... Ira, Raparenga, Uure, Nonoma, and Ringiringi got up [he ea] and left [went to, he oho] the 'Dark abyss [te poko uri] of Hau Maka' (i.e., Rano Kau), arrived at Hanga Te Pau, put the canoe into the water [he hoa i te vaka], and sailed off to [went to, he oho] Hiva, to Maori. Ira left [for Hiva, for Maori, i ōho ai a Ira.ki hiva.ki maori] on the twenty-fifth day of the month of October ('Tangaroa Uri') ... [E:86]

I have repeatedly tried to make sense of these dates, without quite convincing myself. I tried to make use of the precession in order to find out which stars might have been at the Sun anciently at the dates corresponding to April 25 respectively to October 25, according to extrapolations back in time-space from my assumed current rongorongo era. Now, however, I think this must be doomed to fail because the essence of the Sun calendar should not be changed. The first month should always be Vaitu Nui (1) = April (4) and the 7th month should always be October (→ 'the 8th month') = Tagaroa Uri.

10 (October) - 4 (April) = 6 (half a year) = 7 (Tagaroa Uri) - 1 (Vaitu Nui)

Instead we should take notice of the fact that on ancient Hawaii the festival at the end of a year's reign lasted 'for a month':

... A vestige of the practice of putting the king to death at the end of a year's reign appears to have survived in the festival called Macahity, which used to be celebrated in Hawaii during the last month of the year. About a hundred years ago a Russian voyager described the custom as follows: 'The taboo Macahity is not unlike to our festival of Christmas. It continues a whole month, during which the people amuse themselves with dances, plays, and sham-fights of every kind. The king must open this festival wherever he is. On this occasion his majesty dresses himself in his richest cloak and helmet, and is paddled in a canoe along the shore, followed sometimes by many of his subjects. He embarks early, and must finish his excursion at sunrise. The strongest and most expert of the warriors is chosen to receive him on his landing. The warrior watches the canoe along the beach; and as soon as the king lands, and has thrown off his cloak, he darts his spear at him, from a distance of about thirty paces, and the king must either catch the spear in his hand, or suffer from it: there is no jesting in the business. Having caught it, he carries it under his arm, with the sharp end downwards, into the temple or heavoo. On his entrance, the assembled multitude begin their sham-fights, and immediately the air is obscured by clouds of spears, made for the occasion with blunted ends. Hamamea (the king) has been frequently advised to abolish this ridiculous ceremony, in which he risks his life every year; but to no effect. His answer always is, that he is as able to catch a spear as any one on the island is to throw it at him ...

This concept of counting by months - i.e. changing from counting sun-dates

to counting the from the faces of the Moon - was used also in Manuscript E:

... They made camp [he noho] and rested [he hakaora] at Ahu Akapu for two days. On the twenty-ninth day of the month of August ('Hora Iti') they went on to Pu Pakakina. They arrived, remained there, and gave the name 'Pu Pakakina A Ira'. They remained one month in Pu Pakakina ... [E:31]

... On the first day of the month of September ('Hora Nui') they went up to the yam plantation of Kuukuu - i te raa Po rae o hora nui i iri ai ki runga ki the uhi a kuukuu ... [E:46].

... They all went up to the yam plantation of Kuukuu. Once they had arrived there, Ira stayed for one month [etahi marama] ... [E:47]

The day for the arrival of the Sun king (Hotu A Matua)

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. ... When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...

was 10 days prior to the day when the Explorers left Easter Island. With the arrival of the Sun the nightside stars - even the bright planets - would gradually fade from view.

This ought (ideally) to be a quarter of the year away from the solstices.

November 28 (322) + 23 = 355 (December 21) = September 22 (265) + 90 = 255 (September 12) + 100.

Sept 12 (255 = 73 + 182)

MANUS CATENATA (*364 - *6)

March 14 (3-14 → π)

°March 10 (*354 = *358 - *4)

'Febr 15 (46 = 73 - 27)

"Febr 1 (32 = 73 - 41)

JAN 9 (*294 = * 358 - *64)

Nov 23	24	25 (→ ANTARES)	*26 (250)**	27 (→ 150 + 181)	28 (→ 329 + 3)

