261. In Manuscript E we can read how the canoes of Ava Rei Pua and Hotu A Matua were first observed by Nonoma when he was out urinating in the night. I have guessed this detail alluded to the Leo stars below Coxa (θ) which could have been imagined as urine flowing down from his full bladder:

... 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 ...

By adding 16 glyph days to Ca13-9, where Metoro said there certainly (haki) was a hole (pu), we will reach day 249 + 16 = 265, i.e. to the southern spring equinox:

Ca13-5	Ca13-6	Ca13-7 (350)	Ca13-8	Ca13-9 (368 - 16)
koia ra kua oho		manu rere	kua moe koia i toona tahoga kua pu	haki pu
Sept 2	3	4	5	6 (249)
ALKES (α Crateris)	*166	11h (167.4)	*168	ZOSMA & COXA (Girdle & Hips)
... There was no water in the village. The lakes and rivers were dry. Raven and Crow, two young girls who were having their first menstrual courses, were told to go and draw water from the ocean. Finding the journey too long, Raven decided just to urinate into her basket-bucket. She decieved no one and was severly scolded. Crow returned much later but with drinking water. As a punishment, Raven was condemned never to find water in the summer; only in winter would she find something to drink. For that reason the Raven never drinks during the hot months; she speaks with a raucous voice because of her dry throat ...

The Sun king surely ought to have arrived to Easter Island at this point in time, after having moved across the equator from the northern hemisphere.

... 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 inside the house could not see the double-canoe, and presumably this was because he was still half asleep or because its stars were too close to the Sun:

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.'

But there was a twist in the story because Tagaroa uri 15 = October 15 (288) = 265 (September 21) + 23 days.

... The ancient names of the month were: Tua haro, Tehetu'upú, Tarahao, Vaitu nui, Vaitu potu, He Maro, He Anakena, Hora iti, Hora nui, Tagaroa uri, Ko Ruti, Ko Koró ...

This twist can be straightened out by assuming the Gregorian calendar at the time of the Pope defined the distance 23 right ascension days as that needed to go down to the time of the Julian calendar, i.e. the number of right ascension days ahead. Indeed confirmation was given by the Pope himself because he launched his new calendar (canoe) in day 288 (= 2 * 12²):

... 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) ...

*27 (right ascension days from the time of rongorongo down to Roman times) - *23 = *4 corresponded approximately to the number of precessional days up from the time of Julius Caesar to the Council of Nicaea.

... When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC he set March 25 (3-25) as the spring equinox. Since a Julian year (365.25 days) is slightly longer than an actual year the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about 21 March in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March. This drift induced Pope Gregory XIII to create a modern Gregorian calendar. The Pope wanted to restore the edicts concerning the date of Easter of the Council of Nicaea of AD 325 ...

I.e. from the time of Caesar the stars rising heliacally in 'September 21 (265) had advanced with 23 days to about °October 15 (288, *208) and since then with another 4 days to right ascension day *212. This perspective illuminates the correlation between the beginning of side a and the beginning of side b:

 

no glyph (day zero)				389
	Ca1-1	Ca1-2	Ca1-3
	koia	ki te hoea (instrument for tattooing)	ki te henua
March 21 (80)	22 (*1)	23	24
Sept 20 (*183)	21	Equinox	23 (266)

Cb1-1 (3 + 390)	Cb1-2	Cb1-3	Cb1-4 (396)
E tupu - ki roto		o te hau tea	ki te henua - te maro
Oct 17 (290)	18	19 (*212)	20
April 17 (107)	18	19 (*29)	20
'March 21 (290 - 210)	22	23 (*2 = *29 - *27)	24
'Sept 20 (*183)	21	Equinox	23 (266)

According to the Gregorian calendar the beginning of the equinoctial year was at March 21 (0h). The corresponding cardinal spring point on Easter Island was September 20 (*183) = 80 (March 21) + 183 = 263.

... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ...

The beginning of side b on the C tablet was 393 days (glyphs) later, which had to be day 263 (September 20) + 393 - 366 = 290 (October 17).

The corresponding day north of the equator should therefore be day 290 - 183 = 107 (April 17) = April 1 (91) + 16. And η Andromedae (*11) would return to visibility in day 107 (= *11 + *16 + 80).

