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The Royal Double Canoe reached Easter Island in Tangaroa Uri 15 (288 = 2 * 144).

... i te tahi te angahuru marima o te raa.o tangaroa uri i tomo ai.te miro o Hotu.raua ko te miro a Ava rei pua ... [E:74-75]

... On the fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa uri) the canoe of Hotu and the canoe of Ava Rei Pua landed ...

However, to translate the month of Tangaroa Uri with October would be misleading,

... The ancient names of the month were: Tua haro, Tehetu'upú, Tarahao, Vaitu nui, Vaitu poru [sic!], He Maro, He Anakena, Hora iti, Hora nui, Tagaroa uri, Ko Ruti, Ko Koró. 2. Name of an ancient tribe. Maramara, ember. Vanaga.

because the Royal Canoe had arrived far down in antiquity and not at the time of rongorongo. Since then the stars would have moved ahead due to the precession.

Instead we will find that the star positions at the time of Bharani probably were referred to, because this will make the Royal Canoe arrive when the Sun was rising together with Rehua (Antares) - the 'Entrance Pillar' (Ana-mua) into Summer for those living south of the equator:

SEPT 7 8 (251) 9 (*172) 10
Ga7-1 Ga7-2 Ga7-3 (172)
NUSAKAN (Pauper's Bowl) = β Cor. Bor. (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7), ζ Librae (234.9)

θ Cor. Borealis (235.3), γ Lupi (235.6), GEMMA = α Cor. Bor., ZUBEN ELAKRAB = γ Librae, QIN = δ Serpentis, ε Tr. Austr. (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8), υ Librae (235.9)

SIRRAH (α Andromedae)
φ Bootis (236.2), ω Lupi, τ Librae (236.3), ψ¹ Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor. Borealis (236.9)
Nov 10 (314) 11 (*235) 12
°Nov 6 (310) 7 (*231) 8
'Oct 14 (287) 15 (*208) 16
"Sept 30 (273) "Oct 1 2 (*195)

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

SEPT 20 (*183) 21 EQUINOX 23 (266) 24 25
Ga7-14 Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17 (186) Ga7-18 Ga7-19

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)
γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5)
Nov 23 (327) 24 25 26 (*250) 27 28
°Nov 19 20 (324) 21 22 (*246) 23 24
'Oct 27 (300) 28 29 (*222) 30 31 'Nov 1
"Oct 13 14 Tagaroa Uri 15 16 17 (290) 18

 

"May 1 (121)

0

49

"June 19 (170)

94

"Sept 22 (265)

22

"Oct 15 (288)

50

95

EQUINOX

145 = 5 * 29

*64 - *41 = *23

In a way the time-frame of Bharani served as a kind of bridge down from the time of rongorongo to the time of the Bull.

At that ancient time they would have waited for the reappearance of Antares after its close encounter with the Sun, which explains why day zero (the 'egg') of the Summer half of the year was 15 days later that viri in Ga7-1 ("September 30).

The shortest duration before a star would return to visibility was 16 days: SEPTEMBER 7 + 16 = SEPTEMBER 23.

... i hoa era te aka.o te miro o hotu.he topa te poki.ki haho.a Vakai.a Hotu.ko Tuu maheke.e a Hotu.tamaaroa ... [E:80]

.. After Hotu's canoe had anchored [i hoa era te aka.o te miro o Hotu], the child of Vakai and Hotu appeared [he topa te poki.ki haho]. It was Tuu Maheke, son of Hotu, a boy [tamaaroa] ...