Te Hono (the Junction) was at the other side of the year, where in May 12 (*53) the Southern Cross culminated at 21h. 314 - 53 = 261 = 9 * 29, a whimsical kind of arithmetic but easy to remember. Or we could more reasonably count 314 - 80 - 53 = 234 - 53 = 18 * 13 - 53 = 181 (equal to the distance in right ascension days from Aldebaran to Antares).

... An iconographic study by Jeff Kowalski suggests a cosmological layout for the Nunnery. The higher placement of the North Building, with its 13 exterior doorways (reflecting the 13 layers of heaven), and the celestial serpents surmounting the huts identify it with the celestial sphere. The iconography of the West Building, with 7 exterior doorways (7 is the mystic number of the earth's surface), and figures of Pawahtun - the earth god as a turtle - indicate this to be the Middleworld, the place of the sun's descent into the Underworld.

The East Building has mosaic elements reflecting the old war cult of Teotihuacan, where tradition had it that the sun was born; thus, this may also be Middleworld, the place of the rising sun. Finally, the South Building has 9 exterior doorways (the Underworld or Xibalba had 9 layers), and has the lowest placement in the compex; it thus seems to be associated with death and the nether regions ...

Hono

Honohono to join, to fit, to adjust, to unite, to patch, joint. Hakahonohono a joining.

P Mgv.: hono, to join or fit pieces of wood together, to piece out a substance with another piece of the same material. Ta.: hono, to join, to unite. Churchill.

Huki

1. Pole attached to the poop from which the fishing-net is suspended: huki kupega. 2. Digging stick. 3. To set vertically, to stand (vt.). 4. Huki á te mahina, said of the new moon when both its horns have become visible. Vanaga.

1. To post up, to publish. 2. To cut the throat (uki). Mq.: Small sticks which close up the ridge of a house. Ha.: hui, the small uniting sticks in a thatched house. Churchill. Standing upright. Barthel. M. Spit for roasting. Te Huki, a constellation. Makemson.

Hukihuki. 1. Colic. 2. To transpierce, a pricking. 3. To sink to the bottom. Churchill.

HUI¹, v. Haw., to unite together, to mix, to add one to another, to assemble, meet; s. cluster, collection of things; huihui, a bunch, cluster; huiuna (for huiana), a seam in a garment; la-hui, collection of people, a nation.

Sa. sui, to dilute, to add ingredients to a thing; sui, to sew, to thread beads; susui, to mend, repair; susuia, to fasten the ridge-pole of a house. Tong., hui, mingle, mix, join; fufui, a flock of birds. N. Zeal., hui, huhui, to gather, mix, unite; ra-hui, a company; ka-hui, a herd, a flock. Tah., hui, a collection of persons, a company; hui-hui manu, flock of birds; hui-tara-wa, Orion's belt. Marqu., huhui, a bundle of taro.

Sanskr., yu, to bind, join, mix; yuj, to join; yuga, a yoke, a pair, a couple; yûti, mixing; yûtha, flock of birds or beasts. Greek, ζευγνυμι, to join, put to, yoke up, bind, fasten; ζευγος, a yoke of beasts, pair, couple; ζυγον, the yoke; ζωνη, belt, girdle. Lat., jugum, a yoke; jugo, bind up, tie together; jungo, bind, join, unite. Goth., juk, a yoke. A.-Sax., geok, id. Scand., ok, id. Armen., zugel, attach together, yoke up; zoygkh, a couple, a pair. Pers., yûgh, a yoke. Irish, ughaim, harness. Welsh, jow, yoke. Lett., jûgs, yoke. Anc. Slav., jgo, yoke. Bohem., gho, id. Lith., jungas, id.

A singular coincidence of application, if it has no nearer connection, by the Polynesian and the Latin of this word to similar purposes, occurs in the huhui and hui-tarawa of the former and jugulæ of the latter. In Hawaiian huhui designates a constellation generally, but especially that of the Pleiades; in Tahitian hui-tarawa, lit. the transverse or horizontal cluster, designates the stars generally called Orion's belt, and in Latin jugulæ represents the very same stars in the constellation Orion.

