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Beyond σ Scorpii there is no longer any consensus between the Arab, Hindu, and Chinese structures. Maybe it means the Sun year ended with the 'Biting of the Sun':

Arab Hindu Chinese
α Virginis (Spica) Oct 10 (283) α Virginis (Spica) Oct 10 (283) α Virginis (Spica) Oct 10 (283)
ι (Syrma), κ, φ Virginis Oct 23 (296) α Bootis (Arcturus) Oct 22 (295) κ Virginis Oct 22 (295)
α (Zuben Elgenubi), β Librae (Zuben Elschemali) Oct 31 (304) α, β, γ and ι Librae Oct 31 (304) α Librae (Zuben Elgenubi) Oct 31 (304)
Nov 7 (311)
β (Acrab), δ (Dschubba), π Scorpii (Vrischika) Nov 17 (321) β, δ, and π Scorpii Nov 17 (321) π Scorpii (Vrischika) Nov 17 (321)
α Scorpii (Antares) Nov 25 (329) α, σ, and τ Scorpii Nov 25 (329) σ Scorpii Nov 23 (327)
Novem (9) in November 25 implies 92 * 5 = 460 = 10 * (329- 283).
  ε, ζ, η, θ, ι, κ, λ, and μ Scorpii Dec 6 (340) μ Scorpii (Denebakrab) Dec 1 (335)
δ and ε Sagittarii Dec 24 (358) γ Sagittarii (Nash) Dec 20 (354)
α, ε, and ζ Lyrae Dec 28 (362) φ Sagittarii (?) Dec 30 (364)
π Sagittarii (Al Baldah) January 5 (370) ζ and σ Sagittarii Jan 3 (368)  
α Capricorni (Gredi), β (Dabih) January 23 (388) α, β, and γ Aquilae Jan 15 (380) β Capricornii (Dabih) Jan 23 (388)

Once upon a time this would have happened at the equinox ('in the west'). 327 (November 23) - 265 (September 22) = 62, or counted to Antares 329 - 265 = 64 (and 64 * 71 = ca 4500 years ago).

But maybe there was an additional structure with 4 lunar synodic months ending with Antares:

ε Hydrae (212) 25
μ Hydrae (237)
45 Spica (283) 45 Antares (329)
118 = 4 * 29½
June solstice
22 Well μ Gemini (Tejat Posterior) Tapir (95.4) Jun 24 (175) 175 = 165 + 10
23 Ghost ρ Gemini ? Goat (112.1) Jul 11 (192) 192 = 175 + 7
24 Willow δ Hydrae Stag (129.6) Jul 29 (210) 210 = 192 + 18
25 Star α Hydrae (Alphard) Horse (142.3) Aug 10 (222) 222 = 210 + 12
26 Extended Net ε Hydrae / μ Hydrae Ox (131.9 / 157.1) Jul 31 (212) / Aug 25 (237) 237 = 212 + 25
27 Wings α Crateris (Alkes) Snake (165.6) Sep 3 (246) 246 = 237 + 9
28 Chariot γ Corvi (Gienah) Worm (185.1) Sep 22 (265) 265 = 246 + 19
September equinox

We ought here to look back to July 31 in order to seek for some Sign which could indicate the Extended Net in the C text, which then would point at the Chinese structure because neither the Arabs nor the Hindu used ε Hydrae in their structures.

Yes, indeed we can recognize a great hau tea similar to that at Antares (and there is no more of this particular kind in the C text). The distance from Cb5-12 up to and including Cb9-23 is 615 - 498 = 118 = 4 * 29½:

July 28 29 30 31 (212)
Cb5-9 (495) Cb5-10 Cb5-11 Cb5-12
kua kake te manu  puoko erua E nuku mata te kihikihi o te ariki - te hokohuki te hau tea
no star listed Āshleshā-9 / Al Nathrah-6 / Willow-24 ASCELLUS BOREALIS (130.9), η HYDRAE (131.0), ACELLUS AUSTRALIS (131.4) Extended Net-26
π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ HYDRAE (129.6), AL MINHAR AL SHUJA, Museida (129.9), Beehive (130.4), Xestus (130.5) Koo She (131.6), ε HYDRAE (131.9), ι Cancri (132.0), ρ HYDRAE (132.4)
January 26 27 28 (393) 29 (*314)
ROTTEN MELON, φ Pavonis (311.2), η Delphini (311.4) ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis (311.7), ROTANEV, ι Delphini (312.3) θ Delphini, τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7),  SVALOCIN, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8), Deneb Cygni (313.5) Dhanishta-24
δ DELPHINI (313.8), β Pavonis (313.6), Yue (314.3), Gienah Cygni, η Cephei (314.5)
August 1 2 3 4 (216) 5
Cb5-13 Cb5-14 (500) Cb5-15 Cb5-16 Cb5-17
te moa te maitaki te henua e gagata tu ki te huaga
no star listed ζ Hydrae (134.1) Acubens, Talitha Borealis (135.0)  ρ Ursa Majoris (135.6), ν Cancri (136.0), Talitha Australis (136.1) 9h (137.0)
ω Hydrae (136.8), σ¹ Ursa Majoris (137.0), κ Cancri (137.3), Alsuhail (137.5)
January 30 31 February 1 2 3 (399)
Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 / Girl-10 Baten Algiedi (315.8), μ Aquarii (316.0) no star listed ε Equulei (317.8) Armus (319.0), Dorsum (319.3)
γ Delphini (314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7), ALBALI (314.8)
110 Nov 24 25 (329) 26 27 28
Cb9-22 Cb9-23 (615) Cb9-24 Cb9-25 Cb9-26
Te inoino te hau tea te inoino tagata honui kua kake - ki te manu e manu piri rua
ψ Ophiuchi (247.7), ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), Kajam (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5) Al Kalb-16 / Jyeshtha-18  / T1 ω Ophiuchi (249.8), 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)
She Low, ι Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8),  ANTARES (249.1), Marfik, φ Ophiuchi (249.5)
May 25 26 27 28 (148) 29
no star listed Net-19 no star listed Rohini-4 / T2 no star listed
θ² Tauri, AIN, θ¹ Tauri (65.7) ALDEBARAN (68.2), Theemin (68.5)

Convincingly hau tea at the end of July had close to the Full Moon in the night the nakshatra date January 29 - Gregorian day 394 (= 314 + 80). This was when the Dolphin rose with the Sun, and more precisely with δ Delphini (313.8):

Egyptian door Phoenician dalet Greek delta Δ (δ)

... Delta (uppercase Δ, lowercase δ) ... is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 4. It was derived from the Phoenician letter Dalet.

Letters that come from delta include Latin D and Cyrillic Д. A river delta (originally, the Nile River delta) is so named because its shape approximates the upper-case letter delta (the shape is a triangle) ...

Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets ... The letter is based on a glyph of the Middle Bronze Age alphabets, probably called dalt 'door' (door in Modern Hebrew is delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door.

4 days later Rogo in Cb5-16 seems to be inserted in a kind of net, possibly because of the Gregorian day number for August 4, viz. 216 (= 3 * 72). It does not look as a real net but the principle of pars pro toto could have been used.

... The 'living god', moreover, passes the night prior to the dismemberment of Lono in a temporary house called 'the net house of Kahoali'i', set up before the temple structure where the image sleeps. In the myth pertinent to these rites, the trickster hero - whose father has the same name (Kuuka'ohi'alaki) as the Kuu-image of the temple - uses a certain 'net of Maoloha' to encircle a house, entrapping the goddess Haumea; whereas, Haumea (or Papa) is also a version of La'ila'i, the archetypal fertile woman, and the net used to entangle her had belonged to one Makali'i, 'Pleiades'. 

Just so, the succeeding Makahiki ceremony, following upon the putting away of the god, is called 'the net of Maoloha', and represents the gains in fertility accruing to the people from the victory over Lono.  A large, loose-mesh net, filled with all kinds of food, is shaken at a priest's command. Fallen to earth, and to man's lot, the food is the augury of the coming year. The fertility of nature thus taken by humanity, a tribute-canoe of offerings to Lono is set adrift for Kahiki, homeland of the gods. The New Year draws to a close ...

I guess the 'loose-mesh net' could refer to the net imagined in the sky roof, with lines of right ascension crossing lines of declination. Such a net could then represent the whole of the coming year.

Rogo (Lono) is a figure at the beginning of a new year. Counting the right ascension date at Rogo in the net (Cb5-16) it becomes 216 - 80 = 136 and this number could allude to May 16, when in rongorongo times the Pleiades rose with the Sun. May 16 is Gregorian day 136 and August 4 is Gregorian day 80 + 136:

March 21 (80) 135 August 4 (216)
Gb6-26 Cb5-16