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There was a misalginment (hahara) in the taro list:

10 + 2 variants of taro brought by Oti from the plantation of Teke:

1

*70

ngeti uri.

a Teke. a Oti.

2

*71

ngeti tea.

3

*72

he ngaatu.

4

*73

he tuitui koviro.

5

*74

he ketu anga mea.

6

*75

he ketu takarua.

7

*76

he teatea.

8

*77

he ngu haha tea.

9

*78

he mango.

10

*79

he hahara rapanui

1

*80

he ti.

1

*81

he kape.

... Could this be due to right ascension *79, because the Gregorian calendar had not placed the northern spring equinox at the correct place? ... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ...

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.

6 he ketu takarua. 7 he teatea. 8 he ngu haha tea. 9 he mango. 10 he hahara rapanui

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.

→ the name of the 10th taro variant he hahara rapanui had no final dot.

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)

hanau

RIGEL & CAPELLA

Hanau. 1. Race, ethnic group. Hanau eepe, the thick-set race; hanau momoko, the slender race (these terms were mistranslated as 'long-ears' and 'short-ears'). 2. To be born. Hanau tama, pregnant woman; vî'e hanau poki, midwive (also: vî'e hakaa'u). Vanaga. To be born; vie hanau, midwife. P Pau.: fanauga, child, descendant, progeny. Mgv.: hanau, to be born, to be brought into the world. Mq.: fanau, hanau, to be born, to lie in, to bring into the world. Ta.: fanau, to be born, to lie in. Churchill.

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 (Head of the Giant) = 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 Hotu became worried about where 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 ...

... the tubers [of kape] had to be kept in the earth-oven for 15 (sic) days in order to eliminate some of the poisonous components ... 2 * 175 (Day of St John) = 350 = 365 - 15. ... Thus the regular old Roman year ended with Februarius 23 and it was 350 nights long, 25 fortnights ...

And then we can see another misalignment (hahara) in the list of 'all kinds of things':

he huru o te me'e  [E:69]

Huru. Custom, tradition, behaviour, manners, situation, circumstances; poki huru hare, child who stays inside (to keep a fair complexion); te huru o te tagata rivariva, a fine person's behaviour; pehé te huru o Hiva? what is the situation on the mainland? Huruhuru, plumage, feathers (the short feathers, not the tail feathers), fleece of sheep. Vanaga. Samoa: sulu, a torch; to light by a torch; sulusulu, to carry a torch; susulu, to shine (used of the heavenly bodies and of fire). Futuna: susulu, the brightness of the moon. Tonga: huluaki, huluia, huluhulu, to light, to enlighten; fakahuhulu, to shine; iuhulu, a torch or flambeau, to light with a torch. Niuē: hulu, a torch; huhulu, to shine (as the moon). Maori: huru, the glow of the sun before rising, the glow of fire. Churchill 2.

... The planting of rushes in the crater lakes is supposed to have been the work of the culture hero Ure. Proceeding from Anakena, Ure planted the top part of the plant in Rano Aroi, the stem in Rano Raraku, and the bottom part in Rano Kau (ME:364) ...

Gaatu, totora reed. Vanaga. Gaatu 1. Bulrush, reed. 2. (gatu).  Churchill.Gatu. Gaatu, totora reed. Gatu: 1. To press, to tighten, to squeeze. 2. To pack tight. 3. To pull suddenly, to give a jerk. I ka hakarogo atu, ku eke á te kahi, he gatu mai, as soon as he felt the tuna be, he pulled in [the line] with a sharp jerk. 4. To kick. 5. E gatu te hagu, to wait for something impatiently (gatu, breath). 6. Shortly, very soon. He tu'u gatu, he is coming shortly, he is just about to arrive. Vanaga. Bulrush, reed. Gaatu (gatu) 1. To feel of, to pinch, to throttle with the hands, to touch, to press (gaatu); gatuga, pressure; gatugatu, to trample down. T Mgv.: natu, to press out linen, to squeeze a person or a sore place. Mq.: natu, to pinch. Ta.: natu, to pinch, to bruise. 2. To suppurate. 3. Gatu mai gatu atu, sodomy. Gatua (gatu 1), tractable, to press.  Churchill. Scirpus riparius var. paschalis. Barthel 2.

