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And then:

At the time of Bharani the Babylonian ideas were probably still influencing the thoughts of the astronomers. The form of Capricornus, as we still perceive the constellation, resembles a ship. It was here the 'water' in the sky began.

ARIES:
1 Ashvini β and γ Arietis Horse's head 27 = 8 + 9
wife of the Ashvins Sheratan and Mesarthim April 17 (107)
2 Bharani 35, 39, and 41 Arietis Yoni, the female organ of reproduction 41 = 27 + 14
the bearer  Musca Borealis May 1 (121)

But the Babylonians had their Cargo Boat earlier and close to where the Milky Way river was turning up and leading across the sky to Taurus (Bull of Heaven):

Probably the Cargo Boat was south of Sagittarius and corresponding to our Corona Australis, which upside down crown according to Hevelius seems to be carrying the front right leg of the Sagittarian horse 'onboard as cargo':

A part of the old body (from the old harvest) would secure growth in the next year. In the night journey of the morning sun god Horus he had similarly the leg of a 'harvested companion' in front, which would secure his return to 'land'. I have suggested the peculiar arrangement corresponded to the last Phoenician letter before the season of fishing:

 

... The winnowing-fan (λίκνον [líknon], also meaning a 'cradle') featured in the rites accorded Dionysus and in the Eleusinian Mysteries: 'it was a simple agricultural implement taken over and mysticised by the religion of Dionysus', Jane Ellen Harrison remarked. Dionysus Liknites ('Dionysus of the winnowing fan') was wakened by the Dionysian women, in this instance called Thyiades, in a cave on Parnassus high above Delphi; the winnowing-fan links the god connected with the mystery religions to the agricultural cycle, but mortal Greek babies too were laid in a winnowing-fan. In Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus, Adrasteia lays the infant Zeus in a golden líknon, her goat suckles him and he is given honey ...

The Babylonian Cargo Boat, however, had not a leg but something which looks like a 'black sun' onboard. Maybe the Cargo Boat was the headgear of the vanished old king turned upside down to become a boat.

The first Greek lettered star in Corona Australis is κ, rising in the day before Vega and 35 days before Baten Algiedi. Alphekka Meridiana is α Coronoa Australis, a star which in rongorongo times rose heliacally 290 days after 0h. At the same time rose Al Baldah (π Sagittarii, at the back of his head) and β in Corona Australis, the last Greek lettered star in the constellation:

Ga1-30 Ga2-1 Ga2-2 Ga2-3 (33) Ga2-4
 Furud (94.9) Well-22 no star listed (96) β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) no star listed (98)
δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR, Mirzam (95.4), CANOPUS (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)
June 23 ST JOHN'S EVE 25 26 (177) 27
ºJune 19 20 (*91) SOLSTICE 22 23
'May 27 28 (*68) 29 30 (*70) 31
'Vaitu Potu 27 28 (148) 29 30 (150) 31
"May 13 14 (*54) 15 (*55) 16 (136) 17
Purva Ashadha-20 Kaus Borealis (279.3) ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9) Abhijit-22
KAUS MEDIUS, κ Lyrae (277.5), Tung Hae (277.7) KAUS AUSTRALIS (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), Al Athfar (278.6) θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA (281.8)
Dec 23 (357) CHRISTMAS EVE 25 26 (360) 27
 ºDec 19 (*273) 20 SOLSTICE  22 23 (357)
'Nov 26 (*250) 27 28 29 30 (*254)
'Ko Ruti 26 27  28 29 (333) 30
"Nov 12 (*236) 13 14 15 16 (320)
Ga2-5 Ga2-6 Ga2-7 Ga2-8
ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)

Gemma

ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), Mebsuta (100.7) Sirius (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7) τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4)
June 28 29 30 July 1 (182)
ST JOHN'S EVE ºJune 25 26 (177) 27
'June 1 (*72) 2 3 4
'He Maro 1 2 3 (154) 4
"May 18 (*58) 19 20 (140) 21
no star listed (282) ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), Double Double (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8) South Dipper-8 Sheliak, ν Lyrae (285.1), λ Pavonis (285.7)

Atlas

Φ SAGITTARII (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)
December 28 29 30 (364) 31
CHRISTMAS EVE ºDecember 25 26 (360) 27
'December 1 2 3 (*257) 4
'Ko Koró 1 2 (336) 3 4
"November 17 18 19 20 (324)
Ga2-9 Ga2-10 Ga2-11 Ga2-12
θ Gemini (103.0), ψ8 Aurigae (103.2), Alhena (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae (103.9) Adara (104.8) ω Gemini (105.4), Alzirr (105.7), Muliphein (105.8), Mekbuda (105.9) 7h (106.5)
no star listed (106)
July 2 3 4 (185) 5
ºJune 28 29 (*100) 30 ºJuly 1 (182)
'June 5 6 7 (*78) 8
'He Maro 5 (156) 6 7 8
"May 22 23 24 (144) 25 (*65)
Ain al Rami (286.2), δ Lyrae (286.3), κ Pavonis (286.5), Alya (286.6) ξ Sagittarii (287.1), ω Pavonis (287.3), ε Aquilae, ε Cor. Austr., Sulaphat (287.4), λ Lyrae (287.7), Ascella, Bered (Ant.) (287.9) Uttara Ashadha-21 19h (289.2)
NUNKI (288.4), ζ Cor. Austr. (288.5), Manubrium (288.8), ζ Aquilae (288.9) λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8)
January 1 (366) 2 3 4
ºDecember 28 29 30 (364) 31 (*285)
'December 5 6 7 8 (342)
'Ko Koró 5 6 (*260) 7 8
"November 21 (325) 22 23 24 (*248)
Ga2-13 Ga2-14 Ga2-15 Ga2-16 Ga2-17
Wezen (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9) no star listed (108) λ Gemini (109.4), Wasat (109.8) no star listed (110) Aludra (111.1), Propus (111.4),  Gomeisa (111.6)
July 6 7 (188) 8 9 10
ºJuly 2 3 4 (185) 5 6 (*107)
'June 9 10 11 12 13 (*84)
'He Maro 9 10 11 12 13 (164)
"May 26 27 28 (*68) 29 30 (150)
Al Baldah-19 Aladfar (291.1), Nodus II (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), θ Lyrae (291.8) ω Aquilae (292.1), ρ Sagittarii (292.6), υ Sagittarii (292.7) Arkab Prior (293.0), Arkab Posterior, Alrami (293.2), χ Sagittarii (293.6) Deneb Okab (294.0), α Vulpeculae (294.9)
AL BALDAH, Alphekka Meridiana (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)
January 5 (370) 6 7 8 9
ºJanuary 1 2 3 (*288) 4 5 (370)
'December 9 10 (344) 11 (*265) 12 LUCIA
'Ko Koró 9 10 (*264) 11 (345) 12 LUCIA
"Nov 25 (329) 26 (*250) 27 28 29
 
