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Unfortunately there are no glyphs of the hakaariki type in the B text. Instead, let us return the pair of 'listening left ears' on side b of the tablet:

Ba5-37 Ba5-38 (202)
vaha kai Ba9-29 (369) Bb4-17 (138) Bb5-2 (165)
Bb2-37 Bb5-30 Bb6-13 Bb9-20

As to the position of the eye-catching glyph Ba9-29 it might possibly be compared to how the Julian spring equinox (3-25) was 4 days later than the Gregorian equinox (3-21), i.e. 369 = 365 + 4 could be a hint for the reader that the Julian calendar should be used here. The returning daylight meant the pair of holes in the east and the west had been reopened, once again making the eyes as if by magic (mana) come alive to the marvels of our visual world of colour and beauty.

... There is a curious tradition concerning these grizzled, otherworldly statues, solemn and powerful, with their blank, aloof eye-sockets gazing out over the limitless ocean. Like most of the other Moai of Easter Island the local belief is that they died, long ago, at the time when mana - magic - supposedly fled from the island never to return. However, in common with only a very few of the other Moai, it is believed that these particular statues still have the power, twice a year, to transform themselves into aringa ora - literally 'living faces' - a concept startingly similar to the ancient Egyptian notion that statues became 'living images' (sheshep ankh) after undergoing the ceremony of the 'opening of the mouth and the eyes'. Statues at Angkor were likewise considered to be lifeless until their eyes had been symbolically 'opened' ...

Assuming the flow of fixed stars continues uninterrupted from Ba10-32 and on to Bb1-1,

a1 47 47 b1 31 31
a2 40 87 b2 47 78
a3 37 124 b3 43 121
a4 40 164 b4 17 138
a5 38 202 25 163
5 207 b5 40 203
a6 44 251 b6 40 243
a7 43 294 b7 41 284
a8 46 340 b8 42 326
a9 29 369 b9 50 376
20 389
a10 32 421 b10 42 418
  b11 43 461
b12 45 506
sum 421 sum 506

we should be able to connect Spica at Ba5-38 (202) with Spica at Bb4-18 (421 + 139 = 560):

ko te rima kua noho - ki te ragi kua o ki to pure kua oho te rima ki te hare pure kua tomo te pure ki te hare

Oho. 1. To go: ka-oho! go! go away! (i.e. 'goodbye' said by the person staying behind); ka-oho-mai (very often contracted to: koho-mai), welcome! (lit.: come here); ku-oho-á te tagata, the man has gone. Ohoga, travel, direction of a journey; ohoga-mai, return. 2. Also rauoho, hair. Vanaga. 1. To delegate; rava oho, to root. 2. To go, to keep on going, to walk, to depart, to retire; ka oho, begone, good-bye; oho amua, to preced; oho mai, to come, to bring; oho arurua, to sail as consorts; hakaoho, to send, a messenger. 3. Tehe oho te ikapotu, to abut, adjoin; mei nei tehe i oho mai ai inei te ikapotu, as far as, to; kai oho, to abstain, to forego; hakaoho, to put on the brakes. 4. The head (only in the composite rauoho, hair). Churchill.

Ba5-36 Ba5-37 Ba5-38 (202)
σ Virginis (*200.4) γ Hydrae (*201) SPICA (*202 = *19 + *183)
Oct 7 (280) 8 (281 = 400 - 183 + 64) 9 (282 = 36 + 182 + 64)
FEBR 3 (399) 4 (400) 5 (36)
No star listed ADHIL (*19 = *202 - *183) KSORA (Knee) (*20)
ko te tagata kia hiti ki te purega

Hiti. 1. To show itself again, to reappear (of the new moon, of a constellation - meaning uncertain). 2. Said of thin, tough-fleshed fish of indifferent taste: ika hiti. 3. Said of fish when they come to the stones of the shore for insects among the seaweed: he hiti te ika. 4. To reproach someone for his ingratitude. Vanaga. 1. To rise, to appear, to dawn; hitihaga, rising; hitihaga roa, sunrise; hitihiti, to dawn; horau hitihiti, break of day; hakahiti ki te eeve, to show the buttocks. 2. Puffed; gutu hiti, thick lips. Churchill.

Ba5-39 Ba5-40 (204)
71 VIRGINIS (*203) No star listed (204)
Oct 10 11 (284)
FEBR 6 (37) 7 (403)
δ Phoenicis (*21) υ Andromedae (*22)

... From guessing that Ba1-1 had been intended to represent the first day of a new year it ought to be possible to visualize some of the consequences. I am firmly convinced it was necessary to allot 1 right ascension date for each glyph.

For otherwise it would not have been possible to read the rongorongo texts produced by the creative minds of other people:

ki to vae oho ma te tara huki a rere te manu ki to vaha kai ma te hoko huki - kua rere te manu vae oho
Bb4-14 (135) Bb4-15 Bb4-16 Bb4-17 Bb4-18 Bb4-19 (140)
Oct 5 (278) 6 7 8 (464 - 183) 9 10 (283)
APAMI-ATSA (Child of Waters) = θ Virginis, ψ Hydrae (198.5), DIADEM = α Com. Ber. (198.9)

AL DAFĪRAH (Tuft) = β Com. Ber. (199.4)

*158.0 = *199.4 - *41.4

σ Virginis (200.4)

*159.0 = *200.4 - *41.4

γ Hydrae (201.0), ι Centauri (201.4)

