... The eye is the symbolic site of subjection. Valeri observes that: 'The two sentiments that permit the transcendence of the self are, according to Hawaiians, desire and respect. One and the other are called kau ka maka, literally, 'to set one's eyes on' ... 'To see' (ike) in Hawaiian (as in French or English) is 'to understand', but it is also 'to know sexually'. Witness to the order, the world of forms generated by the chief, the eye, is the sacrifice of those who violate that order. The left eye of the slain tabu-transgressors is swallowed by Kahoali'i, ceremonial double of the king and living god of his sacrificial rites. Like the sun, chiefs of the highest tabus - those who are called 'gods', 'fire', 'heat', and 'raging blazes' - cannot be gazed directly upon without injury. The lowly commoner prostrates before them face to the ground, the position assumed by victims on the platforms of human sacrifice. Such a one is called makawela, 'burnt eyes' ...

At the other side of the sky, however, the position of Antares could be deduced from observing the Pleiades:


Eb7-1 (→ 237 - 16)	*Eb7-2 (326 + 222 = 2 274)**
te tagata puo pouo	kua hua te hipu
Puo. (Also pu'a); pu'o nua, one who covers himself with a nua (blanket), that is to say, a human being. Vanaga. 1. To dress, to clothe, to dress the hair; puoa, clothed; puoa tahaga, always dressed. 2. To daub, to besmear (cf. pua 2); puo ei oone, to daub with dirt, to smear. 3. Ata puo, to hill up a plant. Churchill. Hipu. Calabash, shell, cup, jug, goblet, pot, plate, vase, bowl, any such receptacle; hipu hiva, melon, bottle; hipu takatore, vessel; hipu unuvai, drinking glass. P Mgv.: ipu, calabash, gourd for carrying liquids. Mq.: ipu, all sorts of small vases, shell, bowl, receptacle, coconut shell. Ta.: ipu, calabash, cup, receptacle. Churchill.
*Nov 13 (317, 237)**	14 (364 - 46 = 318)
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)	*Hairy Head-18 (Cockerel) / Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)* ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE (28 Tauri), ATLAS (27 Tauri) (56.3)

... Now the deluge was caused by the male waters from the sky meeting the female waters which issued forth from the ground. The holes in the sky by which the upper waters escaped were made by God when he removed stars out of the constellation of the Pleiades; and in order to stop this torrent of rain, God had afterwards to bung up the two holes with a couple of stars borrowed from the constellation of the Bear. That is why the Bear runs after the Pleiades to this day; she wants her children back, but she will never get them till after the Last Day ...


Eb7-3 (223)	Eb7-4
ka tu te rakau	te vai okahega
Nov 15	16 (320)
MENKHIB (Next to the Pleiades) = ζ Persei(57.6) ~~PORRIMA (γ Virginis)~~	ZAURAK (Boat) = γ Eridani (58.9)


Eb7-5 (225)	Eb7-6
te rakau	te manu
Nov 17	18
λ Tauri (59.3), ν Tauri (59.9)	4h (60.9) JĪSHUĬ = λ Persei (60.7) ~~COR CAROLI (α Canum Ven.)~~

Eb7-7 (227)	Eb7-8
tupu te rakau	ko raua ka tutu
Nov 19	20 (324)
υ Persei (61.2)	BEID (Egg) = ο¹ Eridani (62.2), μ Persei (62.8) ~~VINDEMIATRIX (ε Virginis)~~

Eb7-9 (229)	Eb7-10
ka tupu te rakau	ka tu te niu
Nov 21 (229 + 96)	22 (326)
*Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)* HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4) 22.0 = 63.4 - *41.4	HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)

Eb7-11	*Eb7-12 (558 → 18 31)**
kua hua	atua mata viri
Nov 23 (327)	24
*Net-19 (Crow)* AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)	No star listed (66)

Eb7-13	Eb7-14 (326 + 234 = 560)
Erua oona mea ki te puoko	ka tupu te rakau
*Nov 25 (329, 249 = 67 + 182)**	26
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)
Rakau, raau, medicine, remedy, drug. Ra'a'u, scratch on the skin. Rakau, a plant. Râkau, goods, property. Vanaga. 1. Wood; rakau ta, cudgel, stick. P Pau.: rakau, tree, to dress a wound. Mgv.: rakau, wood, timber, a tree; medicine, a remedy; an object. Mq.: ákau, wood, tree. Ta.: raáu, id. 2. Medicine, remedy, potion, ointment, furniture, any precious object, resources, baggage, riches, heritage, dowry, merchandise, treasure, wealth; rakau hakaneinei, purgative; rakau nui, rich, opulent; rakau kore, poor, beggar, indigent, miserable, an inferior; hakakamikami ki te rakau, to impoverish; rakau o te miro, ballast. Mq.: akau, anything in general. The medicine sense is particularized in Tonga, Nukuoro, Hawaii, Tahiti, Mangareva, Paumotu. In no other speech does wood stand so fully for wealth of possessions, but it will be recalled that Rapanui is destitute of timber and depends wholly upon driftwood. Churchill.

Aldebaran could also be observed in the Tree (Rakau) of Metoro, which I think referred to the conglomeration of beautiful stars hanging together as if in a Christmas Tree:

The form of the 'legs' of Aldebaran (the horns of Taurus) might have been used to illustrate the letter A, with Aldebaran (α) in the south and Ain (ε) in the north. And at the 'foot' of Aldebaran was the place for tattooing, presumably referring to ζ (The Heavenly Gate):

... 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 ...

Egyptian head		Phoenician aleph		Greek alpha	Α (α)
In Gardiner's sign list this is E2, aggressive bull.

