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The star at manu kake (the 'climbing bird') in Ga3-1 had once upon a time been in MAY 20, i.e. 60 days after 0h, but when in Roman times the Sun calendar was realigned with the Moon calendar - which I have assumed - the day number had become 177 = 6 (Sun) * 29½ (Moon) = 360 - 183:

Ga2-27 Ga2-28 Ga2-29 Ga3-1 (60)
MAY 17 (364 - 227 = 137) 18 (228 - 90 = 138) 19 20 (140)
8h (121.7) ρ Puppis (122.0), Heap of Fuel (122.1), ζ Monocerotis (122.3),  ψ Cancri (122.6), Regor (122.7) Tegmine (123.3) Al Tarf (124.3)

Ras Algethi

χ Gemini (121.0), Naos (121.3)
July 20 (201) 21 (*122) 7-22 23
ºJuly 16 (181 + 16) 17 (*118) 18 19 (200)
'June 23 ST JOHN'S EVE 25 (*96) 26 (177)
"June 9 (*80) 10 11 12 (163)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOVEMBER 16 (320) 17 18 (*242) 19
20h (304.4) Shang Wei (305.2), θ Sagittae (305.4), Tseen Foo (305.6), ξ Capricorni (305.8) Tso Ke (306.3) Gredi (307.2), σ Capricorni (307.5), Alshat (307.9)
η Sagittae (304.2), δ Pavonis (304.4)
January 19 (384) 20 21 22
ºJanuary 15 (*300) 16 17 1-18 (383)
'December 23 CHRISTMAS EVE 25 (*279) 26 (360)
'December 9 10 11 (*265) 12 (346)

Here Al Tarf (the End, β Cancri) was rising heliacally and at the opposite side of the sky roof was Gredi (α, the leading star in Capricornus). These stars should therefore have been opposites in character - one at the 'birth of Land' ('end of Sea') and the other at the 'birth of Sea' ('end of Land'):

... All was now ready for departure except that there was no fire in the smithy. The ancestor slipped into the workshop of the great Nummo, who are Heaven's smiths, and stole a piece of the sun in the form of live embers and white-hot iron. He seized it by means of a 'robber's stick' the crook of which ended in a slit, open like a mouth ...

As we can see in the illustrations of Hevelius the beginning of the horizontally held cloth of Aquarius is like an open mouth close both to the left horn of the Goat and to the arrow head of Antinous:

In Ga3-2 the 'birth of Land' could have been depicted, where Bright Fire (λ Cancri) was at the Sun:

Ga3-2 (61) Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5
MAY 21 22 23 (*63) 24 (12 * 12)
χ Cancri (125.2), Bright Fire (125.4) Avior (126.4), φ Cancri (126.8) ο Ursa Majoris (127.4)  Pushya-8
υ Cancri (128.1), θ CANCRI (128.2), η Cancri (128.5)
July 24 25 26 27 (80 + 2 * 64)
ºJuly 20 (201) 21 (*122) 22 (7-22) 23
'June 27 (178) 28 29 (*100) 30
"June 13 (164) 14 15 (*86) 16
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOVEMBER 20 21 22 (*246) 23 (327)
Al Sa’d al Dhabih-20 / Ox / Herd Boy-9 Okul (309.6), Bos (309.9)

Arneb

ο Capricorni (310.2), θ Cephei (310.5)

Alnilam

Rotten Melon, φ Pavonis (311.2), η Delphini (311.4), ζ Delphini, ρ Pavonis (311.7)

Phakt

DABIH (308.0), κ Sagittarii (308.1), Sadir (308.4), Peacock (308.7)
January 23 (388) 24 25 26
ºJanuary 19 (384) 20 (*305) 21 22
'December 27 28 29 30 (364)
"December 13 14 (348) 15 16 (*270)

Moa in Ga3-3 looks like a 'bird on fire' calling out at early dawn.

We should observe the contrast between the 'birth of drought' in 'June 27 (in the month of Maro) with the 'birth of rain' in Aa6-66:

Ga3-2 Aa6-66

6 'stones' (tau ono)

1 Vaitu Nui (29)

2 Vaitu Potu (31)

 

3 He Maro (29)

4 He Anakena (31)

 

5 Hora Iti (29)

6 Hora Nui (29)

'April' (30)

'May' (31)

'June' (30)

'July' (31)

'August' (31)

'September' (30)

60

60

58

178 = 177 + 1

177 = 6 * 29½

7 Tagaroa Uri (31)

 8 Ko Ruti (29)

9 Ko Koró (29)

 

10 Tua Haro (29)

 11 Tehetu'upú (28)

12 Tarahao (31)

'October' (31)

'November' (30)

'December' (31)

'January' (31)

'February' (28)

'March' (31)

Koro

1. Father (seems to be an older word than matu'a tamâroa). 2. Feast, festival; this is the generic term for feasts featuring songs and banquetting; koro hakaopo, feast where men and women danced. 3. When (also: ana koro); ana koro oho au ki Anakena, when I go to Anakena; in case, koro haga e îa, in case he wants it. Vanaga.

If. Korokoro, To clack the tongue (kurukuru). Churchill.

Ma.: aokoro, pukoro, a halo around the moon. Vi.: virikoro, a circle around the moon. There is a complete accord from Efaté through Viti to Polynesia in the main use of this stem and in the particular use which is set to itself apart. In Efaté koro answers equally well for fence and for halo. In the marked advance which characterizes social life in Viti and among the Maori the need has been felt of qualifying koro in some distinctive manner when its reference is celestial. 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-around, sc. the moon. In the Maori, aokoro is the cloud-fence. Churchill 2.

In the Mayan Dresden Codex the last page of the manuscript pictures the cosmic dragon belching out the waters of the deluge as a sign of the completed cycle.

And the 8th Hindu station Pushya was associated with a circle (and an arrow):

CANCER:
8 Pushya γ, δ, and θ Cancri Cow's udder, lotus, arrow and circle  128 = 113 + 15
the nourisher Beehive July 27 (208)