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170. The 5th and last pair of niu glyphs came 36 days after Cb12-18:

Ca2-24 Ca2-25 Ca6-11 Ca12-21
Ca12-25 Ca12-26 Ca13-14 Ca13-15
Cb1-15 Cb2-8 Cb2-9
Cb12-18 Cb13-29 Cb13-30
Cb12-15 (290 = 348 - 58) (392 + 291 = 683) (260 + 424) Cb12-19 Cb12-20
tagata kua here te maro i te puoko e ariki kua iri te vage Rei tu te niu te hokohuki ki te tapamea te hokohuki
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN NORTH OF THE EQUATOR:
γ Pyxidis (133.6) ζ Hydrae (134.1), ρ Cancri (134.2), ζ Oct. (134.3), ο Cancri (134.6), δ Pyxidis (134.9) ACUBENS = α Cancri, TALITHA BOREALIS = ι Ursae Majoris (135.0), σ Cancri (135.2), ρ Ursa Majoris (135.6) ν Cancri (136.0), TALITHA AUSTRALIS = κ Ursae Majoris (136.1), ω Hydrae (136.8) 9h (137.0)

σ¹ Ursa Majoris (137.0), κ Cancri (137.3), τ Cancri (137.4), ALSUHAIL AL WAZN (of the weight) = λ Velorum (137.5), σ² Ursa Majoris (137.6), τ Ursa Majoris (137.7), ξ Cancri (137.8)

κ Pyxidis (138.0), ε Pyxidis (138.5)
Aug 1 2 3 4 (216 = 132 + 84) 5 6
ºJuly 28 29 (*130) 30 31 ºAug 1 2 (214)
'July 5 6 (*107) 7 8 (3 * 63) 9 (190) 10
SOLSTICE "June 22 (*93) 23 ST JOHN'S DAY 25 26 (177 = 354 / 2)
MAY 29 30 31 JUNE 1 (84 + 68) 2 3 (154 = 11 * 14)
129 130 131 = 135 - 4 132 = 84 + 48 133 134
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON ON EASTER ISLAND:
μ Aquarii (316.0) ε Equulei (317.8) no star listed (318) 21h (319.6)

ARMUS = η Capricorni (319.0), DORSUM = θ Capricorni (319.3), TSOO = 24 Capricorni (319.7)

DRAMASA = σ Oct., χ Capricorni (320.0), ν Aquarii (320.3), γ Equulei (320.6), ο Pavonis (320.8) α Oct. (321.5), δ Equulei (321.7), φ Capricorni (321.8)
Jan 31 Febr 1 2 (398 = 84 + 314) 3 4 (400) 5 (36)
ºJan 27 28 (*314 = *254 + 60) 30 31 ºFebr 1
'Jan 4 5 (*290) 6 7 (372 = 12 * 31) 8 9
SOLSTICE "Dec 22 23 CHRISTMAS EVE 25 26 (360)
NOV 28 29 30 (*254) DEC 1 (336 = 400 - 64) 3
312 313 314 = *254 + 60 315 316 = 336 - 20 317
30
Cb13-26 (325) Cb13-27 Cb13-28 (327) (684 + 36 = 720 = 3 * 240) Cb13-30 (392 + 329)
ku tutu te inoino te hau tea hokohuki ki te niu te tamaiti
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN NORTH OF THE EQUATOR:
Al Zubrah-9 (Lion's Mane) / Purva Phalguni-11

ZOSMA (Girdle) = δ Leonis (169.2), COXA (Hips) = θ Leonis (169.4)

φ Leonis (170.0), ALULA (First Spring of the Gazelle) = ξ, ν Ursae Majoris (170.5), LABRUM = δ Crateris (170.6) σ Leonis (171.1), λ Crateris (171.6), ι Leonis, ε Crateris (171.9) γ Crateris, π Centauri (172.0), κ Crateris (172.5), τ Leonis (172.8)

GREDI (α Capricorni)

