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Let's try once more. To begin with we have the 3 dates of the Saints:

112 St George's Day (113) 59 St John's Day (173) 32 St James' Day (206) 159
365

The distance from St George to St John is 60 days, which seems well planned.

Next we can divide the distance from the beginning of the year to the day of St George into 80 (to the March equinox) + 33 days:

80 32 St George's Day (113) 59 St John's Day (173) 32 St James' Day (206) 159
365

Now we have twin periods with 33 days in each and it seems reasonable to use the same type of glyph for both saints:

Al Muakhar 5 6 7 (344)
St George's Day April 24 25 (115)
Ca2-7 (33) Ca2-8 Ca2-9
manu rere e tara tua tagata oho
no star listed Neck (214.8) no star listed
Mira (33.7)
Alhena 4 5 6 (72)
St James' Day July 26 27 (208)
Ca5-21 (126) Ca5-22 Ca5-23
te Rei te manu te henua
Gredi (307.2)  ο Ursa Majoris (127.4) θ Cancri (128.2), η Cancri (128.5)
Avior (126.4)

Gredi, my strange name for the nakshatra star of Avior (ε Carinae), is α Capricorni. Somewhere I must have stumbled because Al Giedi means the Goat.

Date Heliacal star RA distance Nakshatra star
April 1 (91) η Andromedae (11.4) 181.5 Mimosa (192.9)
April 17 (107) Polaris (26.6) 181.9 Benetnash (208.5)
April 24 (114) Mira (33.7) 181.1 κ Virginis (214.8)
May 28 (148) Aldebaran (68.2) 180.9 Antares (249.1)
July 6 (187) Wezen (107.1) 181.3 Nunki (288.4)
July 26 (206) Avior (126.4) 180.8 Gredi (307.2)
August 21 (233) Regulus (152.7) 181.9 Sadalmelik (334.6)
September 4 (247) Dubhe (166.7) 181.1 Fomalhaut (347.8)

... From Deneb Kaitos (9.4) rising in spring to Deneb Algiedi (329.8) there are 320 days, leaving only 45 days to the end of the year.

Above we can imagine a chiastic structure involving the glyph types (a) manu rere and (b) tara and Rei. There is a similarity in design 'quality' between tara (in Ca2-8) and Rei (Ca5-21).

Possibly the tara type of glyph with an open great 'jaw' illustrates the very great intake of breath when 'sky' and 'sea' are separating in spring (at the time of St George).

And Rei at the time of St James could then illustrate a kind of sea shell. When new land is rising up from the sea there is initially no grass or trees growing on it. But there are shells.

The 'emblematic' quality of this pair of glyphs reminds me of the pair in G:

180
Ga1-4 Ga7-16

There are twin great feats, first the rising of the sky roof in early spring and later the drawing up of new land from the sea. From the first to the second there are 60 + 33 = 93 days. In the center is June 9 (where 160 = 113 + 92 / 2 + 1):

Pleione 10 11 12 (26) 13
June 9 (160) 10 11 12 (528)
Ca4-4 (80) Ca4-5 Ca4-6 Ca4-7
tagata - te rau hei te hokohuki i te moko te rau hei e gagata hakaariki

Land (henua) is the result in Ca5-23 and in Ca2-9 there is a tagata who departs (oho). He has no hands.

Oho

1. To go: ka-oho! go! go away! (i.e. 'goodbye' said by the person staying behind); ka-oho-mai (very often contracted to: koho-mai), welcome! (lit.: come here); ku-oho-á te tagata, the man has gone. Ohoga, travel, direction of a journey; ohoga-mai, return. 2. Also rauoho, hair. Vanaga.

1. To delegate; rava oho, to root. 2. To go, to keep on going, to walk, to depart, to retire; ka oho, begone, good-bye; oho amua, to preced; oho mai, to come, to bring; oho arurua, to sail as consorts; hakaoho, to send, a messenger. 3. Tehe oho te ikapotu, to abut, adjoin; mei nei tehe i oho mai ai inei te ikapotu, as far as, to; kai oho, to abstain, to forego; hakaoho, to put on the brakes. 4. The head (only in the composite rauoho, hair). Churchill.

Indeed, we could compare this life-less tagata (with an open perimeter) with a pair of separated 'shells'.

If we change the length of the year from 365 days to 366 (= 2 * 183 = 6 * 61), then the symmetries will become even greater, with 80 + 160 (= 2 * 80) = 240 (= 3 * 80) days outside the 'season of upheaval':

80 32 St George's Day (113) 59 St John's Day (173) 32 St James' Day (206) 160
33 60 33
366 (= 300 + 66)

We can, furthermore, find the 'Hyades gate' halfway from St George to St John (113 + 29 - 80 = 62):

Sheratan 4 5 6 7 (372) 8
May 20 21 22 23 24 (144)
Ca3-9 (60) Ca3-10 Ca3-11 Ca3-12 Ca3-13
tapamea tagata kua iri ki te pa kua hua ki te kotiga kiore i te henua
ν Tauri (59.9) 4h (60.9) Beid (ο¹ Eridani) (62.2) Hyadum I (63.4) Hyadum II

However, Antares should have a place in this calendar map of time. From St James (206) to the date when Antares was rising heliacally (329) there are 123 days:

32 St George (113) 59 St John (173) 32 St James (206)
33 60 33
89 October 22 (295) 33 Antares (329)
90

3 * 33 + 3 * 50 = 249 (the RA day of Antares). In addition there are 80 days to March 21, and 80 + 249 = 329.