1. This is how Rigel would have looked like from Easter Island when it rose in the early morning (3 a.m.) in December 8, 1870:

Orion is rising due east and the first part to be seen is Rigel (β). Eridanus is like a river running down to Rigel. Therefore it would not be unnatural to regard this place as as the beginning of a cycle.

To the right of Rigel is Lepus and then, even further to the right Columba, with the beginning of Canis Major below (ξ is Furud and ε is Adhara).

To the left is Taurus, with Aldebaran (α) and the Pleiades (45).

The view would be much the same if I instead had chosen June 8 as input in the program. But the time would then have to be changed from 3 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the Sun would have made it impossible to see the stars. But I am using the program without knowing how it handles time.

In the night Sun is on the back side of Earth, in the day on its front side. But the direction to a star is always the same. 3 a.m. corresponds to ca 15º away from the line between Sun and Earth, because there are 8 quarters in 24 hours.

Orion should nowadays rise heliacally around summer solstice on Easter Island. Somewhat later in the year Sun would move on to rise for instance in Cancer, following this constellation all day through. At that time Orion will be rising in the east before Sun and thus possible to see until Sun and Cancer will rise together. In the early evening after sunset Orion will be below the horizon in the west. Thus Orion will not be visible from dawn until the early morning next day.

My point is the radically different view of the stars in the sky on Easter Island compared to what for instance my astronomy book is using, dividing the sky into halves, a cap (Ç) and a cup (È).

Early (cfr in The Chinese Mill) I referred to the illuminating picture of Lockyer:

To divide the sky in a pair of halves when you live in the tropical belt would seem quite unnatural. Instead there should be 4 parts, viz. on one hand the pair of central part where the stars rise and descend and on the other hand the pair of circumpolar caps.

Maybe the 472 glyphs (days) in the G text should be interpreted as 366 for the central tropical section of the sky which defines the time of the year and 2 * 53 = 106 for the polar caps.

In The Rain God I presented a view from Hawaii, where the equator was the central line in space:

W ke alanui maawe ula a Kanaloa (the much-travelled highway of Tagaroa)	N Hoku-paa (North Star)	E ke ala ula a Kane (the dawning bright road of Tane)
	↕ (the 1st line)
	S Newe (Southern Cross)
The 1st line coincides with the meridian on an evening in June.

The central line in time was the meridian in a June evening. Probably time should be counted from there, and once again we are returning to the vicinity of Rigel - rising and descending heliacally early in June.