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We need these birds. In addition to manu tara, 'bird zero' (Sternata lunata) herself, they were as follows.

The names of the age levels of the sooty tern were earlier used as children's names (Routledge). These names were (Barthel): pi(u) riuriu, kava 'eo'eo, te verovero, and ka 'ara'ara. Fischer.

pi riuriu

Riuriu, to go around in a circle.

kava eoeo

Eoeo. Ashes. Eoeo reherehe 'weak ashes': a coward.

te verovero

Verovero, to throw, to hurl repeatedly, quickly (iterative of vero).

ka araara

Ará-ará, to signal, to send signals with the hand (to another person in the distance).

 
kukuru toua

Tou. In ancient times, a tou was someone who had recovered from an epidemic, but whose illness meant that someone else in the family had to die. The tou were regarded as portents of evil. Toutou, lush; fertile (land).  Toûa: Egg yolk; the colour yellow; soft, fibrous part of tree bark; toûa mahute, mahute fibres. Vanaga. Toua: Wrath, anger, rage, revenge, battle, combat, debate, dispute, dissension, uprising, revolt, quarrel, fight, hostility (taua); toua rae, to provoke, rae toua, to open hostilities, toua kakai, to rebuke, tuki toua, to stir up dissension; totoua, hostility; hakatoua, fighter, warrior. P Mgv.: toua, war, battle. Mq.: toua, war, dispute, quarrel. The form with o is found only in these three languages, taua is found in the general migration, Rapanui is the only speech which has both. Toutou, fertile (tautau); hakatoutou, to fertilize. Mq.: taútaú, fertile. Toùvae, to run; hakauruuru toùvae, id. Churchill.

 
makohe

Fregata minor.

kena

Sula dactylatra.

tavake

Phaeton.

"Tavake is the general Polynesian name for the tropic bird, whose red tail feathers were very popular. This name is closely connected with the original population." (The Eighth Land, p. 151)

 
ruru

Sula cyanops. "It should be pointed out that the combined name ruru-taiko refers in MAO. to a black petrel (Procellaria parkinsoni). There are no cultural data available for ruru, which seems to be derived from PPN. *lulu 'owl'..." (The Eighth Land, p. 151.)

"There are no cultural data available for ... taiko (compare RAR. taiko 'black petril', MGV. tiaku 'petrel?, omen of death', but the textual association of taiko and spirits should be dept in mind ..." (The Eight Land, p.151)

taiko
kumara

"The transference of the name for sweet potatoes, kumara, to a sea bird (Oestrelata incerta or Oestrelata leucoptera) presents a problem in taxonomy. In a short recitation that accompanies the string game, the next bird on the list, kiakia, the white tern, is associated with the leaves of the sweet potato ..." (The Eight Land, p.152)

White tern. Leucanus albus royanus.

kiakia
 
tuvi

Grey tern, Tuvituvi (Procelsterna caerulea skottsbergi).

tuao

Anous stolidus unicolor. "The dark brown tern with a round tail is called tuao." (The Eight Land, p.152)

tavi

"I was told that tavi is a small, lead-colored bird that lives on the little islets (motu) off the coast. He is supposed to look like the tuvi, the grey tern, and owes his name to his call." (The Eighth Land, p.153)

1 + 4 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 3 = 16 = 320 / 20.

By the way, we should recognize that 88 (Betelgeuze) + 16 = 104 and 320 + 16 = 336 = 4 * 84 (four quarters) = 48 * 7.

Counting the tresses of Pachamama (the World Mother) from right to left:

1

26

78

1

29

90

2

26

2

30

3

26

3

31

4

25

104

4

34

124

5

26

5

31

6

27

6

30

7

26

7

29

Total = 396 = 182 + 214

The mamoth ivory carving has 88 = 39 (6, 13, 7, 13) + 48 (13, 10, 12, 13) + 1.

And in Manuscript E, we remember, there were 39 yam varieties:

1 he tara kura a Maeha.a Teke
2 rau renga
3 mahihi
4 maito
5 nohu
6 hetuke
7 mama
8 titeve
9 moamoa tara
10 huehue
11 he makere
12 he mariri
13 he tonga
14 he pua rau hoho uri a Maeha.a Teke
15 tea
16 mea
17 para
18 tupere ure
ADHIL (*19)
20 ravi hakurakura
21 naku
22 takatore
23 ravei
24 he papa uri
25 tea
26 he papaki kahukahu
27 vehivehi
28 papa kura
29 he mamari kioe
30 he tutae
31 he kunekune
32 he tahe a Maeha. a Teke
MIRA (*33)
34 he taha
35 he apuka
36 he apuka heu
37 he tuitui koviro
38 he rai atea
39 he rai atanga
40 he ravi kana
41 he ravi pako (BHARANI *41)

I.e., on side a of the G tablet we will find APRIL 14 (104) at the place where *64 precessional days earlier - at the time of the Bull (the Golden Calf) - Betelgeuze would have returned to visibility after its close encounter with the Sun.

APRIL 11 12 4-13 → 14 * 29½ 4-14→ *41.4 (104) 15 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) 15 16 17 (168) 18 19
°June 10 (161) 11 12 13 (164) 14 15 (*86)
'May 18 (*58) 19 20 (140) 21 22 23 (*63)
"May 4 (*54) 5 6 7 (127) 8 9 (*49)
DAY 85 - 64 = 21 22 23 24 25 26
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

4 he toa ruma 5 he toa tuitui koviro 6 he toa vitiviti 7 he toa marikuru he ngaatu he tavari

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 ...

21 (sweet potato variants) followed the 39 kinds of yam, making a total of 60 (= 88 - 28). Although in that case the nights for Adhil (*19) and Mira (*33) were not accounted for. By counting also these the sum (39 + 21 + 2) will point at Bharani (*41), as the star at the end of the season of yams.

*41 + *21 (kumara) = *62 (= 88 - 26). Here we will find Beid (*62). In Manuscript E this kind of 'sweet potato' was named he mamari kiakia (instead of he kumara kiakia) - it was not a potato below the surface of the earth but an egg.

kumara

"The transference of the name for sweet potatoes, kumara, to a sea bird (Oestrelata incerta or Oestrelata leucoptera) presents a problem in taxonomy. In a short recitation that accompanies the string game, the next bird on the list, kiakia, the white tern, is associated with the leaves of the sweet potato ..." (The Eight Land, p.152)

White tern. Leucanus albus royanus.

kiakia

The final of the season of 'close embrace' (he hauhau) seems to have been 5 (bananas) + 12 (taro) + 1 (Elnath, *80) = 18 right ascension days after He Mamari Kiakia. *62 + *5 + *12 + *1 = *80.

APRIL 5 6 (96) 7
Ga1-15 (Ga1-3 + 12) 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 (*39) 30
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 1 he hauhau 1 he mahute

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).