Ea1-10	Ea1-11	Ea1-12	Ea1-13	Ea1-14	Ea1-15
kua rere ki te marama - koia ra - kua oho ki te marama		ko agaagata aro huri a hiva	kua noho i roto i to vai	ka huki koe - mai tae huki hia	ko te tagata vero ki tai
Aga. Work; to work, to make, to build, to create: O te atua i-aga-ai i te ragi, i te henua. God made heaven and earth. Vanaga. Agahuru (hagahuru, hagauru). Agai (hagai). Agatahi (aga-tahi) one, (hagatahi); agatahi ahi atu, day before yesterday; hagatahi ahi, yesterday. Churchill. Aro. Face, front, side (of a figure); ki te aro o ..., to the front of ... Vanaga. Presence, body, frontispiece; ki te aro, face to face. P Pau.: aroga, the visage; ki te aroga, opposite. Mgv.: aro, presence, before; i te aro, in the presence of. Mq.: aó, face, in the presence of, before. Ta.: aro, face, front, presence, view. It is probable that more than one word is confounded in alo. The significations which appear in Southeast Polynesia are most likely derived from a Tongafiti alo and do not appear in Nuclear Polynesia. The alo belly and alo chief which do occur in Nuclear Polynesia are also probably Tongafiti, for in Samoa and Tonga they are honorific and applied only to folk of rank, a good indication of borrowing by the Proto-Samoans from Tongafiti masters. Churchill. In the Hawaiian group, the western portion or side of an island was called 'the front', ke alo, of the land, and the eastern side was called 'the back', ke kua. The reason of such designations must be sought in the fact of the arrival of the inhabitants from the west. Fornander. 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. Hiva. Name of the country from where, according to tradition, came the Polynesian immigration of Hotu Matu'a; nowadays, this name designates any continent or foreign country: tagata Hiva, foreigner, person from the mainland. Vanaga. Strange, alien, foreign; a stranger; kuhane hiva, Holy Ghost; hakahiva: mata hakahiva, to look back (? hakahira). Mq., Mgv.: hiva, iva, a stranger, a person from another district or country. Pau.: pure-hiva, a butterfly. Churchill. H.: 1. Entirely black, as of pigs offered to the gods, a desirable blackness contrasting with uli and 'ele'ele, which have pejorative connotations. 2. Choice. 3. A term qualifying coconuts and kava. Polo hiwa, dark, glistening black, as clouds or tapa. Ua hala i ke ao polohiwa a Kāne, passed to the dark clouds of Kāne (death). Hiwa hiwa, precious, beloved, esteemed, petted, darling, indulged; favorite. Ka Mesia, ka hiwahiwa a ke Akua, the Messiah, the chosen of God. Ho'o hiwa hiwa to honor, adorn, decorate; to display, as the flag; to treat as a favorite; festive. He mea ho'ohiwahiwa i ke akua, a thing to honor the gods. 'O ka mea ho'ohiwahiwa i kāna kauā mai kona wā 'u'uku mai, he who delicately brings up his servant from his childhood. Wehewehe. Iva. Nine. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: iva, id. Churchill.
*Net-19 (Crow)* AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)	No star listed (66)	No star listed (67)	*Rohini-4 (The Red One) /* **Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing) ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)**	No star listed (69)	No star listed (70)
... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ...
MARCH 22	23	24	25 (84)	26	27

Counting from November 28 (332) to the solstice in December 21 (355) there were only 23 days, but the last month of the year, it was said,.should be counted from the return of the Pleiades to visibility, which ideally should be 10 days earlier than the beginning of the cycle of Lono.

November 14, which according to my calculations would be the night when the Full Moon (Hotu) reached the right ascension line of the Foundation Stone (Alcyone), could be regarded as night number 36 if counting down to December 20 (354 = 12 * 29½ = 318 + 36). Changing to the Hawaiian view there were 36 - 4 = 32 nights to be counted down from November 18 (322).

Nov 14 (318)	15 (137 + 182)	16 ( → DRAMASA)	17 (504 - 183)	18 (320 + 2)
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Hairy Head-18 (Cockerel) / Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone) ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE (28 Tauri), ATLAS (27 Tauri) (56.3)	MENKHIB (Next to the Pleiades = ζ Persei (57.6) ~~PORRIMA (γ Virginis)~~	ZAURAK (Boat) = γ Eridani (58.9)	λ Tauri (59.3), ν Tauri (59.9)	4h (60.9) JĪSHUĬ = λ Persei (60.7) ~~COR CAROLI (α Canum Ven.)~~
... Vainamoinen set about building a boat, but when it came to the prow and the stern, he found he needed three words in his rune that he did not know, however he sought for them ...
May 16 (501)	17	18 (74 + 64)	19 (139)	20 (20 weeks)
'April 19	20	21 (111)	22 (139 - 27)	23
"April 5	6	7 (88 = 74 + 14)	8	9 (99 = 140 - 41)
MARCH 13	14 → 3-14	15 (74)	16	17

