... By repeating a charm, she opened the two shells and slipped inside. She could see nothing, because the sun and the moon did not then exist; and then, she could not stand up because there was not enough room in the shellfish. Constantly hunting about she at last found a snail. To endow it with power she placed it under her arm, lay down and slept for three days. Then she let it free, and still hunting about she found another snail bigger than the first one, and treated it in the same way. Then she said to the first snail: 'Can you open this room a little, so that we can sit down?' The snail said it could, and opened the shell a little.

Old-Spider then took the snail, placed it in the west of the shell, and made it into the moon. Then there was a little light, which allowed Old-Spider to see a big worm. At her request he opened the shell a little wider, and from the body of the worm flowed a salted sweat which collected in the lower half-shell and became the sea. Then he raised the upper half-shell very high, and it became the sky. Rigi, the worm, exhausted by this great effort, then died. Old-Spider then made the sun from the second snail, and placed it beside the lower half-shell, which became the earth ...

Instead it continued across the River at the right ascension line for 6h and up onto dry ground (terra firma) on the other side, to the left foot of the hairy Beaver (Castor) still down in the Milky Way River:


Ca4-1	*(78) RIGEL (Foot)**	Ca4-3 (79)
kua tupu te rakau	kua tupu - te kihikihi	te hau tea


Ca4-4	Ca4-5	Ca4-6	Tau-toru (83)	Ca4-8	Ca4-9
tagata - te rau hei	te hokohuki i te moko	te rau hei	e gagata hakaariki	manu	te rau hei

				364
Ca4-10	Ca4-11	*(88) BET-EL-GEUZE**	*Ca4-13 → 14 29½**
te hokohuki	te moko	te hokohuki	kua tuu tona mea


Cb3-13 (454 = 88 + 366)	Cb3-14 → π	*Cb3-15 (8 8)**
manu rere	tagata - hanau hia	kiore - henua
Kiore. Rat. Vanaga. Rat, mouse; kiore hiva, rabbit. P Pau., Mgv.: kiore, rat, mouse. Mq.: kioē, íoé, id. Ta.: iore, id. Churchill.
APRIL 14 (104 = 78 + 26 = 88 + 16)	*15 (25 = 89 - 64 = 41 - 16)**	16
... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...


Cb3-16 (457 = 91 + 366)	Cb3-17	Cb3-18	Cb3-19 (68 = 460 - 392)
henua kua hoi	kua ka te ahi o te henua	o te henua kua hoi	ko te henua kua vero te ahi
Ahi. Fire; he-tutu i te ahi to light a fire. Ahiahi = evening; ahiahi-ata, the last moments of light before nightfall. Vanaga. 1. Candle, stove, fire (vahi); ahi hakapura, match; ahi hakagaiei, firebrand waved as a night signal. P Mgv.: ahi, fire, flame. Mq.: ahi, fire, match, percussion cap. Ta.: ahi, fire, percussion cap, wick, stove. 2. To be night; agatahi ahi atu, day before yesterday. 3. Pau.: ahi, sandalwood. Ta.: ahi, id. Mq.: auahi, a variety of breadfruit. Sa.: asi, sandalwood. Ha.: ili-ahi, id. Ahiahi, afternoon, night; kai ahiahi, supper. P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: ahiahi, afternoon, evening. Ahipipi (ahi 1 - pipi 2) a spark, to flash. Churchill. Hoki. To return, to go back, to come back; ka hoki ki rá, go back there! ana oho koe ki Hiva, e hoki mai ki nei, if you go to the mainland, do come back here again. Vanaga. 1. Also, what; ki ra hoki, precisely there; pei ra hoki, similitude, likeness; pei ra hoki ta matou, usage. P Pau.: hokihoki, often. Mgv.: hoki, also, and, likewise. Mq.: hoi, surely. Ta.: hoi, also, likewise. 2. To return, to turn back, to draw back, to give back, to tack; mau e hoki mai, to lend; hoki hakahou, to carry back; hoki amuri, to retrograde; hakahoki, to bring back, to send back, to carry back, to restore, to renew, to revoke, to remove, to dismiss, to pay, to pardon, to compress; hakahokia, given up; hakahokihaga, obligation. P Pau.: hokihoki, to persist, to insist; fakahoki, to give back. Mgv.: hoki, to return, to retrace one's steps; oki, to return, to come back. Ta.: hoi, to return, to come back. Ta.: mahoi, the essence or soul of a god. Churchill.
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
6h (91.3) ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6) 50 = 91.4 - *41.4	ξ Orionis (92.5)	*Al Han'ah-4 (Brand) / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-7 (Front of the Mouth of the Twins)* TEJAT PRIOR = η Gemini (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8) 52 = 93.4 - *41.4	FURUD = ζ Canis Majoris (94.9)
June 20 (171 = 80 + 91)	SOLSTICE	22	23
'May 24 (144 = 171 - 27)	25	26	27
"May 10 (130 = 171 - 41)	11	*12 (52)**	13
APRIL 17 (107 = 171 - 64)	18	19	20
FEBR 19 (50 = 171 - 121)	20	21 (52)	22

At the time of rongorongo 6h came 64 right ascension days earlier among the stars than at the time of the Bull and therefore June 20 (171) was 64 days earlier than my right ascension date APRIL 17 (107 = 171 - 64 = 471 - 364 = 314 * 1½ - 13 * 28).

