*JAN 31*	*FEBR 1 (32 = 73 - 41)*	2	3	*4 (115 - 80)*

Ca3-21 (→ March 21 → Gregorian equinox)	Ca3-22 (73)	Ca3-23	Ca3-24	Ca3-25 (→ March 25→ Julian equinox)
tagata tuu rima ki ruga	te maitaki	te henua	Rei hata ia	tagata rogo
Hata. 1. Table, bureau. P Pau.: afata, a chest, box. Mgv.: avata, a box, case, trunk, coffin. Mq.: fata, hata, a piece of wood with several branches serving as a rack, space, to ramify, to branch; fataá, hataá, stage, step, shelf. Ta.: fata, scaffold, altar. 2. Hakahata, to disjoint; hakahatahata, to loosen, to stretch. P Pau.: vata, an interval, interstice. Mgv.: kohata, the space between two boards, to be badly joined; akakohata, to leave a space between two bodies badly joined; hakahata, to be large, broad, wide, spacious, far off. Mq.: hatahata, fatafata, having chinks, not tightly closed, disjointed. Ta.: fatafata, open. 3. Hatahata, calm, loose, prolix, vast. Mgv.: hatahara, broad, wide, spacious, at one's ease. Ta.: fatafata, free from care. Mq.: hatahata, empty, open. 4. Hatahata, tube, pipe, funnel. Churchill. Sa.: fata, a raised house in which to store yams, a shelf, a handbarrow, a bier, a litter, an altar, to carry on a litter; fatāmanu, a scaffold. To.: fata, a loft, a bier, a handbarrow, to carry on a bier; fataki, a platform. Fu.: fata, a barrow, a loft; fatataki, two sticks or canes attached to each other at each side of a house post to serve as a shelf. Niuē: fata, a cage, a handbarrow, a shelf, a stage, (sometimes) the upper story of a house. Uvea: fata, a barrow, a bier. Fotuna: fata, a stage. Ta.: fata, an altar, a scaffold, a piece of wood put up to hang baskets of food on; afata, a chest, a box, a coop, a raft, a scaffold. Pau.: fata, a heap; afata, a box, a chest. Ma.: whata, a platform or raised storehouse for food, an altar, to elevate, to support. Moriori: whata, a raft. Mq.: fata, hata, hataá, shelves. Rapanui: hata, a table. Ha.: haka, a ladder, an artificial henroost; alahaka, a ladder. Mg.: ata, a shelf; atamoa, a ladder; atarau, an altar. Mgv.: avata, a coffer, a box. Vi.: vata, a loft, a shelf; tāvata, a bier. The Samoan fata is a pair of light timbers pointed at the ends and tied across the center posts of the house, one in front, the other behind the line of posts; rolls of mats and bales of sennit may be laid across these timbers; baskets or reserved victuals may be hung on the ends. The litter and the barrow are two light poles with small slats lashed across at intervals. The Marquesan fata is a stout stem of a sapling with the stumps of several branches, a hat tree in shape, though found among a barehead folk. These illustrations are sufficient to show what is the common element in all these fata identifications, light cross-pieces spaced at intervals. With this for a primal signifaction it is easy to see how a ladder, a raft, a henroost, an altar come under the same stem for designation. Perhaps Samoan fatafata the breast obtains the name by reason of the ribs; it would be convincing were it not that the plumpness of most Samoans leaves the ribs a matter of anatomical inference. Churchill 2. ... Teke said to Oti, 'Go and take the hauhau tree, the paper mulberry tree, rushes, tavari plants, uku koko grass, riku ferns, ngaoho plants, the toromiro tree, hiki kioe plants (Cyperus vegetus), the sandalwood tree, harahara plants, pua nakonako plants, nehenehe ferns, hua taru grass, poporo plants, bottle gourds (ipu ngutu), kohe plants, kavakava atua ferns, fragrant tuere heu grass, tureme grass (Diochelachne sciurea), matie grass, and the two kinds of cockroaches makere and hata.' ... The division into quarters of a 28-series can be applied to the main phases of the moon during the visible period as was as to a (reflex of the old world?) sidereal month. The separate subgroup (29 makere - 30 hata) consists of the names of two types of cockroaches, but in related eastern Polynesian languages these names can also be explained on a different level. MAO. makere, among others, 'to die', and whata, among others, 'to be laid to rest on a platform', deserve special attention. The theme hinted at is one of death and burial. In our scheme they occur at just that time when the moon 'has died'! This lends further support to the lunar thesis. Barthel 2.
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
June 1 π4 Orionis (72.1), ο¹ Orionis (72.4), π5 Orionis (72.8) 31.0 = 72.4 - *41.4	2 (336 - 183 = 153) π¹ Orionis (73.0), ο² Orionis (73.4), HASSALEH = ι Aurigae (73.6), π6 Orionis (73.9)	3 ALMAAZ (The Male Goat) = ε Aurigae (74.7), HAEDUS I = ζ Aurigae (74.8)	4 HAEDUS II = η Aurigae (75.9)	5 5h (76.1) ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)
'May 5	6 (153 - 27 = 126)	7	8	9
"April 21 (125 - 14 = 111)	22 (153 - 41 = 112)	23	24	25

