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he maika.
1 he koro tea. a Teke. a Oti.
2 he hihi.
3 he pukapuka.
4 he pia.
5 he nahoo.
he taro.
1 ngeti uri. a Teke. a Oti.
2 ngeti tea.
3 he ngaatu.
4 he tuitui koviro.
5 he ketu anga mea.
6 he ketu takarua.
7 he teatea.
8 he ngu haha tea.
9 he mango.
10 he hahara rapanui
1 he ti.
1 he kape.

Taro. Taro (Colocasia esculenta). Some varieties are: taro harahara hiva, taro teatea, taro vai ho iti, taro pia, taro tui ko vero, taro ketu aga mea, taro gaatu apó, taro guhu haha tea, taro magó, taro ketu takarua, taro ketu tuvítuví, taro vaihí, taro harahara rapanui, taro horehore tapatea, taro kape. Vanaga. Caladium esculentum T. P Mgv., Ta.: taro, id. Mq.: taó, id. Churchill.

etoru te rau.te taropa.o te uhi.a Maeha.a Three hundred [etoru te rau] baskets of yam (came) from Maeha and Teke.
Teke.he ki a Teke.ki toona titiro.ka mau
te taropa ena.ki runga ki te miro.anake. Teke said to his assistants [ki tona titiro], 'Take the baskets on board the canoe!'

Then Teke said to Oti, 'Go to your friend (hoou), to Pau (corrected for Bau) and ask [ka kī] for sweet potatoes (kuma), which he is to supply [ka avai mai]. And take even more baskets along when you go!' [ana oho koe]

Oti got up [he ea a Oti] and left with all his companions.

They took along a thousand [etahi piere] baskets.

anake.
he ki a Teke.kia Oti.(k)a oho.koe.ki te hoou
era.kia Bau (sic!) era.ka kī ki te kuma ka a(-)
vai mai.e ata mau tau taropa.ana oho koe
he ea a Oti.he oho.anake ko toona titiro.
he mau i te taropa etahi piere.te taropa

E:65

he oho.he tuu ki te hare o Bau (sic!) nui.o Bau (sic!) iti, They went and they came to the house of Pau Nui and Pau Iti.

Pau Nui and Pau Iti said, 'What do you people (mahingo) want (?), what is going on?'

Oti said to Pau Nui and Pau Iti, 'The king is sending me to get sweet potatoes, to bring them on board the canoe.'

Pau Nui went out, pulled the sweet potatoes out of the ground and threw them to the side. While doing that he also enumerated the names of the sweet potatoes.

he ki mai a Bau nui.raua ko Bau iti.ai ai ai
korua ko tou mahingo.ai ka pu ai ka pu.he ki
mai a Oti.kia Bau nui.raua kia Bau iti.he u(-)
nga.mai au e te ariki.ki te kumara.mo runga i te
miro.he ea a Bau nui.hee pakoo i te kumara
he hoa ki te tapa.koia ko ingoa i nape tokoa ai.
o te kumara.
Ancient expression: ai ka-pú, ai ka-pú, tell us frankly what you think. Vanaga.

E:66

etahi te piere. te taropa o te kumara. a Bau. A thousand baskets of sweet potatoes are from Pau and Oti.

They tied up [he here] the baskets and Oti said to his assistants, 'Take [ka mau] the baskets and bring them on board the canoe [ki runga ki te miro] and leave them there.'

a Oti.he here tahi i te ngutu o te taropa.he
ki.a Oti.ki toona.titiro.ka mau.ka oho.
te taropa ena.ki runga ki te miro.ka hakarere.

