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The compression of the celestial Land to 123 days instead of the expected 185 days for the northern summer amounts to a difference with 62 days, which happens to coincide with what Ceasar had added by way of the new months July and August (2 * 31 = 62 days), inserted in his Sun calendar in the place where Sirius had reached 'June 30.

826 / 14 = 59 Gb8-27 (240) (470) Gb8-30
MARCH 16 17 18 19 (78) 20
May 19 20 (140) 21 22 (*62) 23
5
no glyph 54 121 50
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga2-27 (57) Ga7-10 (179)
Hyadum II (δ¹ Tauri) (64.2) Net-19 no star listed (66) 8h (121.7) 16h (243.5)
AIN, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7) χ Gemini (121.0), Naos (121.3) Acrab, Jabhat al Akrab (243.3), θ Lupi, Rutilicus (243.5), Marfik (243.7), φ Herculis (243.8)
57 123
180
230 (= number of days on side a)

... This island was once a great land. The reason it became so small is because Uoke lifted the earth with a (mighty) pole and then let it sink (into the sea). It was because of the very bad people of Te Pito O Te Henua that Uoke lifted the land (and let it crumble) until it became very small. From the uplifted Te Pito O Te Henua, (they) came to the landing site of Nga Tavake, to Te Ohiro. In Rotomea (near Mataveri) they disembarked and climbed up to stay at Vai Marama (a waterplace near Mataveri).

During the next month, they moved on to Te Vare (on the slope of the crater Rano Kau). When they saw that the (land-) lifting Uoke also approached (their present) island, Nga Tavake spoke to Te Ohiro: 'The land is sinking into the sea and we are lost!' But Te Ohiro warded off the danger with a magic chant. In Puku Puhipuhi, Uoke's pole broke, and, in this way, at least Nga Tavake's landing site remained (of the formerly great land) ...

The shrinking (sinking) Land could alternatively have been explained as 57 days together with 5 extracalendrical nights beyond day 180:

no glyph 177
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga7-11 (180) Ga7-12 Ga7-13
0h MARCH 22 23 (82) SEPT 17 (260) 18 19
Hyadum II (δ¹ Tauri) (64.2) Net-19 no star listed (66) 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)
AIN, θ¹ Tauri, θ² Tauri (65.7)
May 24 25 26 (146) Nov 20 (324) 21 22
 
Ga7-14 Ga7-15 Ga7-16 (185) Ga7-17 Ga7-18 Ga7-19
SEPTEMBER 20 21 EQUINOX 23 24 25 (268)
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-MUA

γ Apodis (250.1), σ Herculis (250.3), θ Tr. Austr. (250.6), τ Scorpii (250.7) Han (251.0) ζ Herculis, η Tr. Austr. (252.1), η Herculis, β Apodis (252.5)
σ SCORPII (247.0), Hejian (247.2), ψ Ophiuchi (247.7) ANTARES (249.1), Marfik, φ Ophiuchi (249.5),  ω Ophiuchi (249.8)
November 23 24 25 (329) 26 27 28

From heliacal Antares (Ana-mua, the star in front) up to and including the arrow Point of Sagittarius (Nash) there were 210 - 185 = 25 days. Up to and including Al Baldah there were 227 - 185 = 42 days.

23 16 2
Ga7-16 (185) Ga8-6 (209) Ga8-23 (226) Ga8-26 (229)
25 20
45

Then followed the last 3 days at the end of line 8 at the top of the front side of the tablet. Counted from heliacal Antares to the end of side a there were 42 + 3 = 45 (= 360 / 8) days.

Ga8-22 Ga8-23 Ga8-24 (227) Ga8-25 Ga8-26
NOVEMBER 1 2 (306) 3 4 5
19h (289.2) Al Baldah-19 Aladfar (291.1), Nodus II (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), θ Lyrae (291.8) ω Aquilae (292.1), ρ Sagittarii (292.6), υ Sagittarii (292.7) Arkab Prior (293.0), Arkab Posterior, Alrami (293.2), χ Sagittarii (293.6)
λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8) AL BALDAH, Alphekka Meridiana (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)
January 4 5 (370) 6 7 8
NAKSHATRA DATES:
MAY 3 (123) 4 5 6 7 (492)
WEZEN (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9) no star listed (108) λ Gemini (109.4), Wasat (109.8) no star listed (110) Aludra (111.1), Propus (111.4),  Gomeisa (111.6)
July 6 7 8 9 (190) 10

If the day number at NOVEMBER 5 had been counted from MARCH 16 (75) at Gb8-26, it would have been 309 + 5 = 314 (π). When counting with logarithms the power of 10 (the mantissa) can be disregarded, because this power is obvious. The difficult part is the rest, its characteristic.

