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If we could rely on the previous discussions, then it seems possible the glyph text primarily should be understood from the positions of the heliacal stars at the time of rongorongo (i.e. primarily not to be understood from some ancient Golden Age like that defined from the Hyades Gate).

For example should the current Midsummer and St John's day be around Ga1-28 respectively around Ga2-1:

Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29
APRIL 17 (471 - 364) 18 (108 = 172 - 64) 19
6h (91.3) ξ Orionis (92.5) Al Han'ah-4
ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)  TEJAT PRIOR (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)
June 20 (*91) Solstice 22 (173)
OCTOBER 17 (290) 18 (355 - 64) 19
Zhōngshān (274.0), π Pavonis (274.6) ι Pavonis (275.1), Polis (275.9)

Menkar

η Sagittarii (276.9)
December 20 (354 = 6 * 59) Solstice 22
Ga1-30 Ga2-1
APRIL 20 21 (111 = 175 - 64)
 Furud (94.9) Well-22
δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR, Mirzam (95.4), CANOPUS (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)
June 23 (6 * 29 = 174) St John's Eve
OCTOBER 20 21 (294 = 111 + 183)
Purva Ashadha-20
KAUS MEDIUS, κ Lyrae (277.5), Tung Hae (277.7) KAUS AUSTRALIS (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), Al Athfar (278.6)
December 23 (*277) Christmas Eve

By 'around' I mean we have to be cautious because the time orbit of the Earth around the Sun is elliptical while the star charts are determined from the idea of a perfect Sky sphere.

St John's Eve coincided with the beginning of Gemini, at the left foot of Castor, Tejat Posterior:

The Milky Way river and the Twins were probably forever fixed together as a mind pattern. Once, a long time ago, at the northern spring equinox the Sun would quickly have crossed over the equator from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere and at that ancient time his journey went across the Milky Way. The cold waters of winter changed into a warm dry land.

... 'The earth rises up from the sea again, and is green and beautiful and things grow without sowing ...

The Gemini twins could have personified the pair of newborn halves of the year climbing up on the far bank of the galactic river. Fire (Sun) could never survive wading across a river. Therefore some trick had to be used and the method of his transportation could have been for instance inside a fish or similar:

... And then the bone spoke; it was there in the fork of the tree: Why do you want a mere bone, a round thing in the branches of a tree? said the head of One Hunaphu when it spoke to the maiden. You don't want it, she was told. I do want it, said the maiden. Very well. Stretch out your right hand here, so I can see it, said the bone.

Yes, said the maiden. She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden. And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator.

The father does not disappear, but goes on being fulfilled. Neither dimmed nor destroyed is the face of a lord, a warrior, craftsman, an orator. Rather, he will leave his daughters and sons. So it is that I have done likewise through you. Now go up there on the face of the earth ...

The old Sun disappeared at one end of Milky Way River but he would be freshly born again (reincarnated) after the June solstice. Thus the Charioteer (Auriga) on wintery side of the river had no Sun horse but instead carried a sign of the hairy Goat on his back:

... All 'change stations' are found invariably in two regions: one in the South between Scorpius and Sagittarius, the other in the North between Gemini and Taurus; and this is valid through time and space, from Babylon to Nicaragua. Why was it ever done in the first place? Because of the Galaxy, which has its crossroads with the ecliptic between Sagittarius and Scorpius in the South, and between Gemini and Taurus in the North.

... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'.

Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini. In fact, he states explicitly (I,12.5) that this 'Gate' is 'where the Zodiac and the Milky Way intersect'.  

Far away, the Mangaians of old (Austral Islands, Polynesia), who kept the precessional clock running instead of switching over to 'signs', claim that only at the evening of the solstitial days can spirits enter heaven, the inhabitants of the northern parts of the island at one solstice, the dwellers in the south at the other ...

Considering the fact that the crossroads of ecliptic and Galaxy are crisis-resistant, that is, not concerned with the Precession, the reader may want to know why the Mangaians thought they could go to heaven only on the two solstitial days. Because, in order to 'change trains' comfortably, the constellations that serve as 'gates' to the Milky Way must 'stand' upon the 'earth', meaning that they must rise heliacally either at the equinoxes or at the solstices. The Galaxy is a very broad highway, but even so there must have been some bitter millenia when neither gate was directly available any longer, the one hanging in midair, the other having turned into a submarine entrance ...

June 10 was evidently an important date:

... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

In the G text there could be traces of such ideas and there is indeed someone inside an oval in Ga1-16 where the dot in front attracts attention. The point of the Bull's upper horn (Elnath) seems to hoist Auriga across the Milky Way and at a later time Perseus would fly across and leave the Medusa head behind.

 
Ga1-15 Ga1-16 Ga1-17 Ga1-18
APRIL 5 6 (96) 7 8
λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

Arcturus

σ Aurigae (80.4), Bellatrix, Saif al Jabbar (80.7), ELNATH (80.9) ψ Orionis (81.1), Nihal (81.7) Mintaka, υ Orionis (82.4), χ Aurigae (82.5), ε Columbae (82.6)
June 8 9 (160) June 10 11
OCTOBER 5 6 7 (280) 8
ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9) β, γ Arae (263.3), κ Arae (263.5), σ Ophiuchi (263.6) Lesath, δ Arae (264.7), Choo (264.9) Al Shaula
 Alwaid, Maasym (265.1), Shaula (265.3), Kuma (265.6), σ Arae (265.9)

Hamal

December 8 9 10 (*264 = *81 + 183) 11 (345)
Ga1-19 Ga1-20 Ga1-21
APRIL 9 10 (100) 11
Al Hak'ah-3 / Mrigashīrsha-5 / Turtle-20 Three Stars-21 / ANA-IVA (7) ο Aurigae (85.8), γ Leporis (85.9)

Yang Mun

Arneb, Crab Nebula (83.0, φ¹ Orionis (83.1), HEKA, Orion Nebula (83.2), φ² Orionis (83.6), Alnilam (83.7) Heavenly Gate, ν Columbae (84.0), ω Orionis (84.2),  ALNITAK, PHAKT (Phaet) (84.7)
June 12 13 14 (165)
OCTOBER 9 10 11 (284)
Ras Alhague (266.1), Sargas (266.3), μ Ophiuchi, π Arae (266.5), Nan Hae (266.6),  ι Herculis (266.7) λ Arae (267.1), Girtab, ο Serpentis (267.6) Kelb Alrai, μ Arae (268.1), Kew Ho (268.6), η Pavonis (268.7), Apollyon (268.9)
December 12 Lucia 14 (348)
Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24 Ga1-25 Ga1-26
APRIL 12 13 14 (104) 15 16
 μ Columbae, Saiph (86.5), τ Aurigae, ζ Leporis (86.6) υ Aurigae (87.1), ν Aurigae (87.2), Wezn, δ Leporis (87.7), Tze (87.9) Ardra-6 / ANA-VARU (8) η Leporis (89.0), Praja-pāti, Menkalinan, Mahashim, and γ Columbae (89.3), π Aurigae (89.4), η Columbae (89.7) μ Orionis (90.3), χ² Orionis (90.5)
χ¹ Orionis, ξ Aurigae (88.1), BETELGEUZE (88.3), ξ Columbae (88.5), σ Columbae (88.7)

Zuben Elgenubi

June 15 16 17 (168) 18 19
OCTOBER 12 (285) 13 (366 - 80) 14 15 16
Muliphen (269.0), Basanismus (269.5), Pherkard (269.9) Ptolemy Cluster (270.5) Rukbalgethi Genubi (271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5), Etamin, ν Herculis (271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8) ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ Ophiuchi (272.9) Winnowing Basket-7
18h (273.4)
NASH (273.7), θ Arae (273.8)
December 15 16 (350) 17 18 19 (*273)

Such an important event as the birth of a new year should have remained firm in memory and therefore retold time and again.

...Then the big Fish did swallow him, and he had done acts worthy of blame.
Had it not been that he (repented and) glorified Allah,
He would certainly have remained inside the Fish till the Day of Resurrection. - Qur'an, chapter 37 (As-Saaffat), verse 139–144.

But We cast him forth on the naked shore in a state of sickness,
And We caused to grow, over him, a spreading plant of the gourd kind.
And We sent him (on a mission) to a hundred thousand (men) or more.
And they believed; so We permitted them to enjoy (their life) for a while. - Qur'an, chapter 37 (As-Saaffat), verse 145–148 ...