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216. The wooden bowl could have referred to the polar 'cap', which together with its complementary twin the 'cup' constituted the top and bottom pieces of the celestial sphere. The banner of the Incas had a pair of 'water serpents' below a coloured 'rainbow' (hanuanua meamea) semicircle, from the center of which a red cap-like object was hanging down:

... In South America the rainbow has a double meaning. On the one hand, as elsewhere, it announces the end of rain; on the other hand, it is considered to be responsible for dis-eases and various natural dis-asters. In its first capacity the rainbow effects a dis-junction between the sky and the earth which previously were joined through the medium of rain. In the second capacity it replaces the normal beneficient con-junction by an abnormal, maleficient one - the one it brings about itself between sky and earth by taking the place of water ...

... The Katawihi distinguish two rainbows: Mawali in the west, and Tini in the east. Tini and Mawali were twin brothers who brought about the flood that inundated the whole world and killed all living people, except two young girls whom they saved to be their companions. It is not advisable to look either of them straight in the eye: to look at Mawali is to become flabby, lazy, and unlucky at hunting and fishing; to look at Tini makes a man so clumsy that he cannot go any distance without stumbling and lacerating his feet against all obstacles in his path, or pick up a sharp instrument without cutting himself ...

Tini. To be at the zenith: ku-tini-á te raá; middle of a journey, of a period of time; te tini o te raá, the middle of the day. Vanaga.

1. A great number, innumerable, infinite, indefinite. Tinitini, million, billion. T Pau.: tinitini, innumerable. Mgv.: tini, a countless number, infinite. Mq.: tini, id. Ta.: tini, numerous. 2. Raa tini, noon; tini po, midnight; te tini te raa, zenith; topa tini, abortion. Churchill.

Vari. 1. Menstruation, period (also: tiko). 2. To tack, to veer (nautical); ku-vari-mai-á te miro, the boat arrives, have veered [around Rano Kau]. Vanaga.

About, circumference, to turn in a circle; hakavari, pliant, to bend, square; varivari, about, to go around; vavari, a garland; varikapau, circumference, to surround, a compass, to admire; hiriga varikapau, to go in a ring; pa varikapau, to close in; varitakataka (vari-taka 3) to surround. Churchill.

Pau.: Vari, marsh, mire, dirt. Ta.: vari, dirt, mud. Rar.: vari, mud. Churchill. Mgv.: Vari, paste well diluted. Mq.: vaivai, to dilute, to thin. Ha.: waliwali, soft, pasty. Churchill.

... The Mura also believed that there were two rainbows, an 'upper' and a 'lower' ... Similarly, the Tucuna differentiated between the eastern and the western rainbows and believed them both to be subaquatic demons, the masters of fish and potter's clay respectively ...

LIBRA:

16

Visakha

α, β, γ and ι Librae

Triumphal arch, potter's wheel

Oct 31

PISCES:

28

Revati

ζ Piscium

Fish or a pair of fish, drum

Apr 6

One of these 'rainbows' could possibly have referred to the time when the Sea Beast opened his mouth wide at Menkar (α Ceti), to let his red gills become visible, and the other one should then be at the opposite side of the year, at Libra. 304 (October 31) - 49 (February 18) = 255 (= 471 - 216 = 355 - 100 = 183 + 360 / 5).

Or α Librae (*224) - ζ Piscium (*16) = *208 (= 16 * 13) = *183 + *25. Or *208 + *16 = *224 (= 32 * 7).

... The Babylonian Rainbow was like a bridge between the Stag and Anunitum:

And the Wing of the Pegasus Horse was where the Babylonians had their 1-iku constellation, ruled by Anunitum (τ Piscium) - whereas the Wing (Gienah) of Raven was when in rongorongo times the Sun reached the southern spring equinox in September.

... South of the equator the Rainbow of the Babylonians seems to have corresponded to a double bow sign at the rain junction (te ua) where Sky and Earth lay in primal embrace: ... Sky (rangi) and Earth (papa) lay in primal embrace, and in the cramped, dark space between them procreated and gave birth to the gods such as Tane, Rongo and Tu. Just as children fought sleep in the stifling darkness of a hare paenga, the gods grew restless between their parents and longed for light and air. The herculean achievement of forcing Sky to separate from Earth was variously performed by Tane in New Zealand and the Society Islands, by Tonofiti in the Marquesas and by Ru (Tu) in Cook Islands. After the sky was raised high above the earth, props or poles were erected between them and light entered, dispelling the darkness and bringing renewed life. One detail which is iconographically of interest is whether the god responsible for separating Earth and Sky did so by raising the Sky with his upraised arms and hands, as in Tahiti and elsewhere, or with his feet as in New Zealand ...

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toga

Cb2-4 (420 = 285 + 135) Cb2-5 (392 + 29) Cb2-6 (30) 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):
π Cor. Borealis, UNUK ELHAIA (Necks of the Serpents) = λ Serpentis (238.1), CHOW = β Serpentis (238.6) 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) λ Librae (240.0), β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8) 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) m    = δ Scorpii (241.7), η Lupi (241.9)

Nov 14 15 16 (320) 17
ºNov 10 (314 = 318 - 4) 11 12 13
'Oct 18 (291 = 318 - 27) 19 20 21
"Oct 4 (277 = 318 - 41) 5 6 7
SEPT 11 (254 = 318 - 64) 12 13 14
234 = 318 - 84 235 236 (= 8 * 29½) 237
Pa. 1. Mgv.: pa, an inclosure, a fenced place. Ta.: pa, inclosure, fortification. Mq.: pa, inclosure. Sa.: pa, a wall. Ma.: pa, a fort. 2. Mgv.: pa, to touch. Sa.: pa'i, id. Ma.: pa, id. 3. Mgv.: pa, to prattle. Ta.: hakapapa, to recount. 4. Mq.: pa, a hook in bonito fishing. Sa.: pa, a pearlshell fishhook. Ma.: pa, a fishhook. Pau.: hakapa, to feel, to touch. Mgv.: akapa, to feel, to touch, to handle cautiously.

ε, of 3.7 magnitude, was Pa, the name of a certain territory in China. (Allen)

Pae. 1. To end, to come to an end; ku-pae-á taaku kai, I have no more food; pae-atu, to leave en masse; ku-pae-atu-á tagata ki Hangaroa tai. everybody has left for Hangaroa Bay. 2. To start, to break out (of wars, fights: taûa); ku-pae-á te taûa, the fight, the war, has started. 3. Dressed, edged stones anciently used to enclose a permanent umu; paepae wall of undressed stones built as protection against the wind; also any other protection. Pa'e: Of a boat, to deviate, to drift, to stray under the effects of currents or winds; ku-pa'e-á te vaka i te tokerau, the wind has made the boat deviate from its course. Vanaga.

Paega: 1. Dressed stones forming the foundations of the ancient houses or of the walls of the monumental ahus; hare paega, house with stone foundations; paega-ahu, ahu wall. 2. Household, people who live in a hare paega. 3. To lay stones on the bottom and against the sides of a hole: he-paega i te rua. Vanaga.

1. Enough. 2. Division of a subject (paiga). Pau.: paega, a party, a side. Ta.: pae, division, part. 3. Threshold, sill, joist. P Ta.: pae, sill, joist. 4. To exhaust, to finish, past; e ko pae, impregnable; hakapae, to exhaust, to finish, to end, to execute, to accomplish, to conclude, to consummate, to consume, to achieve, to acquit. Paea: 1. Enough, past. 2. To decay, to waste away; paea tooa, to deprive. Paega, foundation. Paepae, pavement, plank, canoe; hakapaepae, to lay planks, to floor. P Pau.: paepae, a raft. Mgv.: paepae, a pavement, to lay up stones with regularity into a wall. Mq.: paepae, elevated pavement on which the house is built. Ta.: paepae, pavement, raft. Paero, all, totalit, to sweep off all. Churchill.

Pahi. T. Double-canoe. Henry. Pahu. Drum. Pahu-rutu-roa = Long-beating-drum. Barthel. M. Pahū. Tree gong. Starzecka. Pahu uma, coffin; in modern usage, any sort of jar. Pahupahu = To dig a hole. Vanaga. A trough, barrel, cask, cradle, drum, chest, box; pahu nui, a kettle; pahu oka, a drawer; pahu papaku, coffin; pahu rikiriki, sheath; pahu viriviri, hogshead. Pahupahu, box. Churchill.

A trough, barrel, cask, cradle, drum, chest, box; pahu nui, a kettle; pahu oka, a drawer; pahu papaku, coffin; pahu rikiriki, sheath; pahu viriviri, hogshead; pahupahu, box. P Mgv., Ta.: pahu, a drum. Mq.: pahu, a drum, a large cylindrical container. (To.: bahu, a hollow tree set in water as a filter.) Sa.: pusa, a box. To.: buha, id. Fu.: pusa, id. Niue: puha, id. Pau.: puha, id. Pahuahi, lantern, beacon. Paukumi, closet, cupboard. Pahupopo, a mould; pahupopokai, cupboard for food. Pahure: 1. To sweep everything away. 2. To wound, to lacerate, scar, bruise, lesion, sore; pahurehure, to wound, to scratch; hakapahure, to wound. T Pau.: pahure, to be skinned; pahore, to peel off, to scale. Mgv.: pahore, to cut off, to chop, to slice. Ta.: pahore, to flay, to skin. Churchill 2.

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
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)

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

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

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

PORRIMA (γ Virginis)

ZAURAK (The Boat) = γ Eridani (58.9)
15 (135 + 365 = 500) May 16 (136) 17 18 (*58)
ºMay 11 12 (132) 13 14 (*54)
4-18 (473 = 108 + 365) 'April 19 4-20 21 (111)
"April 4 5 (501 - 41 = 460) 6 (*16) 7
MARCH 12 13 3-14 (73) 15
417 (= 51 + 366) 52 (= 136 - 84) 53 (= 73 - 20) 54 (= *58 - 4)

... The Mahabharata insists on six as the number of the Pleiades as well as of the mothers of Skanda and gives a very broad and wild description of the birth and the installation of Kartikeya 'by the assembled gods ... as their generalissimo', which is shattering, somehow, driving home how little one understands as yet. The least which can be said, assuredly: Mars was 'installed' during a more or less close conjunction of all planets; in Mbh. 9.45 (p. 133) it is stressed that the powerful gods assembled 'all poured water upon Skanda, even as the gods had poured water on the head of Varuna, the lord of waters, for investing him with dominion'. And this 'investiture' took place at the beginning of the Krita Yuga, the Golden Age ...

The ua type of glyph may have been designed in order to incorporate also the rainbow down in the southwest (toga), i.e. of the twin beginning at the 'urine' flow below the ecliptic:

*Ca14-18 *Ca14-19 *Ca14-20 (383) *Ca14-21 (392 - 8) *Ca14-22 *Ca14-23
te honu paka te henua honu kau te mata te honu kua heheu
1h (15.2)

β Phoenicis (15.1), υ Phoenicis, ι Tucanae (15.6), η Ceti, ζ Phoenicis (15.7)

Al Batn Al Hūt-26 (Belly of the Fish) / Revati-28 (Prosperous) / 1-iku (Field Measure)

MIRACH (Girdle) = β Andromedae, KEUN MAN MUN (Camp's South Gate) = φ Andromedae (16.0), ANUNITUM = τ Piscium (16.5), REVATI (Abundant) = ζ Piscium (16.9)

REGULUS (α Leonis)

ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6) no star listed (18) ADHIL (Garment's Train) = ξ Andromedae (19.3), θ Ceti (19.7) KSORA (Knee) = δ Cassiopeiae (20.1), ω Andromedae (20.6), γ Phoenicis (20.8)
April 5 (460) 6 (8 + 88) 7 8 9 (464 = 99 + 365) 10 (100)
372 373 = 365 + 8 374 375 376 = 464 - 88 377

... The ordinary year in the previous Roman calendar consisted of 12 months, for a total of 355 days. In addition, a 27-day intercalary month, the Mensis Intercalaris, was sometimes inserted between February and March. This intercalary month was formed by inserting 22 days after the first 23 or 24 days of February; the last five days of February, which counted down toward the start of March, became the last five days of Intercalaris. The net effect was to add 22 or 23 days to the year, forming an intercalary year of 377 or 378 days ...

At the time when Betelgeuze (*88) was at 0h Regulus would have culminated (at 21h) in 8 January and this was 160 (= 80 + 88 - 8) days before Betelgeuze would rise with the Sun. This distance was in principle (disregarding the proper motions of the stars) preserved through the millenia and at the time of rongorongo Betelgeuze rose in day 168 (= 80 + 88), i.e. in June 17, with Regulus culminating (at 21h) in April 6 (96) which was 168 - 96 = 72 days earlier. 72 = 360 / 5 and 360 - 72 = 288 (October 15):

... The Julian calendar day Thursday, 4 October 1582 was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582 (the cycle of weekdays was not affected) ... And according to Manuscript E the double-canoe of Hotu A Matua arrived to Easter Island in 15 October:

... The canoes of Ava Rei Pua and of Hotu were seen near the (off-shore) islets. On the fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa uri) the canoe of Hotu and the canoe of Ava Rei Pua landed. On the fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa uri), Nonoma left the house during the night to urinate outside. At this point Ira called out to Nonoma, 'Look at the canoe!' Nonoma ran, he quickly went to Te Hikinga Heru (a ravine in the side of the crater Rano Kau) and looked around. There he saw the double canoe way out near the (offshore) islets, and the two (hulls of the canoe) were lashed together. He ran and returned to the front of the house. He arrived and called into the house: 'Hey you! This canoe has arrived during the night without our noticing it!' Ira asked Nonoma, 'Where is the canoe, which you say is lying out there (in the water)?' Nonoma's voice came back: 'It is out there (in the water) close to the (offshore) islets! There it lies, and the two (hulls) are lashed together.' The four of them (corrected for 'the six of them') went out and picked up leaves (on branches) to give signals. They picked them up, went and arrived at Te Hikinga and saw the canoe. Raparenga got up, picked up the leaves, took them in his hands, and waved, waved, waved, waved ...