... From Aleph to Taf' describes something from beginning to end; the Hebrew equivalent of the English 'From A to Z ... Tav is the last letter of the Hebrew word emet, which means truth. The midrash explains that emet is made up of the first, middle, and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet (Aleph, Mem, and Tav...). Sheqer (falsehood), on the other hand, is made up of the 19th, 20th, and 21st (and penultimate) letters. Thus, truth is all-encompassing, while falsehood is narrow and deceiving. In Jewish mythology it was the word emet that was carved into the head of the Golem which ultimately gave it life. But when the letter 'aleph' was erased from the Golem's forehead, what was left was 'met' - dead. And so the Golem died ...


*Eb7-15 (561 → 3 187)**	*Eb7-16 (236 → 8 29½)**
to manu mata etahi	te toga
... 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 ... Ue. Uéué, to move about, to flutter; he-uéué te kahu i te tokerau, the clothes flutter in the wind; poki oho ta'e uéué, obedient child. Vanaga. 1. Alas. Mq.: ue, to groan. 2. To beg (ui). Ueue: 1. To shake (eueue); kirikiri ueue, stone for sling. PS Pau.: ueue, to shake the head. Mq.: kaueue, to shake. Ta.: ue, id. Sa.: lue, to shake, To.: ue'í, to shake, to move; luelue, to move, to roll as a vessel in a calm. Niuē: luelue, to quake, to shake. Uvea: uei, to shake; ueue, to move. Viti: ue, to move in a confused or tumultous manner. 2. To lace. Churchill. Toga. 1. Winter season. Two seasons used to be distinguished in ancient times: hora, summer, and toga, winter. 2. To lean against somehing; to hold something fast; support, post supporting the roof. 3. To throw something with a sudden movement. 4. To feed oneself, to eat enough; e-toga koe ana oho ki te aga, eat well first when you go to work. Vanaga. 1. Winter. P Pau., Mgv.: toga, south. Mq.: tuatoka, east wind. Ta.: toa, south. 2. Column, prop; togatoga, prop, stay. Togariki, northeast wind. Churchill. Wooden platform for a dead chief: ka tuu i te toga (Bb8-42), when the wooden platform has been erected. Barthel 2. The expressions Tonga, Kona, Toa (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the quarter of an island or of the wind, between the south and west, and Tokelau, Toerau, Koolau (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the opposite directions from north to east - expressions universal throughout Polynesia, and but little modified by subsequent local circumstances - point strongly to a former habitat in lands where the regular monsoons prevailed. Etymologically 'Tonga', 'Kona', contracted from 'To-anga' or 'Ko-ana', signifies 'the setting', seil. of the sun. 'Toke-lau', of which the other forms are merely dialectical variations, signifies 'the cold, chilly sea'. Fornander.
Nov 27	*28 (332, 70 + 182)*
No star listed (69)	No star listed (70)

Counting from 1775 (the middle of the 'latter eighteenth century) to 1842 (my assumed era for the rongorongo texts) will result in 67 years or approximately 1 precessionial day (26000 / 365.25 = 71). This implies my date November 27 (AD 1842) should correspond to the stars in 28 November (AD 1775). Here the Full Moon seems not have been close to any important star. Unless Aldebaran was referred to.

... There are 471 glyphs on the tablet and each glyph represents a day. But the first day in the text is not represented by a glyph, because time flows and the first day cannot be incised in the wooden tablet before all its 24 hours have been measured out in full ...

	35
ka hakatu ma te rima		te toga
201		236
*Oct 24 (297 → 360 - 184)*		Nov 28 (333) ATRIA = α Tr. Austr. (253.9)
ρ Ceti (35.4) 360.0 = 35.4 - *41.4		Nov 28 (333) ATRIA = α Tr. Austr. (253.9)

Sumerian SAG

Phoenician resh

Greek rho

Ρ (ρ)

... Resh (Arabic: rāۥ) is the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ... The word resh is usually assumed to have come from a pictogram of a head, ultimately reflecting Proto-Semitic *raۥ(i)š-. The word's East Semitic cognate, rēš-, was one possible phonetic reading of the Sumerian cuneiform sign for 'head' (SAG).

... Then I become aware of ... a presence - a faint, ghostly glimmering, like moonglow, that has appeared on the solstice stone. I don't know how long it lasts, a second or two only I would guess, but while it is there it seems less like a projection - which I know it to be - than something immanent within the stone itself. And it seems to function as a herald for it fades almost as soon as it has appeared and in its place the full effect snaps on - instantaneously. It wasn't there, and then it's there. As Chris had described, the effect does curiously resemble a poleaxe, or a flag on a pole, and consists of a 'shaft', narrow at the base but widening a little towards the top, running up the left hand side of the solstice stone, surmounted by a right-facing 'head' or 'flag'. An instant later an almond-shaped spot of light, like an eye, appears a few centimeters to the right of the 'flag' and the effect is complete. Weirdly - I do not claim it has any significance - this flag-on-a-pole symbol is the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph neter, meaning 'god', or 'a god' - and not to be understood at all in the Judaeo-Christian usage of that word but rather as a reference to one of the supernatural powers or principles that guide and balance the universe. Manifested here, in this strange Stone Age temple, it glows, as though lit by inner fire ...

Marija Gimbutas: 'To sleep within the Goddess's womb was to die and to come to life anew'. In a system of reincarnation the old one must die in order to be reborn, of course. At midsummer Sun comes to a standstill, and this must therefore be an occasion when the 'flame of life' had to be transported into a new body.