TAHUA
 

15.   Once again: We should not perceive 215 (= 670 - 455) on side a of the A tablet

*215
Aa6-39 (1119, 455) Aa8-85 (1334, 670)
a1 90 90 b1 82 82
a2 85 175 b2 85 167
a3 73 248 b3 77 244
3 251
a4 82 333 b4 80 324
a5 83 416 b5 5 329
75 404
a6 39 518 - 63 = 455 b6 92 496
45 500
a7 18 248 + 270 = 518 b7 84 580
67 585
a8 85 670 b8 84 664
sum 455 + 215 = 270 + 400 sum 664

as a refutation of my suggestion that right ascension day 215 might be at the first glyph on side b.

 
Aa8-80 (1329) Aa8-81 (666) Aa8-82 Aa8-83 Aa8-84 Aa8-85 (1334)
ki to hatu huri ma to ua mata - mae tae e ui hia mai kua oho te tagata ki te henua -
Oct 16 (260 + 29) 17 (290) 18 (472 - 181) 19 20 21 (294)
      THUBAN    
April 16 (314 * 1½) 17 (16 * 29½) (365 + 108 = 473) 19 ALKES 21 (111)

To. 1. Particle sometimes used with the article in ancient legends; i uto to te hau, the ribbon was in the float. 2. To rise (of the sun) during the morning hours up to the zenith: he-to te raá. Vanaga. 1. Of. T Pau., Ta.: to, of. Mgv.: to, genitive sign. Mq.: to, of, for. 2. This, which. Churchill. Mgv.: To, to make a canoe of planks. Mq.: to, to build a canoe. Sa.: to, to build. Churchill.

Huri. 1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga. 1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill. Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

Ab1-1 (671) Ab1-2 (2 * 336) Ab1-3 Ab1-4
Oct 22 (295, *215) 23 24 25 (*218, *584)

FOMALHAUT
13 Aug (225 → 408 - 183) 14 Aug (*146, *512) (*513 → 19 * 27 = 9 * 57) 16 Aug (*514)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 22 (112, *32) 23 24 25 (115, *35)
12 Febr (408 - 365 = 43) 13 Febr (*329) All the 'hearts' (*514 - *183 = *331)
Te hoea rutua te pahu - rutua te maeva - atua rerorero - atua ata tuu

Because Aa6-40 could have been considered as a day zero:

 

*206

 

ka pipiri te hetuu

tau - avaga

a tau avaga

Aa3-73 (175 + 73 = 248)

Aa3-74

Aa6-39 (249 + 206)

Aa6-40 (456)

March 20 (365 + 79 = 444)

21 (80, *365)

456 - 248 = 208

*62

*6

a tau avaga

 ka pipiri te hetu ka tau avaga pipiri te hetu tau avaga

Aa6-39

March 20

Aa6-40 (456)

21 (80, *365)

Aa7-18 (518)

Aa7-19

Aa7-25 (525)

Aa7-26

May 22 (142)

23 (*63)

May 29

30 (150)

150 - 80 = 70

 ... Ecclesiastically, the equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years) ...

Avaga. 1. Niche, recess in an ahu, where the skeletons of the dead were deposited. 2. Small oblong, free-standing monument built for the same purpose. Vanaga. T. A grave. Churchill.

Remember that the Mayas always assigned number 0 to their first day in the month:

This makes sense because time as such did not arrive in integers, instead it flowed on continuously, like the sand in an hour-glass or like the water droplets in a clepsydra:

... Should we consider December 30 as the last day of the old year then December 31 would be the first day of the new year. However, as time flows the full measure of the first day will not occur until midnight at the beginning of January 1 ...

Consequently a conversion into day numbers ought to occur only after the 'hour-glass' had become full. Day number 215 (→ right ascension day *215) should have meant that the right ascension 'hour-glass day' 215 had here been completed.

Possibly we can equate the Mayan sign for zero

with the last glyph on side a of the A tablet, where Metoro said nothing.

We should also remember the birth place of Maui:

... 'From the time I was in your womb,' Maui went on, 'I have known the names of these children of yours. Listen,' he said as he pointed to his brothers in turn. 'You are Maui mua, you are Maui roto, you are Maui taha, and you are Maui pae. And as for me, I am Maui potiki, Maui-the-last-born. And here I am.'

When he had finished, Taranga had to wipe her eyes because there were tears in them, and she said: 'You are indeed my lastborn son. You are the child of my old age. When I had you, no one knew, and what you have been saying is the truth. Well, as you were formed out of my topknot you can be Maui tikitiki a Taranga.' So that became his name, meaning Maui-formed-in-the-topknot-of-Taranga. And this is very strange, because women in those days did not have topknots. The topknot was the most sacred part of a person, and only men had them ...

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