Ga2-18 Ga2-19 Ga2-20 (50) Ga2-21 Ga2-22 Ga2-23
Ghost-23 Al Dhirā'-5 / Punarvasu-7 ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA α Monocerotis (115.4), σ Gemini (115.7) κ Gemini (116.1), POLLUX (116.2), π Gemini (116.9) Azmidiske (117.4)
ρ GEMINI (112.1), Eskimo Nebula (112.2)

Antares

CASTOR (113.4) υ Gemini (114.0), Markab Puppis (114.7), ο Gemini (114.8), PROCYON (114.9)
July 11 12 (193) 13 14 15 (196) 16
ºJuly 7 8 9 10 11 12 (193)
'June 14 15 16 17 (*88) 18 19
'He Maro 14 15 16 17 (168) 18 19
"May 31 (151) "June1 2 (*73) 3 4 5
ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), Albireo (295.5) μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8), κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9) ε Sagittae (297.1), σ Aquilae (Ant.) (297.4), Sham (297.8) β Sagittae (298.0), χ Aquilae (298.3), ψ Aquilae (298.8) υ Aquilae (299.1), Tarazed (299.3), δ Sagittae (299.6), π Aquilae (299.9) Sravana-23
ζ Sagittae (300.1), ALTAIR (300.3), ο Aquilae (300.5), Bezek (300.8)
January 10 11 12 (377) 13 14 15
ºJanuary 6 7 (372) 8 9 10 (*295) 11
'December 14 15 16 (350) 17 18 19
'Ko Koró 14 15 16 17 18 19 (*273)
"November 30 "December 1 2 (336) 3 4 5 (*259)
Belly of the Sea Beast Baten Kaitos (26.6) April 16 (472) 'March 20 (80) "March 6 (66)
ζ Ceti 27 + 365 = 392 = 8 * 49 26 + 80 = 106 = 472 - 366 472 - 27 = 445 = 80 + 365 472 - 41 = 431 = 66 + 365
Belly of the Sun July 31 (*132) 'July 4 (*105) "June 20 (*91)
395 - 183 = 212 368 - 183 = 185 354 - 183 = 171
The City Al Baldah (290.1) January 5 (370) 'December 9 (343) "November 25 (329)
π Sagittarii 290 290 + 80 = 370 370 - 27 = 183 + 160 370 - 41 = 183 + 146
Belly of the Goat Baten Algiedi (315.8) January 30 (395) 'January 3 (368) "December 20 (354)
ω Capricorni 316 + 365 = 681 = 3 * 227 315 + 80 = 395 = 30 + 365 395 - 27 = 368 (= 183 + 185) 395 - 41 = 354 (= 183 + 171)

In rongorongo times Antares rose with the sun in November 25, but in the time of Bharani this occurred 41 days earlier, in day 329 - 46 = 283 ("October 10).

... The four males and the four females were couples in consequence of their lower, i.e. of their sexual parts. The four males were man and woman, and the four females were woman and man. In the case of the males it was the man, and in the case of the females it was the woman, who played the dominant role. They coupled and became pregnant each in him or herself, and so produced their offspring.

But in the fullness of time an obscure instinct led the eldest of them towards the anthill which had been occupied by the Nummo. He wore on his head a head-dress and to protect him from the sun, the wooden bowl he used for his food. He put his two feet into the opening of the anthill, that is of the earth's womb, and sank in slowly as if for a parturition a tergo.

The whole of him thus entered into the earth, and his head itself disappeared. But he left on the ground, as evidence of his passage into that world, the bowl which had caught on the edges of the opening. All that remained on the anthill was the round wooden bowl, still bearing traces of the food and the finger-prints of its vanished owner, symbol of his body and of his human nature, as, in the animal world, is the skin which a reptile has shed ... (Marcel Griaule, Conversations with Ogotemmêli.)

Greek κ located at the beginning of a constellation could mean 'reversal'. This phenomenon occurs not only in Corona Borealis but also in Lyra. The return to land could have been described with positioning κ at the beginning instead of at the end.

Reversal is in G evidently illustrated by the 'giving arms' turned around in Ga2-8 (July 1 / December 31) and Ga2-10 (Alhena / Nunki)