ko oto uta	ariki motongi	1	*Hamal (30)**
ko tangaroa.a oto uta	ariki motongi	2	*(57)**
ko tiki hati.a tangaroa	ariki motongi	3	*(84)**
ko roroi.a tiki hati	ariki motongi	4	*(111)**
ko tuu kumā.a roroi	ariki motongi	5	*(138)**
ko ataranga.a tuu kumā	ariki motongi	6	*Alkes (165 = 348 - 183)**
ko harai.a ataranga	ariki motongi	7	*Bharani (41)**
ko taana.a harai	ariki motongi	8	*Aldebaran (68)**
ko matua.a taana	ariki motongi	9	*Canopus (95)**
ko hotu.a matua	ariki motongi	10	*Antares (249)**

1	Banana shoots	te huri maika
2	Taro seedlings	te uru taro
3	Sections of Sugarcane	tepupura toa
4	Yam roots	te uhi
5	Sweet potatoes	te rau kumara
6	Hauhau trees	te hauhau
7	Paper Mulberry trees	te mahute
8	Sandalwood trees	te naunau
9	Toromiro trees	te toromiro
10	Ferns	te riku
11	Rushes	te ngaatu
12	Yellow roots	te pua
13	Tavari plants	te tavari
14	Moss	te para
15	Nga Oho plants	te ngaoho
16	Grass	te mauku tokoa

It is essential to count.

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 (The Two Restorers of Goods) / 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)***
... 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)
... 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 ...'

Grass seems to have symbolized (characterized) the beginning of a new (virgin) land.

... What happens after (or happened, or will happen sometime, for this myth is written in the future tense), is told in the Völuspa, but it is also amplified in Snorri's Gylfaginning (53), a tale of a strange encounter of King Gylfi with the Aesir themselves, disguised as men, who do not reveal their identity but are willing to answer questions: 'What happens when the whole world has burned up, the gods are dead, and all of mankind is gone? You have said earlier, that each human being would go on living in this or that world.' So it is, goes the answer, there are several worlds for the good and the bad. Then Gylfi asks: 'Shall any gods be alive, and shall there be something of earth and heaven?' And the answer is: 'The earth rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and things grow without sowing. Vidar and Vali are alive, for neither the sea nor the flames of Surt have hurt them and they dwell on the Eddyfield, where once stood Asgard. There come also the sons of Thor, Modi and Magni, and bring along his hammer. There come also Balder and Hoder from the other world. All sit down and converse together. They rehearse their runes and talk of events of old days. Then they find in the grass the golden tablets that the Aesir once played with ...

13 * 13 - 4 = 165. And 165 - 13 (the white pieces above) = 152 (= 8 * 19) - as in Te Maro 1 when the Sun reached Castor and the Explorers reached the new land.

Sa.: malae, the town green. Nukuoro: malae, a cleared space, an open place, a plantation. To.: malae, a gree, a grass plot ... Ha.: malae, smooth (as a plain) ... Ma.: marae, an inclosed place in front of a house. Ta.: marae, the sacred place of worship ... Vi.: mara, a burying place ... In note 261 I have advanced the opinion that malae is in form a conditional derivative of lae. This holds of the signification found in Nuclear Polynesia. The secondary sense which the Tongafiti carried to eastern Polynesia has obscured the lae element; but the sacrosanct content of the marae in the four-godded theology of eastern Polynesia is after all but a logical outgrowth of the Nuclear Polynesian malae as the civic center of social life where god is sole, surpreme - and Lucretian ... Churchill 2.

From there (Te Maro 1) to the arrival of Hotu A Matua (at the time of Bharani) there were 288 - 152 = 136 right ascension days - as in the day number for Alcyone in the Pleiades (at the opposite side of the year at the time of rongorongo). 136 + *41 = 177 = 354 / 2.

*Bharani (41)**	26	*Aldebaran (68)**	26	*Canopus (95)**		*Antares (249)**
0	26	27	26	*2 27**		208 - 181 = 27

*249 - *27 = *222:

te maitaki	kua hua te kahi	te ahine poo puo	ki te huaga	ki te huaga	te kahi
Hua. 1. Testicle. 2. Figuratively: son, hua tahi, only son; fruits of the earth; to grow well (of fruits). 3. To cause a fight, a quarrel. Hua-ai, generation, as lineage of direct descendents; contemporaries. Huahua, coccyx of bird, 'parson's nose': huahua moa, huahua uha. Huataru, a creeper (Chenopodium ambiguum). Vanaga. 1. The same; ki hua, again, to continue, to strain, to struggle, to move, to repeat, over and above. Mq.: hua, the same, to return, to recommence. 2. To bloom, to sprout; flower, fruit (huaa); huaa tae oko, huaa vahio, young fruit; hua atahi, only son; huahaga, fruit; mei te huahaga o tokoe kopu, the fruit of thy body; tikea huahaga, deceptive appearance. P Pau.: ua, to be born; huahaga, lineage. Mgv.: hua, to produce (said of trees, grain, etc.), blooming time of flowers, abundance of fruit. Mq.: hua, to produce, to bear fruit. Ta.: ua, to sprout. Huahua. 1. Tailless fowl. 2. Vein, tendon, line. 3. Mgv.: huahua, pimples covering the face. Ta.: huahua, id. Mq.: hua, tubercules. Sa.: fuafua, abscess on hand or feet. Ma.: huahua, small pimples. Pau.: Hua-gakau, rupture. Ta.: áau, entrails. Sa.: ga'au, id. Ma.: ngakau, id. Churchill. 1. Fruit. 2. Egg. 3. Tā hua = 'genealogical writing' or 'same writing'. Fischer. 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.)

