47   South of the equatorial belt - as on Easter Island (located 27º S) - the seasons were 'upside down'.

The first European ship to reach Easter Island occurred in the year 1722 AD.

... The first of all foreign visitors on Easter Island was the Dutch admiral Jacob Roggeveen, who approached the island in the evening twilight of Easter Sunday, 1722 ...

and 52 years later also Captain Cook arrived in autumn close to the equinox.

If summer north of the equator was defined from the vernal equinox in March then summer south of the equator should be defined from the equinox in September 22:

I have suggested the C text should begin not in the month of March but in September 22 (spring equinox south of the equator). This date should correspond to March 22 north of the equator.

Thus, when the Sun was rising in the mornings in the constellation of Pegasus the Full Moon should descend at the horizon in the west in the constellation of the Southern Cross (at the navel of the Centaur Horseman):

... The two great stars, which marks the summit and the foot of the Cross, having nearly the same right ascension, it follows that the constellation is almost perpendicular at the moment when it passes the meridian. This circumstance is known to the people of every nation situated beyond the Tropics or in the southern hemisphere. It has been observed at what hour of the night, in different seasons, the Cross is erect or inclined. It is a time piece, which advances very regularly nearly four minutes a day, and no other group of stars affords to the naked eye an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahs of Venezuela and in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, 'Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend' ...

In the C text can be found evidence that the current north pole star, Polaris, might have been connected with *26, which we can explain for instance by the fact that the Julian calendar was launched by Julius Caesar in Roman times at which time The First Point of Aries was the star named Sheratan (β Arietis).

*26 / *365.25 (the Julian year) * 26000 (ideal precessional cycle) = 0.07118412 * 26000 = 1850.78712 → 1849 AD. Once upon a time, now a long time ago, I decided the era for rongorongo ought to be AD 1842 (= AD 1582 + 260 years).

The form Sheratan is dual, including also γ (Mesarthim = 'Two Signs').

However, the name Muphrid for the star η Bootes at the other side of the year was definitely not dual:

Egyptian courtyard		Phoenician heth		Greek eta	Η (η)
... The letter shape ultimately goes back to a hieroglyph for 'courtyard' ... possibly named hasir in the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, while the name goes rather back to hayt, the name reconstructed for a letter derived from a hieroglyph for 'thread' ... The kaikai are the rythmic songs that are sung to cat's cradles, the string games that are found not only throughout the Pacific but throughout the world. On premissionary Rapa Nui the kaikai, together with their corresponding cat's cradles, were not simple children's games but were used, among other things, to produce magic effect. They were highly important for the study of Rapa Nui's rongorongo. This is because it was apparently with the aid of cat's cradles that the rongorongo experts taught their pupils to learn many of the chants accompanying the incised inscriptions ... ... string games could be resumed after it was clear that the Sun had managed to leave the horizon and was rapidly gaining in altitude: 'Before the sun starts to leave the horizon ... when it shows only on the horizon, ... then string games were no longer allowed as they might lacerate the sun. Once the sun had started to go higher and could be seen in its entirety, string games could be resumed, if one so wished. So the restriction on playing string games was only applicable during the period between the sun's return and its rising fully above the horizon ...

Presumably we will encounter the place for Polaris first at Ca1-26:

kua moe ki te tai.	Te heke
Ca1-26	Ca2-1 (27)
IDEALLY CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 16 (365 + 106 = 471) ANA-NIA-10 (Pillar-to-fish by)  χ Ceti (26.1), POLARIS = α Ursae Minoris, BATEN KAITOS = ζ Ceti (26.6), METALLAH = α Trianguli (26.9)	April 17 (107 = 472 - 365) Al Sharatain-1 (Pair of Signs) / Ashvini-1 (Wife of the Ashvins) / Bond-16 (Dog) / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1 (Front of the Head of Ku) SEGIN = ε Cassiopeia, MESARTHIM = γ Arietis, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN = β Arietis, φ Phoenicis (27.4) *351 = *27.4 - *41.4
'March 20 (79 = 360 + 84 = 471 - 27)	'March 21 (80 = 107 - 27)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Oct 16 (80 + 209 = 289) No star listed (209)	Oct 17 (290 = 107 + 183) MUPHRID (Solitary Star) = η Bootis (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3)
Heke. Rafter. Starzecka.

... Take the lower part of a gourd or hula drum, rounded as a wheel (globe), on which several lines are to be marked and burned in, as described hereafter. These lines are called na alanui o na hoku hookele, the highways of the navigation stars, which stars are also called na hoku ai-aina, the stars which rule the land. Stars lying outside these three lines are called na hoku a ka lewa, foreign, strange, or outside stars. The first line is drawn from Hoku-paa, the fixed or North Star, to the most southerly star of Newe, the Southern Cross ...