*160.0 = *201.4 - *41.4

Al Simāk-12 (Lofty) / Chitra-14 (Bright One) / Horn-1 (Crocodile) / Sa-Sha-Shirū-20 (Virgin's Girdle) / ANA-ROTO-3 (Middle pillar)

MIZAR = ζ Ursae Majoris (202.4), SPICA = α Virginis, ALCOR = 80 Ursae Majoris (202.7)

SADALMELIK (α Aquarii)

*161.0 = *202.4 - *41.4
71 VIRGINIS (203.6)

... Proclus informs us that the fox star nibbles continuously at the thong of the yoke which holds together heaven and earth; German folklore adds that when the fox succeeds, the world will come to its end. This fox star is no other than Alcor, the small star g near zeta Ursae Majoris (in India Arundati, the common wife of the Seven Rishis, alpha-eta Ursae ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 6 (96) 7 8 (363 + 100) 9 (99) 10 (465) 11 (101)
Bb4-20 (141) Bb4-21 Bb4-22 Bb4-23 Bb4-24 (145) Bb4-25
Oct 11 (284) (468 - 183) 13 14 (470 - 183) 15 (288) (472 - 183)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 12 (102) 4-13 → 14 * 29½ → BHARANI (*41.4) 15 (470) 16 (364 + 107) (472 - 365)

However, in order to secure the flow in time-space we ought to first move from Ba5-40 to the end of side a:

ko te tagata kia hiti ki te purega 205

Hiti. 1. To show itself again, to reappear (of the new moon, of a constellation - meaning uncertain). 2. Said of thin, tough-fleshed fish of indifferent taste: ika hiti. 3. Said of fish when they come to the stones of the shore for insects among the seaweed: he hiti te ika. 4. To reproach someone for his ingratitude. Vanaga. 1. To rise, to appear, to dawn; hitihaga, rising; hitihaga roa, sunrise; hitihiti, to dawn; horau hitihiti, break of day; hakahiti ki te eeve, to show the buttocks. 2. Puffed; gutu hiti, thick lips. Churchill.

Ba5-39 Ba5-40 (204)
71 VIRGINIS (*203) No star listed (204)
Oct 10 11 (284)
FEBR 6 (37) 7 (403)
δ Phoenicis (*21) υ Andromedae (*22)
mai tae tuki te henua kua moe ko te manu ki to ika e tagata haga era ki te mea ke ko agaagata

Tagata haga ei mea, mercenary.

Ba10-21 Ba10-22 Ba10-23 Ba10-24 (413) Ba10-25
3h (45.7) *46 = *202 + *209 *47 = *412 *48 = *413 - *365 *49
May 5 6 7 8 (128) 9
SEPT 1 (244) 2 (403 + 207 - 365) 3 (127 + 183 - 64) 4 (247) 5 (232 + 16)
15h (228.3) *229 = *46 + *183 *230 (= 10 * 23) *231 *232
kua maa ko koe - e kua hatu ko to toa e tagata haga - i to ua e kua koti ko te henua ma te maitaki koia ra kua hoki to rarahoi kua tu ki to toga Etagata itiiti

Maitaki. Clean, neat, pure, pretty, nice, beautiful, handsome; tagata rima maitaki, clean-handed man, correct man. Vanaga. 1. Good. Henua maitaki = the good earth. 2. Shine. Marama maitaki = the shining moon. Barthel. Ce qui est bon. Jaussen according to Barthel. Meitaki, good, agreeable, efficacious, excellent, elegant, pious, valid, brilliant, security, to please, to approve (maitaki); ariga meitaki, handsome, of pleasant mien; mea meitaki ka rava, to deserve; meitaki ke, marvelous, better. Hakameitaki, to make good, to amend, to do good, to bless, to establish. Meitakihaga, goodness. PS Pau.: maitaki, good. Mgv.: meitetaki, beautiful, good. Mq.: meitai, good, agreeable, fit, wise, virtuous. Ta.: maitaiki, good, well. Niuē: mitaki, good. Maitakia, clean. Churchill.

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.

Ba10-26 Ba10-27 Ba10-28 Ba10-29 Ba10-30 Ba10-31 (420) Ba10-32
ALGENIB PERSEI (*50) *51 *52 ACRUX (α Crucis) *54 *55  ALCYONE
May 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (136)
SEPT 6 7 (250) 8 (235 + 16) 9 10 11 12 (255)
*233 *234 GEMMA (*235) *236 = 472 / 2 *237 *238 *239

Anciently they had waited until the reappearance of the significant star (after its close encounter with the Sun), which took about 16 days. This explains the addition of 16 right ascension days compared to the true heliacal dates.

... Like the sun, chiefs of the highest tabus - those who are called 'gods', 'fire', 'heat', and 'raging blazes' - cannot be gazed directly upon without injury. The lowly commoner prostrates before them face to the ground, the position assumed by victims on the platforms of human sacrifice. Such a one is called makawela, 'burnt eyes' ...

For instance was Alcyone not yet visible in May 16 (136). To find out its true heliacal day in the Golden Age of the Bull we have to first reduce with 64, and 136 - 64 = 72 (MARCH 13). Then, around MARCH 29 (88 = 72 + 16) Alcyone would have returned to visibility.

Similarly should we add *16 to *235 (at Gemma) in order to find the corresponding day position according to the epoch of the Bull. Thus the Julian spring equinox date 'March 25 (84) should have corresponded to day 84 + 16 = 100 in the Golden Age.