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5. We can now try to integrate my guess of which day numbers the Tahitian star pillars could have had with the text of G:

4 Ana-roto 7 Arcturus 32 Ana-mua 183 Ana-muri 130 5
day 5 day 13 day 46 day 230
45 184
229
360
44 183
Ga4-16 (100) Ga4-17 Ga6-5 (146) Gb4-9 (330)
Ana-roto (?)

beginning of spring (?)

Ana-mua (?) Ana-muri (?)
46 184
230

If Ana-muri should be at rau hei in Gb4-9 (with the star being the last point of the 'Sun canoe'), then my proposed day numbers must be counted from Rei in Ga4-17.

But then Ana-roto must be at glyph number 146 - (46 - 5) = 105 (and not at Ga4-16):

13
Ga4-16 (100) Ga4-17 Ga4-18 Ga4-19
14
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 (105) Ga4-22

This makes sense, because it is a manu kake and it is a day of Mars:

104 258
Ga4-21 (105) Gb5-10 (364)
260
364 = 14 * 26

The day numbers for the Tahitian star pillars evidently can be counted from Rei in Ga4-17:

13
Ga4-16 (100) Ga4-17 (*1) Ga4-18 Ga4-19
14
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 (*5) Ga4-22
Ana-roto (?)
15
Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 Ga4-26 (*10) Ga4-27
16
Ga5-1 Ga5-2 (*13) Ga5-3
Arcturus ?

Possibly not all Tahitian star pillars are noted in the G text, and Arcturus could be such an example, because of the insignificant henua glyph. If Arcturus is in the G text it would rather be at Ga5-1.

We can summarize a possible solution to how to integrate the Tahitian star pillars with the G text:

3 7 32
Ga4-17 (*1) Ga4-21 (*5) Ga5-2 (*13)
Beginning (?) Ana-roto (?) Arcturus ?
45
183
Ga6-5 (*46) Gb4-9 (*230)
Ana-mua (?) Ana-muri (?)
185