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Once again. The now healthy little boy was named Motu-ora = 'Living Island'. Possibly he was in the mind of the creator of the G text when he incised the Bright Fire (λ Cancri) glyph in his tablet:

Egyptian menchet Phoenician lamedh Greek lambda Λ (λ)

... Wikipedia has no information regarding the origin of the Phoenician lamedh, but the Egyptian 'cloth' hieroglyph (menchet) is - I suggest - related to the 4 upside down sky pillars. I.e. the basic element of the 'covering' hieroglyph could have indicated darkness:

... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini ...

From the year 755 (when Cancer had been at July 11 according to the Mayas) to AD 1842 (my assumed baseline for the rongorongo texts) there were around (1842 - 755) / 71 = 15 precessional days. This seems to point to the time of the Bull, when in JANUARY 31 the old year would end (terminate). 192 (JULY 11) - 31 = 161 (JUNE 10):

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... 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 ...

... The Fijian barkcloth that in the end captures the chief represents his capture of the land: upon installation, he is said to hold the 'barkcloth of the land' (masi ni vanua). The barkcloth thus has deeper significance. In general ritual usage, barkcloth serves as 'the path of the god'. Hanging from the rafters at the rear, sacred end of the ancient temple, it is the avenue by which the god descends to enter the priest ... There is still more to the barkcloth. The barkcloth which provides access for the god/chief and signifies his sovereignity is the preeminent feminine valuable (i yau) in Fiji. It is the highest product of woman's labor, and as such a principal good of ceremonial exchange (soolevu). The chief's accession is mediated by the object that saliently signifies women ...

he ruru   he taiko he kumara   he kiakia he tuvi

Sula cyanops ... It should be pointed out that the combined name ruru-taiko refers in MAO. to a black petrel (Procellaria parkinsoni). There are no cultural data available for ruru, which seems to be derived from PPN. *lulu 'owl'... There are no cultural data available for ... taiko (compare RAR. taiko 'black petrel', MGV. tiaku 'petrel?, omen of death', but the textual association of taiko and spirits should be dept in mind ...

... The transference of the name for sweet potatoes, kumara, to a sea bird (Oestrelata incerta or Oestrelata leucoptera) presents a problem in taxonomy. In a short recitation that accompanies the string game, the next bird on the list, kiakia, the white tern, is associated with the leaves of the sweet potato ... White tern. Leucanus albus royanus ...

... Grey tern, Tuvituvi (Procelsterna caerulea skottsbergi) ... Anous stolidus unicolor ... The dark brown tern with a round tail is called tuao ... I was told that tavi is a small, lead-colored bird that lives on the little islets (motu) off the coast. He is supposed to look like the tuvi, the grey tern, and owes his name to his call ...

MAY 20 (140) 21 (*61) 22 (142) 23 24
Ga3-1 Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5 (64 = 8 * 8)
AL TARF (The End) = β Cancri (124.3)

RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)

χ Cancri (125.2), BRIGHT FIRE = λ Cancri (125.4)

*84.0 = *125.4 - *41.4

AVIOR = ε Carinae (126.4), φ Cancri (126.8)

*85.0 = *126.4 - *41.4

ο Ursae Majoris (127.4)

*86.0 = *127.4 - *41.4

Pushya-8 (Nourisher)

υ Cancri (128.1), θ CANCRI (128.2)

July 23 (204) 24 (*125) 25 26 (187 + 20) 27 (208)
°July 19 (200) 20 (*121) 21 22 / 7 23 (204)
26 (177 = 6 * 29˝) 'June 27 28 29 (*100) SIRIUS
"June 12 13 (*84) 14 (165 + 365) Te Maro 15 16

Day 365 + 166 = 531 = 18 * 29˝ (Te Maro 15).

      

... Makoi got up and began to familiarize himself with the (new) land. (This took place) on the fifteenth day of the month of June ('Maro'). He went toward the sheer face of the rocks (titi o te opata), was astonished (aaa), came up to the middle (of the outer rim of the crater), and stood at the very edge. He looked down and saw the 'Pu Mahore of Hau Maka' (on the coast) and said, 'There it is, the hole of the mahore fish of Hau Maka!' He turned his face and looked toward the back (i.e., in the direction of the crater). No sooner had he seen how the dark abyss opened up (below him), when a fragrant breeze came drifting by. Again Makoi said, 'This is the dark abyss of Hau Maka'. He turned around, walked on in utter amazement, and arrived at the house. He spoke to Ira, 'Hey you, my friends! How forgetful we (truly) are. This place is adequate (? tau or 'beautiful'), the dark abyss lies there peacefully!' Ira replied, 'And what should that remind us of up here?' All arose and climbed up. They went on and arrived; they all had a good look (at the inside of the crater). They returned home and sat down. Night fell, and they went to sleep ... [E:19]

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
NOV 19 (*243) 20 (324) 21 22 23
GREDI (Goat) = α Capricorni (307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), ALSHAT (The Sheep) = ν Capricorni (307.9)

Al Sa’d al Dhabih-20 (Lucky One of the Slaughterers) / Ox / Herd Boy-9 (Buffalo)

DABIH = β Capricorni (308.0), κ Sagittarii (308.1), SADIR (Hen's Breast) = γ Cygni (308.4), PEACOCK = α Pavonis (308.7)

*267.0 = *308.4 - *41.4

OKUL = π Capricorni (309.6), BOS = ρ Capricorni (309.9)

ARNEB (α Leporis)

MINTAKA (δ Orionis)

ο Capricorni (310.2), θ Cephei (310.5)

HEKA (λ Orionis)

ALNILAM (ε Orionis)

ROTTEN MELON = ε Delphini, φ Pavonis (311.2), η Delphini (311.4), ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis (311.7)

