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Today happens to be April 15, but it is not Tagaroa Uri 15.  Approximately in April 18 (108) the sun will be at Baten Kaitos (ζ at the 'heart' of the Sea Beast) and at the close by χ Ceti, and in day 108 + 16 = 124 (May 8) these stars will again become visible.

Gb4-5 (325) Gb4-6 (97) Gb4-7
FEBRUARY 9 (40) 10 (*326) 11 (407)
τ Ceti (24.7) no star listed (25) ANA-NIA
χ Ceti (26.1), POLARIS, Baten Kaitos (26.6), Metallah (26.9)
4-14 April 15 16 (106)
'March 18 19 (78) 20 (*364)
"March 4 5 (64) 6 (*350)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
AUGUST 11 (223) 12 (*144) 13 (590)
no star listed (207) τ Bootis (208.2), Benetnash (208.5), ν Centauri (208.7), μ Centauri, υ Bootis (208.8) no star listed (209)
October 14 15 (288) 16
'September 17 (260) 18 19 (*182)
"September 3 4 5 (248)

Before moving on in the G text we should now read in Manuscript E to see what happened after the canoes had been taken apart and turned into houses:

... After the food supplies had been brought on land, the two rulers, the king and the queen said, 'Drag the canoes on land and take them apart (so the wood can be used) to build houses and cover the roofs!' They dragged the two canoes on land and took them apart. After they had finished disassembling the canoes, Nuku covered all the houses.

"Teke says to Oto: 'Distribute the seedlings [te huri] among the people (mahingo)!' Oto took the seedlings that had been brought along and distributed them among the people. He distributed all kinds of seedlings. Everyone took his share of the plants that had been brought along.

Huri

1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga.

1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill.

Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

Then Teke called out to his retainers (aniva), 'This is what you are to do. Do not light the earth-ovens. The shadow (ata) of the king, the flame (ura) of the king (may suffer harm) during the night if shortly before an earth-oven has been lit.'

Ata

Ata 1. Dawn, first light before sunrise; ku-hamu-á te ata , dawn has broken; ku-tehe-á te ata, it's already dawn (lit.: the lights have flown). 2. Particle inserted between the imperative prefix ka and the verb to signify 'well, carefully, intelligently': ka-ata-hakarivariva, prepare it well. Between the prefix e and kahara it expresses 'to make sure that, to take good care that...' : e-ata-kahara koe o oona, be careful not to get dirty; e-ata-kahara koe o kori te moa o te tahi pa, be sure not to steal chickens of another property. 3. More: iti, small; ata iti, smaller; he-ata-ata iti-iti ró, the smallest of all. Vanaga.

Âta 1. Shadow: he-veveri te poki, ana tikea toona âta, the child is frightened at seeing his shadow; person's reflection (in mirror, in water): he âta oou-á, it's your own reflection. 2. To be frightened by a shadow: he-âta te îka, the fish are frightened (and they flee) by people's shadows. Vanaga.

1. Image, picture, portrait, design; to draw, to paint (shadow sense). P Mgv: ata, image, likeness, portrait, shadow of a human being, form, shape, appearance, imprint, impression. Mq.: ata, image, statue, portrait, shadow, surface; to design, to mark. Ta.: ata, shade, shadow appearance, form, representation of an object, cloud, cloudy. 2. Transparency, end of day, sunset (bright sense); e ata, red clouds; ku ata, transparent; ata mea, ata tea, ata tehe, dawn, daybreak, sunrise; ataata, end of day, sunset. P Mgv.: ata, morning or evening twilight, daybreak, dawn; ata haihai, evening twilight, a beautiful sunset; ataiai, twilight, clouds red with the sunset; atakurakura, a beautiful sunrise or sunset; atareureu, dawn, the first peep of day, morning twilight. Mq.: ata, to appear, to rise, to shine (of stars); ata uá, morning twilight; ataata, diaphanous, transparent. Ta.: ata, twilight. 3. A designation of space; ata hakahohonu, abyss; ata hakaneke mai, nearby, close at hand; ata tapa, lateral, marginal. 4 ? Ata kimikimi, to inquire; ata puo, to hill a plant; ata ui, to examine, to taste. Churchill.

Atahenua (ata 3 - henua 1), landscape, countryside. Atakai: 1. Generous, hospitable, beneficent, indulgent, liberal, obliging; prodigality, indulgence; rima atakai, benevolent, generous, open-handed; gift, liberality. 2. Calm, unperturbed, grateful. Churchill.

