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In the middle of a week (German Mitt-woch) should be a viri, because Wednes-day means the day of turning around - winding up the thread of time into a clew or claw (easily associated with the 'claws' - Al Zubānā, α and β Librae - because once upon a time they illustrated the middle between the solstices, the time of equilibrium between night and day, the time when the Sun had reached the equator in the middle of the year):

Viri

1. To wind, to coil, to roll up; he viri i te hau, to wind, coil a string (to fasten something). 2. To fall from a height, rolling over, to hurl down, to fling down. Viriviri, round, spherical (said of small objects). Viviri te henua, to feel dizzy (also: mimiro te henua). Vanaga.

To turn in a circle, to clew up, to groom, to twist, to dive from a height, to roll (kaviri). Hakaviri, crank, to groom, to turn a wheel, to revolve, to screw, to beat down; kahu hakaviri, shroud. Viriga, rolling, danger. Viriviri, ball, round, oval, bridge, roll, summit, shroud, to twist, to wheel round, to wallow. Hakaviriviri, to roll, to round; rima hakaviriviri, stroke of the flat, fisticuff. P Pau.: viriviri, to brail, to clew up; koviriviri, twisting. Mgv.: viri, to roll, to turn, to twist; viviri, to fall to the ground again and again in a fight. Mq.: vii, to slide, to roll, to fall and roll. Ta.: viri, to roll up, to clew up. Viritopa, danger. Mgv.: Viripogi, eyes heavy with sleep. Mq.: viipoki, swooning, vertigo. Churchill.

Viti: vili, to pick up fallen fruit or leaves ... In Viti virimbai has the meaning of putting up a fence (mbai fence); viri does not appear independently in this use, but it is undoubtedly homogenetic with Samoan vili, which has a basic meaning of going around; virikoro then signifies the ring-fence-that-goes-about, sc. the moon. In the Maori, aokoro is the cloud-fence ... Churchill 2.

... Like [in] a triangular sail, the 'free' corners of a square sail are called clews; again there are two of them. Square sails have sheets attached to their clews like triangular sails, but the sheets are used to pull the sail down to the yard below rather than to adjust the angle it makes with the wind ... In sailing, a sheet is a line (rope, cable or chain) used to control the moveable corner(s) of a sail ...

viri Ga5-11 Ga5-8 Ga6-19 Cb14-16 Ga7-1

November 10 is the π day. In my early reconstruction I thought this was the first day beyond the end of the regular year:

 
Ga6-27 Ga6-28 (168) Ga6-29 Ga7-1 Ga7-2 Ga7-3 (172) Ga7-4
*JULY 23 24 (205) 25 26 27 28 29 (210)
SEPTEMBER 4 5 (248) 6 7 8 9 10 (253)
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) 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)
November 7 8 9 (313) π 11 (315) 12 13
'October 11 12 (285) 13 14 15 16 17 (290)
"September 27 28 29 (272) 30 "October 1 2 (275) 3
NAKSHATRA DATES:
*JANUARY 22 1-23 24   25 26 27 28 (393)
MARCH 6 (65) 7 8 (432) 9 (68) 10 11 12 (436)
τ Arietis (49.7) Algenib Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

Gienah

no star listed (51) 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 9 10 (130) 11 (496) 12 13 (133) 14 15 (500)
'April 12 13 (468) 14 (104) 15 16 (471) 17 (107) 18
"March 29 30 (454) 31 (90) 1 (91) 2 3 4

Now it can be added that Tau-ono (6 'stones) close to the Full Moon should indicate the final of the old year. However, at the time of the Hyades Gate there were still some days remaining to 0h. Furthermore the final could alternatively have come already at MARCH 14 (3-14):

Gb8-22 Gb8-23 Gb8-24 (236) Gb8-25 (466)
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
SEPTEMBER 11 12 13 14 (257)
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)
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)
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)

Rana (Latin for frog), δ Eridani, rose with the Sun in the same day as the first 6 of the Pleiades stars and the name should remind us of Fomalhaut (the Mouth of the Fish) and of Deneb Kaitos (the Tail of the Sea Beast):

... As to the strange appellation 'barker' I have earlier suggested it could have been a word play involving 'frog', which is reasonable because amphibians dwell half in water and half on land - i.e. where it was all beginning, at the first (al awwal) place, at the place of birth (hanau), at the first position beyond the ancient Babylonian 20 ecliptic constellations:

... At the star Deneb Kaitos Allen has written:

... Very differently it was the Arabs' Al Difdi' al Thānī, the Second Frog, that we see in the present Difda, Latinized as Rana Secunda; the star Fomalhaut being Al Difdi' al Awwal, the First Frog.

And at Fomalhaut:

Among early Arabs Fomalhaut was Al Difdi' al Awwal, the First Frog, and in its location on the Borgian globe is the word Thalīm, the Ostrich, evidently another individual title ...

