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If we then will consider the relations between Maitaki and Tautoru, when reading this part of the rongorongo texts, it becomes possible to imagine Tautoru to the left (in the past) in this type of glyph:
Once again the Egyptian image of Pharaoh meeting Upwaut, the opener of the way, comes to mind. This 'Wolf' could correspond to Sirius, the Dog-star → the dog of Orion. Notably the Chinese list of stations has the Dog (April 17, 107) following the Wolf (April 1, 91). Anciently they waited for the return to visibility of the key star, which should occur 16 days after the true heliacal rising. The sanctuary of Upwaut ought to be located in the 'house' of Orion. Possibly this was illustrated in Keiti's calendar of the year in period no. 24 when the clock strikes 'midnight' = the mark for a new period:
Counted from February 4 (31 + 4 = 35) to August 4 (216) there were 181 days (the same as from Aldebaran to Antares): ... It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder ... The Tahitian list of 'star pillars' has Spica (Ana-roto) as item number 3, after Antares (1) and Aldebaran (2). Initially I decided to fix as an axiom for all my investigations that Ga1-4 marked the place for Aldebaran and Ga7-16 the place for Antares. There were 181 days (glyphs) from Aldebaran to Antares, which then made it clear that side a on the G tablet should correspond to days in the calendar for the Sun. Otherwise the distance ought to have been counted as 365 - 181 = 184 days.
Now we can put Spica 'in the middle' between Antares and Aldebaran.
Roto. 1. Inside. 2. Lagoon (off the coast, in the sea). 3. To press the juice out of a plant; taheta roto pua, stone vessel used for pressing the juice out of the pua plant, this vessel is also just called roto. Roto o niu, east wind. Vanaga. 1. Marsh, swamp, bog; roto nui, pond; roto iti, pool. 2. Inside, lining; o roto, interior, issue; ki roto, within, into, inside, among; mei roto o mea, issue; no roto mai o mea, maternal; vae no roto, drawers. Churchill. Ana-roto. Spica.
... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe. The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...
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