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We will remember how Metoro Tau'a Ure said rutua at the beginning of side b on the C tablet when reading for Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti. Early in my investigations I here saw a correpondence in his words with the beginning of side b on the A tablet:

Ab1-1 Ab1-2 Ab1-3 Ab1-4
Te hoea - rutua te pahu - rutua te maeva - atua rerorero - atua ata tuu
Bb11-40 Bb12-12
ma to rutu mai tae rutu hia te pahu - e rima oho
Cb1-5 Cb1-6 Cb1-7 Cb1-8
rutua - te pahu - rutua te maeva - atua rerorero - atua hiko ura - hiko o tea

Time is now ripe to try to integrate this important piece of evidence. To begin with the pair of glyphs in the Aruku Kurenga (B) text - which name could suggest a female regent (aruku instead of ariki together with the girl appellation renga) - there is the significant word hia (count!).

Rega. Ancient word, apparently meaning 'pretty, beautiful'. It seems to have been used also to mean 'girl' judging from the nicknames given young women: rega hopu-hopu. girl fond of bathing; rega maruaki, hungry girl; rega úraúra, crimson-faced girl. Vanaga. Pau.: rega, ginger. Mgv.: rega, turmeric. Ta.: rea, id. Mq.: ena, id. Sa.: lega, id. Ma.: renga, pollen of bulrushes. Churchill.

... One of the sides has 10 rows, the other 12 rows. The name Aruku Kurenga is probably derived from 'a Roko ko Renga = 'of Roko the Fair'. Possibly this person is mentioned in a note from Jaussen about 'Arukukurenga de Tongariki' who died in the Peruvian labour raids ...

Metoro began reading the text for Biship Jaussen on the side which Barthel later decided should be side a, but we can deduce from the hole which presumably was for hanging the wooden tablet on a wall that side b should be regarded as its front side.

It is easy to associate from this 'Roko the Fair' to a similar figure in Norse mythology, viz. Balder:

And from there we can go on to the figure Rogo - Lono in the Hawaian new year rituals and the first son of Tu in the Moriori myth of creation.

... In the deep night before the image [of Lono] is first seen, there is a Makahiki ceremony called 'splashing-water' (hi'uwai). Kepelino tells of sacred chiefs being carried to the water where the people in their finery are bathing; in the excitement created by the beauty of their attire, 'one person was attracted to another, and the result', says this convert to Catholicism, 'was by no means good' ...

 ... the progeny of Tu increased: Rongo, Tane, Tangaroa, Rongomai, Kahukura, Tiki, Uru, Ngangana, Io, Iorangi, Waiorangi, Tahu, Moko, Maroro, Wakehau, Tiki, Toi, Rauru, Whatonga - these were the sons ...

Roko. Ma.: The deity Rongo: Ka ki atu a Tu raua ko Roko ki a Rehua. Rokohaga, to be overtaken or come upon; to be reached: Rokohanga e te ponga, rere noa atu, Ka rokohanga hoki e te uranga mai o te manuhiri nei. Cf. rongo, to hear, to feel, to smell, &c.; tidings, report. 2. To be remedied: He mate kai e rokohanga, he mate anu ekore e roko hanga. Text Centre.

We should count Metoro said, and 12 * 12 (at Bb12-12) = 144 could mean the Sun year has reached a cardinal point. We can also count the glyph number as the sum from the beginning of side b:

a1 47 47 b1 31 31
a2 40 87 b2 47 78
a3 37 124 b3 43 121
a4 40 164 b4 42 163
a5 43 207 b5 40 203
a6 44 251 b6 40 243
a7 43 294 b7 41 284
a8 46 340 b8 42 326
a9 49 389 b9 50 376
a10 32 421 b10 42 418
  b11 43 461
b12 12 473
33 506
sum 421 sum 506
14
Bb11-40 (458) Bb12-12 (473)
ma to rutu mai tae rutu hia te pahu - e rima oho
16

Assuming each glyph stands for a day, we can expect a reversal to come 1 week after ma to rutu. Because the hand signs are presumably showing us this.