HUI², v. Haw., to ache, be in pain; s. bodily pain; niho-hui, the toothache; hui, huihui, cold, chilly, as morning air or cold water; hukeki, hukiki, cold, shivering on account of wet. N. Zeal., huka, cold. Tah., hui, hui-hui, to throb as an artery, twitchings in the flesh.

Sanskr., çuch¹, to be afflicted, grieve; çuch², to be wet, fetid; çuch, s., sorrow, grief; quære suçîma, cold? To this Sanskr. çuch Benfey refers the Goth. hiufau, to mourn, lament, and the O. H. Germ. huvo, an owl. (Fornander)

There was a junction (Faka-taka) between one 'generation' and the next - where Sirrah (*) followed by Algenib (†) marked the exit Wall of the Ηouse from where the new Sun (Tae-tagaroa, Not-Tangaroa) emerged. And also where the Old One (Kui) went down to the fishes (expired, stopped breathing):

... There is a couple residing in one place named Kui and Fakataka. After the couple stay together for a while Fakataka is pregnant. So they go away because they wish to go to another place - they go. The canoe goes and goes, the wind roars, the sea churns, the canoe sinks. Kui expires while Fakataka swims. Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa ...


Cb2-1 (25)	Cb2-2	Cb2-3 (419)
Eaha te honu kua tupu	i to maitaki - o te hau tea	te hono huki - maro
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
May 11 (314 - 183 = 131)	*12 (11 12)**	*(53 ►TERMINALIA) ~~ACRUX (α CRUCIS)**~~
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
November 10 (314) ~~SIRRAH (α Andromedae)~~	*11 (235 = 52 + 183)* ~~ALGENIB (Γ Pegasi)~~	*12 (236 = 8 * 29½)**
... In astrology α [Andromedae, Sirrah] portended honor and riches to all born under its influence. It comes to the meridian - culminates - at nine o'clock in the evening of the 10th of November. All culminations mentioned in this work [Allen] are for this hour ...
... Two thousand miles of empty ocean and the deeps of the Chile Basin separate Easter Island from the west coast of South America. A due-east course would lead voyagers from the island to make landfall in Chile. But a course somewhat to the north of east might bring a ship eventually to the safe haven of the bay of Paracas in Peru, which lies on a meridian exactly 180 degrees of longitude east - and west - of the temples of Angkor in Cambodia. We came across the water from the north in a small open boat, skirting the arid Balestas islands, now a marine sanctuary, and heading for the Paracas peninsula, where rolling sandstone hills and escarpments drop steeply into the sea. From more than 15 kilometers off-shore we had been able to make out the so-called 'Candelabra of the Andes', first through binoculars and then in direct sight. It lay due south of us, carved into a sloping cliff, looming ever larger in our field of view as we approached. The scholarly consesus is that this huge earth-diagram could easily be 2000 years old and is most likely to have been the work of the same people who created the better-known Nazca lines which are found inland, some 300 kilometers to the south. This 'Nazca culture', about which very little is known, is thought to have flourished from the second century BC until about 600 AD. The 'Candelabra' has a rectangular, box-like base, enclosing a circle, out of which rises the representation of a wide central vertical bar, more than 240 meters in length, running north to south. This is crossed, about one-third of the way up, by a triangular contraption running east to west for some 120 meters, supporting two shorter vertical bars. All three bars are surmounted by curious patterns generally interpreted as flames or rays of light. Because of its auspicious geodetic location half-way round the world from Angkor and 108 degrees west of Giza - sites that both 'resemble the sky' by modelling specific constellations on the ground - we have naturally considered the possibility that the Candelabra could be a work of celestial imitation. What particularly invites this enquiry is the orientation of the diagram. It is set very closely to true north-south, the meridian of the sky, the great dividing-line across which astronomers in all cultures have traditionally observed the 'transits' of stars. The Candelabra was intended by its designers to be seen from the north. Indeed, there is no other perspective from which it may be satisfactorily viewed: the observer must face south towards the sloping escarpment on which it is carved. Examining the diagram from the base up naturally draws the eyes towards the southern sky above the escarpment, and specifically towards the south meridian. Although it may be entirely coincidental, computer simulations tell us that at around the hour of midnight on the March equinox 2000 years ago - the epoch in which the Candelabra was probably made - the constellation known as Crux (the Southern Cross) would have been seen lying on the south meridian at an altitude of 52 degrees. At that moment an observer positioned on a boat as we now were, about a kilometre north of the Candelabra, would have seen the Southern Cross suspended in the sky directly above the great cliff diagram ...

