The region of Hotu Iti was up in the east whereas that of Rano Kau was down in the west.
Moa. Poultry (general term); moa to'a, rooster; moa taga, chicken, moa rikiriki, chick; moa tarapiko, old rooster (with much twisted spurs - tara); moa gao verapaka, chicken with bald neck; moa va'e verevere, with feathers on its legs; moa pipipipi with multicoloured spots; moa garahurahu, colour of dark ashes; moa tea, white; moa totara, frizzy; moa tu'a ivi raį, with bright yellow back. Vanaga. Fowl; moa toa, cock; moa uha, hen; moa ohoa, crowing of cocks; moa manua, wild fowl; moa herea, tame fowl. P Pau.: moa, domestic fowl. Mgv.: moa, cock. Mq.: moa, hen. Ta.: moa, cock, hen. Churchill. Mgv.: Aka-moa, to cook. Mq.: haamoa, id. To.: moa, dried. Ha.: moa, to dry, to roast. Mgv.: Moaga, 1. a red beard. Mq.: moaka, very red. 2. a fish. Mq.: moana, id. Sa.: moaga, id. Ha.: moana, a red fish. Mgv.: Moake, east wind. Ha.: moae, the northeast tradewind. Churchill. The kuhane journey went up from west to east, following the coastline in the south, before turning north in order to follow the opposite coastline down from east to west. I guess this was a journey in the night, after the sun had gone down at the horizon in the west, and therefore the dreamsoul had to begin by apparently moving withershins (towards the horizon in the east instead of the daytime movement above the earth towards the west). Her turning point at Poike (the Place Aloft) could then have corresponded to midnight - because the precession had moved the sky dome in the sun calendar withershins from north to east since an epoch around 26000 / 4 years ago. The Sun had two wives, one associated with fishing and the other with agriculture. ... In later research it was postulated that the [Phoenician] alphabet is actually two complete lists, the first dealing with land agriculture and activity, and the second dealing with water, sea and fishing. The first half beginning with Alef - an ox, and ending with Lamed - a whip. The second list begins with Mem - water, and continues with Nun - fish, Samek - fish bones, Ayin - a water spring, Peh - the mouth of a well, Tsadi - to fish, Kof, Resh and Shin are the hook hole, hook head and hook teeth, known to exist from prehistoric times, and the Tav is the mark used to count the fish caught ... Probably this pair corresponded to Andromeda (anciently Anunitum, the Lady of the Heavens) respectively to Virgo - where Spica illustrated the necessity to dig holes in the ground in order to bury potatoes and the like.
The great hole in the ground of Easter Island was the water-filled Rano Kau. ... Now the deluge was caused by the male waters from the sky meeting the female waters which issued forth from the ground. The holes in the sky by which the upper waters escaped were made by God when he removed stars out of the constellation of the Pleiades; and in order to stop this torrent of rain, God had afterwards to bung up the two holes with a couple of stars borrowed from the constellation of the Bear. That is why the Bear runs after the Pleiades to this day; she wants her children back, but she will never get them till after the Last Day ... Therefore, this part of the land might have corresponded to Virgo (Hine-raumati): ... Hamiora Pio once spoke as follows to the writer: 'Friend! Let me tell of the offspring of Tangaroa-akiukiu, whose two daughters were Hine-raumati (the Summer Maid - personified form of summer) and Hine-takurua (the Winter Maid - personification of winter), both of whom where taken to wife by the sun ... Now, these women had different homes. Hine-takurua lived with her elder Tangaroa (a sea being - origin and personified form of fish). Her labours were connected with Tangaroa - that is, with fish. Hine-raumati dwelt on land, where she cultivated food products, and attended to the taking of game and forest products, all such things connected with Tane ...
Which means the journey of the kuhane along the southern coastline could have begun at Virgo. We can compare with the G text:
Heliacal Spica had, accordining to my reconstruction, once upon a time risen heliacally at Hora Iti 29 (254), i.e. 101 days before the southern summer solstice. At this time of the year the Girdle of Andromeda (Mirach, β) had been visible - at 16 right ascensin days after 0h and close to the Full Moon - as a sign for where the previous 'year' (halfyear) was ending. And this was where the dream-soul station One Tea (White Sand) was beginning. ... In north Asia the common mode of reckoning is in half-year, which are not to be regarded as such but form each one separately the highest unit of time: our informants term them 'winter year' and 'summer year'. Among the Tunguses the former comprises 6½ months, the latter 5, but the year is said to have 13 months; in Kamchatka each contains six months, the winter year beginning in November, the summer year in May; the Gilyaks on the other hand give five months to summer and seven to winter. The Yeneseisk Ostiaks reckon and name only the seven winter months, and not the summer months. This mode of reckoning seems to be a peculiarity of the far north: the Icelanders reckoned in misseri, half-years, not in whole years, and the rune-staves divide the year into a summer and a winter half, beginning on April 14 and October 14 respectively. But in Germany too, when it was desired to denote the whole year, the combined phrase 'winter and summer' was employed, or else equivalent concrete expressions such as 'in bareness and in leaf', 'in straw and in grass' ... North of the equator February was a month indicating summer was ahead. On Easter Island summer was in front.when the Sun was at Hora Iti 29 (254).
Spica was in the middle (roto) because this star marked where the 'Old Potato' was put down in order to produce much new offspring - it was in the middle between the old and the new generation. ... The Rat was put down into the pit - he hakatopa i te kioe.ki raro ki te rua. [E: 4]
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