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7-1. Number 39, of the stolen variants of uhi, could perhaps be connected with the movement of the Sun from one hemisphere to the other.

... It grew light [he otea] and Teke went out [he ea a Teke ki haho] in the twilight to urinate [i te po ana mimi]. [E:59] Then [hokoou] Teke called out from the door, from outside [o haho], 'Hey you! Hurry out to our yams! [ka ea mai koe ki te uhi]' The digging of the yams was over [ka pae ana te keri] and the thieves had stolen [ku toke] the yams. Earlier Teke's men had placed [ku noho era] the baskets in front of the house [i mua i te hare], every one of his baskets (? ka paepae tahi ro). Maeha came out of the house, saw the yam (plantation) [he ui i te uhi], and said, 'The yams are gone because of the theft for the king.' [ku pae ana te uhi.i te kori mo te Ariki] ... [E:60]

As we should remember, the act of urinating coincided also with the arrival to Easter Island of king Hotu A Matua:

... On the fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa uri), Nonoma left the house [he ea mai roto i te hare] during the night [i te po] to urinate outdoors [ki kaho.mimi]. At this point Ira called out [he rangi] to Nonoma, 'Look at the canoe!' Nonoma ran [he tahuti], he quickly went to Te Hiringa Heru (a ravine in the side of the crater Rano Kau) and looked around. There he saw the double canoe way out near the (offshore) islets [i te motu o haho], and the two (hulls of the canoe) were lashed together ... [E:75]

The 19th Hindu station, Mula, which I in a way misleadingly have referred to as 'The Root' (singular) in fact was a bunch of roots tied together.

18 Jyeshtha

the eldest, most excellent

α, σ, and τ Scorpii

Antares (?)

Circular amulet, umbrella, earring 249 = 241 + 8

Nov 25 (300 + 29)

19 Mula

the root

ε, ζ, η, θ, ι, κ, λ, and μ Scorpii

η Scorpii (?)

Bunch of roots tied together, elephant goad 259 = 249 + 10

Dec 5 (300 + 39)

...Yam roots was the 4th item enumerated by king Matua A Taana:

1

60

Banana shoots

te huri maika

2

61

Taro seedlings

te uru taro

3

62

Sections of Sugarcane

tepupura toa

4

63

Yam roots

te uhi

5

64

Sweet potatoes

te rau kumara

6

65

Hauhau trees

te hauhau

7

66

Paper Mulberry trees

te mahute

8

67

Sandalwood trees

te naunau

9

68

Toromiro trees

te toromiro

10

69

Ferns

te riku

11

70

Rushes

te ngaatu

12

71

Yellow roots

te pua

13

72

Tavari plants

te tavari

14

73

Moss

te para

15

74

Nga Oho plants

te ngaoho

16

75

Grass

te mauku tokoa

In the era of Bharani the Full Moon would have been at the right ascension line of The Prededing One in day 157, corresponding to the place where the Sun would have been in "October 25:

June 5 (156 → 2 * 78) → 314 / 2 7 (*78) 8
Ea6-26 Ea6-27 Ea6-28 Ea6-29 (207)
manu rere moa kua oro moa

Oro. 1. To flit in the air (of a bird), turning and flying up and down. 2. To file, to scratch, to scrub, to grind, to sharpen; ka-oro te kumara, grind the sweet potatoes; ka-oro te hoe, sharpen the knife. Orooro, to rub, to polish, to shine. Vanaga. Oroina, to choke on a fish bone. Orooro, to whet, to sharpen (horo). Churchill.

REVERSED NAKSHATRA → CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Dec 4 5 6 (*260) 7 (341 → 300 + 41)
"Oct 24 Tagaroa Uri 25 26 27 (*220)
OCT 1 2 3 (*196) 4

17h (*258.7)

ARRAKIS = μ Draconis (258.7)

Mula-19 (The Root)

SABIK (The Preceding One) = η Ophiuchi (259.7), η Scorpii (259.9)
NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8)

SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:

5h (*76.1)

ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA (Footstool) = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)

*35.0 = *76.4 - *41.4
μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)

ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA (Mother Goat) = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)
λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

According to Manuscript E the Explorers (5 of the original 7) returned to their old homeland in Tangaroa Uri 25, which date presumably corresponded to the mythical date "October 25.

