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298. Once again. According to my reconstructions the dream soul of Hau Maka broke the kohe plant in JUNE 21 (the northern summer solstice at the time of the Bull), and we can imagine this 'plant' ('tree') was representing the Sun at his apex.

I.e. his kuhane flew in the night at the time when Aldebaran rose with the Sun at the date for the Julian equinox:

Hua Reva Akahanga Hatinga Te Kohe Roto Ire Are Tama One Tea Hanga Takaure Poike Pua Katiki

... The dream soul went on and came to Hua Reva. She named the place 'Hua Reva A Hau Maka O Hiva'.  The dream soul went on and came to Akahanga. She named the place 'Akahanga A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul went on. She was careless (?) and broke the kohe plant with her feet. She named the place 'Hatinga Te Kohe A Hau Maka O Hiva' ...

19 20 21 22 23 24 JUNE 25
28 29 30 1 2 3 'July 4 (185)
12 13 14 15 16 17 Anakena 18
Hanga Takaure

26 27 28 29 JUNE 30 (181)
5 6 7 8 'July 9 (190)
19 20 21 22 Anakena 23 (204)
Hanga Hoonu

The Julian spring equinox was at 'March 25 (84 = 7 * 12) and therefore JUNE 25 ought to have corresponded to where in Roman times the kohe plant would have been perceived as broken, 3 months later. 175 (Day of St John) - 84 (Julian equinox) = 91 days = 13 weeks.

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

... The manner of his death can be reconstructed from a variety of legends, folk-customs and other religious survivals. At mid-summer, at the end of a half-year reign, Hercules is made drunk with mead and led into the middle of a circle of twelve stones arranged around an oak, in front of which stands an altar-stone; the oak has been lopped until it is T-shaped. He is bound to it with willow thongs in the 'five-fold bond' which joins wrists, neck, and ankles together, beaten by his comrades till he faints, then flayed, blinded, castrated, impaled with a mistletoe stake, and finally hacked into joints on the altar-stone. His blood is caught in a basin and used for sprinkling the whole tribe to make them vigorous and fruitful. The joints are roasted at twin fires of oak-loppings, kindled with sacred fire preserved from a lightning-blasted oak or made by twirling an alder- or cornel-wood fire-drill in an oak log. The trunk is then uprooted and split into faggots which are added to the flames. The twelve merry-men rush in a wild figure-of-eight dance around the fires, singing ecstatically and tearing at the flesh with their teeth. The bloody remains are burnt in the fire, all except the genitals and the head. These are put into an alder-wood boat and floated down the river to an islet; though the head is sometimes cured with smoke and preserved for oracular use. His tanist succeeds him and reigns for the remainder of the year, when he is sacrificially killed by a new Hercules ...

When the Sun was gone the stars in the night sky were more easy to perceive and from Ga4-1 a sudden jump from heliacal to nakshatra view could have been intended. In Roman times Ga4-1 (→ Bharani) had been at day 384 (= 13 * 29½ + ½ = 41 + 7 * 7 * 7) and at the time of the Bull this had been DECEMBER 13:

JUNE 13 (*84) 14 15 16 17 (*88) 18 19 (170)
Ga4-1 (68 + 16) Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4 Ga4-5 (88) Ga4-6 Ga4-7
υ¹ Hydrae (148.4), RAS EL-ASET BOREALIS (Northern Head of the Lion) = μ Leonis (148.7)

 *107 = (*148.4 - *41.4)

TSEEN KE (Heaven's Record) = φ Velorum (149.9) ν Leonis (150.1), π Leonis (150.6) υ² Hydrae (151.8) Al Jabhah-8 (Forehead) / Maghā-10 (Bountiful) / Sharru-14 (King)

10h (152.2)

AL JABHAH = η Leonis (152.4), REGULUS (Little King) = α Leonis (152.7)

*111 = (*152.4 - *41.4)

λ Hydrae (153.2) ADHAFERA (Forehead) = ζ Leonis, TANIA BOREALIS = λ Ursae Majoris, SIMIRAM = ω Carinae (154.7)
Aug 16 (*148) 17 (229) 18 19 20 (*152) 21 22
°Aug 12 (*144) 13 (225) 14 15 16 (*148) 17 18
'July 20 (*121) 21 22 / 7 23 24 (*125) 25 26
"July 6 (*107) 7 8 9 Anakena 10

