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From 1 Ko Apina Iti up to and including 35 Ko Pipi Horeko there were 13 'Ko-stations', which possibly indicated exact positions:

... The expression 'here it is precisely' (tita'a koîa) could possibly have been abbreviated into ko (here) ... And when Metoro Tau'a Ure read rongorongo texts for Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti this tita'a koîa could have been shortened into koia, for instance at right ascension day 55 ...

E:38 1 Ko Apina Iti 2 Ko Hanga O Uo 3 Hanga Roa 4 Okahu 5 Ra Tahai 6 Ahu Akapu
7 Kihikihi Rau Mea 8 Renga A Tini 9 Vai A Mei 10 Rua A Ngau 11 Roro Hau 12 Vai Poko 13 Ko Te Hereke
E:39 14 Hatu Ngoio 15 Ara Koreu 16 Hanga Kuokuo 17 Opata Roa 18 Vai Tara Kai Uo 19 Hia Uka 20 Hanga Ohiro
21 Ko Roto Kahi 22 Ko Papa Kahi 23 Ko Puna A Tuki 24 Ko Ehu Ko Mahatua 25 Ko Maunga Teatea
26 Ko Te Hakarava 27 Ko Hanga Nui 28 Ko Tongariki 29 Ko Te Rano A Raraku 30 Ko Oparingi 31 Ko Motu Kumu Koka
E:40 31 Oparingi 32 Motu Humu Koka 33 Hanga Maihiku 34 Maunga Toatoa 35 Ko Te Pipi Horeko 36 Hanga Tetenga
37 Ahu Tutae 38 Tai E Hia

And from 28 Ko Tonga Riki to 38 Tai E Hia there were 10 days (to be counted, hia):

... When Metoro read a few rongorongo texts for Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti he used hia at glyphs from where to count ...

Toga. 1. Winter season. Two seasons used to be distinguished in ancient times: hora, summer, and toga, winter. 2. To lean against somehing; to hold something fast; support, post supporting the roof. 3. To throw something with a sudden movement. 4. To feed oneself, to eat enough; e-toga koe ana oho ki te aga, eat well first when you go to work. Vanaga. 1. Winter. P Pau., Mgv.: toga, south. Mq.: tuatoka, east wind. Ta.: toa, south. 2. Column, prop; togatoga, prop, stay. Togariki, northeast wind. Churchill. Wooden platform for a dead chief: ka tuu i te toga (Bb8-42), when the wooden platform has been erected. Barthel 2. The expressions Tonga, Kona, Toa (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the quarter of an island or of the wind, between the south and west, and Tokelau, Toerau, Koolau (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the opposite directions from north to east - expressions universal throughout Polynesia, and but little modified by subsequent local circumstances - point strongly to a former habitat in lands where the regular monsoons prevailed. Etymologically 'Tonga', 'Kona', contracted from 'To-anga' or 'Ko-ana', signifies 'the setting', seil. of the sun. 'Toke-lau', of which the other forms are merely dialectical variations, signifies 'the cold, chilly sea'. Fornander.

A week after the solstice (and the wind from the northeast) Gemma culminated (at 21h):

APRIL 17 (107) 18 19 20 (*30) 21
Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29 Ga1-30 Ga2-1
CLOSE TO THE SUN:

6h (91.3)

ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)

*50.0 = *91.4 - *41.4
ξ Orionis (92.5)

Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)

TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)

*52.0 = *93.4 - *41.4

 FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)

Well-22 (Tapir) / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8 (Back of the Mouth of the Twins)

δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR = μ Gemini, MIRZAM (The Roarer) = β Canis Majoris (95.4), CANOPUS (Canopy) = α Carinae (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)

*54.0 = *95.4 - *41.4
June 20 SOLSTICE 22 (*93) 23 (174) ST JOHN'S DAY
°June 16 17 (168) 18 19 20 (*91)
'May 24 (144) 25 26 27 28 (*68)
"May 10 (130) 11 12 13 14 (*54)
DAY 91 - 64 = 27 28 29 30 31
27 Ko Hanga Nui

a te Papa tata ika

28 Ko Tonga Riki

a henga eha tunu kioe. hakaputiti ai ka hakapunenenene.henua mo opoopo o tau kioe.