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Dec 1 Ophiuchi (255.3), GRAFIAS (Claws) = ζ Scorpii (255.4) 214.0 = 255.4 - *41.4	*2 (336 = 4 84)** κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), CUJAM (Club) = ε Herculi (256.9)	3 no star listed (257)	4 17h (258.7) ARRAKIS = μ Draconis (258.7)	5 *Mula-19 (The Root)* SABIK (The Preceding One) = η Ophiuchi (259.7), η Scorpii (259.9)
'Nov 4	5 (336 - 27 = 309)	*14 (257 - 27 = 230)**	15	16
"Oct 21 (308 - 14 = 294)	22 (336 - 41 = 295)	*23 (257 - 41 = 216)**	24	25

kua tupu te rakau	kua tupu - te kihikihi	te hau tea	tagata - te rau hei

*Ca4-1 (77 = 11 7)**	Ca4-2	Ca4-3	Ca4-4 (80)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
June 6 (314 / 2)	7	8	9 (160 = 80 + 80)
... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...
FEBR 5 (36 = 77 - 41)	RIGEL (Foot)	7	EL-NATH (Butting One)
... the Palenque scribes repeated Creation again and described it as 'it was made visible, the image at Lying-down-Sky, the First-Three-Stone-Place'. Then we learned that five hundred and forty-two days later (1.9.2 in the Maya system), Hun-Nal-Ye 'entered or became the sky' (och ta chan). This 'entering' event occurred on February 5, 3112 BC ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Dec 6 (340 = 157 + 183)	7	8	9
NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8)	SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4) 220.0 = 261.4 - 41.4 ~~ALRISHA (α Piscium)~~*	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	β, γ Arae (263.3), κ Arae (263.5), σ Ophiuchi (263.6)
'Nov 17 (340 - 27 = 313)	18 (314 → π)	19	*20 (263 - 27 = 236)**
"Oct 26	27 (300 = 341 - 41)	28	*29 (222 = 236 - 14)**

However, there is a further complication in the fact that anciently they positioned their stars not at the true heliacal dates but at the days when they returned to visibility after having been too close to the Sun for observation.

The prime example of this is Sirius (the most brilliant of all the stars in the night) which was said to return to visibility at the same time as the waters of the Nile began to rise:

... The Sothic cycle was based on what is referred to in technical jargon as 'the periodic return of the heliacal rising of Sirius', which is the first appearance of this star after a seasonal absence, rising at dawn just ahead of the sun in the eastern portion of the sky. In the case of Sirius the interval between one such rising and the next amounts to exactly 365.25 days - a mathematically harmonious figure, uncomplicated by further decimal points, which is just twelve minutes longer than the duration of the solar year ...

... In ancient Egypt they thought Sirius was behind the yearly rise of the Nile ... the seasonal cycle, throughout the ancient world, was the foremost sign of rebirth following death, and in Egypt the chronometer of this cycle was the annual flooding of the Nile ...