						11
*Ca14-12	*Ca14-13	*Ca14-14	(378)	*Ca14-16	*Ca14-17		*Ca14-29
te kihikihi	o te henua - kua haga hia	kua pua	te vero	te henua	kiore - te henua		te rima
Sept 29	30 (273)	ALIOTH	Oct 2	3 (*196)	4		Oct 16 (289)
*9	*10	Legs (Wolf)	*12	*13	*14		POLARIS
... 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 ...

In Roman times, 27 precessional days earlier, the corresponding position would have been 107 (April 17) - 27 = 80 ('March 21). Notably this day number is 210 (= 420 / 2) less than 290 (= 10 * 29).

... They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead. These confess before him, and when their hearts have been weighed in a balance against a feather, receive, according to their lives, the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin ...

Anciently when there was no zero sign (0) they understood that 42 assessors alluded to day 420 (24 February) = 55 (February 24) + 365.

248	20 Febr	21	22-2 (53)	23	24 (420)
	... 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 ...
	Cb11-1	Cb11-2 (254)	Cb11-3 (631 + 16)	Cb11-4 (648)	Cb11-5
	Te kihikihi - tagata moe	ki te ariki - te hokohuki	ko te inoino - te henua	te inoino - te henua	te henua
	Dec 25 (176 + 183)	26 (*280 = 7 * 40)	27 (361)	28	29 (363 = 420 - 57)
	16 Oct	17 (*210 = 7 * 30)	18 (291)	19	20 (293 = 420 - 127)
	KAUS BOREALIS = Λacie Sagittarii (279.3)	ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9)	Abhijit-22 (Victorious) θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA = α Lyrae (281.8)	no star listed (282)	ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8)
	Moe. To sleep, to lie at full length, to dream, to brood, to place, to cohabit; moe atu, to leave off, to desist; moe atu ra, to adjourn, to postpone; moe hakahepo, to talk in the deep; moe aherepo, somnambulist, sleepwalker; moe hakataha, to sleep on the side; moe no, to oversleep, concubinage; moe tahae, to be a light sleeper; moe tahaga, a sleeper; moe vaeahatu, moe hakaroa, to sleep sprawling; rava moe, to sleep sound; ariga moe ki raro, to lie flat on the ground; tae moe, bachelor; hakamoe, to brood, to fold the wings; to reserve, to lay up; to struggle. P Pau.: moe, sleep. Mgv.: moe, sleep, to lie down, coitus, to shut the eyes. Mq.: moe, to sleep, to lie down; haámoe, to set down on the ground. Ta.: moe, to sleep, to lie down. Moea raruga, lying flat. Moeaivi, thin. Mq.: ivi, haáivi, id. Ta.: ivi, id. Moega, mat. Pau.: moehega, bed. Mgv.: moega, a sleeping mat. Mq.: moena, moeka, mat, floor cloth, bed. Ta.: moea, bed. Moemata, to sleep with the eyes open; mea moemata, phantom. Moemoea, a dream, vision; tikeahaga moemoea, apparition by night. T Mgv., Mq., Ta.: moemoea, dream. Churchill. Mgv. Moemoe, to steal, to purloin at a food distribution. Mq.: moemoe, to seize, to grasp. Churchill. Ta.: 1.  Moemoe, ambush. Ha.: moemoe, id. 2. Moemoe, Phyllanthus simplex. To.: mohemohe, a tree. Churchill. Mq.: Moehu, exiled, banished, prisoner of war. Ma.: morehu, a survivor. Churchill.

... The dot is also used for another purpose, namely as one of the ten fundamental figures of the decimal system of notation, or the zero (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9). It is still so used in India for both purposes, to indicate the unknown quantity as well as the nought. With us the dot, or rather its substitute the circle (0), has only retained the latter of its two intents, being simply the zero figure, or 'the mark of position' in the decimal system. The Indian usage, however, seems to show how the zero arose, and that it arose in India. The Indian dot, unlike our modern zero, is not properly a numerical figure at all. It is simply a sign to indicate an empty place or a hiatus. This is clearly shown by its name sunya 'empty'."