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292. Once again. The Julian equinox (*84) was perhaps considered as a kind of Janus point, a final of the old in darkness combined with another kind of darkness with light ahead, like the renewal face of the Moon.

... Janus was perhaps not originally double-headed: he may have borrowed this peculiarity from the Goddess herself who at the Carmentalia, the Carmenta Festival in early January, was addressed by her celebrants as 'Postvorta' and 'Antevorta' - 'she who looks both back and forward' ...

Ira:
Nga Kope Ririva Tutuu Vai A Te Taanga (*72)

... Possibly the time of midnight (a Janus point) should be illustrated with a pair of glyphs. However, Castor at 113.4 - 41.4 = *72.0 would have risen with the Sun around 6 a.m. in July 12 (193 = 152 + 41) with ¼ of him belonging in day 194. I.e. day *73 at the time of Bharani corresponded to how March 14 (3-14 →π) was day 73 counted from January 1. 73 + 80 = 153 = 194 - 41.

Te Maro 1 (80 + 360 / 5)

"June 1 (152 = 193 - 41)

July 12 (193) 13 (*114)
CASTOR (α Gemini, 113.4 = 41.4 + 72.0)

Which means the ihe tau glyph

could represent the last quarter of the day of Castor as measured (at the time of rongorongo) for the (true heliacal) time of sunrise. Notably the Arabs had in their structure primarily chosen heliacal stars with the fraction 41.4 - 41 = 0.4 (= 12 * 12 / 360) ...

 MUSCA BOREALIS

35 (Head of the Fly), 39 (Kaffaljidhma), and 41 Arietis (Bharani)

41.4

May 1 (121)

Al Dabarān

Follower

α Tauri (Aldebaran), θ¹, θ²´, γ (Hyadum I), δ (Hyadum II), ε (Ain)

63.4

May 23 (143)

Al Hak'ah

White Spot

λ Orionis (Heka), φ¹, φ²

83.4

June 12 (163)

Al Han'ah

Brand

γ Gemini (Alhena), μ (Tejat Posterior), ν, η (Tejat Prior), ξ (Alzirr)

93.4

June 22 (173)

Al Dhirā'

Forearm

α Gemini (Castor), β (Pollux)

41.4 + 72

July 12 (193)

BRIGHT FIRE

χ Cancri (125.2), and λ Cancri (Bright Fire) (125.4)

41.4 + 84

July 24 (205)

Al Nathrah

Gap

ε Cancri (Beehive)

41.4 + 89

July 29 (420 / 2)

Makoi:

Hanga Te Pau (*80) - ko te tomonga o Ira.   Te Pu Mahore (*85) - a Hau Maka (o Hiva).
Te Maro 10 (80 + 400 / 5) Te Maro 14 (80 + 420 / 5)
Ga2-28 Ga2-29 Ga3-2 (61) Ga3-3
ρ Puppis (122.0), HEAP OF FUEL = μ Cancri (122.1), ζ Monocerotis (122.3),  ψ Cancri (122.6), REGOR (the astronaut Roger mirrored) = γ Velorum (122.7) TEGMINE = ζ Cancri (123.3) χ Cancri (125.2), BRIGHT FIRE = λ Cancri (125.4)

*84 = *125.4 - *41.4

AVIOR = ε Carinae (126.4), φ Cancri (126.8)
July 21 (*122) 22 / 7 → π July 24 (*125) 25 (206)
ST JOHN'S DAY 'June 25 (*96) 'June 27 (178) 28 (*126 - *27)
"June 10 (161 = 202 - 41) 11 "June 14 (164 = 205 - 41) 15 (206 - 41)

Pau. 1. To run out (food, water): ekó pau te kai, te vai, is said when there is an abundance of food or water, and there is no fear of running out. Puna pau, a small natural well near the quarry where the 'hats' (pukao) were made; it was so called because only a little water could be drawn from it every day and it ran dry very soon. 2. Va'e pau, clubfoot. Paupau:  Curved. Vanaga. 1. Hakapau, to pierce (cf. takapau, to thrust into). Pau.: pau, a cut, a wound, bruised, black and blue. 2. Resin. Mq.: epau, resin. Ta.: tepau, gum, pitch, resin. (Paupau) Hakapaupau, grimace, ironry, to grin. 3. Paura (powder), gunpowder. 4. Pau.: paupau, breathless. Ta.: paupau, id. 5. Ta.: pau, consumed, expended. Sa.: pau, to come to an end. Ma.: pau, finished. 6. Ta.: pau, to wet one another. Mq.: pau, to moisten. Churchill. Paua or pāua is the Māori name given to three species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family Haliotidae (genus Haliotis), known in the USA as abalone, and in the UK as ormer shells ... Wikipedia

Mahore. A fish (small, silver-coloured). Vanaga. Ta.: mahore, to peel off. Sa.: mafoe, to be skinned. Ma.: mahore, to be peeled. Churchill.

... The dream soul of Hau Maka continued her journey and went ashore on the (actual Easter) Island. The dream soul saw the fish Mahore, who was in a (water) hole to spawn (?), and she named the place 'Pu Mahore A Hau Maka O Hiva' ...

