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299. Once again. The beginning of glyph line Ga4 has a giant (Herculean) person in full figure. Once I did compare Ga4-1 with all the other tagata figures in the text and he is indeed slightly greater.

At the time of Bharani his position had been 107 right ascension days after 0h. This number was equal to 16 * 29½ - 365 and for instance also equal to 80 (the Gregorian March equinox) + 27 (the precessional distance down to Roman times (when the First Point of Aries had been at 0h). Side a on the C tablet carries 365 + 27 = 392 glyphs (right ascension days) and ends at Polaris. Side b begins with heliacal Sheratan.

If the kuhane had moved in the night at the time when Hyadum II had been - according to a linear extrapolation back in time - at 0h, then this great person in Ga4-1 would have been positioned 84 right ascension days after 0h (= 80 days after day 84), i.e. at the northern head of the Lion (Ras El Aset Borealis) with the Full Moon positioned at Poko Uri (DECEMBER 13). The kuhane (flying spirit of the sleeping Sun person Hau Maka in Hiva) had here reached the mainland of Easter Island, and with the Head (puoko) of the Lion up in the north the proper place on Easter Island should be Rano Kau (Kao).

Puoko. 1. Head; tagata puoko hiohio, hard-headed, opinionated person. 2. Skull (also: pakahera puoko). Vanaga. Head, skull, crown of a hat; puoko garuru, headache; kiri puoko, scalp. T. Mgv.: upoko, head (men or animals). Mq.: upoko, upoó, head. Ta.: upoó, human head. (Sa.: ulupo'o, skull. To.: uluboko, id. Niuē: ulupoko, id.) Churchill.
Poko. 1. Fragrant; to smell, to give off a smell: he-poko te eo, it gives off a pleasant smell. 2. To hunt, to catch with a trap, to snare. He-kî e Tori: maaku-á e-ea ki te manu, e-poko i te po i ruga i te opata. Tori said: I shall go and catch birds at night, up on the cliff. 3. Thunder (also hatutiri). 4. (Also: pokopoko.) Hollow, hole, depression, any deep, concave object; to leave in a hole, in a depression. Pokoga, chasm; summit. Pokohata, female rat: kio'e pokohata. Pokopoko, woman bent under the weight of her years: vî'e pokopoko. Vanaga. 1. Sound of the sea; tai poko, breakers. Pokopoko, to slap water. Mgv.: pokokina, resonant, clear-toned. Mq.: poko, to slap the water in imitation of drumming; pokokina, sound of water. 2. Rut, beaten path. P Pau.: poko, hollow; pokopoko, concave, to excavate. Mgv.: poko, to dig, to excavate, to hollow out. Mq.: pokoko, to crack open; pokona, to hollow out, to excavate. Ta.: poópoó, hollow, deep. 3. Infernal; pokoga, hell, infernal cave; topa ki te pokoga, to damn (lit: to go down to hell.) Mq.: pokona, cavity, hole. Churchill. Pokopoko: 1. Womb. PS Sa.: po'opo'o, clitoris. Mq.: pokopoko, pudendum muliebre. 2. Pokopoko vae, footprints. 3. Concave, deep, ditch, mysterious; pokopoko ihu, nostril (Ta.: poópoó ihu); pokopoko ke, fathomless; pokopoko taheta, concave. Hakapokopoko, to deepen. Chuchill.

On Easter Island all the (male) stone statues were 'brought alive' in the east at the dry Rano Raraku, at the longitude of Tama:

... Métraux quotes a Rapa Nui legend in which carvers from Hotu Iti (eastern sector) journeyed to the western sector to seek the advice of a master carver. They were perplexed about how to resolve the difficult problem of carving the statue neck. He advised them to seek the answer by viewing their own bodies. They did so, and discovered that the model for the statue neck was the penis (ure) ...

The majority of the Polynesian band of islands were close to the equator and therefore people would have perceived time following longitudes rather than latitudes:


 

... I have read somewhere (possibly in Needham's Science and Civilisation in China) that when the Europeans tried to introduce their superior mills in China they failed. The Chinese kept to their traditional models with horizontal shafts and they could not accept the European vertical shaft. I think the reason was the Chinese system of correspondendes. Everyone could see how the stars in the sky were revolving as if in a mill with a horizontal shaft - mills in general had to be constructed like that, to do otherwise would be an offense to Mother Nature ...