1 he ngaatu (*84) a Oti.
1 tavari
1 riku
1 ngaoho
1 naunau.
1 uku koko
1 nehenehe (*90)
1 poporo.
1 kavakava atua
1 kohe.
1 nehenehe [sic!]
1 pua
1 harahara (*96)
1 hua taru.
1 makere
1 hata.
1 tuere heu. (*100)
1 tureme
1 matie.
1 pua nakonako.
1 ipu ngutu (*104)

... The state of the tree loomed large in their thoughts, because it came about at the same time the head of One Hunaphu was put in the fork. The Xibalbans said among themselves: 'No one is to pick the fruit, nor is anyone to go beneath the tree', they said. They restricted themselves, all of Xibalba held back. It isn't clear which is the head of One Hunaphu; now it's exactly the same as the fruit of the tree. Calabash came to be its name, and much was said about it.

Hipu. Calabash, shell, cup, jug, goblet, pot, plate, vase, bowl, any such receptacle; hipu hiva, melon, bottle; hipu takatore, vessel; hipu unuvai, drinking glass. P Mgv.: ipu, calabash, gourd for carrying liquids. Mq.: ipu, all sorts of small vases, shell, bowl, receptacle, coconut shell. Ta.: ipu, calabash, cup, receptacle. Churchill.

Gutu. 1. Lips, mouth, beak, snout (goutu); gutu ahu, swollen lip; gutu hiti, thick lip; gutu mokomoko, pointed lip; gutu no, vain words; gutu pakapaka, scabbed lips; gutu raro, lower lip; gutu ruga, upper lip. Gutugutu, snout. P Pau.: gutu, lip, beak, bill. Mgv.: gutu, the chin, the mouth of a fish. Mq.: nutu, beak, snout. Ta.: utu, lip, mouth, beak, snout. Gutupiri, attentively. Gututae, attentively; gututae mekenu, a small mouth. Gututika, tattoing on the lips. 2. Pau.: Gutuafare, to save, to economize. Ta.: utuafare, family, residence. 3. Pau.: Guturoa, to grimace, to pout. Mgv.: guturoa, to grimace. Churchill.

hipu

This misalignment came directly after Canopus, and possibly it referred to the difference between 177 and 183 = 6 days:

APRIL 16 (80 + 26) 2 APRIL 19 20 21 (111) 6 * 29½ OCT 16 (289)
Ga1-26 Ga1-29 Ga1-30 Ga2-1 Ga8-6 (209)
1 kavakava atua 1 pua FURUD CANOPUS NASH
MOUTH OF THE TWINS

Or maybe to the difference between 180 and 177 days:

... Väinämöinen set about building a boat, but when it came to the prow and the stern, he found he needed three words in his rune that he did not know, however he sought for them. In vain he looked on the heads of the swallows, on the necks of the swans, on the backs of the geese, under the tongues of the reindeer. He found a number of words, but not those he needed. Then he thought of seeking them in the realm of Death, Tuonela, but in vain. He escaped back to the world of the living only thanks to his potent magic. He was still missing his three runes. He was then told by a shepherd to search in the mouth of Antero Vipunen, the giant ogre. The road, he was told, went over swords and sharpened axes. Ilmarinen made shoes, shirt and gloves of iron [→ Mars] for him, but warned him that he would find the great Vipunen dead. Nevertheless, the hero went. The giant lay underground, and trees grew over his head. Väinämöinen found his way to the giant's mouth, and planted his iron staff in it. The giant awoke and suddenly opened his huge mouth. Väinämöinen slipped into it and was swallowed. As soon as he reached the enormous stomach, he thought of getting out. He built himself a raft and floated on it up and down inside the giant. The giant felt tickled and told him in many and no uncertain words where he might go, but he did not yield any runes. Then Väinämöinen built a smithy and began to hammer his iron on an anvil, torturing the entrails of Vipunen, who howled out magic songs to curse him away. But Väinämöinen said, thank you, he was very comfortable and would not go unless he got the secret words. Then Vipunen at last unlocked the treasure of his powerful runes. Many days and nights he sang, and the sun and the moon and the waves of the sea and the waterfalls stood still to hear him. Väinämöinen treasured them all and finally agreed to come out. Vipunen opened his great jaws, and the hero issued forth to go and build his boat at last ...

