On Easter Island they looked to the Full Moon (Hotu) in order to read the time of the year. Beyond the yam (carpe diem) roots there were an additional 36 days to the Footstool of the Giant:

... The word is from Al Kursiyy al Jauzah, the Chair, or Footstool, of the Central One, i.e. Orion ...

The Hindu nakshatra structure had the Root (Mula) - Bunch of roots tied together (ε, ζ, η, θ, ι, κ, λ, and μ Scorpii) - where the Full Moon reached day 10 after Antares.

Egyptian courtyard		Phoenician heth		Greek eta	Η (η)
... The letter shape ultimately goes back to a hieroglyph for 'courtyard' ... possibly named hasir in the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, while the name goes rather back to hayt, the name reconstructed for a letter derived from a hieroglyph for 'thread' ... The kaikai are the rythmic songs that are sung to cat's cradles, the string games that are found not only throughout the Pacific but throughout the world. On premissionary Rapa Nui the kaikai, together with their corresponding cat's cradles, were not simple children's games but were used, among other things, to produce magic effect. They were highly important for the study of Rapa Nui's rongorongo. This is because it was apparently with the aid of cat's cradles that the rongorongo experts taught their pupils to learn many of the chants accompanying the incised inscriptions ... ... string games could be resumed after it was clear that the Sun had managed to leave the horizon and was rapidly gaining in altitude: 'Before the sun starts to leave the horizon ... when it shows only on the horizon, ... then string games were no longer allowed as they might lacerate the sun. Once the sun had started to go higher and could be seen in its entirety, string games could be resumed, if one so wished. So the restriction on playing string games was only applicable during the period between the sun's return and its rising fully above the horizon ...

I.e., it was at the time when the Explorers turned around to go home in Tangaroa Uri 25.

8 he ngu haha tea.	9 he mango.	10 he hahara rapanui       1 he ti.		1 he kape.
The taro variant 9 he mango. was presumably a verbal sign corresponding to the glyph type Metoro helped me name mago - a sign of the tail (end):  180 5 186 vaha mea mago 182 days Hara. Harahara 1. Misaligned (of roofing, basketware, etc.); e harahara nó te kete, the basket is misaligned (its strips are not parallel. 2. A sort of taro. 3. Latrine, defecating ground. Vanaga. 1. Pandanus. P Mgv.: ara, puhara, pandanus (tree); hara, a bunch of pandanus fruit, old pandanus. Mq.: faá haá, pandanus. Ta.: fara, id. 2. Error, mistake, oversight, wrong; to err, to confound, to mistake; manau hara, illusion; toua hara, discussion without knowing the object. P Mgv.: ara, arara, defective, abortive, to miss, to fail, a fault, a quarrel; hara, a fault, a mistake, an error, a dispute, a quarrel, undisciplined. Mq.: hara, a rake, libertine. Ta.: hara, sin, fault, crime. Churchill. Ti by lying with Tattooing made the ti plant (he ti ki ai ki roto ki a he ta ka pu te ti). Burnt ti leaves were used to produce the black dye for tattooing. Kape. 'Bitter-taro' (Alocasia macrorrhiza). In 1957 kape was still cultivated in much the same way as dry taro. It is a type of food to be eaten during times of famine. According to Fuentes (1960:856), the tubers had to be kept in the earth-oven for 15 (sic) days in order to eliminate some of the poisonous components. Barthel 2.  Arum, yam. Churchill. Bitterness by doing it with Bad-taste produced the kape (mangeongeo ki ai ki roto he rakerake ka pu te kape).
APRIL 1 (59 + 32)	2	3 (*13)	4	5 (95)
Ga1-11	Ga1-12	Ga1-13	Ga1-14	Ga1-15
HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)	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 = 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) ARCTURUS (α Bootis)
June 4	5	6 (157 = 314 / 2)	7 (94 + 64)	8 (*444)
°May 31 (151)	°June 1	2 (*73)	3 (94 + 60)	4 (*440)
'May 8 (128)	9	10 (*50)	11 (94 + 37)	12 (*52)
"April 24 (114)	Vaitu Nui 25 (*35)	26 (4 * 29)	27 (94 + 23)	28 (118 = 4 * 29)
... The Explorers had left their old homeland in "April 25 (115) - implying the synodic cycle of Mercury - and they had returned half a year later, in "October 25 (298 = 115 + 183), which was 10 days after the arrival of the Royal Double Canoe ...
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
OCT 1 (91 + 183)	2 (275)	3	4	5
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)	ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9) *221.0 = *262.4 - *41.4
Dec 4	5	6 (*260)	7	8 (342)
°Nov 30	°Dec 1 (335)	*(8 * 32)	3	4
'Nov 7	8 (*232)	9	10 (314)	11
"Oct 24	Tangaroa Uri 25	26	27 (300)	28
... Page E:86 tells about Makoi being left behind on Easter Island when the remaining 5 Explorers sailed home to Hiva. From there (Tangaroa Uri 25) to the day when king Hotu became worried about where king Oto Uta was, i.e. in Tangaroa Uri 30, there were 5 days: April 25 (115) 5 + 56 June 25 (176) 5 + 116 Oct 25 (298) 5 + 56 Dec 25 (359) 5 + 116 61 2 * 61 61 2 * 61 183 183 366 = 2 * 183 = 6 * 61 And from the autumn equinox (265) at Antares to the Sting of the Scorpion (υ Scorpii) there were 15 days ...

