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Makoi went around the whole island in a single day (E:37-38):

... It grew light [on the 5th day] and Makoi got up. He set out and came to Apina. When he arrived there he gave the name 'This is Apina Iti, this is Rapa Kura.'. He went on and came to Hanga O Ua [Uo]. He gave the name 'This is Hanga O Ua [Uo] of the beautiful wave (vave renga).' Makoi went on, giving names, until he had made a (complete) circle around both sides (of the island). In Apina Nui a stone (maea) was erected [hakatuu], saying that the naming was done on a (round) trip during a single day ...

he otea he ea a Makoi.he oho he tuu ki a(-)

pina.he tuu he nape i te ingoa.

1  ko apina iti.ko rapa kura.he oho mai

2  he tuu ki hanga o uo.he nape te ingoa.ko hanga o uo

a vave renga.

he nape he oho a Makoi .i te ingoa.ka vari ro

a arurua.aro i apina nui i hakatuu ai

te maea.etahi no raa.i nape he oho ai.

The 'yellow wave' (vave renga) could possibly correspond (south of the equator) to the 'line of morning fire' which was caused (north of the equator) by the rising Sun at the horizon in the (north)east. Togariki = northeast wind according to Churchill.

... It should be stated right now that 'fire' is actually a great circle reaching from the North Pole of the celestial sphere to its South Pole ...

... Somewhere in The Eighth Island is mentioned that this part of the island was named 'the neck of the turtle'. It makes sense if we think of the turtle as the 'earth turtle' of Easter Island. The high Poike in the east will then be the head of the land and the line of fire across the neck could represent a noose with which the turtle is caught ...

... he gathered all the coconut husks of his land and rolled the fibre, and he plaited it into ropes of very great strength. But these ropes also were of no use, for the sun-god made them frizzle up. Therefore Maui took the sacred tresses of his sister Hina, he cut off lengths of Hina's hair and plaited it, to make a rope whose mana could not be destroyed by Ra. He took that noose of Hina's hair, he travelled eastward to the border of the sea; he placed his ropes around the pit from which the sun rises, waited there, he waited for the dawn. Then Ra came up, he came up from the spirit-world which lies in the east. Maui pulled the cord, he caught the sun-god by the throat! Ra struggled, kicked, he screamed against the sky. 'Then will you go more slowly if I turn you loose?' The sun then promised Maui, 'Let me go, and I will move more slowly, I will make longer days for your fishing'. Since that time, men have had longer days in which to go about their work ...

... The first of all foreign visitors on Easter Island was the Dutch admiral Jacob Roggeveen., who approached the island in the evening twilight of Easter Sunday, 1722. As the sun rose above the sea next morning the Dutchmen brought their ships close inshore and observed a mixed crowd of fair-skinned and dark-skinned people who had lit fires before some enormous statues standing in a row. The people ashore were squatting in front of the statues, with their heads bent while they alternatively raised and lowered their arms. When the sun rose they prostrated themselves on the ground facing the sunrise, their fires still flickering before the stone colossi. The statues were even then so old and eroded that Roggeveen could with his bare fingers break pieces away from the decomposed surface, wherefore he concluded that the giant figures were simply molded from clay and soil mixed with pebbles. The Dutchmen left the island after a single day's visit ...

... They walked in crowds when they arrived at Tulan, and there was no fire. Only those with Tohil had it: this was the tribe whose god was first to generate fire. How it was generated is not clear. Their fire was already burning when Jaguar Quitze and Jaguar Night first saw it: 'Alas! Fire has not yet become ours. We'll die from the cold', they said. And then Tohil spoke: 'Do not grieve. You will have your own even when the fire you're talking about has been lost', Tohil told them. 'Aren't you a true god! Our sustenance and our support! Our god!' they said when they gave thanks for what Tohil had said. 'Very well, in truth, I am your god: so be it. I am your lord: so be it,' the penitents and sacrificers were told by Tohil. And this was the warming of the tribes. They were pleased by their fire. After that a great downpour began, which cut short the fire of the tribes. And hail fell thickly on all the tribes, and their fires were put out by the hail. Their fires didn't start up again. So then Jaguar Quitze and Jaguar Night asked for their fire again: 'Tohil, we'll be finished off by the cold', they told Tohil. 'Well, do not grive', said Tohil. Then he started a fire. He pivoted inside his sandal ...

