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By assembling circumstantial evidence it has gradually become more and more clear (hoata) that the beginning of November may have been regarded as the month when the heliacal stars ('stones') of early May were visible close to the full Moon in the night. The zodiacal stars describes the path of Sun in a year, but to see them it was necessary to look in the night when Sun was on the other side of the year.

Koa

1. Rori te koa hogihogi, to follow a scent. 2. Joy. Koakoa, joy, content, happiness, gay, satisfaction, hilarity, mirth, to leap for joy, to please, to fondle, dear; ariga koakoa, good-humored; hakakoakoa, to rejoice, to leap for joy. P Pau.: koa, contented, pleased; koakoa, joy. Mgv.: koakoa, rejoicing, joy, mirth, to be content, satisfied; koa, to mourn. Ta.: oaóa, joy, gladness. Churchill.

Pau.: Koari, to languish, to fade. Mgv.: koari, half-cooked. Mq.: koaí, rotten, insufficiently cooked. Koata, a mesh. Ta.: oata, hole in coconuts, etc. Mq.: oata, crevice. Churchill.

Mgv.: Koai, a plant. Ta.: oai, the wild indigo. Ma.: koai, a plant. Akakoana-kohatu, to make a small shapeless hole. Ma.: kohatu, stone. Koata, light of the moon shining before the moon rises. Ha.: oaka, a glimpse of light. Churchill.

The name of δ Bootis - at his right (front in time) shoulder and connected with a spear - has been assigned by someone as Princeps, but that could be the opposite of the real significance of this star. The spear (like the crooked blade) indicates a time of 'killing', not of arriving. And Metoro said oho (leaving):

Simak 5 (175) 11 Syrma 4 (187) 11 Az Zubana 3 (199)
November 7 November 19 December 1
Ca9-3 (231) Ca9-15 (243) Ca9-27 (255)
koia kua oho i te mauga pu hia etoru gagata hakaariki kia raua
Princeps (230.6), Zuben Elschemali (230.8), μ Lupi (231.3) 16h (243.5) Denebakrab (254.7), ι Ophiuchi (255.3), Grafias (255.4)
ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), ξ Scorpii (242.7), Acrab, Jabhat al Akrab (243.3), θ Lupi, Rutilicus (243.5)
May 9 (129) May 21 (141) June 2 (153)
Alresha 8 (358) Sheratan 5 Pleione 3 (17)
no star listed 4h (60.9) no star listed
no star listed

Allen, regarding the Aries constellation:

"... The Atamas used by Columella was a classical reproduction of the Euphratean Tammuz Dum-uzi, the Only Son of Life, whom Aries at one time represented in the heavens, as did Orion at a previous date, perhaps when it marked the vernal equinox 4500 B.C.

Cicero and Ovid styled the constellation Cornus; elsewhere it was Corniger and Laniger; Vervex, the Wether; Dux opulenti gregis; Caput arietinum; and in allusion to its position, Aequinoctialis.

Vernus Portitor, the Spring-bringer, is cited by Caesius, who also mentioned Arcanus, that may refer to the secret rites in the worship of the divinities whom Aries represented.

From about the year 1730 before our era he was the Princeps signorum coelestium, Princeps zodiaci, and the Ductor exercitus zodiaci, continuing so through Hipparchos' time; Manilius writing of this:

The Ram having pass'd the Sea serenely shines, // And leads the Year, the Prince of all the Signs.

But about A.D. 420 his office was transferred to Pisces."

Possibbly the 12 + 12 glyphs following number 231 could represent the 24h of right ascension. November 8 could be counted as 9 * 8 = 72.

Simak 6 7 (177) 8 9 10
November 8 9 10 (314) 11 12
Ca9-4 Ca9-5 Ca9-6 Ca9-7 Ca9-8 (236)
ki te vai kua moe ku hakaraoa e rima no ona ku tupu te poporo
ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5) Pherkad (232.6), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9), Alkalurops (233.1) Nusakan (234.0) θ Cor. Borealis (235.3) γ Lupi (235.6), Gemma, Zuben Elakrab, Qin (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8), ω Lupi (236.3)
May 10 (130) 11 12 13 14
Alrescha 9 10 (360) 11 12 13
Algenib Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2) ξ Tauri (50.8) no stars listed
Simak 11 12 13 (183) Syrma 1 2 3
Nov. 13 14 15 16 17 (321) 18
Ca9-9 Ca9-10 Ca9-11 Ca9-12 Ca9-13 Ca9-14 (242)
kotia kua rere ki te marama e moa haati kava e moa
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), 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) ρ Scorpii (240.8), 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), υ Herculis (242.3), ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4)
May 15 16 (136) 17 18 19 20
Alrescha 14 15 (365) Sheratan 1 2 3 4
Atiks, Rana (55.1), Celaeno, Electra, Taygeta (55.3) Maia, Asterope, Merope (55.6), Alcyone (56.1), Pleione, Atlas (56.3) no star listed Menkhib (57.6) Zaurak (58.9), λ Tauri (59.3) ν Tauri (59.9)
Syrma 4
November 19
Ca9-15 (243)
i te mauga pu hia
16h (243.5)
ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), ξ Scorpii (242.7), Acrab, Jabhat al Akrab (243.3), θ Lupi, Rutilicus (243.5)
May 21 (141)
Sheratan 5
4h (60.9)
no star listed

However, the structure of the C text rather says we should count 12 glyphs from November 7 in order to reach 16h. 243 - 61 = 182. And still, at least according to G, the new dawn has not yet arrived:

Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30 (472) Gb8-30 (1)
 no star listed Beid (62.2) Hyadum I (63.4) Hyadum II (64.2)
4h (60.9) May 22 23 24 (144)
Sheratan 5 6 7 8