 ...In the legends of the Polynesian Islanders, notably those of the Hervey group, the stars in the Scorpion, from the two lettered μ to λ and υ [i.e., with a pair of stars at both ends],

were the Fish-hook of Maui, with which that god drew up from the depths the great island Tongareva; and the names and legend that Ellis, in his Polynesian Researches, applied to Castor and Pollux in Gemini, the Reverend Mr. W. W. Gill asserts, in his Myths and Songs of the South Pacific, belong here, and are the favorites among the story-tellers of the Hervey Islands. They make the star μ¹ a little girl, Piri-ere-ua, the Inseparable, with her smaller brother, μ², fleeing from home to the sky when ill treated by their parents, the stars λ and υ, who followed them and are still in pursuit ...

... Thus was dry land fished up by Maui, which had lain beneath the sea ever since the great rains that were sent by the Sky father and the god of winds. The Maori people say that the north island of Aotearoa, which certainly is shaped much like a fish, is Te Ika a Maui; and according to some tribes the south island is the canoe from which he caught it. And his hook is the cape at Heretaunga once known as Te matau a Maui, Maui's Fishhook (Cape Kidnappers). In some of the other islands which lie across the sea towards Hawaiki, the people say that theirs is the land that Maui pulled up from below ...

Day 300 in the epoch of Bharani was when Al-Risha (the Knot) culminated (as observed at 21h at the time of rongorongo) and this was 183 days after the right ascension day when Thuban culminated - there was thus a close connection in mind between the star at the pole and the star at the beginning of the year.

... Thuban had been the star at the North Pole when the great Egyptian pyramids where built ... The star could be seen, both by day and night, from the bottom of the central passage of the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Knum Khufu) at Ghizeh, in 30° of north latitude, as also from the similar points in five other like structures; and the same fact is asserted by Sir John Herschel as to the two pyramids at Abousseir ...

... For some reason, too, it had taken their fancy to place the Great Pyramid almost exactly on the 30th parallel at latitude 29º 58' 51". This, a former astronomer royal of Scotland once observed, was 'a sensible defalcation from 30º', but not necessarily in error: For if the original designer had wished that men should see with their body, rather than their mental eyes, the pole of the sky from the foot of the Great Pyramid, at an altitude before them of 30º, he would have had to take account of the refraction of the atmosphere, and that would have necessitated the building standing not at 30º but at 29º 58' 22' ...