... The season of year for this royal ballet was the same as that proper to a coronation; the first five days of the first month of the 'Season of Coming Forth', when the hillocks and fields, following the inundation of the Nile, were again emerging from the waters. For the seasonal cycle, throughout the ancient world, was the foremost sign of rebirth following death, and in Egypt the chronometer of this cycle was the annual flooding of the Nile. Numerous festival edifices were constructed, incensed, and consecrated; a throne hall wherein the king should sit while approached in obeisance by the gods and their priesthoods (who in a crueler time would have been the registrars of his death); a large court for the presentation of mimes, processions, and other such visual events; and finally a palace-chapel into which the god-king would retire for his changes of costume. Five days of illumination, called the 'Lighting of the Flame' (which in the earlier reading of this miracle play would have followed the quenching of the fires on the dark night of the moon when the king was ritually slain), preceded the five days of the festival itself; and then the solemn occasion (ad majorem dei gloriam) commenced. The opening rites were under the patronage of Hathor. The king, wearing the belt with her four faces and the tail of her mighty bull, moved in numerious processions, preceded by his four standards, from one temple to the next, presenting favors (not offerings) to the gods ...

I have used the measure 365.25 right ascension days (the cycle of Sirius) for locating the stars in parallel with the glyphs in the C text. This means Sirius will in principle be at the Sun in the last day of June not only at the time of rongorongo but at all the ancient (and future) time frames. Sirius will stand still in this type of Sun calendar and which may have motivated its Easter Island name Te Pou (the Pillar). Although also other stars have proper motions I have disregarded this fact. In the structure of my right ascension dates they are all 'fixed' at their current positions in the 'spider net' as if they had been stuck there forever.

The dates mentioned for various ancient events could have been given for the days when the corresponding stars were returning to visibility, with for instance heliacal Sirius being in July instead of at the end of June. The beginning of the month of the Oak - said to be in June 10 (161) - could therefore have referred to the true heliacal day 161 - 16 = 145 (= 290 / 2) = 80 + *65:


Ca3-1	Ca3-2	*Ca3-3 (54 = 2 27)**
kiore - henua	tapamea	tagata rere ki te toki - te hau tea


Ca3-4	Ca3-5	Ca3-6	Ca3-7	*Ca3-8 (59 = 2 29½)**
kiore ki te henua	ihe tapamea	e tagata mau toki ki te henua	e hokohuki mau ki te matagi	kiore i te henua


Ca3-9	Ca3-10	Ca3-11	*Ca3-12 (63 = 7 9)**
tapamea tagata kua iri	ki te pa	kua hua	ki te kotiga

MARCH 21 (80)	*22 (1)**	23	24

Ca3-13	*Ca3-14 (65 = 5 13)**	Ca3-15	Ca3-16
kiore i te henua	tapamea - tagata hoi hatu	ki te ariki	kiore i te henua
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. Hatu. 1. Clod of earth; cultivated land; arable land (oone hatu). 2. Compact mass of other substances: hatu matá, piece of obsidian. 3. Figuratively: manava hatu, said of persons who, in adversity, stay composed and in control of their behaviour and feelings. 4. To advise, to command. He hatu i te vanaga rivariva ki te kio o poki ki ruga ki te opata, they gave the refugees the good advice not to climb the precipice; he hatu i te vanaga rakerake, to give bad advice. 5. To collude, to unite for a purpose, to concur. Mo hatu o te tia o te nua, to agree on the price of a nua cape. 6. Result, favourable outcome of an enterprise. He ká i te umu mo te hatu o te aga, to light the earth oven for the successful outcome of an enterprise. Vanaga. 1. Haatu, hahatu, mahatu. To fold, to double, to plait, to braid; noho hatu, to sit crosslegged; hoe hatu, clasp knife; hatuhatu, to deform. 2. To recommend. Churchill. In the Polynesian dialects proper, we find Patu and Patu-patu, 'stone', in New Zealand; Fatu in Tahiti and Marquesas signifying 'Lord', 'Master', also 'Stone'; Haku in the Hawaiian means 'Lord', 'Master', while with the intensitive prefix Po it becomes Pohaku, 'a stone'. Fornander.


Ca3-17	Ca3-18	Ca3-19	*Ca3-20 → 4 80**
tapamea - tagata rima iri	te henua te hokohuki	te kava	te kiore i te henua

This is where the G tablet was beginning - viz. at the true heliacal date for the the Bull's Eye (Ain) in MARCH 22:

... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
*0h (445 - 80 = 365)**	*MARCH 22 (1)**	23 (82)
no glyph
no glyph	Ga1-1 (= 65 - 64)	Ga1-2
HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)	*Net-19 (Crow)* AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)	no star listed (66)

May 24	25 (145 = 290 / 2)	*26 (66)**
'April 27	*28 (118 = 4 29½)**	*29 (39)**
"April 13	*14 (104 = 8 13)**	*15 (25)**

As we can see in the Taurus map above the pair of stars ε (Ain) and θ² (as well as θ¹ not shown) line up vertically, which is proof that my interpretation of the small circles as stars is correct:


ε and θ² Tauri	θ, β, α, and ι Aurigae	Betelgeuze, Procyon, Phakt, and Azmidiske

At the time of rongorongo the precessional distance down to the time frame of the Bull (assumed by me to be with Hyadum II placed at 0h) was 144 (May 24) - 80 (MARCH 21) = *64 (= 8 * 8) right ascension days. But when Ain returned to visibility it should have occurred in day 80 + 16 = 96 (APRIL 6) - i.e. when El-Nath was at the Sun:

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
APRIL 5	6 (96 = 80 + 16)	7

Ga1-15	Ga1-16	Ga1-17
λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7) ~~ARCTURUS (α Bootis)~~	*Shur-narkabti-sha-iltanu-5 (Star in the Bull towards the north)* σ Aurigae (80.4), BELLATRIX (Female Warrior) = γ Orionis, SAIF AL JABBAR (Sword of the Giant) = η Orionis (80.7), EL-NATH (The Butting One) = β Tauri (80.9)	ψ Orionis (81.1), NIHAL (Thirst-slaking Camels) = β Leporis (81.7)
June 8	9	10 (161)

Possibly, therefore, the creator of the C text used his last 16 glyphs on side a in order to let the reader see what stars would return to visibility at the beginning of side b - thereby decreasing the length of the text on side b of the tablet from 364 (= 13 * 28) right ascension days to 348 (= 12 * 29).

te kihikihi	o te henua - kua haga hia	kua pua	te vero	te henua	kiore - te henua
Pua. 1. A zingiberacea (plant of which few specimens are left on the island). 2. Flower: pua ti, ti flower, pua taro, taro flower, pua maúku pasture flower; pua nakonako, a plant which grows on steep slopes and produce red, edible berries. 3. Pua tariga (or perhaps pu'a tariga), anciently, hoops put in earlobes. 4. The nanue fish when young and tender. Puapua, summit, top, upper part; te puapua o te maúga, the top of the mountain; te puapua kupega, the upper part of a fishing net. Vanaga. Pu'a. 1. (Modern form of pu'o), to cover up something or oneself, to put on; ka-pu'a te ha'u, put on your hat; ka-pu'a-mai te nua, cover me up with a blanket. 2. To respond to the song of the first group of singers; to sing the antistrophe; he-pu'a te tai. 3. To help; ka-pu'a toou rima ki a Timo ite aga, help Timothy with the work. 4. Pu'a-hare, to help a relative in war or in any need; ka-oho, ka-pu'a-hare korua, ko ga kope, go, give your relative a hand, lads. 5. To speak out in someone's favour; e pu'a-mai toou re'o kia au, speak in my favour, intercede for me. Pu'apu'a, to hit, to beat. Vanaga. 1. Flower, ginger, soap; pua mouku, grass. 2. To grease, to coat with tar, to pitch; pua ei meamea, to make yellow. Puapua, a piece of cloth. Mgv.: pua, a flower, turmeric, starchy matter of the turmeric and hence soap. Mq.: pua, a flower, soap. Ta.: pua, id. Ma.: puapua, cloth wrapped about the arm. Churchill.