Down to the time of Spica, the leading star in Virgo, the precessional distance was 121 (= 11 * 11) right ascension days - as a Sign of Reproduction because eleven (11, OE. endleofon = 'one left over beyond 10') meant 'one more'. Thus FEBR 19 (50) = 171 (June 20) - 121 = 7 * 7 + 1.

Down to the time of Bharani (Yoni, another place for Reproduction),

the precessional distance was 80 days shorter than to that of Spica, which meant June 20 (171) corresponded to "May 10 (*50) - i.e. a Sign that the corresponding day at the time of Spica had been number 50. "May 10 (130) - 80 = 50 (FEBR 19).

There were 8 days following Betelgeuze which seem to have defined the position of Rakau (the Tree):


*Ca4-13 → 14 29½**	Ca4-14 (90)	*(91.3 = 64) Ca4-15**	Ca4-16 (92)
kua tuu tona mea	te henua	te hau tea	mauga hua - te henua
Mea. 1. Tonsil, gill (of fish). 2. Red (probably because it is the colour of gills); light red, rose; also meamea. 3. To grow or to exist in abundance in a place or around a place: ku-mea-á te maîka, bananas grow in abundance (in this place); ku-mea-á te ka, there is plenty of fish (in a stretch of the coast or the sea); ku-mea-á te tai, the tide is low and the sea completely calm (good for fishing); mau mea, abundance. Vanaga. 1. Red; ata mea, the dawn. Meamea, red, ruddy, rubricund, scarlet, vermilion, yellow; ariga meamea, florid; kahu meamea purple; moni meamea, gold; hanuanua meamea, rainbow; pua ei meamea, to make yellow. Hakameamea, to redden, to make yellow. PS Ta.: mea, red. Sa.: memea, yellowish brown, sere. To.: memea, drab. Fu.: mea, blond, yellowish, red, chestnut. 2. A thing, an object, elements (mee); e mea, circumstance; mea ke, differently, excepted, save, but; ra mea, to belong; mea rakerake, assault; ko mea, such a one; a mea nei, this; a mea ka, during; a mea, then; no te mea, because, since, seeing that; na te mea, since; a mea era, that; ko mea tera, however, but. Hakamea, to prepare, to make ready. P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: mea, a thing. 3. In order that, for. Mgv.: mea, because, on account of, seeing that, since. Mq.: mea, for. 4. An individual; tagata mea, tagata mee, an individual. Mgv.: mea, an individual, such a one. Mq., Ta.: mea, such a one. 5. Necessary, urgent; e mea ka, must needs be, necessary; e mea, urgent. 6. Manners, customs. 7. Mgv.: ako-mea, a red fish. 8. Ta.: mea, to do. Mq.: mea, id. Sa.: mea, id. Mao.: mea, id. Churchill.


*(93) TEJAT PRIOR**	Ca4-18	*(95) CANOPUS**	Ca4-20 (96)
te hau tea	tupu te rakau - te henua	te hau tea	tupu te rakau
Rakau. Raau, medicine, remedy, drug. Ra'a'u, scratch on the skin. Rakau, a plant. Râkau, goods, property. Vanaga. 1. Wood; rakau ta, cudgel, stick. P Pau.: rakau, tree, to dress a wound. Mgv.: rakau, wood, timber, a tree; medicine, a remedy; an object. Mq.: ákau, wood, tree. Ta.: raáu, id. 2. Medicine, remedy, potion, ointment, furniture, any precious object, resources, baggage, riches, heritage, dowry, merchandise, treasure, wealth; rakau hakaneinei, purgative; rakau nui, rich, opulent; rakau kore, poor, beggar, indigent, miserable, an inferior; hakakamikami ki te rakau, to impoverish; rakau o te miro, ballast. Mq.: akau, anything in general. The medicine sense is particularized in Tonga, Nukuoro, Hawaii, Tahiti, Mangareva, Paumotu. In no other speech does wood stand so fully for wealth of possessions, but it will be recalled that Rapanui is destitute of timber and depends wholly upon driftwood. Churchill.
June 22	23	ST JOHN'S DAY	25
'May 26	27	28	29
"May 12	13	14	15
APRIL 19	20	21	22
*FEBR 2*1	22 (53)	TERMINALIA	BISSEXTUM

The root ('foot') of the Tree was evidently down at Canopus (the leading star of Argo Navis):

... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ...