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121. The water cycle dominated everything. From the Sea sweet water evaporated and later it was released again at the mountains in form of rain, then running down towards it origin and revitalizing everything on its course.

... The life-force of the earth is water. God moulded the earth with water. Blood too he made out of water. Even in a stone there is this force, for there is moisture in everything. But if Nummo is water, it also produces copper. When the sky is overcast, the sun's rays may be seen materializing on the misty horizon. These rays, excreted by the spirits, are of copper and are light. They are water too, because they uphold the earth's moisture as it rises. The Pair excrete light, because they are also light ...

'The sun's rays,' he went on, 'are fire and the Nummo's excrement. It is the rays which give the sun its strength. It is the Nummo who gives life to this star, for the sun is in some sort a star.'

It was difficult to get him to explain what he meant by this obscure statement. The Nazarene made more than one fruitless effort to understand this part of the cosmogony; he could not discover any chink or crack through which to apprehend its meaning. He was moreover confronted with identifications which no European, that is, no average rational European, could admit. He felt himself humiliated, though not disagreeably so, at finding that his informant regarded fire and water as complementary, and not as opposites. The rays of light and heat draw the water up, and also cause it to descend again in the form of rain. That is all to the good. The movement created by this coming and going is a good thing. By means of the rays the Nummo draws out, and gives back the life-force. This movement indeed makes life. 

The old man realized that he was now at a critical point. If the Nazarene did not understand this business of coming and going, he would not understand anything else. He wanted to say that what made life was not so much force as the movement of forces. He reverted to the idea of a universal shuttle service. 'The rays drink up the little waters of the earth, the shallow pools, making them rise, and then descend again in rain.' Then, leaving aside the question of water, he summed up his argument: 'To draw up and then return what one had drawn - that is the life of the world.'

Beyond the End of the River at Achernar there had to be the beginning of a new cycle. And 'not forgotten' were the 3 islets before the 5 nights of creation, those rocky islets who were sticking (glued, pipiri) to the southwest corner of the land:

According to Manuscript E the Explorers reached Easter Island in 1 June (Maro 1) and this day was number 152 (as in Aa1-52) from the beginning of the year. In "June 1 (152) Castor had risen with the Sun.

Aa1-49 Aa1-50 Aa1-51 Aa1-52 (→ 152) Aa1-53 Aa1-54 Aa1-55 Aa1-56
e ihe ka pipiri i te henua ma te Rei mata te ua roa te nuku vai
*Ha6-30 *Ha6-31 *Ha6-32 *Ha6-33 *Ha6-34 *Ha6-35 *Ha6-36 *Ha6-37
Pa5-73 Pa5-74 Pa5-75 Pa5-76 Pa5-77 Pa5-78

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

The Explorers had left their homeland in Vaitu Nui 25 (115) and 152 - 115 = 37 = 52 - 15. The right ascension distance down to the time of Julius Caesar had been *37 days - as counted from the time of Gregory XIII. The Tahua (A) text seems to illustrate this time-space interval with 37 glyphs, however not the corresponding part of the texts on the H and P tablets:

- -
Aa1-13 Aa1-14 Aa1-15 (→ 115)
kua tuu marai i tona ohoga - ki te ariki
... ... ...
*Ha6-25 *Ha6-26 *Ha6-27 *Ha6-28 *Ha6-29
Pa5-67 Pa5-68 Pa5-69 Pa5-70 Pa5-71 Pa5-72

3 days after Achernar was Polaris and 3 nights after Heze was Benetnash:

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
FEBRUARY 7 8 (365 + 39 = 404) 9 (40) 10 11 156
Cb8-8 Cb8-9 (572) Cb8-10 (181) Cb8-11 Cb8-12
e ha mata te hokohuki - ma te maro te hokohuki ma te maro ka ke te manu ki te maro Te ariki
*22 ACHERNAR (End of the River) = α Eridani (*23.3) *24 *25 POLARIS = α Ursae Minoris (*26.6)
April 12 13 (4-13) 14 (104 = 40 + 64) 15 16
'March 16 17 18 (77 = 104 - 27) 19 20 (3-20)
"March 2 3 4 (63 = 104 - 41) 5 6 (3-6)
18 19 20 = 40 - 20 21 22
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
AUGUST 9 10 11 12 (224 = 41 + 183) 13 12 * 13
HEZE = ζ Virginis (*205.0) *206 = *122 + *84 *207 BENETNASH = η Ursae Majoris (*208.5) *209
October 12 13 14 15 (288 = 224 + 64) 16
'September 15 16 17 (260 = 77 + 183) 18 19
"September 1 2 (245) 3 4 5 (248)
*121 *122 *123 *124 = *144 - 20 *125
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Ca1-1 Ca1-2 Ca1-3 Ca1-4 Ca1-5 Ca1-6
koia ki te hoea ki te henua te rima te hau tea haga i te mea ke ki te henua - tagata honui
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
ºSept 16 17 (260) 18 19 20 (*183) 21 (264) EQUINOX
ALCHITA = α Corvi, MINKAR (Beak) = ε Corvi PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis    GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi, ζ Crucis CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi   INTROMETIDA = ε Crucis, ACRUX = α Crucis ALGORAB = δ Corvi, GACRUX = γ Crucis  AVIS SATYRA = η Corvi, KRAZ = β Corvi
Sept 20