29 Ko Te Rano A Raraku

 

30 Oparingi

 

31 Oparingi

a uuri

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
OCT 17 (290) 18 19 20 21
Dec 20 SOLSTICE 22 23 (357) CHRISTMAS EVE

ZHŌNGSHĀN = ο Herculis (274.0), π Pavonis (274.6)

ι Pavonis (275.1), POLIS (Foal) = μ Sagittarii (275.9)

MENKAR (α Ceti)
η Sagittarii (276.9) Purva Ashadha-20 (Elephant Tusk, Fan, Winnowing Basket)

KAUS MEDIUS = δ Sagittarii, κ Lyrae (277.5), TUNG HAE (Heavenly Eastern Sea) = η Serpentis (277.7), SHAOU PIH (Minor Minister) = φ Draconis (277.8), KWEI SHE = χ Draconis (277.9)

φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS = ε Sagittarii (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), AL  ATHFAR (The Talons of the Falling Eagle) = μ Lyrae (278.6)

*237.0 = *278.4 - *41.4
APRIL 22 23 24 25 (*35) 26 27 28 (118 = 4 * 29½)
Ga2-2 Ga2-3 Ga2-4 Ga2-5 (35) Ga2-6 Ga2-7 Ga2-8
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
no star listed (96) β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) no star listed (98)

ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

*58.0 = *99.4 - *41.4

GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)
ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched)  = ε Gemini (100.7)

SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7)

*60.0 = *101.4 - *41.4

τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4)

*61.0 = *102.4 - *41.4

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

June 25 26 27 28 29 (180) 30 July 1
SOLSTICE °June 22 23 ST JOHN'S DAY 25 (*96) 26 (177) 27
'May 29 30 (150) 31 'June 1 2 3 4 (*75)
"May 15 (500) 16 (136) 17 18 19 20 21 (*61)
DAY 96 - 64 = 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
32 Motu Humu Koka

a mare a kaoa

33 Hanga Maihiku

a papa hakakiva

34 Maunga Toatoa

a veri iri haere

35 Ko Te Pipi Horeko

a morokiroki

36 Hanga Tetenga

a ure ngorongoro

37 Ahu Tutae

a hare kava hia ka hakaruarua ka hakauaua tamai

38 Tai E Hia

e tai e hia e e uta e roi e he toou umu ka tao ka maemae ro i kona era i kona era i oroi aau i ootu ai

... It is said that, not long before the first missionaries' coming a certain Rega Varevare a Te Niu saw their arrival in a vision and travelled all over the island to tell it: He-oho-mai ko Rega Varevare a Te Niu mai Poike, he mimiro i te po ka-variró te kaiga he-kî i taana uruga, he ragi: 'E-tomo te haûti i Tarakiu, e-tomo te poepoe hiku regorego, e-tomo te îka ariga koreva, e-tomo te poporo haha, e-kiu te Atua i te ragi'. I te otea o te rua raá he-tu'u-hakaou ki Poike; i te ahi mo-kirokiro he-mate. Rega Varevare, son of Te Niu, came from Poike, and toured the island proclaiming his vision: 'A wooden house will arrive at Tarakiu (near Vaihú), a barge will arrive, animals will arrive with the faces of eels (i.e. horses), golden thistles will come, and the Lord will be heard in heaven'. The next morning he arrived back in Poike, and in the evening when it was getting dark, he died. Vanaga

'In the evening when it was getting dark he died' - i te ahi mo-kirokiro he-mate - could have been the necessary crucial information of a well-known myth suitable for a comment on the 35th station Ko Te Pipi Horeko. Although used in a somewhat disguised fashion in order to invigorate thinking.

Barthel (p. 83-84): "There are numerous stone piles on Easter Island that are used as taboo markers (pipi horeko). The markings mentioned here are said to have been located in the vicinity of Maunga Toatoa (compare TP:77, which gives an account of the flight of the sole surviving Ororoine of the Hanau Eepe to a house of the Hanau Momoko named 'Ko Pipihoreko'."

