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The name Te Pei was probably chosen in order to indicate empty and hard ('thirsty') river beds (rima aueue) - they were the grooves which would lead fresh water downhill to the level of the sea:

Pei. Grooves, still visible on the steep slopes of some hills, anciently used as toboggans. People used to slide down them seated on banana-tree barks. This pastime, very popular, was called pei-âmo. Vanaga. Like, as; pei ra, thus, like that; such, the same as; pei na, thus, like that; pei ra ta matou, proverb; pei ra hoki, likeness, similitude; pei ra tau, system; pei ra hoki ta matou, usage. PS Sa.: pei, thus. This is particuarly interesting as preserving one of the primordial speech elements. It is a composite, pe as, and i as demonstrative expressive of that which is within sight; therefore the locution signifies clearly as-this. Churchill. Mgv.: To juggle balls. Ta.: pei, id. Mq.: pei, id. Peiaha, jaws, gills of fish. Ta.: peihaha, peiha, gills. Ma.: piha, id.  Peipei, to approach. Churchill.

This idea agrees with the name given by Makoi for his station number 50, because pau means very little left; pei and pau were similar in meaning:

Pau. 1. To run out (food, water): ekó pau te kai, te vai, is said when there is an abundance of food or water, and there is no fear of running out. Puna pau, a small natural well near the quarry where the 'hats' (pukao) were made; it was so called because only a little water could be drawn from it every day and it ran dry very soon. 2. Va'e pau, clubfoot. Paupau:  Curved. Vanaga. 1. Hakapau, to pierce (cf. takapau, to thrust into). Pau.: pau, a cut, a wound, bruised, black and blue. 2. Resin. Mq.: epau, resin. Ta.: tepau, gum, pitch, resin. (Paupau) Hakapaupau, grimace, ironry, to grin. 3. Paura (powder), gunpowder. 4. Pau.: paupau, breathless. Ta.: paupau, id. 5. Ta.: pau, consumed, expended. Sa.: pau, to come to an end. Ma.: pau, finished. 6. Ta.: pau, to wet one another. Mq.: pau, to moisten. Churchill. Paua or pāua is the Māori name given to three species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family Haliotidae (genus Haliotis), known in the USA as abalone, and in the UK as ormer shells ... Wikipedia

Thus there was a Heap of Fuel (μ Cancri), but not yet any fire:

... He was moreover confronted with identifications which no European, that is, no average rational European, could admit. He felt himself humiliated, though not disagreeably so, at finding that his informant regarded fire and water as complementary, and not as opposites. The rays of light and heat draw the water up, and also cause it to descend again in the form of rain. That is all to the good. The movement created by this coming and going is a good thing. By means of the rays the Nummo draws out, and gives back the life-force. This movement indeed makes life. The old man realized that he was now at a critical point. If the Nazarene did not understand this business of coming and going, he would not understand anything else. He wanted to say that what made life was not so much force as the movement of forces. He reverted to the idea of a universal shuttle service. 'The rays drink up the little waters of the earth, the shallow pools, making them rise, and then descend again in rain.' Then, leaving aside the question of water, he summed up his argument: 'To draw up and then return what one had drawn - that is the life of the world' ...

... 'Yes, for he was a monstrous thing and fashioned marvelously, nor was he like to any man that lives by bread, but like a wooded peak of the towering hills, which stands out apart and alone from others.' Odysseus, choosing twelve men, the best of the company, left his ships at shore and sallied to the vast cave. It was found stocked abundantly with cheeses, flocks of lambs and kids penned apart, milk pails, bowls of whey; and when the company had entered and was sitting to wait, expecting hospitality, the owner came in, shepherding his flocks. He bore a grievous weight of dry wood, which he cast down with a din inside the cave, so that in fear all fled to hide. Lifting a huge doorstone, such as two and twenty good four-wheeled wains could not have raised from the ground, he set this against the mouth of the cave, sat down, milked his ewes and goats, and beneath each placed her young, after which he kindled a fire and spied his guests ...

Te Pei (66-78) Te Pou  (79-91)
MAY 14 15 (365 + 135) 16 (136) 17 18 (*58 = 2 * 29) 19
Ga2-24→ 22 * 4 Ga2-25 Ga2-26 (8 * 7) Ga2-27 → π 50 Hanga Te Pau Ga2-29 (59)

φ Gemini (118.4)

*77.0 = *118.4 - *41.4
DRUS (Hard) = χ Carinae (119.9) ω Cancri (120.2)

8h (121.7)

χ Gemini (121.0), NAOS = ζ Puppis (121.3)
ρ Puppis (122.0), HEAP OF FUEL = μ Cancri (122.1), ζ Monocerotis (122.3),  ψ Cancri (122.6), REGOR (Roger backwards) = γ Velorum (122.7) TEGMINE = ζ Cancri (123.3)
July 17 18 19 (200) 20 (*121) 21 22 / 7
°July 13 14 15 (196) 16 17 (*118 = 4 * 29˝) 18
20 (*91 = *88 + *3) SOLSTICE 'June 22 (173) 23 ST JOHN'S DAY 25 (*96)
"June 6 (314 / 2) 7 8 (159 + 12) 9 Te Maro 10 (173) 11 (162)

he ea.a Ira.he iri he oho ki runga anake. i te angahuru o te raa o te maro i iri ai - Ira got up. They all climbed to the top of the hill. They climbed up on the tenth day of the month of June ('Maro’). [E:18]

... The addition of 10 (lost days in 1582 AD) + 2 (day difference since then) = 12 will explain that when Hotu A Matua arrived to Easter Island the day number was not 288 ("October 15) but 300 (Tangaroa Uri 15) ...

