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There were 6 stone heaps outside the cave who responded to Kuukuu when he was calling out (he rangi). These 6 stone heaps were probably referring to the first half of the Pleiades, i.e. to Tau-ono (6 stones).

... 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 ...

Maybe the idea was to indicate where poor Kuukuu (the Planter) would be reborn again, would return to life.

45 days (= 320 / 8 + 5)

7 days

5 days

1 day

40 - 13 = 27 days

5 days

JUNE 18 (169)

6

JUNE 25 (176)

4

JUNE 30 (181)

JULY 1 (182)

25

JULY 26 (208) JULY 27 (209)

4

"July 11 (192)

"July 18 (199)

"July 23 (204)

"July 24 (205)

"Aug 19 (231)

"Aug 20 (232)

Te Anakena 11

Te Anakena 18

Te Anakena 23

Te Anakena 24

Hora Iti 19

Hora Iti 20

Hanga Takaure

Hanga Hoonu

Rangi Meamea

OROMANGA

Papa O Pea

Ga4-6 (89) - (95) Ga4-13 (96) - (100) Ga4-18 (88 + 13) Ga4-19 (102) - (128)

(129) - (133)

In the time-frame of rongorongo Tau-ono rose with the Sun in May 15 (135 = 5 * 27 = 500 - 365). At the time of the Bull the corresponding (true) heliacal date would have been 135 - 8 * 8 = 71 (MARCH 12):

JULY 10 11 12 (193) 13 14 (*115)
Ga5-1 (111) Ga5-2 Ga5-3 Ga5-4 Ga5-5 (115)
θ Crateris (175.0), υ Leonis (175.2), ω Virginis (175.3), ι Crateris (175.5) ο Hydrae (176.1) ζ Crateris, ξ Virginis  (177.0), λ Muscae (177.1), ν Virginis (177.2), μ Muscae (177.8)

Al Sarfah-10 (Turn) / Uttara Phalguni-12 (Second Reddish One) / Zibbat A.-16 (Tail of the Lion) / Shēpu-arkū sha-A-17 (Hind Leg of the Lion)

93 Leonis (178.0), DENEBOLA = β Leonis (178.3), ALARAPH (Unarmed) = β Virginis (178.6)

PHEKDA ('Thigh') = γ Ursae Majoris, β Hydrae  (179.3), η Crateris (179.9) 

DENEB CYGNI (α Cygni)
Sept 12 13 14 (*177) 15 16 (259)
°Sept 8 9 (*172) 10 11 (254) 12
'Aug 16 17 (229) 18 (*150) 19 20
"Aug 2 (214) 3 (*365 + *135 = *500) 4 (*136) 5 6
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JAN 9 10 (*295) 11 12 13 (378 → Saturn)

λ Piscium (358.0), MANUS CATENATA (Chained Hand) = ι Andromedae (358.1), ALRAI (Shepherd) = γ Cephei, θ Phoenicis (358.4), κ Andromedae (358.7)

*317.0 = *358.4 - *41.4
ω Aquarii (359.2), 78 Pegasi (359.5)

ψ Andromedae (360.1), σ Phoenicis (360.4)

*319.0 = *360.4 - *41.4

γ¹ Oct. (361.4), φ Pegasi (361.7)

*320.0 = *361.4 - *41.4

DZANEB (Tail) = ω Piscium (362.4), γ² Oct. (362.8)

*321.0 = *362.4 - *41.4 = *335 - *14
3-14 March 15 16 (*360) 17 18 (77)
°March 10 11 (*355) 12 13 3-14
'Febr 15 16 (*332) 17 18 19 (50)
"Febr 1 2 (*345) 3 4 5 (36)
57 SEPT 10 (*173) 11 (254)
Ga7-4 (173) Ga7-5

κ Librae (237.2), ι Serpentis (237.4), ψ² Lupi, ρ Oct. (237.5), γ Cor. Borealis, η Librae (237.7),  COR SERPENTIS = α Serpentis (237.9)

*196.0 = *237.4 - *41.4
π Cor. Borealis, UNUK ELHAIA (Necks of the Serpents) = λ Serpentis (238.1), CHOW = β Serpentis (238.6)
Nov 13 (*237) 14 (318)
°Nov 9 (*233) 10 (314)
'Oct 17 (290) 18 (*211)
"Oct 3 (*196) 4 (277)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
MARCH 12 (365 + 71 = 436) 13 (*357)
Al Thurayya-27 / Krittikā-3 / Hairy Head-18

TAU-ONO (Six Stones)

ATIKS = ο Persei, RANA (Frog) = δ Eridani (55.1), CELAENO (16 Tauri), ELECTRA (17), TAYGETA (19), ν Persei (55.3), MAIA (20), ASTEROPE (21), MEROPE (23) (55.6)

Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)

ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE (28 Tauri), ATLAS (27 Tauri) (56.3) 

May 15 (500 = 436 + 64) 16 (136)
°March 11 (131) 12 (*52)
'April 18 (*393) 19 (474)
"April 4 (94) 5 (460)

... The original story was by Diogenes Laertius, an Epicurean philosopher circa early half third century, in his book On the Lives, Opinions, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers. The story is in Chapter ten in his section on the Seven Sages, who were the precursors to the first philosophers. The sage was Epimenides. Apparently Epimenides went to sleep in a cave for fifty-seven years. But unfortunately, 'he became old in as many days as he had slept years' ...