Ata-ta T, evening (? ataata). Atatehe (ata 2 - tehe 1), dawn; popohaga atatehe, morning, early in the morning. Churchill.

Each man went to his place and lived there.

Hotu said to Teke, 'Look around for a suitable area (maara) to settle the Hanau Eepe and let them work the fields!' Teke took command of the Hanau Eepe and went with them to Poike. After he had settled them there, Teke said to the Hanau Eepe. 'Settle here, work, and keep peace among yourselves (he mee o mahamaha kina); let this the the goal of every one of you!'

Then Teke assumed royal powers (pahere ariki) and passed them on to Iko. Teke installed the king; Iko was (now) the king (ariki) of the Hanau Eepe. Teke called out to the men, 'Iko is your king, oh people (mahingo)!'

The Hanau Eepe remained there. Teke returned. (He) came to Oromanga. - Name corrected; alternative translation 'Along came the adopted rat', kiore ma(a)nga). - That was Iko. Twenty-five years." (Manuscript E: 84-85)

Teke

Occiput. Teketeke, short (not tall); also: teke. Vanaga.

Teke ki nei, as far as, until (? tehe 1). Teketeke, crest, ridge. Churchill.

... The 'bird' in Ca6-13 has a hole where his eye should have been, which could have motivated Metoro to use the word teke (occiput) doubled. In the picture we can see the occipital bone is at the back and at bottom - it is similar to the 'cup shell' (the 'Venus half'). As such it is connected with 'birth' (*). But my rule for double words means teketeke then will correspond to the opposite, to 'death' (which ageees with the absent eye). And consequently Metoro added ki ruga ...

The cryptic riddle '25 years' as a final instruction in this part of the text suggests the presence of Saturn:

... Hau tea in Gb4-33 was not 52 days after 0h but 52 - 27 = 25 days after 0h, in day 80 + 25 = 105 counted from 'January 1 ...

When Roggeveen discovered Easter Island in 1722 it was Easter Sunday, which in that year happened to be April 5 (95) according to our current Gregorian sun calendar. According to the stars, however, it should have been day 95 + (1722 - 1582) / 71 = 97, when Adhil (ξ Andromedae) rose with the Sun:

Gb3-24 (314) Gb3-25 Gb3-26 (87)
JANUARY 29 (*314) 30 31 (396)
no star listed (13) no star listed (14) 1h (15.2)
β Phoenicis (15.1), υ Phoenicis, ι Tucanae (15.6), ζ Phoenicis (15.7)
April 3 (93) 4 5 (460)
'March 7 (*351) 8 9 (68)
"February 21 (52) 22 (418) Terminalia
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JULY 31 (*132) AUGUST 1 2 (214)
δ Muscae (196.5), Vindemiatrix (196.8) 13h (197.8) Apami-Atsa, ψ Hydrae (198.5)
ξ¹ Centauri (197.1), ξ² Centauri (197.9)
October 3 4 (277) 5
'September 6 7 (250) 8 (*171)
"August 23 24 (236) 25 (*157)
31
Gb3-27 Gb3-28 Gb3-29 Gb3-30 (91)
FEBRUARY 1 (32) 2 3 4 (400)
Al Batn Al Hūt-26 / Revati-28 ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6) no star listed (18) Adhil (19.3)
MIRACH, Keun Nan Mun (16.0), Anunitum (16.5), REVATI (16.9)

Regulus

April 6 (*16) 7 8 9 (464)
'March 10 (*354) 11 12 13 (72)
"February 24 (*340) 25 26 27 (58)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
AUGUST 3 4 5 6 (218)
Al Dafīrah (199.4) σ Virginis (200.4) γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4) Al Simāk-12 / Chitra-14 / Horn-1 / Sa-Sha-Shirū-20

ANA-ROTO

Mizar (202.4), SPICA, Alcor (202.7)

