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75. From Anakena 5, from the night when All Hearts' Day was at the Full Moon and all the cycles were ready to begin anew, from Ga3-24 which in a way corresponded to Ca3-24, they all went ahead from Hanga Te Pau to Te Pou:

time of the Goat
Ca3-21 Ca3-22 (73) Ca3-23 Ca3-24 Ca3-25
tagata tuu rima ki ruga te maitaki te henua Rei hata ia tagata rogo
MARCH 29 (88, 3-29) HASSALEH (*73) HAEDUS I HAEDUS II CURSA
June 1 (152) 2 3 4 5
°May 28 (148) 29 30 31 °June 1 (152)
'May 5 (125) 6 7 8 9
"April 21 (111) 22 23 24 Vaitu Nui 25
JUNE 7 (*78) 8 9 10 (161) 11   12 (*83)
Ga3-19 (78) Ga3-20 Ga3-21 Ga3-22 Ga3-23 Ga3-24
The Knot (Ukdah) Rishu A.-13 (Head of the Lion)

ψ Leonis (146.4), RAS ELASET AUSTRALIS = ε Leonis (146.6)

VATHORZ PRIOR = υ Carinae (147.9)
Star-25 / ANA-HEU-HEU-PO-5 (Pillar where debates were held)

ALPHARD = α Hydrae (142.3), ω Leonis (142.6), τ¹ Hydrae (142.7)

Al Tarf-7

  ψ Velorum (143.3), ALTERF (The End) = λ Leonis, τ² Hydrae (143.4), ξ Leonis (143.5)

A Hydrae (144.1) UKDAH = ι Hydrae (145.4), κ Hydrae (145.5), SUBRA = ο Leonis (145.8)
August 10 11 12 13 14 (*146) 15 (227)
°August 6 7 8 (220) 9 10 11 (*143)
'July 14 15 16 (*118 = 4 * 29½) 18 19 (200)
SIRIUS "July 1 2 3 (*104) 4 (185) Anakena 5

Hanga Te Pau

NAKSHATRA DATES:
DECEMBER 7 8 9 10 11 (345)   12 (*266)
BUNDA (Foundation) / KAKKAB NAMMAΧ (Star of Mighty Destiny) θ Piscis Austrini (330.1), λ Oct. (330.7)
Al Sa'd al Su'ud-22 / Emptiness-11

TSIN = 36 Capricorni (325.2), ALPHIRK = β Cephei (325.7), SADALSUD = β Aquarii, ξ Gruis (325.9)

no star listed (326) CASTRA = ε Capricorni (327.2), BUNDA = ξ Aquarii (327.5) Mahar sha hi-na Shahū-26 (Western One in the Tail of the Goat)

NASHIRA = γ Capricorni (328.0), ν Oct. (328.3),  AZELFAFAGE = π¹ Cygni, κ Capricorni (328.7)

Arkat sha hi-na Shahū-27 (Eastern One in the Tail of the Goat)

ENIF (the Nose) = ε Pegasi, ERAKIS = μ Cephei (329.2), 46 Capricorni, JIH (the Sun) = κ Pegasi (329.3), ι Piscis Austrini (329.4), λ Capricorni (329.6), ν Cephei (329.7), DENEB ALGIEDI =  δ Capricorni (329.8)

February 9 (40) 10 11 (407) 12 13 (*329) All Hearts' Day
°February 5 6 7 8 (*324) 9 (40) 10
'January 13 (378) 14 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
"December 30 31 (*285) "January 1 2 3 (368) 4

On the fifth day of the month of July ('Anakena'), they all got up, went downhill, went on, and reached Hanga Te Pau.

It was probably no coincidence that 3-24 could be understood as day number 324 with 40 days remaining to day number 364. 3-24 + 40 = *83 + 40 = *123 ("July 22, 22 / 7 = 3.14).

Similarly was February 14 (2-14) - All Hearts' Day - probably alluding to 3-14 (π) which in turn corresponded to 22 / 7 (203) at Taharoa ("July 22), i.e. the day before Rangi Meamea which at the time of the Bull had been at helical Sirius (in JUNE 30). 2-14 (*330) + 40 = *370 (= 740 / 2).

Taha

To lean; to go down (of the sun in the evening).  Taha-taha. 1. Side, edge; shore: taha-taha tai. 2. To move from side to side (of a boat), to swing. Vanaga.

