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I have earlier assumed the heliacal front side star positions were beginning with Rogo in Gb6-26 (at 0h in rongorongo times), i.e. I guessed the front side reading would be there at least from Gb6-26:

60 no glyph
Gb6-26 (408) Gb6-27 (180) Gb6-28 Gb8-30 Ga1-1
March 21 22 23 (82) May 23 (143) 24 (12 * 12) 25 (5-25)
0h 64 52 * 5 = 260

As a possible alternative we could postulate a beginning of the front side of the year with the Pleiades (Tau-ono):

Gb8-17 (229) Gb8-18 Gb8-19 (460) Gb8-20 Gb8-21
Back side reading:
JUNE 22 23 24 (175) 25 26
April 19 20 21 (111) 22 23
Alrisha, χ Phoenicis (29.2), Alamak (29.7) 2h (30.4) η Arietis (31.9) no star listed (32) θ Arietis (33.3), Mira (33.7)
κ Arietis (30.3), Hamal (30.5)

Alkes

DECEMBER  22 23 24 25 26 (360)
October 19 20 21 (294) 22 23
Agena (212.1), θ Apodis (212.5), Thuban (212.8) 14h (213.1) Neck-2 Al Ghafr-13 / Svāti-15

TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE

(216.4), υ Virginis (216.5), ψ Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8)
χ Centauri, π Hydrae (213.0), Menkent (213.1) Asellus Tertius, κ VIRGINIS, 14 Bootis (214.8) 15 Bootis (215.2), ARCTURUS (215.4), Asellus Secundus (215.5), SYRMA, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8)
Front side reading:
March 7 8 9 (68) 10 11
May 10 (130) 11 12 13 14
Algenib Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

Gienah

no star listed (51) no star listed (52) no star listed (53)

Acrux

no star listed (54)
September 6 7 8 (251) 9 10
November 9 10 (π) 11 12 13
Alkalurops (233.1) Nusakan (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7) θ Cor. Borealis (235.3), γ Lupi (235.6), Gemma, Zuben Elakrab, Qin, ε Tr. Austr. (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8)

Sirrah

φ Bootis (236.2), ω Lupi (236.3), ψ¹ Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor. Borealis (236.9)  ι Serpentis (237.4), ψ² Lupi (237.5), γ Cor. Borealis (237.7), Unuk Elhaia (237.9)
Gb8-22 Gb8-23 Gb8-24 (236) Gb8-25 (466)
Front side reading:
March 12 13 (72) π 15
May 15 16 (136) 17 18
Al Thurayya-27 / Krittikā-3 / Hairy Head-18 Menkhib (57.6)

Porrima

Zaurak (58.9)
Atiks, Rana (55.1), CELAENO, ELECTRA, TAYGETA (55.3), MAIA, ASTEROPE, MEROPE (55.6) ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE, ATLAS (56.3)
TAU-ONO
September 11 12 13 (256) 14 (257)
November 14 15 16 (320) 17
π Cor. Borealis, Cor Serpentis (238.1), Chow (238.6) κ Serpentis (239.3), δ Cor. Borealis, Tiānrǔ (239.5), χ Lupi, (239.6), ω Serpentis (239.7), Ba, χ Herculis (239.8). κ Cor. Borealis, ρ Serpentis (239.9)  β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8) Iklīl al Jabhah-15 / Anuradha-17 / Room-4
ξ Lupi, λ Cor. Borealis (241.1), Zheng (241.2), VRISCHIKA (241.3), ε Cor. Borealis (241.5),  Dschubba (241.7), η Lupi (241.9)
Gb8-26 Gb8-27 Gb8-28 (240) Gb8-29 Gb8-30 (471)
Back side reading:
JULY 1 (182) 2 3 4 5
April 28 (118) 29 30 May 1 2
ν Arietis (38.5) μ Arietis (39.4), Head of the Fly (39.6), Kaffaljidhma (39.8) ο Arietis (40.0), Angetenar (40.2), Right Wing (40.9) Bharani-2 / Stomach-17 no star listed (42)
 π Arietis (41.2), BHARANI (41.4), τ² Eridan, σ Arietis (41.7)
DECEMBER 31 JANUARY 1 2 3 4 (368)
October 28 (301) 29 30 31 November 1
ρ Lupi (221.0), Toliman (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9) 31 Bootis (222.0), Yang Mun (222.1), Rijl al Awwa (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9) Izar (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (223.3) Al Zubānā-14a / Visakha-16 / Root-3 Kochab (225.0)
ZUBEN ELGENUBI (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)
Front side reading:
March 16 (75) 17 18 19 20
May 19 20 (140) 21 22 23
λ Tauri (59.3), ν Tauri (59.9) 4h (60.9) no star listed (61) Beid (62.2)

Vindemiatrix

Al Dabarān-2
no star listed (60) HYADUM I (63.4)
September 15 16 17 (260) 18 19
November 18 (322) 19 20 21 22
υ Herculis (242.3), ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4), ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), ξ Scorpii (242.7)

Schedir

16h (243.5) ψ Scorpii (244.6), Lesath (244.8) χ Scorpii (245.1), Yed Prior, δ Tr. Austr. (245.5) Yed Posterior, Rukbalgethi Shemali (246.6). δ Apodis (246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8)
Acrab, Jabhat al Akrab (243.3), θ Lupi, Rutilicus (243.5), Marfik (243.7), φ Herculis (243.8)
no glyph
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5
Back side reading:
JULY 6 7 8 9 10 11 (192)
May 3 4 5 6 7 8 (128)
ρ Arietis (43.0), Acamar (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7)

Denebola

Menkar (44.7) 3h (45.7) Misam (46.2), Botein (46.9) ζ Arietis (47.7) Zibal (48.0)
Algol (45.9)
JANUARY 5 6 7 8 9 10 (375)
November 2 3 4 5 6 7 (311)
Ke Kwan (226.3), Ke Kwan (226.4), Zuben Elakribi (226.8) Nadlat (227.8), π Lupi (227.9) 15h (228.3) ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8) Al Zubānā-14b μ Lupi, γ Tr. Austr. (231.3)
Zuben Hakrabim (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9) χ Bootis (230.2), χ Bootis (230.3), Princeps (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (230.8)
Front side reading:
0h March 22 (*1) 23 24 (448) EQUINOX 26 (85)
May 24 25 (*65 + 80 = 145) 26 (146) 27 28 (*68 = *64 + 4) 29
Hyadum II (δ¹ Tauri) (64.2) Net-19 no star listed (66) no star listed (67) Rohini-4 / ANA-MURI no star listed (69)
AIN, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7) ALDEBARAN (68.2), Theemin (68.5)
September 20 21 (*184) EQUINOX 23 (266) 24 25
November 23 24 (145 + 183 = 328) 25 (*249 + 80 = 329) 26 (330 = 147 + 183) 27 28
Heart-5 ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), Kajam (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), She Low, ι Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8) Al Kalb-16 / Jyeshtha-18 / ANA-MUA γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) Han (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5)
σ SCORPII (247.0), Hejian (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7) ANTARES (249.1), Marfik, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)

Krittikā (Gb8-22--23) was where the nurses tended the newborn little Mars:

TAURUS:
3 Krittikā M 45 Tauri Knife or spear 55 = 41 + 14
the nurses of Kārttikeya The Pleiades May 15 (135)
4 Rohini α Tauri Cart or chariot, temple, banyan tree 68 = 55 + 13
the red one Aldebaran May 28 (148)

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times.

As Cardea she ruled over the Celestial Hinge at the back of the North Wind around which, as Varro explains in his De Re Rustica, the mill-stone of the Universe revolves. This conception appears most plainly in the Norse Edda, where the giantesses Fenja and Menja, who turn the monstrous mill-stone Grotte in the cold polar night, stand for the White Goddess in her complementary moods of creation and destruction. Elsewhere in Norse mythology the Goddess is nine-fold: the nine giantesses who were joint-mothers of the hero Rig, alias Heimdall, the inventor of the Norse social system, similarly turned the cosmic mill ...

I have redmarked 6 (ono) + 3 = 9 Pleiades stars in my heliacal front side reading:

Gb8-22 Gb8-23 Gb8-24 (236) Gb8-25 (466)
Front side reading:
March 12 13 (72) π 15
May 15 16 (136) 17 18
Al Thurayya-27 / Krittikā-3 / Hairy Head-18 Menkhib (57.6)

Porrima

Zaurak (58.9)
Atiks, Rana (55.1), CELAENO, ELECTRA, TAYGETA (55.3), MAIA, ASTEROPE, MEROPE (55.6) ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE, ATLAS (56.3)
TAU-ONO

... the name [Vindler, one of the epithets of Heimdall] is a subform of vindill and comes from vinda, to twist or turn, wind, to turn anything around rapidly. As the epithet 'the turner' is given to that god who brought friction-fire (bore-fire) to man, and who is himself the personification of this fire, then it must be synonymous with 'the borer' ...

The Sibyl's prophecy does not end with the catastrophes, but it moves from the tragic to the lydic mode, to sing of the dawning of the new age:

Now do I see / the Earth anew / Rise all green / from the waves again ... / Then fields unsowed / bear ripened fruit / All ills grow better ...

The number of nurses was 6, though, and not 9:

... In Hindu mythology, the god Murugan (Skanda/Subrahmanya/Kartikeya) was raised by the six sisters known as the Krttikā and thus came to be known as Kārtikeya (literally 'Him of the Krttikā'). According to the Mahābhārata, Murugan was born to Agni and Svāhā, after the latter impersonated six of the seven wives of the Saptarsi and made love to him. The Saptarsi, hearing of this incident and doubting their wives' chastity, divorced them. These wives then became the Krttikā....

And the one who was nursed was the planet Mars:

... Skanda (literally 'the jumping one' or 'the hopping one') is the planet Mars, also called Kartikeya, inasmuch as he was borne by the Krittika, the Pleiades. Mbh. 9.44-46 (Roy trans. vol. 7, pp. 130-43). It should be emphasized, aloud and strongly, that in Babylonian astronomy Mars is the only planetary representative of the Pleiades. See P. F. Gössmann. Planetarium Babylonicum (1950), p. 279: 'In der Planetenvertretung kommt für die Plejaden nur Mars in Frage.'

The Mahabharata insists on six as the number of the Pleiades as well as of the mothers of Skanda and gives a very broad and wild description of the birth and the installation of Kartikeya 'by the assembled gods ... as their generalissimo', which is shattering, somehow, driving home how little one understands as yet.

The least which can be said, assuredly: Mars was 'installed' during a more or less close conjunction of all planets; in Mbh. 9.45 (p. 133) it is stressed that the powerful gods assembled 'all poured water upon Skanda, even as the gods had poured water on the head of Varuna, the lord of waters, for investing him with dominion'. And this 'investiture' took place at the beginning of the Krita Yuga, the Golden Age ...

This Golden Age could have been when once upon a time the cardinal date MARCH 14 (3-14) was at the 'door' leading from one year to the next and when the Pleiades were rising together with the northern spring Sun. In rongorongo times this star position had moved ahead to day 73 + 64 = 137 (May 17).