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This point is driven home at the beginning of the G text, where there is no glyph corresponding to the first day:

MARCH 19 (260 - 182) 20 (79) 21 (144 - 64) MARCH 22 (81)
NO GLYPH (0)
Gb8-29 (242 = 11 * 22) Gb8-30 (350 + 11 * 11) Ga1-1
May 22 (142) 23 24 (12 * 12 = 80 + 64) May 25 (145)
BEID = Egg (*62) HYADUM I HYADUM II AIN = Eye (*65)
LESATH = Sting (*244) YED PRIOR = Hand in front YED POSTERIOR = Hand behind σ Scorpii (Heart)
Nov 20 (324) 21 22 Nov 23 (327)
A YEAR LATER:
MARCH 19 (260 - 182) 20 (79) 21 (144 - 64) MARCH 22 (81)

363 = 11 * 33 52 weeks 365 Gb5-13 (366)
May 22 (142) 23 24 (12 * 12 = 80 + 64) May 25 (145)
BEID = Egg (*62) HYADUM I HYADUM II AIN = Eye (*65)
LESATH = Sting (*244) YED PRIOR = Hand in front YED POSTERIOR = Hand behind σ Scorpii (Heart)
Nov 20 (324) 21 22 Nov 23 (327)

The G text measures 472 days, but day zero cannot be visualized:

a1 30 30 b1 26 26
a2 29 59 b2 35 61
a3 24 83 b3 30 91
a4 27 110 b4 33 124
a5 30 140 b5 29 153
a6 29 169 b6 28 181
a7 34 203 b7 31 212
a8 26 229 b8 30 242
sum 229 sum 242
(1 + 229) + 242 = 472 = 16 * 29½

The first side should therefore be counted as 230 right ascension days.

Similarly should we add 1 day before the 1st glyph in the C text, but here presumably also on side b - in order to avoid an odd total:

a1 26 26 b1 24 24
a2 25 51 b2 25 49
a3 25 76 b3 22 71
a4 29 105 b4 23 94
a5 35 140 b5 21 115
a6 28 168 b6 29 144
a7 31 199 b7 27 171
a8 29 228 b8 29 200
a9 27 255 b9 30 230
a10 29 284 b10 22 252
a11 32 316 b11 22 274
a12 27 343 b12 25 299
a13 20 363 b13 30 329
a14 29 392 b14 19 348
sum 392 sum 348
(1 + 392) + (1 + 348) = 742 = 14 * 53

And of course it means we should count also the B text accordingly:

a1 47 47 b1 31 31
a2 40 87 b2 47 78
a3 37 124 b3 43 121
a4 40 164 b4 42 163
a5 43 207 b5 40 203
a6 44 251 b6 40 243
a7 43 294 b7 41 284
a8 46 340 b8 42 326
a9 49 389 b9 50 376
a10 32 421 b10 42 418
  b11 43 461
b12 45 506
sum 421 sum 506
(1 + 421) + 506 = 928 = 2 * 464 = 29 * 32

 

No glyph (0) 407
Ba1-1 (927 + 1) Ba1-2 Ba1-3 Ba1-4 Ba1-5
SIRRAH (0h) ALGENIB PEGASI *2 *3 *4 ANKAA (*5)
ALCHITA (*183) *184 GIENAH (*185) *186 ACRUX (*187) *188
e tagata haga era ki te mea ke

8

koia kua here i to reva ika - kua huka ia - i to maro

65

e tagata itiiti mea mau - i te vaha

Ba10-24 (413)

Bb1-1 (422 = 322 + 100)

Bb1-2

Bb2-37 (68)

ZIBAL (*413 = *48)

MENKHIB (*422 = *57)

ZAURAK (*58)

AL TARF (*489 = *124)

FEBR 17 (413)