1. To bend, sloping, to go hither and thither, to evade; ki taha, near; taha ke, to go in different directions; tahataha, frontier, horizon; hiriga tahataha, to cross, to go across; hakataha, to divert, to turn away, to go aside, to be on one side, to dodge, to shun, oblique, to incline the head, to turn over on another side, to avoid, to subject; mata hakataha, to consider; tae hakataha, immovable. 2. To tear. PS Mgv.: tahataha, to cut into pieces. Sa., To., Fu.: tafa, to cut, to gash. Viti: tava, id. Churchill.

Moe tahae, to be a light sleeper. Tahatai (taha 1 - tai), littoral, coast, shore; tahatahatai, coast. Churchill.

... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...

... In the inscriptions of Dendera, published by Dümichen, the goddess Hathor is called 'lady of every joy'. For once, Dümichen adds: Literally ... 'the lady of every heart circuit'. This is not to say that the Egyptians had discovered the circulation of the blood. But the determinative sign for 'heart' often figures as the plumb bob at the end of a plumb line coming from a well-known astronomical or surveying device, the merkhet. Evidently, 'heart' is something very specific, as it were the 'center of gravity' ... See Aeg.Wb. 2, pp. 55f. for sign of the heart (ib) as expressing generally 'the middle, the center'.

And this may lead in quite another direction. The Arabs preserved a name for Canopus - besides calling the star Kalb at-tai-man ('heart of the south') ... Suhail el-wezn, 'Canopus Ponderosus', the heavy-weighing Canopus, a name promptly declared meaningless by the experts, but which could well have belonged to an archaic system in which Canopus was the weight at the end of the plumb line, as befitted its important position as a heavy star at the South Pole of the 'waters below'. Here is a chain of inferences which might or might not be valid, but it is allowable to test it, and no inference at all would come from the 'lady of every joy'. The line seems to state that Hathor (= Hat Hor, 'House of Horus') 'rules' the revolution of a specific celestial body - whether or not Canopus is alluded to - or, if we can trust the translation 'every', the revolution of all celestial bodies. As concerns the identity of the ruling lady, the greater possibility speaks for Sirius, but Venus cannot be excluded; in Mexico, too, Venus is called 'heart of the earth'. The reader is invited to imagine for himself what many thousands of such pseudo-primitive or poetic interpretations must lead to: a disfigured interpretation of Egyptian intellectual life ...

... On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', begin the agricultural year. Both the 260-day cycle and the solar year are used in setting dates for religious and agricultural ceremonies, especially when those rituals fall at the same time in both calendars. The ceremony begins when the diviners go to a sacred spring where they choose five stones with the proper shape and color. These stones will mark the five positions of the sacred cosmogram created by the ritual. When the stones are brought back to the ceremonial house, two diviners start the ritual by placing the stones on a table in a careful pattern that reproduces the schematic of the universe. At the same time, helpers under the table replace last year's diagram with the new one. They believe that by placing the cosmic diagram under the base of God at the center of the world they demonstrate that God dominates the universe.

The priests place the stones in a very particular order. First the stone that corresponds to the sun in the eastern, sunrise position of summer solstice is set down; then the stone corresponding to the western, sunset position of the same solstice. This is followed by stones representing the western, sunset position of the winter solstice, then its eastern, sunrise position. Together these four stones form a square. They sit at the four corners of the square just as we saw in the Creation story from the Classic period and in the Popol Vuh. Finally, the center stone is placed to form the ancient five-point sign modern researchers called the quincunx ...

JUNE 13 (*84) 14 15 16 (168 = 181 - 13)   18 19
Ga4-1 (84) Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4 Ga4-5 Ga4-6 Ga4-7
υ¹ Hydrae (148.4), RAS ELASET BOREALIS = μ Leonis (148.7) TSEEN KE (Heaven's Record) = φ Velorum (149.9) ν Leonis (150.1), π Leonis (150.6) υ² Hydrae (151.8) Al Jabhah-8 / Maghā-10 / Sharru-14 (King)

10h (152.2)

AL JABHAH = η Leonis (152.4), REGULUS = α Leonis (152.7)
λ Hydrae (153.2) ADHAFERA = ζ Leonis, TANIA BOREALIS = λ Ursae Majoris, SIMIRAM = ω Carinae (154.7)
August 16 17 (229) 18 19 20 (*152) 21 (*77 + *76) 22
°August 12 13 (225) 14 15 16 (*148) 17 18
'July 20 (201) 21 22 / 7 23 24 (*125) 25 26
"July 6 (*107) 7 8 9 Anakena 10

(Te Pou)

11 (192)

Te Pou

12

Hua Reva

Hanga Takaure
NAKSHATRA DATES:
LUCIA 14 (*268) DECEMBER 15 16 (350) 17   18 19
KUH (Weeping) = μ Capricorni (331.4), 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 = α Aquarii, AL DHANAB = λ Gruis (334.6), ι Aquarii, ν Pegasi (334.7)

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)
February 15 16 17 (14 * 29½) 18 (414) 19 20 21 (52)
°February 11 12 13 2-14 15 16 (*332) 17 (413)
'January 19 (384) 20 21 22 23 (*308) 24 25
"January 5 6 7 (372) 8 9 10 (*295) 11

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 day of the month of July ('Anakena').