Rima. 1. Hand, also, but improperly, fingers, forearm; te ko mu'a o te rima, palm of the hand; te ko tu'a o te rima, back of the hand; rima hakaturu, generous, liberal, munificent; tagata rima pu'a, helper; rima hakakau, generous hands, open-handed person; rima matu'a neanea, thumb. 2. Fifth; e-rima, ka-rima, five. Vanaga. 1. Five. P Mgv., Ta.: rima, id. Mq.: ima, id. 2. Arm, hand; rima atakai, obliging, kind, generous, a gift, rima tuku, elbow, rima omo, infidelity, faithless, unfaithful, rima o te kahu, sleeve, kakari rima, wrist. P Pau.: rima, hand, arm. Mgv.: rima, hand, arm, paw, finger. Mq.: ima, hand, arm. Ta.: rima, arm, hand, finger. Rimahakaviriviri, fist, to clench the fist, a blow of the fist. Rimahati, one-armed. Rima ko manaroa, little finger T. Rimamatua neanea, thumb. Rimaroaroa tahaga, middle finger T. Rimatitiri, to walk with the hands behind the back. Rimaruru, to clasp hands. Rimatuhi henna (?) index finger T. Rimatuhi a hana, finger ring T (? ring finger). 3. To lead into error; rimaetua, supernatural, Mq.: imaima, that which returns after a man's death, Ta.: rimaatua, plague, dissension, mortal illness. Churchill.

rima

465 (Bb12-4) = 458 (= 2 * 229) + 7. The first side on the G tablet holds a single set of 229 glyphs -  possibly to be compared to the single set of Golden Fleece limbs above.

6 6
Bb12-4 (465) 2 * (240 - 7)
eaha te manu itiiti ui ki te mata mai tae e haga hia

Perhaps mai tae e haga hia means we should here count to with end of the 'fishing grounds' (haga), because tae means 'not' (as e.g. in Tae-tagaloa = Not Tangaroa → Tane).

Side a according to the heliacal Gregorian calendar has SIRIUS at °June 30 when NUNKI was close to the Full Moon (cfr Ga2-11).

Side b at the time of Julius Caesar has SIRIUS at 'June 30 when ROTTEN MELON was close to the Full Moon (cfr Gb1-18).

NOV 6 7 8 9 (*233) 10 (314)
Gb1-1 (230 = 2 * 115) Gb1-2 Gb1-3 Gb1-4 Gb1-5

 Synodic cycles

Mercury

115.88

Venus

583.92

Earth

364.0 = π * 115.88

Mars

779.96

Jupiter

398.88

Saturn

378.09

Uranus

369.66

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
DENEB OKAB (Tail of the Eagle) = δ Aquilae (Ant.) (294.0), α VULPECULAE (Little Fox) (294.9) ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), ALBIREO (Ab Ireo) = β Cygni (295.5) ALSAFI (Fire Tripod) = σ Draconis (296.0), μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8), κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9)

ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.) (297.4), SHAM (Arrow) = α Sagittae (297.8)

*256.0 = *297.4 - *41.4
β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae (298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8)

