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The string figures - which presumably together were creating the outline of 'the cradle of the cat'

- ended at Apina Nui (he oti te Pautautau nei) and this place clearly coincided with the heliacal star Al Tarf (The End):

Oti. To come to an end; to suffice, to be enough: ku-oti-á, it is finished; ina kai oti mo kai, there is not enough to eat; he-oti á, there isn't anymore left, it's the last one; it's enough with that. Vanaga. Ta.: 1. Oti, presage of death. Sa.: oti, to die. 2. To cut. Mq.: koti, oti, id. Sa.: 'oti, id. Ma.: koti, id. Churchill.

... hakatautau, to append. P Pau.: fakatautau, to hang up. Mq.: tautau, id. Ta.: faatautau, id. ... kau-kau, to take counsel, to resolve, to chide, to reprove, to explain, make clear ... tau-tau, to hang, hang up ...

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

MAY 14 15 (365 + 135 = 500) 16 (136) 17 18 (*58 = 2 * 29) 19
Ga2-24 Ga2-25 Ga2-26 Ga2-27 (57) Ga2-28 Ga2-29

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 * 29½) 18
'June 20 SOLSTICE 22 (173) 23 ST JOHN'S DAY 25 (*96)
"June 6 7 8 9 (*80) Te Maro 10 (161) 11

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)

DAY 118 - 64 = 54

54 Vai Rapa

a haka remereme

31 + 24 = 55 56 (Sic!) Te Vai Rutu Manu

a koro rupa e haho e hivi e e runga e te puku ohu kahi e

57 Hanga Piko (Curved Bay)

a hare utu manu a ana onoono a pu ngotangota

58 Ata Popohanga (Morning Shadow)

toou e to ata hero ē

59 Ata Ahiahi (Evening Shadow)

toou e honu ē

... 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 ...

E:46
1 Ko Apina Iti 27 29 Ko Te Rano A Raraku (30)

29

30

31 Oparingi 11 (43) 1 45 Vai ngaere 8 54 Vai Rapa (55) 4 60 Apina Nui

12

11

5

24

... 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.

'Curved Bay', the well-known little harbour on the western shore, is linked with a 'house where the bird beats (the rhythm), that is, where a certain chant is being recited. This establishes  a cross-connection to the watering place by the same name and also to the 'Koro Rupa' motif and the theme of the birdman cult. It also suggests the newly discovered petroglyphs from Hanga Piko (so far, only partially published by Barthel 1962:Illustration 2). Ana Onoono is a cave well-suited as an overnight shelter; Pu Ngotangota is a coastal formation where seawater is allowed to flow in and out. The three additions, 'house', 'cave', and 'hole', always describe an enclosed area.

'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) ... (The Eighth Land, pp. 89-90.)

Kere. To moor, to make fast. Kerekere, black, dark, blue, obscure, gloom; niho kerekere, blackened teeth. Hakakerekere, to blacken. P Pau.: kerekere, black, dark, somber. Mgv.: kerekere, blue, dark blue almost black, the color of the deep ocean, black, somber, darkness. Mq.: kerekere, keékeé, black, somber, livid; ere, blue, azure. Ta.: ereere, black. Churchill.

ELE¹, v. Haw., be dark, black; adj. dark-coloured, black, blue, dark-red, brown; ele-ele, id. Tah., ere-ere, dark, black, blue. Rarot., kerekere, id. Marqu., kekee, id.; kee-voo, darkness, gloom. The application of this word to colour is doubtless derivative from the Polynes. Haw. kele, mud, mire (quod vide), Tong. kèle-kere, earth, soil, dirt, Sam. 'ele and 'ele-ele, red earth, dirt, rust; elea, Tong., kelea, rusty, dirty; probably all akin to ala, ara, in ala-ea, earth, clay ... Jav., iran, black. N. Celebes (Kema), hirun, id. In the following Greek words the first constituent proclaims their affinity to the Polynesian ere, ele: - ερεβος, darkness of the grave, the dark passage from earth to Hades; ερεβεννος, dark, gloomy; ερεμνος, sync. fr. previous word, black, swarthy; ερεφω, to cover; ορφνη, darkness of night; ορφνος, dark, dusty; οροφη, roof of a house. Sanskr., aruņa, tawny, dark, red; s. the dawn, the sun; aruņita, made red. Benfey refers the Sanskrit word to arus, a wound. Lidell and Scott refer the Greek words to ερεφω, to cover. They are plausible; but are they the true roots of stems, in view of the Polynesian ele, ere? Dr. J. Pickering, in his Greek Lexicon, derives ερεβος 'from ερα (the earth) or ερεφω (to cover)'. The former seems to me the better reference. 

ELE², prefix. Haw., an intensitive added to many words, imparting a meaning of 'very much, greatly'; ele-u, alert, quick; ele-ma-kule, old, aged, helpless; ele-mio, tapering to a point; ele-ku, easily broken, very brittle; ele-hei, too short. Tah., ere-huru, encumbered, too much of a thing. A. Pictet ... says, apropos of the derivation of the word Erin: 'L'irlandais er comme adjectif magnus, nobilis, paraît être identique à l'er intensitif de l'irlandais et du cymrique, considéré comme une particule inséparable, et qui serait ainsi proprement un adjectif. Il est à remarquer en confirmationm, que le zend airya = sanskr. arya avec l'acception de bon, juste, est également devny ér dans les composés du Pârsi, comme ér-maneshu, bon esprit, er-tan, bon corps (Spiegel, Avesta, i. 6). De là à un sens intensitif, transition était facile.' Why not widen the philological horizon by admittning the Polynesian ere, ele, to consideration as well as the Irish, Welsh, or Parsi? And why may not the O. Norse ar, early, first; aerir, messengers; the Sax. er, before, in time, go up to the same root as those others? (Fornander)

MAY 20 (140)
Ga3-1 (60)
HELIACAL STARS:

AL TARF (The End) = β Cancri (124.3)

RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)
July 23 (204)
°July 19 (200)
'June 26 (177)
"June 12 (163)
DAY 124 - 64 = 60

60 APINA NUI

a Papa nihoni(ho) a vere nuanua a Papa o rae i te ngao o te moai o hinariru.

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
NOV 19 (*243)
GREDI (Goat) = α Capricorni (307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), ALSHAT (The Sheep) = ν Capricorni (307.9)
Jan 22 (387)
°Jan 18 (384)
'Dec 26 (360)
"Dec 12 (346)
DAY 307 - 64 = 243 (= 9 * 27) = 2 * 29½ + 184