 

... When the Pope rearranged the day for spring equinox from number 84 ('March 25) to number 80 (ºMarch 21) the earlier Julian structure was buried, was covered up (puo). At the same time the Pope deliberately avoided to correct the flow of Julian calendar days for what he may have regarded as 4 unneccesary leap days prior to the Council of Nicaea. Thus his balance sheet for days was in order. The day numbers counted from the equinox were increased with 4 and this was equal to allowing the 4 'unneccessary' leap days to remain in place. But he had moved spring equinox to a position which was 4 days too early compared to the ancient model ...

These '4 unneccessary leap days' (prior to the Council of Nicaea) were equal in number to the precessional distance in time between the Pope and the time of rongorongo. The Gregorian calendar could therefore be easily understood by the Easter Islanders. The Pope had created a 'crooked calendar' but since his time the precession had fixed it ...

The correct days for 10h and 22h should have been at heliacal Regulus respectively at heliacal Sadalmelik.

Then they all got up, carried their provisions 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!

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 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, There 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).

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. There they gave the name Hanga Takaure A Hau Maka. They made camp and rested at the Bay of Flies for a week (etahi pohitu).

There were 5 days from Hanga Te Pau (when All Hearts' Day had been at the Full Moon) to Hanga Takaure, which began in the day after heliacal Regulus.

JUNE 20 (*91) SOLSTICE 22 23 (174)
Ga4-8 Ga4-9 (92) Ga4-10 Ga4-11
ALGIEBA = γ Leonis, q Carinae (155.5) TANIA AUSTRALIS = μ Ursae Majoris (156.0), GHOST OF JUPITER = NGC3242 Hydrae (156.8) Extended Net-26b

μ Hydrae (157.1)

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

SHIR = ρ Leonis (158.9)

August 23 24 (4 * 59 = 236) 25 (*157) 26
°August 19 20 (232) 21 (*153) 22
'July 27 (*128) 28 29 (210) 30
"July 13 (*114)

Akahanga

14

Hatinga Te Kohe

15 (196)

Roto Iri Are

16

 Tama

Hanga Takaure
NAKSHATRA DATES:
DECEMBER 20 (354) SOLSTICE 22 23 (*277)
Al Sa'ad al Ahbiyah-23 / Shatabisha-25

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

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

 

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)
February 22 (53) TERMINALIA 24 (*340) 25
°February 18 19 (50) 20 (*336) 21
'January 26 27 (392) 28 29 (*314)
"January 12 13 (378) 14 15 (*300)
ST JOHN'S DAY   JUNE 25 26 (177) 27
Ga4-12 (95) Ga4-13 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)
August 27 28 (240) 29 (*161) 30
°August 23 24 (236) 25 (*157) 26
'July 31 'August 1 2 (214) 3 (*500)
"July 17

One Tea

Anakena 18

Poike

19 (200)

Pua Katiki

20 (*121)

Maunga Teatea

Hanga Takaure Hanga Hoonu
NAKSHATRA DATES:
CHRISTMAS EVE   DECEMBER 25 26 (360) 27
η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (340.4), SITULA = κ Aquarii (342.7) ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8) ρ Gruis (344.0), MATAR (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)
February 26 27 (58) 28 (424) March 1 (*345)
°February 22 TERMINALIA 24 (55) 25
'January 30 (*315) 31 'February 1 (32) 2
"January 16 (*301) 17 18 (383) 19

On the eighteenth day of the month of July ('Anakena') they went on from Hanga Takaure.

... Similarly we could then count 5 days (kuhane stations) from Anakena 18 to Anakena 23 - corresponding to the time the Explorers spent at Hanga Hoonu ...