57 58 200 - 141 = 59 60 61 = 173 - 112 62 = 162 - 100
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
NOV 13 14 15 16 (*240) 17 18 (322)

ι Sagittarii (301.2), TEREBELLUM = ω Sagittarii, ξ Aquilae (301.3), ALSHAIN (Falcon) = β Aquilae (301.6), φ Aquilae (301.8)

ε Pavonis, θ Sagittarii (302.3), γ Sagittae (302.5), μ Pavonis (302.7)

τ Aquilae (303.8)

20h (304.4)

η Sagittae (304.2), δ Pavonis (304.4)

*263.0 = *304.4 - *41.4

SHANG WEI (Higher Guard) = κ Cephei (305.2), θ Sagittae (305.4), TSEEN FOO (Heavenly Raft)  = θ Aquilae (Ant.) (305.6), ξ Capricorni (305.8)

*264.0 = *305.4 - *41.4

TSO KE (Left Flag) = ρ Aquilae (306.3)

... In late September or early October 130, Hadrian and his entourage, among them Antinous, assembled at Heliopolis to set sail upstream as part of a flotilla along the River Nile. The retinue included officials, the Prefect, army and naval commanders, as well as literary and scholarly figures. Possibly also joining them was Lucius Ceionius Commodus, a young aristocrat whom Antinous might have deemed a rival to Hadrian's affections. On their journey up the Nile, they stopped at Hermopolis Magna, the primary shrine to the god Thoth. It was shortly after this, in October [in the year A.D.] 130 - around the time of the festival of Osiris - that Antinous fell into the river and died, probably from drowning. Hadrian publicly announced his death, with gossip soon spreading throughout the Empire that Antinous had been intentionally killed. The nature of Antinous's death remains a mystery to this day, and it is possible that Hadrian himself never knew; however, various hypotheses have been put forward. One possibility is that he was murdered by a conspiracy at court. However, Lambert asserted that this was unlikely because it lacked any supporting historical evidence, and because Antinous himself seemingly exerted little influence over Hadrian, thus meaning that an assassination served little purpose. Another suggestion is that Antinous had died during a voluntary castration as part of an attempt to retain his youth and thus his sexual appeal to Hadrian. However, this is improbable because Hadrian deemed both castration and circumcision to be abominations and as Antinous was aged between 18 and 20 at the time of death, any such operation would have been ineffective. A third possibility is that the death was accidental, perhaps if Antinous was intoxicated. However, in the surviving evidence Hadrian does not describe the death as being an accident; Lambert thought that this was suspicious. Another possibility is that Antinous represented a voluntary human sacrifice. Our earliest surviving evidence for this comes from the writings of Dio Cassius, 80 years after the event, although it would later be repeated in many subsequent sources. In the second century Roman Empire, a belief that the death of one could rejuvenate the health of another was widespread, and Hadrian had been ill for many years; in this scenario, Antinous could have sacrificed himself in the belief that Hadrian would have recovered. Alternately, in Egyptian tradition it was held that sacrifices of boys to the Nile, particularly at the time of the October Osiris festival, would ensure that the River would flood to its full capacity and thus fertilize the valley; this was made all the more urgent as the Nile's floods had been insufficient for full agricultural production in both 129 and 130. In this situation, Hadrian might not have revealed the cause of Antinous's death because he did not wish to appear either physically or politically weak. Conversely, opposing this possibility is the fact that Hadrian disliked human sacrifice and had strengthened laws against it in the Empire ...

Jan 16 17 18 (383) 19 20 21
°Jan 12 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17
20 (354) SOLSTICE 22 'Dec 23 CHRISTMAS EVE 25 (*279)
"Dec 6 (340) 7 8 (354) 9 Ko Koró 10 (356) 11 (*265)
*160 *161 *162 *304 - *141 *164 *265 - *100

Also the name Te Manavai for the 3rd kuhane station (on the mainland) now rings true:

Manavai. Hollow where rainwater accumulates; anciently, small, round gardens, preferably situated in low shady spots, where the mahute tree was grown. Vanaga. 1. Brain. 2. Valley, ravine, river, torrent, brook; manavai miro, orchard, Mq.: manavai, valley, brook. Ta.: anavai, river, brook. It scarcely appears that these are fully coordinate. In Tahiti anavai has a clear etymology, ana meaning the bed of a stream. In Rapanui and in the Marquesas mana most readily associates with maga, as water in a forked bed. Churchill.

