... Among the other ritual coincidences, perhaps the most remarkable was the death of poor old Willie Watman, seaman A. B., on the morning of 1 February. Watman was the first person among Cook's people to die at Kealakekua: on the ceremonial day, so far as can be calculated, that the King's living god Kahoali'i would swallow the eye of the first human sacrifice of the New Year. And it was the Hawaiian chief - or by one account, the King himself - who specifically requested that old Watman be buried at Hikiau temple.

ε Leporis (76.0), CURSA = β Eridani (76.4), λ Eridani (76.7)

ARRAKIS = μ Draconis (258.7)

SABIK (The Preceding One) = η Ophiuchi (259.7), η Scorpii (259.9)

Messrs. Cook and King read the burial service, thus introducing Christianity to the Sandwich Islands, with the assistance however of the high priest Ka'oo'oo and the Lono 'brethren', who when the English had finished proceeded to make sacrifices and perform ceremonies at the grave for three days and nights. So in the early hours of 4 February, Cook sailed out of Kealakekua Bay, still alive and well. The King, too, had survived Lono's visit and incorporated its tangible benefits, such as iron adzes and daggers. In principle, the King would now make sacrifices to Kuu and reopen the agricultural shrines of Lono. The normal cosmic course would be resumed.

Notably 5 February (36) could be regarded as a measure for the difference between 3 * 59 (= 177) and 141 (the day number for 21 May). 542 = 365 +  177, but 542 - 177 + 141 = 401 = 365 + 36. Therefore the distance from the first 3-stone place to the day when Hun-Nal-Ye entered the Tree was probably not 542 but in a way 141 days less or 36 days more - another time count was beginning in day 401, in 5 February (36).

Evidently the new time count began in day 5 of February, i.e. after 4 days when Ku(u) had been 'choking on fishbones' - which can be compared to the first 4 days on side b, from the Front of the Head of Ku(u) to the Back of the Head of Ku(u):

Cb1-1	Cb1-2	Cb1-3	Cb1-4 (396)
E tupu	ki roto	o te hau tea	ki te henua - te maro
Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 (Dog) / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1 (Front of the Head of Ku) SEGIN = ε Cassiopeia, MESARTHIM = γ Arietis, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN (Pair of Signs) = β Arietis, φ Phoenicis (27.4)	ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8)	ALRISHA (The Knot) = α Piscium, χ Phoenicis (29.2), ALAMAK (Caracal) = γ Andromedae (29.7)	Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 (Back of the Head of Ku) 2h (30.4) κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (Sheep) = α Arietis (30.5) ALKES (α Crateris)
0h around 76 B.C.	'March 22 (81)	23 (365 + 82)	24 (8 * 56 = 64 * 7)

σ Aurigae (80.4), BELLATRIX (Female Warrior) = γ Orionis, SAIF AL JABBAR (Sword of the Giant) = η Orionis (80.7), ELNATH (The Butting One) = β Tauri (80.9)

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

... Nevertheless, by virtue of a series of spectacular coincidences, Cook made a near-perfect ritual exit on the night of 3 February. The timing itself was nearly perfect, since the Makahiki rituals would end 1 February (±1 day), being the 14th day of the second Hawaiian month [Kau-lua]. This helps explain Mr. King's entry for 2 February in the published Voyage: 'Terreoboo [Kalaniopu'u] and his Chiefs, had, for some days past, been very inquisitive abouth the time of our departure' - to which his private journal adds, '& seem'd well pleas'd that it was soon'. Captain Cook, responding to Hawaiian importunities to leave behind his 'son', Mr. King [sic!], had even assured Kalaniopu'u and the high priest that he would come back again the following year. Long after they had killed him, the Hawaiians continued to believe this would happen. Hence the ultimate ritual coincidence, which was meteorological: one of the fertilizing storms of winter, associated with the advent of Lono, wreaked havoc with the foremast of the Resolution, and the British were forced to return to Kealakekua for repairs on 11 February 1779 ... Mr. King remarks that there were not as many hundreds of people at their return to Kealakekua as there had been thousands when they first came in. A tabu was in effect, which was ascribed to the king's absence. By the best evidence, the British had interrupted the annual bonito-fishing rite, the transition from the Makahiki season to normal temple ceremonies. Cook was now hors cadre. And things fell apart ...

... Early on Sunday morning, 14 February 1779, Captain Cook went ashore with a party of marines to take the Hawaiian king, Kalaniopu'u, hostage against the return of the Discovery's cutter, stolen the night before in a bold maneuver - of which, however, the amiable old ruler was innocent. At the decisive moment, Cook and Kalaniopu'u, the God and the King, will confront each other as cosmic adversaries. Permit me thus an anthropological reading of the historical texts. For in all the confused Tolstoian narratives of the affray - among which the judicious Beaglehole refuses to choose - the one recurrent certainty is a dramatic structure with the properties of a ritual transformation. During the passage inland to find the king, thence seaward with his royal hostage, Cook is metamorphosed from a being of veneration to an object of hostility. When he came ashore, the common people as usual dispersed before him and prostrated face to earth; but in the end he was himself precipitated face down in the water by a chief's weapon, an iron trade dagger, to be rushed upon by a mob exulting over him, and seeming to add to their own honors by the part they could claim in his death: 'snatching the daggers from each other', reads Mr. Burney's account, 'out of eagerness to have their share in killing him'. In the final ritual inversion, Cook's body would be offered in sacrifice by the Hawaiian King ...