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The Rakau (Tree) - implying dry terra firma instead of water - seems to have stretched from the day after Betelgeuze (The Moist One) - to Toro-miro (dwelling in the water, kua noho te vai) on Easter Island, i.e. for 261 - 88 = 173 days:

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159

PRAJA-PĀTI (89)

SIRIUS (101)

ο OPHIUCHI (261)

June 18 (169)

June 30 (181)

Dec 7 (341)

173

Ca4-12 (88) Ca4-13 → 14 * 29½
te hokohuki kua tuu tona mea

June 17 (168 = 88 + 80 = 408 - 320)

Ardra-6 (The Moist One) / ANA-VARU-8 (Pillar to sit by)

χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE = α Orionis (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (α Librae)

June 18

η Leporis (89.0), PRAJA-PĀTI (Lord of Created Beings) = δ Aurigae, MENKALINAN (Shoulder of the Rein-holder) = β Aurigae, MAHASHIM (Wrist) = θ Aurigae, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7)

*48.0 = *89.4 - *41.4
RUKBALGETHI GENUBI = θ Herculis (271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5), ETAMIN = γ Draconis, ν Herculis (271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8)

BHARANI (41 Arietis)

Dec 17 (351)

CAT'S EYE = NGC6543 Draconis (272.2), ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ Ophiuchi (272.9)

*231.0 = *272.4 - *41.4

Dec 18

... 'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.' 'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked. 'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke. 'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice. 'I've read that in some book, but I don't remember where.' 'Well, it must be removed,' said the King very decidedly: and he called to the Queen, who was passing at the moment, 'My dear! I wish you would have this cat removed!' The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said without even looking around ...

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Ca4-19 Ca4-20 (96)
te hau tea tupu te rakau
ST JOHN'S DAY June 25 (176)

no star listed (96)

CHRISTMAS EVE KAUS BOREALIS = λ Sagittarii (279.3)

Dec 25 (359)

Ca4-24 (100) Ca4-25
manu rere tupu te rakau
June 29 (180)

ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched)  = ε Gemini (100.7)

June 30

SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7)

*60.0 = *101.4 - *41.4

 

ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8)

*242.0 = *283.4 - *41.4

Dec 29 (363)

South Dipper-8 (Unicorn)

Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)

Dec 30

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134
Ca10-5 (260 = 88 + 172)

Ca10-6 (101 + 160)

Ca10-7
kua oho te rima kua kai - ihe nuku hoi

Tupu te toromiro

kua noho te vai
Dec 6 (340 = 157 + 183)

NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI (Head of the Giant) = α Herculis (260.8)

Dec 7 (264 + 77)

SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

Dec 8 (18 * 19)

ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9)

*221.0 = *262.4 - *41.4

μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)

June 6 (314 / 2)

 

ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)

June 7 (81 + 77)

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)

June 8 (159)

Cb1-5 (260 + 137) Cb1-6 (88 + 310)
rutua - te pahu - rutua te maeva
April 21 (477 = 340 + 137) April 22 (478 = 80 + 398)
Although 173 days is not enough for half a year we can see that there were 183 days from heliacal Rigel to Rigel at the Full Moon.

 

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159

RIGEL (78)

BETELGEUZE (88)

PRAJA-PĀTI (89)

SIRIUS (101)

ο OPHIUCHI (261)

June 7 (158)

June 17 (168)

June 18

June 30 (181)

Dec 7 (341)

183 = 366 / 2

The tail of the watery Serpent ended down at the Abyss half a year after the Rainbow, and here the Raven looked down in vain - for evidently this was the opposite side compared to the Raised-up Sky:

... 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 ...