Gb1-1 (230) Gb1-2 Gb1-3
NOVEMBER 6 (310) 7 8
Deneb Okab (294.0), α Vulpeculae (294.9) ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), Albireo (295.5) μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8), κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9)
January 9 10 (375) 11
NAKSHATRA DATES:
MAY 8 (493) 9 10 (130)
Ghost-23 Al Dhirā'-5 / Punarvasu-7 ANA-TAHUA-VAHINE-O-TOA-TE-MANAVA
ρ GEMINI (112.1), Eskimo Nebula (112.2)

Antares

CASTOR (113.4) υ Gemini (114.0), Markab Puppis (114.7),ο Gemini (114.8), PROCYON (114.9)
July 11 12 (193) 13

(NGC 2392 in Gemini, the Eskimo Nebula)

Sumerian SAG Phoenician resh Greek rho Ρ (ρ)

... Resh (Arabic: ۥ) is the twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew ... The word resh is usually assumed to have come from a pictogram of a head, ultimately reflecting Proto-Semitic *raۥ(i)š-. The word's East Semitic cognate, rēš-, was one possible phonetic reading of the Sumerian cuneiform sign for 'head' (SAG).

LA, s. Haw., sun, light, day. N. Zeal., ra, sun, day. Marqu., a, id. Sam., la, id.

Deriv.: Haw., lae, be light, clear, shining; lai, shining as the surface of the sea, calm, still; laelae and lailai, intens. Sam., lelei, something very good; lala, to shine; lalangi, to broil. Fiji., rai, to see, appear; rai-rai, a seer, a prophet. Teor., la, sun. Aru Islands, lara, id.; rarie, bright, shining. Amblaw., laei, sun, day.

Irish, la, lae, day. Laghmani (Cabul), la'e, day. Sanskr., laj, lanj, to appear, shine; râj, to shine. Ved., to govern; s. a king. If, as Benfey intimates, the Sanskrit verb bhrâj, to shine, to beam, is 'probably abhi-râj', an already Vedic contraction, then the Polynesian root-word al and lae will reappear in several of the West Aryan dialects. Lat., flagrare, flamma, flamen. Greek, φλεγω, φλοξ. A.-Sax., blac, blæcan, &c.

Probably the universal Polynesian lani, langi, rangi, ra'i, lanits (Malg.) designating the upper air, sky, heaven, and an epithet of chiefs, refers itself to the same original la, lai, lanj, referred to above, to which also be referred: Welsh, glan, clean pure, bright, holy. Sax. clæne, clean, pure. Swed., ren, clean. pure; grann (?), fine, elegant.

It may be noted in connection with this word, either as a coincidence or as an instance of ancient connection, that in the old Chaldean the name of the sun and of the Supreme Deity was Ra, and that in Egypt the sun was also named Ra.

LA², s. Haw., Sam., Tong., ra. N. Zeal., the sail of a canoe; abbreviated from, or itself an older form of, the Fiji. laca, a sail, also the mats from which the sails were made. Sunda., Mal., layar, sail. Malg., laï, sail, tent, flag.

Sanskr., lâta (Pictet), a cloth; latâ (Benfey), a creeper, a plant; lak-taka, a rag. As mats and clothing in primitive times were made of bark or flexible plants, the connection between the Sanskrit latâ and Polynesian laca, la, becomes intelligible. Armen., lôtig, a mantle. Lat., lodix, a blanket. Irish, lothar, clothing.

From Rogo with head intact (in Gb6-26) to the 'birth' of Rogo without a visible head there were 295 (= 5 * 59) days. This was the number of days from March 21 (0h) to January 10 (375).

63 1 230 177
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 (408) Gb1-2 Gb1-3 (232)
JANUARY 15 (380) 16 NOVEMBER 7 (311) 8
no star listed (364) Al Fargh al Thāni-25 ν Aquilae (Ant.) (295.0), Albireo (295.5) μ Aquilae (296.3), ι Aquilae (Ant.) (296.8), κ Aquilae (Ant.) (296.9)
0h (365.25)
Caph, SIRRAH (0.5), ε Phoenicis (0.8)
March 20 (444) 0h January 10 (375) 11