JUNE 13 (*84) 14 15 16 17 (168 = 2 * 84) 18 19 (*90)
Ga4-1 (68 + 16) Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4 Ga4-5 (88) Ga4-6 Ga4-7
υ¹ Hydrae (148.4), RAS ELASET 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 12 (193)
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). Then they all got up, carried their provision on their shoulders, went straight ahead, and followed the path of the dream soul of Hau Maka. They came to Hua Reva and said, This is Hua Reva A Hau Maka!

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), γ Gruis (331.5)

*290 = *331.4 - *41.4

no star listed (332) η Piscis Austrini (333.4)

*292 = *333.4 - *41.4

22h (334.8)

KAE UH (Roof) = ο Aquarii (334.0), AL KURHAH (White Spot) = ξ Cephei (334.4), SADALMELIK (Lucky King) = α Aquarii, AL DHANAB (The Tail) = λ Gruis (334.6), ι Aquarii, ν Pegasi (334.7)

*293 = *334.4 - *41.4

ι Pegasi (335.0), ALNAIR (The Bright One) = 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 (Haunch) = θ Aquarii (337.4), ψ Oct. (337.5), α Tucanae (337.9)
Febr 15 (2-15) 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

.. Horapollo, the grammarian of Alexandria, about A.D. 400, tells us that the crane was the symbol of a star-observer in Egypt ...

JUNE 20 (*91) SOLSTICE 22 23 (174)
Ga4-8 Ga4-9 (92) Ga4-10 Ga4-11 (Tama)
ALGIEBA (The Mane) = 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 (Possessing Luminous Rays) = ρ Leonis (158.9)

... Allen does not mention Achird and he has no other name for η Cassiopeiae, but I guess the star could be connected with α Leonis, Regulus, once named Achir (Possessing Luminous Rays): Naturally sharing the character of its constellation as the Domicilium Solia, in Euphratean astronomy it was Gus-ba-ra, the Flame, or the Red Fire, of the House of the East; in Khorasmia, Achir, Possessing Luminous Rays; and throughout classical days the supposed cause of the summer's heat, a reputation that it shared with the Dog-star ...

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

They went on and reached Akahanga, took a look at it and looked around. They said: This is it! and gave the name Akahanga A Hau Maka. They went on and came to Hatinga Te Kohe (Sic!) and saw that in this place the kohe plant had been broken. They all said, Here it is, the kohe plant, troop of young men! This kohe plant had been broken by the feet of the dream soul and therefore they gave the name Hatinga Te Kohe A Hau Maka.

They went on and came to Roto Iri Are. Again they said, Here it is, Roto Iri Are and named the place Roto Iri Are A Hau Maka. They went on and reached Tama. They looked around and said, This is Tama. They gave the name 'Tama, an evil fish (he ika kino), a very long nose (He ihu roroa).'

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)

*298 = *339.4 - *41.4

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)

*299 = *340.4 - *41.4

υ Oct. (341.0), α/91 Lac. (341.1), HOMAN (Hero) = 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)

"The quarternary system, which divides the island into four quadrants, correlates the four royal sons with the path of the sun as it circles the island counterclockwise. The sequence of the sons is determined by their order of birth. To the first-born goes the region in which the noon sun reaches its zenith, a striking symbol for the highest ranking son; to the second-born goes the region of the setting sun. The name Miru may have been connected with the central Polynesian concept of a region of the dead to the west and its guardian. The third son inheriths the mid-night region, and the last-born inherits the eastern section. Since the last-born, 'a good and strong child' (poki rivariva, poki hiohio), was closest to the father, the region of the rising sun is alotted to him, which gives this region special value. While the successor of the king is like 'the sun at his highest point', the youngest son is like 'the rising sun' ..." (The Eighth Island)

Poki. Son, daughter; in wider sense: nephew, niece, child in general. Poki atariki, eldest child, first-born; poki hagupotu, youngest child; poki hâgai, adopted child. Vanaga. Child, infant, nephew, grandchild, posterity, progeny, race; topa te poki, to lie in; poki aana, legitimate; poki gaapu, abortion; poki itiiti, child; poki puepue, abortion; poki tamaahine, girl; poki tamaroa, boy; poki titika, legitimate; poki tuahuri; abortion. Churchill.

