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The pregnant rising fish in Ga3-4 is no more than an allusion to vaha mea, because there is no open mouth. In Roman times this was day 100 after 0h and the day before Sirius rose with the Sun in 'June 30.

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)
Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5 (64)
MAY 21 22 23 (*63) 24 (144)
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)

Instead of an aperture there was the opposite, viz. a seal - a quite different (ke) 'thing' (mea):

vaha mea Ga3-4 mea ke

Ke

1. Other; different; different being; hare ké, a different house; e-ké-ro-á... e-ké-ro-á... there are some who... and others who...; me'e ké, something distinct, different: te puaka ina oona kuhane; me'e ké te tagata, he hakari oona, he kuhane, an animal has no soul; man is different, he has a body, and a soul; matu'a ké, the other relatives. 2. Ké te kairua, person who turns up for meals at other people's homes. 3. Used in exclamations: hahau ké! what a cool breeze!; hana ké! how hot! takeo ké! how cold! Vanaga.

Other, distinct, different, diverse, otherwise; koona ke, elsewhere; tagata ke, some one else; mea ke, contrary, distinct, otherwise; hakake, feint, stratagem, to feign; hagake, to act contrary. T Pau.: ke, different. Mgv.: ke, another, other, else, different, of partial comparative value. Mq.: ke, é, to be different, changed, no longer the same. Ta.: e, different, strange, other. Churchill.

Possibly we should translate this 'pregnant fish' with Faka-taka (making a cycle):

... There is a couple residing in one place named Kui and Fakataka. After the couple stay together for a while Fakataka is pregnant. So they go away because they wish to go to another place - they go. The canoe goes and goes, the wind roars, the sea churns, the canoe sinks. Kui expires while Fakataka swims. Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa. When the baby is born a golden plover flies over and alights upon the reef. (Kua fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai i te papa) ...

In Roman times the beginning of 'July was a time of importance because here the Sun was in Cancer - it was a time of rebirth. In Babylonian times this was where the Southeastern Star in the Crab (δ Cancri, Ascellus Australis, the Southern Donkey) rose heliacally:

Ga3-6 Ga3-7 Ga3-8 Ga3-9 (68)
MAY 25 26 27 28 (148)
Āshleshā-9 / Willow-24 Al Nathrah-6 Extended Net-26a / Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu-13 ι Cancri (132.0), ρ Hydrae (132.4)
π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ HYDRAE (129.6), Al Minhar al Shujā, Museida (129.9) BEEHIVE and M44 (130.4), Xestus (130.5), Ascellus Borealis (130.9) η Hydrae (131.0), Ascellus Australis (131.4), Koo She (131.6), ε HYDRAE (131.9)
July 28 29 30 31 (212)
ºJuly 24 25 26 (*127) 27 (208)
'July 1 2 3 (*104) 4 (185)
"June 17 18 19 (*90) 20 (181)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
NOVEMBER 24 25 (329) 26 (*250) 27
Rotanev, ι Delphini (312.3), τ Capricorni (312.6), κ Delphini (312.7), SVALOCIN, υ Capricorni, υ Pavonis (312.8) μ², μ¹ Oct. (313.2), Deneb Cygni (313.5), β Pavonis (313.6), δ Delphini (313.8) Al Sa’d al Bula'-21 / Dhanishta-24 / Girl-10 Baten Algiedi (315.8)
Yue (314.3), Gienah Cygni, η Cephei (314.5), γ Delphini (314.6), σ Pavonis (314.7), ALBALI (314.8)

Betelgeuze

January 27 (392) 28 29 (*314) 30
ºJanuary 23 24 25 (*310) 26
'December 31 'January 1 2 3 (*288)
"December 17 18 19 (*273) 20 (354)

... Men's spirits were thought to dwell in the Milky Way between incarnations. This conception has been handed down as an Orphic and Pythagorean tradition fitting into the frame of the migration of the soul. Macrobius, who has provided the broadest report on the matter, has it that souls ascend by way of Capricorn, and then, in order to be reborn, descend again through the 'Gate of Cancer'. Macrobius talks of signs; the constellations rising at the solstices in his time (and still in ours) were Gemini and Sagittarius: the 'Gate of Cancer' means Gemini. In fact, he states explicitly (I,12.5) that this 'Gate' is 'where the Zodiac and the Milky Way intersect' ...

At the other end of this 'Gate' was, I think, the 'sunken ship' Argo Navis. Naos (ζ Puppis) means 'Ship' and Naos was in the Egyptian X at the bottom of the line from Betelgeuze past the nose at Sirius:

... The hull of the canoe was regarded as the backbone of their chief. In laments for dead chiefs, the deceased are often compared to broken canoes awash in the surf ...

The Golden Plover may have represented the descending spirit of Old Sun who should be inhaled by the first breath taken by the new Sun (his son)  'not-Tagaroa' (Tae-tagaloa).

... the modern Homo occidentalis is bound to shrink back from the mere idea that the Nile [the Milky Way] represented a circle, where 'source' and 'mouth' meet, so that there is nothing preposterous in the notion that a Canopic mouth can be found in the geographical North ...