There may have been 3 'frogs', the 1st (al Awwal) at Fomalhaut, the 2nd (al Thānī) at vero in Ga5-17, and the 3rd at Tau-ono - all of them to be observed in the night and close to the Full Moon as we have seen:

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Ga4-16 Ga4-17 (100) Ga4-18 Ga4-19
*MAY 16 17 (137) 18 19
JUNE 28 29 (180) 30 JULY 1
ν Hydrae (163.1) no star listed (164)

Altair

Wings-27 ANA-TIPU
ALKES (165.6) Merak (166.2), DUBHE (166.7)
August 31 September 1 2 3 (246)
'August 4 (216) 5 6 7
"July 21 7-22 23 (204) 24
NAKSHATRA DATES:
*NOVEMBER 15 16 (320) 17 18
DECEMBER 28 29 30 (364) 31
ι Cephei (346.0), λ Aquarii, γ Piscis Austrini, σ Pegasi (346.5) Scheat Aquarii (347.0), ρ Pegasi (347.2), δ Piscis Austrini (347.4), Fomalhaut, τ Gruis (347.8) Fum al Samakah (348.3), ζ Gruis (348.5), ο Andromedae (348.9) Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 / House-13
Scheat Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), κ Gruis (349.4), MARKAB PEGASI (349.5)
March 2 3 (427) 4 5 (64)
'February 3 4 (400) 5 (36) 6
"January 20 21 22 23 (388)
29
Ga5-17 Ga5-18 (128) Ga5-19 Ga5-20 Ga5-21
*JUNE 13 14 (165) 15 16 17
JULY 26 27 (208) 28 29 30
Al Áwwā'-11 ι Crucis (192.2), β Muscae (192.5), Mimosa (192.9) no star listed (193) κ Crucis (194.4), ψ Virginis (194.5), μ Crucis, λ Crucis (194.6), Alioth (194.8) Minelauva (195.1), Cor Caroli (195.3)
Sombrero Galaxy (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA, γ Centauri (191.5)
September 28 29 30 (273) October 1 2
'September 1 2 3 4 5 (248)
"August18 (230) 19 20 21 22
NAKSHATRA DATES:
LUCIA *DEC 14 (348) 15 16 17
JANUARY 25 26 27 (392) 28 29
ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), Deneb Kaitos, η Phoenicis (9.4) Achird (10.7) Legs-15 Cih, λ Tucanae (12.4), μ Andromedae (12.8) no star listed (13)
ν Andromedae (11.0), ρ Phoenicis (11.2), η ANDROMEDAE (11.4)
March 30 31 April 1 (91) 2 3
'March 3 4 (428) 5 (64) 6 7
"February 17 18 (414) 19 (50) 20 21
Ga6-21 Ga6-22 Ga6-23 Ga6-24 (164) Ga6-25 Ga6-26
*JULY 17 18 19 20 (201) 21 7-22
AUGUST 29 30 31 SEPTEMBER 1 2 3 (246)
Kochab (225.0) Ke Kwan (226.3), Ke Kwan (226.4), Zuben Elakribi (226.8) Nadlat (227.8), π Lupi (227.9) 15h (228.3) ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8) Al Zubānā-14b
Zuben Hakrabim (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9) χ Bootis (230.2), χ Bootis (230.3), Princeps (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (230.8
November 1 2 3 4 5 6 (310)
'October 5 6 7 (280) 8 9 10
"September 21 EQUINOX 23 (266) 24 25 26
NAKSHATRA DATES:
*JANUARY 16 17 18 19 (384) 20 21
FEBRUARY 28 MARCH 1 2 3 4 (428) 5 (64)
ρ Arietis (43.0), Acamar (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7)

Denebola

Menkar (44.7) 3h (45.7) Misam (46.2), Botein (46.9) ζ Arietis (47.7) Zibal (48.0)
Algol (45.9)
May 3 4 5 (490) 6 7 8 (128)
'April 6 7 8 9 (464) 10 (100) 11
"March 23 24 EQUINOX 26 (450) 27 (86) 28
 
Ga6-27 Ga6-28 (168) Ga6-29 Ga7-1 Ga7-2 Ga7-3 (172) Ga7-4
*JULY 23 24 (205) 25 26 27 28 29 (210)
SEPTEMBER 4 5 (248) 6 7 8 9 10 (253)
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) 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)
November 7 8 9 (313) π 11 (315) 12 13
'October 11 12 (285) 13 14 15 16 17 (290)
"September 27 28 29 (272) 30 "October 1 2 (275) 3
NAKSHATRA DATES:
*JANUARY 22 1-23 24   25 26 27 28 (393)
MARCH 6 (65) 7 8 (432) 9 (68) 10 11 12 (436)
τ Arietis (49.7) Algenib Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

Gienah

no star listed (51) 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 9 10 (130) 11 (496) 12 13 (133) 14 15 (500)
'April 12 13 (468) 14 (104) 15 16 (471) 17 (107) 18
"March 29 30 (454) 31 (90) 1 (91) 2 3 4 (459)

... A frog is capable of going both in water and on land. At the beginning it has no arms and no legs but later they will develop. Before this has occurred it cannot move up onto land.

In ancient Egypt the frog was used as a symbol for rebirth and the tadpole signified 100,000:

I have copied this picture from Richard H. Wilkinson's Hieroglyfernas värld ('Reading Egyptian Art'). It comes from the back side of the ceremonial chair of Tutanchamon. The sitting person in center is the God of Eternity and he is sitting on a sign for gold (or for feast).

At the ends of his outstretched arms are stylized palm branches with scores to represent the years. At the bottom of each such palm branch is a tadpole sitting on a sign representing eternity. At the beginning of eternity there are tadpoles and a human embryo 6 weeks old does look much like a tadpole ...