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6-8. We should complete our current tables with the stars invisibly close to the Sun, because there was an ambivalence at the equinoxes. At 16h the Full Moon should ideally be at the right ascension line of Acrab (β Scorpii) and the Forehead of the Scorpion (Jabhat al Acrab, ω), while the Sun would be at *61 implying an allusion to day 61 = March 1.

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)
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
υ Persei (61.2)

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

VINDEMIATRIX ( ε Virginis)

Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)

HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4)

*22.0 = *63.4 - *41.4
HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)

Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)
No star listed (66)

The star named Beid (the Egg) - at the place where the Grape Gatherer culminated - should obviously refer to the zero situation;

... In the Hindu Bakshali Manuscript a dark new moon face was used for the unknown (our X) → what is inside an egg cannot be seen, the contents of the coming month were uncertain ...

i.e. before the Bird had revealed himself after having worked his way out by using his egg tooth ( manu tara).

May 27 28 (148, *68) 29 30
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:
Nov 25 (329, *249) 26 27 28

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)
SEPT 22 (*185) 23 24 25 (*188)

... Antares, visible in the morning sky of December-January, came to stand for summer heat; hence the saying, 'Rehua cooks (ripens) all fruit' [hakatupu]. The generally accepted version of the Rehua myth, according to Best, is that Rehua had two wives, the stars on either side of Antares. One was Ruhi-te-rangi or Pekehawani, the personification of summer languor (ruhi), the other Whaka-onge-kai, She-who-makes-food-scarce before the new crops can be harvested ...

... Antares is visible in the sky all night around May 31 of each year, when the star is at opposition to the Sun. At this time, Antares rises at dusk and sets at dawn. For approximately two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky, because it is near conjunction with the Sun; this period of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's declination is significantly south of the celestial equator ...

Rerehu, Burning; a Maori name for Antares related to Rehua. Rerehu presided over the sixth month November-December in Stowell's enumeration, while Tregear associated Rerehu with the ninth month, February-March. Rehu is found in the Hawaiian star and month name Welehu, the Tuamotuan Herehu, and in the Rehu, Varehu, and Avarahu of the Society Islands ... Herehu is a Tuamotuan star whose name suggests the Maori Rerehu and Rehua and the Marquesan Ehua, all names for Antares. The Hawaiian equivalent lehu is found in the star name Lehuakona, Lehua-of-the-south. Rehu is seen in such month names a Serehu of Tongareva, Welehu of Hawaii, and Rehu and Varehu of the Society Islands ... Waerehu is listed as a Maori star and was a name for Antares among the Moriori as well as for the month of January.

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.

Rehu. 1. Dust. P Mgv.: rehu, a cinder, coal, ashes. Mq.: éhuahi, ashes. Ta.: rehu, ashes, soot, any powder. 2. To omit, to forget, to faint. Rehurehu, to omit, omission, lost to sight. Hakarehu, to surprise. Rehua, unintelligible. Churchill. Mgv.: rehurehu, from early dawn to mid morning. Ta.: rehurehu, twilight. Mq.: ehuehu, id. Churchill. Mq.: ehu, to fall in bits. Ma.: rehu, to split off in chips. Ehua, Ehuo, a large constellation. Ma.: rehua, a star or planet, probably Jupiter. Churchill.

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
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)

... In Hindu tradition, Rahu is a cut-off head of an asura, that swallows the sun or the moon causing eclipses. He is depicted in art as a serpent with no body riding a chariot drawn by eight [8] black horses ... According to legend, during the Samudra manthan, the asura Rahu drank some of the divine nectar. Sun and moon realized it and they alerted Mohini (the female avatar of Vishnu). Before the nectar could pass his throat, Mohini cut off his head. The head, however, remained immortal. It is believed that this immortal head occasionally swallows the sun or the moon, causing eclipses. Then, the sun or moon passes through the opening at the neck, ending the eclipse ...

hakaturou

moa

Moa. Poultry (general term); moa to'a, rooster; moa taga, chicken, moa rikiriki, chick; moa tarapiko, old rooster (with much twisted spurs - tara); moa gao verapaka, chicken with bald neck; moa va'e verevere, with feathers on its legs; moa pipipipi with multicoloured spots; moa garahurahu, colour of dark ashes; moa tea, white; moa totara, frizzy; moa tu'a ivi raá, with bright yellow back. Vanaga. Fowl; moa toa, cock; moa uha, hen; moa ohoa, crowing of cocks; moa manua, wild fowl; moa herea, tame fowl. P Pau.: moa, domestic fowl. Mgv.: moa, cock. Mq.: moa, hen. Ta.: moa, cock, hen. Churchill. Mgv.: Aka-moa, to cook. Mq.: haamoa, id. To.: moa, dried. Ha.: moa, to dry, to roast. Mgv.: Moaga, 1. a red beard. Mq.: moaka, very red. 2. a fish. Mq.: moana, id. Sa.: moaga, id. Ha.: moana, a red fish. Mgv.: Moake, east wind. Ha.: moae, the northeast tradewind. Churchill.

Then we can continue:

May 31 June 1 (100 + 52) Terminalia 3 (100 + 54) 4 → Febr 25 (420)
Ea6-21 Ea6-22 (200) Ea6-23 Ea6-24 Ea6-25
moa moe te goe moa moe te goe moa

Goe. Milky Way. Vanaga.

... This Snake-river of sparkling dust, the stream of the abyss on high through which it runs, the golden cord of the heaven-god ... connected alike with the hill of the Sun-god and with the passage of ghosts, is the Milky Way ...

REVERSED NAKSHATRA → CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
ATRIA = α Tr. Austr. (253.9)

Tail-6 (Tiger)

WEI (Tail) = ε Scorpii, η Arae (254.3), DENEBAKRAB = μ Scorpii (254.7)

ι Ophiuchi (255.3), GRAFIAS = ζ Scorpii (255.4)

*214.0 = *255.4 - *41.4
κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), CUJAM (Club) = ε Herculi (256.9) No star listed (257)
SEPT 26 27 28 (*191) 29 30

vaha mea

moe te goe

vaero

Notably heliacal Aldebaran Al Dabarān (The Follower) is in my star list surrounded by 2 empty days before and 2 empty days after:

 
*66 *67 Aldebaran *69 *70

... He continued travelling until he reached the house of Uetonga, whose name all men know: he was the tattoo expert of the world below, and the origin and source of all the tattoo designs in this world. Uetonga was at work tattooing the face of a chief. This chief was lying on the ground with his hands clenched and his toes twitching while the father of Niwareka worked at his face with a bone of many sharpened points, and Mataora was greatly surprised to see that blood was flowing from the cheeks of that chief. Mataora had his own moko, it was done here in the world above, but it was painted on with ochre and blue clay. Mataora had not seen such moko as Uetonga was making, and he said to him, 'You are doing that in the wrong way, O old one. We do not do it thus.' 'Quite so,' replied Uetonga, 'you do not do it thus. But yours is the way that is wrong. What you do above there is tuhi, it is only fit for wood. You see,' he said, putting forth his hand to Mataora's cheek, 'it will rub off.' And Uetonga smeared Mataora's make-up with his fingers and spoiled its appearance. And all the people sitting round them laughed, and Uetonga with them ...

The real tattoo was created by using soot (ashes).