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
OCT 22 (295) 23 24 25 26 27 (300) 28
Dec 25 Dec 26 27 28 29 30 (364) 31
KAUS BOREALIS = λ Sagittarii (279.3)

ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9)

*239.0 = *280.4 - *41.4

Abhijit-22 (Victorious)

θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA = α Lyrae (281.8)
no star listed (282)

ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8)

*242.0 = *283.4 - *41.4

South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)

Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)
SHELIAK (Tortoise) = β Lyrae, ν Lyrae (285.1), ο Draconis (285.5). λ Pavonis (285.7)

ATLAS (27 Tauri)

... 'Tell us a story!' said the March Hare. 'Yes, please do!' pleaded Alice. 'And be quick about it', added the Hatter, 'or you'll be asleep again before it's done.' 'Once upon a time there were three little sisters', the Dormouse began in a great hurry: 'and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and they lived at the bottom of a well — '

These places obviously needed much additional information:

a henga eha tunu kioe. hakaputiti ai ka hakapunenenene.henua mo opoopo o tau kioe.
Tunu. To cook, to fry; hare tunukai, kitchen. P Mgv.: tunu, id. Ta.: tunu, to roast, to boil, to cook. Churchill. ... Sinu and sunu have shown senses which imply contact with the naked fire, and that idea is largely predominant in tunu, as exemplified by the definitions of toasting, roasting, broiling, cooking on embers. Disregarding the instances in which the word is rendered by our general verb to cook we shall examine the exceptions to this naked flame sense. It is used of boiling in Samoa, Futuna, Niuē, and Tahiti. It is significant that not one of these peoples had taken so much as the first step in fictile art, and such heating of water as was needed was performed by dropping hot stones into the water in a wooden bowl ... Churchill 2.

If the 'rat' - kio(r)e - was roasted here it could be a way to explain that the 'winter water rat' ended his days in the hot high summer.

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

e tai e hia e e uta e roi e he toou umu ka tao ka maemae ro i kona era i kona era i oroi aau i ootu ai
Umu. Cooking pit, Polynesian oven (shallow pit dug in the ground, in which food is cooked over heated stones); the food cooked in such a pit for a meal, dinner, or banquet; umu pae, permanent cooking pit, in a stone enclosure; umu paepae, permanent cooking pit with straw cover for protection from rain and wind; umu keri okaoka, temporary cooking pit without stone enclosure; umu ava, very large temporary cooking pit, made for feasts; umu takapú, exclusive banquet, reserved for certain groups of persons, for instance the relatives of a deceased family member; umu tahu, daily meals for hired workers; umu parehaoga, inaugural banquet (made on occasion of a communal enterprise or feastival); umu ra'e, banquet for fifth or sixth month of pregnancy; umu pâpaku, banquet on occasion of the death of a family member. Vanaga. Cooking place, oven (humu). Churchill. Samoa, Maori, Nukuoro, Niue, Tahiti, Hawaii, Mangaia, Marquesas, Mangareva, Paumoto: umu, oven. Tonga: ngotoumu, id. Uvea: ngutuùmu, id. Futuna: ùmu-kai, id. Fotuna: amu, cooking place. Rapanui: umu, oven; humu hare, cook house ... The Polynesian radical is consistently umu. Tonga and Uvea compound with it a word which in Uvea is distinctly ngutu mouth and in Tongan we may feel that ngutu has been specifically differentiated in this composite. In the Futuna composite the latter element is merely kai food ... Particular interest attaches to the discovery of the amu type in Mabulag and Miriam, western and eastern islands of the straits and remote from the New Guinea coast ... The existence of amu in Fotuna affords us reason to regard the type as ancient Proto-Samoan, and that Mabulag and Miriam received it directly and not on secondary loan from Motu. Churchill 2.

P Mgv.: horoi, oroi, a towel, handkerchief, anything used as a wiper after bathing.

