
*e tae ai ihe tagata hakakaikai toki tae ai ihe tagata tua tino e hiti** * Jaussen had first here written kua kake - cfr Ba4-31.
... Tu'i Tofua was the son of Vakafuhu. His mother was Langitaetaea, but she was only one of the many young women whom Vakafuhu had living behind the fences of his dwelling. When Tu'i Tofua grew he was given the first-born sons of all the wives for his companions, and they all used to play sika outside the enclosure of Vakafuhu. They made their sika of clean-peeled sticks and threw them in turn along the ground, they glanced them off a mound and each one tried to make the longest throw. One day while Vakafuhu was sleeping off a kava-drinking those boys were playing their game outside, and Tu'i Tofua threw his sika. Then indeed the enormous strength of Tu'i Tofua made that sika fly over the fences into his father's place. It landed where the women were and they all began to giggle, those girls, and shriek and laugh. They did this because they wanted that handsome youth to come among them, they desired him. More than his father they desired him. They fell with joy upon the sika of their master's son, and snapped it. When he came inside to get it back they called out things that made him embarrased. 'Haven't you got another long thing there, Tu'i?' those women said. 'This one's broken.' And they put their hands across their faces and they laughed ... Tui. 1. To sew mats, to make strings. E-tahi tuitui reipá i Te Pei, ekó rava'a e-varu kaukau; i-garo ai i Hiva, i te kaiga, a necklace of mother-of-pearl is on te Pei, few will find it (lit: eight groups of people); it has remained in Hiva, in our homeland. 2. The three stars of Orion's Belt. Vanaga. Takau. Mgv.: ten pairs. Ta.: toau, id. Mq.: tekau, id. To.: tekau, id. Ma.: tekau, ten. Churchill. Teka. Tekai, curl, a round ball, as of twine. (Tekateka) hakatekateka, rudder, helm. Churchill. Routledge's informants still knew the names of the immigrant canoes (RM:278); they were given as 'Oteka' and 'Oua'. One Rongorongo text shows ua as the term used for two canoes, while RR:76 [Barthel's no. 76, GD111] (phallus grapheme ure, used in this case for an old synonym teka; compare TUA. teka 'penis of a turtle', HAW. ke'a 'virile male') tends to confirm the oral tradition with a transpositional variant (Barthel 1962:134). (Barthel 2) Pau. teka, arrow. Ta.: tea, id. Mq.: teka, a game with darts. Sa.: te'a, id. Ma.: teka, id. Churchill. Mgv. teka, a support, scaffold. Ta.: tea, the horizontal balk of a palisade, the crossbeam of a house. Mq.: tekateka, across, athwart. Ha.: kea, a cross. Churchill. 65 - ono tekau ma rima illustrates how in the Maori dialect tekau stands for 10. Harawira.
Ba4-26 (150)	Ba4-27	Ba4-28
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
*Al Zubānā-14a (Claws) / Visakha-16 (Forked) / Root-3 (Badger)* ZUBEN ELGENUBI (Southern Claw) = α Librae (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)	KOCHAB (Kakkab, Babylonian for Star) = β Ursae Min. (225.0), ξ Librae (225.7)	KE KWAN (Cavalry Officer) = β Lupi (226.3), KE KWAN = κ Centauri (226.4), ZUBEN ELAKRIBI (Claw of the Scorpion) = δ Librae (226.8), π¹ Oct. (226.9) 185.0 = 226.4 - *41.4 = "Sept 22 (265) = equinox
Oct 31 (304)	*Nov 1 (Samhain)*	2 (488 - 182 = 306)
AUG 28	29	30 (242 = 424 - 182)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
*May 1 (Beltane)*	2 (487 = 423 + 64)	3 (123 = 488 - 365)
*Bharani-2 (Yoni) / Stomach-17 (Pheasant)* π Arietis (41.2), MIRAM (Next to the Pleiades) = η Persei (41.3), BHARANI = 41 Arietis (41.4), τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7) 0.0 = 41.4 - *41.4	TA LING (Great Mound) = τ Persei (42.4) 1.0 = 42.4 - *41.4	ρ Arietis (43.0), GORGONEA SECUNDA = π Persei (43.5), ACAMAR (End of the River) = θ Eridani (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7), λ Ceti (43.9) ~~DENEBOLA (β Leonis)~~

FEBR 26 (57)	27	28 (424 = 365 + 59)

Everything is according to order, they 'glanced' them off a mound and surely this was referring to the star named Great Mound.

Ba4-29

Ba4-30

Ba4-31

Ba4-32 (156)

tae ai ihe tagata hakakaikai toki

kua kake ko te kahi

i te henua

Kake. Kakea, to come near, to embark. P Pau.: kake, to climb, to ascend. Mgv.: kake, the arrival of shoals of spawning fish. Mq.: kake, to climb up a valley. Ta.: ae, to climb, to ascend. Churchill. Mgv.: kake, to strike on an ocean reef. Ta.: ae, to strand. Churchill. Sa.: a'e, upward, to go up; sa'e, to elevate one leg, as in the act of falling in a club match; 'a'e, to ascend, to rise. To.: hake, upward, to ascend. Fu.: ake, up, to ascend; sake, ro raise the leg at one in derision or mockery; kake, to climb, to ascend. Niuē: hake, up, going up. Uvea: ake, up; kake, to go up. Ma.: ake, upward; kake, to climb, to ascend. Mq.: ake, on high, upward; kake, to ascend. Mgv.: ake, upward. Bukabuka: ake, up. Ta.: ae, up, to go up, to ascend, to climb. Ha.: ae, to raise, to lift up, to mount. Fotuna: no-jikijiake, to lift up; no-tukake, to stand upright. Nukuoro: kake, to go up. Nuguria: kake, up; hanage, northwest. Rapanui: kake a, to go abroad. Vi.: thake, upward; thaketa, to dig or lift up. Churchill 2.

