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453. Metoro Tau'a Ure used the word hakaraoa 5 times when reading - under the strict rule not to use more than one expression per glyph - tablets for Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti:

Ba7-16 (267)

Ca1-20

Ca9-6 (234)

Cb10-1

Cb10-4 (392 + 234)

ki te henua - kua moe te manu utu hakaraoa

hakaraoa - te henua

ku hakaraoa

Ku hakaraoa - te inoino

ku hakaraoa

Notably number 234 was the number both for Ca9-6 and for Cb10-4. Could 267 (Ba7-16) be the sum of 234 and 33? A quick loock at Ba1-33 reveals a kind of bird with a pronounced ure in front, followed 3 paces later by an irregular koti type of glyph:

Ba1-31

Ba1-32

ko te tagata haga

Ba1-33 (Sun)

Ba1-34

i te moa kua tuu

Ba1-35

Ba1-36 (Mercury)

ki te moa kua koti ïa

Ba1-37

Ba1-38

E te moa e ka vero koe

In the calendar of the planets (the week) koti occurred also at Venus (in Friday), because her orbit was broken by periods of darkness between her morning and evening appearances.

Like Mercury she was in an orbit closer to the Sun than the Earth, which meant she sometimes had to be between the Sun and the Earth, turning completely invisible - ín the same way as the Moon turned black when the Sun was at her back side:

... The Moon was visible for 29 nights, and then her back side (●) was bathed in the vitalizing rays from Tane, making her grow (tupu) once again ...

...  When the new moon appeared women assembled and bewailed those who had died since the last one, uttering the following lament: 'Alas! O moon! Thou has returned to life, but our departed beloved ones have not. Thou has bathed in the waiora a Tane, and had thy life renewed, but there is no fount to restore life to our departed ones. Alas ...

WEDNESDAY (THE DAY OF MERCURY)
Hb9-33 Hb9-34 Hb9-35 Hb9-36 Hb9-37 Hb9-38
THURSDAY (THE DAY OF JUPITER)
Hb9-39 Hb9-40 Hb9-41 Hb9-42 Hb9-43 Hb9-44 Hb9-45 Hb9-46 Hb9-47
FRIDAY (THE DAY OF VENUS)
Hb9-48 Hb9-49 Hb9-50

In the H text there is a distinction between the koti of the dark Mercury and the koti of the bright Venus:

13
Mercury Venus

In the parallel P text this was not so, possibly because its creator was intent on showing how they both were inside the orbit of the Earth:

9
Mercury Venus

In Ba1-36 we can see the same type of assymmetry between left and right (although in mirror view), and we could perhaps guess this assymmetry visualized the fact that the distance in days from morning to evening star Venus was much greater (50 days) than the distance from her evening to morning star appearance (8 days):

There are 6 koti glyphs in the C text and the last of them could perhaps refer (or allude) to the orbit of Venus (584 days), because 392 + 337 - 584 = 145 (= 290 / 2):

Ca3-12 (63) Ca7-24 (192) Ca9-9 (237)
Cb6-6 (392 + 121 = 513) Cb6-22 (392 + 137 = 529) Cb14-8 (392 + 337 = 729)

From Ca3-12 to Ca9-9 there were 6 * 29 = 348 / 2 right ascension days (and side b of the tablet carries 348 glyphs).

JAN 19 20 21 (101 - 80) 22 → Mercury
MARCH 17 (76 = 140 - 64) 18 19 20 (79 = 22 + 3 * 19)
Ca3-9 Ca3-10 Ca3-11 Ca3-12 (63 = 7 * 9)
tapamea tagata kua iri ki te pa kua hua ki te kotiga
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
May 20 (140)

4h (60.9)

JĪSHUĬ (Piled-up Waters) = λ Persei (60.7)

COR CAROLI (α Canum Ven.)