*Ca14-12 (366 + 9)	*Ca14-13 (392 - 16)	*Ca14-14 (77 + 300)	*Ca14-15 (378)	*Ca14-16	*Ca14-17 (396 - 16)
... The ordinary year in the previous Roman calendar consisted of 12 months, for a total of 355 days. In addition, a 27-day intercalary month, the Mensis Intercalaris, was sometimes inserted between February and March. This intercalary month was formed by inserting 22 days after the first 23 or 24 days of February; the last five days of February, which counted down toward the start of March, became the last five days of Intercalaris. The net effect was to add 22 or 23 days to the year, forming an intercalary year of 377 or 378 days ...
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), DENEB KAITOS (Tail of the Sea Beast) = β Ceti, η Phoenicis (9.4), AL NITHĀM (String of Pearls) = φ¹ Ceti (9.6) 334 = 375.4 - *41.4	ACHIRD (Woman with Luminous Rays) = η Cassiopeiae (10.7) *(10 + 111 = 121, at Naos)**	*Legs-15 (Wolf)* ν Andromedae (11.0), φ² Ceti (11.1), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4) 336 = 377.4 - *41.4	CIH (Whip) = γ Cassiopeiae, λ Tucanae (12.4), φ³ Ceti (12.6), μ Andromedae (12.8) 12.4 + 366 -41.4 = 337	φ4 Ceti (13.2)	no star listed (14)
... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest. When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.'

If the Pharaoh had been a star, then he would have disappeared for a period of 15 nights (→ Chinese station nr 15) in order to triumphantly reappear again, and then this should have corresponded to glyph number 377 + 16 = 393, the day after the Sun had reached Metallah (α Trianguli).

te henua	te honu kau	manu kake rua	te henua	te honu	te rima

*Ca14-24	*Ca14-25	*Ca14-26	*Ca14-27 (390)	*Ca14-28	*Ca14-29 (408 - 16)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
11 (159 + 308 - 366)	April 12 (286 - 184)	13	14 (104 = ☼20)	15	16 (392 - 366 + 80)
δ Phoenicis (21.5) *(79 + 308 - 366 = 21)*	υ Andromedae (22.9)	ACHERNAR (End of the River) = α Eridani (23.3), χ Andromedae (23.6), τ Andromedae (23.9)	ALSEIPH (Scimitar) = φ Persei (24.5), τ Ceti (24.7)	no star listed (25)	*ANA-NIA-10 (Pillar-to-fish by)* χ Ceti (26.1), POLARIS = α Ursae Minoris, BATEN KAITOS (Belly of the Fish) = ζ Ceti (26.6), METALLAH = α Trianguli (26.9)
The Polynesians could not end a word with the consonant 'n' and therefore the famous mulAPIN should have become the Easter Island place Apina Nui: ... You are the one who shall stay here. We, on the other hand, have to turn around. Makoi replied, All right with me! Then Ira continued to speak to Makoi: Tomorrow, when it grows light, set out and name the places beginning with Apina. Makoi replied, How shall I give the names? Again Ira spoke, In Hiva are the names that are to be taken to name (the places of the new land). It grew light and Makoi got up. He set out and came to Apina. When he arrived there, he gave the name This is Apina Iti, this is Rapa Kura. He went on and came to Hanga O Ua. He gave the name This is Hanga O Ua of the Beautiful Wave (vave renga). Makoi went on, giving names, until he had made a (complete) circle around both sides (of the island). In Apina Nui a stone (maea) was erected, saying that the naming was done on a (round) trip during a single day ...
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
12 (342 + 308 - 365)	Oct 13 (286)	14	15 (288 = ☼204)	16	17 (392 + 80 - 182)
HEZE = ζ Virginis (205.0), Southern Pinwheel Galaxy = M83 Hydrae (205.7)	ε Centauri (206.3), κ Oct. (206.4)	no star listed (207)	τ Bootis (208.2), BENETNASH (Leader of the Daughters of the Bier) = η Ursae Majoris (208.5), ν Centauri (208.7), μ Centauri, υ Bootis (208.8)	no star listed (209)	MUPHRID (Solitary Star) = η Bootis (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3)

The right forearm of Mars (Tyr - as in Tuesday) was lost in the Mouth (opening) of the Wolf (Fenrir,Upwaut) and counted from Naos (*121) this place would have come after around 255 (= 355 - 100) days:

