5. The natural next task should be to find the midpoints between the pair of Polaris glyphs (plural because the text describes a cycle):
436 - 329 = 107 = 2 * 53 + 1. Glyph number 382 is in position 329 + 53 and glyph number 383 in position 436 - 53, and the center must be at number 13 * 29½ = 383½. The center is between the end of line b5 (line 13 of the 16 on the tablet) and the beginning of line b6 (line 14):
Counting from 'April 17 (107) and 50 days ahead we will arrive in day 157 (half 314) which is 'June 6, where the kava glyph could be signifying the ceremony for the new King. 52 * 5 = 260. Hakaariki (to make a king) is glyph 378:
With the sidereal period of Saturn close to 29½ years it could have been natural to see the planet as another time-giver (in addition to Moon with a synodic month close to 29½ days). If we move in the other direction and subtract 50 days from Gb7-25 we will arrive in day 57 which is 'February 26, where the glyph number is 436 - 50 = 386.
When I classified glyphs the unusual Gb6-3 was a problem, but finally I decided it could belong among the kava glyphs, because of its undulating body and closeness to kava in Gb5-25. The string of dates between the pair of Polaris glyphs are therefore in a way intertwined. But it is tempting to immediately decide the center must be between 'February 23 and 'February 24: ... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day') ... If we therefore move backwards in time instead of forward, we can now lock dates and stars to the glyphs:
14 * 29½ = 413 = 'February 17. If the King (Melik) is reinstated on his throne he of course will be lucky (sa'd). Kae Uh is ο Aquarii and the Chinese name means the Roof. I imagine it means light is inside, like the embryo in an egg, still hidden from view. Or like Pharaoh inside the temple of Upwaut, the Opener of the Way. ... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest ... If we instead should have moved forward, the stars and dates would have been different:
This reading cannot be ruled out, with λ Eridan rising just above Rigel as if to announce the arrival of the great King Orion:
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