Or it could have referred to the difference between the Julian and the Gregorian days for spring equinox: *84 - *80 = *4. However, this phenomenon should rather have been described by the pair of nehenehe, with one of them having moved 4 places earlier in the year.

Nahe. Ta.: Angiopteris erecta [maybe evecta?: 'Mule's-foot Fern']. Sa.: nase, the giant fern. Churchill. Bishop Jaussen: crustacé. Barthel. In Jamaica the species Angiopteris evecta ['Mule's-foot Fern'] is widely naturalized and is registered as an invasive species. The plant was introduced by Captain Bligh from Tahiti as a staple food for slaves and cultivated in the Castleton Gardens in 1860. From there it was able to distribute itself throughout the eastern half of the island. Wikipedia. ... I remember from somewhere in Heyerdahl's books that he considered it significant that neke-neke was a special word in the vocabulary of Easter Island, it meant 'walking without legs, walking by moving the weight this side and that slowly advancing forward'. He had discovered the word when he asked how the statues had been moved - they walked (neke-neke) was the answer ...

Te Kioe Uri (*81 - *93)  Te Piringa Aniva (*94 - *106)

... The cult place of Vinapu is located between the fifth and sixth segment of the dream voyage of Hau Maka. These segments, named 'Te Kioe Uri' (inland from Vinapu) and 'Te Piringa Aniva' (near Hanga Pau Kura) flank Vinapu from both the west and the east. The decoded meaning of the names 'the dark rat' (i.e., the island king as the recipient of gifts) and 'the gathering place of the island population' (for the purpose of presenting the island king with gifts) links them with the month 'Maro', which is June. Thus the last month of the Easter Island year is twice connected with Vinapu. Also, June is the month of summer solstice [a mistake: south of the equator it is winter solstice], which again points to the possibility that the Vinapu complex was used for astronomical purposes ...

1 nehenehe 1 poporo. 1 kavakava atua 1 kohe. 1 nehenehe 1 pua 1 harahara
APRIL 16 17 (472) 18 (*393) 19 (*29) 20 (*30) 21 (111) 22
Ga1-26 Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29 Ga1-30 Ga2-1 Ga2-2
μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)

6h (91.3 = 273.4 - 182.1)

ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)

*50.0 = *91.4 - *41.4 = *232.0 - *172.0

ξ Orionis (92.5)

Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)

TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)

*52.0 = *93.4 - *41.4

 FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)

Well-22 (Tapir) / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)

δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM (The Roarer) = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS (Canopy) = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)

*54.0 = *95.4 - *41.4
no star listed (96)

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...

June 19 (*90) 20 (513 / 3) SOLSTICE 22 (*93) 23 (174) ST JOHN'S DAY 25
°June 15 (*86) 16 17 (168) 18 19 (*90) 20 SOLSTICE
'May 23 (*63) 24 (12 * 12) 25 (145) 26 27 28 (*68) 29
9 (*49 = 7 * 7) "May 10 (130) Vaitu Potu 11 12 (*52) 12 (*418) 14 (*54) 15 (500)
29 = 170 - 141 130 - 100 31 32 33 34 35 = *55 - *20
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
OCT 16 17 (290) 18 (*394 - *183)  19 (475 - 183) 20 21 (*214) 22 (295)
Ga8-6 (31 + 178) Ga8-7 (210) Ga8-8 Ga8-9 Ga8-10 Ga8-11 (214) Ga8-12

Winnowing Basket-7 (Leopard)

18h (273.4)

*232.0 = *273.4 - *41.4

NASH (Point) = γ Sagittarii (273.7), θ Arae (273.8)
ZHŌNGSHĀN = ο Herculis (274.0), π Pavonis (274.6)

ι Pavonis (275.1), POLIS = μ Sagittarii (275.9)

