Die in den Metorogesängen oft vorkommende Benennung der Zeichen 65 bzw. 66 als toa wurde von Jaussen auf das Zuckerrohr bezogen; eine Auffassung, die keine Stütze in den Tafeltexten findet. Berücksichtigt man aber, daß die Metorogesänge phonetisch nicht immer ganz exakt niedergeschrieben wurden, so findet man eine sinnvolle Lösung, wenn man zwischen tôa und to'a underscheidet: Das erste Wort bedeutet Zuckerrohr, das zweite dagegen Feind, Mörder.³

³) Englert 1948, 503: 'caña de azucar' bzw. 'enemigo; asesino'. Ferner: he to'a o te îka, el que ha dado muerte a una persona'.

he ki hokoou a Teke.kia Oti.ka oho ki roto	Then Teke said to Oti, 'Go to the sugarcane plantation [ka oho ki roto ki te toa] and carefully break off [ka hahati] pieces of cane. Not one variety shall be left (i.e., shall be omitted) when the pieces of sugarcane are taken along.'
ki te toa ka hahati tahi.te mee o to ea eta(-)
hi.koia ko pupura ana too.mai.he oho.
Pura. To turn white; glow, brilliance; he-pura te mata, the eyes twinkle (said of someone who looks at something with great interest). Purapura, descendent; koau he purapura o Miru, I am a descendent of the Miru tribe. Pupura, the part of the sugarcane or of the ti plant which is cut off and planted again: pupura tôa, pupura ti. Vanaga.
a Teke.a Oti.toraua titiro tokoa.he ōo. ki	Teke and Oti went with their assistants, entered into the sugarcane plantation, and broke off pieces everywhere. Teke said the names [he nape i te ingoa] of all the different varieties of sugarcane.
roto ki te toa.he hahati tahi.he nape i te ingoa o
te toa.e Teke.

E:70
etahi te piere te amonga o te toa.he ki a Teke.	There were a thousand loads [te amonga] of sugarcane. Teke said to Oti [oti], 'Bring [ka mau] (that) on board the canoe!' The men picked up [he mau] the sugarcane, came on board the canoe, and left it there. The men returned (to the other things) [ki te me'e] and took these too.
kia oti ka mau ki runga ki te miro.he mau te
tangata.i te toā.he tuu he hakarere i runga i te
miro.he hoki mai te tangata.ki te mee
he too tokou.
he ki hokoou te ariki a Hotu kia Teke.	Then King Hotu spoke to Teke, 'Take along the four-legged animals (manu vae eha), the pigs (? kekepu), the sea swallows (manu tara), and the flies (takaure)!' King Hotu continued to speak to Teke, 'The thing [he mee] that you must not forget under any circumstances are the flies! The flies are creatures [he mee o rehu a takaure] that must not be forgotten. If you forget the flies [ana rehu te takaure i a koe] the multitude [te piere] of people will perish [he ngaro]. But when you bring the flies on land [ana tomo ki runga ki te kainga te takaure], then there will be a great number of people (he piere tangata)!'
ka too te manu vae eha.te kekepu. te manu
tara.te takaure.(h)e ki hokoou te ariki a Hotu
kia Teke. te mee mo tae rehu i a koe he taka(-)
ure.he mee o rehu a te takaure. ana rehu te
takaure i a koe.he ngaro te piere tangata.
ana tomo ki runga ki te kainga te takaure ena
i a koe ka aī te mee he piere tangata.
...From a religious point of view, the high regard for flies, whose increase or reduction causes a similar increase or reduction in the size of the human population, is interesting, even more so because swarms of flies are often a real nuisance on Easter Island, something most visitors have commented on in vivid language. The explanation seems to be that there is a parallel relationship between flies and human souls, in this case, the souls of the unborn. There is a widespread belief throughout Polynesia that insects are the embodiment of numinous beings, such as gods or the spirits of the dead, and this concept extends into Southeast Asia, where insects are seen as the embodiment of the soul ...

