Ba3.7 Once again. Ba3-15 → March 15 (80 - 6 = 74). ... My Sun dates are constructs derived from the right ascension positions of the stars, which might explain why the glyph ordinal numbers in the Ba3 line will be one less. For the Gregorian calendar has no room for a day zero corresponding to the fraction 365¼ - 365. Instead it works with leap days inserted about every 4th year (every 4th 'year and a day') ...
This could be the reason why Metoro read together mai tae hua ia e ariki noho, where hua obviously referred to Ba3-15 and ariki probably to the first part of Ba3-16. Thus he may have perceived glyph number 15 in line number 3 on side a of the tablet as corresponding to March 15 (3-15). Here the fruit (hua) seems to have evolved into a Rogo creator king:
Hetu 1. To (make) sound; figuratively: famous, renowned. 2. To crumble into embers (of a bonfire). Hetu'u. Star, planet; hetu'u popohaga morning star; hetu'u ahiahi evening star; hetu'u viri meteorite. Vanaga Hetu 1. Star (heetuu); hetu rere, meteor; hetu pupura, planet. P Pau.: hetu, star. Mgv.: etu, id. Mq.: fetu, hetu, id. Ta.: fetu, fetia, id. The alternative form fetia in Tahiti, now the only one in common use, need not be regarded as an anomaly in mutation. It seems to derive from Paumotu fetika, a planet. Its introduction into Tahiti is due to the fashion of accepting Paumotu vocables which arose when the house of Pomare came into power. 2. Capital letter (? he tu). 3. To amuse. 4. To stamp the feet. Hetuhetu, to calk, to strike the water. Hetuke, sea urchin. Churchill. ... It was 4 August 1968, and it was the feast day of Saint Dominic, patron of Santo Domingo Pueblo, southwest of Santa Fe. At one end of the hot, dusty plaza, a Dominican priest watched nervously as several hundred dancers arranged in two long rows pounded the earth with their moccasined feet as a mighty, collective prayer for rain, accompanied by the powerful baritone singing of a chorus and the beat of drums. As my family and I viewed this, the largest and in some ways the most impressive Native American public ceremony, a tiny cloud over the Jémez Mountains to the northwest got larger and larger, eventually filling up the sky; at last the storm broke, and the sky was crisscrossed by lightning and the pueblo resounded with peals of rolling thunder ... With 0h at March 21 (80) coming 6 glyphs later he could have counted 21 - 6 = 15 as similar to 80 - 6 = 74 (= 2 * 29½ + 15), which in turn would suggest *74. I.e., given that he thought the precession had carried the fixed stars ahead in the Sun calendar with 74 right ascension days since the beginning of the text (at the Gate of the Goat). I have not attempted to create right ascension dates according to my assumed Dark Nights of the Goat, because we already know from the beginning of the G text that the difference should be *74 - *63 = *11 days. I.e., it is easy to use the dates at the Golden Age of the Bull and subtract 11 (and then turn around to look at the face of the Full Moon).
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