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6-6. Before Hotu A Matua was able to leave his old homeland they had to use 6 days for loading his canoe.

... For six days (po ono), mats (moenga) were taken on board the canoe (i.e., the loading of the canoe took six days) ... [E:74] ... etahi poō no. o te moenga. i too ai ki runga ki te miro ...

I guess this 6-day long period might correspond to for instance the difference betwen November 10 (314) and November 16 (320):

N

ALCYONE

*56

136

S

TANIA AUSTRALIS

*156

236

Febr 4

35

+ 365 =

400

May 15

135

500

May 12 (32 + 100) 13 14 (460 + 39) 15 (500) → Febr 4 (*320)
Nov 10 (314 π) 11 → August 3 (235) 12 (*236 → 8 * 29½) 13 (500 - 183)
Ea6-2 Ea6-3 (181) Ea6-4 Ea6-5
vaha mea koia kua vaha kiore → ki 'ore

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.

Mea. 1. Tonsil, gill (of fish). 2. Red (probably because it is the colour of gills); light red, rose; also meamea. 3. To grow or to exist in abundance in a place or around a place: ku-mea-á te maîka, bananas grow in abundance (in this place); ku-mea-á te ka, there is plenty of fish (in a stretch of the coast or the sea); ku-mea-á te tai, the tide is low and the sea completely calm (good for fishing); mau mea, abundance. Vanaga. 1. Red; ata mea, the dawn. Meamea, red, ruddy, rubricund, scarlet, vermilion, yellow; ariga meamea, florid; kahu meamea purple; moni meamea, gold; hanuanua meamea, rainbow; pua ei meamea, to make yellow. Hakameamea, to redden, to make yellow. PS Ta.: mea, red. Sa.: memea, yellowish brown, sere. To.: memea, drab. Fu.: mea, blond, yellowish, red, chestnut. 2. A thing, an object, elements (mee); e mea, circumstance; mea ke, differently, excepted, save, but; ra mea, to belong; mea rakerake, assault; ko mea, such a one; a mea nei, this; a mea ka, during; a mea, then; no te mea, because, since, seeing that; na te mea, since; a mea era, that; ko mea tera, however, but. Hakamea, to prepare, to make ready. P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: mea, a thing. 3. In order that, for. Mgv.: mea, because, on account of, seeing that, since. Mq.: mea, for. 4. An individual; tagata mea, tagata mee, an individual. Mgv.: mea, an individual, such a one. Mq., Ta.: mea, such a one. 5. Necessary, urgent; e mea ka, must needs be, necessary; e mea, urgent. 6. Manners, customs. 7. Mgv.: ako-mea, a red fish. 8. Ta.: mea, to do. Mq.: mea, id. Sa.: mea, id. Mao.: mea, id. Churchill.

180

MARCH 25

181

MARCH 25 (84) → 84 + 64 = 148 (May 28) → 132 (May 12) where Nusakan should be at the Full Moon + 16 (change from waiting to return to visibility to true heliacal dates).

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
No star listed (52)

ψ Persei (53.1)

ACRUX (α CRUCIS)
δ Persei (54.7)

Al Thurayya-27 (Many Little Ones) / Krittikā-3 (Nurses of Kārttikeya) / TAU-ONO (Six Stones)

ATIKS = ο Persei, RANA (Frog) = δ Eridani (55.1), CELAENO (16 Tauri), ELECTRA (17), TAYGETA (19), ν Persei (55.3), MAIA (20), ASTEROPE (21), MEROPE (23) (55.6)

REVERSED NAKSHATRA → CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
NUSAKAN (Pauper's Bowl) = β Cor. Bor. (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7), ζ Librae (234.9)

θ Cor. Borealis (235.3), γ Lupi (235.6), GEMMA = α Cor. Bor., ZUBEN ELAKRAB = γ Librae, QIN = δ Serpentis, ε Tr. Austr. (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8), υ Librae (235.9)

CAPH (β Cassiopeiae)

SIRRAH (α Andromedae)

φ Bootis (236.2), ω Lupi, τ Librae (236.3), ψ¹ Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor. Borealis (236.9)

κ Librae (237.2), ι Serpentis (237.4), ψ² Lupi, ρ Oct. (237.5), γ Cor. Borealis, η Librae (237.7),  COR SERPENTIS = α Serpentis (237.9)

*196.0 = *237.4 - *41.4

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

Notably the Full Moon would ideally be at the right ascension line of Nusakan (*234.0) in Corona Borealis in the night before Sirrah (*0.5) culminated at 21h. My list of star culminations contains only a selected few of all the stars in my star list, but we can assume the culmination (at 21h) of Caph (*0.5) also occurred in November 11.