The reason for Allen to document the culmination dates as observed at nine o'clock in the evening rather than at the more natural time of midnight could have been to make the culmination time of Sirrah coincide with day 314. Sirrah rose heliacaly at the cardinal point of 0h and day 314 was another such point. The culmination times of the other stars should then follow their Leader star Sirrah - just as their heliacal right ascension dates followed 0h.

Notably Acrux culminated at 21h in May 13, i.e. at a date (5-13) which could be alluding to 3 * 171 = 27 * 19 (= 513). And 5 * 13 = 65 could have been alluding to *65 = the place of the left Eye of the Bull (Ain, ε Tauri, cfr Ga1-1):

Egyptian jubilation

Phoenician he

Greek epsilon

Ε (ε)

Wikipedia points at the Egyptian gesture with arms held high as a Sign of jubilation, which may have been the origin (via Phoenician he) of epsilon.

0h	*MARCH 22 (1)**	23 (82)
no glyph
no glyph	Ga1-1	Ga1-2
HYADUM II = δ¹ Tauri (64.2)	Net-19 (Crow) AIN (Eye) = ε Tauri, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)	no star listed (66)
May 24	25 (145)	*26 (66)**
°May 20	*21 (61)**	22 (142)
'April 27	28 (118)	*29 (39)**
"April 13	14 (104)	*15 (25)**

In May 14 (5-14) came the rains (te ua) - or perhaps we should rather understand that they were finished (reversed). And in Roman times day 54 ('February 23) was Terminalia. 4 * 13 = 52 and then there should be 2 special 'cards' added, because 378 (synodic cycle of Saturn) = 54 * 7 = 364 + 14.


ua	Cb2-4 (420)

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...

MARCH 11	12	13	3-14 (73 = 365 / 5)

Cb2-4 (420 = 392 + 28)	Cb2-5	Cb2-6	Cb2-7
te ua	koia ra	kua tuku ki to mata - ki tona tukuga	e kiore - henua - pa rei
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
*May 14 (54)**	*TAU-ONO* *55 (135)	*Temennu-3 (Foundation Stone)* *56	MENKHIB = Ζ Persei 57 ~~PORRIMA (Γ Virginis)~~*
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
*November 13 (237)**	14	15	16 (320)
... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive. In this ceremony two diviners and their wives sit on benches so that they occupy the corner positions of the cosmic square. They take their seats in the same order as the stones were placed, with the men on the eastern side and the women on the west. The ritual actions of sitting down and lifting upward are done with great precision and care, because they are directly related to the actions done by the gods at Creation. The people represent the gods of the four corners and the clouds that cover the earth. As they rise from their seats, they metaphorically lift the sky. If their lifting motion is uneven, the rains will be irregular and harmful ...

Throwing stick?

Phoenician gimel

Greek gamma

Γ (γ)

... In its unattested Proto-Canaanite form, the letter [gimel] may have been named after a weapon that was either a staff sling or a throwing stick, ultimately deriving from a Proto-Sinaitic glyph ... Bertrand Russell posits that the letter's form is a conventionalized image of a camel. The letter may be the shape of the walking animal's head, neck, and forelegs [cfr the way Taurus normally is depicted]. Barry B. Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states 'It is hard to imagine how gimel = 'camel' can be derived from the picture of a camel ... The word gimel is related to gemul, which means 'justified repayment', or the giving of reward and punishment.