Supposing we should move ahead from Ga1-6,

MARCH 24 (83)	25 (Julian equinox)	*26 (5)**	27

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
Ku hú á te huka-huka, ku herohero á i roto i te ahi, burning wood shows red in the fire. 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.
5 he nahoo Naho'o	1 ngeti uri	2 ngeti tea	3 he ngaatu Taro gaatu apó

moving on with one glyph for each type of taro - i.e. with a further 17 steps,

he taro
1	he	ngeti uri	a Oti.
1		ngeti tea
1		ngaatu
1		tavari
1		riku
1		ngaoho
1		naunau.
1		uku koko
1		nehenehe
1		poporo.
1		kavakava atua
1		kohe.
1		nehenehe [sic!]
1		pua
1		harahara
1		hua taru.
1		makere
1		hata.
1		tuere heu.
1		tureme

then the beginning of the 7 sugarcane (toa) variants - belonging to both Teke and Oti - could have arrived at right ascension day number *70 + *18 = *88, viz. at Betelgeuze.

APRIL 8	*9 (19)**	10 (100)

Ga1-18	Ga1-19	Ga1-20
KHUFU MINTAKA (Belt) = δ Orionis, υ Orionis (82.4), χ Aurigae (82.5), ε Columbae (82.6) 41 = 82.4 - *41.4	KHAFRE **Al Hak'ah-3 (Brand) / Mrigashīrsha-5 (Stag's Head) / Turtle Head-20 (Monkey) / Mas-tab-ba-tur-tur (Little Twins)** ARNEB = α Leporis, Crab Nebula = M1 Tauri (83.0, φ¹ Orionis (83.1), HEKA = λ Orionis, Orion Nebula = M42 (83.2), φ² Orionis (83.6), ALNILAM (String of Pearls) = ε Orionis (83.7)	MENKAURE **Three Stars-21 (Gibbon) / Shur-narkabti-sha-shūtū-6 (Star in the Bull towards the south) / ANA-IVA-9 (Pillar of exit)** HEAVENLY GATE = ζ Tauri, ν Columbae (84.0), ω Orionis (84.2), ALNITAK (Girdle) = ζ Orionis, PHAKT (Phaet) = α Columbae (84.7)
11	June 12	*13 (84)**
7	°June 8	*9 (80)**
15 (135)	'May 16 (136)	17
"May 1 (121)	"May 2	3 (133)
DAY 82 - 64 = 18	19 (= 115 - 84 - 12)	20
*18 Vai Tara Kai Uo* a ngao roaroa a ngao tokotokoa	*19 Hia Uka* a hakairiiri a hakaturuturu	20 Hanga Ohiro a pakipaki renga
13 harahara	14 hua taru	15 makere
... The original Arabic name, Al Hak'ah, a White Spot, was from the added faint light of the smaller φ¹and φ² in the background, and has descended to us as Heka and Hika ... Uka. Uka hoa, female friend, companion. Ukauka: 1. Firewood. 2. Leathery, tough. PS Mgv.: ukauka, hard to chew. Mq.: ukakoki, leathery. Ta.: uaua, id. Sa.: u'a, tough, tenacious, glutinous. To.: uka, sticky. Niuē; uka, tough. Viti: kaukamea, metal. Churchill. ... Teke said to Oti, 'Go and take the hauhau tree, the paper mulberry tree, rushes, tavari plants, uku koko grass, riku ferns, ngaoho plants, the toromiro tree, hiki kioe plants (Cyperus vegetus), the sandalwood tree, harahara plants, pua nakonako plants, nehenehe ferns, hua taru grass, poporo plants, bottle gourds (ipu ngutu), kohe plants, kavakava atua ferns, fragrant tuere heu grass, tureme grass (Diochelachne sciurea), matie grass, and the two kinds of cockroaches makere and hata.' ... The division into quarters of a 28-series can be applied to the main phases of the moon during the visible period as was as to a (reflex of the old world?) sidereal month. The separate subgroup (29 makere - 30 hata) consists of the names of two types of cockroaches, but in related eastern Polynesian languages these names can also be explained on a different level. MAO. makere, among others, 'to die', and whata, among others, 'to be laid to rest on a platform', deserve special attention. The theme hinted at is one of death and burial. In our scheme they occur at just that time when the moon 'has died'! This lends further support to the lunar thesis. Barthel 2.
... the real surprise revealed by Bauval's astronomical calculations was this: despite the fact that some aspects of the Great Pyramid did relate astronomically to the Pyramid Age, the Giza monuments as a whole were so arranged as to provide a picture of the skies (which alter their appearance down the ages as a result of the precession of the equinoxes) not as they had looked in the Fourth Dynasty around 2500 BC, but as they had looked - and only as they had looked - around the year 10,450 BC ...

