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The first glyph in line Ga7 seems to have marked a zero (π) date and viri could therefore be an adequate choice for type of glyph:

Ga6-27 Ga6-28 (168) Ga6-29
*JULY 23 24 (205) 25
SEPTEMBER 4 5 (248) 6
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)
November 7 8 9 (313)
'October 11 12 (285) 13
"September 27 28 29 (272)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
*JANUARY 22 23 (388) 24
MARCH 6 (65) 7 8 (432)
τ Arietis (49.7) Algenib Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

Gienah

no star listed (51)
May 9 10 (130) 11 (496)
'April 12 13 (468) 14 (104)
"March 29 30 (454) 31 (90)
Ga7-1 Ga7-2 Ga7-3 (172) Ga7-4
*JULY 26 27 28 29 (210)
SEPTEMBER 7 8 9 10 (253)
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

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)
π November 11 (315) 12 13
'October 14 15 16 17 (290)
"September 30 "October 1 2 (275) 3
NAKSHATRA DATES:
*JANUARY 25 26 27 28 (393)
MARCH 9 (68) 10 11 12 (436)
no star listed (52) no star listed (53)

Acrux

no star listed (54) TAU-ONO
Atiks, Rana (55.1), CELAENO, ELECTRA, TAYGETA (55.3), MAIA, ASTEROPE, MEROPE (55.6)
May 12 13 (133) 14 15 (500)
'April 15 16 (471) 17 (107) 18
"April 1 (91) 2 3 4

Mama at Ga7-3 is located 172 days beyond the Hyades Gate, as if this glyph was alluding to the northern summer solstice. But in rongorongo times the position had moved ahead to 236 days after 0h. 236 - 172 = 64.

Close to the Full Moon was Tau-ono, which should indicate how a new year was just around the corner.

Early I became rather convinced the 5 wedge-marks inside mama alluded to the 5 nights outside the regular Egyptian year:

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys.

Indeed, I relied on this assumption so much that it served as an inspiration for my reconstruction of how our own Gregorian calendar may have been compressed into the glyph text. Copied from my Level 2:

1  1-13 1 winter solstice
Ga2-27 Ga2-28 Ga2-29 Ga3-1 Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5
Ka3-15 Ka3-16 Ka3-17 Ka3-18 Ka3-19 Ka3-20 Ka3-21
2  14-26
Ga3-6 Ga3-7 Ga3-8 Ga3-9
- -
Ka4-1 Ka4-2     Ka4-3
3  27-39
Ga3-10 Ga3-11 Ga3-12 Ga3-13 Ga3-14 Ga3-15 Ga3-16
- - -
Ka4-4 Ka4-5 Ka4-6       Ka4-7
4  40-52
Ga3-17 Ga3-18 Ga3-19
Ka4-8 Ka4-9 Ka4-10

24 more 'stations' follow and then:

29 364-376 - -     366 Winter solstice
    Ga6-27 Ga6-28 Ga6-29      
Kb4-1 Kb4-2 Kb4-3 Kb4-4 Kb4-5
30
Ga7-1 Ga7-2 Ga7-3 Ga7-4
Kb4-6 Kb4-7 Kb4-8 Kb4-9
31
Ga7-5 Ga7-6 Ga7-7 Ga7-8 Ga7-9 Ga7-10
Kb4-10 Kb4-11 Kb4-12 Kb4-13 Kb4-14

Ideas:

1. Given that the left part of this glyph is to be regarded as a 'counter of times', then we can read: 'five times'.

2. The right part of this glyph has a sign with three upward-turned wedge-shapes on top of each other. This I think (and also Barthel as I can remember) shows 'darkness', i.e. I read: 'five times in darkness' or something like that.

3. One way is to count 30 * 12 = 360 and find that 5 nights are missing. These 5 nights could then be regarded as outside the sacred year (like the Egyptians of old did).

4. Another possibility - which I believe more probable - is to count 31 * 12 = 372, which gives 7 nights too many. We can reduce this difference by 5 and reach 367. In row nos. 1 and 3 we can then find the 2 missing 'dark nights'. They can be seen as 'fishes in the dark':

                 

Ideas:

1. These two glyphs does show the fact that the year should be regarded as divided in two parts, each containing six months.

2. If we compare this with the similar glyph in Wednesday (as seen in Large Santiago Tablet)

where there are four wedge-shaped internal markings, I guess the common 'denominator' is the Moon. The Moon, I think, is the Giver of Time. Therefore with other time periods there is a need to 'translate' into the fundamental time period.

M / W = 4 and HY / M = 6.

Idea:

This important type of glyph with V-shaped internal signs seems to refer to number of revolutions.

Four V-signs in Wednesday (the middle of the week) perhaps is meant to show that you will pass Wednesday four times before the month is through.

By compressed I mean the number of glyphs from Ga2-27 (57) up to and including Ga7-10 (179) = 123 is much less than 365.

But as if by coincidence 365 - 123 = 242 = number of glyphs on side b of the G tablet. And 471 - 123 = 348 = number of glyphs on side b of the C tablet:

121
Ga2-27 (57) Ga7-10 (179)
123
471 = 123 + 242 (side b on G)
123 + 348 (side b on C) = 471