21

υ Persei (61.2)

22 (21 + 121 = 142)

BEID (Egg) = ο¹ Eridani (62.2), μ Persei (62.8)

VINDEMIATRIX ( ε Virginis)

23 (11 * 13 = 143)

Al Dabarān-2 (The Follower)

HYADUM I = γ Tauri (63.4)

*22 = *63.4 - *41.4

'April 23 (*60 - * 27 = *33) 24 25 26 (*36)
"April 9 (140 - 41 = 99) 10 (100) 11 (*21) 12
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Nov 19 (140 + 183 = 323)

16h (243.5)

ACRAB (Scorpion) = β Scorpii, JABHAT AL ACRAB (Forehead of the Scorpion) = ω Scorpii (243.3), θ Lupi, RUTILICUS = β Herculis (243.5), MARFIK (Elbow) = κ Herculis (243.7), φ Herculis (243.8)

20

ψ Scorpii (244.6), LESATH (Sting) = ν Scorpii (244.8)

21 (*245)

χ Scorpii (245.1), YED PRIOR (Hand in Front) = δ Ophiuchi, δ Tr. Austr. (245.5)

22

YED POSTERIOR (Hand Behind) = ε Ophiuchi, RUKBALGETHI SHEMALI (Northern Knee of the Giant) = τ Herculis (246.6). δ Apodis (246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8)

JAN 23 (= 80 - 57) 24 25 26
MARCH 21 (80 = 144 - 64) 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
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
May 24 (144 = 80 + 64)

HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)

25

Net-19 (Crow)

AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)

26

no star listed (66)

27

no star listed (67)

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Nov 23 (144 + 183 = 327)

Heart-5 (Fox)

σ SCORPII (247.0), HEJIAN = γ Herculis (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7)

24

ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), KAJAM (Club) = ω Herculis (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), SHE LOW (Market Tower) = υ Ophiuchi, Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8)

25

Al Kalb-16 (The Heart) / Jyeshtha-18 (Eldest) / ANA-MUA-1 (Entrance pillar)

ANTARES = α Scorpii (249.1), MARFIK (Elbow)  = λ Ophiuchi, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)
26 (*250)

γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7)

JAN 27 28 29 30
MARCH 25 (84 = 27 + 57) 26 27 28
Ca3-17 (84 - 16 = 68) Ca3-18 (69) Ca3-19 Ca3-20 → Dramasa
tapamea - tagata rima iri te henua te hokohuki te kava te kiore i te henua
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

May 28 (148)

Rohini-4 (The Red One) / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)
29

no star listed (69)

30 (→ 5 * 30 = 150)

no star listed (70)

31

TABIT = π³ Orionis (71.7), π² Orionis (71.9)

320 (South Pole star, Dramasa) - 71 (Tabit) = 249 (Antares)

... This pot depicts one of the Hero Twins (One-Ahaw in the Classic texts and One-Hunaphu in the K'iche' Popol Vuh) and a great bird who is trying to land in a huge ceiba tree heavy with fruit. This mythical bird is Itzam-Yeh, Classic prototype of Wuqub-Kaqix, 'Seven-Macaw', of Popol Vuh fame. In that story, in the time before the sky was lifted up to make room for the light, the vainglorious Seven-Macaw imagined himself to be the sun. Offended by his pride, the Hero Twins humbled him by breaking his beautiful shining tooth with a pellet from their blowgun. This pot shows One-Ahaw aiming at the bird as he swoops down to land in his tree. As Itzam-Yeh lands on his perch, the text tells us he is 'entering or becoming the sky'. This particular 'sky-entering' is not the one mentioned in the Palenque text. It is the final event that occurred in the previous creation before the universe was remade. Before the sky could be raised and the real sun revealed in all its splendor, the Hero Twins had to put the false sun, Itzam-Yeh, in his place. If the date on this pot corresponds to that pre-Creation event, as we believe it does, then Itzam-Yeh was defeated in 12.18.4.5.0 1 Ahaw 3 K'ank'in (May 28, 3149 B.C.) ...

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Nov 27 (148 + 183)

HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0)

28 (332 = 149 + 183)

ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5)

29 (300 + 33)

ATRIA = α Tr. Austr. (253.9)

30 (*254 = *71 + *183)

Tail-6 (Tiger)

WEI (Tail) = ε Scorpii, η Arae (254.3), DENEBAKRAB = μ Scorpii (254.7)
JAN 31 FEBR 1 (32 = 73 - 41) 2 3 4 (115 - 80)
MARCH 29 (88 → Rigel) 30 (32 + 57) 31 APRIL 1 2
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 (= 21 - 16)

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 (115 = 156 - 41)
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 (= 21 - 16)

