
*Eb7-13 (13 43 = 559)**	Eb7-14 (326 + 234 = 560 = 80 weeks)
Erua oona mea ki te puoko	ka tupu te rakau
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.
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
May 27 (83 + 64 = 147)	May 28 (148)
MARCH 24 (83)	JULIAN EQUINOX
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) SPICA (α Virginis)
... This pot depicts one of the Hero Twins (One-Ahaw in the Classic texts and One-Hunaphu in the K'iche' Popol Vuh) and a great bird who is trying to land in a huge ceiba tree heavy with fruit. This mythical bird is Itzam-Yeh, Classic prototype of Wuqub-Kaqix, 'Seven-Macaw', of Popol Vuh fame. In that story, in the time before the sky was lifted up to make room for the light, the vainglorious Seven-Macaw imagined himself to be the sun. Offended by his pride, the Hero Twins humbled him by breaking his beautiful shining tooth with a pellet from their blowgun. This pot shows One-Ahaw aiming at the bird as he swoops down to land in his tree. As Itzam-Yeh lands on his perch, the text tells us he is 'entering or becoming the sky' ...
→ VISIBLE 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) *Nov 25 (329, 249 = 67 + 182) SEPTEMBER EQUINOX**	γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) Nov 26 (148 + 182 = 330) SEPT 23 (266 = 330 - 64)
... 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 ...

And in Virgo they had planted the planet sign of Mercury between Furrow and Frond, which, I think, means Mercury represented the 'spittle' of the old (dead, met) which was the origin of the new (emet). Presumably they had observed the culmination of Spica when the Sun was at Aldebaran.

1	Ana-mua, entrance pillar	ANTARES, α Scorpii	Nov 25 (329)	SEPT 22 (EQUINOX)
2	Ana-muri, rear pillar (at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)	ALDEBARAN, α Tauri	May 28 (148)	MARCH 25 (EQUINOX)
3	Ana-roto, middle pillar	SPICA, α Virginis	May 28 (148)	MARCH 25

The 'bird' (manu) with a 'single eye' (mata etahi), which ideally could be seen close to the right ascensiion line at the Full Moon in November 27 (*251.0) had anciently been at *187 (= 251 - 64) which ought to be at glyph number 561 = 3 * 187.


*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.
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
May 29	30 (150 = 80 + 70)
MARCH 26 (85 = 69 + 16)	27
No star listed (69)	No star listed (70)
→ VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) Nov 27 SEPT 24	ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5) *28 (332, 70 + 182)* *25 (188, 268 = 332 - 64)**

When once upon a time I was classifying all the rongorongo glyphs I decided that 6 of those in the E text ought to belong in my glyph type group named kava:

kava


Eb1-25	Eb2-6	Eb6-8	Eb6-17	Eb7-16	Eb8-31

Kava. 1. Sour; salty: vai kava, saltwater, sea; te kava o te haíga, acrid underarm smell; tagata kava - tagata kakara i te kava, man with smelly armpits. 2. He-kava te haha, to be thirsty. 3. To turn sour, to become embittered, bad-tempered, exasperated (used with manava): tagata manava kava, bad-tempered, angry man. Vanaga. Bitter, salt; vai kava, brackish water; hakakava, to embalm; kavakava, acid, sharp, bitter, salt, spiritous, vinegar, poisonous, disagreeable; akavakava, to make sharp; hakakavakava, to make acid. P Pau.: kava, disagreeable to the taste; kavakava, acid, sharp. Mgv.: kava, to be bitter, sour, acid, salt. Mq.: kava, bitter. Ta.: ava, bitter, acid, salt. Kavahia: 1. Comfort, comfortable, to feast; hakakavahia, comfort, comfortable. 2. Repulsive (of food), disgusted; hakakavahia, repulsion. Kavakava, rib; moi kavakava, a house god G. P Mgv.: vakavaka, the breast. Mq.: vakavaka, vaávaá, rib. Ma.: wakawaka, parallel ridges. We shall need all the available material in order to determine the germ sense of this word. Sa.: va'ava'a, the breast-bone of a bird; fa'ava'a, the frame as of a slate. To.: vakavaka, the side. Fu.: vakavaka, the side below the armpit. Ha.: hoowaa, to make furrows. In all these we may see the idea of ridge or depression, or of both, as primal (Rapanui, Samoa, Marquesas, Maori, Hawaii), and as secondary the part of the body where such appearances is common (Mangareva, Tonga, Futuna). Churchill. Mgv.: kava, the pepper plant and the drink made therefrom. Ta.: ava, id. Mq.: kava, id. Sa.: 'ava, id. Ma.: kawa, a pepper. Kavakava, a fish. Sa.: 'ava'ava, id. Kavapui, a tree. Ta.: avapuhi, a fragrant plant. Mq.: kavapui, wild ginger. Sa.: 'avapui, id. Ha.: awapuhi, id. Churchill. Mq.: ava, a small fish of sweet water. Sa.. 'ava'ava, a small fish. Ha.: awa, a fish. Kakava, burnt. Sa.: 'a'ava, very hot. Churchill.

