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I am thus suggesting there was an intended correspondence between the missing number 55 in the sequence of Makoi stations and the first day of the Pleiades:

1 Ko Apina Iti 27 29 Ko Te Rano A Raraku 23 54 Vai Rapa (55) 4 60 Apina Nui

29

24

5

58

te ua koia ra kua tuku ki to mata - ki tona tukuga e kiore - henua - pa rei

Ko. 1. Article (ko te); preposition: with (see grammar); prefix of personal pronouns: koau, I; kokoe, you (singular); koîa, he, she, it; kokorua, you (plural); ko tagi, koîa, he with his weeping. 2. Article which precedes proper nouns, often also used with place names: Ko Tori, Ko Hotu Matu'a, Ko Pú. Koîa, exact: tita'a koîa, exact demarcation. Seems to be the personal pronoun koîa - applied in the meaning of: thus it is, here it is precisely. Vanaga. 1. Negative; e ko, not, except; e ko ora, incurable; ina ko, not; ina ko tikea, unseen; ina e ko, not; ina e ko mou, incessant. 2. A particle used before nouns and pronouns; ko vau, I; ko te, this; ko mea tera, this; ati ko peka, to avenge, ko mua, first, at first, formerly. 3. There, yonder. P Mgv.: ko, over there, yonder. Ta.: ó, there, here. Churchill.

Ta.: ra, a day.

Pa. 1. Mgv.: pa, an inclosure, a fenced place. Ta.: pa, inclosure, fortification. Mq.: pa, inclosure. Sa.: pa, a wall. Ma.: pa, a fort. 2. Mgv.: pa, to touch. Sa.: pa'i, id. Ma.: pa, id. 3. Mgv.: pa, to prattle. Ta.: hakapapa, to recount. 4. Mq.: pa, a hook in bonito fishing. Sa.: pa, a pearlshell fishhook. Ma.: pa, a fishhook. Pau.: hakapa, to feel, to touch. Mgv.: akapa, to feel, to touch, to handle cautiously.

 

Cb2-4 (420 = 7 * 60) Cb2-5 (29) Cb2-6 Cb2-7
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Nov 13

κ Librae (237.2), ι Serpentis (237.4), ψ² Lupi, ρ Oct. (237.5), γ Cor. Borealis, η Librae (237.7),  COR SERPENTIS = α Serpentis (237.9)

*196.0 = *237.4 - *41.4

14

π Cor. Borealis, UNUK ELHAIA (Necks of the Serpents) = λ Serpentis (238.1), CHOW = β Serpentis (238.6)

15

κ Serpentis (239.3), δ Cor. Borealis, TIĀNRŪ = μ Serpentis (239.5), χ Lupi, (239.6), ω Serpentis (239.7), BA (= Pa) = ε Serpentis, χ Herculis (239.8). κ Cor. Borealis, ρ Serpentis (239.9)

16 (320)

λ Librae (240.0), β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8)

*199.0 = *240.4 - *41.4

'Oct 17 18 19 (292 = 4 * 73) 20
"Oct 3 4 (277) 5 6
SEPT 10 11 12 (255 = 3 * 85) 13

DAY 237

238

239

240

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
May 14

δ Persei (54.7)

15 (500 = 365 + 135)

Al Thurayya-27 (Many Little Ones) / Krittikā-3 (Nurses of Kārttikeya) / TAU-ONO (Six Stones)

ATIKS = ο Persei, RANA (Frog) = δ Eridani (55.1), CELAENO (16 Tauri), ELECTRA (17), TAYGETA (19), ν Persei (55.3), MAIA (20), ASTEROPE (21), MEROPE (23) (55.6)

16 (136)

Hairy Head-18 (Cockerel) / Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)

ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE (28 Tauri), ATLAS (27 Tauri) (56.3)
17

MENKHIB (Next to the Pleiades = ζ Persei (57.6)

PORRIMA (γ Virginis)
'April 17 (80 + 27) 18 (108 = 135 - 27) 19 20
BISSEXTUM (54 - 55) 56 (8 WEEKS) 57 (= 137 - 64 - 16)

... 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 ...

"April 3 4 5 6 (96)
MARCH 11 12 (135 - 64 = 71) 13 14 (→ π)
DAY 54 55 56 57
54 Vai Rapa - 56 (Sic!) Vai Rutu Manu 57 Hanga Piko

54 vai rapa a hakaremereme

56 te vai rutu manu a koro rupa.e haho e hivi e

e runga e te puku ohu kahi e.

57 hanga piko a hare rutu manu a ana onoono

a Pu ngotangota.

According to Barthel the 'shimmering water' (vai rapa) was located north of Ana Kai Tangata (Cave for Eating Man) with Hanga Piko (Curved Bay) a bit further north. In between was Te Vai Rutu Manu:

... The 'watering place' where the bird beats (the rhythm)' - wordplay, 'where a certain chant is being recited' - is located near Hanga Piko. A recitation provides the following information for the additional name: 'In Koro Rupa is the house where one is made to laugh; in Kere Mea is the house where one is made fun of' (Barthel 1960:851; Campbell 1971:400). There the rule of the new birdman was celebrated (compare koro 'feast'). In RAP., koro rupa seems to have the same meaning as in TUA. kororupo, which describes a paradise. In the cosmology of the TUA., the name also referred to the entrance to the underworld. Hivi (maybe the same as hi ivi 'to fish with a hook made from bone'; compare the narrative ME:363) is 'outside', and 'the elevation from where (the catch of) the tunafish is announced' is 'above'. This is a reference to a large boulder beside the place where the canoes docked in Hanga Piko. There the people waited for the canoes to return from the fishing grounds." (The Eighth Land, pp. 89-90.)

