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Maybe the Mamari text was created before the news of Neptune reached the island. Maybe the text was an attempt at preserving the old model before it was completely destroyed by the new invisible planet.

In either case we could guess the Uranus symbol adopted in the rongorongo texts had to be slightly changed from what we ourselves are accustomed to:

Saturn

Uranus

Mars

This little table is only an attempt at preserving the ideas we have recently discussed and no attempt to suggest there indeed were such quite similar vero glyphs for Saturn, Uranus, and Mars. The evidence so far is not enough.

Counting ahead from vero in position 362 to the end of side b means going ahead with 740 - 362 = 378 (Saturn) steps:

362 + 378 = 740

Moving on we can then continue with another 378 steps to the 2nd exactly alike vero:

362 + 378 = 740
740 + 378 = 1118

Or we could continue with only 362 steps in order to reach to the beginning of our cycle

362 + 378 = 740
740 + 362 = 1102

The latter path seems more reasonable, because 1102 - 366 = 736 (= 740 - 4).

Once again, we could alternatively begin from vero in position 378 and move to the end of side b:

378 + 362 = 740
740 + 362 = 1102

This excercise appears to 'prove' we should end the calendar cycle (not the star cycle) with vero in Ca13-19 (362):

March 17 18 (77) 28 April 16   17 (107) 347
September 16 17 (260) 17 (290) 18
Ca13-19 (362) Ca13-20 *Ca14-29 Cb1-1 (393)
vero hia - te rima E tupu - ki roto
φ Pegasi (361.7) Dzaneb (362.4)

Acubens

 POLARIS, Baten Kaitos (26.6), Metallah (26.9) Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16
Segin, Mesarthim, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN, φ Phoenicis (27.4)
Phekda, β Hydrae (179.3), η Crateris (179.9) no star listed (180) no star listed (209) Muphrid (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3)

From there to the 'First Point of Aries' there was a month, and 366 - 30 = 336 = 48 weeks = 24 fortnights = 12 * 28.

Side b carries 12 * 29 (= 348) glyphs and 336 + 348 = 684. Accordingly there appears to be not only 8 days 'missing' but 56 because 740 - 684 = 56 (8 weeks).

However, the Uranus double cycle (740) means travelling past its end twice. I.e. 56 = 2 * 28.

56 + 336 = 392 (number of glyphs on side a) = 14 * 28.

Possibly a calendar sequence began with te vero in March 27 (*Ca14-9, 372) and ended after 2 years with March 17 (Ca13-19, 362). Because 1102 - 372 = 730 = 2 * 365:

March 24 25 (450) 26 27 28 29 (88)
September 23 24 25 (268) 26 27 28
*Ca14-6 *Ca14-7 *Ca14-8 (371) *Ca14-9 *Ca14-10 *Ca14-11
kua ruku te manu te kihikihi - te hoea te kihikihi - o te vai - te kihikihi te vero te henua te heke
ζ Tucanae (3.5), π Tucanae (3.7) no star listed (4) Ankaa, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

Alphard

 λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4) no star listed (7) Delta (8.4), Schedir (8.6), μ Phoenicis (8.9)
Chang Sha (186.3) Intrometida (187.4), Acrux (187.5) γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), Algorab (188.5),  Gacrux (188.7)  γ Muscae (189.0), Avis Satyra (189.3), Asterion (189.5), Kraz (189.7) α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7)

Alderamin

 Al Áwwā'-11
ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA, γ Centauri (191.5)
17 April 16   17 (107) 347 361 March 17 18 (77)
October 17 (290) 18 September 16 17 (260)
*Ca14-29 Cb1-1 (393) Ca13-19 (362) Ca13-20
te rima E tupu - ki roto vero hia -
POLARIS, Baten Kaitos (26.6), Metallah (26.9) Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 φ Pegasi (361.7) Dzaneb (362.4)

Acubens
Segin, Mesarthim, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN, φ Phoenicis (27.4)
no star listed (209) Muphrid (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3) Phekda, β Hydrae (179.3), η Crateris (179.9) no star listed (180)

393 (Cb1-1) - 372 (*Ca14-9) + 347 + 362 = 730 = 2 * 365.

At Ca13-20 we surely must count 13 * 20 = 260 because September 17 was Gregorian day 260, when in rongorongo times no prominent star was close to the Full Moon (in position 180).

March 27, at the beginning of the suggested double 365-day cycle, was the day after the pair of leading 'eyes' of the Phoenix rose heliacally.