ST JOHN'S DAY 6-25 → 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 26 (177 = 6 * 29 ½) JUNE 27
Ga4-12 (95) 413 = 14 * 29½ 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 = 8 * 30) 29 (*161) 30
°Aug 23 24 (236 = 8 * 29½) 25 (*157 = 314 / 2) 26
'July 31 'Aug 1 2 (214) 3 (*365 + *135)
"July 17 Anakena 18

HANGA TAKAURE

(7 days)

19 (200) 20 (*121)

Again they went on and came to One Tea. They saw it, looked around, and gave the name One Tea A Hau Maka. Then they went on and came to Hanga Takaure. They gave the name Hanga Takaure A Hau Maka. They made camp and rested at the Bay of Flies for a week (etahi pohitu).

On the eighteenth day of the month of July (Anakena), they went on from Hanga Takaure. They climbed uphill, went on, and reached Poike. When they arrived, they looked around and named (the place) Poike A Hau Maka. They climbed up farther to Pua Katiki. When they arrived there, they looked around and named (the place) Pua Katiki A Hau Maka ...

Possibly they had to stay for a week at Hanga Takaure and for 5 days in Hanga Hoonu because 366 = 354 (= 12 * 29½) + 12 and the kuhane calendar was heliacal, followed the Sun. Similarly the canoe of the Queen threatened to come to early:

... The men on board the royal canoe looked out from Varinga Te Toremo (the northeastern cape of the Poike peninsula). Then they saw the canoe of the queen, the canoe of Ava Rei Pua, as it reached Papa Te Kena (on the northern shore, east of Hanga Oteo). Honga came and gazed in the direction below (i.e., toward the west). He called out to the noteworthy ruler (? ariki motongi) Hotu: 'There is the canoe of the queen! It will be the first one to land!' At this news King Hotu replied to Honga, 'Recite (rutu) ('powerful incantations') as though the ten brothers of the chief (ariki maahu) were one whole (?).' The ten recited with all their might. This is what they recited: 'Let all movement (? konekone) cease!' They recited and sailed on swiftly: Honga, Te Kena, Nuku Kehu, Nga Vavai, Oti, Tive (corrected for 'Sive'), Ngehu, Hatu, Tuki, and Pu (corrected for 'Bu'). He worked mana in the fishing grounds ... [E:80 → 0h, 354 + 10 = 364.]

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
CHRISTMAS EVE DEC 25 26 (360) 27
One Tea HANGA TAKAURE Poike Pua Katiki
η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (340.4), SITULA (Water-jar) = κ Aquarii (342.7)

*301 = *342.4 - *41.4

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 ...

Poike

MAO. poike 'place aloft'. Barthel 2.

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 23 (204) Anakena 24

 HANGA HOONU

 (5 days)

They came down from the height, from the mountain, from Pua Katiki, and reached Maunga Teatea. They looked around and gave the name Maunga Teatea A Hau Maka. They all descended, they all came down from Pua Katiki. They reached Mahatua, saw it, looked around, and gave the name Mahatua A Hau Maka. Then they went on and came to Taharoa. They saw it, looked around, and gave the name Taharoa A Hau Maka. Again they went on and reached Hanga Hoonu. They saw it, looked around, and gave the name Hanga Hoonu A Hau Maka ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
DEC 28 29 30 (364) 31 (*285)
Maunga Teatea Mahatua Taharoa HANGA HOONU
... 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'. The dream soul moved along and reached Hanga Hoonu. She named the place 'Hanga Hoonu A Hau Maka O Hiva'.
 
On the same day, when they had reached the Bay of Turtles, they made camp and rested. They all saw the fish that were there, that were present in large numbers - Ah! Then they all went into the water, moved toward the shore, and threw the fish (with their hands) onto the dry land. There were great numbers (? ka-mea-ro) of fish. There were tutuhi, paparava, and tahe mata pukupuku. Those were the three kinds of fish. After they had thrown the fish on the beach, Ira said, 'Make a fire and prepare the fish!' When he saw that there was no fire, Ira said, 'One of you go and bring the fire from Hanga Te Pau!' One of the young men went to the fire, took the fire and provisions (from the boat), turned around, and went back to Hanga Hoonu. When he arrived there, he sat down. They prepared the fish in the fire on the flat rocks, cooked them, and ate until they were completely satisfied. Then they gave the name 'The rock, where (the fish) were prepared in the fire with makoi (fruit of Thespesia populnea?) belongs to Ira' (Te Papa Tunu Makoi A Ira). They remained in Hanga Hoonu for five days ...
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)

*306 = *347.4 - *41.4

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 28 (*344) °March 1 (60)
'Febr 3 4 5 (36) 6 (*322)
"Jan 20 21 22 23 (*308)
JULY 2 3 (*104) 4 (185)
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 (104) Ga4-22
11h (167.4 = 126.0 + 41.4)

