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Once again. From the fixed position of the Pillar (Te Pou) at the end of June (in the Sun calendar) it could be deduced that the first day of June should be 29 days earlier. Such was the case at the time of rongorongo and such should have been the case also at the time of Bharani.

manu pao i te hau tea - kua tu manu rere ki te hau tea - kua tu manu rere ki te hau tea kiore - henua

Pao. To cut off, to throw a lance. Churchill. Paopao, spade, shovel, rubbish, to lacerate, to have a quarrel with. Churchill.

There are 27 teeth around the tail of the bird above.

Cb4-13 → 14 * 29½ Cb4-14 (477 = 392 + 85) Cb4-15 Cb4-16 (87 = 3 * 29)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
 no star listed (110) ALUDRA (Virgin) = η Canis Majoris (111.1), PROPUS = ι Gemini (111.4),  GOMEISA (Water-eyed) = β Canis Minoris (111.6)

*70.0 = *111.4 - *41.4

ρ Gemini (?) (112.1), Eskimo Nebula = NGC2392 Gemini (112.2)

 

ANTARES (α Scorpii)

Al Dhirā'-5 (Forearm) / Punarvasu-7 / Mash-mashu-Mahrū-10 (Western One of the Twins)

CASTOR = α Gemini

*113.4 = *41.4 + *72.0

July 9 (10 * 19) 10 11 12 (193 = 152 + 41)
'June 12 (190 - 27) 13 (164) 14 15
"May 29 (190 - 41) 30 (150) 31 Te Maro 1 (8 * 19)

... The jaguar learned from the grasshopper that the toad and the rabbit had stolen its fire while it was out hunting, and that they had taken it across the river. While the jaguar was weeping at this, an anteater came along, and the jaguar suggested that they should have an excretory competition. The anteater, however, appropriated the excrement containing raw meat and made the jaguar believe that its own excretions consisted entirely of ants. In order to even things out, the jaguar invited the anteater to a juggling contest, using their eyes removed from the sockets: the anteater's eyes fell back into place, but the jaguar's remained hanging at the top of a tree, and so it became blind. At the request of the anteater, the macuco bird made the jaguar new eyes out of water, and these allowed it to see in the dark. Since that time the jaguar only goes out at night. Having lost fire, it eats meat raw. It never attacks the macuco ...'

In Manuscript E we learn that the Explorers reached Easter Island in Te Maro 1:

... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ... (E:17)