... 'There is your great ancestress Hine nui te Po', said Makea, gravely. And he watched Maui's face as he mentioned the name of Great Hine the Night, the daughter and the wife of Tane and goddess of death. But Maui did not move an eyelid. 'You may see her, if you look', Makea went on, pointing to where the sun had gone down, 'flashing over there, and opening and closing, as it were'. His thoughts were on death as he spoke. For it was the will of Hine nui, ever since she turned her back on Tane and descended to Rarohenga, that all her descendants in the world of light should follow her down that same path, returning to their mother's womb that they might be mourned and wept for ...

... 'My child', said Makea now in a tone of deep sorrow, 'there has been a bad omen for us. When I performed the tohi ceremony over you I missed out a part of the prayers.

I remembered it too late. I am afraid this means that you are going to die.' 'What's she like, Hine nui te Po?' asked Maui. 'Look over there', said Makea, pointing to the ice-cold mountains beneath the flaming clouds of sunset. 'What you see there is Hine nui, flashing where the sky meets the earth. Her body is like a woman's, but the pupils of her eyes are greenstone and her hair is kelp. Her mouth is that of a barracuda, and in the place where men enter her she has sharp teeth of obsidian and greenstone.'

... Maui at first assumed the form of a kiore, or rat, to enter the body of Hine. But tataeko, the little whitehead, said he would never succeed in that form. So he took the form of a toke, or earth-worm. But tiwaiwaka the fantail, who did not like worms, was against this. So Maui turned himself into a moko huruhuru, a kind of caterpillar that glistens. It was agreed that this looked best, and so Maui started forth, with comical movements.

The little birds now did their best to comply with Maui's wish. They sat as still as they could, and held their beaks shut tight, and tried not to laugh. But it was impossible. It was the way Maui went in that gave them the giggles, and in a moment little tiwaiwaka the fantail could no longer contain himself. He laughed out loud, with his merry, cheeky note, and danced about with delight, his tail flickering and his beak snapping. Hine nui awoke with a start. She realised what was happening, and in a moment it was all over with Maui. By the way of rebirth he met his end ...

"... The heathen Arabs, too, seem to have had some knowledge of it [Dramasa, σ Octantis], for they imagined that, like its northern counterpart, it excercised a healing power on all afflicted persons who would attentively observe it ..." (Allen)

This kind of logic could explain why for instance the beginning of side b on the C tablet was at 0h in Roman times, at Sheratan (the first point of Aries), which followed immediately after the right ascension day line down from Polaris. Here the Sun could have been imagined to come around completely restored and fresh as new again.

		13			13
353	354		Wolf	Whip		Polaris	Sheratan
te vero hia	Ca13-20		April 1 (91)	te vero		*Ca14-29 (392)	April 17 (107)
15			16 (= 80 - 64)				'March 21 (80)
32 (= 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2)

However, we have noticed that as to Bharani this star came before the star at the north pole instead following it, which could be explaind by pointing to its female character (like the Moon going withershins). 15h was at the opposite side of 3h, whereas Polaris and Sheratan were on the same side

Cb1-12 (392 + 12)	Cb1-13	Cb1-14	Cb1-15 (407)
manu rere - kua rere ga manu - ki te ragi	eaha te nuku erua	koia kua huki	e niu tu
*222	*223	*224	KOCHAB (Kakkab, the Star) = β Ursae Min. (225.0 = 320.0 - 95.0)
*39	*40	BHARANI = 41 Arietis (41.4)	*225 - *183 = *42