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515. The framework for the dates in Manuscript E regarding the Explorers covers 184 days:

April 9 (99) 36 May 16 (136) 51 July 7 (188 = 204 - 16) 27 August 4 (216) 65 October 9 (282)
Vaitu Nui 25 (115) Te Maro 1 (152) He Anakena 23 (204) Hora Iti 20 (232) Tangaroa Uri 25 (298)
184 (= 8 * 23)

The last 66 of these days can perhaps be perceived as the difference between 184 and 118, where 118 = 4 * 29½ = 472 / 4.

te honu paka te henua honu kau te mata te honu kua heheu
Vaitu Nui 21 22 23 24 25 (115) 26 (100 + 16)
180
te hokohuki te moko vero hia tagata honui e ha mata
Tangaroa Uri 24 25 (298) 26 27 28 (285 + 16)

... A une certaine saison, on amassait des vivres, on faisait fête On emmaillotait un corail, pierre de défunt lezard, on l'enterrait, tanu. Cette cérémonie était un point de départ pour beacoup d'affaires, notamment de vacances pour le chant des tablettes ou de la priére, tanu i te tau moko o tana pure, enterrer la pierre sépulcrale de lézard de sa prière ...

Furthermore, beyond Ahu Akapu Manuscript E becomes rather sweeping about the precise dates:

[E:31] he noho he hakaora.i ahu akapu.erua raa

They made camp and rested at Ahu Akapu for two days.

i te angahuru te maiva. o te raa o hora iti

On the twenty-ninth day of the month of August ('Hora Iti')

Hagahuru. Ten (agahuru, hagauru). P Mq.: onohuú, okohuú, id. Ta.: ahuru. id. Churchill. The Maori recognized two main divisions of the year: winter or takurua, a name for Sirius which then shone as morning star, and summer, raumati or o-rongo-nui, 'of the great Rongo', god of agriculture. They occasionally recognized spring as the digging season koanga, from ko, the digging stick or spade. The autumn or harvest season was usually spoken of as ngahuru, 'tenth' (month), although it was considered to include also the last two months of the year. Mahuru was the personification of spring. Makemson.

The word maiva could possibly be mai-iva, where mai = sick and iva = 9, in a way possibly implying the day which was number 10 (hangahuru) + mai(i)va = 29. When the Sun was in 'August' (Hora Iti) then the Full Moon (Hotu) was in 'February' and there was no day 29 in Tehetu'upú. Furthermore, Tehetu'upú 9 (40) could have been alluded to (2-9) because in Roman times this could have been day 40 + 14 = 54 ('February 23 = Terminalia). The Full Moon might have been in Tehetu'upú 28 (= 9 + 19) at the time when the Sun reached the 'plumb line' between the Fox and Spica.

... There is a further motivation of the same in the kava taken immediately after the chief's by the herald, a representative of the land. This drinking is 'to kick', rabeta, the chief's kava. Raberabe, the same reduplicated version, means 'a sickness', the result of kicking accidently against a 'drau-ni-kau'... The herald here takes the effects on himself: drau-ni-kau is the common name for 'sorcery'...

i oho ai ki pu pakakina.he tuu he noho he na(-)

they went to Pu Pakakina. They arrived, remained there, and gave

pe i te ingoa ko pu pakakina.a Ira.he noho

the name 'Pu Pakakina A Ira'. They remained

etahi marama.i pu pakakina.

one month in Pu Pakakina.

However, let's first look at a review from the beginning of what probably corresponded to the Pleiades year:

... 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 ... (E:17)

CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Nov 13 14 15 16 (320)
'Oct 17 (290) 18 19 20
te ua koia ra kua tuku ki to mata - ki tona tukuga e kiore - henua - pa rei

... tukuga, mat spread on the ground; tukuga tagata, mat on which have been put pieces of cooked human flesh. Tukuga, plate, ladle, pottinger, legacy, to dedicate (tukaga) ...

Cb2-4 (420 = 740 - 320) Cb2-5 (392 + 29) Cb2-6 (30) Cb2-7
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Vaitu Potu 29 (150) 30 Te Maro 1 (136 + 16) 2

Potu. Small stick (toothpick?); extremity or remainder of something. Vanaga. End, tip. Potupotu, cockroach. Churchill.

The remainder (potu) of the last half of the double-month of Vai-tu corresponded to the pair ua (rain) in Cb2-4 together with tagata compounded with a little digging stick (potu) in front.

... What do I mean by a compound? By compound I mean a glyph which presumably is not fundamental (like an atom) but instead the result of the blending together of two or more types of glyphs (like in a chemical compound).

I believe this example is made by fusion between these two types of glyph:

Compounds are often difficult to 'see through', when the glyphs partaking are shown just by a little sign ...