ALCYONE (*56 → 2 * 28) a1 32 32
BETELGEUZE (*88) a2 33 65
NAOS (*121 11 * 11) a3 35 100
TANIA AUSTRALIS (*156 → 2 * 78) a4 36 78
PORRIMA (*191) a5 42
NUSAKAN (*156 + *78) a6 39 156
NASH (*273 → 3 * 91) a7 39

... August 4 was half a year after February 4.

... In February 4 (400) the Full Moon would ideally reach the right ascension line connecting up to Dramasa, the south pole star:  ... Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ...

... *320 (Dramasa) - *236 (November 12) = *54 (May 14) ...

... In August 4 (216) the Sun rose together with Talitha Australis (κ at the vertically oriented and uplifted right front paw of Ursa Major) and this was 20 days before the Southern Gazelle: Tania Australis (μ at the flat uplifted left back paw). Kappa comes before my ...

Also the figure depicted as glyph number 185 was looking back:

May 16 (136) 17 18 19 → Febr 8 (39, *324) 20 (40 + 100)

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...

Nov 14 15 16 (320) 17 18
Ea6-6 (184) Ea6-7 Ea6-8 Ea6-9 Ea6-10 (188)
kua tuu ko raua kiore → ki 'ore oho - te henua manu kara vera te ahi

Kará. Wing of bird. Karaga, uproar, row: he-tagi te karaga. Karatu'u, to remain upright (said of a spinning top). Karava, low cave; hiding place under rocks in the sea (where lobsters hide). Tagata kava - tagata kakara i te kava, man with smelly armpits.Vanaga. Wing. Karatia, grace. Karava: 1. Cave. 2. To strain to hit a mark. Karavarava, manava karavarava, colic. Churchill. Pau.: Kara, flint. Mgv.: kara, a heavy stone. Ta.: ará, a black flint. Ma.: kara, basalt. Karaea, karamea clay. Ta.: araea, id. Mq.: kaaea, red ochre. Ma.: karamea, id. Karaga-puruga, mother-in-law. Ta.: purua, parent-in-law. Karaini, bait, decoy, allurement. Ta.: arainu, bait, lure. Karapoga, throat, gullet. Churchill. Mgv.: Karaga, a cry. Sa.: 'alaga, id. Ma.: karanga, id. Karakara, to smell slightly a pleasant odor. Ta.: aara, good odor. Mq.: kakaa, to exhale a pleasant odor. Sa.: 'alala, to smell of hot meat. Ma.: kakara, savory. Karako, a bird. Mq.: kaako, id. Karapihi, suckers of the octopus. Mq.: karapihi, kaapihi, id. Karava, large veins which appear under strain. Sa.: 'alava, veins, fibers. Churchill. Mq.: Karakara, a bird. Ha.: alaala, id. Churchill.

kara etahi

Vera mahana, hot. Moa gao verapaka, chicken with bald neck. Vera paka, scorching hot. Tuavera, the last breadfruit spoiled by the wind. Ta.: tuavera, burnt by the sun. Churchill. Huero veravera, burning ray.

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:

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.)
REVERSED NAKSHATRA → CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
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

But we need not spend more time and effort in order to find out what stars ideally would have been at the Full Moon when the royal canoe sailed away, for we have the statement in Manuscripte E:

... Hotu's canoe [te miro. o Hotu] sailed [he oho] from Maori to Te Pito O Te Kainga. It sailed on the second day of September (hora nui) ... [E:74]

And by now it ought to have become clear that there were basic calendar structures which ruled everything. For instance, there were 6 days at the beginning of both side a and side b of the C tablet although the stars were not the same. Day 398 (→ Cb1-6) - 210 (→ 420 / 2) = 188 (Ea6-10) → November 18 was therefore possible to connect not only to the culmination of the Breast of Cassiopeia but also to be reused in other circumstances.

On Hawaii November 18 (322, *242 = *236 + *6 → August 4 + 106) was noted as a special day:

... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ...

Probably it was no coincidence that side b of the G tablet was designed to carry 242 glyphs.

We should now move on from November 18 to November 28 (→ 300 + 32), which distance according to the E text evidently should first cover what could be 6 days 'for loading the canoe'. 354 (→ 12 * 29½) + 6 = 360 (→ 360º for a full circle).