(ε Aquariii = Albali, *314 = 414 - 100)

7 Winnowing Basket γ Sagittarii (Nash) Leopard Dec 19 (353)
December solstice
8 South Dipper φ Sagittarii (?) Unicorn Dec 30 (364)
9 Ox / Herd Boy β Capricornii (Dabih) Buffalo Jan 23 (388)
10 Girl Albali Bat Jan 29 (394)
11 Emptiness β Aquarii (Sadalsud) Rat Feb 9 (405)
12 Rooftop α Aquarii (Sadalmelik) Swallow Feb 18 (414)
13 House α Pegasi (Markab) Pig Mar 5 (429)
March equinox
14 Wall γ Pegasi (Algenib) Porcupine Mar 22 (81)
15 Legs η Andromedae (?) Wolf Apr 1 (91)
16 Bond β Arietis (Sheratan) Dog Apr 17 (107)
17 Stomach Arietis (Bharani) Pheasant May 1 (121)
18 Hairy Head η Tauri (Alcyone) (?) Cockerel May 16 (136)

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

Also Barthel (p. 82 resp. p. 84-85) has much to say about these stations:

P. 82: "Tongariki, the important cult place in the bay of Hanga Nui, which was permanently destroyed by the tidal wave of 1960, has an additional name that is difficult to understand. Henga ('the one who is red' ?) was the fifth master of the ancient king Oto Uta, and, as such, responsible for matters relating to the sky (in its morning aspect?).

'Four [eha] prepare the rat (to be eaten)' introduces an inserted text segment. Insertions of this kind will occur more frequently from now on. The rat is scorched (? hakaputiti) and then cleaned (? hakapunenenene).

All this happens in a 'land (where it is good) to eat this rat with smacking noises'.

[Omo. To suck; omoaga, bulky cloud;  ragi omoaga cumulus; omoomo; to suck repeatedly, to suckle; omotahi, to win everything at a game (lit: to suck whole): omotahi-mai-á e au, he has cleaned me out; omotohi, full (of the moon); ku-omotohiá te mahina, the moon is full. Vanaga. Rima omo, infidelity, faithless, unfaithful. Omoomo, to smack the lips, to suck the breast, to smoke tobacco, to taste of; hakaomoomo, to suckle, to paint. Churchill. Ta.: Omotu, an ember, a coal. Mq.: komotu, omotu, firebrand. Churchill. Ariki (o)motongi. Manuscript E:1.]

This could mean a land where food is abundant, since the Polynesian rat was a favorite food (of the people) (ME:19). [Another explanation could be to contrast the Easter Island night of the Full Moon Omotohi (Finished Sucking) with the corresponding maximum place (north of the equator) for the Sun - possibly named Opoopo.]

Somewhat puzzling is the text of an ancient song with the line ko tongariki a papa tata ika (Campbell 1971:259), 'Tongariki, donde se lavaban los cuerpos de las victimas'). Either we are dealing here with a contamination from the  preceding additional names for Hanga Nui, or the symbol of the rat has the same meaning as the symbol of the fish ('rat' for those killed in a blood feud, compare the heva motif, and 'fish' for those killed during battle?) ..."

kai

ika

... North of the equator the symbol of the fish means death (cfr 'going down to the fishes'), whereas the symbol of the rat should mean returning up onto land again (to life) - because splashing water droplets will vivify the dry and barren Mother Earth. The sitting figure in the kai type of glyph is, I guess, splashing water from his cupped hand into his mouth - i.e. he is not eating (kai) but drinking (unu) in Polynesian fashion ...

P. 84-85: "We are dealing here with the contrasting pair 'toward the sea' [tai] vs. 'toward the land' [uta; cfr the 1st ancient king Oto Uta], which will be used on several other occasions. I was unable to locate the place called 'Hia' along the shore. 'Roi', which is located inland, seems to be related to 'Oroi' because Moai Oroi is located at the foot of Maunga Kahurea ...

'When the corpse of Oroi was put in the oven to cook, it came to life again. So then they had to take him over to the other side of the island to where the ahu is called Oroi, and there he cooked quite satisfactorily, and they ate him.' (RM:279) ..."