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Virgo is neither far down nor high up, instead she lies outstretched on the ecliptic where it is crossing the 0º declination. Her beginning today, or to be more precise at my assumed precessional time of the rongorongo texts, was when ω rose heliacally 175 days from equinox. But, once, far back in time Virgo must have risen together with Sun just after the solstice, when the new year was beginning.

drilled hole
Kb1-15 Kb1-16 *Kb1-19 *Kb1-20 *Kb1-21 *Kb1-22
κ Crateris (172.5) ο¹ Centauri (173.8), ξ Hydrae (174.3) ο² Centauri, λ Centauri (174.8), θ Crateris (175.0), ω Virginis (175.3) ι Crateris (175.5), ο Hydrae (176.1)  ζ Crateris, ξ Virginis  (177.0), λ Muscae (177.1), ν Virginis (177.2) μ Muscae (177.8), 93 Leonis (178.0), Denebola (178.3)
'September 10 '11 (254) '12 '13 (256) '14 '15
Alterf 12 13 (118) Dschuba 1 2 3 4 (122)
drilled hole
Kb2-1 Kb2-2 Kb2-3 Kb2-4 *Kb2-6 *Kb2-7
Alaraph (178.6), Phekda, β Hydrae  (179.3) η Crateris (179.9) π Virginis (181.0) ο Virginis (182.1) Alchita, Ma Wei (183.1) Minkar (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)
'September 16 '17 (260) '18 '19 '12h (182.6) ' 21 (264)
Dschuba 5 6 7 8 9 10 (128)

The 3 first stars of Virgo (ω, ξ, and ν) are followed by Alaraph (β Virginis) as number 4.

A mirror reversal evidently takes place after the manzil day 122 where the Lion is ending. The same number occured 8 weeks earlier, as the number for the right ascension day at the beginning of the henua calendar. 178 - 122 = 56 (=136 - 80).

Heap of Fuel (presumably soon to be alighted) rose heliacally close to 8h and in the day after the π glyph (3-14). The following day was 7-22 in the Gregorian calendar which can express π inverted. Thus there evidently were mirror reversals both at 8h and 180 days from equinox (viz. in Gregorian day 260).

Ka3-15 Ka3-16 Ka3-17 Ka3-18 Ka3-19 Ka3-20 Ka3-21 (62)
Heap of Fuel (122.1) Tegmine (123.3) Al Tarf (124.3) Bright Fire (125.4) Avior (126.4)  ο Ursa Majoris (127.4) θ Cancri (128.2)
'8h (121.7) 'July 22 '23 '24 '25 '26 '27 (208)
Heka 13 Alhena 1 2 3 4 5 6 (72)

180 - 122 = 58 (= 2 * 29).

The 2nd Rei in the text is at the 66th manzil day Heka 13, and Heka is the star λ at the neck of Orion:

The drilled hole in the K tablet appears twice in the text and in between there are 4 + 4 = 8 glyphs, perhaps alluding to the 8 dark nights of Venus before she returns in the early morning.

The Chinese 20th way station ruled by Heka was named Turtle Head, perhaps because the face of Orion is not visible (as if drawn inside a protecting helmet).

... An iconographic study by Jeff Kowalski suggests a cosmological layout for the Nunnery. The higher placement of the North Building, with its 13 exterior doorways (reflecting the 13 layers of heaven), and the celestial serpents surmounting the huts identify it with the celestial sphere. The iconography of the West Building, with 7 exterior doorways (7 is the mystic number of the earth's surface), and figures of Pawahtun - the earth god as a turtle - indicate this to be the Middleworld, the place of the sun's descent into the Underworld.

The East Building has mosaic elements reflecting the old war cult of Teotihuacan, where tradition had it that the sun was born; thus, this may also be Middleworld, the place of the rising sun. Finally, the South Building has 9 exterior doorways (the Underworld or Xibalba had 9 layers), and has the lowest placement in the compex; it thus seems to be associated with death and the nether regions ...

The distance from Heka - 'June 12 (163) - to the drilled hole in the K tablet and ω Virginis (255) suggests the absence of Venus in the sky before she returns as evening star. North of the equator the solar year is reaching its 'evening phase' with Virgo. And 92 happens to be the number of days from 'May 21 to 'June 21.

 phase

observed periods

periods in the Mayan 'map'

the K text

evening star

263

250

248

black

8

8

8

morning star

263

236

236

black

50

90

92

sum

584

584

584

The numbers I am suggesting as possible for the K text add up beautifully:

 phase

observed periods

periods in the Mayan 'map'

the K text

black

50

90

92

evening star

263

250

248 248

black

8

8

8 256

morning star

263

236

236 492

sum

584

584

584

584 = 8 * 8 + 20 * 26 = 400 + 2 * 92.

Gregorian day 264 is September 21 and the 8 glyphs in K leading up to this date are beginning with mauga in right ascension day 177:

*Kb1-21 (*177) *Kb1-22
 ζ Crateris, ξ Virginis  (177.0), λ Muscae (177.1), ν Virginis (177.2) μ Muscae (177.8), 93 Leonis (178.0), Denebola (178.3)
'September 14 (257) '15
Dschuba 3 4 (122)
drilled hole
Kb2-1 Kb2-2 Kb2-3 Kb2-4 *Kb2-6 *Kb2-7
Alaraph (178.6), Phekda, β Hydrae  (179.3) η Crateris (179.9) π Virginis (181.0) ο Virginis (182.1) Alchita, Ma Wei (183.1) Minkar (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)
'September 16 '17 (260) '18 '19 '12h (182.6) ' 21 (264)
Dschuba 5 6 7 8 9 10 (128)