4. The number of days in the G text - according to my interpretation - is 1 more than 150% of 314 or 1 more than the number of glyphs on the tablet. Gb8-30 should be counted twice. Otherwise the cycle 16 * 29½ will not be closed.
But a year is only 365¼ days long, which raises questions. When I suggested Polaris could be in two places, both at vaha mea in Gb7-25 and at the peculiar bird straining his neck to look more than straight up in Gb4-8, we should notice the distance from the one to the other:
436 - 329 = 107 = 472 - 365. The position of Polaris in Gb7-25 (where 72 * 5 = 360) was found by counting backwards from Aldebaran and the other stars rising heliacally in May. And the position of 'December 31 (at Gb4-8) was found by counting backwards 80 days from 'March 21 at Rogo in Gb6-26:
Wezen (δ Canis Majoris) was rising heliacally 107 days later than 00h 00m. Once again number 107. If we should count right ascension days from Polaris, then 'March 21 would be at 26.6 + 80 = RA day 107, i.e. at 7h because 7h / 24h * 365¼ = 107. ... Royer cut away a portion of Canis Major, and constructed Columba Noachi therewith in 1679. The part thus usurped was called Muliphein, from al-mulipheïn, the two stars sworn by, because they were often mistaken for Soheïl, or Canopus, before which they rise: these two stars are now α and β Columbae. Muliphein is recognized as comprehending the two stars called Had'ár, ground, and al-wezn, weight ... Wezen is at the backbone of Canis Major according to Hevelius:
Counting ahead in the text instead of backwards, Gb4-8 will be found to be 392 glyphs after Gb6-26. 329 + 472 - 409 = 392. The date wíll now be 'April 17, exactly as at Gb7-25:
... The bird with only one wing (kara etahi) in day 472 (107 days beyond 'December 31) has in front a sign which looks like a kind of ure pointing straight up, presumably at the Pole star, which also the bird precariously is straining his neck to look at. The negative sign possible to detect between wing, neck, and the back of the bird's head looks like a 'biting hand'. It proves Polaris is in both places. Furthermore, we should notice the connection with Antares, rising heliacally in day 329, equal to the glyph number for Gb4-8:
From November 25 to December 31 there are 365 - 329 = 36 days. 36 + 186 ('July 5 when Wezen was truly rising heliacally) = 222. And Pollux is at Ga2-22:
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