306. According to Manuscript E there were 2 necklaces (one for each of 2 Hinariru figures) and there was a secret located in a verse and on a flat rock:

"Ira said, Let's go! Let's all go up to the dark abyss (i.e., the crater Rano Kau)! Nga Tavake replied, Let's go up there. They all went up to the yam plantation of Kuukuu. Once they had arrived there, Ira stayed for one month. Ira and all the others stayed there and cleaned up the yam plantation. They finished weeding the yam plantation. Another day dawned, and Ira said to Raparenga, Come here, you, so that I can teach you a verse (ki)! Raparenga came, and Ira taught him the verse. This is the verse he was taught:

There are eight lands. One has been discovered, namely, 'the little piece of earth' (te pito o te kainga). Seven (lands) (remain) in the midst of dim twilight during the fast journey (i te pei). Once lost (i.e., the eighth land), not even eight groups of people (i.e., countless boat crews) can find it again.

And Ira continued his speech:

Ruhi to the right, Pu to the left, and Hinariru in the middle, mother-of-pearl necklace around the neck of the figure Hinariru.

Raparenga said to Ira, Where is the figure of Hinariru? Ira replied to Raparenga, Up there, on top of that flat rock (papa), at the place where we rode the waves. Raparenga said to Ira, Let's return (there) to see (the figure)! Ira replied, Oh (no), let's leave it alone. When we ride the waves again, the wave will move quickly. If it moves to the right, the eye looks in the right direction and catches a glimpse of Ruhi Hepii. From there the ornament of Ruhi Hepii shines! Then one goes back out again, the wave moves to the left, the eye looks in the left direction, towards Pu. There the ornament of Pu shines forth! One repeats (riding the waves) toward the middle, the eye looks toward Papa O Rae. There the mother-of-pearl necklace of the figure Hinariru shines forth!"

So much is evident from the complex of events beginning when the Explorers went to the cave Pu Pakakina. The Explorers went to this cave in Hora Iti 29, which I have concluded should correspond to "August 29 at the time when the star Bharani would have been at 0h (80).

It is stated [E:46] that in Hora Nui 1 the Explorers went up to the yam plantation of Kuukuu. Possibly the time in a cave did not count and possibly there was a dark (not to be counted) month beginning in day 161 from 0h, because day 161 counted from the beginning of the year had been where the month of the oak-king was beginning - and Hora Nui 1 (244) should be only 3 days after Hora Iti 29 (241).

... 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 ...

However, the mysterious change from exact dates to the more sweeping 'one month' could be a hint of a change away from the Sun calendar and back to the order at the time when Bharani had been at 0h: