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Ga3-5 is the first glyph of this type in the text and in Roman times the position was 'June 30:

Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5 (64)
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 28 29 (*100) 30 (181)
"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)

Heliacal Sirius should always be at the end of the month when Father Light (Jupiter) dies. If the calendar dates in different millenia were to be remembered and compared, then only such stars which kept together should be used. Sirius was apparently never mentioned in any list of lunar stations, indeed none of the stars in Canis Major or Canis Minor were used:

  Ar Hi Ch Pe So Kh Co Me
Andromeda α / γ Peg. α / γ Peg.   α / γ Peg. α / γ Peg. α / γ Peg. α / γ Peg.  
  β           β  
      η          
Aquarius ε, μ, ν   ε       ε, μ, ν ε, μ, ν
  β, ξ, 46   β       β, ξ β
  α, γ, ζ, η, π γ α          
        δ δ δ   δ, κ
Aquila   α, β, γ            
Aries β, γ β, γ α, β, γ β, γ β, γ   β, γ β, γ
    35, 39, 41 41 μ, 33, 35, 39, 41 μ, 33, 35, 39, 41 μ, 33, 35, 39, 41 μ, 33, 35, 39, 41  
Bootes   α            
Cancer   γ, δ, θ           δ
  ε              
Capricornus α, β   β          
Corvus   α, β, γ, δ, ε γ          
Crater     α          
Delphinus    α, β, γ, δ            
Gemini η, μ, ν, γ, ξ   μ         η, μ, γ
  α, β α, β           α, β
      ρ (?)          
Hydra   δ, ε, η, ρ, σ δ          
      δ          
      ε / μ          
Leo               ε
  ξ, λ              
  η, α, ζ, γ α           α
  δ, θ δ, θ            
  β β           β
                ρ
Libra α / β α, β, γ, ι α         β
Lyra   α, ε, ζ            
Ophiuchus               θ
Orion λ, φ¹, φ² λ, φ¹, φ² λ λ, φ¹, φ² λ, φ¹, φ² λ, φ¹, φ² λ, φ¹, φ² λ, φ¹, φ²
      ζ          
    α            
Pegasus α, β α, β α          
  γ / α Andr. γ / α Andr. γ γ / α Andr. γ / α Andr. γ / α Andr. γ / α Andr.  
Pisces   ζ   ε, ζ ζ ζ ε, ζ ε
Sagittarius γ, δ, ε, η, ζ , σ, φ, χ, τ, μ¹, μ² δ, ε γ          
      φ          
    ζ, σ            
  π              
Scorpius β, δ, π β, δ, π π β, δ, π β, δ, π β, δ, π β, δ, π β, δ
  α α, σ, τ σ α α α α α
  λ, υ ε, ζ, η, θ, ι, κ, λ, μ μ          
      γ          
      φ          
Taurus M45 M45 η         η
  α, θ¹, θ², γ, δ, ε α ε α α α   α
                β
                ζ
Virgo β, η, γ, δ, ε             β
  α α α         α
                γ
  ι, κ, φ   κ ι, κ, λ ι, κ, λ ι, κ, λ ι, κ, λ  

The 'feather string' rising up in front in glyph 64 (Ga3-5) was normally called maro by Metoro. In general this appellation probably carried the meaning of dry. However, here the string is rising up from the preceding henua (land) like something growing. Cancer was a region of growth.

In ancient Egypt Sirius made the Nile rise. The land around was dry and the overflowing Nile was a welcome yearly event.

