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The 2nd Spout indicated where 0h (right ascension day zero in the sky) should be.

I suspect the final page of the Dreseden Codex, numbered 74(0), might correspond to the last (mauga) part of a double cycle of 370 days documented on the C tablet (392 + 348 = 740).

740 = 5 * 148 = 20 * 37 = 20 * 27 + 200

5

210 = 393 - 366 / 2 = 30 weeks

342

386

5

March 27 (86)

Oct 22 (295)

β Tucanae (*6.4)

ARCTURUS (*215.4 = *6.4 + 27 + 182)

392 = 5 + 12 * 30 + 27

348 = 12 * 29

JULY 15 (196) 16 17 (*118 = 4 * 29½) 18 (199)
Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 (118) Ga5-9
No star listed (180) π Virginis (181.0), θ Crucis (181.5)

12h (182.6)

ο Virginis (182.1), η Crucis (182.5)
ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)
Sept 17 (260) 18 (*181) 19 20
°Sept 13 14 (*177) 15 16
'Aug 21 22 23 24 (236)
"Aug 7 8 9 (222 = 185 + 37 = 74 * 3)

Oct 27 (300)

TERMINALIA

ihe tau

ika

June 1 (152)

152 (June 1) - 37 = 115 (April 25) = 300 (Oct 27) - 185

185 + 37 = 222

... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ...  [E:17 → 152 - 5 * 27]

OBSERVED CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
JAN 14 15 (380) 16 (*301) 17

η Tucanae (363.0), ψ Pegasi (363.1), 32 Piscium (363.2), π Phoenicis (363.4), ε Tucanae (363.6), τ Phoenicis (363.9)

*322.0 = *363.4 - *41.4

θ Oct. (364.4)

*323.0 = *364.4 - *41.4 

Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)

0h (365.25)

CAPH (Hand) = β Cassiopeiae, SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)

Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)
March 19 (78) 20 EQUINOX 22 (*366)
°March 15 16 (*360) 17 18 (77)
'Febr 20 (*336) 21 22 (53) TERMINALIA
"Febr 6 7 (403) 8 (*324) 9 (40)

... Cassiopeia is read in the night when in a low position as Celestial W [as in Woman] when below the pole in contrast to the Celestial M [as in Man] when above it ...

 

Sept 18 (9 * 29)

vai

Vai. Water, liquid, juice. 1. Vai tagata, semen, sperm (also: takatea). 2. Vai kava, saltwater, sea, ocean. Vanaga. (Sweet) water. Vai-kura = blood. Barthel. 1. Water, liquid, fluid, sap, juice, gravy, fresh water as differing from tai seawater; hakavai to dissolve, to liquefy, to melt. P Pau.: ana-vai, a brook. Mgv.: vai, water. Mq.: vai, water, liquid, juice. Ta.: vai, sweet water, sap, juice. Vaihu (vai-u), milk. T Mq., Ta.: vaiu, milk. Vaipuga (vai-puna), spring water. P Mgv.: vaipuna, water which springs from among stones. Mq.: vaipuna, spring water. Ta.: vaipuna, a spring. Vaitahe (vai-tahe 1), river. 2. Pau.: Vai, to exist. Ta.: vai, to be, to exist. Vaiora, to survive. Sa.: vaiola, the spring 'water of life?' Ma.: waiora, water of life. Vaitoa (vai-toa 2), sugar. Mgv.: vaito, id. Vaituru (vai-turu 1), water conduit. Vaivai, weak. PS Mq.: vaivai, soft, pleasant, agreeable. Sa., To.: vaivai, weak. Pau.: Vaiho, to set down, to place. Ta.: vaiiho, to place. Ma.: waiho, to set down. Pau.: Hakavaivai, to delay. Ta.: vaivai, to rest a bit. Ta.: Vaianu, a plant. Mq.: Vaimata, tears. Ha.: waimaka, id. Vaitahe, a flood. Sa.: vaitafe, a river. Ha.: waikahe, running water, flood. Vaitupu, spring water. To.: vaitubu, well water. Unuvai, to drink water; hipu unuvai, drinking glass. Churchill. Sa., Fakaafo, To., Fu., Niuē, Uvea, Nukuoro, Ta., Rar., Tongareva, Mq., Mgv., Fotuna, Nuguria, Vaté: vai, water. Rapanui: vai, juice, liquid, water. Aniwa: vai, tavai, water. Ma., Ha.: wai, id. Sikayana: wai, wuai, id. Vi.: wai, water. Rotumā: vai, voi, id. Churchill 2.

Vairua. 1. Good fortune, good luck. O te vairua i rava'a-mai-ai-i tooku kahu, by a piece of good fortune I got myself some clothes. 2. Misfortune, bad luck; he uga koe e te maga i te vairua-á, you have been unlucky; o piría te vairua, so that no misfortune may happen to you. (Both expressions are ancient and almost unknown today.) Vanaga. Ta.: vairua, vaerua, verua, virua, vaiite, spirit, soul. Ma.: wairua, id. Churchill.

Vaitara, winter west wind T. Churchill.

The Fore Spout came at the beginning of the Pegasus Square, viz. 16 days earlier than the 2nd.