'Aug 24

(264 = 237 + 27)

(237 = 242 - 5)

EQUINOX

26

23 (266)

27

24

28 (240)

25 (*5 + 183)

29

(59 + 183 + 27)

30 (242 = 11 * 22)

"Aug 10 11 12 13 14 15 (227) 16
JULY 18 (199) 19 (264 - 64) 20 21 22 / 7 (π) 23 24 (*125)
179 = 199 - 20 180 = 260 - 80 181 = 265 - 84 182 183 = 263 - 80 184 = 227 - 33 185 = 242 - 57
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
ºMarch 17 18 (77) 19 20 (*365) 21 (0h) 22 (*1) 23
SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) ALGENIB PEGASI       ANKAA (*5)  
March 21 (0h)

'Febr 22

22

TERMINALIA

23

24

24 (83)

25

JULIAN EQUINOX

26

26

27

27

28 (59)

"Febr 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 (45)
JAN 16 200 + 183 - 366 18 = 201 - 183 19 20 = 84 - 64 21 22
179 + 183 363 364 = 366 - 2 182 + 183 366 184 + 183 - 366 2
357 18
*Ca14-1 *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 (366) *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5
Kua tupu te ata i te henua
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
Sept 18 ο Virginis (*182) ALCHITA (263) 21 GIENAH (*185)
'Aug 22 23 24 (236 = 263 - 27) 25 26
"Aug 8 9 10 (222 = 2 * 111) 11 12 (*144 = *327 - 183)
JULY 15 16 (*118) 17 (199 = 84 + 115) 18 (200 = 383 - 183) 19
177 = 6 * 29½ 178 179 = 199 - 20 180 = 260 - 80 181 = 265 - 84
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
March 19 (78) 20 SIRRAH (0h) ALGENIB PEGASI 23
'Febr 20 21 22 (53) TERMINALIA 24
"Febr 6 (37 = 220 - 183) 7 8 (*325 = *366 - 41) 9 10
JAN 14 (*300) 15 16 (366 + 16 = 382) 17 18
360 = 380 - 20 361 = 178 + 183 362 = 382 - 21 363 364 = 366 - 2
*Ca14-24 *Ca14-25 *Ca14-26 *Ca14-27 *Ca14-28 *Ca14-29 (392)
te henua te honu kau manu kake rua te henua te honu te rima
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
October 11 (284) HEZE (*205.0) 13 14 BENETNASH (*208.5) 16
200 201 202 203 204 = 208 - 4 205
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
April 11 (101) 12 ACHERNAR (End of the River) (*23.3) 14 15 POLARIS (*26.6)
17 18 19 20 21 22 = 26 - 4
22
Cb1-1 Cb1-2 Cb1-3 Cb1-4 (396) Cb1-5
E tupu - ki roto o te hau tea ki te henua - te maro rutua
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
October 17 (290) 18 THUBAN (*212.8) 20 κ VIRGINIS (*214.8)
206 207 208 209 210 = 214 - 4
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
April 17 (107) 18 19 20 21
SHERATAN (*27.4)   ALRISHA (*29.2) HAMAL (*30.5)  
23 24 25 26 27 = 31 - 4
Cb2-4 (420 = 392 + 28) Cb2-5 (29) Cb2-6 Cb2-7
te ua koia ra kua tuku ki to mata - ki tona tukuga e kiore - henua - pa rei
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
 COR SERPENTIS = α Serpentis (*237) November 14 15 16 (320)
'Oct 17 (*210 = *237 - *27) 18 19 (292) 20
"Oct 3 (*196 = *237 - *41) 4 (277) 5 6
10 (*173 = *237 - *64) SEPTEMBER 11 (254) (*175) 13
233 234 = 254 - 20 235 = 52 + 183 236 = 8 * 29½
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
δ Persei

May 14 (*54)

TAU-ONO

*55 (500 = 365 + 135)

Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)

*56 (136)

MENKHIB = ζ Persei

*57

PORRIMA (γ Virginis)
'April 17 (290 - 183) 18 (108) 19 (*29 = *56 - *27) 20
"April 3 (*13 = *196 - *183) 4 5 (95 = 136 - 41) 6 (*16)
MARCH 11 12 (135 - 64 = 71) 13 (72 = 255 - 183) 3-14 (73 = 365 / 5)
50 51 52 = 72 - 20 53