The cycle of Makoi clearly cannot be put in direct parallel with the map around the island which was created by the dream soul of Hau Maka, sleeping in Hiva, because it took him only a single day. The sky revolves around the earth in a single day (creating hours, minutes, and seconds) and the sky also revolves around the earth in a year (creating months, weeks, and days).

This diurnal cycle was created, it seems, during the 5th day counted from the beginning of Pu Pakakina A Ira:

... On the twenty-ninth day of the month of August ('Hora Iti') they went on to Pu Pakakina. They arrived, remained there, and gave the name 'Pu Pakakina A Ira'. They remained one month in Pu Pakakina ... (E:31)

Hetu erua tagata rere ki te ragi

Hetu 1. To (make) sound; figuratively: famous, renowned. 2. To crumble into embers (of a bonfire). Hetu'u. Star, planet; hetu'u popohaga morning star; hetu'u ahiahi evening star; hetu'u viri meteorite. Vanaga  Hetu 1. Star (heetuu); hetu rere, meteor; hetu pupura, planet. P Pau.: hetu, star. Mgv.: etu, id. Mq.: fetu, hetu, id. Ta.: fetu, fetia, id. The alternative form fetia in Tahiti, now the only one in common use, need not be regarded as an anomaly in mutation. It seems to derive from Paumotu fetika, a planet. Its introduction into Tahiti is due to the fashion of accepting Paumotu vocables which arose when the house of Pomare came into power. 2. Capital letter (? he tu). 3. To amuse. 4. To stamp the feet. Hetuhetu, to calk, to strike the water. Hetuke, sea urchin. Churchill.

Tagata rere ki te ragi = Man moving quickly to the sky.

Cb8-1 (564 = 3 * 188 = 593 - 29) Cb8-2 (565 = 392 + 173) Cb8-3
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
APAMI-ATSA (Child of Waters) = θ Virginis, ψ Hydrae (198.5), DIADEM = α Com. Ber. (198.9) AL DAFĪRAH (Tuft) = β Com. Ber. (199.4)

*158.0 = *199.4 - *41.4

σ Virginis (200.4)

*159.0 = *200.4 - *41.4

... Apami-Atsa ('Child of Waters', θ Virginis) at 13h maybe should be contrasted with Apam Napat ('Grandson of Waters') ... θ is on the front of the garment, below the girdle ... Moderns have no name for it, but in the Surya Siddhanta it was Apami-Atsa, the Child of the Waters ... Apam Napat is an eminent figure of the Indo-Iranian pantheon. In Hinduism, Apām Napāt is the god of fresh water, such as in rivers and lakes. In Zoroastrianism, Apąm Napāt is also a divinity of water ... Apām Napāt in Sanskrit and Apąm Napāt in Avestan mean 'grandson of waters' ... Sanskrit and Avestan napāt ('grandson') are cognate to Latin nepōs and English nephew, but the name Apām Napāt has also been compared to Etruscan Nethuns and Celtic Nechtan and Roman Neptune. In Yasht 19 of the Avesta Apąm Napāt appears as the Creator of mankind. Here, there is an evident link between the glory of sovereignty (Khvarenah) and Apąm Napāt who protects Khvarenah as the royal glory of Iranian kings. Apām Napāt is sometimes, for example in Rigveda book 2 hymn 35 verse 3, described as a fire-god who originates in water ... The reference to fire may have originally referred to flames from natural gas or oil seepages surfacing through water, as in a fire temple at Surakhany near Baku in Azerbaijan ... There is a conjecture that the word 'naphtha' came (via Greek, where it meant any sort of petroleum) from the name 'Apampat' ...

Oct 5 6 7 (280)
'Sept 8 9 10 (253 = 280 - 27)
"Aug 25 (237 = 8 * 29½ + 1) Hora iti 26 27
AUG 2 (214 = 172 + 42) 3 4 (280 - 64 = 216)

... Once upon a time there was an old woman who owned a great potato field (mara) where she planted her potatoes in spring and harvested them in autumn. She was famous all around for her many varieties of wonderful potatoes, and she had enough of them to sell at the market place. She planted her potatoes 7 in a row, placing her foot in front of her as a measure from one potato to the next. Then she marked the place with a bean - which would also give nourishment to the surrounding potatoes. Next she changed variety and planted 7 more followed by another bean, and this was the pattern she followed until all her 214 varieties had been put down in their proper places. She had drawn a map which she followed and from where each sort of potato could be located at the proper time for its harvest ...

DAY 198 199 200 (= 216 + 64)
(PAPA O PEA) AHU AKAPU

Here above I have moved Ahu Akapu 1 day ahead, compared to my earlier presentations, in order to make it begin when the Full Moon reached Cb8-3 (→ 24).

Aka. 1. Anchor: he-hoa te aka, to drop anchor. 2. Root of certain plants (banana tree, taro, sugar-cane). 3. To be paralyzed by surprise. Vanaga. 1. Root; aka totoro, to take root. P Pau., Mq.: aka, root. Ta.: aa, id. 2. (āka) anchor. 3. Causative (haka). Churchill.

The Explorers stayed for 2 days in Ahu Akapu and Cb8-6 (→ 48) should therefore correspond to "September 29 when the Full Moon reached Spica.

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
April 5 (365 + 95 = 460)  → 4 * 115 6 (96 = 80 + 16) 7

 Synodic cycles

Mercury

115.88

Venus

583.92

Earth

364.0 = π * 115.88

Mars

779.96

Jupiter

398.88

Saturn

378.09

Uranus

369.66

In the diagram over the nested cycles of Mercury in the year 1933 AD we should notice 1Okt (instead of 1 Okt).

1h (15.2)

β Phoenicis (15.1), υ Phoenicis, ι Tucanae (15.6), η Ceti, ζ Phoenicis (15.7)

Al Batn Al Hūt-26 (Belly of the Fish) / Revati-28 (Prosperous) / 1-iku (Field Measure)

MIRACH (Girdle) = β Andromedae, KEUN MAN MUN (Camp's South Gate) = φ Andromedae (16.0), ANUNITUM = τ Piscium (16.5), REVATI (Abundant) = ζ Piscium (16.9)

 REGULUS (α Leonis)

ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6)

*342.0  = *383.4 - *41.4

= *159.0 + *183.0

'March 9 (68) 10 11
"Febr 23 (54) 24 (365 + 55 = 420 = 7 * 60) 25

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...

te hokohuki te moko vero hia tagata honui e ha mata

Ha. 1. Four. 2. To breathe. Hakaha'a, to flay, to skin. Vanaga. 1. Four. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ha, id. 2. To yawn, to gape. 3. To heat. 4. Hakaha, to skin, to flay; unahi hakaha, to scale fish. Mgv.: akaha, to take to pieces, to take off the bark or skin, to strip the leaves off sugarcane. 5. Mgv: ha, sacred, prohibited. Mq.: a, a sacred spot. Sa.: sa, id.  Churchill.

Cb8-4 Cb8-5 (172 + 4) Cb8-6 (177 = 6 * 29½) Cb8-7 (392 + 178 = 570) Cb8-8 (1½ * 314 + 100)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4)

Al Simāk-12 (Lofty) / Chitra-14 (Bright One) / Horn-1 (Crocodile) / Sa-Sha-Shirū-20 (Virgin's Girdle) / ANA-ROTO-3 (Middle pillar)

MIZAR = ζ Ursae Majoris (202.4), SPICA = α Virginis, ALCOR = 80 Ursae Majoris (202.7)

SADALMELIK (α Aquarii)

*161.0 = *202.4 - *41.4
71 VIRGINIS (203.6) no star listed (204) HEZE = ζ Virginis (205.0), Southern Pinwheel Galaxy = M83 Hydrae (205.7)

... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...

... Mons Maenalus, at the feet of Boötes, was formed by Hevelius, and published in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum; this title coinciding with those of neighboring stellar groups bearing Arcadian names. It is sometimes, although incorrectly, given as Mons Menelaus, - perhaps, as Smyth suggested, after the Alexandrian astronomer referred to by Ptolemy and Plutarch. The Germans know it as the Berg Menalus; and the Italians as Menalo. Landseer has a striking representation of the Husbandsman, as he styles Boötes, with sickle and staff, standing on this constellation figure. A possible explanation of its origin may be found in what Hewitt writes in his Essays on the Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times: The Sun-god thence climbed up the mother-mountain of the Kushika race as the constellation Hercules, who is depicted in the old traditional pictorial astronomy as climbing painfully up the hill to reach the constellation of the Tortoise, now called Lyra, and thus attain the polar star Vega, which was the polar star from 10000 to 8000 B.C. May not this modern companion constellation, Mons Maenalus, be from a recollection of this early Hindu conception of our Hercules transferred to the adjacent Bootes?

