3. The distance 181 days from Aldebaran to Antares in the G text could alternatively refer to the number of days between their midnight culminations, because this number happens to be close to 181 days.
... From 'January 10 (I assume Allen's epoch is the same as that of the rongorongo texts) to 'July 11 there are 557 - 375 = 182 days ...
It is no rule of nature that the distribution of the right ascension days over the year should be exactly the same as the distribution of midnight culminations. From e.g. Procyon to Acturus there are 100 right ascension days whereas the distance between their culminations is 104 days:
This fact opens up a way for us to decide whether the distance in the G text from Ga1-4 to Ga7-16 truly refers to right ascension days (which I so far have assumed) or if it possibly could measure the distance between the culmination dates of Aldebaran and Antares:
I invented a convention with a superimposed straight line, e.g.
A summary diagram for the right ascension distances cannot be the same as a summary diagram for the culmination distances:
Possibly the key for the culmination pattern could be number of fortnights - given that we count with 364 days in a year:
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