MENKAR (α Ceti)
η Sagittarii (276.9) Purva Ashadha-20 (Elephant Tusk, Fan, Winnowing Basket)

KAUS BOREALIS = λ Sagittarii (279.3)

KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii, κ Lyrae (277.5), TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis (277.7), SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis (277.8), KWEI SHE = χ Draconis (277.9

φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS = ε Sagittarii (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), AL  ATHFAR (The Talons of the Falling Eagle) = μ Lyrae (278.6)

*237.0 = *278.4 - *41.4

... As has already been mentioned, the Delphians worshipped Dionysus once a year as the new-born child, Liknites, 'the Child in the Harvest Basket', which was a shovel-shaped basket of rush and osier used as a harvest basket, a cradle, a manger, and a winnowing-fan for tossing the grain up into the air against the wind, to separate it from the chaff. The worship of the Divine Child was established in Minoan Crete, its most famous early home in Europe. In 1903, on the site of the temple of Dictaean Zeues - the Zeus who was yearly born in Rhea's cave at Dicte near Cnossos, where Pythagoras spent 'thrice nine hallowed days' [27] of his initiation - was found a Greek hymn which seems to preserve the original Minoan formula in which the gypsum-powdered, sword-dancing Curetes, or tutors, saluted the Child at his birthday feast. In it he is hailed as 'the Cronian one' who comes yearly to Dicte mounted on a sow and escorted by a spirit-throng, and begged for peace and plenty as a reward for their joyful leaps ...

Dec 19 (*273) 20 (354) SOLSTICE 22 23 (174 + 183) X-MAS EVE 25 (359)
°Dec 15 (*269) 16 (350) 17 18 19 20 (354) 21
'Nov 22 (*246) 23 24 (328) 25 26 (*250) 27 28 (332)
"Nov 8 9 10 (314) 11 12 (*236) 13 14
*273 - *141 *133 *134 *135 *236 - *100 *137 *138

The close link in thought between on one hand he hahara rapanui (presumably expressing how they on Easter Island used day 79 instead of day 80) and on the other hand the difference between 84 (Julian equinox) and 80 (Gregorian equinox) could have made the creators of Manuscript E decide to refer to day 96 (= 80 + 16) as another type of hahara (because 84 + 16 = 100).

... So the shift in the date of the equinox that occurred between the 4th and the 16th centuries was annulled with the Gregorian calendar, but nothing was done for the first four centuries of the Julian calendar. The days of 29 February of the years AD 100, AD 200, AD 300, and the day created by the irregular application of leap years between the assassination of Caesar and the decree of Augustus re-arranging the calendar in AD 8, remained in effect. This moved the equinox four days earlier than in Caesar's time ...

This 'misalignment' would have been repaired by the precession since the time of the Pope. °June 19 (*90) at Furud had moved to June 19 (*94).

... They go inland at the land. The child nursed and tended grows up, is able to go and play. Each day he now goes off a bit further away, moving some distance away from the house, and then returns to their house. So it goes on and the child is fully grown and goes to play far away from the place where they live. He goes over to where some work is being done by a father and son. Likāvaka is the name of the father - a canoe-builder, while his son is Kiukava. Taetagaloa goes right over there and steps forward to the stern of the canoe saying - his words are these: 'The canoe is crooked.' (kalo ki ama). Instantly Likāvaka is enraged at the words of the child. Likāvaka says: 'Who the hell are you to come and tell me that the canoe is crooked?' Taetagaloa replies: 'Come and stand over here and see that the canoe is crooked.' Likāvaka goes over and stands right at the place Taetagaloa told him to at the stern of the canoe. Looking forward, Taetagaloa is right, the canoe is crooked. He slices through all the lashings of the canoe to straighten the timbers. He realigns the timbers. First he must again position the supports, then place the timbers correctly in them, but Kuikava the son of Likāvaka goes over and stands upon one support. His father Likāvaka rushes right over and strikes his son Kuikava with his adze. Thus Kuikava dies. Taetagaloa goes over at once and brings the son of Likāvaka, Kuikava, back to life. Then he again aligns the supports correctly and helps Likāvaka in building the canoe. Working working it is finished ...