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Ba4.5

A few afterthoughts:

364 days

13

91 = 13 * 7

91 = 13 * 7

91 = 13 * 7

91 = 13 * 7

21 * 13 = 273 (September 30)

104 = 8 * 13

377 = 13 * 29

September 30 (273) + 22 = 295 (October 22, *215) = April 22 (112, *32) + *183.

Febr 23 (350)

Terminalia

27 (Mensis Intercalaris)

March 1 (355 + 1) First day before the Calends of March

22

5

When in April 28 (118 = 4 * 29½ = 472 / 4) the Full Moon could be observed close to the right ascension line for Toliman (the star least far away from Mother Earth in the night sky) then it would have been known that 3 days later, in May 1 (121 = 11 * 11), the Sun would reach the place of Bharani in the Northern Fly asterism.

Ba4-23 (227 - 80 = 221 - 74) Ba4-24 (148) Ba4-25 (40 + 109 = 149)
kua rere ki te toki e tagata - hakahunu kua tupu te kihikihi i te henua
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9) 31 Bootis (222.0), YANG MUN (South Gate) = α Lupi (222.1), RIJL AL AWWA (Foot of the Barker) = μ Virginis (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9) IZAR (Girdle) = ε Bootis (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (223.3), μ Librae (223.8)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
April 28 (118 = 4 * 29½) 29 30 (120 = 80 + *40)
ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8)

μ Arietis (39.4), HEAD OF THE FLY = 35 Arietis (39.6), KAFFALJIDHMA (Part of a Hand) = γ Ceti, θ Persei (39.8)

 *363.0 = *39.4 - *41.4
π Ceti, ο Arietis (40.0), ANGETENAR (Bend in the River) = τ¹ Eridani, μ Ceti (40.2), RIGHT WING = 39 Arietis (40.9)
→  TERMINALIA FEBR 24 (365 + 55 = 420) 25 (120 - 64 = 56)

In the Golden Age of the Bull the Sun would have been at Toliman in FEBRUARY 23 (day 365 + 54 = 419), which date in Roman times was named Terminalia (the end of the old year).

In the C text the design of the glyph following Toliman at the Full Moon could have alluded to Bissextum:

Cb1-12 (404 = 392 + 12) Cb1-13 Cb1-14
manu rere - kua rere ga manu - ki te ragi eaha te nuku erua koia kua huki
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
ρ Lupi (221.0), TOLIMAN = α Centauri (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9) 31 Bootis (222.0), YANG MUN (South Gate) = α Lupi (222.1), RIJL AL AWWA (Foot of the Barker) = μ Virginis (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9) IZAR (Girdle) = ε Bootis (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (223.3), μ Librae (223.8)
Oct 28 (301 = 118 + 183) 29 (420 - 118 = 302) 30 (80 + 223 = 303)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
April 28 (118 = 4 * 29½) 29 (420 + 64 = 484 = 365 + 119) 30 (120 = 80 + 40)
ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8)

μ Arietis (39.4), HEAD OF THE FLY = 35 Arietis (39.6), KAFFALJIDHMA (Part of a Hand) = γ Ceti, θ Persei (39.8)

 *363.0 = *39.4 - *41.4
π Ceti, ο Arietis (40.0), ANGETENAR (Bend in the River) = τ¹ Eridani, μ Ceti (40.2), RIGHT WING = 39 Arietis (40.9)
→  TERMINALIA FEBR 24 (365 + 55 = 420) 25 (120 - 64 = 56)

Cb1-13 could have been given its shape as a description of how after Terminalia, where the 'living creature' (manu rere) was exiting to the sky (ki te ragi), there followed Bissextum - a pair of nights normally to be counted as singular.

The reason for not perceiving something quite similar in the quoted part of the B text above could be the glyph count. In the C text Toliman is at glyph number 404 (= 400 + 4 = 364 + 40 = 300 + 104 = 227 + 177), but in the B text the glyph number is 147 (= 227 - 80).

In the C text the Centaur is finished (terminated), but perhaps not yet quite so in the B text.

FEBR 21 (52 = 417 - 365)

22 (413 + 5)

TERMINALIA

Gb8-3 (444)

Gb8-4 (→ 32)

Gb8-5 (419 + 27)

588 (= 144 + 444) 589 590 (= 365 + 225 = 584 + 6)

Aug  11 (223)

12 (589 - 365 = 32 weeks)

13 (225 = 15 * 15)
*219 *220 TOLIMAN (*221)

"Sept 15 (258)

16 (*179 = *220 - *41) 17 (260 = 80 + 180)