Ea1-1	Ea1-2	Ea1-3	Ea1-4	Ea1-5
E hakamata hia tu mai tae vahu ku huku hia te vaha ko te tagata - kua mau ki te hukiga
Va. 1. Hakava, judge, judgement. T Mgv.: akava, to judge, to pass sentence. Pau.: haava, to judge, to conjecture. Ma.: whakawa, to charge with crime, to condemn. Ta.: haava, to judge. 2. Hakava, to speak. P Mgv.: va, to speak. Mq.: vaa, to chatter like a magpie. The Marquesan retains more of the primal sense although the simile is an alien importation. In Samoa va means a noise, in Tonga va is a laughing noise, in Futuna va is the disorderly cry of tumult, and probably it is the initial element of Viti wa-borabora to speak quickly and confusedly as when scolding. Its only identification in Tongafiti territory is Hawaii wawa the confused noise of a tumult ... Churchill. Ta.: va, space between the leaves in a roof. Sa.: va, space between. Ma.: wa, interval. Churchill. Hu. 1. Breaking of wind. T Mgv., uu, to break wind. Mq., Ta.: hu, id. 2. Whistling of the wind, to blow, tempest, high wind. P Pau.: huga, a hurricane. Churchill. Mgv.: hu, to burst, to crackle, to snap. Ha.: hu, a noise. Churchill. Ha. 1. Four. 2. To breathe. Hakaha'a, to flay, to skin. Vanaga. 1. Four. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ha, id. 2. To yawn, to gape. 3. To heat. 4. Hakaha, to skin, to flay; unahi hakaha, to scale fish. Mgv.: akaha, to take to pieces, to take off the bark or skin, to strip the leaves off sugarcane. 5. Mgv: ha, sacred, prohibited. Mq.: a, a sacred spot. Sa.: sa, id. Churchill. Vaha. Hollow; opening; space between the fingers (vaha rima); door cracks (vaha papare). Vahavaha, to fight, to wrangle, to argue with abusive words. Vanaga. 1. Space, before T; vaha takitua, perineum. PS Mgv.: vaha, a space, an open place. Mq.: vaha, separated, not joined. Ta.: vaha, an opening. Sa.: vasa, space, interval. To.: vaha, vahaa, id. Fu.: vasa, vāsaà, id. Niuē: vahā. 2. Muscle, tendon; vahavaha, id. Vahahora (vaha 1 - hora 2), spring. Vahatoga (vaha 1 - toga 1), autumn. 3. Ta.: vahavaha, to disdain, to dislike. Ha.: wahawaha, to hate, to dislike. Churchill.Vaha. Hollow; opening; space between the fingers (vaha rima); door cracks (vaha papare). Vahavaha, to fight, to wrangle, to argue with abusive words. Vanaga. 1. Space, before T; vaha takitua, perineum. PS Mgv.: vaha, a space, an open place. Mq.: vaha, separated, not joined. Ta.: vaha, an opening. Sa.: vasa, space, interval. To.: vaha, vahaa, id. Fu.: vasa, vāsaà, id. Niuē: vahā. 2. Muscle, tendon; vahavaha, id. Vahahora (vaha 1 - hora 2), spring. Vahatoga (vaha 1 - toga 1), autumn. 3. Ta.: vahavaha, to disdain, to dislike. Ha.: wahawaha, to hate, to dislike. Churchill.
→ INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
π Cor. Borealis, UNUK ELHAIA (Necks of the Serpents) = λ Serpentis (238.1), CHOW = β Serpentis (238.6)	κ Serpentis (239.3), δ Cor. Borealis, TIĀNRŪ = μ Serpentis (239.5), χ Lupi, (239.6), ω Serpentis (239.7), BA (= Pa) = ε Serpentis, χ Herculis (239.8). κ Cor. Borealis, ρ Serpentis (239.9)	λ Librae (240.0), β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8) 199.0 = 240.4 - *41.4	Iklīl al Jabhah-15 (Crown of the Forehead) / Anuradha-17 (Following Rādhā) / Room-4 (Hare) ξ Lupi, λ Cor. Bor.(241.1), ZHENG = γ Serpentis, θ Librae (241.2), VRISCHIKA = π Scorpii (241.3), ε Cor. Borealis (241.5), DSCHUBBA (Front of Forehead) = δ Scorpii (241.7), η Lupi (241.9)	υ Herculis (242.3), ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4), ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), θ Draconis (242.6), ξ Scorpii (242.7) ~~SCHEDIR (Breast) α Cassiopeiae~~ 201.0 = 242.4 - *41.4
... In the morning of the world, there was nothing but water. The Loon was calling, and the old man who at that time bore the Raven's name, Nangkilstlas, asked her why. 'The gods are homeless', the Loon replied. 'I'll see to it', said the old man, without moving from the fire in his house on the floor of the sea. Then as the old man continued to lie by his fire, the Raven flew over the sea. The clouds broke. He flew upward, drove his beak into the sky and scrambled over the rim to the upper world. There he discovered a town, and in one of the houses a woman had just given birth. The Raven stole the skin and form of the newborn child. Then he began to cry for solid food, but he was offered only mother's milk ... → Tea, breast milk.