Kahi. Tuna; two sorts: kahi aveave, kahi matamata. Vanaga. Mgv.: kahi, to run, to flow. Mq.: kahi, id. Churchill. Rangitokona, prop up the heaven! // Rangitokona, prop up the morning! // The pillar stands in the empty space. The thought [memea] stands in the earth-world - // Thought stands also in the sky. The kahi stands in the earth-world - // Kahi stands also in the sky. The pillar stands, the pillar - // It ever stands, the pillar of the sky. (Morriori creation myth according to Legends of the South Seas.)

kahi

CLOSE TO THE SUN:

May 4 (124)

Ba4-33

Ba4-34

Ba4-35

Ba4-36

e tagata rere toki iti e tagata mau toki iti - e kua tuu**

**Jaussen had here added (above the line) 'ou: kua tua, sont polis'

ki te henua

CLOSE TO THE SUN:

May 8 (128)

May 10

Ba4-37

Ba4-38

Ba4-39

Ba4-40 (164)

e tagata rere ki te toki tae ai ihe tagata - rere toki - e tae ai ihe tagata.

CLOSE TO THE SUN:

May 12 (132)

May 15 (500 = 365 + 135)

We should therefore compare with the corresponding place in the E text:

Dec 28	29 → 408 - 45 = 363	30 (361 + 3)
OCT 26	27 (300 → 363 - 63)	28 (→ 365 - 64)

Ea2-13	Ea2-14 → 45	Ea2-15
e tagata - rere toki	ki te henua	e tagata hakakaikai toki - ki te henua koti
Kaikai. 1. Cat's cradle, in which patterns are made by moving a thread through the fingers of both hands, and are accompanied by the recitation of verses (one of the main pastimes of yore). 2. Sharp: also 'to sharpen' used instead of hakaka'ika'i. Vanaga. 1. Mastication, to eat heavily. 2. Sharp, cutting, edge of a sword, point of a lance; moa tara kaikai, cock with long spurs. Churchill. Koti. Kotikoti. To cut with scissors (since this is an old word and scissors do not seem to have existed, it must mean something of the kind). Vanaga. Kotikoti. To tear; kokoti, to cut, to chop, to hew, to cleave, to assassinate, to amputate, to scar, to notch, to carve, to use a knife, to cut off, to lop, to gash, to mow, to saw; kokotiga kore, indivisible; kokotihaga, cutting, gash furrow. P Pau.: koti, to chop. Mgv.: kotikoti, to cut, to cut into bands or slices; kokoti, to cut, to saw; akakotikoti, a ray, a streak, a stripe, to make bars. Mq.: koti, oti, to cut, to divide. Ta.: oóti, to cut, to carve; otióti, to cut fine. Churchill. Pau.: Koti, to gush, to spout. Ta.: oti, to rebound, to fall back. Kotika, cape, headland. Ta.: otiá, boundary, limit. Churchill. vaka ↔ kava ↕ toki ↔ koti
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched) = ε Gemini (100.7)	SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7) 60.0 = 101.4 - *41.4	τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4) 61.0 = 102.4 - *41.4
... The Sothic cycle was based on what is referred to in technical jargon as 'the periodic return of the heliacal rising of Sirius', which is the first appearance of this star after a seasonal absence, rising at dawn just ahead of the sun in the eastern portion of the sky. In the case of Sirius the interval between one such rising and the next amounts to exactly 365.25 days - a mathematically harmonious figure, uncomplicated by further decimal points, which is just twelve minutes longer than the duration of the solar year ...
June 29 (180)	30	July 1 (182)

When reading the B text it seems plausible to associate hakakaikai toki with Kochab

... Al Maisān, the title of γ Geminorum, by some error of Firuzabadi was applied to this star as Meissa, and is now common for it. Al Sufi called it Al Tahāyī; but Al Ferghani and Al Tizini knew it as Rās al Jauzah, the Head of the Jauzah, which it marks. The original Arabic name, Al Hak'ah, a White Spot, was from the added faint light of the smaller φ¹and φ² in the background, and has descended to us as Heka and Hika. These three stars were another of the Athāfiyy [tripods used for cooking] of the Arabs; and everywhere in early astrology were thought, like all similar groups, to be of unfortunate influence in human affairs. They constituted the Euphratean lunar station Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur, the Little Twins, a title also found for γ and η Geminorum; and individually were important stars among the Babylonians, rising to them with the sun at the summer solstice, and, with α and γ, were known as Kakkab Sar, the Constellation of the King ...

i.e. with the ancient Star (Mesopotamian Kakkab) at the north pole, in contrast to the dominant figure of Sirius in the E text. First it had been written kua kake ('climbing bird'), but Easter Island was south of the equator and presumably this was the reason for changing it into → hakakaikai toki. Northern spring coincided with the southern autumn. Cfr: kua tuu → kua tua.

		*241
Ba4-26 (150)	Ba4-27		Ea2-13 (45)	Ea2-14
Oct 31 (304 → 364 - 60)	Nov 1		June 29	30 (181)
ZUBEN ELGENUBI	KOCHAB		MEBSUTA	*SIRIUS (101.2)**
May 1	2		Dec 29	30 (364)
*BHARANI (41.4)**	GREAT MOUND		DOUBLE DOUBLE	*Φ SAGITTARII (284.0)**
245 → 490 / 2 → 5 49 → 35 weeks → 290 / 2 + 100

... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini ...