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The Mayan diviners had one more important day (in addition to February 9):

... Later on in this series of rituals, the Chorti go through a ceremony they call raising the sky. This ritual takes place at midnight on the twenty-fifth of April and continues each night until the rains arrive. In this ceremony two diviners and their wives sit on benches so that they occupy the corner positions of the cosmic square. They take their seats in the same order as the stones were placed, with the men on the eastern side and the women on the west. The ritual actions of sitting down and lifting upward are done with great precision and care, because they are directly related to the actions done by the gods at Creation. The people represent the gods of the four corners and the clouds that cover the earth. As they rise from their seats, they metaphorically lift the sky. If their lifting motion is uneven, the rains will be irregular and harmful ...

From February 9 (Sadalsud) to April 25 (115) there were 115 - 40 = 75 days = 5 days followed by 5 fortnights. I have assumed there was no leapday in this interval.

Possibly 100 physicians were necessary at Sadachbia because at the time of the Hyades Gate this was winter solstice and the Sun was in a very bad condition and much people may have been assembled in order to help him.

The Mouth of the Fish (Fom-al-Haut, α Piscis Austrini) evidently was the recipient of the flow from the Urn of Aquarius. The glyphs from the beginning of March seem to describe what happened here. A kind of vaha mea fish in Gb2-28 could refer to a cycle beginning at heliacal Fomalhaut.

Obviously Gb2-27 (22 / 7 = π) was designed to refer to the water from the Urn of Aquarius, beginning at heliacal Situla (κ, Water-jar), i.e. at Christmas Eve at the time of the Hyades Gate when this star was rising with the Sun in day 18 * 19 = 342 counted from 0h. Situla came 5 days before Fomalhaut.

... The state of the tree loomed large in their thoughts, because it came about at the same time the head of One Hunaphu was put in the fork. The Xibalbans said among themselves: 'No one is to pick the fruit, nor is anyone to go beneath the tree', they said. They restricted themselves, all of Xibalba held back. It isn't clear which is the head of One Hunaphu; now it's exactly the same as the fruit of the tree. Calabash came to be its name, and much was said about it. A maiden heard about it, and here we shall tell of her arrival. And here is the account of a maiden, the daughter of a lord named Blood Gatherer.

And this is when a maiden heard of it, the daughter of a lord. Blood Gatherer is the name of her father, and Blood Moon is the name of the maiden. And when he heard the account of the fruit of the tree, her father retold it. And she was amazed at the account: I'm not acquainted with that tree they talk about. It's fruit is truly sweet! they say, I hear, she said. Next, she went all alone and arrived where the tree stood. It stood at the Place of Ball Game Sacrifice. What? Well! What's the fruit of this tree? Shouldn't this tree bear something sweet? They shouldn't die, they shouldn't be wasted. Should I pick one? said the maiden.

And then the bone spoke; it was there in the fork of the tree: Why do you want a mere bone, a round thing in the branches of a tree? said the head of One Hunaphu when it spoke to the maiden. You don't want it, she was told. I do want it, said the maiden. Very well. Stretch out your right hand here, so I can see it, said the bone. Yes, said the maiden. She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden ...