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From Mira (*33) to Bharani (*41) there were 8 right ascension days, similar to the number of those dark nights before Venus would return as morning star.

SYNODIC CIRCUIT OF VENUS

Black

8

Morning Star

263

Black

50

Evening Star

263

Sum

584

32 he tahe MIRA (*33) 34 he taha 35 he apuka

... Although an old constellation, Cetus is by no means of special interest, except as possessing the south pole of the Milky Way and the Wonderful Star, the variable Mira; and from the fact that it is a condensation point of nebulae directly across the sphere from Virgo, also noted in this respect ...

... Mira also known as Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, ο Cet), is a red giant star estimated 200-400 light years away in the constellation Cetus. Mira is a binary star, consisting of the red giant Mira A along with Mira B. Mira A is also an oscillating variable star and was the first non-supernova variable star discovered, with the possible exception of Algol. Apart from the unusual Eta Carinae, Mira is the brightest periodic variable in the sky that is not visible to the naked eye for part of its cycle ...

... In 1638 Johannes Holwarda determined a period of the star's reappearances, eleven months; he is often credited with the discovery of Mira's variability. Johannes Hevelius was observing it at the same time and named it 'Mira' (meaning 'wonderful' or 'astonishing,' in Latin) in 1662's Historiola Mirae Stellae, for it acted like no other known star. Ismail Bouillaud then estimated its period at 333 days, less than one day off the modern value of 332 days, and perfectly forgivable, as Mira is known to vary slightly in period, and may even be slowly changing over time ...

FEBR 17 (14 * 29½) 18 (414 = 365 + 49) 19 (50) 20 (*336 = 4 * 84)
Gb7-30 (440 = 229 + 211) Gb7-31 (63 weeks) Gb8-1 Gb8-2 (214)
ξ¹ Ceti (32.1) γ, δ Trianguli (33.0), χ Persei (33.2), 10 Trianguli (33.5), θ Arietis (33.3), MIRA (Next to the Pleiades) = ο Ceti (33.7) no star listed (34)

ξ Arietis (35.0), ρ Ceti (35.4), 12 Trianguli (35.8), ξ² Ceti (35.9)

*360.0 = *35.4 - *41.4
April 22 (477) 23 (113) 24 (*399) 25 (115)
°April 18 (473) 19 (*29) 20 21 (111)
'March 26 (450) 27 (*53 weeks) 28 (*372) 29 (88 = 115 - 27)
"March 12 (436) 13 (*51 weeks) 3-14 (73) Tara-hao 15

Tara. 1. Thorn: tara miro. 2. Spur: tara moa. 3. Corner; te tara o te hare, corner of house; tara o te ahu, corner of ahu. Vanaga. (1. Dollar; moni tara, id.) 2. Thorn, spike, horn; taratara, prickly, rough, full of rocks. P Pau.: taratara, a ray, a beam; tare, a spine, a thorn. Mgv.: tara, spine, thorn, horn, crest, fishbone. Mq.: taá, spine, needle, thorn, sharp point, dart, harpoon; taa, the corner of a house, angle. Ta.: tara, spine, horn, spur, the corner of a house, angle. Sa.: tala, the round end of a house. Ma.: tara, the side wall of a house. 3. To announce, to proclaim, to promulgate, to call, to slander; tatara, to make a genealogy. P Pau.: fakatara, to enjoin. Mq.: taá, to cry, to call. 4. Mgv.: tara, a species of banana. Mq.: taa, a plant, a bird. Ma.: tara, a bird. 5. Ta.: tara, enchantment. Ma.: tara, an incantation. 6. Ta.: tara, to untie. Sa.: tala, id. Ha.: kala, id. Churchill.

Hao. Ta.: to encircle. To.: hao, id. Ma.: hao, to inclose, to draw around. Churchill.

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AUG 19 (231) 20 (*152) 21 22

Al Ghafr-13 (The Cover) / Svāti-15 (Very Good) / TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE-6 (a pillar to stand by)

15 Bootis (215.2), ARCTURUS = α Bootis (215.4), ASELLUS SECUNDUS (2nd Ass Colt) = ι Bootis (215.5), SYRMA (Train of the Virgin's Robe) = ι Virginis, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8)

*174.0 = *215.4 - *41.4

ι Lupi, 18 Bootis (216.3), KHAMBALIA (Crooked-Clawed) = λ Virginis (216.4), υ Virginis (216.5), ψ Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8)

*175.0 = *216.4 - *41.4
ASELLUS PRIMUS (1st Ass Colt) = θ Bootis (217.8)

τ Lupi, δ Oct. (218.1), φ Virginis (218.7)