	254
*Ca5-16 (11 11)**	254	*Ca14-12	*Ca14-13	*Ca14-14	*Ca14-15	*Ca14-16	*Ca14-17
*261 = 9 29**

But the glyph corresponding to the Palace Chapel where the whole of Pharaoh (maybe excepting his head-gear) disappeared should be where the Sun reached Spica:


maitaki	Eb6-1	Emptiness	*Ca14-21

te honu paka	te henua	honu kau	te mata	te honu	kua heheu

*Ca14-18	*Ca14-19	*Ca14-20	*Ca14-21 (384)	*Ca14-22	*Ca14-23
... But in the fullness of time an obscure instinct led the eldest of them towards the anthill which had been occupied by the Nummo. He wore on his head a head-dress and to protect him from the sun, the wooden bowl he used for his food. He put his two feet into the opening of the anthill, that is of the earth's womb, and sank in slowly as if for a parturition a tergo. The whole of him thus entered into the earth, and his head itself disappeared. But he left on the ground, as evidence of his passage into that world, the bowl which had caught on the edges of the opening. All that remained on the anthill was the round wooden bowl, still bearing traces of the food and the finger-prints of its vanished owner, symbol of his body and of his human nature, as, in the animal world, is the skin which a reptile has shed ...
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 5 (460 = 365 + 95) β Phoenicis (15.1), υ Phoenicis, ι Tucanae (15.6), η Ceti, ζ Phoenicis (15.7)	6 MIRACH = β Andromedae, KEUN MAN MUN (Camp's South Gate) = φ Andromedae (16.0), ANUNITUM = τ Piscium (16.5), REVATI = ζ Piscium (16.9) ~~REGULUS (α Leonis)~~	7 ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6)	8 no star listed (18)	9 ADHIL (Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7)	10 (100 = 284 - 184) KSORA (Knee) = δ Cassiopeiae (20.1), ω Andromedae (20.6), γ Phoenicis (20.8)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Oct 6 AL DAFĪRAH (Tuft) = β Com. Ber. (199.4)	7 σ Virginis (200.4) 159.0 = 200.4 - *41.4	8 γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4)	9 Al Simāk-12 (Lofty) / Chitra-14 (Bright One) / Horn-1 (Crocodile) / Sa-Sha-Shirū-20 **(Virgin's Girdle) / ANA-ROTO-3 (Middle pillar) MIZAR = ζ Ursae Majoris (202.4), SPICA = α Virginis, ALCOR = 80 Ursae Majoris (202.7) ~~SADALMELIK (α Aquarii)~~** 161.0 = 202.4 - 41.4	10 (283) 71 VIRGINIS (203.6)	11 (300 - 16) no star listed (204)

Possibly these days when the Sun was too close for direct heliacal observations meant the gnomon (te pou) was used instead also on Easter Island,

and possibly the C creator indicated the change of method by changing from deducing the dates from the position of the Full Moon against the background of the fixed stars up above (i nika) to studying the shadow cast on the ground below (i raro).

... In each of the Nakshatras there is a 'yoga', a key star that marks a station taken by the moon in its monthly (twenty-seven- or twenty-eight-day course) through the stars. (The sidereal period of the moon, twenty-seven days and a fraction , should be distinguished from the synodic, or phase-shift period of 29.5 days, which is the ultimate antecedent of our month.) In ancient times the priest-astronomers (Brahmans) determined the recurrence of the solstices and equinoxes by the use of the gnomon. Later they developed the Nakshatra system of star reference to determine the recurrence of the seasons, much as the Greeks used the heliacal rising of some star for the same purpose ...

... 'Savage tribes knew the Pleiades familiarly, as well as did the people of ancient and modern civilization; and Ellis wrote of the natives of the Society and Tonga Islands, who called these stars Matarii, the Little Eyes: The two seasons of the year were divided by the Pleiades; the first, Matarii i nia, the Pleiades Above, commenced when, in the evening, those stars appeared on the horizon, and continued while, after sunset, they were above. The other season, Matarii i raro, the Pleiades Below, began when, at sunset, they ceased to be visible, and continued till, in the evening, they appeared again above the horizon ...