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8. We can look for the season of Kuukuu in the Babylonian zodiac:

The Moon year (12 * 29½ = 354 nights) probably ends with the last glyph in line b4, and autumn equinox could be in line b2 (number 10 from the beginning of the front side) - from where 'Kuukuu needs a canoe':

86
Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (266) Gb2-11 Gb2-12 Gb4-33 (354) Gb5-1
91
equinox Sun equinox Moon
a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 b1 b2 (10) b3 b4 a1 a2 a3
'The Reef' (57) Kuukuu (150) 'Sea' (147)
2nd quarter 3rd quarter 4th quarter 1st quarter
27 30 29 34 26 26 35 30 33 31 29 24
111 141 170 204 230 256 291 321 354 31 60 84
86 86 98 84
172

182

The part of the Milky Way above the ecliptic is beginning at Sagittarius and ending at Gemini, and it has 7 figures, 5 of which are 'aloft' - and they could correspond to the season of Kuukuu on the other side of the equator compared to Babylon:

Pabilsag

Sagittarius

 Eagle & Dead Man Panther Stag Old Man Crook Great Twins

Gemini
Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Aries Taurus
a6 a7 a8 b1 b2

Nowadays we cannot find spring equinox at Scorpio (with Ana-mua) - where the Milky Way is reaching up to the ecliptic and following it for quite a while until Sagittarius initiates a new season. Maybe 'The Reef' could once have been the stretch from Scorpio to Sagittarius.

Spring equinox lies at present earlier than Scorpio, approximately at Virgo (Furrow and Frond). At the other end we will find Ana-muri in Taurus and later than autumn equinox (at Pisces).

The last glyph in line b2 has ordinal number 291 and then the season of Kuukuu evidently is finished:

Gb2-34 Gb2-35 (291) Gb3-1 Gb3-2

The 'canoe' in Gb3-2 at first does not seem to be related to the one in Gb2-12, although the design is the same. But autumn equinox can be defined either by its present day number 266 or it could be 'astrologically defined' by the higher day number corresponding to the sky sign once chosen to illustrate equinox (eg. Libra):

winter solstice 204 autumn equinox 204
22 2 23 13
Ga1-22 Ga1-25 (26) Gb1-24 Gb2-12 (268)
26 - 2 = 22 + 2 = 24 (= 4 * 6) 38 - 2 = 23 + 13 = 36 (= 6 * 6)
472 = 2 * 204 + 10 * 6 + 2 * 2
230 61 135 44
Gb3-2 (292) Gb7-17 (428)
292 180
472 = 292 + 180

292 - 266 = 26. Instead of the present position of the equinoxes (at Virgo and Pisces) they once were around Libra and Aries. Gb3-2 is located 266 glyphs later than Ga1-25.

If we choose to put Ana-muri at day number 290 (which could be another number for autumn equinox, the conjunction of 29 and 10), then we will fix Ana-mua and all the rest of the stars accordingly:

30 4 Sirius 13 Procyon 26
day 325 day 339
5 40
75 (= 360 / 4)
Alphard 23 Ana-tipu 34 Ana-roto
day 1 day 25 day 60
24 (= 4 * 6) 36 (= 6 * 6)
60
12 Arcturus 32 Ana-mua 183 Ana-muri
day 73 day 106 day 290
45 (= 5 * 9) 185 (= 5 * 37)
230
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 Ga4-22 (106)
Ana-mua (?)
Gb2-34 Gb2-35 (291) Gb3-1 Gb3-2
Ana-muri (?)

There are no Tahitian star pillars between Ana-mua and Ana-muri, where the Milky Way stretches above the ecliptic.