FOMALHAUT (α Piscis Austrini)
Oct 22 (295) 23 24 25 (*218 = *177 + *41)
°Oct 18 (291) 19 20 21 (*214 = *177 + *37)
'Sept 25 (*188) 26 27 (270 = 3 * 90) 28
"Sept 11 (254) 12 13 (16 * 16) Hora nui 14 (*177)
32 he tahe a Maeha. a Teke
MIRA (*33)
34 he taha
35 he apuka
36 he apuka heu
37 he tuitui koviro
38 he rai atea
39 he rai atanga
40 he ravi kana
41 BHARANI (*41) he ravi pako

The name for the water yam type he rai atea (*38) could have been applied in order to allude to the Sky (Ragi) becoming White (Tea). *38 + *183 = *221 (Toliman), i.e. day 118 + 183 = 301 could then correspond to the opposite transformation when Atea changed her sex from female to male:

Ragi. Ra'i, T. 1. Sky. 2. Palace. 3. Prince. Henry. 1. Sky, heaven, firmament; ragi moana, blue sky. 2. Cloud; ragipuga, cumulus; ragitea, white, light clouds; ragi poporo, nimbus; ragi hoe ka'i cirrus (literally: like sharp knives); ragi viri, overcast sky; ragi kerekere, nimbus stratus; ragi kirikiri miro, clouds of various colours. 3. To call, to shout, to exclaim. Vanaga. 1. Sky, heaven, firmament, paradise; no te ragi, celestial. 2. Appeal, cry, hail, formula,  to invite, to send for, to notify, to felicitate, precept, to prescribe, to receive, to summon; ragi no to impose; ragi tarotaro, to menace, to threaten; tagata ragi, visitor; ragikai, feast, festival; ragitea, haughty, dominating. 3. Commander. 4. To love, to be affectionate, to spare, sympathy, kind treatment; ragi kore, pitiless; ragi nui, faithful. Churchill. Modoc, a language used on the northwest coast of North America: 'A single word, lagi, was used both for the chief and for a rich man who possessed several wives, horses, armour made of leather or wooden slats, well-filled quivers and precious firs. In addition to owning these material assets, the chief had to win military victories, possess exceptional spiritual powers and display a gift for oratory.' (The Naked Man)

Tea. 1. Light, fair, whitish. 2. To rise (of the moon, the stars); ku-tea-á te hetu'u ahiahi, the evening star has risen. Vanaga. 1. To shine, be bright, brilliant, white; tea niho, enamel of the teeth; ata tea, dawn; teatea, white, blond, pale, colorless, invalid; rauoho teatea, red hair; hakateatea, to blanch, to bleach. P Pau.: faatea, to clear, to brighten. Mgv.: tea, white, blanched, pale. Mq.: tea, white, clear, pure, limpid. Ta.: tea, white, brilliant. 2. Proud, vain, haughty, arrogance, to boast; tae tea, humble; teatea, arrogant, bragging, pompous, ostentatious, to boast, to show off, haughty; hakateatea, to show off. Mgv.: akateatea, pride, vanity, ostentatious, to be puffed up. Ta.: teoteo, boastful, proud, haughty. 3. Mgv.: teatea, heavy rain. Ha.: kea, the rain at Hana and Koolau. Churchill. 1. White, clear; fair-complexioned person, often favorites at court; shiny, white mother-of-pearl shell, cfr. keakea, kekea, Mauna Kea. Po'o kea, towhead, gray-haired person. One kea, white sand (this is shortened to ōkea or kea, as in the expression kea pili mai, drift gravel - vagabond). (PPN tea). 2. Breast milk. See Nu'a-kea. 3. A variety of sugar cane, among Hawaiians one of the best-known and most-used canes, especially in medicine: clumps erect, dense, of medium height; pith white. Ua ola ā 'ō kō kea, living until kea cane tassels (until the hair turns gray). 4. Name listed by Hillebrand for kolomona (Mezoneuron kavaiense); see uhiuhi. Wehewehe. KEA. adj. Haw., also keo, keo-keo, white, lucid, clear; a-kea, openly, public; au-akea, at noon, midday. Sam.:  tea-tea-vale, be pale; ao-atea, forenoon; atea-tea, wide, spacious. Tah.: tea, white; teo-teo, pride, haughtiness; atea, clear, distinct, far off. Marqu., tea, atea, white, broad daylight, also name of the principal god; light generally, as opposed to darkness. Fiji., cea-cea, pale, deathlike; cecea, daybreak, light of morning. Malg., tziok, brilliant, snowwhite. Ceram (Mahai), teen, a star. Greek, θεος, m. θεα, f. god, goddess, divinity generally. In Greek, θεος signified no god in particular, but was applied ot almost all the gods, though perhaps more often to the sun. As the first gods were the sun, moon, &c., their brilliancy and whiteness were the underlying sense of the names given them. That primary sense was apparently lost in the Greek and the other West Aryan branches, though in the Polynesian both the primary and derivative sense has been preserved, ans in the Marqu. atea, both god and light, in the Tah. tapu-tea, the rainbow, and the Sam. tapu-i-tea, the evening star ... Fornander.

