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The position of Mars in a solar type of calendar cannot be defined by where it actually is observed because this changes from year to year. But a symbolically correct position once ought to have been at the 'eye' of the Bull (εpsilon means the very little one).

In Ga1-2 we can imagine the pair of eyes dangling at left correspond to the pair of vai glyphs ('fly eyes') in Ca2-15 and -20. At any rate there is drawn as a vertical string of measurement, joined to the tip (tara) of a crescent which is a mirror reflection of that in front in Ga1-1:

Ga1-1 (*65) Ga1-2 Ga1-3 Ga1-4
  Ain, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)   Aldebaran (68.2), Theemin (68.5)
May 25 (5-25) 26 27 28
Sheratan 9 10 11 12
Sheratan 9 10 11
May 25 26 (146) 27
Ca3-14 Ca3-15 Ca3-16
tapamea - tagata hoi hatu ki te ariki kiore
  Ain, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)  

A vertical line is conspiciously drawn also in front in Ca3-16. Together with the vertical line at left in Ca3-14 it forces our attention to ariki in Ca3-15.

The number of glyphs on the C tablet is 740 and glyph 40 therefore also corresponds to number 780 (April 30) where Metoro said tagata oho (the person who leaves):

Bharani, the 2nd Hindu lunar station:
Al Muahkhar 8 9 10  11 12 13 (350)
April 26 27 28 29 30 (120) May 1
Ca2-10 Ca2-11 Ca2-12 Ca2-13 Ca2-14 (40) Ca2-15
ki te kea tagata oho ki roto o to vai kua noho te kea kua hua te rima tagata oho ki te vai
        Head of the Fly (39.6), Kaffaljidhma (39.8) Right Wing (40.9), Bharani (41.4)

Oho is to leave and hoki is to return. Position 2-14 is 'reflected' in position 3-14.

This per se does not carry much argumentative weight. However, when considering that April 30 also is day 365 + 120 = 485 it becomes more interesting, because 485 + 295 (= 5 * 59) = 780.

The ariki type of glyph probably refers to the Sun King. May 26 is day 146 (= 2 / 5 * 365) counted from the beginning of the year.

ariki Ca3-15
Ariki

1. King, ruler, member of the nobility, Ariki henua, king; members of the royal family, descending from Hotu Matu'a; noble, nobility, chief. 2. Divine being, superior being. Ariki Paka, certain collateral descendents of Hotu Matu'a, who exercised religious functions. Vanaga.

Chief, king, lord, headman in general. Hakaariki, to make one a king. P Pau., Mgv.: ariki, chief. Mq.: aiki, id. Ta.: arii, id. The Marquesan use both aiki and hakaiki in the same sense; the latter forms with Mangarevan akariki a subordinate couple in Southeast Polynesia. Since akariki is the only form in Mangareva and the Marquesas have both we may regard this as indicative of the influence of Mangareva upon the Marquesas. In Tonga we find only eiki; the vowel change is quite in the Tongan manner, the dropping of the liquid is most unusual; the eiki form appears once more in Mangarevan ataeiki (also a language in which it is unusual to drop the liquid) in the sense 'to do nothing and to dress richly in a luxurious way'. Churchill.

"ALII, s. Haw., a euph., a king, a chief.

Rarot., Paum., ariki, id. Fakaafo, aliki, id. Mangar. akariki, id. Tong., eiki, id. Marqu., aiki, hakaiki, id. N. Zeal., ariki, chief and high-priest. Tah., arii, chief. Sam., alii, chief.

Sanskr., rij (for primitive Vedic rāj, to govern, Benfey), to stand or be firm, be strong; rāj, rājan, king. Goth., reiki, dominion; reiks, king, chief. Sax., rik, noble; rici, dominion, state. Icel., rikr, in compounds as ul-rikr, e-rikr. Swed., rik, rich; riki, kingdom.

Irish, righ, king; airigh, chief. Welsh, -rix, a frequent suffix in the names of nobles. Zend, raĝi, kingdom (A. Pictet). Lat., rex, king; rego, rectus." (Fornander)