... In late September or early October 130, Hadrian and his entourage, among them Antinous, assembled at Heliopolis to set sail upstream as part of a flotilla along the River Nile. The retinue included officials, the Prefect, army and naval commanders, as well as literary and scholarly figures. Possibly also joining them was Lucius Ceionius Commodus, a young aristocrat whom Antinous might have deemed a rival to Hadrian's affections. On their journey up the Nile, they stopped at Hermopolis Magna, the primary shrine to the god Thoth. It was shortly after this, in October [in the year A.D.] 130 - around the time of the festival of Osiris - that Antinous fell into the river and died, probably from drowning. Hadrian publicly announced his death, with gossip soon spreading throughout the Empire that Antinous had been intentionally killed. The nature of Antinous's death remains a mystery to this day, and it is possible that Hadrian himself never knew; however, various hypotheses have been put forward. One possibility is that he was murdered by a conspiracy at court. However, Lambert asserted that this was unlikely because it lacked any supporting historical evidence, and because Antinous himself seemingly exerted little influence over Hadrian, thus meaning that an assassination served little purpose. Another suggestion is that Antinous had died during a voluntary castration as part of an attempt to retain his youth and thus his sexual appeal to Hadrian. However, this is improbable because Hadrian deemed both castration and circumcision to be abominations and as Antinous was aged between 18 and 20 [→ 19] at the time of death, any such operation would have been ineffective. A third possibility is that the death was accidental, perhaps if Antinous was intoxicated. However, in the surviving evidence Hadrian does not describe the death as being an accident; Lambert thought that this was suspicious. Another possibility is that Antinous represented a voluntary human sacrifice. Our earliest surviving evidence for this comes from the writings of Dio Cassius, 80 years after the event, although it would later be repeated in many subsequent sources. In the second century Roman Empire, a belief that the death of one could rejuvenate the health of another was widespread, and Hadrian had been ill for many years; in this scenario, Antinous could have sacrificed himself in the belief that Hadrian would have recovered. Alternately, in Egyptian tradition it was held that sacrifices of boys to the Nile, particularly at the time of the October Osiris festival, would ensure that the River would flood to its full capacity and thus fertilize the valley; this was made all the more urgent as the Nile's floods had been insufficient for full agricultural production in both 129 and 130. In this situation, Hadrian might not have revealed the cause of Antinous's death because he did not wish to appear either physically or politically weak. Conversely, opposing this possibility is the fact that Hadrian disliked human sacrifice and had strengthened laws against it in the Empire ...

Jan 9 10 (*295) 11 12 13 (378 → Saturn)
°Jan 5 (*290 = 370 - 80) 6 7 8 9
'Dec 13 (LUCIA) 14 (*268) 15 16 (350 = 50 weeks) 17
"Nov 29 30 (*254) "Dec 1 2 (336 = 48 weeks) 3
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
7 (492 = 4 * 123 = 12 * 41) MAY 8 (365 + 2 * 64 = 493 9 (*49) 10 (130) 11

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

ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA-7 (Pillar for elocution)

υ Gemini (114.0), MARKAB PUPPIS = κ Puppis (114.7), ο Gemini (114.8), PROCYON = α Canis Minoris (114.9)
α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7)

*74.0 = *115.4 - *41.4

July 10 July 11 12 (193) 13 14 (*480)
°July 6 7 (188) 8 9 10 (*111)
'June 13 14 15 (166) 16 17 (*88)
"May 30 31 Te Maro 1 (8 * 19) "June 2 3 (*64)

... 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)

Ga2-17 Ga2-18 Ga2-19 Ga2-20 (50) Ga2-21
NOV 11 (315) 12 (*236 = 472 / 2) 13
Gb1-6 (235) Gb1-7 Gb1-8
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
υ Aquilae (299.1), TARAZED (Star-striking Falcon) = γ Aquilae (299.3), δ Sagittae (299.6), π Aquilae (299.9)

Sravana-23 (Ear or Three Footprints)

TYL = ε Draconis (300.0), ζ Sagittae (300.1), ALTAIR (Flying Eagle) = α Aquilae (300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5), BEZEK = η Aquilae (Ant.) (300.8)
ι Sagittarii (301.2), TEREBELLUM = ω Sagittarii, ξ Aquilae (301.3), ALSHAIN (Falcon) = β Aquilae (301.6), φ Aquilae (301.8)
Jan 14 15 (*300) 16 (381)
°Jan 10 (*295) 11 12 (377)
'Dec 18 (*272) 19 20 (354 = 12 * 29˝)
"Dec 4 5 (339) 6 (*260)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
MAY 12 (*52) 13 (133) 14

Mash-mashu-arkū-11 (Eastern One of the Twins)

κ Gemini (116.1), POLLUX = β Gemini (116.2), π Gemini (116.9)

AZMIDISKE = ξ Puppis (117.4)

*76.0 = *117.4 - *41.4

φ Gemini (118.4)

*77.0 = *118.4 - *41.4
July 15 (196) 16 (*482) 17 (*118)
°July 11 (192) 12 (*478) 13 (*114)
'June 18 (*454) 19 (170) 20 (*91)
"June 4 (*440) 5 (156) 6 (*77)
Ga2-22 Ga2-23 Ga2-24