A full stop sign was used at October 10 as if to point out where Mons Maenalus (the Primeval Mound) was beginning.

... Ta'aroa tahi tumu, 'Ta'aroa origl. stock' - most commonly Ta'aroa or Te Tumu - existed before everything except of a rock (Te Papa) which he compressed and begat a daughter (Ahuone) that is Vegetable Mole. Ahuone means 'earth heaped up' - a widespread name for the Polynesian first woman. It sounds as if Cook also heard the term applied to the banks of humus and rotting material on which taro is grown. In the English of his day this was known as 'vegetable mould' ...

Oct 8 (240 + 41) 9 10 11 (364 - 80) 12 (285)
'Sept 11 (354 - 100) 12 13 (256 = 4 * 64) 14 15
"Aug 28 (240) HORA ITI 29 30 (2 * 11 * 11) 31 HORA NUI 1
AHU AKAPU PU PAKAKINA A IRA

Paka. 1. Dry; to become dry (of things); pakapaka, to dry out. Te paka is also the name of the moss-covered areas, between the small lakes of volcano Rano Kau, through which one can pass without getting one's feet wet. 2. To go, to depart; he-paka-mai, to come; he-oho, he-paka, they go away. 3. To become calm (of the sea): ku-paka-á te tai. Pakahera, skull, shell, cranium; pakahera puoko tagata, human skull; pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Gutu pakapaka, scabbed lips. Hau paka, fibres of the hauhau tree, which were first soaked in water, then dried to produce a strong thread. Moa gao verapaka, chicken with bald neck. Ariki Paka, certain collateral descendents of Hotu Matu'a, who exercised religious functions. Vanaga. 1. Crust, scab, scurf; paka rerere, cancer; pakapaka, crust, scabby. 2. Calm, still. 3. Intensive; vera paka, scorching hot; marego paka, bald; nunu paka, thin. 4. To arrive, to come. 5. To be eager. 6. To absorb. 7. Shin T. Pakahera, calabash, shell, jug. Pakahia, to clot, curdle, coagulate. Pakapaka, dry, arid, scorching hot, cooked too much, a desert, to fade away, to roast, a cake, active; toto pakapaka, coagulated blood; hakapakapaka, to dry, to broil, to toast. Pakahera pikea, shell of crab or crayfish. Churchill.

Kinana, s. Haw., a hen that has hatched chickens. Sam., tina, a mother. Tong., tina-manu, a sow that had litter. Tah., ti'a, the lower part of the stomach, below the navel. Fiji., tina, mother; tina-tina, mother of inferior animals. N. Zeal., tinana, the buttocks, trunk, body. This word, with somewhat varying but not far separate meanings, I am inclined to consider as related to the Goth., kwens, kwino, a woman; kwina-kunds and kwineins, female; and possibly kwithus, the womb, the stomach, if that is syncope of an original kwinthus. Greek, γυνη, woman ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
April 8 9 10 (100) 11 12
no star listed (18) ADHIL (Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7) KSORA (Knee) = δ Cassiopeiae (20.1), ω Andromedae (20.6), γ Phoenicis (20.8) δ Phoenicis (21.5) υ Andromedae (22.9)
'March 12 13 14 (73) 15 16
"Febr 26 27 28 (59) 29 "March 1
te hokohuki - ma te maro te hokohuki ma te maro ka ke te manu ki te maro

Hoko. 1. To jump; to rock or swing in rhythm with the chants in festivals, as was the ancient custom; an ancient dance.  He to'o mai e te hoa manu i te mamari ki toona rima, he ma'u, he hoko, the 'bird master' receives the egg in his hand and carries it, dancing. 2. Number prefix: 'in a group of...': hokotahi, alone; hokorua, in a group of two (also companion, e hakarere te kai mo toou hokorua, leave some food for my companion); hakatoru, in a group of three, etc.; hokohía, in a group of how many? Hokohía ana oho koe ki te rano? With how many people will you go to the volcano? Vanaga. 1. To traffic, to trade, to buy, to ransom (hoò); hoòa te kaiga, to buy land. 2. To sport, to play. Churchill. Move the body to and fro with the rythm of a song. Barthel.

