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On February 9 the Chorti Ah K'in, 'diviners', began their agricultural year by going to a sacred spring where they selected five stones with the proper shapes and colours. In rongorongo times and at that time of the year the 'stones' (stars, tau) of Sirius and Vega culminated at midnight and possibly they could therefore have been involved in this Mayan ceremony. Gb2-5 is glyph 260 in the text:

... β and ξ also constituted the Persian lunar station Bunda and the similar Coptic Upuineuti, the Foundation; but β alone marked the sieu Heu, Hiu, or Hü, Void, anciently Ko, the central one of the seven sieu which, taken together, were known as Heung Wu, the Black Warrior, in the northern quarter of the sky. It is found in Hindu lists as Kalpeny, of unknown signification. On the Euphrates it was Kakkab Nammaχ, the Star of Mighty Destiny, that may have given origin to the title of the manzil [Al Sa'd al Su'ud], as well as to the astrologers' name for it - Fortuna Fortunarum ...

February was Tehetu'upú, which name should mean the 'birth hole of the Star' (ana), perhaps because a new Sun 'broke through', was born, in February.

Once, now quite a long time ago, when I sorted glyphs according to form I had no problem with identifying the tamaiti (little child) type in Gb2-7:

The Tail of the Goat (Deneb Algiedi, δ Capricorni) rose with the Sun 329.8 - 315.8 = 14 days after the Belly of the Goat (Baten Algiedi, ω Capricorni) and in rongorongo times this was 329 days after 0h - which immediately should remind us of day 329 counted from January 1 (i.e. 249 days after 0h) when Antares rose with the Sun. 265 (Gb2-10) - 80 = 185 (Ga7-16):

The shark in Gb2-10 has its tail divided with toes visible at left (in the past) and with a fin in front. It means 'land' ends here and 'water' begins here. The figure probably refers to Deneb Algiedi because Hevelius has visualized this point of division in time.

Gb2-10 illustrates a shark (mago) of the type which is basically vaha mea, but this is no ferocious shark but a peaceful one:

Antares 80 days earlier ought to represent the opening up of a new cycle and Deneb Algiedi drawn to represent autumn equinox (September 22, 265).

On Easter Island February it is not a spring month but a month in autumn. However, the overall meaning of the text could simply have been to show how once upon a time the northern spring equinox was at the Hyades Gate - in rongorongo times pushed ahead by the precession from 0h to 64.2 (May 24) - and with Antares rising heliacally half a year later, at the end of summer:

For symmetry reasons 80 days before 0h could have been balanced by another 80 days after Antares.