Next the explorers went home to Hiva:  Barthel's translation: Ira, Raparenga, Uure, Nonoma, and Ringiringi got up and left the 'Dark Abyss of Hau Maka' (i.e. Rano Kau), arrived at Hanga Te Pau, put the canoe into the water, and sailed off to Hiva, to Maori. Ira left on the twenty-fifth day of the month of October ('Tagaroa Uri'). When Ira's canoe reached the islets (off the southwestern coast), Makoi (who was left behind) shouted the following (after him): 'Eight lands (are there), one has been found (or, an eighth land has been found for the first time, evaru kainga katahi i ravaa), that is, Te Pito O Te Kainga. During the fast journey, one cannot find the seven lands in the midst of dim twilight. Once (Easter Island) has been lost, not even eight groups of people (i.e., countless boat crews) can find (it) again. - Ruhi to the right, Pu to the left, necklace around the neck of the figure of Hinariru at Papa o Rae!' A kava ceremony between Eridanus and Rigel should be in the interval between Tagaroa Uri 15 and Tagaroa Uri 25, and then only a precessional time earlier than that of Bharani appears to be possible:
With for instance Haedus II at 0h, the opposite side of the year (12h) should come 183 days later. At Haedus II the rising fish no longer has a 'feather inside', although its tail is still drawn down in front - the dangerous horizon in the west was in the past and the earth-ovens could again be used: ... 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.' In Roman times this was in 'May 8 (128 = 2 * 64 = 8 * 16) and 128 + 365 - 80 = 413 = 7 * 59 = 14 * 29½. At the time of the Hyades Gate it was in APRIL 1. When the Full Moon was at the Sting of the Scorpion there could indeed be reason for a kava ceremony:
... Sacred product of the people's agriculture, the installation kava is brought forth in Lau by a representative of the native owners (mataqali Taqalevu), who proceeds to separate the main root in no ordinary way but by the violent thrusts of a sharp implement (probably, in the old time, a spear). Thus killed, the root (child of the land) is then passed to young men (warriors) of royal descent who, under the direction of a priest of the land, prepare and serve the ruler's cup ...
The Haedus Gate was rising with the Sun at 0h a very long time ago. 75 * 71 = 5325 and this should be around 5325 - 1842 - 1 = 3482 B.C. Since then precession had turned the Sun dial nearly a quarter around:
Assuming nakshatra OCTOBER 1 corresponded to Tagaroa Uri 15 we should look for the day when the explorers returned home to Hiva, to Maori, 10 days later, in the nakshatra night of OCTOBER 11:
My suggested model - with Tagaroa Uri 25 at Gb6-4 - is in harmony with the G text because from Gb6-5 another story appears to begin - both in Manuscript E and in the glyph text.
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