May 21 22 (142) 23 24 25 (145, *65) 26
Nov 19 20 (324. *244) 21 22 23 24
Ea6-11 Ea6-12 Ea6-13 Ea6-14 Ea6-15 Ea6-16
koia - hoko henua - hakatupu mauga - ko koe - henua tagata - he taau - kiore hokohuki - kiore

Tupu. 1. Shoot, sprout, bud; to sprout, to bud. 2. Pregnant: vî'e tupu (o te poki); to be conceived (of fetus in its mother's womb): he-tupu te poki i roto i te kopú o toona matu'a. Vanaga. To grow, to sprout, to germinate, to come forth, to conceive, pregnant, germ; mea tupu, plant; tupu ke avai, of rapid growth; tupu horahorau, precocious; hakatupu, to produce, to stimulate growth, to excite. P Pau.: fakatupu, to raise up, to create. Mgv.: tupu, to grow, to conceive, to be pregnant. Mq.: tupu, to grow, to sprout, to conceive. Ta.: tupu, to grow, to sprout. Churchill. Mgv.: Tupu, the best or worst, used of men or of bad qualities. Sa.: tupu, king. Ma.: tupu, social position, dignity. Churchill.

REVERSED NAKSHATRA → CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

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) 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)

Heart-5 (Fox)

σ Scorpii (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7)
ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM (Club) = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8)
May 27 28 (148, *68) 29 30
Nov 25 (329, *249) 26 27 28
Ea6-17 Ea6-18 Ea6-19 Ea6-20 (198)
tagata mau - moa te honu paka moa kua kau

Paka. 1. Dry; to become dry (of things); pakapaka, to dry out. Te paka is also the name of the moss-covered areas, between the small lakes of volcano Rano Kau, through which one can pass without getting one's feet wet. 2. To go, to depart; he-paka-mai, to come; he-oho, he-paka, they go away. 3. To become calm (of the sea): ku-paka-á te tai. Pakahera, skull, shell, cranium; pakahera puoko tagata, human skull; pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Gutu pakapaka, scabbed lips. Hau paka, fibres of the hauhau tree, which were first soaked in water, then dried to produce a strong thread. Moa gao verapaka, chicken with bald neck. Ariki Paka, certain collateral descendents of Hotu Matu'a, who exercised religious functions. Vanaga. 1. Crust, scab, scurf; paka rerere, cancer; pakapaka, crust, scabby. 2. Calm, still. 3. Intensive; vera paka, scorching hot; marego paka, bald; nunu paka, thin. 4. To arrive, to come. 5. To be eager. 6. To absorb. 7. Shin T. Pakahera, calabash, shell, jug. Pakahia, to clot, curdle, coagulate. Pakapaka, dry, arid, scorching hot, cooked too much, a desert, to fade away, to roast, a cake, active; toto pakapaka, coagulated blood; hakapakapaka, to dry, to broil, to toast. Pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Churchill.

Kau. 1. To move one's feet (walking or swimming); ana oho koe, ana kau i te va'e, ka rava a me'e mo kai, if you go and move your feet, you'll get something to eat; kakau (or also kaukau), move yourself swimming. 2. To spread (of plants): ku-kau-áte kumara, the sweet potatoes have spread, have grown a lot. 3. To swarm, to mill around (of people): ku-kau-á te gagata i mu'a i tou hare, there's a crowd of people milling about in front of your house. 4. To flood (of water after the rain): ku-kau-á te vai haho, the water has flooded out (of a container such as a taheta). 5. To increase, to multiply: ku-kau-á te moa, the chickens have multiplied. 6. Wide, large: Rano Kau, 'Wide Crater' (name of the volcano in the southwest corner of the island). 7. Expression of admiration: kau-ké-ké! how big! hare kau-kéké! what a big house! tagata hakari kau-kéké! what a stout man! Vanaga. To bathe, to swim; hakakau, to make to swim. P Pau., Mgv., Mq.: kau, to swim. Ta.: áu, id. Kauhaga, swimming. Churchill. The stem kau does not appear independently in any language of Polynesian proper. For tree and for timber we have the composite lakau in various stages of transformation. But kau will also be found as an initial component of various tree names. It is in Viti that we first find it in free existence. In Melanesia this form is rare. It occurs as kau in Efaté, Sesake, Epi, Nguna, and perhaps may be preserved in Aneityum; as gau in Marina; as au in Motu and somewhere in the Solomon islands. The triplicity of the Efaté forms [kasu, kas, kau] suggests a possible transition. Kasu and kas are easy to be correlated, kasu and kau less easy. They might be linked by the assumption of a parent form kahu, from which each might derive. This would appear in modern Samoan as kau; but I have found it the rule that even the mildest aspirate in Proto-Samoan becoming extinct in modern Samoan is yet retained as aspiration in Nuclear Polynesia and as th in Viti, none of which mutations is found on this record. Churchill 2

REVERSED NAKSHATRA → CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

Al Kalb-16 (The Heart) / Jyeshtha-18 (Eldest) / ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)

ANTARES = α Scorpii (249.1), MARFIK (Elbow)  = λ Ophiuchi, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)
γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5)

kea

kua kau

And 360 + 4 = 364 (→ 13 * 28 → 26 fortnights).