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The extraordinary glyph Gb8-16 appears 14 days before the end of side b. It seems to be the result of combining Gb8-14 (X) with Gb8-15 (Y). I.e., X + Y = Z (Gb8-16), three unknowns related to each other:

'October 10 11 12 (285)
'April 10 (100) 11 12 (468)
November 6 7 8
May 7 8 9 (495)
Gb8-14 Gb8-15 Gb8-16
ζ Arietis (47.7) Zibal (48.0) τ Arietis (49.7)
Al Zubānā-14b μ Lupi, γ Tr. Austr. (231.3)   ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), Pherkad (232.6), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9)
χ Bootis (230.2), χ Bootis (230.3), Princeps (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (230.8)

The perfect circle should represent the Sun. The pair of descending fishes could therefore represent the Moon. The product (Z) would then be both the Sun and the Moon.

In 'October 12 there were 80 days remaining of the year. Counting from ´'January 1 in the preceding year 'April 12 was day 102 + 366 = 468 (= 268 + 200).

The curious hands in opposite directions instead of a proper head in the preceding Gb8-15 could represent the final of Al Zubānā, the 'Claws' which in Roman times became the scales of Libra. A pair of empty opposing hands ('claws') are balancing at the top of tagata.

46 days after March 21, i.e. 80 + 46 - 27 = 99 days counted from 'January 1, the strange figure in Cb8-14 (X) could have represented κ and ζ Lupi:

'October 6 7 (280) 8 9
'April 6 7 8 9 (99)
November 2 3 4 (308) 5
May 3 4 5 (125) 6
Gb8-10 Gb8-11 Gb8-12 Gb8-13 (*46)
ρ Arietis (43.0), Acamar (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7)

Denebola

Menkar (44.7) Algol (45.9) Misam (46.2), Botein (46.9)
Ke Kwan (226.3), Ke Kwan (226.4), Zuben Elakribi (226.8) Nadlat (227.8), π Lupi (227.9 Zuben Hakrabim (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9) ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8)

In the drawing of Hevelius we can perceive how an imaginary line of time through ζ and κ divides the Wolf (tumbling around on his back) into his hind quarter and front ¾.

The 'tail' of a constellation or asterism could mean not only its end but also refer to its descendants - like the roots of a great tree. The 'Opener of the Way' for the New Sun and Moon may have been labelled as their parent.

... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest.

When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.'

In C what could be the birth of a new Sun and a new Moon is described differently, with the resulting 'fraction' at the top of the glyph line:

'April 10 (100) 11 12 (468) 13
'October 10 11 12 (285) 13
May 7 8 9 10 (130)
November 6 7 8 9 (313)
Cb1-21 (413) Cb1-22 Cb1-23 Cb1-24
hoea ko te rima kua oo ki te vai ma te ua
ζ Arietis (47.7) Zibal (48.0) τ Arietis (49.7) Algenib Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

Gienah

Al Zubānā-14b μ Lupi, γ Tr. Austr. (231.3)   ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), Pherkad (232.6), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9) Alkalurops (233.1)
χ Bootis (230.2), χ Bootis (230.3), Princeps (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (230.8)

In China γ¹ Ursae Minoris (Pherkad) was the Crown Prince (Ta Tsze) says Allen. Hevelius has drawn this star close to the right shin(e) bone of King Cepheus:

In G a tiny 'offspring' appears high up in Gb8-17:

'October 13 14 (653) 15 (288)
'April 13 14 (104) 15 (471)
November 9 10 (314) 11
May 10 (130) 11 (497) 12
Gb8-17 (*50) Gb8-18 Gb8-19
Algenib Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

Gienah

no star listed (51) no star listed (52)
Alkalurops (233.1) Nusakan (234.0), κ¹ Apodis (234.3), ν Bootis (234.7) θ Cor. Borealis (235.3), γ Lupi (235.6), Gemma, Zuben Elakrab, Qin, ε Tr. Austr. (235.7), μ Cor. Borealis (235.8)

Sirrah

'Oct 16 17
'April 16 (472) 17
Nov 12 13
May 13 14 (500)
Gb8-20 (*53) Gb8-21
no star listed (53)

Acrux

no star listed (54)
φ Bootis (236.2), ω Lupi (236.3), ψ¹ Lupi (236.7), ζ Cor. Borealis (236.9)  ι Serpentis (237.4), ψ² Lupi (237.5), γ Cor. Borealis (237.7), Unuk Elhaia (237.9)
'Oct 18 19 20 (293) 21
'April 18 19 20 (476) 21 (111)
Nov 14 15 15 (320) 17
May 15 16 (136) 17 18 (504)
Gb8-22 (*55) Gb8-23 Gb8-24 Gb8-25
Al Thurayya-27 / Krittikā-3 / Hairy Head-18 Menkhib (57.6)

Porrima

Zaurak (58.9)
Atiks, Rana (55.1), CELAENO, ELECTRA, TAYGETA (55.3), MAIA, ASTEROPE, MEROPE (55.6) ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE, ATLAS (56.3)
TAU-ONO
π Cor. Borealis, Cor Serpentis (238.1), Chow (238.6) κ Serpentis (239.3), δ Cor. Borealis, Tiānrǔ (239.5), χ Lupi, (239.6), ω Serpentis (239.7), Ba, χ Herculis (239.8). κ Cor. Borealis, ρ Serpentis (239.9) β Tr. Austr. (240.3), κ Tr. Austr. (240.4), ρ Scorpii (240.8) Iklīl al Jabhah-15 / Anuradha-17 / Room-4
ξ Lupi, λ Cor. Borealis (241.1), Zheng (241.2), VRISCHIKA (241.3), ε Cor. Borealis (241.5),  Dschubba (241.7), η Lupi (241.9)
'Oct 22 23 24 25 (664) 26 (299)
April 22 23 24 (480) 25 26 (116)
Nov 18 19 20 (324) 21 22 (692)
May 19 (505) 20 21 22 23 (143)
Gb8-26 (*59) Gb8-27 Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30
λ Tauri (59.3), ν Tauri (59.9) 4h (60.9) no star listed (61) Beid (62.2)

Vindemiatrix

Al Dabarān-2
no star listed (60)

Cor Caroli

HYADUM I (63.4)
υ Herculis (242.3), ρ Cor. Borealis (242.4), ι Cor. Borealis (242.5), ξ Scorpii (242.7)

Schedir

16h (243.5) ψ Scorpii (244.6), Lesath (244.8) χ Scorpii (245.1), Yed Prior, δ Tr. Austr. (245.5) Yed Posterior, Rukbalgethi Shemali (246.6). δ Apodis (246.7), ο Scorpii (246.8)
Acrab, Jabhat al Akrab (243.3), θ Lupi, Rutilicus (243.5), Marfik (243.7), φ Herculis (243.8)

Possibly the 'Follower' implies a return from nakshatra to heliacal view, from the back side to the front side:

    Delta δ Andromedae 8.4 March 29 (88) - -
0 - Zero η Andromedae 11.4 April 1 (91) - 0
    Whip Cih (γ Cassiopeiai) 12.4 Apirl 2 (92) - 1
1 Al Sharatain Pair of Signs β Arietis (Sheratan), γ (Mesarthim) 27.4 April 17 (107) 16 16
    Musca Borealis 35 (Head of the Fly), 39 (Kaffaljidhma), and 41 Arietis (Bharani) 41.4 May 1 (121) 14 30
2 Al Dabarān Follower α Tauri (Aldebaran), θ¹, θ²´, γ (Hyadum I), δ (Hyadum II), ε (Ain) 63.4 May 23 (143) 22 52

The Mayas had calculated their time zero to be in 3114 B.C.:

... In three magnificent texts at the site of Koba, scribes recorded it as one of the largest finite numbers we humans have ever written. According to these inscriptions, our world was created on the day 4 Ahaw 8 Kumk'u. On this day all the cycles of the Maya calendar above twenty years were set at thirteen - that is to say, the cycles of 400 years, 8,000 years, 160,000 years, 32,000,000 years, and so on, all the way up to a cycle number extending to twenty places (2021 * 1360-day year). In our calendar, this day fell on August 13, B.C. 3114 (or September 20, -3113 in the Julian calendar) ...

3114 / 71 = ca 44 and 27.4 (Al Sharatain) + 44 = ca 71 (= 63 + 8).

Counting not at Hydadum I but at Aldebaran ('the Follower') we will reach Mayan time zero not far from the time when Aldebaran (68.2) rose with the Sun at the northern spring equinox:

'Zero' at heliacal η Andromedae ought to have been around 1842 A.D. - 11.4 * 71 = 1032 A.D.

1032 A.D. + 3115 (there was no year zero A.D. or B.C.) = 4147 and 4147 / 71 = 58.4 days.

11.4 + 58.4 = 69.8:

'October 27 (300) 28 29 30
'April 27 28 (118) 29 30
November 23 24 (328) 25 26
May 24 (144) 25 26 27
no glyph
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3
Hyadum II (64.2) Net-19 no star listed (66)  no star listed (67)
Ain, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7) 
Heart-5 ρ Ophiuchi (248.1), Kajam (248.3), χ Ophiuchi (248.5), She Low, ι Tr. Austr. (248.7), ζ Tr. Austr. (248.8) Al Kalb-16 / Jyeshtha-18

ANA-MURI

γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7)
σ SCORPII (247.0), Hejian (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7) ANTARES (249.1), Marfik, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)
'October 31 'November 1 2 (306) Mayan time zero = 3114 B.C.
'May 1 2 3 (123)
November 27 28 29 (333)
May 28 (148) 29 30
Ga1-4 (*68) Ga1-5 Ga1-6
Rohini-4

ANA-MUA

no star listed (69)  no star listed (70) no star listed (71)
ALDEBARAN (68.2), Theemin (68.5)
Han (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5) Atria (253.9) Tail-6
Wei, η Arae (254.3), DENEBAKRAB (254.7)