... Makoi got up and began to familiarize himself with the (new) land. (This took place) on the fifteenth day of the month of June ('Maro'). He went toward the sheer face of the rocks (titi o te opata), was astonished (aaa), came up to the middle (of the outer rim of the crater), and stood at the very edge. He looked down and saw the 'Pu Mahore of Hau Maka' (on the coast) and said, 'There it is, the hole of the mahore fish of Hau Maka!' ... If the 15th day of Te Maro corresponded to "June 14 it could easily be explained by assuming a day zero was also counted ...

he nape mai a Makoi.i te ingoa. ko hanga te pau ko te tomonga o Ira.

Makoi named the place Hanga Te Pau, 'the landing site of Ira'.

he aringa.ko mua a hanga te pau.

So that they would remember (? he aringa, literally, 'as face'), the open side of Hanga Te Pau

i nape ai te ingoa.

was given this name.

he ea.a Ira.he iri he oho ki runga anake.

Ira got up. They all climbed to the top of the hill.

i te angahuru o te ra o te maro i iri ai.

They climbed up on the tenth day of the month of June 'Maro'.

The first glyph in line Ga3 is of the type which Metoro said was manu kake - the 'climbing bird' - and which may have visualized a 'Janus point', from where new light ahead could be seen to climb up again (from the pit at the horizon):

... And so they waited there in the darkness at the place where the sun rises. At length the day dawned, a chilly grey at first, then flaming red. And the sun came up from his pit, suspecting nothing. His fire spread over the mountains, and the sea was all glittering. He was there, the great sun himself, to be seen by the brothers more closely than any man had ever seen him. He rose out of the pit until his head was through the noose, and then his shoulders. Then Maui shouted, and the ropes were pulled, the noose ran taut. The huge and flaming creature struggled and threshed, and leapt this way and that, and the noose jerked up and down and back and forth; but the more the captive struggled, the more tightly it held. Then out rushed Maui with his enchanted weapon, and beat the sun about the head, and beat his face most cruelly. The sun screamed out, and groaned and shrieked, and Maui struck him savage blows, until the sun was begging him for mercy. The brothers held the ropes tight, as they had been told, and held on for a long time yet. Then at last when Maui gave the signal they let him go, and the ropes came loose, and the sun crept slowly and feebly on his course that day, and has done ever since. Hence the days are longer than they formerly were ...

manu kake Ga3-1
Kake. Kakea, to come near, to embark. P Pau.: kake, to climb, to ascend. Mgv.: kake, the arrival of shoals of spawning fish. Mq.: kake, to climb up a valley. Ta.: ae, to climb, to ascend. Churchill. Mgv.: kake, to strike on an ocean reef. Ta.: ae, to strand. Churchill. Sa.: a'e, upward, to go up; sa'e, to elevate one leg, as in the act of falling in a club match; 'a'e, to ascend, to rise. To.: hake, upward, to ascend. Fu.: ake, up, to ascend; sake, ro raise the leg at one in derision or mockery; kake, to climb, to ascend. Niuē: hake, up, going up. Uvea: ake, up; kake, to go up. Ma.: ake, upward; kake, to climb, to ascend. Mq.: ake, on high, upward; kake, to ascend. Mgv.: ake, upward. Bukabuka: ake, up. Ta.: ae, up, to go up, to ascend, to climb. Ha.: ae, to raise, to lift up, to mount. Fotuna: no-jikijiake, to lift up; no-tukake, to stand upright. Nukuoro: kake, to go up. Nuguria: kake, up; hanage, northwest. Rapanui: kake a, to go abroad. Vi.: thake, upward; thaketa, to dig or lift up. Churchill 2.
Ga2-25 Ga2-26 Ga2-27 (57) Ga2-28 Ga2-29
Ga3-1 Ga3-2 (61) (aaa) Ga3-3

On one side of the coint was Janus, at the other side the Ship (Argo Navis) - or rather as the joke (yoke) played on the name of the American astronaut Roger Chaffe with the end coming first as if seen in a mirror:

MAY 20 (140 = 80 + 60 )
Ga3-1 (60)
AL TARF (The End) = β Cancri (124.3)

RAS ALGETHI (α Herculis)

July 23 (204)
°July 19 (200 = 177 + 23)
'June 26 (177 = 6 * 29½)
"June 12 (163)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
NOV 19 (*60 + *183) (= 9 * 27)
GREDI (Goat) = α Capricorni (307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), ALSHAT (Sheep) = ν Capricorni (307.9)
Jan 22 (387)
°Jan 18 (384 = 360 + 24 = 13 * 29½ + ½)
'Dec 26 (360 = 6 * 60)
"Dec 12 (346)

... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer' ...

"... Some connect the sign [Capricornus] in Egyptian astronomy with Chnum, Chnemu, Gnoum, or Knum, the God of the Waters, associated with the rising of the Nile and worshiped in Elephantine at the Cataracts, this divinity bearing goat's, not ram's, horns.

Others have said that it was the goat-god Mendes; and La Lande cited the strange title Oxirinque from the Greek adjective of a Swordfish, our constellation sometimes being thus shown, when it was considered the cause of the inundation. In Coptic Egypt it was Όπέυτυσ, Brachium Sacrificii; and Miss Clerke says that it was figured in that country as a Mirror, emblematic of life ..." (Allen)