ο¹ Centauri (173.8)
JULY 4 (185) 5 6 (*107 = 472 - 365) 7 8
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON ON EASTER ISLAND:
φ Aquarii (352.0), ψ Aquarii (352.4), χ Aquarii (352.6), γ Tucanae, φ Gruis (352.8) CROSS-BARS ο Gruis, Snowball Nebula = NGC7662 Andromedae (355.0), τ Oct. (355.3) no star listed (356)
ο Cephei (353.3), KERB (Bucket Rope) = τ Pegasi (353.6) κ Piscium (354.2), θ Piscium (354.4), υ Pegasi (354.9)
JAN 3 (368 = 4 * 92) 4 5 (*290) 6 7

I.e. this was half a year after the place of ashes (te kihikihi) and 3 quarters of a year after the overturned fire altar:

kava

88 184
Cb3-4 (53 + 392) Cb6-27 (142) Cb13-28 (→ 364) Cb13-29 (→ 377) Cb13-30 (→ 390)
e kava kua tupu te kihikihi te hau tea hokohuki ki te niu te tamaiti
Κ Arae (263.5) 89 Kerb (353.6) JULY 6 (*107) 7 (188) 7-8
Dec 9 (7 * 7 * 7) March 9 (68) 167 168 = 188 - 20 169 = *109 + 60
El Nath (*80.9) Alula (*170.5) JAN 5 (*290) 6 7 (372)
June 9 (2 * 80) Sept 7 (250) 350 351 = *291 + 60 352 = 372 - 20
90 + 187 = 277 (= 3 * 92 + 1 = 12 * 23 + 1)

The Child (te tamaiti) at Cb13-30 could be the result of a kava ceremony 3 quarters earlier (at the beginning of the gestation period).

Kava will make the eyes more sensitive, generating an illusion of returning light.

Possibly the kava glyph type sometimes illustrates a bolt of lightning. At other times the glyph type may depict a ginger root.

The kava glyph type seems to have been used in the rongorongo calendars to mark where the new fire is generated.

... Traditionally, remark, the kava root was chewed to make the infusion: The sacrificed child of the people is cannibalized by the young chiefs. The water of the kava, however, has a different symbolic provenance. The classic Cakaudrove kava chant, performed at the Lau installation rites, refers to it as sacred rain water from the heavens ... This male and chiefly water (semen) in the womb of a kava bowl whose feet are called 'breasts' (sucu), and from the front of which, tied to the upper part of an inverted triangle, a sacred cord stretches out toward the chief ... 

The cord is decorated with small white cowries, not only a sign of chieftainship but by name, buli leka, a continuation of the metaphor of birth - buli, 'to form', refers in Fijian procreation theory to the conceptual acception of the male in the body of the woman. The sacrificed child of the people will thus give birth to the chief. But only after the chief, ferocious outside cannibal who consumes the cannibalized victim, has himself been sacrificed by it. For when the ruler drinks the sacred offering, he is in the state of intoxication Fijians call 'dead from' (mateni) or 'dead from kava' (mate ni yaqona), to recover from which is explicitly 'to live' (bula). This accounts for the second cup the chief is alone accorded, the cup of fresh water. The god is immediately revived, brought again to life - in a transformed state ...

In Cb13-30 an element of vaha mea evidently explains this was where rebirth would occur:

niu te tamaiti vaha mea

From this point (in day 189 + 64 = 253 = September 10) only 19 (= 348 - 329) days / glyphs remained to the end of the text:

Cb14-1 (722) Cb14-2 (331)
Kua pu ia tagata ariga erua
Cb14-3 Cb14-4 Cb14-5 (726) Cb14-6 (335)
te marama te ika kua puo te pouo - vai o maú hia manu noi
Cb14-7 Cb14-8 Cb14-9 (730) Cb14-10 (339)
ku hakarava kotia hia kua haro te rima te marama
Cb14-11 (732) Cb14-12 Cb14-13 (342)
ku kikiu tagata kua to i te heke
Cb14-14 Cb14-15 (736) Cb14-16 (345)
tagata tui i tona ika manu puoko erua  te manu - e noi koe te manu
Cb14-17 (346) Cb14-18 Cb14-19 (740)
kokoti hia te henua tagata hakaitiiti i te henua