χ Leonis, χ¹ Hydrae (167.1), χ² Hydrae (167.3)

AL SHARAS (The Ribs) = β Crateris (168.6) Al Zubrah-9 (Mane) / Purva Phalguni-11 (First Reddish One - Fig Tree)

ZOSMA (Girdle, not Belt) = δ Leonis (169.2), COXA (Hips) = θ Leonis (169.4)

*169.4 - *41.4 = *128.0

... God created Eve from one of Adam's ribs and therefore I at first tried to translate the female (β) star Al Sharas with The Rib. Although according to Allen this star was plural: '... β ... was one of Al Tizini's Al Sharāsīf, the Ribs, - i.e. of the Hydra, - and the first of the set.' Adam had, as I remember it, another wife before Eve, viz. Lilith ...

... Dante kept to the tradition of the whirlpool as a significant end for great figures, even if here it comes ordained by Providence. Ulysses has sailed in his 'mad venture' beyond the limits of the world, and once he has crossed the ocean he sees a mountain looming far away, 'hazy with the distance, and so high I had never seen any.' It is the Mount of Purgatory, forbidden to mortals. 'We rejoiced, and soon it turned to tears, for from the new land a whirl was born, which smote our ship from the side. Three times it caused it to revolve with all the waters, on the forth to lift its stern on high, and the prow to go down, as Someone willed, until the sea had closed over us.' The 'many thoughted' Ulysses is on his way to immortality, even if it has to be Hell. The engulfing whirlpool belongs to the stock-in-trade of ancient fable. It appears in the Odyssey as Charybdis in the straits of Messina - and again, in other cultures, in the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific. It is found there too, curiously enough, with the overhanging fig tree to whose boughs the hero can cling as the ship goes down, whether it be Satyavrata in India, or Kae in Tonga ...

... There were 80 days from Zosma (the girdle of the Lion) and Coxa (his hips) to Antares. I.e., the distance from "July 27 (208) to 288 ("October 15, Tagaroa Uri 15) corresponded to the distance from January 1 to 0h (the Gregorian equinox). However, according to Manuscript E the Sun king left his old homeland in Hora Nui 2, which should have corresponded to "September 2 rather than to "July 27 (Anakena 27).

... Hotu's canoe sailed from Maori to Te Pito O Te Kainga. It sailed on the second day of September (hora nui) ... 

245 ("September 2) - 208 ("July 27) = 37 days = 41 - 4, i.e. according to the Gregorian calendar the Sun would reach °September 2 (245) when the precessional distance down to the time of Bharani was *41 - 4 = 37 days. Manuscript E seems here to have documented that the Sun calendar (the Gregorian calendar) should be used only up to Zosma and Coxa. Or that the Gregorian calendar was used in Hiva.

Sept 4 5 (248 = 104 + 144) 6
°Aug 31 °Sept 1 (244) Hora Nui 2
'Aug 8 (*140) 9 10 (222)
"July 25 26 27 (*128)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JAN 1 2 3 (368)
RANGI MEAMEA Peke Tau O Hiti Maunga Hau Epa

... The dream soul came to Rangi Meamea and looked around searchingly. The dream soul spoke: 'Here at last is level land where the king can live.' She named the place Rangi Meamea A Hau Maka O Hiva. The mountain she named Peke Tau O Hiti A Hau Maka O Hiva. The dream soul moved along a curve from Peke Tau O Hiti to the mountain Hau Epa [Maunga Auhepa], which she named Maunga Hau Epa A Hau Maka O Hiva.

The dream soul went to the other side of the mountain Hau Epa. As soon as the dream soul looked around, she saw the sand (beach), which was very white and light.

23h (350.0)

υ, θ Gruis (350.0), π Cephei (350.6), ι Gruis (350.9)

SIMMAH = γ Piscium (351.7) φ Aquarii (352.0), ψ Aquarii (352.4), χ Aquarii (352.6), γ Tucanae, φ Gruis (352.8)

*352.4 - *41.4 = *311.0

March 6 (*350) 7 (66) 8 (432)
°March 2 (*346) 3 4 (63)
'Febr 7 8 (*324) 9 (40)
"Jan 24 25 (*310) 26

Evidently the Southern Cross (similar to the Corvus constellation according to people in South America) was perceived as a kind of Fig Tree - such were always bearing at least some ripe fruits (off-spring, hua) I have heard.

... the bird, being sent with a cup for water, loitered at a fig-tree till the fruit became ripe, and then returned to the god with a water-snake in his claws and a lie in his mouth, alleging the snake to have been the cause of the delay. In punishment he was forever fixed in the sky with the Cup and the Snake; and, we may infer, doomed to everlasting thirst by the guardianship of the Hydra over the Cup and its contents. From all this came other poetical names for our Corvus - Avis Ficarius, the Fig Bird; and Emansor, one who stays beyond his time; and a belief, in early folk-lore, that this alone among birds did not carry water to its young ...

Hua Reva came immediately after Te Pou. The fruit never falls far from the tree.

Reva. To hang down; flag, banner. Revareva, 1. To be hanging vertically; to detach oneself from the background of the landscape, such a person standing on top of a hill: ku-revareva-á te tagata i ruga i te maúga. 2. To cast itself, to project itself (of shadows); revareva-á te kohu o te miro i te maeha o te mahina, the shadow of the tree casts itself in the light of the moon. 3. Uvula. Vanaga. To hang, to suspend, flag, banner; hakareva, to hang up; hakarereva, to hang up, to balance; hakarevareva, to wave. T Pau.: reva, a flag; fakarevareva, to hang up, to suspend. Mgv.: reva, a flag, a signal. Mq.: éva, to hang up, to be suspended, to wave a signal. Ta.: reva, a flag, banner; revareva, to wave. The germ sense is that of being suspended ... any light object hung up in the island air under the steady tradewind will flutter; therefore the specification involved in the wave sense is no more than normal observation. Churchill. Mgv.: 1. A plant. Ta.: reva, id. Mq.: eva, id. Sa.: leva, id. Ma.: rewa-rewa, id. 2. To cross, to pass across quickly; revaga, departure. Ta.: reva, to go away, to depart. Ma.: reva, to get under way. Churchill. Ta.: The firmanent, atmosphere. Ha.: lewa, the upper regions of the air, atmosphere, the visible heavens. Churchill.

LEWA, s. Haw., the upper air, region of clouds; v. to swing, float in the air, move back and forth; hoo-lewa, to vibrate, float in the air, carry between two persons, as a corpse, a funeral. Tah., rewa, the firmanent, an abyss; rewa-rewa, to fly about, as a flag. Mangr., rewa, the overhanging firmanent, a tent, a flag. N. Zeal., rewa, the eyelid. Marqu., ewa, to suspend; s. the middle. Sam., leva (of time), long since; v. be protracted. Fiji., rewa, high, height; vaka-rewa, to lift up, to hoist, as a sail. Malg., lifa, v. to fan oneself, s. flight; rafraf, a fan. Goth., luftus, the air. Sax., lyfti, air, arch, vault. O. Engl., lift, air. Lat., limbus (?), fringe, flounce. Sanskr., dev, div, primarily 'jacere, jaculare', according to A. Pictet (Orig. Ind.-Eur., ii. 466), subsequently 'to play at dice', play generally. The permutation of d and l may be observed in the Latin levir, brother-in-law (the husband's younger brother) = Sanskr. devŗi, devara, id. If dev or div has derived the sense of 'throwing dice' from an older sense 'jacere, jaculare', to throw, to hurl, that sense may be a derivative from a still older one, 'to lift up, swing about, be suspended' = the Polynesian lewa, rewa, 'to be suspended, to vibrate'. And thus we can also understand the origin of the Goth. luftus, the Sax. lyfte, the O. Norse loft, Swed. lowera, lofwa, Engl. luff. (Fornander)

... Another year passed, and a man by the name of Ure Honu went to work in his banana plantation. He went and came to the last part, to the 'head' (i.e., the upper part of the banana plantation), to the end of the banana plantation. The sun was standing just right for Ure Honu to clean out the weeds from the banana plantation. On the first day he hoed the weeds. That went on all day, and then evening came. Suddenly a rat came from the middle of the banana plantation. Ure Honu saw it and ran after it. But it disappeared and he could not catch it. On the second day of hoeing, the same thing happened with the rat. It ran away, and he could not catch it. On the third day, he reached the 'head' of the bananas and finished the work in the plantation. Again the rat ran away, and Ure Honu followed it. It ran and slipped into the hole of a stone. He poked after it, lifted up the stone, and saw that the skull was (in the hole) of the stone. (The rat was) a spirit of the skull (he kuhane o te puoko). Ure Honu was amazed and said, 'How beautiful you are! In the head of the new bananas is a skull, painted with yellow root and with a strip of barkcloth around it.' Ure Honu stayed for a while, (then) he went away and covered the roof of his house in Vai Matā. It was a new house. He took the very large skull, which he had found at the head of the banana plantation, and hung it up in the new house. He tied it up in the framework of the roof (hahanga) and left it hanging there ...

