If the human period of gestation corresponded to the period when Betelgeuze was visible, then the period of its invisibility in the night sky ought to correspnd to the time when there was no pregnancy down on earth. Early in the year Betelgeuze was not visible and down on earth the spring growth was still dormant.

... In the Ilocos region of northern Philippines, the Ilocano people fill two halved coconut shells with diket (cooked sweet rice), and place liningta nga itlog (halved boiled eggs) on top of it. This ritual is known as niniyogan and is an offering made to the deceased and one's past ancestors. This accompanies the palagip (prayer to the dead). A coconut (Sanskrit: narikela) is an essential element of rituals in Hindu tradition. Often it is decorated with bright metal foils and other symbols of auspiciousness. It is offered during worship to a Hindu god or goddess. Irrespective of their religious affiliation, fishermen of India often offer it to the rivers and seas in the hopes of having bountiful catches. Hindus often initiate the beginning of any new activity by breaking a coconut to ensure the blessings of the gods and successful completion of the activity. The Hindu goddess of well-being and wealth, Lakshmi, is often shown holding a coconut. In the foothills of the temple town of Palani, before going to worship Murugan for the Ganesha, coconuts are broken at a place marked for the purpose. Every day, thousands of coconuts are broken, and some devotees break even 108 coconuts at a time as per the prayer. In tantric practices, coconuts are sometimes used as substitutes for human skulls. In Hindu wedding ceremonies, a coconut is placed over the opening of a pot, representing a womb ...

Polygon:	n	A	A / n
triangle	3	180^°	60°	*120 = 2 60**
rectangle	4	360^°	90°	*270 = 3 90**
pentagon	5	540°	108°	*432 = 4 108**
hexagon	6	720^°	120°	*600 = 5 120**

... Marija Gimbutas: 'To sleep within the Goddess's womb was to die and to come to life anew'. In a system of reincarnation the old one must die in order to be reborn, of course. At midsummer Sun comes to a standstill, and this must therefore be an occasion when the 'flame of life' had to be transported into a new body ...

The synodic cycle of Venus was 584 days = 540 + 44, and from the person living inside (tagata noho ki roto) to the growing poporo tree there were also 44 right ascension days:

Poporo. A plant (Solanum forsteri); poporo haha, a sort of golden thistle. Vanaga. A berry whose juice is mixed with ashes of ti leaves in tattoing. Ta.: oporo, a capsicum plant. The Tahiti oporo is not a degradation of poporo but is the original poro stem augmented by that o which in Tahiti is word-formative in a sense too elusive to find expression in European ideas. Mgv.: poporo, the July season when the leaves fall. Mq.: pororo, dry, arid. Sa.: palolo-mua, July. Ma.: paroro, cloudy weather. Poporohiva, milk thistle. Churchill.

60				127				42
	Ca3-10	Ca3-11	Ca3-12 (63)		Ca7-23	Ca7-24 (192)	Ca7-25
	ki te pa	kua hua	ki te kotiga		e marama noho i tona nohoga	te hare pure e tagata noho ki roto	tagata i te marama
9 weeks				260 / 2 days = 364 / 2 - 104 / 2

			154
*Ca9-8 (8 29½)**	Ca9-9	Ca9-10
ku tupu te poporo	kotia	kua rere
314 / 2 = 584 / 2 - 270 / 2
... 471 (= 229 + 242) = 1½ * 314 = 3 * 157 = 300 + 3 * 57, which should remind us of how Epimenides slept for 57 years in a cave (471 + 57 = 2 * 264 = 11 * 48) and how he then lived on to be 157 years (or 299 or 154) ...

The first koti glyph in the text was evidently defined to be where the Sun once upon a time had reached the Yed 'door' leading away from the northern summer (at the time of the Bull), i.e. when the Full Moon had reached the opposite Hyadum door of entrance at the beginning of the southern summer:

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
Hua. 1. Testicle. 2. Figuratively: son, hua tahi, only son; fruits of the earth; to grow well (of fruits). 3. To cause a fight, a quarrel. Hua-ai, generation, as lineage of direct descendents; contemporaries. Huahua, coccyx of bird, 'parson's nose': huahua moa, huahua uha. Huataru, a creeper (Chenopodium ambiguum). Vanaga. 1. The same; ki hua, again, to continue, to strain, to struggle, to move, to repeat, over and above. Mq.: hua, the same, to return, to recommence. 2. To bloom, to sprout; flower, fruit (huaa); huaa tae oko, huaa vahio, young fruit; hua atahi, only son; huahaga, fruit; mei te huahaga o tokoe kopu, the fruit of thy body; tikea huahaga, deceptive appearance. P Pau.: ua, to be born; huahaga, lineage. Mgv.: hua, to produce (said of trees, grain, etc.), blooming time of flowers, abundance of fruit. Mq.: hua, to produce, to bear fruit. Ta.: ua, to sprout. Huahua. 1. Tailless fowl. 2. Vein, tendon, line. 3. Mgv.: huahua, pimples covering the face. Ta.: huahua, id. Mq.: hua, tubercules. Sa.: fuafua, abscess on hand or feet. Ma.: huahua, small pimples. Pau.: Hua-gakau, rupture. Ta.: áau, entrails. Sa.: ga'au, id. Ma.: ngakau, id. Churchill. 1. Fruit. 2. Egg. 3. Tā hua = 'genealogical writing' or 'same writing'. Fischer.
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 (115 → Mercury → Hermes Trismegistos)	26
... [E:17] On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ...
"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)

The 2nd koti seems to have been associated with Epimenides who lived (kua rere) to be 157 years - or according to other sources 154 years.

Rere. To jump; to run; to fly. Rere-taúra, to carry a child astride on one's shoulder: ku rere-taúra-á i te poki e te matu'a ki te gao, the mother carries her child astride her neck. Vanaga. 1. To fly, to run, to leap, to scale, to be carried away by the wind; ika rere, flying fish; rere aruga, to rebound; hetuu rere, meteor, flying star. Hakarere, to leap. P Pau.: rere, to soar, to fly; fakarere, to precede. Mgv., Ta.: rere, to fly, to leap. 2. To come, to reach to. Mq.: éé mai, to come. 3. To swerve, to deviate. (4. Hakarere, to cease, desist, postpone, quit, vacation; tae hakarere, perseverance. Mq.: rere, to disappear. 5. Hakarere, to save, preserve, put, place, reserve, burden, destine. 6. Hakarere, to abandon, forsake, give up, depose, expose, leave, omit, abjure, repudiate; hakarere ki te hau, uncover the head; hakarere ki te vie, to divorce, hakarere ki raro, to put down, tooa te kiko e ivi i hakarere, to strip off the flesh. Mq.: éé, to run away, to escape. 7. Hakarere? Ikapotu hakarere, to abut, to adjoin; e tahi hakarere, synonym.) Churchill. Vi.: Lele, the end of a branch farthest from the body of a tree; leletha, to bend a branch in order to gather the fruit on it. Churchill 2. In the present phase of Polynesian lele so much means to fly that the plainest way of particularizing birds is to describe them as the flying animals, manulele. But to manifest that flight, an exercise or balancing of wings, was by no means the primordial sense, for how could that give rise to a description of water in the water-courses? It will be no end to mass the several significations which lele exhibits ... Flight of birds ... Wind drive ... Meteors ... To leap ... To run ... Flow of water ... To swim ... To sail ... These several activities are exercised in earth, air, and water. The common factor is the swift motion. The means of motion cut no figure. It is an invisible means in the driving of the wind, the flash of the meteor silent athwart the sky on its lethal errand, the slip and slide of the stream in its deep course, the set of the sea, the gliding of the canoe upon its surface. Churchill 2.

			154
*Ca9-8 (8 29½)**	Ca9-9	Ca9-10
ku tupu te poporo	kotia	kua rere
314 / 2 = 584 / 2 - 270 / 2 = 157
... 471 (= 229 + 242) = 1½ * 314 = 3 * 157 = 300 + 3 * 57, which should remind us of how Epimenides slept for 57 years in a cave (471 + 57 = 2 * 264 = 11 * 48) and how he then lived on to be 157 years (or 299 or 154) ...

Half a year after the Full Moon had been at the Hyadum door she had reached the Yed door. Cor Serpentis (the Heart of the Serpent) was 237 - 63 = 174 = 6 * 29 right ascension days later than Hyadum I (γ Tauri):

173	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 Serpentis, θ 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

16h (243.5)	Ca9-16	Yed Prior (Hand in Front)	Ca9-18 (246)	Ca9-19	Kajam (Club)
... A very detailed myth comes from the island of Nauru. In the beginning there was nothing but the sea, and above soared the Old-Spider. One day the Old-Spider found a giant clam, took it up, and tried to find if this object had any opening, but could find none. She tapped on it, and as it sounded hollow, she decided it was empty. 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 ...
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
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