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From the beginning of the right ascension year we can compare with the C text:

Caph β Cassiopeiae 2.28 58º 52' N 00h 06m 1.5  
Sirrah α Andromedae 2.07 28º 49' N 00h 06m 1.5 AH
  ε Phoenicis 3.88 45° 45′ S 00h 07m 1.8  
Algenib Pegasi γ Pegasi 2.83 14º 54' N 00h 11m 2.8 CH
  θ Andromedae 4.61 38° 41′ N 00h 15m 3.7  
  κ Phoenicis 3.93 43° 41′ S 00h 24m 6.0  
Ankaa α Phoenicis 2.40 42° 18′ S 00h 24m 6.0  
  λ Phoenicis 4.76 48° 48′ S 00h 29m 7.3  
Delta δ Andromedae 3.27 30º 52' N 00h 37m 9.4  
Schedir α Cassiopeiae 2.24 56º 16' N 00h 38m 9.6  
  μ Phoenicis 4.59 46° 05′ S 00h 39m 9.9  
  ξ Phoenicis 5.72 56° 30′ S 00h 39m 10.0  
Deneb Kaitos β Ceti 2.04 18º 16' S 00h 41m 10.4  
  η Phoenicis 4.36 57° 28′ S 00h 41m 10.4  
Achird η Cassiopeiae 3.46 57º 33' N 00h 46m 11.7  
  ρ Phoenicis 5.24 50° 59′ S 00h 48m 12.2  
  η Andromedae 4.40 23° 25′ N 00h 49m 12.4 C
Cih γ Cassiopeiae 2.15 60º 26' N 00h 53m

13.4

  
Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 (*368) Gb3-15 (306) Gb3-16
ε Phoenicis (0.8) Algenib Pegasi (1.8)  θ Andromedae (2.7) no star listed  Ankaa, κ Phoenicis (5.0)
March 22 23 24 25 26 (450)
12 (310) Saad Al Saud 13 Saad Al Akhbia 1 3 3 (314)
Gb3-17 Gb3-18 (*372) Gb3-19 (310)
 no stars listed  Delta (8.4)
March 27 (451) 28 29
Saad Al Akhbia 4 5 6
Saad Al Saud 12 (310) 13
March 22 (81) 23
Ca1-1 Ca1-2
koia ki te hoea
ε Phoenicis (0.8) Algenib Pegasi (1.8)
Saad Al Akhbia 1 2 3 (314) 4 5
March 24 (448) 25 (84) March 26 27 28 (*372)
Ca1-3 Ca1-4 Ca1-5 Ca1-6 Ca1-7
ki te henua te rima te hau tea haga i te mea ke  ki te henua - tagata honui te ika
 θ Andromedae (2.7) no star listed  Ankaa, κ Phoenicis (5.0)  no stars listed
Saad Al Akhbia 6
March 29
Ca1-8
te honu
Delta (8.4) 

Nothing in the structures and designs of these 8 glyphs betrays there could be any common ground between the G and C texts.

March 26 is the π day in the Arabic manzil calendar. This is the position of Ankaa (α Phoenicis). My impressions from the G and C texts is that light ('fire') has not yet arrived in March 29, in spite of 0h now being 8 days in the past. In other words, the Phoenix is still in the clouds of his ashes:

But with the end of March there could be hope of the 'chicken' emerging from his 'earth shell', because there is a tiny crack in front in Ca1-10.

Gb3-20 Gb3-21 (*375) Gb3-22 Gb3-23 (314)
Schedir (8.6), μ Phoenicis (8.9),  ξ Phoenicis (9.0), Deneb Kaitos, η Phoenicis (9.4) no star listed Achird (10.7), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4) Cih (12.4)
March 30 31 April 1 (456) 2 (92)
Saad Al Akhbia 7 8 9 (320) 10
Saad Al Akhbia 7 8 9 10
March 30 31 April 1 (91) 2
Ca1-9 Ca1-10 Ca1-11 Ca1-12
te manu te henua te Rei kua hakagana
Schedir (8.6), μ Phoenicis (8.9),  ξ Phoenicis (9.0), Deneb Kaitos, η Phoenicis (9.4) no star listed Achird (10.7), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η Andromedae (11.4) Cih (12.4)

And then, at te Rei, comes ρ Phoenicis:

"Rho ... uppercase Ρ, lowercase ρ ... is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 100. It is derived from Phoenician letter resh ...

Resh (Arabic: rāۥ) is the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ... The word resh is usually assumed to have come from a pictogram of a head, ultimately reflecting Proto-Semitic *raۥ(i)š-. The word's East Semitic cognate, rēš-, was one possible phonetic reading of the Sumerian cuneiform sign for 'head (SAG) ... " (Wikipedia)

The 'head' (ρ) is the opposite of the 'tail' (deneb). The bird head of Phoenix - we can imagine his pointed beak in the Phoenician letter (which appears to be reversed because they wrote from right to left) - arrives in April 1 or ca 2 days after Deneb Kaitos.