FEBR 26 (422) 27 (58) MAY 4 (124)
April 22 (*32 = *48 - *16) May 1 (*41 = *57 - *16) 2 (*241 - *199 = *42) July 7 (*307 - *199 = *108)
*231 = *413 - *182 *240 = *57 + *183 *241 = *42 + *183 + *16 GREDI (*307)

We can be compare with the beginning of the C text where, however, it evidently was the Sun who was reaching the Raven:

No glyph koia ki te hoea ki te henua te rima te hau tea haga i te mea ke ki te henua - tagata honui

Ko. 1. Article (ko te); preposition: with (see grammar); prefix of personal pronouns: koau, I; kokoe, you (singular); koîa, he, she, it; kokorua, you (plural); ko tagi, koîa, he with his weeping. 2. Article which precedes proper nouns, often also used with place names: Ko Tori, Ko Hotu Matu'a, Ko Pú. Koîa, exact: tita'a koîa, exact demarcation. Seems to be the personal pronoun koîa - applied in the meaning of: thus it is, here it is precisely. Vanaga. 1. Negative; e ko, not, except; e ko ora, incurable; ina ko, not; ina ko tikea, unseen; ina e ko, not; ina e ko mou, incessant. 2. A particle used before nouns and pronouns; ko vau, I; ko te, this; ko mea tera, this; ati ko peka, to avenge, ko mua, first, at first, formerly. 3. There, yonder. P Mgv.: ko, over there, yonder. Ta.: ó, there, here. Churchill.

... Before the beginning of a new 'year' (= halfyear) it is not yet determined what will come. According to the Babylonian view there was a chamber of hazard where the sky roof meets earth: ... Als solch ein Ort (resp. ein Gemach) im Osten des apsū [water below the earth] und im Osten der Erde an der Grenze zwischen dem sichtbaren und unsichtbaren Reiche hat der Duazag eine ganz besondere Bedeutung im Glauben der Babylonier. Er ist ... 'der Ort der Geschicke', der ki nam-tar-tar-ini = ašar šimātum. Ein Solcher konnte nur im Osten liegen. Denn die Sonne geht im Osten auf. Die Ostsonne ist Marduk. Darum bringt auch Marduk die Geschicke aus der Behausung seines Vaters Ía, dem Urwasser, hervor ...

Hoe. Hoe 1. Paddle. Mgv.: hoe, ohe, id. Mq., Ta.: hoe, id. 2. To wheeze with fatigue (oeoe 2). Arero oeoe, to stammer, to stutter; Mgv. oe, to make a whistling sound in breathing; ohe, a cry from a person out of breath. Mq.: oe, to wheeze with fatigue. 3. Blade, knife; hoe hakaiu, clasp-knife, jack-knife; hoe hakanemu, clasp-knife; hoe pikopiko, pruning knife. 4. Ta.: oheohe, a plant. Ma.: kohekohe, id. Churchill.T. Paddle. E hoe te heiva = 'and to paddle (was their) pleasure'. Henry. Hoea, instrument for tattooing. Barthel.

Ca1-1 Ca1-2 Ca1-3 Ca1-4 Ca1-5 Ca1-6
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Sept 20 (263) 21 Equinox 23 (181 + 85) 24 25 (84 + 184) 26
ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9) PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis (184.6), MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris (184.9)

Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28 (Worm)

GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9)

*144.0 = *185.4 - *41.4

CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3) INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX = α Crucis (187.5)

*146.0 = *187.4 - *41.4

γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB = δ Corvi (188.5), GACRUX = γ Crucis (188.7) γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7)

... Raven gazed up and down the beach. It was pretty, but lifeless. There was no one about to upset, or play tricks upon. Raven sighed. He crossed his wings behind him and strutted up and down the sand, his shiny head cocked, his sharp eyes and ears alert for any unusual sight or sound. The mountains and the sea, the sky now ablaze with the sun by day and the moon and stars he had placed there, it was all pretty, but lifeless. Finally Raven cried out to the empty sky with a loud exasperated cry. And before the echoes of his cry faded from the shore, he heard a muffled squeak. He looked up and down the beach for its source and saw nothing. He strutted back and and forth, once, twice, three times and still saw nothing. Then he spied a flash of white in the sand. There, half buried in the sand was a giant clamshell. As his shadow fell upon it, he heard another muffled squeak. Peering down into the opening between the halves of the shell, he saw it was full of tiny creatures, cowering in fear at his shadow ...

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
March 21 (80)

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)
22

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

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)
23

χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)

24

σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7)

Julian equinox

No star listed (4)

26 (80 + 5)

ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

ALPHARD (α Hydrae)

27

λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4)

*6.4 - *41.4 + *366.0 = *331

= *148.0 + 183.0

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

... The players all played at once, without waiting for turns, quarreling all the while, and fighting for the hedge-hogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' about once in a minute. Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, 'and then', thought she, 'what would become of me?' They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here: the great wonder is, that there's any one left alive! ...

When the water (tide) went out it was as if land had been drawned up (like a fish) from the deep.

... The brothers had no idea what Maui was up to now, as he paid out his line. Down, down it sank, and when it was at the bottom Maui lifted it slightly, and it caught on something which at once pulled very hard. Maui pulled also, and hauled in a little of his line. The canoe heeled over, and was shipping water fast. 'Let it go!' cried the frightened brothers, but Maui answered with the words that are now a proverb: 'What Maui has got in his hand he cannot throw away.' 'Let go?' he cried. 'What did I come for but to catch fish?' And he went on hauling in his line, the canoe kept taking water, and his brothers kept bailing frantically, but Maui would not let go. Now Maui's hook had caught in the barge-boards of the house of Tonganui, who lived at the bottom of that part of the sea and whose name means Great South; for it was as far to the south that the brothers had paddled from their home. And Maui knew what it was that he had caught, and while he hauled at his line he was chanting the spell that goes: O Tonganui / why do you hold so stubbornly there below? // The power of Muri's jawbone is at work on you, / you are coming, / you are caught now, / you are coming up, / appear, appear. // Shake yourself, / grandson of Tangaroa the little. The fish came near the surface then, so that Maui's line was slack for a moment, and he shouted to it not to get tangled. But then the fish plunged down again, all the way to the bottom. And Maui had to strain, and haul away again. And at the height of all this excitement his belt worked loose, and his maro fell off and he had to kick it from his feet. He had to do the rest with nothing on ...

From July 11 (→ 7-11 → Ga7-11) → Cancer (λ) at day 181 + 11 = 192

to day 280 (40 weeks) there were 280 - 192 = 88 days.

APRIL 14 (104 = 4 * 22 + 16 = 2 * 52)

155

SEPT 17 (260)

11

SEPT 29 (272 = 4 * 64 + 16 = 4 * 68)

7

OCT 7 (280)

Ga1-24

Ga7-11 (180)

Ga7-23 (192)

Ga7-31 (200)

June 17 (168 = 2 * 84)

Nov 20 (*244)

Dec 2 (336 = 4 * 84)

Dec 10 (*264)

BETELGEUZE (*88)

ν Scorpii

CUJAM (*256)

υ (325) Scorpii

157 = 314 / 2

20 = 420 / 21

177 = 6 * 29½ = 472 - 295

Cujam (ε Herculi) was said to be the Club of Hercules:

... The last of these stars to rise in the 17th hour (ε) has the same name as ω, viz. Kajam, but in order to distinguish between them I named it Cujam (the name Kajam already having been used for ω in my astronomy book):

ω, a 4th magnitude double, by some early transcriber's error, is now given as Cujam, from Caiam, the accusative of Caia, the word used by Horace for the Club of Hercules, which is marked by this star. Gaiam, Guiam, and Guyam, frequently seen, are erroneous. In Burritt's Atlas the star is wrongly placed within the uplifted right arm. The Club of Hercules is supposed to have been a separate constellation with Pliny ...