... During his descent the ancestor still possessed the quality of a water spirit, and his body, though preserving its human appearance, owing to its being that of a regenerated man, was equipped with four flexible limbs like serpents after the pattern of the arms of the Great Nummo. The ground was rapidly approaching. The ancestor was still standing, his arms in front of him and the hammer and anvil hanging across his limbs. The shock of his final impact on the earth when he came to the end of the rainbow, scattered in a cloud of dust the animals, vegetables and men disposed on the steps. When calm was restored, the smith was still on the roof, standing erect facing towards the north, his tools still in the same position. But in the shock of landing the hammer and the anvil had broken his arms and legs at the level of elbows and knees, which he did not have before. He thus acquired the joints proper to the new human form, which was to spread over the earth and to devote itself to toil ...

There was a Knee (Ksora) at April 10 (465 = 365 + 100), which star at 60º N could have defined 30º above as the limit of the polar 'cap' region:

 

A page lifted from my preliminary glyph type dictionary:

Toga glyphs are used to mark the end of Sun periods, e.g. at the end of the day:

Aa1-25 Aa1-26 Aa1-27 Aa1-28 Aa1-29 Aa1-30 (240)
Aa1-31 (260) Aa1-32 Aa1-33 (300)

Number 300 for the redmarked Sun glyph Aa1-33 is here derived from counting 20 for each glyph beginning with Aa1-19:

Aa1-17 Aa1-18 (360) Aa1-19 (20) Aa1-20
Aa1-21 Aa1-22 Aa1-23 Aa1-24 (120)

With 20 per glyph from Aa1-1 number 360 will be reached with Saturn at Aa1-18. A new cycle of 360 can then begin from Aa1-19.

Counting on beyond 300 at toga (Aa1-33) means we will arrive at the time of the day when light is delivered from the fires (ahi) lit by man, the time of the evening called ahiahi. The plural of these man-made fires probably explains the changed top flame of the Sun in Aa1-35:

Aa1-34 Aa1-35 Aa1-36 Aa1-37 Aa1-38 (400)

The number series will not end with Aa1-36, though, because Venus (green) should be at the end, which means Aa1-38 must be the last glyph. Toga at 300 is located at the end of the 3rd quarter of 400, which easily can be understood as not the cycle of the day but the cycle of the year. This exemplifies how the rongorongo texts are multilayered, can be read in different ways. The day is like the year, both are basically defined from the path of the Sun. And the counting can be done in different ways, for instance as 18 (number of glyphs from Aa1-19 up to and including Aa1-36). Metoro said ehu (ashes) at Aa1-37 and Aa1-38. 

My colour chart for the planets (the week) has here been extended (and indeed there is no reason why it should end at any point):

number of glyphs and planets
Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37
38 39 40 41 42 43 44

The chart shows how the ordinal number of a glyph in a line can (at least sometimes) be correlated with the planets. The colours are applied by me purely in order to make it easier to see which planet will 'rule' which glyph.

Furthermore, it is important to notice that the numbers in the chart are not related to the numbers which 'characterizes' respective planet. The beginning of time is in the dark and only when some light source appears does counting begin. Counting the nights of the month, for instance, means you will begin from the time when the moon reappears. Night number 1 means there is a minimum of one dark night in the past.

Venus apparently was used (at least ideally) to mark when the year was beginning. Also she has her dark periods (8 nights long). From the beginning of the K text it is clear that there were 2 dark nights before Venus reappeared:

Ka1-1 Ka1-2 Ka1-3 Ka1-4 Ka1-5 Ka1-6
- 1 2 3 4

The 3 fingers of fire (5) suddenly becomes understandable. In Ka1-3 they are announced by Venus.

The numbers for the planets are not the same as the ordinal numbers for the glyphs. We need a separate chart:

numbers and planets
Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Venus has here not only number 1 but also number 8, which is of central importance in the rongorongo system. 8 * 29.5 = 236.

Sun has number 3 and 10. He will end with number 10, and this happens after 8 months. 236 + 8 * 8 = 300 = 10 * 30.

It was said that the Sun followed the custom of Venus as Morning Star and therefore could not begin until after 8 dark days (corresponding to the period of nights when Venus was invisible before returning in the east),

... At the time when Betelgeuze (*88) was at 0h Regulus would have culminated (at 21h) in 8 January and this was 160 (= 80 + 88 - 8) days before Betelgeuze would rise with the Sun ...

and he could not go past midsummer (noon) because Venus never passed across the sky from the east to the west. The synodic orbits below show 24 consecutive appearances of Venus (from Anthony F. Aveni, Skywatchers):