... Teke said to Oti, 'Send the men [ka unga te tangata] for banana shoots. They shall take all kinds of banana shoots [anakeanake.te huru o te maika] from my banana plantation, also taro, all kinds of taro, furthermore ti (Cordyline fruticosa) and kape (Alocasia macrorrhiza).' Oti and all his assistants went away, arrived, and took some of the banana shoots as well as taro, ti, and kape. [E:67]

1 he ti.

1 he kape.

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.

... To be in heat, to copulate, to embrace; concupiscence, fornication, impurity; lascivious, impure (ai) ...

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 6 (96 = 3 * 32)

7 (*17)

Ga1-16

Ga1-17

Shur-narkabti-sha-iltanu-5 (Star in the Bull towards the north)

σ Aurigae (80.4), BELLATRIX (Female Warrior) = γ Orionis, SAIF AL JABBAR (Sword of the Giant) = η Orionis (80.7), ELNATH (The Butting One) = β Tauri = γ Aurigae (80.9)

*39.0 = *80.4 - *41.4

ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL (Thirst-slaking Camels) = β Leporis (81.7)

June 9 (*445 = *365 + *80)

10 (161)

... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

°June 5 (156)

6 (*77)

'May 13

14 (*54)

"April 29 (*39)

Vaitu Nui 30

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

OCT 6 (279 = 9 * 31)

7 (*200)

β, γ Arae (263.3), κ Arae (263.5), σ Ophiuchi (263.6)

LESATH (Sting) = υ Scorpii, δ Arae (264.7), CHOO (Club) = α Arae (264.9)

Dec 9 (343 = 7 * 49 = 279 + 8 * 8)

10 (161 + 183)

°Dec 5 (339)

6 (*260)

'Nov 12 (*236 = 8 * 29½)

13 (317 = 161 + 12 * 13)

"Oct 29 (*222)

Tangaroa Uri 30

... 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 ...

Egyptian sky pillar

Phoenician waw

Greek upsilon

Υ(υ)

... Upsilon (uppercase Υ, lowercase υ; Greek: ύψιλον, ýpsilon ... is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, Υ has a value of 400. It is derived from the Phoenician waw ... Waw (wāw 'hook') is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads ...

... Upsilon is known as Pythagoras' letter, or the Samian letter, because Pythagoras used it as an emblem of the path of virtue or vice. As the Roman writer Persius wrote in Satire III:

and the letter which spreads out into Pythagorean branches has pointed out to you the steep path which rises on the right.

Lactantius, an early Christian author (ca. 240 - ca. 320), refers to this:

For they say that the course of human life resembles the letter Y, because every one of men, when he has reached the threshold of early youth, and has arrived at the place 'where the way divides itself into two parts', is in doubt, and hesitates, and does not know to which side he should rather turn himself´...