The 'gap of Saturn' could stretch from Dhanishta to Shatabishta, for 27 nights from Gregorian day 392 (January 27) to February 23 (419). Another alternative is 45 nights - from February 23 (419) to April 8 (day 464 if we allow also February 29 to be counted):
Furthermore, number 464 (100 more than 364) was the glyph number in G where (according to my reconstruction) the Pleiades began to rise heliacally:
May 15 (500) - 464 (April 8 in a leap year) = 36. But 500 assumes there is no leap day February 29 to be counted and the Polynesian name for the Pleiades (Tauono, 6 stones) points at May 16. 501 (May 16) - 466 (April 10) = 36. April 10 = Gregorian day 100 in a normal year. Revati (ζ Piscium) could have been perceived as similar to the Pleiades cluster, who once was (ca 2500 years ago) the common Sign for the returning Sun. Looking in the other direction, to the point of the Dolphin where Sun may have vanished beneath the waves of the Sea
it is tempting to use RA day 314 (January 29) instead of my first suggestion, which was built on rather weak arguments:
... I think day 392 could be the correct date, because drums should accompany a border between 92 and 93. Also - there are 392 glyphs on side a of the C tablet ... We should perhaps count from the last of the Dhanishta stars, γ, because 314.6 (γ) + 80 - 365¼ = 29.4 and then there will be precisely 24 'midnights' to Sadachbia (Shatabisha).
Sun would here be regarded as absent and instead Saturn would be in power. My change to a leap year results in his numbers:
April 10 (100 or 466) - February 23 (54 or 418 - not 419) = 46, and 24 + 46 = 70 (= 350 / 5). Saturn could have ruled for 1 / 5 of a regular year and Sun for the remaining 40 weeks. A funeral cot was associated with the Hindu pair of Pegasus stations. This cot should probably be contrasted both with the hammock of the lazy old summer lion - like a great cat's cradle - and the small bed for his newborn son (in January 3).
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