We can perceive a silent viri bird at Bharani, 41.4 right ascension days after the similar such bird at 0h:

JULY 17 (*118)

40

AUG 28 (*160)

Ga5-8 (118)

Ga6-19 (159)

12h (182.6) ZUBEN ELGENUBI (*224)

CAPH (*0)

BHARANI (*41.4)

Takapau

39 variants of uhi - STOLEN by Teke from his brother Ma'eha [E:58-64]

*19

*14

*8

SIRRAH (*0)

ADHIL (*19)

MIRA (*33)

BHARANI (*41)

ALCHITA (*183)

SPICA (*202)

KHAMBALIA (*216)

ZUBEN ELGENUBI (*224)

0h

39 (= 3 * 13)

The puo type of glyph type was used from Bharani at Gb8-8 (→ 88) to the end of side b:

 

*22

 

Gb8-8

Gb8-30

May 1 (121)

MARCH 20 (444)

Bharani (*41.4)

Hyadum I (63.4)

Puo. (Also pu'a); pu'o nua, one who covers himself with a nua (blanket), that is to say, a human being. Vanaga. 1. To dress, to clothe, to dress the hair; puoa, clothed; puoa tahaga, always dressed. 2. To daub, to besmear (cf. pua 2); puo ei oone, to daub with dirt, to smear. 3. Ata puo, to hill up a plant. Churchill.

And here we will return to Bb9-25 - could the upraised arm in the center represent the force of growth (from eating, kai) pushing itself in between the earth and the sky?

... In South America the rainbow has a double meaning. On the one hand, as elsewhere, it announces the end of rain; on the other hand, it is considered to be responsible for diseases and various natural dis[-]asters. In its first capacity the rainbow effects a disjunction between the sky and the earth which previously were joined through the medium of rain. In the second capacity it replaces the normal beneficient conjunction by an abnormal, maleficient one - the one it brings about itself between sky and earth by taking the place of water ...

MARCH 26 (85) 27 (*6) 28 29 (88)
Ga1-5 Ga1-6 Ga1-7 Ga1-8
May 29 30 (150) 31 June 1 (152 = 115 + 37)

... On the twenty-fifth day of the first month (Vaitu Nui), Ira and Makoi set sail; on the first day of June ('Maro'), the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer and closer on its course, and sailed along, and finally (one) could see the (new home) land ... [E:17 → 152 - 5 * 27]

kava o te ariki e huarae - ma to rima - ki te ragi e rere ia mai - ki to huki ko to huki ka to ihe - kua reva te ika

Rae. First (always follows the noun): te tagata ra'e, the first man; (the other ordinal numerals, second, third, etc., precede the noun. Translator's note: ra'e is likely the noun which means forehead, face, in other Polynesian language, e.g. Tahitian rae). Vanaga. 1. Commencement, beginning, to strike up, to essay, to occasion, to proceed, former, primitive, precedent, predecessor, first-fruits; rae ki te mea hou, to innovate; oho rae, to march at the head; tagata rae, advance guard, van; raega, commencement, beginning, occasion, first-fruits. 2. To attack, to provoke; kakai rae, toua rae, to provoke. Churchill.

Bb9-24 (350) Bb9-25 Bb9-26 Bb9-27 (353)
Dec 16 (85 + 265) 17 (351) 18 19 (88 + 265)
(250, Sept 5) (251, 6) (252, 7) (253, 8)
JULY 5 (186) 6 (251 - 64) GREDI (188) 8 (253 - 64)
OBSERVED CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 (108 = 188 - 80) Ga4-26
KERB *354 = 251 - 80 + 183 *355 *356

... With α Andromedae [Sirrah → Navel] and γ Pegasi [Kerb], as the Three Guides, it [Caph → Phoenician Kaph, Hand] marks the equinoctial colure, itself exceedingly close to that great circle; and, being located on the same side of the pole as is Polaris, it always affords an approximate indication of the latter's position with respect to that point. This same location, 32º from the pole, and very near to the prime meridian, has rendered it useful for marking sidereal time. When above Polaris and nearest the zenith the astronomical day begins at 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds; when due west the sidereal time is 6 hours; when south and nearest the horizon, 12 hours, and when east, 18 hours; this celestial clockhand then moving on the heavenly dial contrary to the motion of the hands of our terrestrial clocks, and at but one half the speed ...

... τ, 4.5, with υ, was Al Sufi's Sa'd al Na'amah, which Knobel thinks should be Al Na'āim, the Cross-bars over a well; but they also were known as Al Karab, the Bucket-rope. The usual titles for τ - Markab and Sagma or Salma - are from Bayer, but the last two should be Salm, a Leathern Bucket ...

When I once upon a time classified all the glyphs on the rongorongo tablets into groups I decided pu and puo should belong together:

Ba7-29 (280) Ba7-31 Ba8-5 (299) Bb2-44 (75) Bb5-6--7
Bb7-33 Bb8-1 (285) Bb8-9 Bb9-21 Bb9-25 Bb11-39

Pu. 1. To come forward to greet someone met on the road; to walk in front, to go in front: ka-pú a mu'a, let them go first. 2. Pú a mu'a, to intervene, to come to someone's rescue; he-pú-mai a mu'a, he-moaha, he came to my rescue and saved my life. 3. Ancient expression: ai ka-pú, ai ka-pú, tell us frankly what you think. 4. Hole, opening, orifice; well; circumference, rotundity; swirling water; pú-haga, vaginal orifice; pú-henua (also just henua), placenta. He pú henua nó te me'e aau, he-oti-á; ina-á me'e ma'u o te rima i-topa-ai koe, a placenta was all you had, it is a past thing now; you held nothing in your hands when you were born (stern words said to children to make them realize that they must not be demanding, since they were born naked and without possessions). 5. To dig out (tubers): he-pú i te uhi, to dig out yams. Vanaga. 1. A trumpet. P Mgv.: pu, a marine shell. Mq.: pu, conch shell. Ta.: pu, shell, trumpet. 2. A small opening, hole, mortise, stirrup, to pierce, to perforate, to prick; pu moo naa, hiding place; taheta pu, fountain, spring; hakapu, to dowel, to pierce, to perforate. PS Sa., Fu., Niuē: pu, a hole. Churchill. Mq.: Pu, source, origin. Ma.: pu, root, origin, foundation. Churchill.