... When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...

36 he apuka heu 37 he tuitui koviro 38 he rai atea

Tui. 1. To sew mats, to make strings. E-tahi tuitui reipá i Te Pei, ekó rava'a e-varu kaukau; i-garo ai i Hiva, i te kaiga, a necklace of mother-of-pearl is on te Pei, few will find it (lit: eight groups of people); it has remained in Hiva, in our homeland. 2. The three stars of Orion's Belt. Vanaga. Mq.: tuitui, be still! Mq.: tuitui kioé, chain.

FEBR 21 (417) 22 (53) TERMINALIA
Gb8-3 (229 + 215 = 444) Gb8-4 Gb8-5 (217)
σ Ceti (36.9) ν Ceti (37.9) ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8)
April 26 (*36) 27 28 (118 = 4 * 29½)
°April 22 (*32) 23 24 (*399 = 479 - 80)
'March 30 (454 = 365 + 89) 31 'April 1 (91)
"March 16 (*360 = *36 - *41) Tara-hao 17 18 (77 = 91 - 14)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AUG 23 24 (236 = 53 + 183) 25 (*157)
σ Lupi (219.1), ρ Bootis (219.5), HARIS (Keeper) = γ Bootis (219.7)

σ Bootis (220.2), η Centauri (220.4)

*179.0 = *220.4 - *41.4
ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9)
Oct 26 27 (300) 28 (118 + 183)
°Oct 22 (295) 23 (*216) 24
"Sept 29 (*192) 30 (3 * 91) 'Oct 1
Hora nui 15 (*178) "Sept 16 (236 + 23) 17 (260)

... From the first star king (Hamal) to the next (Alcyone) there were 26 right ascension days and if each of these 10 star kings should have ruled for 26 days they would together have covered 260 days of the year ... This connects up the present section with the beginning of the 'sacred tonalamatl', at the Spring equinox with the Mayas as with the Mexicans, and in the center of the 364-day year (52 days of which preceded and 52 followed the tonalamatl or tzolkin), ruled by its 91-day quarters by the Four Bacabs, whose quarternary repetition (in the 1820-day period) we have thus verified ...

91

91

91

91

52

260 = 5 * 52

52

364 = 4 * 91 = 7 * 52

... 1820 = 20 * 91, i.e. the bacabs circulated 5 times in the 1820-day period, 5 * 364 = 1820, and 7 * 260 also happens to be 1820. They were ruling the 4 quarters of a 364-day long year, and in the center of this year there were 260 days, the sacred tonalamatl (tzolkin) calendar, which began at spring equinox:

39 he rai atanga 40 he ravi kana BHARANI (*41) he ravi pako

Kana. Le kana est un crustacé dont l'enveloppe fournissait un ornement nommé Rei, comme la planche représentant un des longs côtes d'un navire. La femme représentée, en Cook, avec le chapeaux Poouo, porte au core un kana rei. (Jaussen according to Barthel)

Tuakana, elder, elder brother; tuakana tamaahina, elder sister.

FEBR 24 (420) 25 (56) 26 (*342)
Gb8-6 (218) Gb8-7 Gb8-8 (449 = 229 + 220)

μ Arietis (39.4), HEAD OF THE FLY = 35 Arietis (39.6), KAFFALJIDHMA (Part of a Hand) = γ Ceti, θ Persei (39.8)

 *363.0 = *39.4 - *41.4
π Ceti, ο Arietis (40.0), ANGETENAR (Bend in the River) = τ¹ Eridani, μ Ceti (40.2), RIGHT WING = 39 Arietis (40.9)

Bharani-2 (Yoni) / Stomach-17 (Pheasant)

π Arietis (41.2), MIRAM (Next to the Pleiades) = η Persei (41.3), BHARANI = 41 Arietis (41.4), τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7)
April 29 30 (120) May 1 (*41)
°April 25 (115) 26 (*36) 27
'April 2 (92) 3 4 (*14 = *41 - *27)
"March 19 (78) Tara-hao 20 (*364) 0h
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AUG 26 27 (239) 28 (*160)
31 Bootis (222.0), YANG MUN = α Lupi (222.1), RIJL AL AWWA (Left Foot of the Barker) = μ Virginis (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9) IZAR = ε Bootis (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (223.3), μ Librae (223.8)

Al Zubānā-14a (Claws) / Visakha-16 (Forked) / Root-3 (Badger)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (Southern Claw) = α Librae (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)
Oct 29 (*222) 30 31 (304)
°Oct 25 (*218) 26 27 (300)
'Oct 2 (*195) 3 4 (277)
"Sept 18 Hora nui 19 (*182) 20 (263)