E:67

he ki a Teke.kia Oti.ka unga te tangata Teke said to Oti, 'Send the men [ka unga te tangata] for banana shoots. They shall take all kinds of banana shoots [anakeanake.te huru o te maika] from my banana plantation, also taro, all kinds of taro, furthermore ti (Cordyline fruticosa) and kape (Alocasia macrorrhiza).'
ki te huri.maika ka too mai i roto i taak(u)
maika ena.anakeanake.te huru o te maika ana
too mai.te taro tokoa.anakeanake te huru. o te
taro.ana too mai.he ti tokoa.he kape tokoa.
Huri. 1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga. 1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill. Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

Huru. Custom, tradition, behaviour, manners, situation, circumstances; poki huru hare, child who stays inside (to keep a fair complexion); te huru o te tagata rivariva, a fine person's behaviour; pehé te huru o Hiva? what is the situation on the mainland? Huruhuru, plumage, feathers (the short feathers, not the tail feathers), fleece of sheep. Vanaga. Samoa: sulu, a torch; to light by a torch; sulusulu, to carry a torch; susulu, to shine (used of the heavenly bodies and of fire). Futuna: susulu, the brightness of the moon. Tonga: huluaki, huluia, huluhulu, to light, to enlighten; fakahuhulu, to shine; iuhulu, a torch or flambeau, to light with a torch. Niuē: hulu, a torch; huhulu, to shine (as the moon). Maori: huru, the glow of the sun before rising, the glow of fire. Churchill 2.

he oho.a Oti.anake ko toona titiro he tuu Oti and all his assistants went away, arrived, and took some of the banana shoots as well as taro, ti, and kape.
he too mai i te huri maika.i te taro tokoa
i te tī tokoa.i te kape tokoa.

E:68

erima te rau te taropa o te huri maika. (There were) five hundred baskets of banana shoots, a thousand baskets of taro, fifty bundles of long ti roots, and ten baskets of little kape seedlings.

They tied up the baskets carefully, and Oti said to his assistants, 'Take all the baskets ...

huri mata. etahi te piere.te taropa
o te taro.erima te kauatu.te (u)ranga.
o te pupura .et(a)hi te kauatu te ta(-)
ropa o te mamari kape.he here tahi ngu(-)
tu.o te taropa anakeanake. he ki a Oti ki
toona titiro.ka mau tahi te taropa.

Following my thread of thought these 10 varieties of taro ought to have begun at heliacal Aldebaran and ended at Rigel (and Capella):

MARCH 24 (83) 25 (Julian equinox) 26 (*5) 27 4
Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-6
no star listed (67)

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)
no star listed (69) no star listed (70)
May 27 28 (148) 29 30 (*70)
°May 23 24 (144) 25 (*65) 26
'April 30 'May 1 (121) 2 (*42) 3
16 (471 = 314 * 1½) "April 17 (107) 18 (*28) 19
DAY 67 - 64 = 3 4 5 6
3  Hanga Roa

a tuki tukau

4 Okahu

a uka ui hetuu

5 Ra Tahai

a uo

6 Ahu Akapu

a mata kurakura

Oka. 1. Lever, pole; to dig holes in the ground with a sharpened stick, as was done in ancient times to plant vegetables; used generally in the meaning of making plantations. 2. The four sideways poles supporting a hare paega. Okaoka, to jab, to pierce, to prick repeatedly. Vanaga. Digging stick, stake, joist; to prick, to pierce, to stick a thing into, to drive into, to slaughter, to assassinate; kona oka kai, plantation; pahu oka, a drawer. Okaoka, a fork, to prick, to dig. Okahia, to prick. Churchill.

Ku hú á te huka-huka, ku herohero á i roto i te ahi, burning wood shows red in the fire.

5 he nahoo 1 ngeti uri 2 ngeti tea  3 he ngaatu

taro gaatu apó

APRIL 1 (91) 2 3 4 (*14)
Ga1-11 Ga1-12 Ga1-13 Ga1-14
HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)

5h (76.1)

ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)
μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)

 ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA (Little Goat) = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)

... In view of the almost universal prevalence of the Pleiades year throughout the Polynesian area it is surprising to find that in the South Island and certain parts of the North Island of New Zealand and in the neighboring Chatham Islands, the year began with the new Moon after the yearly morning rising, not of the Pleiades, but of the star Rigel in Orion ...

From Aldebaran there was a great expansion stretching all the way between Rigel and Capella. Kokoro. Width, expanse; wide, spacious.

