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The end of heliacal February could then, according to my view, on side a of the tablet perhaps be as follows:

April 16 17 (107) 316
October 16 17 (290)
Ca1-26 Ca2-1 (27)
kua moe ki te tai. Te heke
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)
no star listed (209) Muphrid (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3)
February 28 (59) 29 (425) March 1 (60)
Ca13-1 (344) Ca13-2 (345) Ca13-3 (346)
Kua haga te tagata kua haga e kua noi
Matar (344.2) Leap night λ Pegasi (345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), τ Aquarii (345.7), μ Pegasi (345.9)

I have here suggested there was a leap day between February 28 and March 1. This means there was no RA day to be counted with at February 29 and that the RA day number at March 1 would be 344 + 1 = 345. From there the glyph numbers would be 1 more than the RA day numbers.

The nakshatra positions could have been continued to be counted as usual, without interruption because the corresponding Gregorian days were in October. For the nakshatra positions the leap day February 29 would then have occurred half a year earlier:

April 16 17 (107) 133
October 16 17 (290)
Ca1-26 Ca2-1 (27)
kua moe ki te tai. Te heke
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)
no star listed (209) Muphrid (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3)
August 29 (241) 30 31 September 1
February 28 (59) 29 (425) March 1 (60) 2
Ca6-21 Ca6-22 Ca6-23 Ca6-24 (164)
kua ka te ahi i te rima aueue - te ika te marama kua hua marama kua tuu i te kihikihi
no star listed (161) Vathorz Posterior (162.1), Peregrini, η Carinae (162.6) ν Hydrae (163.1) no star listed (164)

Altair

Matar (344.2) Leap night λ Pegasi (345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), τ Aquarii (345.7), μ Pegasi (345.9) ι Cephei (346.0), λ Aquarii, γ Piscis Austrini, σ Pegasi (346.5)
179 February 28 (59) 29 (425) March 1 (60)
August 30 (242) 31 September 1
Ca13-1 Ca13-2 (345) Ca13-3
Kua haga te tagata kua haga e kua noi
Matar (344.2) Leap night λ Pegasi (345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), τ Aquarii (345.7), μ Pegasi (345.9)
Vathorz Posterior (162.1), Peregrini, η Carinae (162.6) ν Hydrae (163.1) no star listed (164)

Altair

44 April 15 16 (106)
October 16 17 (290)
*Ca14-28 *Ca14-29 (392)
te honu te rima
no star listed (25)  POLARIS, Baten Kaitos (26.6), Metallah (26.9)
no star listed (209) Muphrid (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3)

I regard the first 3 glyphs in line Ca13 as evidence in favour of my way of assigning Gregorian dates, beginning with March 22 at Ca1-1. Ca13-1--2 are evidently similar and different from Ca13-3, which is a moe type of glyph:

moe Ca13-3
Moe

To sleep, to lie at full length, to dream, to brood, to place, to cohabit; moe atu, to leave off, to desist; moe atu ra, to adjourn, to postpone; moe hakahepo, to talk in the deep; moe aherepo, somnambulist, sleepwalker; moe hakataha, to sleep on the side; moe no, to oversleep, concubinage; moe tahae, to be a light sleeper; moe tahaga, a sleeper; moe vaeahatu, moe hakaroa, to sleep sprawling; rava moe, to sleep sound; ariga moe ki raro, to lie flat on the ground; tae moe, bachelor; hakamoe, to brood, to fold the wings; to reserve, to lay up; to struggle. P Pau.: moe, sleep. Mgv.: moe, sleep, to lie down, coitus, to shut the eyes. Mq.: moe, to sleep, to lie down; haámoe, to set down on the ground. Ta.: moe, to sleep, to lie down. Moea raruga, lying flat. Moeaivi, thin. Mq.: ivi, haáivi, id. Ta.: ivi, id. Moega, mat. Pau.: moehega, bed. Mgv.: moega, a sleeping mat. Mq.: moena, moeka, mat, floor cloth, bed. Ta.: moea, bed. Moemata, to sleep with the eyes open; mea moemata, phantom. Moemoea, a dream, vision; tikeahaga moemoea, apparition by night. T Mgv., Mq., Ta.: moemoea, dream. Churchill.

Mgv. Moemoe, to steal, to purloin at a food distribution. Mq.: moemoe, to seize, to grasp. Churchill.

Ta.: 1.  Moemoe, ambush. Ha.: moemoe, id. 2. Moemoe, Phyllanthus simplex. To.: mohemohe, a tree. Churchill.

Mq.: Moehu, exiled, banished, prisoner of war. Ma.: morehu, a survivor. Churchill.

