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We could need a simple overview of the whole text:

364 364 8
Ca1-1 *Ca14-3 *Ca14-4 Cb14-11
366 366
740

But another overview should be considered simultaneously:

266 470
Cb1-10 Cb12-3 Cb12-4 Cb1-9
268 472
740

Man has 2 eyes in order to see in depth and Osiris had his Hall of Two Truths.

What happens if we should combine this pair of overviews? First we can without any complication distinguish how there are 265 days from the end of March to the December solstice:

'March 30 31 264 'solstice 'December 22
April 26 27 January 16 17
Cb1-10 Cb1-11 Cb12-2 Cb12-3
268

This insight necessitates, though, using the view from the time of Al Sharatain.

Next we should try with Cb12-4 as the beginning of 8 * 59 = 472 days. Here we will confront such problems as those connected with turning the tablet around, but also with how to deal with e 8 extra glyphs at the end of side b.

'December 23 X-mas Eve 59 'February 21 22
January 18 19 March 20 21
Cb12-4 Cb12-5 Cb14-10 (471) Cb14-11
63

Twice 366 = 472 (Cb14-11) could identify the end of a double Sun cycle. There is no henua in front.

In rongongo times this was - as I have arranged the glyphs and dates - at March 21 (80), and 472 = 392 + 80, is indeed suggesting Cb14-11 refers to the day before spring equinox. Because the sitting figure should describe how March 20 has been completed at midnight when March 21 was beginning.

The rising kahi in Cb12-3 should similarly refer to how 'December 21 had been completed.