2. South of the equator things are 'upside down' compared to our normal perspective and we can therefore expect parallels with the Egyptian view, where the river runs from south to north instead of from north to south. The deluge caused by the rise of the Nile will work as the point from which a new agricultural year takes it beginning. The flow is beginning in the south and will go on all the way down to the delta in the north. Then a new land has been created. The basic scenario is the same as when Fakataka has reached the upraised reef of the new island. A new generation is due to be born. Water collects below and the ancient Polynesian must have been very conscious of the vast sea which was of prime importance for getting from one (is)land to another, and the main old islands were all located below the midline of the earth. Thus their homeland was - like Egypt - very dependent on water. The sky roof is being upraised in spring and possibly the heliacal rise of Avior (when it returned from invisibility) was used as a sign for where the new year in the sky was beginning:
The henua calendar in the G text begins where my model for translating right ascension to glyph numbers has positioned Avior (at Ga3-1, because 472 + 61 = 533). If Sun is allotted 10 months (half 20), then 2 months are needed in the calendar before he arrives, otherwise the sum will not reach 12. December means 'the 10th month'. Perhaps in ancient times the stars delineating the head of the 'sea monster' were only 5 in number (instead of the current 6):
And then also the 'tail' of the monster could have had 5 stars (instead of 6). 5 + 5 = 10, and 2 more could have been represented by ο and δ (between ο and γ). But the measure of a month could be 20 days, both the Gilbertese Polynesians and the Maya Indians counted with 20 days per month.
Perhaps the winter half of the year could be counted in months with 20 nights and the summer half of the year in months with 30 days. However, 6 * 20 + 8 * 30 = 120 + 240 = 360, i.e. a cycle could be equal in length to a 'greater fortnight' consisting of 14 months. It would be nice with summer twice as long as winter. 14 * 29½ = 413 is 30 glyphs (days) before my assumed position for Mira:
But to coordinate with the measure 12 * 29½ = 354 another way to count could be 7 * 20 + 7 * 30 + 4. Here it is necessary to add 4 extra days. But it would be in harmony with 360 + 4 = 364 days for a year, with each quarter equal to 90 + 1 day, as if there were 4 cardinal points outside the regular pattern of quarters. Evidently there are not 4 but 8 glyphs in a group preceding Gb4-33, which suggests there could be a similar pattern with 4 extra days (glyphs) spread out earlier:
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