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2. We can correlate this triplet of stars with Gb8-15, Gb8-22, and Gb8-26:

Gb8-10 Gb8-11 Gb8-12 Gb8-13 Gb8-14 Gb8-15 Gb8-16
Acamar (452.6) Menkar (453.7)  Algol (454.9)  Misam (455.2)  Botein (455.9)  Ziba l(457.0)  
Gb8-17 Gb8-18 Gb8-19 Gb8-20 Gb8-21 Gb8-22
Algenib (459.0)         Atiks (464.1), Rana (464.1)
Gb8-23 Gb8-24 Gb8-25 Gb8-26 Gb8-27
The Pleiades Menkhib (466.6)  Zaurak (467.9)  

Zaurak is not far from right ascension 04h and the upraised hands which are reversed compared to those in Botein (12 days earlier) ought to have some meaning. The head is now turned forward and the glyph type is basically hanau (birth).

The head of the bird is not radically distorted as those in the surrounding glyphs. The neck is straight in front but curved at the back. The foot in front has toes, but the foot at the back is without and closed.

68 days beyond day number 400 something new is arriving. 82 * 6 = 492 (= 192 + 300) = 4 * 123.

Zaurak marks a low point in the river:

"Zaurac and Zaurak are from the Arabic Al Nā'ir al Zaurak, the Bright Star of the Boat; but Ideler applied this early designation to the star that now is α of our Phoenix ... " (Allen)

"Alpha Phoenicis (α Phe, α Phoenicis) is the brightest star in the constellation Phoenix. It has the traditional name Ankaa, from the Arabic ... al-‘anqā’ 'the phoenix'. Medieval Arab astronomers formed the constellation of the dhow (small boat) where Phoenix is, so another popular name for the star is Nair al-Zaurak from ... al-na’ir az-zawraq 'the bright (star) of the skiff'. The Latin translation is Cymbae, from lūcida cumbæ ..." (Wikipedia)

So Zaurak means a kind of boat. It makes sense to go by boat on a river. Perhaps the left leg of the bird sitting low in Gb8-26 is meant to represent the hull of a ship? Maybe the ship has reached the shore of a new land:

On the twenty-fifth day of the first month ('Vaitu Nui'), i te rua te angahuru marima raa o te vaitu nui. p. 17
Ira and Makoi set sail; i oho.mai ai a ira.ko Makoi.
on the first day of the month of June ('Maro'), i te raa po rae o te.maro.
the bow of Ira's canoe appeared on the distant horizon, came closer on its course, and sailed along, i tomo ai te ihu o te vaka.o Ira.he onga mai te vaka o Ira.
and finally one could see the (new home) land. he turu he oho mai he tikea te kainga.
The canoe reached the islets (off the coast), and Ira saw that there were three such islets. he tuu ki te motu he ui a Ira.ko te motu etoru.
... ...
Unforgotten are they, these three. kai viri kai viri.ko raua ana a totoru.
And therefore this is the (right) land lying there; peira tokoa te kainga e moe mai era
this is Te Pito O Te Kainga, which also received its name from the dream soul. ko te pito o te kainga i nape ai e toona kuhane.
The canoe continued its exploration and in a sweep sailed on to Hanga Te Pau. hokoou.he rarama he oho te vaka he vari ki hanga.te pau
They went ashore and took he tomo ki uta.he too
the food with them. i te kai ki uta. p. 18
They pulled the canoe onto the beach and left it there. hee totoi i te vaka ki uta he hakarere.
Ira sat down with all the other (companions) he noho a ira anake.

The page numbers in Manuscript E (17, 18) suggest Venus and Saturn, and the arrival of the canoe of the explorers could be higher up in the sky, why not at Algenib (α Persei)? Its position is day number 459 and from there to Rana there are 5 days. Day number 464 = 364 + 100 and 464 can be read as 46 * 4 = 184.