Cb8-24	Cb8-25	Cb8-26	Cb8-27	Cb8-28 (199)	Cb8-29 (584 + 8)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Oct 28 → Cb8-28	29	30	31	Nov 1 (305)	2
ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN (Shoot of the Grapevine) = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9)	31 Bootis (222.0), YANG MUN (South Gate) = α Lupi (222.1), RIJL AL AWWA (Foot of the Barker) = μ Virginis (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9)	IZAR (Girdle) = ε Bootis (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (No Feet) (223.3), μ Librae (223.8)	*Al Zubānā-14a (Claws) / Visakha-16 (Forked) / Root-3 (Badger)* ZUBEN ELGENUBI (Southern Claw) = α Librae (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)	KOCHAB (Kakkab, the Star) = β Ursae Min. (225.0), ξ Librae (225.7)	KE KWAN (Cavalry Officer) = β Lupi (226.3), KE KWAN = κ Centauri (226.4), ZUBEN ELAKRIBI (Claw of the Scorpion) = δ Librae (226.8), π¹ Oct. (226.9) 185.0 = 226.4 - 41.4

'Oct 1	2	3	4 (277)	5	6
"Sept 17 (364 - 104)	*18 (9 29 = 261)**	19	20	21 (364 - 100)	Equinox

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8)	μ Arietis (39.4), HEAD OF THE FLY = 35 Arietis (39.6), KAFFALJIDHMA (Part of a Hand) = γ Ceti, θ Persei (39.8)	π Ceti, ο Arietis (40.0), ANGETENAR (Bend in the River) = τ¹ Eridani, μ Ceti (40.2), RIGHT WING = 39 Arietis (40.9)	*Bharani-2 (Yoni) / Stomach-17 (Pheasant)* π Arietis (41.2), MIRAM (Next to the Pleiades) = η Persei (41.3), BHARANI = 41 Arietis (41.4), τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7)	TA LING (Great Mound) = τ Persei (42.4) 1.0 = 42.4 - *41.4	ρ Arietis (43.0), GORGONEA SECUNDA = π Persei (43.5), ACAMAR (End of the River) = θ Eridani (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7), λ Ceti (43.9) ~~DENEBOLA (β Leonis)~~

... Before writing was invented everything had to be commited to memory. Strings of words are more easy to remember than isolated ones. Therefore, I think, the Polynesians were fond of lists. Lists of e.g. birds could be used to memorize other things, such as the order and events connected with the different months. We should not underestimate the potentiality of such a method:

... The ollave in ancient Ireland had to be master of one hundred and fifty Oghams, or verbal ciphers, which allowed him to converse with his fellow-poets over the heads of unlearned bystanders; to be able to repeat at a moment's notice any one of three hundred and fifty long traditional histories and romances, together with the incidental poems they contained, with appropriate harp accompaniment; to have memorized an immense number of other poems of different sorts; to be learned in philosophy; to be a doctor of civil law; to understand the history of modern, middle and ancient Irish with the derivations and changes of meaning of every word; to be skilled in music, augury, divination, medicine, mathematics, geography, universal history, astronomy, rhetoric and foreign languages; and to be able to extemporize poetry in fifty or more complicated metres. That anyone at all should have been able to qualify as an ollave is surprising; yet families of ollaves tended to intermarry; and among the Maoris of New Zealand where a curiously similar system prevailed, the capacity of the ollave to memorize, comprehend, elucidate and extemporate staggered Governer Grey and other early British observers. (The White Goddess)

Manuscript E ought to reflect some of the ollave 'cosmos'. Even more so should the rongorongo texts be of this nature, a great web of interconnected names and ideas. My glyph dictionary is meant to be of help in reading the rongorongo texts, and I therefore must try to include everything which possibly could be of use for interpreting the signs on the tablets ...

Based on a study of the kea glyphs in A and G an intuitive approach lead to a few conclusions. Kea in Ab8-84, the last glyph on side b, seems to illustrate how the 'egg' in Ab8-80 (where 8 * 8 = 64 apparently is a number sign for maximum) is evolving into 2 'persons':

	3
Ab8-80		Ab8-84

Gb7-31		Gb8-3

The imagery is different in G, where instead a thumb evolves into a hanging fruit (hua).

In midwinter Sun will turn around (cfr Gb8-3) and daylight (ao) will once again 'stand up' (tu). The bird list in Manuscript E has a triplet of birds (tuvi, tuao, tavi) located immediately before the arrival of the spring bird manu tara and this triplet of birds could refer to the same events as those described in Gb8-4 (cfr 84 in Ab8-84), Gb8-5, and Gb8-6:


Gb8-1	Gb8-2	Gb8-3
Mercury	Jupiter	Venus

Gb8-4	Gb8-5	Gb8-6 (448)
*Saturn ('tu-vi')*	*Sun ('tu-ao')*	*Moon ('ta-vi')*

The new beginning is close to the old end, and it is difficult to discern the one from the other. While Tahua has kea as the last glyph on the back side of the tablet the creator of G has instead put a kea as the first glyph in the last line of the back side.

The double heads of these two kea glyphs presumably represent the front and back sides of the year, and we should remember the Yoruba board for the divination game Ifá (cfr at niu):

Already the ancient Babylonians associated winter solstice, and also summer solstice, with uncertainty ('the chamber of hazard' months, Ubšugina respectively Duazaga), and the hard to see planets Saturn and Mercury are possible to use in order to illustrate how difficult it is to perceive the future - the future in uncertain.