... Instead of that old, dark, terrible drama of the king's death, which had formerly been played to the hilt, the audience now watched a solemn symbolic mime, the Sed festival, in which the king renewed his pharaonic warrant without submitting to the personal inconvenience of a literal death. The rite was celebrated, some authorities believe, according to a cycle of thirty years, regardless of the dating of the reigns; others have it, however, that the only scheduling factor was the king's own desire and command. Either way, the real hero of the great occasion was no longer the timeless Pharaoh (capital P), who puts on pharaohs, like clothes, and puts them off, but the living garment of flesh and bone, this particular pharaoh So-and-so, who, instead of giving himself to the part, now had found a way to keep the part to himself. And this he did simply by stepping the mythological image down one degree. Instead of Pharaoh changing pharaohs, it was the pharaoh who changed costumes. The season of year for this royal ballet was the same as that proper to a coronation; the first five days of the first month of the 'Season of Coming Forth', when the hillocks and fields, following the inundation of the Nile, were again emerging from the waters. For the seasonal cycle, throughout the ancient world, was the foremost sign of rebirth following death, and in Egypt the chronometer of this cycle was the annual flooding of the Nile ...

It was the Nile which brought sweet water, not rain (ua).

In rongorongo times and on Easter Island, however, the month He Maro was in midwinter, when the earth was dry (maro) and infertile.

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)

At heliacal φ Cancri (Ga3-3) was 'a bird on fire' and this was 2 days before θ, making Ga3-4 into a central glyph, a place where vertical and outside (Φ) could have changed into horizontal and inside (Θ):

Egyptian bread, (-t, female determinant) Phoenician qoph Greek phi Φ(φ)

... is the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet ... Its origin is uncertain but it may be that phi originated as the letter qoppa ... In traditional Greek numerals, phi has a value of 500 or 500000 ...

Isaac Taylor, History of the Alphabet: Semitic Alphabets, Part 1, 2003: 'The old explanation, which has again been revived by Halévy, is that it denotes an 'ape,' the character Q being taken to represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle,' ... Lenormant adopts the more usual explanation that the word means a 'knot' ...

... The king, wearing now a short, stiff archaic mantle, walks in a grave and stately manner to the sanctuary of the wolf-god Upwaut, the 'Opener of the Way', where he anoints the sacred standard and, preceded by this, marches to the palace chapel, into which he disappears. A period of time elapses during which the pharaoh is no longer manifest.

When he reappears he is clothed as in the Narmer palette, wearing the kilt with Hathor belt and bull's tail attatched. In his right hand he holds the flail scepter and in his left, instead of the usual crook of the Good Shepherd, an object resembling a small scroll, called the Will, the House Document, or Secret of the Two Partners, which he exhibits in triumph, proclaiming to all in attendance that it was given him by his dead father Osiris, in the presence of the earth-god Geb. 'I have run', he cries, 'holding the Secret of the Two Partners, the Will that my father has given me before Geb. I have passed through the land and touched the four sides of it. I traverse it as I desire.' ...

Egyptian nfr Phoenician teth Greek theta Θ (θ)

... The form of the letter θ suggests a midline ('waist'), although the origin of θ is the Phoenician tēth which means 'wheel'. This in turn could have originated from a glyph named 'good' which in Egypt was nfr ...

... θ is the last star in the Ara constellation, and the ancient meaning of this letter was described as a wheel by the Phoenicians but for the Egyptian it meant 'good'. When the wheel of time has come full cycle around and the upside down fire-altar is in the past the times ahead should be good (or lucky Sa'ad) ...

According to Wilkinson nefer originally depicted the throat and heart of a sheep:

... 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. He dropped some of the embers, came back to pick them up, and fled towards the granary; but his agitation was such that he could no longer find the entrances. He made the round of it several times before he found the steps and climbed onto the flat roof, where he hid the stolen goods in one of the skins of the bellows, exclaiming: 'Gouyo!', which is to say. 'Stolen!' ...

Egyptian eye Phoenician ayin Greek omicron Ο (ο)

... The letter name is derived from Proto-Semitic *ayn-, eye, and the Phoenician letter had an eye-shape, ultimately derived from the jr hieroglyph ... To this day, ‘ayin in Hebrew, Arabic and Maltese means 'eye' and 'spring' (‘ayno in Neo-Aramaic).

I suggest Bayer decided to put the letter o-mikron for the leading star at the nose of the Great Bear at the same time and in conjunction with his assigning the letters φ and θ for these stars in Cancer.