... The ancient names of the month were: Tua haro, Tehetu'upú, Tarahao, Vaitu nui, Vaitu poru, He Maro, He Anakena, Hora iti, Hora nui, Tagaroa uri, Ko Ruti, Ko Koró ...

And this was 10 days after Hotu A Matua (the 10th king following the 9th king Matua A Taana) had arrived to Easter Island. *259 (Sabik) = *249 (Antares) + *10:

May 27 28 (148, *68) 29 30 (300 / 2)
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
"Oct 15 (288 → 12 * 24) 16 17 18
SEPT 22 (*185) 23 24 25

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)

... 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 = υ˛ 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 ...

... 288 was also the day number the Pope Gregory XIII had decided on for launching his new calendar: ... The Julian calendar day Thursday, 4 October 1582 was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582 (the cycle of weekdays was not affected) ...

The Preceding One (Sabik, *259) was presumably to be contrasted with the Follower (Hyadum I, *63) - at the end of side b on the G tablet.

1 Al Sharatain Pair of Signs β Arietis (Sheratan), γ (Mesarthim) 27.4 April 17 (107)
 Musca Borealis 35 (Head of the Fly), 39 (Kaffaljidhma), and 41 Arietis (Bharani) 41.4 May 1 (121)
2 Al Dabarān Follower α Tauri (Aldebaran), θš, θ˛´, γ (Hyadum I), δ (Hyadum II), ε (Ain) 63.4 May 23 (143)

And from this Follower to the other follower Aldebaran ( Al Dabarān) there were 5 days, in a way corresponding to the difference between 365 and 360 days.

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

Hyadum I

*5

Aldebaran

*192

Sabik

*104

*63

*68

*260

The peculiar figure 3 days after Antares (ideally) would have been at the Full Moon (Ea6-20) in November 28 (300 / 2 + 182) envisions what seems to be a pair who are different aspects of a single person, the one at right with a bulging belly in contrast to the one at left who in contrast has longer limbs:

kea

kua kau

pito

Pito. 1. Umbilical cord; navel; centre of something: te pito o te henua, centre of the world. Ana poreko te poki, ina ekó rivariva mo uru ki roto ki te hare o here'u i te poki; e-nanagi te pito o te poki, ai ka-rivariva mo uru ki roto ki te hare, when a child is born one must not enter the house immediately, for fear of injuring the child (that is, by breaking the taboo on a house where birth takes place); only after the umbilical cord has been severed can one enter the house. 2. Also something used for doing one's buttons up (buttonhole?). Vanaga. Navel. Churchill. H Piko 1. Navel, navel string, umbilical cord. Fig. blood relative, genitals. Cfr piko pau 'iole, wai'olu. Mō ka piko, moku ka piko, wehe i ka piko, the navel cord is cut [friendship between related persons is broken; a relative is cast out of a family]. Pehea kō piko? How is your navel [a facetious greeting avoided by some because of the double meaning]? 2. Summit or top of a hill or mountain; crest; crown of the head; crown of the hat made on a frame (pāpale pahu); tip of the ear; end of a rope; border of a land; center, as of a fishpond wall or kōnane board; place where a stem is attached to the leaf, as of taro. 3. Short for alopiko. I ka piko nō 'oe, lihaliha (song), at the belly portion itself, so very choice and fat. 4. A common taro with many varieties, all with the leaf blade indented at the base up to the piko, junction of blade and stem. 5. Design in plaiting the hat called pāpale 'ie. 6. Bottom round of a carrying net, kōkō. 7. Small wauke rootlets from an old plant. 8. Thatch above a door. 'Oki i ka piko, to cut this thatch; fig. to dedicate a house. Wehewehe.