Mahute. A tree (Boussonetia papyrifera) formerly more abundant on the island, the fibres of which were used for clothing (see nua and hami). Vanaga. The tree Broussonetia papyrifera, indispensible for all types of fasteners (lines, twine, ropes, and rigging). Barthel 2. Maute, paper mulberry (mahute G). P Mgv.: eute, ute, id. Mq.: ute, id. Ta.: aute, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis. Pau.: aute, id. Mahutehute (mahute - tutu 1) bast cloth in the last stage of preparation (maute). Churchill.

Nga Kope Ririva Tutuu Vai

-

 

365

A Te Taanga

Te Pu Mahore

1

- 13

- 378

 A Hau Maka O Hiva

Te Poko Uri

2

14 - 26

- 391

 A Hau Maka I [Sic!] Hiva

Te Manavai

3

- 39

- 404

A Hau Maka O Hiva

Te Kioe Uri

4

- 52

- 417

Te Piringa Aniva

5

- 65

- 430

Te Pei

6

- 78

- 443

Te Pou

7

79 - 91

- 456

Hua Reva

8

- 104

- 469

Akahanga

9

- 117

- 482

Hatinga Te Kohe

10

- 130

- 495

Roto Iri Are

11

- 143

- 508

Tama He Ika Kino He Ihu Roroa

12

- 156

- 521

-

One Tea

13

- 169

- 534

A Hau Maka O Hiva

Hanga Takaure

14

- 182

- 547

Poike

15

- 195

- 560

Pua Katiki

16

- 208

- 573

Maunga Teatea

17

- 221

- 586

Mahatua

18

- 234

- 599

Taharoa

19

- 247

- 612

Hanga Hoonu

20

- 260

- 625

Rangi Meamea

21

- 273

- 638

Peke Tau O Hiti

22

- 286

- 651

Maunga Hau Epa

23

- 299

- 664

Oromanga

24

- 312

- 677

Hanga Moria One

25

- 325

- 690

Papa O Pea

26

- 338

- 703

Ahu Akapu

27

- 351

- 716

Te Pito O Te Kainga

28

- 364

- 729

Reading the G text we will find right ascension day number *39 (at the time of Bharani) to be at Elnath, and the peculiar name Thirst-slaking Camels can now be perceived as at least reasonable - here, in a dry deserted place, there was an oasis with fresh drinking water.

... On the south-western tip of Easter Island, at Orongo, up near the ragged edge of the Rano Kau crater, are four small holes very precisely pecked through the bedrock just beside a large Ahu. Since Orongo is know to have been an important ritual centre, these holes attracted the attention of the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition which visited the island in 1955-56. They were studied by Dr Edwin Ferdon. After making detailed observations at the solstices and the equinoxes he concluded: 'it can definitely be stated that the complex of four holes constituted a sun-observation device'. As well as one Ahu, Orongo also formerly had one Moai, a unique specimen, carved out of basalt, that was removed to the British Museum in 1868.

"... the divine progenitor of all important genealogies, whose image was venerated at Orongo ..." (Van Tilburg)

Perched on a headland with a precipitous drop to the ocean on one side and the gigantic, reed-filled crater of Rano Kau on the other, the main remaining feature of the site is a conglomeration of 54 squat oval houses with massively thick walls of horizontal stone slabs and domed corbel-vaulted ceilings ...

Te Manavai Te Kioe Uri
1 he kape 1 he hauhau 1 he mahute

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).

... In June 10 (161) was the first day beyond *80, i.e. the first day beyond the Star in the Bull towards the north, and at the time of rongorongo this could evidently have been the place for He Mahute ...

... Teke said to Oti, 'Go and take the hauhau tree, the paper mulberry tree, rushes, tavari plants, uku koko grass, riku ferns, ngaoho plants, the toromiro tree, hiki kioe plants (Cyperus vegetus), the sandalwood tree, harahara plants, pua nakonako plants, nehenehe ferns, hua taru grass, poporo plants, bottle gourds (ipu ngutu), kohe plants, kavakava atua ferns, fragrant tuere heu grass, tureme grass (Dichelachne sciurea), matie grass, and the two kinds of cockroaches makere and hata.' Oti and all his assistants went and took the hauhau tree with them. All kinds of things [te huru o te mee] (i.e., plants) and insects [?] were taken along ... [E:69]

APRIL 5 6 (96 = 80 + 16) 7 (81 + 16)
Ga1-15 Ga1-16 Ga1-17

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)

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 8 9 (*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 4 5 (156) 6 (*77)
'May 12 13 14 (*54 = 161 - 107)
"April 28 (4 * 29˝) Vaitu Nui 29 (*39) 30 (120 = 161 - 41)
118 - 100 = 18 19 = 131 - 112 161 - 141