Sadalmelik

October 6 7 (280) 8 9
'September 9 (*172) 10 11 12 (255)
"August 26 27 28 (240) 29 (*161)
Gb4-32 (123) Gb4-33 Gb5-1 (354) Gb5-2 Gb5-3 Gb5-4
MARCH 8 9 10 11 (*355) 12 (436) 13 (72)
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 11 12 (*417) 13 14 15 (500) 16 (136)
4-14 'April 15 (*25) 16 (471) 17 (107) 18 19 (*29)
"March 31 (90) "April 1 2 (457) 3 4 5 (*15)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
SEPTEMBER 7 8 9 (*172) 10 11 (254) 12
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), 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)
Nov 10 (314) 11 12 13 14 15
10-14 'October 15 16 17 (290) 18 19 (*212)
"Sept 30 (*193) "October 1 2 (275) 3 4 5
Gb5-5 Gb5-6 (130) Gb5-7 (360)
3-14 MARCH 15 16 (75)
Menkhib (57.6)

Porrima

Zaurak (58.9) λ Tauri (59.3), ν Tauri (59.9)
May 17 18 19 (139)
'April 20 21 (111) 22 (*32)
"April 6 (*16) 7 8 (463)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
SEPTEMBER 13 (256) 14 (*177) 15
β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8) Iklīl al Jabhah-15 / Anuradha-17 / Room-4 υ Herculis (242.3), ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4), ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), ξ Scorpii (242.7)

Schedir

(241.1), Zheng (241.2), VRISCHIKA (241.3), ε Cor. Borealis (241.5),  Dschubba (241.7), η Lupi (241.9)
November16 17 18 (322)
'October 20 21 (*214) 22 (295)
"October 6 7 (280) 8
 
Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-10 Gb5-11 (135) Gb5-12 (365)
MARCH 17 18 19 (78) 20 (444) 0h
4h (60.9) no star listed (61) Beid (62.2)

Vindemiatrix

Al Dabarān-2 Hyadum II (64.2)
no star listed (60)

Cor Caroli

HYADUM I (63.4)
May 20 21 22 (*427) 23 24 (144)
'April 23 (*33) 24 25 (*400) 26 (116) 27
"April 9 (99) 10 (465) 11 12 13
NAKSHATRA DATES:
SEPTEMBER 16 17 (260) 18   19 20 (*183)
16h (243.5) ψ Scorpii (244.6), Lesath (244.8) χ Scorpii (245.1), Yed Prior, δ Tr. Austr. (245.5) Yed Posterior, Rukbalgethi Shemali (246.6). δ Apodis (246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8) Heart-5
Acrab, Jabhat al Akrab (243.3), θ Lupi, Rutilicus (243.5), Marfik (243.7), φ Herculis (243.8) σ SCORPII (247.0), Hejian (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7)
November 19 20 (324) 21 22 23
'October 23 (*216) 24 25 26 27 (300)
"October 9 (*202) 10 11 12 (285) 13

Counting 16 days backwards from Gb5-10 will lead us to Gb4-27 (118 = 4 * 29½). Likewise May 22 (*427) - 16 = *411 = *46 + 365:

Gb4-25 (345) Gb4-26 Gb4-27 (118) Gb4-28 (348)
MARCH 1 2 3 (427) 4 (63)
Menkar (44.7) 3h (45.7) Misam (46.2), Botein (46.9) ζ Arietis (47.7)
Algol (45.9)
May 4 5 (125) 6 7
'April 7 8 (*18) 9 (99) 10 (465)
"March 24 (448) 25 (84) 26 2-27
NAKSHATRA DATES:
AUGUST 31 SEPTEMBER 1 (*164) 2 3
Nadlat (227.8), π Lupi (227.9) 15h (228.3) ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8) Al Zubānā-14b
Zuben Hakrabim (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9) χ Bootis (230.2), χ Bootis (230.3), Princeps (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (230.8)
November 3 4 5 6 (310)
'October 7 (280) 8 9 10
"September 23 24 25 (268) 26

The heliacal stars at maitaki in Gb4-27 would have become visible again in 'April 25 (*400), in the night before the Hyades Gate was rising together with the Sun.

In Gb5-11 a fish has been caught and held up in front. 16 days earlier was glyph 348. I.e. 348 + 16 = 364. The reason side b on the Mamari tablet carries only 348 glyphs could be that the year was finished with day 364 and the last stars to become visible again would have been those rising with the Sun in day 348. 392 (side a) + 348 (side b) + 16 = 756 = 2 * 378 = 108 * 7 = 27 * 28.

Likewise could we add 16 to those 46 * 29 glyphs carried on the Tahua tablet:

Mamari 740 + 16 756 = 27 * 28
Tahua 1334 + 16 1350 = 27 * 50