Te kokoro o te hare, the expanse of a wide house. Vanaga. To widen, to expand. Churchill.

June 4 5 6 (157 = 314 / 2) 7 (*78)
°May 31 (151) °June 1 2 (*73) 3
'May 8 (128) 9 10 (*50) 11
"April 24 (114) Vaitu Nui 25 (115)  (E:17) 26 (*36) 27

... On the twenty-fifth day [raa] of the first month ('Vaitu Nui'), Ira and Makoi set sail. (i te rua te angahuru marima raa o te vaitu nui.i oho.mai ai a ira.ko Makoi).

DAY 75 - 64 = 11 12 (= 115 - 84 - 19) 13 14
11 Roro Hau

a mana ai rea

12 Vai Poko

a raa mata turu

13 Ko Te Hereke

a kino ariki

14 Hatu Ngoio

a taotao ika

8 he ngu haha tea

 taro guhu haha tea

9 he mango

taro magó

10 he hahara rapanui

taro harahara rapanui

1 he ti

Mago. Spotted dogfish, small shark. Vanaga. Mogo, shark. P Pau.: mago,  id. Mgv. mago, id. Mq. mano, mako, mono, moko id. T. maó, id. In addition to this list the word is found as mago in Samoa, Maori, Niuē, and in Viti as mego. It is only in Rapanui and the Marquesas that we encounter the variant mogo. Churchill.

Hara. Harahara 1. Misaligned (of roofing, basketware, etc.); e harahara nó te kete, the basket is misaligned (its strips are not parallel. 2. A sort of taro. 3. Latrine, defecating ground. Vanaga. 1. Pandanus. P Mgv.: ara, puhara, pandanus (tree); hara, a bunch of pandanus fruit, old pandanus. Mq.: faá haá, pandanus. Ta.: fara, id. 2. Error, mistake, oversight, wrong; to err, to confound, to mistake; manau hara, illusion; toua hara, discussion without knowing the object. P Mgv.: ara, arara, defective, abortive, to miss, to fail, a fault, a quarrel; hara, a fault, a mistake, an error, a dispute, a quarrel, undisciplined. Mq.: hara, a rake, libertine. Ta.: hara, sin, fault, crime. Churchill.

Haha. 1. Mouth (oral cavity, as opposed to gutu, lips). 2. To carry piggy-back. He haha te poki i toona matu'a, the child took his father on his back. Ka haha mai, get onto my back (so I may carry you). Vanaga. 1. To grope, to feel one's way; po haha, darkness, obscure. 2. Mouth, chops, door, entrance, window; haha pipi, small mouth; haha pipiro, foul breath; ohio haha, bit of bridle; tiaki haha, porter, doorkeeper. Churchill.

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.

... Thuban had been the star at the North Pole when the great Egyptian pyramids where built.

... The star could be seen, both by day and night, from the bottom of the central passage of the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Knum Khufu) at Ghizeh, in 30° of north latitude, as also from the similar points in five other like structures; and the same fact is asserted by Sir John Herschel as to the two pyramids at Abousseir ... For some reason, too, it had taken their fancy to place the Great Pyramid almost exactly on the 30th parallel at latitude 29º 58' 51". This, a former astronomer royal of Scotland once observed, was 'a sensible defalcation from 30º', but not necessarily in error: For if the original designer had wished that men should see with their body, rather than their mental eyes, the pole of the sky from the foot of the Great Pyramid, at an altitude before them of 30º, he would have had to take account of the refraction of the atmosphere, and that would have necessitated the building standing not at 30º but at 29º 58' 22' ...