Kahi. Tuna; two sorts: kahi aveave, kahi matamata. Vanaga. Mgv.: kahi, to run, to flow. Mq.: kahi, id. Churchill. Rangitokona, prop up the heaven! // Rangitokona, prop up the morning! // The pillar stands in the empty space. The thought [memea] stands in the earth-world - // Thought stands also in the sky. The kahi stands in the earth-world - // Kahi stands also in the sky. The pillar stands, the pillar - // It ever stands, the pillar of the sky. (Morriori creation myth according to Legends of the South Seas.)

Puku. 1. To feel an urge to defecate or to urinate, etc.: ku-puku-á te mimi: to need to urinate. 2. Rock, boulder: puku ma'ea; puku oone, hillock, earth mound. 3. Puku tagata, pubis. Puku-ine, to get stuck in the oesophagus (of food). Pukupuku, joints, bones of a joint; pukupuku rima, wrist bones; pukupuku va'e, ankle. Pukuraga, followers, disciples, students. Puku rekoreko is the juicy part between two knots (puku). Vanaga. 1. Puku haga oao, east, east wind. 2. Pubes. T Mgv.: puku, clitoris; pukuhou, the age of puberty; pukutea, a man between 30 and 45. 3. Unripe; puku no, unripe; pukupuku, green, immature. Mgv. puku, to be unripe. Mq.: puku, a fruit which has not yet reached its maturity. 4. To gorge; mahaga puku, to take the bait greedily. PS Sa.: pu'u, to take the whole at one mouthful, to put into the mouth whole. Fu.: pukupuku, to rinse the mouth, to gargle. Niuē: puku, to take into the mouth. Pukuhina, (puku 4), to choke on a fishbone. Pau.: pukua, to choke with a fishbone. Mgv.: pukua, to be suffocated by anything that sticks in the throat. Mq.: pukua, bad deglutition. Ta.: puunena, puufeto, to choke, to gag. Ha.: puua, to be choked, to have something sticking in the throat. Pukupuku; 1. Elbow. G. 2. Wrinkled, knotty, wen, scrofula; gao pukupuku, scrofula. T Pau.: puku, a swelling; pukupuku, a wrinkle, knotty, rough. Mgv.: puku, a knot in the wood; pukupuku, knotted, rough, uneven, lumpy. Mq.: puku, knot in wood, boss, protuberance, tumor, boil; toopuku, toopuu, boil, wart, tumor; pukupuku, wrinkled, knotty. Ta.: puú, boss, protuberance, swelling; puúnono, tumour; puúpuú, wrinkled, knotty. Pukuraga, servant T. Churchill. Rei matapuku, necklace made of coral or of mother-of-pearl. Henry.

Ohua. Night in the Moon calendar:

Ohua Otua
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
12h (182.6) ALCHITA PÁLIDA
DAY 182 183 184
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
March 20 SIRRAH ALGENIB PEGASI
DAY 364 0h (365.25) 1

This 'bird beating the rhythm' was mentioned also at the item for Hanga Piko, in the house (hare) of the cave (ana) 'SixSix' (onoono).

"Ana Onoono is a cave well-suited as an overnight shelter; Pu Ngotangota is a coastal formation where the seawater is allowed to flow in and out. The three additions, 'house', 'cave', and 'hole', always describe an enclosed area." (Barthel, a.a., p 90)

Clearly Ana Onoono may have been referred to earlier in Manuscript E, when they carried the severely injured Kuukuu down into a cave and piled up 6 stone heaps outside who would answer when he called out → 6 heaps for 6 men → 36(0).

Likewise can we perceive a correspondence between the coastal formation Pu Ngotangota, where water freely flowed in and out, and the movements of the explorers when they 'behaved like turtles', when they rode the waves repeatedly towards the beach. 'Turtle' → boat (cfr Zaurak).

... po-tagotago, darkness. po o te tagata, life ...

Niu moe te goe

Niu. Palm tree, coconut tree; hua niu, coconut. Vanaga. Coconut, palm, spinning top.  P Pau., Ta.: niu, coconut. Mgv.: niu, a top; niu mea, coconut. Mq.: niu, coconut, a top. Churchill. The fruit of miro. Buck. T. 1. Coconut palm. 2. Sign for peace. Henry. The sense of top lies in the fact that the bud end of a coconut shell is used for spinning, both in the sport of children and as a means of applying to island life the practical side of the doctrine of chances. Thus it may be that in New Zealand, in latitudes higher than are grateful to the coconut, the divination sense has persisted even to different implements whereby the arbitrament of fate may be declared. Churchill 2.

Goe. Milky Way. Vanaga.

Cb2-8 (424 = 392 + 32) Cb2-9 Cb2-10
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
May 18

ZAURAK (The Boat) = γ Eridani (58.9)

19

λ Tauri (59.3), ν Tauri (59.9)

20 (140)

4h (60.9)

JĪSHUĬ (Piled-up Waters) = λ Persei (60.7)

COR CAROLI (α Canum Ven.)

DAY 58 59 60
58 Ata Popohanga 59 Ata Ahiahi 60 Apina Nui

58 ata Popohanga toou e to ata hero e

59 ata ahiahi toou e honu e

60 apina nui a Papa nihoniho a vere nua-

nua a Papa o rae i te ngao o te moai o hina-

riru.

Barthel: 'Yours is the morning shadow' refers to an area in Ata Hero where the house of Ricardo Hero is now located. 'Yours is the evening shadow' belongs to a 'turtle'. I could not obtain any information about the location, but I suspect that the 'turtle' refers to a motif in the narration of Tuki Hakahevari (the turtle is carved in stone in a cave along the bay of Apina) ...