We could try to advance ahead in the text from
its beginning at 0h = MARCH 21 to the beginning of
the next such year.
With 1 glyph per day we should count first 228 days beyond Ga1-1
and then turn the tablet around to continue on side b.
365 - 229 = 136, i.e. the end of the first year could be at
glyph 136 counted from the beginning of side b:
|
Side a |
Side b |
|
229 |
242 |
|
471 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Gb5-4 |
Gb5-5 |
Gb5-6
(130) |
Gb5-7
(360 = 131 + 229) |
Gb5-8 |
|
MARCH 12 |
13 |
π
(73) |
15 |
16 (440
= 365 + 75) |
|
Al
Thurayya-27 /
Krittikā-3 /
Hairy Head-18 |
Menkhib
(57.6)
Porrima
|
Zaurak
(58.9) |
λ Tauri
(59.3), ν Tauri (59.9) |
|
Atiks,
Rana (55.1),
CELAENO,
ELECTRA,
TAYGETA
(55.3),
MAIA,
ASTEROPE,
MEROPE
(55.6) |
ALCYONE
(56.1),
PLEIONE, ATLAS
(56.3) |
|
TAU-ONO |
|
May 15
(500) |
16 (136) |
17 |
18 |
19 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| Gb5-13 |
Gb5-14 |
Gb5-15 |
Gb5-16 |
Gb5-17 (370) |
Gb5-18 (142) |
| MARCH 21 |
22 (81) |
23 |
24 |
EQUINOX |
26 (450) |
| Hyadum II (δ¹ Tauri) (64.2) |
Net-19 |
no star listed (66) |
no star listed (67) |
Rohini-4 / ANA-MURI |
no star listed (69) |
| AIN, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7) |
ALDEBARAN (68.2), Theemin (68.5) |
| May 24 (144) |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 (514) |
But
the
glyphs
are quite
different
at
this
place
in
the
text.
Instead
of
birds
there
are
fishes.
At
heliacal
Aldebaran
(Gb5-17) there
is
no
rising
fish
and
I
have
here noted
EQUINOX
instead
of
at
MARCH
21,
because
earlier
(before
Gregory
XIII)
the
rule
was
to
have
the
northern
spring
equinox
at
March
25:
...
When
Julius
Caesar
established
his
calendar
in
45
B.C.
he
set
March
25
as
the
spring
equinox
...
Perhaps
the
Pleiades
new
year
period began
5
days
earlier
than
at
Gb8-22
because
the
first
of 6 (ono)
birds
with
exceptional
heads
arrive
already
at
Gb8-18:
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Gb8-22 |
Gb8-23 (464) |
Gb8-24 (236) |
Gb8-25 |
|
MARCH 12 |
13
(72) |
π |
15 |
|
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 |
|
May
15 |
16
(136) |
17 |
18 |
|
SEPTEMBER 11 |
12
(255 = 72 + 183) |
13
(256 = 4 * 64) |
14 |
|
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) |
|
November
14 |
15 |
16
(320) |
17 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
Gb8-26 |
Gb8-27 |
Gb8-28 (240) |
Gb8-29 |
Gb8-30 (471) |
|
MARCH 16 (75) |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
|
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) |
HYADUM I
(63.4) |
|
May
19 |
20
(140) |
21 |
22 |
23 |
|
SEPTEMBER 15 |
16 |
17
(260) |
18 |
19 |
|
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)
|
|
November 18 |
19 |
20
(324) |
21 |
22 |
In rongorongo times Algenib (α Persei) rose with the Sun 50 days after 0h and in the same day, at midnight, Gienah of the black Raven constellation culminated. At the time of the Hyades Gate this would have happened ca 64 days earlier, viz. around day 130 - 64 = 66 = 14 days before 0h.
Menkhib (ζ, at the left foot of Perseus) rose with the Sun a week later. The name probably means 'close to the Pleiades'.
The task of Perseus was to cut off the head of the winter ogre in order to liberate Andromeda from the cold chains holding her immobile: 
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