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Bb1.0

Experience from working with side a of the tablet could make us perceive a division of the flow of glyphs at the beginning of side b into groups of seven (i.e. into right ascension weeks):

Such an idea could be argued by for instance:

There are 31 glyphs in line Bb1, but perhaps we should begin to count already from the last glyph on side a, because this was suggested by the Cardinal letter of Metoro. Maybe he had counted to 6 times 70:

Ba10-29 Ba10-30 Ba10-31 (420 = 6 * 70) Ba10-32 (→ 320)
ma te maitaki koia ra kua hoki to rarahoi kua tu ki to toga Etagata itiiti

Rara. Mgv.: a branch of a tree. Ta.: rara, id. Mq.: rara, small branches. Sa.: lala, id. Ma.: rara, id. 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.

INVISIBLY CLOSE TO THE SUN:
MAY 23 24 (12 * 12) 25 (290 / 2) 26
VISIBLE CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

OKUL = π Capricorni (309.6), BOS = ρ Capricorni (309.9)

ARNEB (α Leporis)

MINTAKA (δ Orionis)

ο Capricorni (310.2), θ Cephei (310.5)

HEKA (λ Orionis)

ALNILAM (ε Orionis)

ROTTEN MELON = ε Delphini, φ Pavonis (311.2), η Delphini (311.4), ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis (311.7)

PHAKT (α Columbae)

ALNILAK (ζ Orionis)

*270.0 = *311.4 - *41.4

ROTANEV = β Delphini, ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7), SVALOCIN = α Delphini, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8)
Jan 24 25 26 27 (392)
NOV 21 22 23 24 (328)

The function of head- and tailless Ba10-32 might be not only to allude to the south pole in the sky at Dramasa (*320) but also to draw attention to the sum 32 of 31 days = 63 = 9 right ascension weeks.

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

We should recall the end of side b on the G tablet, with 63 right ascension days from Rogo at heliacal Sirrah to Hyadum I (*63.4),

Gregorian equinox

63

1

229

75

Julian equinox

Gb6-26 (408)

Gb3-15 (305)

March 21 (80)

368 = 365 + 3

March 25 (84)

... When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC he set March 25 as the spring equinox. Since a Julian year (365.25 days) is slightly longer than an actual year the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about 21 March in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March. This drift induced Pope Gregory XIII to create a modern Gregorian calendar. The Pope wanted to restore the edicts concerning the date of Easter of the Council of Nicaea of AD 325 [3 * 25 = 75 → Gb3-14 → Gb3-11 → 11 March].

And Perseus walked over 9 dark unknowns (•) when he saved Andromeda from Cetus 364 - 9 = 355 (December 21):

... Mathematical zero is a difficult concept, not in harmony with thinking globally, not a natural number. When 10 is reached it only means a new cycle will begin, and you cannot add it to the previous cycle because it is either the previous cycle which has returned or a cycle of another kind. The 2nd half of the year is different from the 1st half, and therefore you have to change the mode of counting and continue on your toes ...