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There are 29 glyphs in line Ca14 and I think this is 4 more than the number of the side on the cube of Saturn. I once decided to assign number 25 to black Saturn for various reasons. By using the order of the days in the week it was possible to recreate how the planets, according to the old traditions, probably were connected with the natural numbers:

Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon Mars
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 32 33 34 35

... the Chaldean astrologers introduced the 7-day week which has come down into the present. The number was convenient because the seers recognized seven planets: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, each of which governed one hour of the day.

If, for illustration, Saturn ruled the first hour of a certain day followed by each of the 'planets' in turn, he also ruled the eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second hours. Jupiter was lord of the second, ninth, sixteenth, and twenty-third hours; Mars presided over the third, tenth, seventeenth, and twenty-fourth hours, and the Sun took charge of the first hour of the succeeding day.

Since the planet which ruled the first hour gave his name to the entire day, Sunday thus followed Saturn-day, and this was the way the names of the days of the week came into existence out of ancient Chaldean astrology.

I dislike the example which puts Saturn at the beginning. This is not his position in time. Instead the beginning should be with Mercury (the youngest of the planets, always close to Mother Earth).

Line Ca14 could therefore contain 29 glyphs in order to inform the reader of where birth occurs.

29 (Ca14) + 348 (side b) = 377 = 13 * 29 will then reinforce the message: Side b is beginning with the last line on side a and there are 377 days of 'birth'. Such a message appears to contradict my idea of side b as a place where 'the Old  Man' dies.

But at the beginning of side b there are 3 glyphs which definitely should be counted together with those in line Ca14, and 29 + 3 = 32 is a Saturn number. I.e. the beginning of side b can be characterized both as a place of birth (29) and as a place of death (32). Life implies both.

I think side a was ruled by Mars. - Not by Mercury down among the furrows of Virgo and at the opposite side of the sky compared to Mars, who possibly was identified with the Great One in Aquarius:

 
March 26 27 28 29 (88)
September 25 (268) 26 27 28
Ca1-5 Ca1-6 Ca1-7 Ca1-8
haga i te mea ke ki te henua - tagata honui te ika te honu
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)
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)

Alderamin

 α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7) Al Áwwā'-11
ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA, γ Centauri (191.5)

14 * 28 = 392 and 13 * 28 = 364.

In rongorongo times March 29 (3-29) coincided with heliacal Delta in Andromeda and this date was a Sign: - It was the place where Sun would return north of the equator, because in Gregorian day 329 (November 25) Antares rose with the Sun to tell where summer would return south of the equator.

Counting again, 392 (side a) - 8 (March 29) = 384 points at *Ca14-21 (384):

April 5 6 (96) 7 8 (464) 9 10 (100)
October 5 6 7 (280) 8 9 10
*Ca14-18 *Ca14-19 *Ca14-20 *Ca14-21 *Ca14-22 *Ca14-23
te honu paka te henua honu kau te mata te honu kua heheu
1h (15.2) Al Batn Al Hūt-26 / Revati-28 ν Phoenicis (17.4), κ Tucanae (17.6) no star listed (18) no star listed (19) Ksora (20.1), γ Phoenicis (20.8)
β Phoenicis (15.1), υ Phoenicis, ι Tucanae (15.6), ζ Phoenicis (15.7) MIRACH (16.0), Anunitum (16.5), REVATI (16.9)

Regulus

Apami-Atsa (198.5) Al Dafīrah (199.4) σ Virginis (200.4) ι Centauri (201.4) Al Simāk-12 / Chitra-14 / Horn-1 71 Virginis (203.6)
Mizar (202.4), SPICA, Alcor (202.7)

Sadalmelik

And counting once more, 384 (April 8, where 4 * 8 = 32 possibly was a sign of Saturn because 384 = 12 * 32) - 29 (line Ca14) = 355, which could allude to the old Roman year:

Martius 31 31 -
Aprilis 29 30 +1
Maius 31 31 -
Iunius 29 30 +1
Quintilis 31 31 -
Sextilis 29 31 +2
Sum 180 184 +4
September 29 30 +1
October 31 31 -
November 29 30 +1
December 29 31 +2
Sum 118 122 +4
Ianuarius 29 31 +2
Februarius 28 28 -
Sum 57 59 +2
Total 355 365 +10
Martius - Sextilis 180
+ September - December 118
= Martius - December 298
+ Ianuarius 29
= Martius - Ianuarius 327
+ Februarius 23
5
= Normal year 350 + 5 = 355
+ Mensis Intercalaris 22
= Leap year 372 + 5 = 377