Nov 19 (→ 355 - 32)

20 (324)

VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

υ Persei (61.2)

BEID (Egg) = ο¹ Eridani (62.2), μ Persei (62.8)

~~VINDEMIATRIX ( ε Virginis)~~

May 21 (365 + 141 = 506)

22 (*62)

'April 24 (506 - 27 = 479)

25 (*35 = 115 - 80)

"April 10 (100)

11 (*21)

MARCH 18 (442)

19 (78)

Ea1-6

Ea1-7

rere te toki rere ki uta

rere ki te vao

Uta. Higher up (from the coast, or from another place); i uta era, further up, up there; ki î te îka i uta, as there are lots of fish on the beach. Vanaga. 1. Inland, landward; paepae ki uta, to strand, to run aground; mouku uta, herbage. 2. To carry; uta mai, to import; hakauta, to give passage. Campbell.

Vao. Mgv.: vao, uninhabited land. Ta.: ? [obliterated text] ... of the valleys. Mq.: vao, bottom of a valley. Sa.: vao, the bush. Ma.: wao, the forest. Churchill.

Honui. 1. Person worthy of respect, person of authority. 2. Livelihood, heirloom, capital; ka moe koe ki toou hônui, you must marry to ensure your livelihood (said to a little girl); he hônui mo taaku poki, this is the heirloom for my son. Vanaga. Great (hoonui); honui, chief T.; tagata hoonui, personage; hakahonui, to praise, to commend. Churchill.


*toki*	honui

→ INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:

16h (243.5)

ACRAB (Scorpion) = β Scorpii, JABHAT AL ACRAB (Forehead of the Scorpion) = ω Scorpii (243.3), θ Lupi, RUTILICUS = β Herculis (243.5), MARFIK (Elbow) = κ Herculis (243.7), φ Herculis (243.8)

ψ Scorpii (244.6), LESATH (Sting) = ν Scorpii (244.8)

Nov 21 (506 - 181 = 325)	→ 22 (80 + 242 + 4 = 326)
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
*Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)* HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4) 22.0 = 63.4 - *41.4	HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)

*May 23 (508 = 444 + 64 = 63)**	*24 (64 = 144 - 80)**
'April 26 (481 = 508 - 27)	*27 (37 = 64 - 27)**
*"April 12 (22)**	13 (144 - 41 = 103)
*MARCH 20 (364 = 444 - 80)**	21 (80 = 144 - 64)

Ea1-8	Ea1-9
rere te toki	rere ki hau tea - eko te toki
Toki. Small basalt axe. Vanaga. Stone adze. Van Tilburg. Ha'amoe ra'a toki = 'Put the adze to sleep' (i.e. hide it in the temple during the night). Barthel. Month of the ancient Rapanui calendar. Fedorova according to Fischer. To'i. T. Stone adze (e to'i purepure = with the wounderful adze). Henry. The Araukan Indians in the coastal area of northern Chile, have customs similar to those on the Marquesas and in both areas toki means adze according to José Imbelloni. The Araukans also called their chief of war toki and the ceremonial adze symbolized his function and was exhibited at the outbreak of war. In Polynesia Toki was the name of a chief elevated by the Gods and his sign was the blade of a toki. Fraser. Axe, stone hatchet, stone tool ...; maea toki, hard slates, black, red, and gray, used for axes T. P Pau.: toki, to strike, the edge of tools, an iron hatchet. Mgv.: toki, an adze. Mq.: toki, axe, hatchet. Ta.: toi, axe. Churchill. A Maori saying: he iti toki, e rite ana ki te tangata = though the adze be small, yet does it equal a man. (Starzecka)
→ INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
χ Scorpii (245.1), YED PRIOR (Hand in Front) = δ Ophiuchi, δ Tr. Austr. (245.5)	YED POSTERIOR (Hand Behind) = ε Ophiuchi, RUKBALGETHI SHEMALI (Northern Knee of the Giant) = τ Herculis (246.6). δ Apodis (246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8)

November 23 (327) should according to my guess be at Ea1-10 = 5 days before November 28 (332). The Hawaiians had 23 days from the beginning of their cycle of Lono to the December solstice. And, as we have noted, 64 (precessional days down to the time of the Golden Bull) - 23 = 41 (precessional days down to the era of Bharani) - as if reflections in a hall of mirrors. Which is all very well because mirrors will help us reflect in order to better understand.