... From One comes Two, and from Two comes Three. From Three everything else will then be generated. (An old Chinese truth.)

As I perceive it there were constructions (thighs) below these reed hulls which possibly may have functioned like center-boards, triangular shapes patterned vertical in front (mua) and horizontal at the back (muri). Midships (between these running legs, at 'noon') there was, I suggest, a 'tree' with a black 'stone head' at bottom and a white 'o' in its top.

Rei

1. To tread, to trample on: rei kiraro ki te va'e. 2. (Used figuratively) away with you! ka-rei kiraro koe, e mageo ê, go away, you disgusting man. 3. To shed tears: he rei i te mata vai. 4. Crescent-shaped breast ornament, necklace; reimiro, wooden, crescent-shaped breast ornament; rei matapuku, necklace made of coral or of mother-of-pearl; rei pipipipi, necklace made of shells; rei pureva, necklace made of stones. 5. Clavicle. Îka reirei, vanquished enemy, who is kicked (rei). Vanaga.

T. 1. Neck. 2. Figure-head. Rei mua = Figure-head in the bow. Rei muri = Figure-head in the stern. Henry.

Mother of pearl; rei kauaha, fin. Mgv.: rei, whale's tooth. Mq.: éi, id. This is probably associable with the general Polynesian rei, which means the tooth of the cachalot, an object held in such esteem that in Viti one tooth (tambua) was the ransom of a man's life, the ransom of a soul on the spirit path that led through the perils of Na Kauvandra to the last abode in Mbulotu. The word is undoubtedly descriptive, generic as to some character which Polynesian perception sees shared by whale ivory and nacre. Rei kauaha is not this rei; in the Maori whakarei designates the carved work at bow and stern of the canoe and Tahiti has the same use but without particularizing the carving: assuming a sense descriptive of something which projects in a relatively thin and flat form from the main body, and this describes these canoe ornaments, it will be seen that it might be applied to the fins of fishes, which in these waters are frequently ornamental in hue and shape. The latter sense is confined to the Tongafiti migration. Reirei, to trample down, to knead, to pound. Churchill.

Pau.: Rei-hopehopega, nape. Churchill.

Mg. Reiga, Spirit leaping-place. Oral Traditions.

... 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 ...

Ga1-30 Ga2-1 Ga2-2 Ga2-3 (33) Ga2-4
APRIL 20 (365 - 130 = 235) 21 (*31) 22 23 (113) 24 (*399)
 Furud (94.9) Well-22 / Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-9 no star listed (96) β Monocerotis, ν Gemini (97.0) no star listed (98)
δ Columbae (95.2), TEJAT POSTERIOR, Mirzam (95.4), CANOPUS (95.6), ε Monocerotis (95.7), ψ1 Aurigae (95.9)
June 23 ST JOHN'S EVE 25 26 (6 * 29½) 27
ºJune 19 20 (*91) SOLSTICE 22 23
'May 27 (7 * 21 = 147) 28 (*68) 29 30 31
"May 13 (7 * 19 =133) 14 15 (*55) 16 (136) 17
NAKSHATRA DATES:
OCTOBER 20 21 (*214) 22 (295) 23 24
Purva Ashadha-20 Kaus Borealis (279.3) ν Pavonis (280.4), κ Cor. Austr. (280.9) Abhijit-22
KAUS MEDIUS, κ Lyrae (277.5), Tung Hae (277.7) φ Oct. (278.1), KAUS AUSTRALIS (278.3), ξ Pavonis (278.4), Al Athfar (278.6) θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA (281.8)
December 23 CHRISTMAS EVE 25 26 (360) 27
 ºDec 19 (*273) 20 SOLSTICE  22 23 (357)
'November 26 27 28 29 (333) 30 (*254)
"November 12 (*236) 13 14 15 16 (320)
Ga2-27 Ga2-28 Ga2-29 Ga3-1 (60)
MAY 17 (364 - 227 = 137) 18 (228 - 90 = 138) 19 20
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)