PHAKT (α Columbae)

ALNILAK (ζ Orionis)

Jan 22 23 (388) 24 25 (*310) 26
°Jan 18 (383) 19 20 21 (*306) 22
'Dec 27 (360) 28 29 30 31 (*284)
"Dec 12 (*266) 13 14 (348) 14 16

The Bright Fire star rose 2 days before Te Maro 15 (365 + 166 = 531 = 18 * 29˝), i.e. 2 days before the time when Makoi began to familiarize himself with the new land - where he would stay behind when the rest of the Explorers sailed home - which happened in "June 15 (166 = 531 - 365), when the Sun reached the right ascension line at the Nose (the Front) of Ursa Major (Itzam-Yeh):

531 (Te Maro 15) - 2 = 528 (→ 48 * 11) points at Aldebaran (*68) which would return to visibility in May 28 (148 = 80 + 68 = 84 + 64) + 16 = 164 (= 528 - 364).

4 he pia. 5 he nahoo.  1 he ngeti uri.
Naholoholo ('Swift-running')
MARCH 25 (84) 26 (*5) 27
Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-6

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ˛ Eridani (68.5)
no star listed (69)

no star listed (70)

(3112 BC + AD 1842) * 365.25 / 26000 = 70 

On Tahiti Aldebaran was named Ana-muri (star pillar at the end - presumably of summer) and as a further clue it was stated that when the Sun reached the 'foot' of Aldebaran it was the place for tattooing → darkening as observed from a place south of the equator. Rigel ('Foot') was at the foot of Orion (as perceived from a place in the north), i.e. we can interpret 'foot' as corresponding to time zero (origo) - where Land (to walk on) in the sky dome had arrived. Here time was moving quickly (naholoholo) in contrast to at the solstices.

Itzam-Yeh defeated May 29 (88 + 61) 30 (*70)
°May 24 (144) 25 (*65) 26
'May 1 (121) 2 (*42) 3
"April 17 (107) 18 (*28) 19
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
SEPT 24 (84 + 183) 25 (*188) 26
HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5) ATRIA = α Tr. Austr. (253.9)
Manacle ziqq Phoenician zayin Greek zeta Ζ (ζ)

... Zeta (uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; Greek: ζήτα ... is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Zayin. Letters that arose from zeta include the Roman Z and Cyrillic З ...

Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn or simply Zay) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads ... It represents the sound [z]. The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In Biblical Hebrew, 'Zayin'  means sword, and the verb 'Lezayen' means to arm. In modern Hebrew, 'zayin' means penis and 'lezayen' is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse and is used in a similar fashion to the English word fuck, although the older meaning survives in 'maavak mezuyan' (armed struggle) and 'beton mezuyan' (armed, i.e., reinforced concrete). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a 'manacle'.

... The shaman climbing the 'stairs' or notches of his post or tree, pretending that his soul ascends at the same time to the highest sky, does the very same thing as the Mesopotamian priest did when mounting to the top of his seven-storied pyramid, the ziqqurat, representing the planetary spheres ...

Nov 27 28 29 (333)
°Nov 23 24 (*248) 25 (329)
'Oct 31 (*225) 'Nov 1 2 (306)
"Oct 17 (*210) 18 19 (292)

Te Maro 15

24

Te Anakena 10

47

 

5

Hora Nui 2

42

Tangaroa Uri 15

"June 15 (166)

"July 10 (191)

"Aug 27 (239)

"Sept 2 (245)

"Oct 15 (288)

166 - 16 = 150

191 - 16 = 175

239 - 16 = 223

245 - 16 = 229

288 - 16 = 272

150 - 41 = 109

175 - 41 = 134

223 - 41 = 182

229 - 41 = 188

272 - 41 = 231

109 - 39 = *70

134 - 39 = *95

182 - 39 = *143

188 - 39 = *149

231 - 39 = *192

May 30 (150)

ST JOHN'S DAY

Aug 12 (223)

Aug 17 (229)

Sept 29 (272)

no star listed (*70) CANOPUS (*95) ALTERF (*143) (*149) MIMOSA (*192)
ATRIA (*253) X-MAS EVE (*325) (*332) DENEB KAITOS (*9)
→ DARK ABYSS → HUA REVA  

 → [E:74]

→ [E:75]

123 (= 3 * 41)

I am repeating this table in order to make clear that my earlier assumption of equality between for instance Te Maro 15 and "June 15 (according to the epoch of Bharani) should be adjusted so as to also include the return to visibility of its leading star. Although I have not listed any heliacal star in May 30 (150) which could return to visibility in June 15 (166).

 

1

Te Maro 15

24

Te Anakena 10
"June 13 (*84)

"June 15 (166)

"July 10 (191)

*84 - *16 = *68

166 - 16 = 150

191 - 16 = 175

*68 - *41 = *27

150 - 41 = 109

175 - 41 = 134

107 - 39 = *68

109 - 39 = *70

134 - 39 = *95

May 28 (148)

May 30 (150)

ST JOHN'S DAY
ALDEBARAN (*68) no star listed (*70) CANOPUS (*95)
ζ Ophiuchi (*251) ATRIA (*253) X-MAS EVE
→ Itzam-Yeh defeated → DARK ABYSS → HUA REVA

28

We can guess that on Easter Island the Sun light might have been too bright in January for observing such small and faint stars as those in Cancer.

MAY 20 (140 = 204 - 64)

43

JULY 3 (184 = 248 - 64)

Ga3-1 (60)

Ga4-21 (104)

July 23 (204) Sept 5 (104 + 144)
GREDI, ALSHAT SIMMAH (*351.7)
Jan 22 (387 = 204 + 183) March 7 (431 = 365 + 66)

45 → 365 - 320