Metoro said that Eb7-16 represented the winter season (te toga), and it seems plausible that there was a preceding kava period of transition from the summer season, measuring 35 nights:

... For when the ruler drinks the sacred offering, he is in the state of intoxication Fijians call 'dead from' (mateni) or 'dead from kava' (mate ni yaqona), to recover from which is explicitly 'to live' (bula). This accounts for the second cup the chief is alone accorded, the cup of fresh water. The god is immediately revived, brought again to life - in a transformed state ...

	34
ka hakatu ma te rima		te toga
Eb6-17 (326 + 201 = 527 = 628 - 101)		*Eb7-16 (236 → 8 29½)**
*Oct 24 (297 → 360 - 184)*		Nov 28 (332 = 297 + 35)
April 25 (115)		May 30 (150 = 115 + 45)
ρ Ceti (35.4) 360.0 = 35.4 - *41.4		No star listed (70)

... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ... [E:17]

Perhaps Plowing was due to begin when the Sun stood at ζ Herculis, i.e. at the forehead of the old Lion hanging at the left elbow as Hevelius has visualized it - presumably because of such illustrations of Orion as below:

Manacle

ziqq

Phoenician zayin

Greek zeta

Ζ (ζ)

... Zeta (uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; Greek: ζήτα ... is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin. Letters that arose from zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З ...

Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn or simply Zay) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads ... It represents the sound [z]. The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In Biblical Hebrew, 'Zayin' means sword, and the verb 'Lezayen' means to arm. In modern Hebrew, 'zayin' means penis and 'lezayen' is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse and is used in a similar fashion to the English word fuck, although the older meaning survives in 'maavak mezuyan' (armed struggle) and 'beton mezuyan' (armed, i.e., reinforced concrete). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a 'manacle'.

Such ideas could explain the right part of the glyph placed 8 synodic months counted from the beginning of side b:

Because it looks like the 'horn' (koanga) of the Bull of Heaven:

... The Maori recognized two main divisions of the year: winter or takurua, a name for Sirius which then shone as morning star, and summer, raumati or o-rongo-nui, 'of the great Rongo', god of agriculture. They occasionally recognized spring as the digging season koanga, from ko, the digging stick or spade. The autumn or harvest season was usually spoken of as ngahuru, 'tenth' (month), although it was considered to include also the last two months of the year. Mahuru was the personification of spring ...

... The Maori term o-rongo-nui was undoubtedly applied to summer as in phrases such as te ra roa o te marua-roa o te o-rongo-nui, 'the long days (ra, Sun) of the summer solstice'; but it was also extended to cover the months of spring and early summer as well as those of late summer and fall. This is evident from such statements in the legends as: 'That bird is a cuckoo, and that is the bird of matahi o te tau o o-rongo-nui', i.e., of the first month of the summer season, although in New Zealand the cuckoo, like the robin in the north temperate zone, was the harbinger of spring. Also, 'Hine-rau-wharangi' was born in the month Ao-nui (first light) of the o-rongo-nui'. Among the Takitumu tribe Ao-nui was the name for May-June, the first month of the year which belonged to late fall or early winter. Rongo was the name for June in the Chatham Islands and began the Moriori year ...

... The canoe continued its exploration and in a sweep sailed on to Hanga Te Pau. They went ashore and took the food with them. They pulled the canoe onto the beach and left it there. Ira sat down with all the other (companions) and spoke to Makoi: 'You shall mark the land for me and make it known (by its names)!' After that, Ira spoke these words: 'This is the digging stick (? ko koko), Kuukuu.

... You shall work the land for me and plant the yam roots!' ... [E:18]

*HAU MAKA*		*HUA TAVA*
*Ira*	*Raparenga*	*Ngukuu*	*Ringiringi*	*Nonoma*	*Uure*	*Makoi*
Sun	Moon	Mars	Mercury	Jupiter	Venus	Saturn

October 25 (half a year after April 25), we have found, seems to have been connected with Fomalhaut culminating:

	*1
*Gb8-2 (229 + 214 = 443 = 15 29½ + ½)**		Eb6-19 (326 + 203 = 529)
*Oct 25 (218)**		Oct 26 (299 → 529 - 230)
~~FOMALHAUT~~ (Mouth of the Fish, 1.17, 29° 53′ S)		~~FUM-AL-SAMAKAH~~ (Mouth of the Fish, 4.48, 03° 49′ N)
→ DEC 29		→ DEC 30 (364 → 299 + 65)

November 28 (148 + 182 = 332) was half a year after May 18 (148), and on Hawaii they connected November 28 with the beginning of their Lono (agricultural) cycle.

... 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 ...

Between Furrow and Frond the Tail (De-Neb, Da-Nab) was de-voured by Nabu (Mercury):

... Ganz ähnlich is der Name 'Gott von Duazag' des Gottes Nabū ... zu erklären. Er bezeichnet ihn als den Gott des Wachtstums, welches als aus dem Osten stammend betrachtet wird, weil die Sonne, die das Wachstum bringt, im Osten aufgeht. Dass aber Nabū als Ost-Gott aufgefasst wurde, hängt damit zusammen, dass sein Stern, der Mercur, nur im Osten oder Westen sichtbar ist ...

The synodic cycle of Mercury measured a fraction more than 115 days and April 25 was day 115 (= 84 + 31).