 

May 14

δ Persei (54.7)

 

15 (500 = 365 + 135)

Al Thurayya-27 (Many Little Ones) / Krittikā-3 (Nurses of Kārttikeya) / TAU-ONO (Six Stones)

ATIKS = ο Persei, RANA (Frog) = δ Eridani (55.1), CELAENO (16 Tauri), ELECTRA (17), TAYGETA (19), ν Persei (55.3), MAIA (20), ASTEROPE (21), MEROPE (23) (55.6)
16 (136 = 365 - 229)

Hairy Head-18 (Cockerel) / Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)

ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE (28 Tauri), ATLAS (27 Tauri) (56.3)

 

17

MENKHIB (Next to the Pleiades = ζ Persei (57.6)

PORRIMA (γ Virginis)

 

'April 17 (80 + 27) 18 (108 = 135 - 27) 19 20
MARCH 11 (70 = 350 / 5) 12 (355 / 5) 13 (72 = 360 / 5 = 136 - 64) 14 (365 / 5 = 73)
BISSEXTUM (54 - 55) DAY 56 (8 WEEKS) 57 (= 137 - 64 - 16)

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...

... [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 ...

24
Te Maro 27 28 29 (180 = 164 + 16)
Te Maro 30 (181) He Anakena 1 2 (167 + 16 = 183)
He Anakena 3 4 (185 = 169 + 16) 5
9
He Anakena 6 7 (204 - 16 = 188) 8 9 10 (175 + 16 = 191)
He Anakena 20 21 22 23 (204 = 188 + 16) 24 (152 + 53 = 205)

E:26

i te rua te kauatu matoru raa o te ana(-) On the twenty-third day of the month of July ('Ana-
kena i oho mai ai ki rangi meamea.he kena'), they reached Rangi Meamea. When
tuu he ui he tikea he nape i te ingoa.ko ra(-) they arrived there, they looked around and gave the name 'Ra-
ngi meamea.a hau maka.he nape tokoa ngi Meamea A Hau Maka'. They also named
i te ingoa o te maunga ko peke tau o hiti the mountain 'Peke Tau O Hiti
a hau maka.he vari mai ki te rua painga [A] Hau Maka'. They went around to the other side
o maunga hau epa.he tikea.he nape i te of the mountain Hau Epa, looked around, and gave the
ingoa ko maunga hau epa. a Hau maka. name 'Hau Epa A Hau Maka'.
he vari hokoou mai ki te rua painga o

maunga hau epa.

This part of the text was not translated by Barthel. However we can give a try:

They went dancing (hoko) around to the other side of the mountain Hau Epa.

Lower third of the page cut off, in the same way as the lower third of page E:25.

He Anakena 25 26 27 (208 = 192 + 16) 28
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Jan 12 13 (378) 14 15
'Dec 16 (350) 17 18 19
erua marama tagata noho i to mea kua vaha

Vaha. Hollow; opening; space between the fingers (vaha rima); door cracks (vaha papare). Vahavaha, to fight, to wrangle, to argue with abusive words. Vanaga.1. Space, before T; vaha takitua, perineum. PS Mgv.: vaha, a space, an open place. Mq.: vaha, separated, not joined. Ta.: vaha, an opening. Sa.: vasa, space, interval. To.: vaha, vahaa, id. Fu.: vasa, vāsaà, id. Niuē: vahā. 2. Muscle, tendon; vahavaha, id. Vahahora (vaha 1 - hora 2), spring. Vahatoga (vaha 1 - toga 1), autumn. 3. Ta.: vahavaha, to disdain, to dislike. Ha.: wahawaha, to hate, to dislike.  Churchill.

Cb4-17 (392 + 88 = 480) Cb4-18 (30 + 59 = 89) Cb4-19 Cb4-20 (91)
ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.) (297.4), SHAM (Arrow) = α Sagittae (297.8)

*256.0 = *297.4 - *41.4

β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae (298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8) υ Aquilae (299.1), TARAZED (Star-striking Falcon) = γ Aquilae (299.3), δ Sagittae (299.6), π Aquilae (299.9)

Sravana-23 (Ear or Three Footprints)

TYL = ε Draconis (300.0), ζ Sagittae (300.1), ALTAIR (Flying Eagle) = α Aquilae (300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5), BEZEK = η Aquilae (Ant.) (300.8)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
He Anakena 29 30 31 (212 = 196 +16) Hora Iti 1
July 13

ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA-7 (Pillar for elocution)

υ Gemini (114.0), MARKAB PUPPIS = κ Puppis (114.7), ο Gemini (114.8), PROCYON = α Canis Minoris (114.9)
14 (80 + 115 = 195)

α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7)

*74.0 = *115.4 - *41.4
15 (196)

Mash-mashu-arkū-11 (Eastern One of the Twins)

κ Gemini (116.1), POLLUX = β Gemini (116.2), π Gemini (116.9)
16

AZMIDISKE = ξ Puppis (117.4)

*76.0 = *117.4 - *41.4
'June 16 17 (168 = 195 - 27) 18 19
"June 2 3 (154 = 195 - 41) 4 5
MAY 10 11 12 (132 = 196 - 64) 13
DAY 114 115 → MERCURY 116 117

The location of the Sun at the Point of the Arrow had in Roman times been determined to be in day 350 and according to Manuscript E the Full Moon had been at Procyon in He Anakena 29, which in a way was 140 (= 7 * 50 - 7 * 30) days earlier.