Early in my investigations I thought the moe type illustrated a 'tired old bird'. However, the rongorongo texts have gradually convinced me I was wrong. These 'sleeping' (moe) birds tend to appear 'early in the morning'. March 1 is early - especially if January was regarded as belonging in the 'winter year' with February as its last month.

The heliacal reading of Ca13-1--2 can be compared with a nakshatra reading of Ca6-21--23. Here marama in Ca6-23 is of the same type as marama in Ca6-22. There is no discontinuity between the glyph at nakshatra February 29 and that at nakshatra March 1. It could mean we should read also these glyphs heliacally, with a change at September 1.

*Ca14-23 is similar in design to Ca6-24 and both are examples of the glyph type maro:

September 1 (244)   April 10 (100)
March 2 (61) October 11 (284)
Ca6-24 (164) *Ca14-23 (386)
maro
Maro

Maro: A sort of small banner or pennant of bird feathers tied to a stick. Maroa: 1. To stand up, to stand. 2. Fathom (measure). See kumi. Vanaga.

Maro: 1. June. 2. Dish-cloth T P Mgv.: maro, a small girdle or breech clout. Ta.: maro, girdle. Maroa: 1. A fathom; maroa hahaga, to measure. Mq.: maó, a fathom. 2. Upright, stand up, get up, stop, halt. Mq.: maó, to get up, to stand up. Churchill.

Pau.: Maro, hard, rough, stubborn. Mgv.: maro, hard, obdurate, tough. Ta.: mârô, obstinate, headstrong. Sa.: mālō, strong. Ma.: maro, hard, stubborn. Churchill.

Ta.: Maro, dry, desiccated. Mq.: mao, thirst, desiccated. Fu.: malo, dry. Ha.: malo, maloo, id. Churchill.

Mgv.: Maroro, the flying fish. (Ta.: marara, id.) Mq.: maoo, id. Sa.: malolo, id. Ma.: maroro, id. Churchill.

MALO ¹, s. Haw., a strip of kapa or cloth tied around the loins of men to hide the sexual organs. Polynesian, ubique, malo, maro, id., ceinture, girdle-cloth, breech-cloth.

Sanskr., mal, mall, to hold; malla, a cup; maltaka, a leaf to wrap up something, a cup; malâ-mallaka, a piece of cloth worn over the privities.

Greek, μηρνομαι; Dor., μαρνομαι, to draw up, furl, wind round. No etymon in Liddell and Scott.

MALO ², v. Haw., to dry up, as water in pools or rivers, be dry, as land, in opposition to water, to wither, as vegetables drying up; maloo, id., dry barren.

Ta., maro, dry, not wet; marohi, dry, withered. A later application of this word in a derivative sense is probably the Sam. malo, to be hard, be strong; malosi, strong; the Marqu. mao, firm, solid; N. Zeal., maroke, dry; Rarot., Mang., maro, dry and hard, as land.

Sanskr., mŗi, to die; maru, a desert, a mountain; marut, the deities of wind; marka, a body; markara, a barren woman; mart-ya, a mortar, the earth; mîra, ocean.

For the argument by which A. Pictet connects maru and mira with mŗi, see 'Orig. Ind.Eur', i. 110-111. It is doubtless correct. But in that case 'to die' could hardly have been the primary sense or conception of mŗi. To the early Aryans the desert, the maru, which approached their abodes on the west, must have presented itself primarily under the aspect of 'dry, arid, sterile, barren', a sense still retained in the Polynesian maro. Hence the sense of 'to wither, to die', is a secondary one. Again, those ancient Aryans called the deity of the wind the Marut; and if that word, as it probably does, refers itself to the root or stem mŗi, the primary sense of that word was certainly not 'to die', for the winds are not necessarily 'killing', but they are 'drying', and that is probably the original sense of their name.

Lat., morior, mors, &c. Sax., mor, Eng., moor, equivalent to the Sanskr. maru. (Fornander)

I guess the maro type of glyph depicts a kind of head gear with feathers. Normally this headgear is empty, but in *Ca14-23 the 'head' is there, in form of a nuku:

maro *Ca14-23 (386) nuku
Nuku

1. Pau.: nuka, crowd, throng. Ta.: nuú, army, fleet. Mg.: nuku, a host, army. 2. Mgv.: nuku, land, country, place. Sa.: nu'u, district, territory, island. Churchill.

In the figure on the Inca banner below the design is the same but opposite in every aspect, e.g. with serpents instead of feathers. Day light travels between the open (and grasping) mouths of the serpents: