Yet, in Ca9-27 the triplet of persons (etoru gagata) are looking straight at us (en face) - according to what was normal for this type of glyph - and not with their heads turned a quarter ahead as in Gb5-24. Perhaps the hakaariki type of glyph basically meant there was a 3-day long standstill - 3 days when everyone stood still, even the waterfalls etc, in anticipation of the Sun.

SEPT 28 (271 = 99 + 172)

Ca9-27 (80 + 350 / 2)

etoru gagata hakaariki kia raua

Dec 1 (335 = 80 + 9 * 19 + 84)

The word raua occurs only once in my wordlist: Ma.: The deity Rongo: Ka ki atu a Tu raua ko Roko ki a Rehua.

*SEPT 29 (2 136)**	*30 (3 91)**	OCT 1 (274)	2	3

*Ca10-1 (4 64)**	Ca10-2	Ca10-3 (274 - 16)	Ca10-4	Ca10-5 (260)
Erua inoino		kua hua te vai	te kiore - te inoino	kua oho te rima kua kai - ihe nuku hoi
*Dec 2 (4 84)**	3	4 (☼254 = 274 - 20)	5	*6 (260)**

*OCT 4 (193)**	5	6	7 (280 = 272 + 8)	8

*Ca10-6 (9 29)**	Ca10-7	Ca10-8	Ca10-9 (264)	Ca10-10
Tupu te toromiro	kua noho te vai	te moko	te marama	te kava
Dec 7	8 (342)	*9 (7 7 * 7)**	*10 (☼260)**	11 (345)

From the beginning of APRIL to the beginning of OCTOBER there were 10 - 4 = 6 months = half a year. Once upon a time (at the golden age of the Bull) these hakaariki days had been in anticipation of the Sun arriving respectively leaving the northern hemisphere. On Easter Island the yearly Bird Man contest was held when the sooty terns (manu tara) were arriving. All assembled at the southeastern corner of the island and stood there waiting in anticipation for the successful return of the swimmer who was carrying the Egg:

The sooty terns arrived not in early December (my convention above for following the stars) but around 64 (a square of 8 as in the Eighth Island) days earlier (due to the precession of the Sun).

A dot in front marks rakau in Ca10-6 to indicate the significant day. Ra can be understood as 'day' and kau as 'to swim'.


rakau	Ca10-6

Kau. 1. To move one's feet (walking or swimming); ana oho koe, ana kau i te va'e, ka rava a me'e mo kai, if you go and move your feet, you'll get something to eat; kakau (or also kaukau), move yourself swimming. 2. To spread (of plants): ku-kau-áte kumara, the sweet potatoes have spread, have grown a lot. 3. To swarm, to mill around (of people): ku-kau-á te gagata i mu'a i tou hare, there's a crowd of people milling about in front of your house. 4. To flood (of water after the rain): ku-kau-á te vai haho, the water has flooded out (of a container such as a taheta). 5. To increase, to multiply: ku-kau-á te moa, the chickens have multiplied. 6. Wide, large: Rano Kau, 'Wide Crater' (name of the volcano in the southwest corner of the island). 7. Expression of admiration: kau-ké-ké! how big! hare kau-kéké! what a big house! tagata hakari kau-kéké! what a stout man! Vanaga. To bathe, to swim; hakakau, to make to swim. P Pau., Mgv., Mq.: kau, to swim. Ta.: áu, id. Kauhaga, swimming. Churchill. The stem kau does not appear independently in any language of Polynesian proper. For tree and for timber we have the composite lakau in various stages of transformation. But kau will also be found as an initial component of various tree names. It is in Viti that we first find it in free existence. In Melanesia this form is rare. It occurs as kau in Efaté, Sesake, Epi, Nguna, and perhaps may be preserved in Aneityum; as gau in Marina; as au in Motu and somewhere in the Solomon islands. The triplicity of the Efaté forms [kasu, kas, kau] suggests a possible transition. Kasu and kas are easy to be correlated, kasu and kau less easy. They might be linked by the assumption of a parent form kahu, from which each might derive. This would appear in modern Samoan as kau; but I have found it the rule that even the mildest aspirate in Proto-Samoan becoming extinct in modern Samoan is yet retained as aspiration in Nuclear Polynesia and as th in Viti, none of which mutations is found on this record. Churchill 2

As Metoro Tau'a Ure would have known, the toromiro trees flourished (tupu) only in the sweet waters (vai) of Rano Kau (also named Rano Kao):

Kao. 1. Side, edge, rim; kao gutu (or just kao), labia minora. 2. Steep, almost perpendicular; thin, skinny. Motu Kaokao, name of one of the islets opposite Orongo, with a steep shape. Vanaga. Cloth, clothing, garb. (Perhaps a variant of kahu.) Kaokao, side, flank, ribs, lateral. P Pau.: kaokao, the side, flank. Mgv.: kaokao, the side, flank. Mq.: kaokao, id. Ta.: aoáo, id. In Nuclear Polynesia this is particularized, in Samoa to the armpit, in Tonga and Futuna to the sides of the canoe. Therefore it may be considered a borrowing from the Tongafiti. Churchill.

Toromiro. Sophora toromiro, a tree endemic to Easter Island and preferably used for wood carving. Hard, finely grained, reddish wood. Heyerdahl 3. Tree (Sophora tetraptera) anciently used for sculpting the statuettes called moai toromiro. Vanaga. The heaviest and hardest wood, it is used for tapa beaters T. Churchill. Sophera toromiro. The hard wood of the toromiro tree was the most important material for all kinds of wood, work, from the construction of houses and of canoes to the manufacture of sculptures and other items. Barthel 2.