The Swedish word gammal means 'old' (and dry like a stick).

MARCH 15	16	17

Cb2-8 (424 = 300 + 124)	Cb2-9 (425 = 392 + 33)	Cb2-10
Niu		moe te goe
INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN (helical dates):
May 18	*19 (242 - 183 = 2 * 29½)**	20 (60)
		~~COR CAROLI (α Canum Ven.)~~
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON (and nakshatra dates):
November 17 (321)	*(242 = 355 - 33 - 80)**	19
	~~SCHEDIR (α Cassiopeiae)~~

The Arabs had a pair of water spouts ('fishes', 'serpents'), one at the beginning of the 'House' and one at its end:

24	*Al Fargh al Mukdim*	Fore Spout	α Pegasi (Markab), β (Scheat)	March 5 (429)
25	*Al Fargh al Thāni*	Rear Spout	γ Pegasi (Algenib), α Andromedae (Sirrah)	March 21 (445)

... Behind me, towering almost 100 feet into the air, was a perfect ziggurat, the Temple of Kukulkan. Its four stairways had 91 steps each. Taken together with the top platform, which counted as a further step, the total was 365. This gave the number of complete days in a solar year. In addition, the geometric design and orientation of the ancient structure had been calibrated with Swiss-watch precision to achieve an objective as dramatic as it was esoteric: on the spring and autumn equinoxes, regular as clockwork, triangular patterns of light and shadow combined to create the illusion of a giant serpent undulating on the northern staircase ...

Although the ancient Olmecs had a single Serpent with a Knot tied around his middle, securing tail ('furrow') and front ('frond') to keep together:

Clearly a birth was preceded by a release of water.

... 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. (Naming of two fishing grounds.) (E:80)

When Hotu's canoe had reached Taharoa, the vaginal fluid (of Hotu's pregnant wife) appeared. They sailed towards Hanga Hoonu, where the mucus (kovare seems to refer to the amniotic sac in this case) appeared. They sailed on and came to Rangi Meamea, where the amniotic fluid ran out and the contractions began. They anchored the canoe in the front part of the bay, in Hanga Rau. The canoe of Ava Rei Pua also arrived and anchoraged. After Hotu's canoe had anchoraged, the child of Vakai and Hotu appeared. It was Tuu Maheke, son of Hotu, a boy. After the canoe of Ava Rei Pua had also arrived and anchoraged, the child of Ava Rei Pua was born. It was a girl named Ava Rei Pua Poki ... (E:81)

Counting from the culmination of Sirrah in day 314 to heliacal Alcyone in May 16 (136) resulted in a 5 days' difference. 366 + 136 - 314 = 188 = 183 + 5. The culmination of Sirrah at 21h could therefore be a sign of the Foundation Stone (Temennu) which would rise with the Sun 5 days later.

... 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 ...

M45 (Messier 45, the Pleiades) began to rise with the Sun in May 15, which was day 45 counted from April 1. Day 320 (6 days after November 10) came 45 days earlier than December 31 (when Alcyone, Pleione, and Atlas culminated at 21h). The reason why 'the six of them' was changed (in Manuscript E) to 'the four of them', can now be guessed:

... The canoes of Ava Rei Pua and of Hotu were seen near the (off-shore) islets. On the fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa uri) the canoe of Hotu and the canoe of Ava Rei Pua landed. On the fifteenth day of the month of October (tangaroa uri), Nonoma left the house during the night to urinate outside. At this point Ira called out to Nonoma, 'Look at the canoe!' Nonoma ran, he quickly went to Te Hikinga Heru (a ravine in the side of the crater Rano Kau) and looked around. There he saw the double canoe way out near the (offshore) islets, and the two (hulls of the canoe) were lashed together. He ran and returned to the front of the house. He arrived and called into the house: 'Hey you! This canoe has arrived during the night without our noticing it!' Ira asked Nonoma, 'Where is the canoe, which you say is lying out there (in the water)?' Nonoma's voice came back: 'It is out there (in the water) close to the (offshore) islets! There it lies, and the two (hulls) are lashed together.' The four of them (corrected for 'the six of them') went out and picked up leaves (on branches) to give signals. They picked them up, went and arrived at Te Hikinga and saw the canoe. Raparenga got up, picked up the leaves, took them in his hands, and waved, waved, waved, waved ...

When 'the four of them' had guided the Sun king safely ashore then the 4 planets (Explorers) - i.e. excepting Kuukuu (Mars) who had been fatally struck by the flipper of the Turtle and Makoi (Saturn) who would remain on Easter Island - had completed their task and could go home.

They had in a way successfully performed the equivalence of the Chorti diviners' ceremony of raising the sky.

... Ira, Raparenga, Uure, Nonoma, and Ringiringi got up and left the 'Dark abyss of Hau Maka' (i.e., Rano Kau), arrived at Hanga Te Pau, put the canoe into the water, and sailed off to Hiva, to Maori. Ira left on the twenty-fifth day of the month of October (Tangaroa Uri). (E:86)

298 (Tangaroa Uri 25) + 45 = 343 = 7 * 7 * 7 = "December 9, and 343 - 16 = 327 ("November 23), where at the time of Gregory XIII Nunki - the star who announced the arrival of the Sea - had risen heliacally with Sirius close to the Full Moon:

OCTOBER 26	27 (300)	28	29	30	*31 (224)**

Ga8-16	Ga8-17 (220)	Ga8-18	Ga8-19	Ga8-20	Ga8-21
ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8)	South Dipper-8 Φ Sagittarii (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)	SHELIAK = β Lyrae, ν Lyrae (285.1), ο Draconis (285.5). λ Pavonis (285.7) ~~ATLAS (27 Tauri)~~	χ Oct. (286.0), AIN AL RAMI = ν Sagittarii (286.2), υ Draconis (286.4), δ Lyrae (286.3), κ Pavonis (286.5), ALYA = θ Serpentis (286.6)	ξ Sagittarii (287.1), ω Pavonis (287.3), ε Aquilae, ε Cor. Austr., SULAPHAT = γ Lyrae (287.4), λ Lyrae (287.7), ASCELLA = ζ Sagittarii, BERED = i Aquilae (Ant.) (287.9)	Al Na'ām-18 / Uttara Ashadha-21 NUNKI = σ Sagittarii (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), MANUBRIUM = ο Sagittarii (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9)
December 29	*30 (284)**	31	January 1	2	3 (368)
°December 25	*26 (280)**	27	28	29	30 (364)
*'December 2 (256)**	3	4	5	6	7 (341)
*"November 18 (242)**	19	20	21	22	23 (327)

NOVEMBER 1	2 (306)	*3 (227)**	4	5

Ga8-22	Ga8-23	Ga8-24 (227)	Ga8-25	Ga8-26
19h (289.2) λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8)	*Al Baldah-19* AL BALDAH = π Sagittarii, ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA = α Cor. Austr. (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)	ALADFAR = η Lyrae (291.1), NODUS II = δ Draconis (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), τ Draconis (291.7), θ Lyrae (291.8)	ω Aquilae (292.1), ρ Sagittarii (292.6), υ Sagittarii (292.7)	π Draconis, ARKAB PRIOR = β¹ Sagittarii (293.0), ARKAB POSTERIOR = β² Sagittarii, ALRAMI = α Sagittarii (293.2), χ Sagittarii (293.6)
January 4	*5 (290)**	6	7 (372)	8
°December 31	°January 1	*2 (287)**	3 (368)	4
'December 8	9	*10 (264)**	11 (345)	12
"November 24	25 (329)	*26 (250)**	27	28