APRIL 11

14 (104)

16 (*26)

Ga1-21

Ga1-22

Ga1-23

Ga1-24

Ga1-25

Ga1-26

ο Aurigae (85.8), γ Leporis (85.9)

~~YANG MUN (α Lupi)~~

μ Columbae, SAIPH (Sword) = κ Orionis (86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6)

υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), WEZN (Weight) = β Columbae, δ Leporis (87.7), TZE (Son) = λ Columbae (87.9)

Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)

χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE = α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)

η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI (Lord of Created Beings) = δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM (Wrist) = θ Aurigae, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7)

*48.0 = *89.4 - *41.4

μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)

June 14 (165)

17 (168)

°June 10 (161)

13 (164)

15 (*86)

'May 18 (*58)

20 (140)

23 (*63)

"May 4 (*54)

7 (127)

9 (*49)

DAY 85 - 64 = 21

21 Ko Roto Kahi

a touo renga

22 Ko Papa Kahi

a roro (ko pa)

23 Ko Puna A Tuki

hauhau renga

24 Ko Ehu Ko Mahatua

a piki rangi a hakakihikihi mahina

25 Ko Maunga Teate(t)a

a pua katiki

26 Ko Te Hakarava

a hakanohonoho

16 hata

17 tuere heu

18 tureme

Hata. 1. Table, bureau. P Pau.: afata, a chest, box. Mgv.: avata, a box, case, trunk, coffin. Mq.: fata, hata, a piece of wood with several branches serving as a rack, space, to ramify, to branch; fataá, hataá, stage, step, shelf. Ta.: fata, scaffold, altar. 2. Hakahata, to disjoint; hakahatahata, to loosen, to stretch. P Pau.: vata, an interval, interstice. Mgv.: kohata, the space between two boards, to be badly joined; akakohata, to leave a space between two bodies badly joined; hakahata, to be large, broad, wide, spacious, far off. Mq.: hatahata, fatafata, having chinks, not tightly closed, disjointed. Ta.: fatafata, open. 3. Hatahata, calm, loose, prolix, vast. Mgv.: hatahara, broad, wide, spacious, at one's ease. Ta.: fatafata, free from care. Mq.: hatahata, empty, open. 4. Hatahata, tube, pipe, funnel. Churchill. Sa.: fata, a raised house in which to store yams, a shelf, a handbarrow, a bier, a litter, an altar, to carry on a litter; fatāmanu, a scaffold. To.: fata, a loft, a bier, a handbarrow, to carry on a bier; fataki, a platform. Fu.: fata, a barrow, a loft; fatataki, two sticks or canes attached to each other at each side of a house post to serve as a shelf. Niuē: fata, a cage, a handbarrow, a shelf, a stage, (sometimes) the upper story of a house. Uvea: fata, a barrow, a bier. Fotuna: fata, a stage. Ta.: fata, an altar, a scaffold, a piece of wood put up to hang baskets of food on; afata, a chest, a box, a coop, a raft, a scaffold. Pau.: fata, a heap; afata, a box, a chest. Ma.: whata, a platform or raised storehouse for food, an altar, to elevate, to support. Moriori: whata, a raft. Mq.: fata, hata, hataá, shelves. Rapanui: hata, a table. Ha.: haka, a ladder, an artificial henroost; alahaka, a ladder. Mg.: ata, a shelf; atamoa, a ladder; atarau, an altar. Mgv.: avata, a coffer, a box. Vi.: vata, a loft, a shelf; tāvata, a bier. The Samoan fata is a pair of light timbers pointed at the ends and tied across the center posts of the house, one in front, the other behind the line of posts; rolls of mats and bales of sennit may be laid across these timbers; baskets or reserved victuals may be hung on the ends. The litter and the barrow are two light poles with small slats lashed across at intervals. The Marquesan fata is a stout stem of a sapling with the stumps of several branches, a hat tree in shape, though found among a barehead folk. These illustrations are sufficient to show what is the common element in all these fata identifications, light cross-pieces spaced at intervals. With this for a primal signifaction it is easy to see how a ladder, a raft, a henroost, an altar come under the same stem for designation. Perhaps Samoan fatafata the breast obtains the name by reason of the ribs; it would be convincing were it not that the plumpness of most Samoans leaves the ribs a matter of anatomical inference. Churchill 2.

Vao. Mgv.: vao, uninhabited land. Ta.: ? [obliterated text] ... of the valleys. Mq.: vao, bottom of a valley. Sa.: vao, the bush. Ma.: wao, the forest. Churchill.

... The earliest depiction that has been linked to the constellation of Orion is a prehistoric (Aurignacian) mammoth ivory carving found in a cave in the Ach valley in Germany in 1979. Archaeologists have estimated it to have been fashioned approximately 32,000 to 38,000 years ago ... The artist cut, smoothed and carved one side (A) and finely notched the other side (B) and the edges. Side A contains the half-relief of an anthropoidal figure, either human or a human-feline hybrid, known as the 'adorant' because its arms are raised as if in an act of worship.

Egyptian jubilation

Phoenician he

Greek epsilon

Ε (ε)

Wikipedia points at the Egyptian gesture with arms held high as a Sign of jubilation, which may have been the origin (via Phoenician he) of epsilon.

On side B together with the four edges is a series of notches that are clearly set in an intentional pattern. The edges contain a total of 39 notches in groups of 6, 13, 7 and 13. A further 49 notches on side B are arranged in four vertical lines of 13, 10, 12 and 13 respectively plus a further notch that could be in either of the middle two lines ... The grouping of the notches on the plate suggests a time-related sequence. The total number of notches (88) not only coincides with the number of days in 3 lunations (88.5) but also approximately with the number of days when the star Betelgeuse (α Ori) disappeared from view each year between its heliacal set (about 14 days before the spring equinox around 33,000 BP) and its heliacal rise (approximately 19 days before the summer solstice).

Conversely, the nine-month period when Orion was visible in the sky approximately matched the duration of human pregnancy, and the timing of the heliacal rise in early summer would have facilitated a ‘rule of thumb’ whereby, by timing conception close to the reappearance of the constellation, it could be ensured that a birth would take place after the severe winter half-year, but leaving enough time for sufficient nutrition of the baby before the beginning of the next winter. There is a resemblance between the anthropoid on side A and the constellation Orion. None of these factors is convincing when taken in isolation, because of the high probability that apparently significant structural and numerical coincidences might have arisen fortuitously. However, taken together they suggest that the anthropoid represented an asterism equivalent to today’s constellation of Orion, and that the ivory plate as a whole related to a system of time reckoning linked to the moon and to human pregnancy. If so, then ethnographic comparisons would suggest that the Geißenklösterle culture related their ‘anthropoid’ asterism to perceived cycles of cosmic power and fertility ...

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 ...

And at the end of the sugarcane variants would then be the end of the first glyph line on the G tablet, at the Marikuru type of sugarcane, i.e. after 29 Te Rano a Raraku and at ~~30 Oparingi~~.

Marikuru. 1. A white, clayey earth. 2. A tree (Sapindus saponaria) of which very few specimens are left. Vanaga. Ash-wood T. Churchill.

Rigi. A very detailed myth comes from the island of Nauru. In the beginning there was nothing but the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider. One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty. By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last found a snail. To endow it with power she placed it under her arm, lay down and slept for three days. Then she let it free, and still hunting about she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated it in the same way. Then she said to the first snail: 'Can you open this room a little, so that we can sit down?' The snail said it could, and opened the shell a little. Old-Spider then took the snail, placed it in the west of the shell, and made it into the moon. Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm. At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky. Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died. Old-Spider then made the sun from the second snail, and placed it beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth. Larousse. Ta.: iki, iini, to pour, to spill. Sa.: ligi, liligi, id. Ma.: ringi, riringi, id. Ta.: ninii, id. Pau.: riringi, id. Churchill.