In Ancient Egypt (Source: E. A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead.) the same type of 'head' letter looked like a flag and meant 'holy', neter. The plural neteru was 'gods':

The first part of an arriving ship to be sighted against the line of the horizon it its sail, mounted on its mast like a flag on a pole.

Raa

Sun; day; i te raá nei, today; raá îka, good day for fishing. Vanaga.

1. Sun. 2. Day. 3. Time. 4. Name of sub-tribe. Fischer.

Te manu i te raá = comet. Barthel.

'... The substitution of the sun for the sail, both of which are called ra or raa in Polynesia, is a remarkable feature in Easter Island art ... ' Heyerdahl 3.

1. The sun; raa ea mai, raa puneki, sunrise; raa tini, raa toa, noon. P Mgv., Ta.: ra, the sun. Mq.: a, id. 2. Day, date; a raa nei a, to-day, now; raa i mua, day before. P Mgv., Ta.: ra, a day. Mq.: a, id. Churchill.

'... The chief thus makes his appearance at Lakeba from the sea, as a stranger to the land. Disembarking at the capital village of Tubou, he is led first to the chiefly house (vale levu) and next day to the central ceremonial ground (raaraa) of the island ...' (Islands of History)

Ta.: toraaraa, to raise up. Churchill 2.

... Then out rushed Maui with his enchanted weapon, and beat the sun about the head, and beat his face most cruelly. The sun screamed out, and groaned and shrieked, and Maui struck him savage blows, until the sun was begging him for mercy. The brothers held the ropes tight, as they had been told, and held on for a long time yet. Then at last when Maui gave the signal they let him go, and the ropes came loose, and the sun crept slowly and feebly on his course that day, and has done ever since. Hence the days are longer than they formerly were. It was during this struggle with the sun that his second name was learned by man. At the height of his agony the sun cried out: 'Why am I treated by you in this way? Do you know what it is you are doing. O you men? Why do you wish to kill Tama nui te ra?' This was his name, meaning Great Son of the Day, which was never known before ...

I find this is the right time to update my Polynesian word list with what Fornander has to say in the matter:

"LA, s. Haw., sun, light, day. N. Zeal., ra, sun, day. Marqu., a, id. Sam., la, id.

Deriv.: Haw., lae, be light, clear, shining; lai, shining as the surface of the sea, calm, still; laelae and lailai, intens. Sam., lelei, something very good; lala, to shine; lalangi, to broil. Fiji., rai, to see, appear; rai-rai, a seer, a prophet. Teor., la, sun. Aru Islands, lara, id.; rarie, bright, shining. Amblaw., laei, sun, day.

Irish, la, lae, day.

Laghmani (Cabul), la'e, day.

Sanskr., laj, lanj, to appear, shine; râj, to shine. Ved., to govern; s. a king. If, as Benfey intimates, the Sanskrit verb bhrâj, to shine, to beam, is 'probably abhi-râj', an already Vedic contraction, then the Polynesian root-word al and lae will reappear in several of the West Aryan dialects. Lat., flagrare, flamma, flamen. Greek, φλεγω, φλοξ. A.-Sax., blac, blæcan, &c.

Probably the universal Polynesian lani, langi, rangi, ra'i, lanits (Malg.) designating the upper air, sky, heaven, and an epithet of chiefs, refers itself to the same original la, lai, lanj, referred to above, to which also be referred:

Welsh, glan, clean pure, bright, holy. Sax. clæne, clean, pure. Swed., ren, clean. pure; grann (?), fine, elegant.

It may be noted in connection with this word, either as a coincidence or as an instance of ancient connection, that in the old Chaldean the name of the sun and of the Supreme Deity was Ra, and that in Egypt the sun was also named Ra.

LA², s. Haw., Sam., Tong., ra. N. Zeal., the sail of a canoe; abbreviated from, or itself an older form of, the Fiji. laca, a sail, also the mats from which the sails were made. Sunda., Mal., layar, sail. Malg., laï, sail, tent, flag.

Sanskr., lâta (Pictet), a cloth; latâ (Benfey), a creeper, a plant; lak-taka, a rag. As mats and clothing in primitive times were made of bark or flexible plants, the connection between the Sanskrit latâ and Polynesian laca, la, becomes intelligible.

Armen., lôtig, a mantle. Lat., lodix, a blanket. Irish, lothar, clothing." (Fornander)

Hevelius has the face of Sun in the center of his Athāfiyy part of the Sail:

... My 'pyramid' in Vela is not a true pyramid (with a square base), but a tetraeder (with 4 equal sides). Perhaps there was a Athāfiyy also in Vela (with λ as the top of the tripod). Hevelius has a shield with the face of Sun where the 'fire' should be.