2. The 4th Tahitian star pillar, Ana-tipu, the upper-side-pillar (where the guards stood), Dubhe (α Ursae Majoris), is located 168 days beyond Sirrah:
There are no Tahitian star pillars positioned beyond day number 250, there are no pillars beyond Ana-mua:
250 + 168 = 418 = 365 + 53. Maybe, therefore, stars could become important signs again in line b3, because 168 - 53 = 115 and 186 + 115 = 301:
Glyph number 300 possibly is intended to illustrate a kind of vaha kai where Sun is devoured. The 9 feather signs in front look like teeth in a widely open mouth and it is a day of Jupiter. (Cfr at Vaha Kaiand at Ana-mua). Possibly, we can guess, number 168 was adopted from when Dubhe arrived, a number sign which could be used to indicate the end of the winter year. If so, then 368 (= 168 + 200) could refer to the end of the summer year. From Dubhe to Phaed there are 12 days and the pillar of exit, Ana-iva (γ Ursae Majoris), could define the end of a 180-day long 'year', completed close to spring equinox. Maybe the next 'year' (summer) then was ending around autumn equinox about 200 days later. However, in the G text 168 at first sight appears to have been used as a measure for the distance from Antares to day number 354 (= 12 * 29½), and with Moon as guide rather than Sun it should not be surprising to find 168 (instead of 368) as a sign for the end of the summer 'year'. The Moon half of the cycle is not close to its end. If hau tea in Gb4-33 alludes (or refers) to Dubhe then day number 354 + 12 = 366 ought to correspond to Phaed, in which case there should be 2 (as in 182) or 4 (as in 184) days to the end of the year:
Ordinal number 16 in the line and the identical form of the 3 rising fishes (Ga5-14--16) are certainly meant to induce us to continue counting on to glyph number 370. It should here be noted that the Mamari text has 392 + 348 = 740 glyphs, which could represent 370 days if - as in Q - each day has 2 glyphs. The number of remaining glyphs, beyond mago in Ga7-16 to the end of the line, is 18. If Ga7-16 is associated with Ana-mua and day number 250, then the last glyph in line a7 should be connected with day number 268:
We can now see that 168 'evaporates' so to say - is split up into 18 + 150 - where 150 could refer to the 2nd half of 10 * 30 = 300 days for Sun. 185 + 19 + 150 = 354, and maybe there are 19 (a Sun number) days of high summer, preceded by a 1st half year (185 days) and followed by a 2nd half year (150 days). Number 268 (counted from autumn equinox) could then be a sign for the end of high summer. The following table was my result when I tried to find correlations between 68 + n * 100, the glyphs in G, and the main stars:
I perceive we must consider pairs of glyphs. Before midsummer the glyphs with significant numbers (68 and 168) apparently come first, but then (268 and 368) they come in the 2nd position. At Moe we saw how Gb3-12 fits in a pattern, possibly meaning Spring Sun (Kuukuu) is ending his days here:
The beginning of the takaure (winter) season probably is described in line b3 (the line without henua signs):
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