The Explorers stayed in Hanga Hoonu for 5 days from "July 18 to "July 23, which possibly indicated a sudden shift in view from heliacal to nakshatra resulting in *290 at JANUARY 5 (370 - or rather 366 if counted from 3-25):

Hanga Takaure (Cycle completed)

JUNE 19

DEC 19

Hua Reva

20 (354)

Akahanga

21 (solstice)

Hatinga Te Koe

22

Roto Ire Are

23

Tama

ST JOHN'S DAY

24

One Tea

JUNE 25

DEC 25 (84 + 275)

Hanga Takaure

'June 28 29 30 1 2 3 (84 + 100) 'July 4
"July 12 13 14 15 16 17 Anakena 18

Hua Reva seems to have been the place which the kuhane observed close to the Full moon (Hotu) in the night of JUNE 19, when the Sun had been at ζ Leonis (hidden in the mane of the Lion) and the Full Moon had been at DECEMBER 19 (353).

... Zayin (also spelled Zain or Zayn or simply Zay) is the seventh letter of many Semitic abjads ... It represents the sound [z]. The Phoenician letter appears to be named after a sword or other weapon. (In Biblical Hebrew, 'Zayin'  means sword, and the verb 'Lezayen' means to arm. In modern Hebrew, 'zayin' means penis and 'lezayen' is a vulgar term which generally means to perform sexual intercourse and is used in a similar fashion to the English word fuck, although the older meaning survives in 'maavak mezuyan' (armed struggle) and 'beton mezuyan' (armed, i.e., reinforced concrete). The Proto-Sinaitic glyph according to Brian Colless may have been called ziqq, based on a hieroglyph depicting a 'manacle' ...

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

JUNE 25

DEC 25

Hanga Takaure

26

Poike

27

Pua Katiki

28

Maunga Teatea

29

Mahatua

JUNE 30 (181)

Taharoa

JULY 1

DEC 31

Hanga Hoonu

'July 4 (185) 5 6 7 8 'July 9 (190) 10
Anakena 18 19 20 21 22 23 (204) Anakena 24
DEC 31 (365) JAN 1 2 3 4 5 (370 = 181 + 183 + 6) DEC 31 (365)

JULY 1

5 days rest in Hanga Hoonu

JULY 5 6 (*107) 7 8 9 (190)

... 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 ...

Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 (108) Ga4-26 Ga4-27
φ Leonis (170.0), ALULA (First Spring of the Gazelle) = ξ, ν Ursae Majoris (170.5), LABRUM = δ Crateris (170.6) σ Leonis (171.1), λ Crateris (171.6), ι Leonis, ε Crateris (171.9) γ Crateris,  π Centauri (172.0), κ Crateris (172.5), τ Leonis (172.8)

GREDI (α Capricorni)

ο¹ Centauri (173.8) GIAUZAR = λ Draconis (174.0), ξ Hydrae (174.3), ο² Centauri, λ Centauri (174.8)

... the first month of the Moriori year, was named Rongo (Lono). On the first of the new year the Moriori launched a small canoe to Rongo, although they built and used only rude craft for their fishing excursions. The canoe was manned by twelve figures symbolizing the personifications of the twelve months ...

Sept 7 8 9 (*172) 10 11 (254)
°Sept 3 4 5 (*168) 6 7 (250)
'Aug 11 12 (*144) 13 14 15 (227)
"July 28 29 (*130) 30 31 'Aug 1 (213)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JAN 4 5 (*290) 6 7 (372) 8
CROSS-BARS ο Gruis, Snowball Nebula = NGC7662 Andromedae (355.0), τ Oct. (355.3) no star listed (356) ι Phoenicis (357.3), ι Piscium (357.4), λ Andromedae (357.9)

*357.4 -*41.4 = *316

ο Cephei (353.3), KERB (Bucket Rope) = τ Pegasi (353.6) κ Piscium (354.2), θ Piscium (354.4), υ Pegasi (354.9)

*354.4 - *41.4 = *313

March 9 10 (*354) 11 12 13 (72)
°March 5 6 (*350) 7 8 9 (68)
'Febr 10 (41) 11 12 13 (*329) 2-14
"Jan 27 28 29 (*314) 30 31