Hatu. 1. Clod of earth; cultivated land; arable land (oone hatu). 2. Compact mass of other substances: hatu matá, piece of obsidian. 3. Figuratively: manava hatu, said of persons who, in adversity, stay composed and in control of their behaviour and feelings. 4. To advise, to command. He hatu i te vanaga rivariva ki te kio o poki ki ruga ki te opata, they gave the refugees the good advice not to climb the precipice; he hatu i te vanaga rakerake, to give bad advice. 5. To collude, to unite for a purpose, to concur. Mo hatu o te tia o te nua, to agree on the price of a nua cape. 6. Result, favourable outcome of an enterprise. He ká i te umu mo te hatu o te aga, to light the earth oven for the successful outcome of an enterprise. Vanaga. 1. Haatu, hahatu, mahatu. To fold, to double, to plait, to braid; noho hatu, to sit crosslegged; hoe hatu, clasp knife; hatuhatu, to deform. 2. To recommend. Churchill. In the Polynesian dialects proper, we find Patu and Patu-patu, 'stone', in New Zealand; Fatu in Tahiti and Marquesas signifying 'Lord', 'Master', also 'Stone'; Haku in the Hawaiian means 'Lord', 'Master', while with the intensitive prefix Po it becomes Pohaku, 'a stone'. Fornander.

Goio. Mgv.: a black seabird. Mq.: koio, noio, a bird. Ha.: noio, a small black bird that lives on fish. Churchill.

APRIL 5 6 (96) 7
Ga1-15 Ga1-16 Ga1-17

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)

Shur-narkabti-sha-iltanu-5 (Star in the Bull towards the north)

σ Aurigae (80.4), BELLATRIX (Female Warrior) = γ Orionis, SAIF AL JABBAR (Sword of the Giant) = η Orionis (80.7), ELNATH (The Butting One) = β Tauri = γ Aurigae (80.9)
ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL (Thirst-slaking Camels) = β Leporis (81.7)
June 8 9 10 (161)

... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

°June 4 5 (156) 6 (*77)
'May 12 13 14 (*54)
"April 28 29 30 (*40)
DAY 79 - 64 = 15 16 17
15 Ara Koreu

a pari maehaeha

16 Hanga Kuokuo

a vave renga

17 Opata Roa

a mana aia

He hatu i te vanaga rivariva ki te kio o poki ki ruga ki te opata, they gave the refugees the good advice not to climb the precipice.

He-kî e Tori: maaku-á e-ea ki te manu, e-poko i te po i ruga i te opata. Tori said: I shall go and catch birds at night, up on the cliff.

1 he kape    

Ti by lying with Tattooing made the ti plant (he ti ki ai ki roto ki a he ta ka pu te ti). Burnt ti leaves were used to produce the black dye for tattooing.

Kape. 'Bitter-taro' (Alocasia macrorrhiza). In 1957 kape was still cultivated in much the same way as dry taro. It is a type of food to be eaten during times of famine. According to Fuentes (1960:856), the tubers had to be kept in the earth-oven for 15 (sic) days in order to eliminate some of the poisonous components. Barthel 2.  Arum, yam. Churchill. Bitterness by doing it with Bad-taste produced the kape (mangeongeo ki ai ki roto he rakerake ka pu te kape).

Cordyline fruticosa (Ti plant, also known as the good luck plant), is an evergreen flowering plant in the family Liliaceae, formerly treated in the families Agavaceae and Laxmanniaceae. It is a woody plant growing up to 4 m tall, with leaves 30-60 cm (rarely 75 cm) long and 5-10 cm wide at the top of a woody stem.

It produces 40-60 cm long panicles of small scented yellowish to red flowers that mature into red berries.

It is native to tropical southeastern Asia, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, northeastern Australia, the Indian Ocean, and parts of Polynesia. It is not native to Hawaii or New Zealand but exists on those islands as a feral weed introduced by Polynesian settlers. C. fruticosa is known by a wide variety of common names including cabbage palm, good luck plant, palm lily and Ti plant, kī (Hawaiian), (Tongan), and 'autī.

The species was spread from its native range throughout Polynesia by farmers. Its starchy rhizomes, which are very sweet when the plant is mature, were eaten as food or as medicine, and its leaves were used to thatch the roofs of houses, and to wrap and store food. The plant or its roots are referred to in most Polynesian languages as . Leaves were also used to make items of clothing including skirts worn in dance performances. The Hawaiʻian hula skirt is a dense skirt with an opaque layer of at least 50 green leaves and the bottom (top of the leaves) shaved flat. The Tongan dance dress, the sisi, is an apron of about 20 leaves, worn over a tupenu, and decorated with some yellow or red leaves ...

