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5. From the Tahitian Faa-iti (the Pleiades?) to the Tuamotuan Faa-iti there are ca 472 - 464 + 19 = 27 days:

Gb8-11 (453) Gb8-12 Gb8-13
Menkar (453.7)  Algol (454.9)  Misam (455.2)
Gb8-14 (456) Gb8-15 Gb8-16 Gb8-17
Gb8-18 (460) Gb8-19 Gb8-20 Gb8-21
6 18
Gb8-22 (464) Gb8-23 Gb8-24
Faa-iti?
Ga1-18 (19) Ga1-19 Ga1-20
Alnilam?
Ga1-21 (22) Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25 Ga1-26 (27)
Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29 (30)

27 is also the ordinal number of the very special glyph Ga1-26 (where 12 * 6 = 72). It is a Moon-day but its number in the line says 'Sun'.

27 is the cube of 3 and behind Moon and Sun we can therefore imagine Saturn (the dark ruler who can create fire).

27 = 216 / 8 = 108 / 4 = 540 / 20.

If the Pleiades should culminate when it is midnight, then Alnilam will be in the same position about a month later.

If we decide to connect the Tahitian Faa-iti with the Pleiades and the Tuamotuan Faa-iti with Alnilam, and then also to correlate them with the glyphs in G as I have suggested above, we have decided the position of a star ought to be fixed to the time when it is culminating when we are reading the G text.

Maybe we will later on in the text find a change of the time of observation to sun-up.