5.   Metoro saw a new beginning with the pair of Niu glyphs, this we can infer from his use of a Capital (Head) letter:

	*14		*3
Cb1-15 (407)		*56 (Alcyone)		Cb2-8 (32)	Cb2-9 (425)
e niu tu		koia ra		Niu

Niu at Cb1-15 (→ 115 → Mercury, Hiro) was evidently at the pair Zuben Elgenubi / Bharani.

And the pair of Niu was evidently there because of the pair Vrischika / Schedir:

	*14		*3
Cb1-15 (407)		Cb2-5 (421, 29)		Cb2-8 (32)	Cb2-9 (425)
Oct 31 (304)		Nov 14 (318)		Nov 17 (321)	Nov 18 (322)
ZUBEN ELGENUBI (*224)		COR SERPENTIS (*238)		VRISCHIKA (*241)	SCHEDIR
BHARANI (*41)		TAU-ONO (*55)		ZAURAK (*58.9)	ν Tauri (*59.9)
May 1 (121)		May 15 (135 = 500 - 365)		May 18 (138)	May 19 (322 - 183)

Vrischika (π Scorpii) was 8 right ascension days before Antares (*249):

And the Breast of Queen Cassiopeia - Schedir - rose heliacally at *8:

... Ogotemmêli had his own ideas about calculation. The Dogon in fact did use the decimal system, because from the beginning they had counted on their fingers, but the basis of their reckoning had been the number eight and this number recurred in what they called in French la centaine, which for them meant eighty. Eighty was the limit of reckoning, after which a new series began. Nowadays there could be ten such series, so that the European 1,000 corresponded to the Dogon 800. But Ogotemmêli believed that in the beginning men counted by eights - the number of cowries on each hand, that they had used their ten fingers to arrive at eighty, but that the number eight appeared again in order to produce 640 (8 x 10 x 8). 'Six hundred and forty', he said, 'is the end of the reckoning.'

	365 days
	(80 + RA / 24h * 365¼)		Day of culmination
Atlas	May 16 (136, *56)	*229	Dec 31 (365, *285)	135
Alkes	Sept 3 (246)	*229	April 20 (110)	135
Denebola	Sept 15 (258)	*230	May 3 (123)	134
Gienah	Sept 22 (265, *185)	*230	May 10 (130, *50)	134
ACRUX	Sept 24 (267, *187)	*231	May 13 (133. *53)	133
	JULY 22 (*123 = *187 - *64)	*231	MARCH 10 (*354 → '290 + *64)
Thuban	Oct 19 (292, *212)	*230	June 7 (158, *78)	134
Arcturus	Oct 22 (295, *215)	*227	June 8 (159, *79)	*136
Zuben Elgenubi	Oct 31 (304, *224)		June 17 (168, *454. *88)	*136
Vega	Dec 27 (361, *281)	*227	Aug 12 (224, *144)	*137
Alphekka Meridiana	Jan 5 (*290)	*220	Aug 13 (225, *145)	'146
Deneb Cygni	Febr 7 (38, *323)	*221	Sept 16 (259, *179)	*144
Fomalhaut	March 3 (62, *348)	*236	Oct 25 (*584, *218)
Schedir	March 29 (88, *8)	*233	Nov 18 (322, *242)	131
Alrisha	April 19 (109, *212 - *183 = *29)	*232	Dec 7 (341, *261)	132
Menkar	May 4 (124, *44)	*231	Dec 21 (355, *275)	133
*364 - *229 → 135 etc. And *144 (August 12) = *281 (December 27) - *137, etc.

The Scorpion surely implied death (†) and the Breast was necessary at the time of birth (*) - a complementary contrasting pair which everyone could easily understand.

... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ....

Thus in time-space the distance from Polaris (*26) to the Tail (Deneb) of the 'Crab' (μ Scorpii) was 151 (May 31) - 80 (March 21) = 71 right ascension days → 355 / 5 = 71 (→ 26000 / 366):

The number of glyphs on the A tablet is 670 + 664 = 1334 and this could have been constructed as a design in order to point at November 30 - and implicitly to the ideal measure for the great (and tapu) precessional cycle of 26000 years.

And the words of Metoro underlines that this dark region was down in the southwest (toga) - the end station so to say - from where in November 28 the Lono effigy ideally should set off on its circuit. The living eyes had been removed in Cb2-17--18.

Toga 1. Winter season. Two seasons used to be distinguished in ancient times: hora, summer, and toga, winter. 2. To lean against somehing; to hold something fast; support, post supporting the roof. 3. To throw something with a sudden movement. 4. To feed oneself, to eat enough; e-toga koe ana oho ki te aga, eat well first when you go to work. Vanaga. 1. Winter. P Pau., Mgv.: toga, south. Mq.: tuatoka, east wind. Ta.: toa, south. 2. Column, prop; togatoga, prop, stay. Togariki, northeast wind. Churchill. Wooden platform for a dead chief: ka tuu i te toga (Bb8-42), when the wooden platform has been erected. Barthel 2. The expressions Tonga, Kona, Toa (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the quarter of an island or of the wind, between the south and west, and Tokelau, Toerau, Koolau (Sam., Haw., Tah.), to indicate the opposite directions from north to east - expressions universal throughout Polynesia, and but little modified by subsequent local circumstances - point strongly to a former habitat in lands where the regular monsoons prevailed. Etymologically 'Tonga', 'Kona', contracted from 'To-anga' or 'Ko-ana', signifies 'the setting', seil. of the sun. 'Toke-lau', of which the other forms are merely dialectical variations, signifies 'the cold, chilly sea'. Fornander.

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