Procyon (*114) + *183 = Sham (*297) and 350 + 16 = 366.

Poor Kuukuu was afraid of being separated from the other 6 - having been severely hurt and carried down into a cave (hollow, vaha) - while his comrades sat outside. In the night sky Sham, the sign of defeat, could be seen.

... They all sat down and rested [on the plain of Oromanga], when suddenly they saw that a turtle had reached the shore and had crawled up on the beach. He [Ira] looked at it and said, 'Hey, you! The turtle has come on land!' He said, 'Let's go! Let's go back to the shore.' They all went to pick up the turtle. Ira was the first one to try to lift the turtle - but she didn't move. Then Raparenga said, 'You do not have the necessary ability. Get out of my way so that I can have a try!' Raparenga stepped up and tried to lift the turtle - but Raparenga could not move her. Now you spoke, Kuukuu: 'You don't have the necessary ability, but I shall move this turtle. Get out of my way!' Kuukuu stepped up, picked up the turtle, using all his strength. After he had lifted the turtle a little bit, he pushed her up farther. No sooner had he pushed her up and lifted her completely off the ground when she struck Kuukuu with one fin. She struck downward and broke Kuukuu's spine.The turtle got up, went back into the (sea) water, and swam away. All the kinsmen spoke to you (i.e. Kuukuu): 'Even you did not prevail against the turtle!' They put the injured Kuukuu on a stretcher and carried him inland. They prepared a soft bed for him in the cave and let him rest there. They stayed there, rested, and lamented the severely injured Kuukuu. Kuukuu said, 'Promise me, my friends, that you will not abandon me!' They all replied, 'We could never abandon you!' They stayed there twenty-seven [27] days in Oromanga. Everytime Kuukuu asked, 'Where are you, friends?' they immediately replied in one voice, 'Here we are!' They all sat down and thought. They had an idea and Ira spoke, 'Hey, you! Bring the round stones (from the shore) and pile them into six heaps of stones!' One of the youths said to Ira, 'Why do we want heaps of stone?' Ira replied, 'So that we can all ask the stones to do something.' They took (the material) for the stone heaps (pipi horeko) and piled up six heaps of stone at the outer edge of the cave. Then they all said to the stone heaps, 'Whenever he calls, whenever he calls for us, let your voices rush (to him) instead of the six (of us) (i.e., the six stone heaps are supposed to be substitutes for the youths). They all drew back to profit (from the deception) (? ki honui) and listened. A short while later, Kuukuu called. As soon as he had asked, 'Where are you?' the voices of the stone heaps replied, 'Here we are!' All (the youths) said, 'Hey, you! That was well done!' ...

This happened when they were on the beach of Oromanga, the western part of Anakena, for Pollux was the eastern one of the Gemini twins.

... Protected by the heights of Peke Tau O Hiti, today called Cerro Puharoa, and Hau Epa (see NA I:277), the final goal of the dream voyage turns out to be the best landing site and the finest beach on Easter Island. Oromanga is the eastern part of the beach of Anakena; the bay of Moria One is the western part ...

May 16 (136) 51 July 7 (188 = 204 - 16) 5 July 13 (194) 21 August 4 (216) 65 October 9 (282)
*56 *108 *114 *136 *202
Te Maro 1 (152) He Anakena 23 (204) He Anakena 29 (204) Hora Iti 20 (232) Tangaroa Uri 25 (298)
  Rangi Meamea Oromanga Papa O Pea  
29

... He (i.e., Ira) said, 'Let's go! We shall go to Papa O Pea'. They all got up and moved on. On the twentieth day of the month of August ('Hora Iti') they went to Papa O Pea. They all went and came to Papa O Pea, looked around in Papa O Pea, and gave the name 'Papa O Pea A Hau Maka'. They stayed five days in Papa O Pea ...

Pea. (Also peapea): To go away with bits of food or mud sticking to one's face or garments. Vanaga. Peaha, perhaps ... maybe, chance, doubtful; reoreo peaha ...  Ma.: pea, perhaps. Peapea, an erasure ...  hakapeapea ...  Peau, to sweep all away. Ma.: peau, to be turned away. Churchill. Peau, a wave (Sa., To., Fu., Fotuna, Niuē, Mq., Nuguria); Mgv.: peau, peahu, id. Churchill 2.

... 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 ...

They made camp and rested at Ahu Akapu for two days ...

The idea of separation (vaha) seems to be a reflection of the 'change station' at Sagitta, where the Milky Way was divided and one branch then after a short time was terminated (a dead end) - at the Eagle carrying the Dead Man:

... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini. In fact, he states explicitly (I,12.5) that this 'Gate' is 'where the Zodiac and the Milky Way intersect'. Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ... Considering the fact that the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ...