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ADDENDA
222.7 It is easy to find 6 'sleeping mats' in the G text. ... Matua [A Taana] said to Hotu [A Matua], 'Take along the Hanau Eepe and let them work the land!' Hotu called out to Heke: 'Go and bring the 500 prisoners on board the canoe!' He took all of them along, led them on board the canoe, and left them there. For six days (po ono), mats (moenga) were taken on board the canoe (i.e., the loading of the canoe took six days) ... [E:73-74] The beginning of side was obviously designed to accomodate 6 special days:
... Some people lived down at the coast, including a grandmother and her grandson. The grandson always took his grandmother's potty out, every evening and every morning. One time in the evening he didn't come back for a long time, so the grandmother went out to look for him. Towards morning, when the agruks {the two beams of light cast by the sun when it first reappears above the horizon in late December} came out, the grandmother looked for her grandson.
It was getting bright and she looked towards the sun and saw her grandson doing an Eskimo dance. He was real lively because he was so happy about the reappearance of the agruks. The grandmother thought, 'What should I do? Should I try to scare or surprise him?' She went over behind the boy, who was real happy, and scared him from the back. The grandson didn't know what to do. He started running and then flying towards the agruks. The grandmother didn't know what to do, so she followed him, flying too. The grandson landed in the sky and became a star. The grandmother stopped below him and became a smaller star. When the agruks come up the grandmother and grandson always move towards them and become agruks. When the agruks go down they go back to being stars ... The total length of the G tablet is 2 * 236 = 472 glyph positions long, corresponding to 16 * 29½ nights of the Moon, Gb1-6 in a way is corresponding to Cb1-6, which was 379 (January 14) - 295 (October 22) = 84 right ascension days earlier
Which 'happens to' correspond to the Julian day number for spring equinox in 'March 25 → 3-25 → 325:. ... When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC he set March 25 as the spring equinox. Since a Julian year (365.25 days) is slightly longer than an actual year the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about 21 March in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March. This drift induced Pope Gregory XIII to create a modern Gregorian calendar. The Pope wanted to restore the edicts concerning the date of Easter of the Council of Nicaea of AD 325 ...
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