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7. The first 3 glyph lines on the front side of the G text amount to 84 days, maybe to be thought of as 3 * 28:

Ga1

Ana-mua, entrance pillar

Antares, α Scorpii

-26° 19'  16h 26

Ga2

Ana-muri, rear pillar (at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

Aldebaran, α Tauri

16° 25'  04h 33

Ga3

Ana-roto, middle pillar

Spica, α Virginis

-10° 54'  13h 23

Ga4

Ana-tipu, upper-side-pillar (where the guards stood)

Dubhe, α Ursae Majoris

62° 01'  11h 01

The thick neck of tagata on the front side suggests a strongly built man, and I once - without any deeper reflections - decided to use such a figure as my standard tagata character:

tagata Ga4-1 (85) Ga4-2

Probably this athletic figure personifies the front side, the side of Sun, while the other variant with a tall and slender neck refers to the side of Moon. The numbers (5 respectively 8) are in harmony with such an interpretation.

Ga1-2 Ga1-11 Ga2-1 (32) Ga4-1 (85) Gb1-5 (235)
Gb5-6 (360) Gb5-27 (381) Gb6-2 (385) Gb6-6 (389)
Gb6-9 (392) Gb6-12 (395) Gb6-15 (398) Gb8-9 (451)

Takaure in Ga4-2 has a slender neck, a further argument for this type of neck indicating the season when Sun is absent.

Ga4-1 is in henua period number 7 and we must reduce by 3 if we wish to get a correspondence with number 4 in a4:

7 (*4)
Ga4-1 (85) Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4
8 (*5) 9 (*6)
Ga4-5 (89) Ga4-6 Ga4-7 (91) Ga4-8
10 (*7)
Ga4-9 (93) Ga4-10
11 (*8) 12 (*9)
Ga4-11 (95) Ga4-12 Ga4-13 Ga4-14 (98) Ga4-15
13 (*10)
Ga4-16 (100) Ga4-17 Ga4-18 Ga4-19
14 (*11)
Ga4-20 (104) Ga4-21 Ga4-22
15 (*12)
Ga4-23 (107) Ga4-24 Ga4-25 Ga4-26 Ga4-27

The obliquely cut-off henua at the end of line a4 seems to have also eliminated the top of the growing maro at right, leaving only 4 feathers. Otherwise there ought to have been 6 feathers, because 5 feathers will return only later:

16 (*13)
Ga5-1 Ga5-2 Ga5-3
17 (*14)
Ga5-4 Ga5-5 Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 Ga5-9

I suggest we should once again notice that the first 3 henua periods are of a special nature, because they have parallels in other texts, and - furthermore - it seems quite reasonable to associate them with the first 3 star pillars:

1 Ana-mua (?)
Ga2-27 Ga2-28 Ga2-29 Ga3-1 (*4)
Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5 (*8)
2 Ana-muri (?)
Ga3-6 Ga3-7 Ga3-8 Ga3-9 (*12)
3 Ana-roto (?)
Ga3-10 Ga3-11 Ga3-12 Ga3-13 (73)
Ga3-14 Ga3-15 Ga3-16