JUNE 28 29 (180 = 244 - 64)   SIRIUS JULY 1 (*102)
Ga4-16 Ga4-17 (100 = 180 - 80) Ga4-18 (101) Ga4-19
ν Hydrae (163.1) no star listed (164) Wings-27

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

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

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

August 31 September 1 (*164) 2 3 (246)
°August 27 28 29 (*161) 30 (242)
'August 4 (216) 5 (*137) 6 7
"July 21

Mahatua

22 / 7

Taharoa

Anakena 23 (204)

Rangi Meamea

24 (*125)

Peke Tau O Hiti

Hanga Hoonu
NAKSHATRA DATES:
DECEMBER 28 29   30 (364) 31 (*285)
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 = α Piscis Austrini, τ Gruis (347.8) FUM AL SAMAKAH = β Piscium (348.3), ζ Gruis (348.5), ο Andromedae (348.9) Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 / House-13

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

March 2 3 4 (*348) 5 (64)
°February 26 27 28 (*344) °March 1 (60)
'February 3 4 5 (*321) 6 (37)
"January 20 21 (1-21) 22 23 (388)

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.

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 ... They remained in Hanga Hoonu for five days.

On the twenty-third day of the month of July ('Anakena'), they reached Rangi Meamea.

JULY 2 3 (184) 4 (*105)
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 (104) Ga4-22
11h (167.4)

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

AL SHARAS (The Rib) = β Crateris (168.6) Al Zubrah-9 / Purva Phalguni-11

ZOSMA (Girdle) = δ Leonis (169.2), COXA (Hips) = θ Leonis (169.4)

September 4 5 (*168 = 2 * 84) 6
°August 31 °September 1 (244) Hora Nui 2
'August 8 (*140) 9 10 (222)
"July 25 (*126)

Hau Epa

26

Hanga Moria One

Anakena 27

Oromanga

NAKSHATRA DATES:
JANUARY 1 (366) 2 3 (*288)
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)
March 6 (*350) 7 (66) 8 (432)
°March 2 (*346) 3 4 (63)
'February 7 8 (*324) 9 (40)
"January 24 25 (*310) 26

When they arrived there, they looked around and gave the name Rangi Meamea A Hau Maka.

They also named the mountain Peke Tau O Hiti A Hau Maka.

They went around to the other side of the mountain Hau Epa, looked around, and gave the name Hau Epa A Hau Maka.

When he (i.e. Ira) saw that the beach was white and clean, he said, 'Hey , you! Here is the plain where the kind can live!' They stayed there and surveyed the plain with great care. Ira knew with certainty that it was very good. He named the bay Hanga Moria One and the plain Oromanga. [Though without the addition A Hau Maka - which had been added by the kuhane of Hau Maka.]

... When the Explorers left their old homeland in Vaitu Nui 25 this was probably corresponding to the date "April 25 (115), and at the time of Gregory XIII Cursa would have risen with the Sun 41 - 4 = 37 days later, in °June 1 (152). When the Explorers reached Easter Island it was in Maro 1 ("June 1). We can therefore guess the sea-voyage of the Explorers - which took 37 days = Maro 1 (152) - Vaitu Nui 25 (115) - should be understood as alluding to the precessional distance to their old homeland (Hiva), i.e. from the time of Bharani to the time of Gregory XIII.

Dates according to Manuscript E - Explorers:
Departure from Hiva Sea voyage Arrival
Vaitu Nui 25 (115) 152 - 115 = 37 days Maro 1 (152)
"April 25 (115) (*72 - *35) - (41 - 4) = 0 °June 1 (152)
CURSA (*76) CURSA (*76)
Dates according to Manuscript E - Hotu A Matua:
Departure from Hiva Sea voyage Arrival
Hora Nui 2 (245) 288 - 245 = 43 days Tangaroa Uri 15 (288)
°September 2 (245 = 152 + 93) *249 - *169 = 80  October 15 (*249 = *76 + 173)
ZOSMA, COXA (*169) ANTARES (*249)

... Hotu's canoe sailed from Maori to Te Pito O Te Kainga. It sailed on the second day of September (hora nui). The canoe of the king (ariki is used here incorrectly for tapairu 'queen'), of Ava Rei Pua, also sailed on the other side. They had attached the canoe of Ava Rei Pua to the middle of the canoe of Hotu ...

The Fig Tree where Raven was delayed seems to refer to the place of Zosma and Coxa (Cb6-27), where the Full Moon was in the Pegasus Square and the sex of Atea changed from male to female:

... Atea then became the wife of Rua-tupua-nui, Source of Great Growth, and they became the parents of all the celestial beings, first the shooting stars, then the Moon and the Sun, next the comets, then the multitude of stars and constellations, and finally the bright and dark nebulae. When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...