The double canoe reached Easter Island in October 15 (288) - a date we can recognize e.g. from the 'birth' of our own calendar: ... The Julian calendar day Thursday, 4 October 1582 was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582 (the cycle of weekdays was not affected) ... ... The position of Nunki (the Star of the Proclamation of the Sea) was in right ascension day *288 (as counted from 0h at the time of rongorongo) ...
... The Mahabharata insists on six as the number of the Pleiades as well as of the mothers of Skanda and gives a very broad and wild description of the birth and the installation of Kartikeya 'by the assembled gods ... as their generalissimo', which is shattering, somehow, driving home how little one understands as yet. The least which can be said, assuredly: Mars was 'installed' during a more or less close conjunction of all planets; in Mbh. 9.45 (p. 133) it is stressed that the powerful gods assembled 'all poured water upon Skanda, even as the gods had poured water on the head of Varuna, the lord of waters, for investing him with dominion'. And this 'investiture' took place at the beginning of the Krita Yuga, the Golden Age ...
If we should disregard the first 6 days of this sea voyage - assuming they in some way corresponded to the 6 nights added by Menkaure - then the measure would be 288 (October 15) - 245 (September 2) - 6 = 38 days, equal to the duration of the preceding sea voyage of the Explorers. At the time of rongorongo September 2 was the day when the Sun reached Alkes (*165), and 6 days later, in September 8 (251) the Full Moon was at March 10 (*354).
The fertilizing sweet water surely had run out in September 2:
... the bird, being sent with a cup for water, loitered at a fig-tree till the fruit became ripe, and then returned to the god with a water-snake in his claws and a lie in his mouth, alleging the snake to have been the cause of the delay. In punishment he was forever fixed in the sky with the Cup and the Snake; and, we may infer, doomed to everlasting thirst by the guardianship of the Hydra over the Cup and its contents. From all this came other poetical names for our Corvus - Avis Ficarius, the Fig Bird; and Emansor, one who stays beyond his time; and a belief, in early folk-lore, that this alone among birds did not carry water to its young ... Menkaure had been given only 6 days to live. Therefore we should try to go back 6 days to August 27 (239) in order to look at the stars. Here we can see that at the time of the Bull this had been day 239 - 64 = 175, i.e. ST JOHN'S DAY, when the Full Moon could be observed at Situla (CHRISTMAS EVE).
In JUNE 24 (175) the fresh water from the jar of Aquarius was running out. The reason was Canopus:
... 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 ... *342 (Situla) - *165 (Alkes) = *177 = *354 / 2. Therefore another 6 days had to be given to the Sun King (because 366 / 2 = 183). The journey of the Explorers (planets) was in the night and their 38 nights had to be extended with 6 days in order to give the double-canoe the necessary time-space.
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