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 (314 - 16 = 298)
160 kotia kua rere ki te marama e moa haati kava e moa
Koti. Kotikoti. To cut with scissors (since this is an old word and scissors do not seem to have existed, it must mean something of the kind). Vanaga. Kotikoti. To tear; kokoti, to cut, to chop, to hew, to cleave, to assassinate, to amputate, to scar, to notch, to carve, to use a knife, to cut off, to lop, to gash, to mow, to saw; kokotiga kore, indivisible; kokotihaga, cutting, gash furrow. P Pau.: koti, to chop. Mgv.: kotikoti, to cut, to cut into bands or slices; kokoti, to cut, to saw; akakotikoti, a ray, a streak, a stripe, to make bars. Mq.: koti, oti, to cut, to divide. Ta.: oóti, to cut, to carve; otióti, to cut fine. Churchill. Pau.: Koti, to gush, to spout. Ta.: oti, to rebound, to fall back. Kotika, cape, headland. Ta.: otiá, boundary, limit. Churchill.
Ca9-9 (236 + 1) Ca9-10 Ca9-11 Ca9-12 Ca9-13 Ca9-14 (242)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Nov 13

κ Librae (237.2), ι Serpentis (237.4), ψ² Lupi, ρ Oct. (237.5), γ Cor. Borealis, η Librae (237.7),  COR SERPENTIS = α Serpentis (237.9)

14

π Cor. Borealis, UNUK ELHAIA (Necks of the Serpents) = λ Serpentis (238.1), CHOW = β Serpentis (238.6)

15

κ Serpentis (239.3), δ Cor. Borealis, TIĀNRŪ = μ Serpentis (239.5), χ Lupi, (239.6), ω Serpentis (239.7), BA (= Pa) = ε Serpentis, χ Herculis (239.8). κ Cor. Borealis, ρ Serpentis (239.9)

16

λ Librae (240.0), β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8)

17 (321)

Iklīl al Jabhah-15 (Crown of the Forehead) / Anuradha-17 (Following Rādhā) / Room-4 (Hare)

ξ Lupi, λ Cor. Bor.(241.1), ZHENG = γ Serpentisθ Librae (241.2), VRISCHIKA = π Scorpii (241.3), ε Cor. Borealis (241.5),  DSCHUBBA (Front of Forehead) = δ Scorpii (241.7), η Lupi (241.9
18

υ Herculis (242.3), ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4), ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), θ Draconis (242.6), ξ Scorpii (242.7)

*201 = *242.4 - *41.4

SCHEDIRr (α Cassiopeiae)

JULY 15 16 17 18 19 (200) 20
i te mauga pu hia E rima ki te henua koia ku honui erua maitaki ko koe ra
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
16h (243.5) Ca9-16 Yed Prior (Hand in Front) Ca9-18 (246) Ca9-19 Kajam (Club)
Nov 19 20 21 (325) 22 23 24
'Oct 23 24 25 (298 = 325 - 27) 26 27 28
"Oct 9 10 11 (284 = 325 - 41) 12 13 14
SEPT 16 17 18 (261 = 325 - 64) 19 20 21
JULY 21 22 → π 23 (325 - 121 = 204) 24 25 26
 
128 44
Ca3-12 (63) Ca7-24 (192)
348 / 2 = 174 = 6 * 29
155 zero
Ca9-9 (237)
314 / 2 = 157
120 15 199 11 zero 62
Cb6-6 (63 + 450) Cb6-22 (63 + 466) Cb14-8 (63 + 666)
272 / 2 = 136 400 / 2 = 200 = 336 - 136 150 / 2 = 75

The fertile planets Mercury and Venus could on Easter Island have provoked thoughts regarding an egg, its inhabitant, and how its shell was broken from efforts inside.

... They were Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, both sealed together in a close embrace. Crushed between the weight of their bodies were their many children, whose oppression deepened. They yearned to be free; they fought their parents and each other to break loose. Tuumatauenga, virile god of war, thrust and shouted; Tangaroa of the oceans whirled and surged; Tawhirirangimaatea, Haumiatiketike and Rongomatane, of wild foods and cultivated crops, tried their best but were not successful; and Ruamoko, god of earthquakes, yet to be born, struggled in the confinement of his mother's womb ... Of them all, Taane Mahuta, the god of the forests, was the most determined; he set his sturdy feet upon his father's chest, and braced his upper back and shoulders against the bosom of his mother. He pushed; and they parted. So the world, as the Maori understand it, came into being ...

These koti glyphs could have depicted broken egg shells, in which case it would have been natural to count from them and ahead.