2nd Te Pou

11 (192) 12
2nd time at Hanga Te Pau

... He got up, the path went uphill, and he came (back) to the house. It was dark when he reached the house. When he came to the yam plantation of Kuukuu, he sat down. Night was falling. Ira asked Makoi the following question: 'How did you fare when you wandered, when you went searching, when you found yourself on the path of the dream soul of the father?' Makoi replied, 'There are indeed all those places. I did not forget them at all (? kai viri kai viri) when I saw them (text corrected, i-ui-nei). I alone saw no fewer than four of my [sic!] places, and I returned here only because night was falling.' Then Ira spoke again: 'How did you name them, last-born?'  Makoi replied, 'This is what happened, this is how I gave the names. I wrote (ta) Te Manavai A Hau Maka on the surface of a banana leaf (kaka), and this is how I left it.' This is how Makoi remembered it. No sooner had he said this, when Ira gew angry and quarrelled with Makoi. He said the following (to him): 'You did not pay attention, last-born, and you did not give the (full) name. This is how it should be: the Manavai of Hau Maka of Hiva, in memory (mo aringa ora) of the father, of his dream soul.' Makoi replied, 'In Hiva the land belongs to him - this land here is mine, not his!' [E:21]

They stayed (there longer). On the fifth day of the month of July (Anakena) [day 227 at the time of rongorongo], they all got up, went downhill, went on, and reached Hanga Te Pau. They took their provisions with them, carrying them on their shoulders, went on, and reached Te Pou. They made camp and slept in Te Pou on the tenth of the month of July (Anakena) ...

There were *111 (Anakena 10) - *81 (Hanga Te Pau) = 30 right ascension days from their Landfall to 10h, from Ga2-28 (58) to Ga4-5 (88). From Landfall to the 2nd time they reached Hanga Te Pau there were 186 - 161 = 25 days, suggesting Hanga Te Pau was a dark regenerativ time belonging to Saturn.

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DEC 13 14 (*268) 15 16 (350) 17 18 19
Poko Uri Te Manavai Te Kioe Uri Te Piringa Aniva Te Pei Te Pou Hua Reva
KUH (Weeping) = μ Capricorni (331.4 = 41.4 + 290.0), γ Gruis (331.5) no star listed (332) η Piscis Austrini (333.4) 22h (334.8)

KAE UH (Roof) = ο Aquarii (334.0), AL KURHAH = ξ Cephei (334.4), SADALMELIK (Lucky King) = α Aquarii, AL DHANAB = λ Gruis (334.6), ι Aquarii, ν Pegasi (334.7 = 152.7 + 182.0)

ι Pegasi (335.0), ALNAIR = α Gruis (335.1), μ Piscis Austrini, υ Piscis Austrini (335.3), WOO (Pestle) = π Pegasi (335.7), BAHAM = θ Pegasi, τ Piscis Austrini (335.8) ζ Cephei (336.2), λ Cephei (336.3), -/270 Lac. (336.7), λ Piscis Austrini (336.8) μ Gruis (337.0), ε Cephei (337.2), 1/325 Lac. (337.3), ANCHA = θ Aquarii (337.4), ψ Oct. (337.5), α Tucanae (337.9)
Febr 15 16 17 (14 * 29½) 18 (414) 19 20 21 (52)
°Febr 11 12 13 2-14 15 16 (*332) 17 (413)
'Jan 19 (384) 20 21 22 23 (*308) 24 25
"Jan 5 6 7 (372) 8 9 10 (*295) 11
JUNE 20 (*91) SOLSTICE 22 23 (174)
Ga4-8 Ga4-9 (92) Ga4-10 Ga4-11 (Tama)
ALGIEBA = γ Leonis, q Carinae (155.5) TANIA AUSTRALIS = μ Ursae Majoris (156.0), GHOST OF JUPITER = NGC3242 Hydrae (156.8) Extended Net-26b (Ox)

μ Hydrae (157.1)

Maru-sha-arkat-Sharru-15 (4th Son behind the King)

SHIR = ρ Leonis (158.9)

Aug 23 24 (4 * 59) 25 (*157 = *471 / 3)) 26
°Aug 19 20 (232) 21 (*153) 22
'July 27 (*128) 28 29 (210) 30
"July 13 14 15 (*116 = *348 / 3) 16
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DEC 20 (354) SOLSTICE (*275) 22 23
Akahanga Hatinga Te Kohe Roto Ire Are Tama
Al Sa'ad al Ahbiyah-23 / Shatabisha-25

 ε Oct. (338.1), ρ Aquarii (338.2), 2/365 Lac. (338.5), SADACHBIA (Lucky Star of Hidden Things) = γ Aquarii (338.6), π Gruis (338.9)

β/172 Lac. (339.2), 4/1100 Lac. (339.4), π Aquarii (339.5)

CASTOR (α Gemini)

δ Tucanae (340.1), ρ Cephei (340.2),  ν Gruis (340.3), ζ Aquarii, δ Gruis (340.4), 5/1100 Lac. (340.7), σ Aquarii, 6/650 Lac. (340.9)