In ancient Hawaiʻi the plant was thought to have great spiritual power; only high priests and chiefs were able to wear leaves around their necks during certain ritual activities. Ti leaves were also used to make lei, and to outline borders between properties (for which its alternative name: terminalis). To this day some Hawaiians plant Ti near their houses to bring good luck. The leaves are also used for lava sledding. A number of leaves are lashed together and people ride down hills on them ... The roots of the Ti bush were used as a glossy covering on surfboards in Hawaii in the early 1900s. Ti is a popular ornamental plant, with numerous cultivars available, many of them selected for green or reddish or purple foliage. In Hawaii, Ti rhizomes are fermented and distilled to make okolehao, a liquor ...

According to Bathel 16 Hanga Kuokuo a Vave Renga was a place located to the west of Hanga Oteo (The Eighth Land, p. 79) - at the top of the map above. For me this bay looks like a zero.

Furthermore, he points out that the 'beautiful surf' (vave renga) was an appellation used also at 2 Hanga O Uo, i.e. 14 Makoi stations earlier:

0h MARCH 22 (*1) 23 (82)
no glyph
Ga1-1 Ga1-2
HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)

Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)
no star listed (66)
May 24 25 (145) 26 (*66)
°May 20 21 (*61) 22 (142)
'April 27 28 (118) 29 (*39)
"April 13 14 (104) 15 (*25)
DAY 64 DAY 1 = 65 - 64 2
- 1 Ko Apina Iti

 ko Rapa Kura

2 Ko Hanga O Uo

a vave renga

2 he hihi 3 he pukapuka 4 he pia
NAKSHATRA DATES:
SEPT 20 (*183) 21 (264) EQUINOX

Heart-5 (Fox)

σ Scorpii (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7)
ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM (Club) = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8)

Al Kalb-16 (The Heart) / Jyeshtha-18 (Eldest) / ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)

ANTARES = α Scorpii (249.1), MARFIK (Elbow)  = λ Ophiuchi, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8
Nov 23 (327) 24 25 (*249)
°Nov 19 20 (*244) 21 (325)
'Oct 27 (300) 28 29 (*222)
"Oct 13 (286) 14 15 (*208)

... In the inscriptions of Dendera, published by Dümichen, the goddess Hathor is called 'lady of every joy'. For once, Dümichen adds: Literally ... 'the lady of every heart circuit'. This is not to say that the Egyptians had discovered the circulation of the blood. But the determinative sign for 'heart' often figures as the plumb bob at the end of a plumb line coming from a well-known astronomical or surveying device, the merkhet. Evidently, 'heart' is something very specific, as it were the 'center of gravity' ... See Aeg.Wb. 2, pp. 55f. for sign of the heart (ib) as expressing generally 'the middle, the center'. And this may lead in quite another direction. The Arabs preserved a name for Canopus - besides calling the star Kalb at-tai-man ('heart of the south') ... Suhail el-wezn, 'Canopus Ponderosus', the heavy-weighing Canopus, a name promptly declared meaningless by the experts, but which could well have belonged to an archaic system in which Canopus was the weight at the end of the plumb line, as befitted its important position as a heavy star at the South Pole of the 'waters below'. Here is a chain of inferences which might or might not be valid, but it is allowable to test it, and no inference at all would come from the 'lady of every joy'. The line seems to state that Hathor (= Hat Hor, 'House of Horus') 'rules' the revolution of a specific celestial body - whether or not Canopus is alluded to - or, if we can trust the translation 'every', the revolution of all celestial bodies. As concerns the identity of the ruling lady, the greater possibility speaks for Sirius, but Venus cannot be excluded; in Mexico, too, Venus is called 'heart of the earth'. The reader is invited to imagine for himself what many thousands of such pseudo-primitive or poetic interpretations must lead to: a disfigured interpretation of Egyptian intellectual life ...