 (*121)
12h (182.6) ALCHITA, Ma Wei (183.1), MINKAR (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) PÁLIDA (184.6), Megrez (184.9) Hasta-13 / Chariot-28
ο Virginis (182.1), η Crucis (182.5) GIENAH (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (185.9)
September 19 20 21 EQUINOX (265)
no glyph
Ga1-1 Ga1-2
0h (80) MARCH 22 23
HYADUM II (δ¹ Tauri) (64.2) Net-19 no star listed (66)
AIN, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)
May 24 25 26 (146)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
SEPTEMBER 20 21 (*184) EQUINOX
Heart-5 ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), ALDIBAIN (248.2), Kajam (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), She Low, ι Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8) Al Kalb-16 / Jyeshtha-18 / ANA-MUA
σ SCORPII (247.0), Hejian (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7) ANTARES (249.1), Marfik, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)
November 23 24 25 (329)
Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-6
MARCH 24 25 (84) 26 27
no star listed (67) Rohini-4 / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4

ANA-MURI

no star listed (69) no star listed (70)
ALDEBARAN (68.2), Theemin (68.5)
May 27 (*68) 29 30 (150)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
SEPTEMBER 23 24 25 (268) 26
γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) HAN (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5) ATRIA (253.9)
November 26 27 28 29 (333)

Aldebaran rose with the Sun 68 days later. At the time of Gregory XIII there should have been 64 days from Rogo to heliacal Aldebaran.

In contrast the C text was instead probably beginning where the Sun in rongorongo times reached Raven, i.e. at the current southern spring equinox:

ELNATH oJULY 2 3 (184) 4 5 6 7
RIGEL ٭JULY 4 5 (186) 6 7 8 9
HAEDUS II ●JULY 7 8 (189) 9 10 11 12
ALDEBARAN JULY 14 15 (196) 16 17 18 19
AIN JULY 18 19 (200) 20 21 22 23
no glyph
Ca1-1 Ca1-2 Ca1-3 Ca1-4 Ca1-5
koia ki te hoea ki te henua te rima te hau tea haga i te mea ke
ALCHITA, Ma Wei (183.1), MINKAR (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) PÁLIDA (184.6), Megrez (184.9) Hasta-13 / Chariot-28 Chang Sha (186.3) INTROMETIDA (187.4), ACRUX (187.5) γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB (188.5), GACRUX (188.7)
GIENAH (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (185.9)
SIRRAH Sept 20 21 (264) EQUINOX 23 24 25
SHERATAN 'Aug 24 25 (237) 26 27 28 29
BHARANI "Aug 10 11 (223) 12 13 14 15
NAKSHATRA DATES:
oDECEMBER 31 oJANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 (*290)
٭JANUARY 2 3 4 5 (*290) 6 7
●JANUARY 5 (*290) 6 7 8 9 10 (*295)
JANUARY 12 13 14 15 (*300) 16 17
JANUARY 16 17 18 (383) 19 (*304) 20 21
Al Fargh al Thāni-25 Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14 χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7) σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3),  ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7) no star listed (4) ANKAA, κ PHOENICIS (5.0)

Alphard

0h (365.25)
Caph, SIRRAH (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8) ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI (1.8)
EQUINOX March 22 23 24 (*3) 25 (84) 26 (*370)
'February 22 (53) TERMINALIA 24 25 26 27 (*343)
"February 8 (2-8) 9 (40) 10 11 12 13 (*329)