One of the names of Easter Island was 'Te Pito o te Henua', The Navel of the Earth. What have I written about that? I open Index (in Word) and search for 'pito'. First 'hit' is about this as a concept of the centor of the universe, i.e. here and now. This is the navel (center) because it is located in the middle between the horizons in east and west, also in the middle between the horizons in north and south, and in the middle between the past and future.

Next 'hit' is the story about the death of Maui. At first I didn't see it, then I realized that it was the red robin ('robin' means 'red'), pitoitoi. Each time I see 'red' I think about the sun. Notice that Maui first assume the habit of kiore.

Then I find the Gilbert Islanders to have considered their original homeland at Upolu in Samoa to be their 'te buto'.

It seems that I haven't mentioned that Te Pito o te Henua was one of the names for Easter Island. Now I have mentioned it.

However, I remember having written about Captain Cook and navel strings, why didn't I locate that via Index? I search once again, this time with 'navel', and certainly there it was. I didn't find it the first time because I had written piko, the Hawaiian word.

And then I also find Te Pito o te Henua in the story about Hotu Matu'a, I hadn't got a 'hit' with 'pito' because I had written 'Navel of the World'. With 'navel' I also found the interesting 'pocket encyclopedia of myth'.

Once more I try, this time with 'umbilicus'. No 'hit'. But I know that word was mentioned somewhere. I try 'umilical' and then I find it (the 'piko' place). Also I find another place, with a description of how to make knots: towards the right and with three revolutions.