PROCYON (α Canis Minoris)

υ Oct. (341.0), α/91 Lac. (341.1), HOMAN = ζ Pegasi, β Piscis Austrini (341.2), ν Tucanae (341.5), υ Aquarii (341.9)
Febr 22 (53) TERMINALIA 24 (*340) 25
°Febr 18 19 (50) 20 (*336) 21
'Jan 26 27 (392) 28 29 (*314)
"Jan 12 13 (378) 14 15 (*300)
ST JOHN'S DAY JUNE 25 26 (177 = 6 * 29 ½) 27
Ga4-12 Ga4-13 (96) Ga4-14 Ga4-15
p Carinae (159.3) φ Hydrae (160.3) no star listed (161) VATHORZ POSTERIOR = θ Carinae (162.1), PEREGRINI = μ Velorum, η Carinae (162.6)
Aug 27 28 (240) 29 (*161) 30
°Aug 23 24 (236) 25 (*157) 26
'July 31 'Aug 1 2 (214) 3 (*500)
"July 17 Anakena 18 19 (200) 20 (*121)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
CHRISTMAS EVE DEC 25 26 (360) 27
One Tea Hanga Taka-ure Poike Pua Katiki
η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (340.4), SITULA (Water-jar) = κ Aquarii (342.7) ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8) ρ Gruis (344.0), MATAR (Fortunate Rain) = η Pegasi (344.2), η Gruis (344.6), β Oct. (344.7) λ Pegasi (345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), ε Gruis (345.3), τ Aquarii (345.7), ξ Oct. (345.8), μ Pegasi (345.9)
Febr 26 27 (*343 = 7 ' 7 * 7) 28 (59) March 1 (425)
°Febr 22 TERMINALIA 24 (55) 25
'Jan 30 (*315) 31 'Febr 1 (32) 2
"Jan 16 (*301) 17 18 19 (384)

... The Greek lettered κ (Situla) is at the rim of the Urn, not at the top of the Nilometer, where instead there is a Latin letter k. The meaning obviously is for the viewer to connect k with κ, to imagine the Rod inserted into the Urn (Tent) at the K position ...

JUNE 28 29 (180) SIRIUS JULY 1 (*102)
Ga4-16 Ga4-17 (100) Ga4-18 Ga4-19
ν Hydrae (163.1) no star listed (164)

ALTAIR (α Aquilae)

Wings-27 (Snake)

η Oct. (165.4), ALKES = α Crateris (165.6)

*124 = *165.4 - 41.4

ANA-TIPU-4 (Upper-side-pillar - where the guards stood)

MERAK (Loin) = β Ursae Majoris (166.2), DUBHE (Bear) = α Ursae Majoris (166.7)

Aug 31 Sept 1 2 (*165) 3 (246)
°Aug 27 28 29 (*161) 30 (242)
'Aug 4 (216) 5 (*137) 6 7
"July 21 22 / 7 Anakena 23 (204) 24 (*125)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DEC 28 29 30 (364) 31 (*285)
Maunga Teatea Rangi Meamea Mahatua Taharoa
... Everywhere the dream soul looked around for a residence for the king. The dream soul went to Maunga Teatea and gave him the name 'Maunga Teatea A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul of Hau Maka looked around. From Maunga Teatea she looked to Rangi Meamea (i.e., Ovahe). The dream soul spoke the following: 'There it is - ho! - the place - ho! - for the king - ho! - to live (there in the future), for this is (indeed) Rangi Meamea.' The dream soul descended and came to Mahatua. She named the place 'Mahatua A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul continued to look around for a residence for the king. Having reached Taharoa she named the place 'Taharoa A Hau Maka O Hiva' ...
ι Cephei (346.0), λ Aquarii, γ Piscis Austrini, σ Pegasi (346.5) SCHEAT AQUARII =  δ Aquarii (347.0), ρ Pegasi (347.2), δ Piscis Austrini (347.4), FOMALHAUT (Mouth of the Fish) = α Piscis Austrini, τ Gruis (347.8) FUM AL SAMAKAH (Mouth of the Fish) = β Piscium (348.3), ζ Gruis (348.5), ο Andromedae (348.9) Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 (Fore Spout) / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 (First of the Blessed Feet) / House-13 (Pig)

SCHEAT PEGASI = β Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), κ Gruis (349.4), MARKAB PEGASI = α Pegasi (349.5)

*308 = *349.4 - 41.4

March 2 3 4 (*348) 5 (64)
°Febr 26 27 (*343) 28 °March 1 (60)
'Febr 3 4 5 (36) 6 (*322)
"Jan 20 21 22 23 (*308)