Huki 1. Pole attached to the poop from which the fishing-net is suspended: huki kupega. 2. Digging stick. 3. To set vertically, to stand (vt.). 4. Huki á te mahina, said of the new moon when both its horns have become visible. Vanaga. 1. To post up, to publish. 2. To cut the throat (uki). Mq.: Small sticks which close up the ridge of a house. Ha.: hui, the small uniting sticks in a thatched house.  Churchill. Standing upright. Barthel. M. Spit for roasting. Te Huki, a constellation. Makemson. Hukihuki. 1. Colic. 2. To transpierce, a pricking. 3. To sink to the bottom. Churchill.

Cb8-9 (180) Cb8-10 (573) Cb8-11
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

ε Centauri (206.3), κ Oct. (206.4)

*165.0 = *206.4 - *41.4
no star listed (207) τ Bootis (208.2), BENETNASH (Leader of the Daughters of the Bier) = η Ursae Majoris (208.5), ν Centauri (208.7), μ Centauri, υ Bootis (208.8)
HORA NUI 2 3 4
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
April 13 → 14 * 29½ 14 (104 = 2 * 52) 15
ACHERNAR (End of the River) = α Eridani (23.3), χ Andromedae (23.6), τ Andromedae (23.9) ALSEIPH (Scimitar) = φ Persei (24.5), τ Ceti (24.7) no star listed (25)

... When it was evident that the years lay ready to burst into life, everyone took hold of them, so that once more would start forth - once again - another (period of) fifty-two years. Then (the two cycles) might proceed to reach one hundred and four years. It was called 'One Age' when twice they had made the round, when twice the times of binding the years had come together. Behold what was done when the years were bound - when was reached the time when they were to draw the new fire, when now its count was accomplished. First they put out fires everywhere in the country round. And the statues, hewn in either wood or stone, kept in each man's home and regarded as gods, were all cast into the water. Also (were) these (cast away) - the pestles and the (three) hearth stones (upon which the cooking pots rested); and everywhere there was much sweeping - there was sweeping very clear. Rubbish was thrown out; none lay in any of the houses...

... Lat., jugum, a yoke; jugo, bind up, tie together; jungo, bind, join, unite ... A singular coincidence of application, if it has no nearer connection, by the Polynesian and the Latin of this word to similar purposes, occurs in the huhui and hui-tarawa of the former and jugulæ of the latter. In Hawaiian huhui designates a constellation generally, but especially that of the Pleiades; in Tahitian hui-tarawa, lit. the transverse or horizontal cluster, designates the stars generally called Orion's belt, and in Latin jugulæ represents the very same stars in the constellation Orion ...

Here the Sun reached Achernar, where the C text evidently illustrates a point in time (ihe tau) for turning around, similar to the head of Janus:

At the time of the 10th Chinese station Girl the Sun reached day 314 (→ π) counted from March 21 (80):

December solstice
8 South Dipper φ Sagittarii (?) Unicorn (284.0) Dec 30 (364)
9 Ox / Herd Boy β Capricornii (Dabih) Buffalo (308.0) Jan 23 (388)
10 Girl ε Aquarii (Albali) Bat (314.8) Jan 29 (394)
11 Emptiness β Aquarii (Sadalsud) Rat (325.9) Feb 9 (405)
12 Rooftop α Aquarii (Sadalmelik) Swallow (334.6) Feb 18 (414)
13 House α Pegasi (Markab) Pig (349.5) Mar 5 (429)

March equinox

In January 29 (→ Mercury) Betelgeuze culminated (at 21h).

The 3 stars of Tau-toru (Mintaka, Alnilam, Alnitak) culminated in January 24, 25, respectively 26.

'Twinkle, twinkle [verovero], little bat!'  //  How I wonder what you're at!'

Ta.: verovero, to twinkle like the stars. Ha.: welowelo, the light of a firebrand thrown into the air. 4. Mq.: veo, tenth month of the lunar year. Ha.: welo, a month (about April).