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16-7. The bird depicted in Eb7-15 could perhaps represent Aldebaran with 71 * 5 alluding to day 355 (the December solstice):

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)

... 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 ...

We ought to understand why the figure at heliacal Aldebaran (Ga1-4) also had been placed at Eb7-27.

Lockyer's classification:

location of star

time of observation

relation to sun

definition

rising (eastern horizon)

morning

true heliacal

sun rising too

apparent heliacal

sun will soon be up

evening

true heliacal

sun setting too

apparent heliacal

sun has just gone down

setting (western horizon)

evening

true heliacal

sun setting too

apparent heliacal

sun has just gone down

morning

true heliacal

sun rising too

apparent heliacal

sun will soon be up

According to Lockyer's classificatrion and the fact that the minimum number of nights needed (viz. 16 ← 16º) for a star to reappear after its close encounter with the blinding rays from the rising Sun - a method used anciently by the star gazers for determining time - we can reach day 280 for OCTOBER 7 when the apparent (reappearing) heliacal place of Aldebaran ideally would have been visible close to the face of the Full Moon:

MODERN VIEW

*196

ANCIENT APPARENT VIEW

MARCH 25 (84) OCT 7 (84 + 180 + 16 = 280)

Ga1-4

Eb7-27

ALDEBARAN (*68)

May 28 (148 = 84 + 64 = 80 + 68)

ALDEBARAN (68 + 16 = 84)

June 13 (164 = 148 + 16 = 84 + 80)

ANTARES (*68 + *181 = *249)

Nov 25 (148 + 181 = 329 = 265 + 64)

ANTARES (84 + 181 = 265 = 345 - 80)

Dec 11 (164 + 181 = 345 = 329 + 16)

SEPT 22 (265 = 84 + 181) APRIL 6 (280 + 181 = 461 = 265 + 196)

Presumably the reason is that the figure was a symbol and not a direct picture of a specific entity. This symbol seems to represent the rising 'fish', opening her mouth in order to show the red, mea (gills), in the east at the Julian equinox in the era of the Golden Bull.

... I think Sir Lockyer's discovery of how the 'names of gods' were referring not to 'individual persons' but to 'stations in time' is essential for us to be able to appreciate what the rongorongo texts really may be saying ...

At Ga1-4 the figure has been placed at the current true position of heliacal Aldebaran (*68) but at Eb7-27 we need to look at the face of the Full Moon according to the ancient customs and then also to add 16 right ascension nights in order to find where Aldebaran would have returned to visibility in the era of the Golden Bull. Furthermore, 72 * 7 = 504 = 500 + 1 * 4 could express the fact that the Julian equinox was 4 days later than the Gregorian,

... Rare as this modus of writing the word seems to have been - the Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache (eds. Erman and Grapow), vol. 2, pp. 429-33, does not even mention this variant - it is worth considering (as in every subject dealt with by Keimer), the more so as Chairemon continues his list by offering as number 16: 'eniautos: phoinix', i.e., a different span of time, the much-discussed 'Phoenix-period' (ca. 500 years) ...

4 Rohini (Red Deer

the red one

α Tauri

Aldebaran

Cart or chariot, temple, banyan tree May 28 (148)

June 13 (148 + 16)

Beyond glyph number 8 * 29½ as counted on side b of the E text it continues with these 19 glyphs which evidently should be read together in a way resembling that for the previous group of 16.

Eb7-17 (237)

Eb7-18 (564 = 326 + 238)

te ragi te takaure

Takaure. Fly; horse-fly. Vanaga. A fly; takaure iti, mosquito; takaure marere ke, swarm. Churchill.

Eb7-19

Eb7-20 (240)

te henua te takaure

Eb7-21

Eb7-22 (242)

te ragi te pepe

Pepe. 1. A sketch. 2. Bench, chair, couch, seat, sofa, saddle; here pepe, mau pepe, to saddle; noho pepe, a tabouret. Pepepepe, bedstead. 3. Pau.: butterfly. Ta.: pepe, id. Mq.: pepe, id. Sa.: pepe, id. Ma.: pepe, a moth; pepererau, fin, Mgv.: pererau, wing. Ta.: pereraru, id. Ma.: parirau, id. Harepepe, kelp. Here pepe, to saddle. Churchill. Sa.: pepe, a butterfly, a moth, to flutter about. Nukuoro, Fu., Niuē, Uvea, Fotuna, Nuguria, Ta., Mq.: pepe, a butterfly. Ma.: pepe, a grup, a moth; pepepepe, a butterfly; pepeatua, a species of butterfly. To.: bebe, a butterfly. Vi.: mbèbè, a butterfly. Rotumā: pep, id. Churchill 2. Mq.: Pepepepe, low, flat. Ha.: pepepe, id. Churchill.

Eb7-23

Eb7-24

Eb7-25

te hau tea - te takaure te henua  te veveke

Eb7-26

Eb7-27 (237 + 10)

Eb7-28

te henua te vaha tagata - te kihikihi
  June 13 (148 + 16)

14

Eb7-29

Eb7-30 (250)

hagahaga mai o te ragi te koka

June 15

16

Eb7-31

Eb7-32

te hokohuki kua rere te veveke

June 17

18

Eb7-33

Eb7-34 (326 + 254 → 20 * 29)

Eb7-35

te makere te takaure kua oho mai kua hua

June 19

20

Solstice (21)

... Teke said to Oti, 'Go and take the hauhau tree, the paper mulberry tree, rushes, tavari plants, uku koko grass, riku ferns, ngaoho plants, the toromiro tree, hiki kioe plants (Cyperus vegetus), the sandalwood tree, harahara plants, pua nakonako plants, nehenehe ferns, hua taru grass, poporo plants, bottle gourds (ipu ngutu), kohe plants, kavakava atua ferns, fragrant tuere heu grass, tureme grass (Diochelachne sciurea), matie grass, and the two kinds of cockroaches makere and hata.' ... The division into quarters of a 28-series can be applied to the main phases of the moon during the visible period as well as to a (reflex of the old world?) sidereal month. The separate subgroup (29 makere - 30 hata) consists of the names of two types of cockroaches, but in related eastern Polynesian languages these names can also be explained on a different level. MAO. makere, among others, 'to die', and whata, among others, 'to be laid to rest on a platform', deserve special attention. The theme hinted at is one of death and burial. In our scheme they occur at just that time when the moon 'has died'! This lends further support to the lunar thesis ...