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Let's see which glyphs - according to my early perceptions - were at the September equinox. If this calendar really was compressed, then it could not be the same as if its end had been truncated (cut off):

ihe tau
1   1-13
2  14-26
27-39

4  40-52

5   53-65
6   66-78
7-13  79-169
14 170-182
15 183-194
16-20  195-259
21  260-272
22  273-285
23  286-298

At day 273 (September 30) there was a vaha mea who was eating, which perhaps referred to spring south of the equator rather than to autumn in the north. According to the Gate of the Goat it was early autumn and in rongorongo times it was 290 days beyond December 30:

●SOLSTICE (*92) ●JUNE 22 (173) 23
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 (104) Ga4-22
11h (167.4)  Al Sharas (168.6) Al Zubrah-9 / Purva Phalguni-11 
χ Leonis, χ¹ Hydrae (167.1), χ² Hydrae (167.3) Zosma (169.2), COXA (169.4)
September 4  5 (248) 6
●ST JOHN'S EVE ●JUNE 25 26 (6 * 29½) 27 28 (*99)
Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 (108) Ga4-26 Ga4-27
φ Leonis (170.0), Alula (170.5), Labrum (170.6) σ Leonis (171.1), λ Crateris (171.6), ι Leonis, ε Crateris (171.9) γ Crateris, π Centauri (172.0), κ Crateris (172.5), τ Leonis (172.8)

Gredi

ο¹ Centauri (173.8) ξ Hydrae (174.3), ο² Centauri, λ Centauri (174.8)
September 7 8 9 (14 * 18) 10 11 (254)
29 ●JULY 28 29 (*130) 30 (211) 31 ●AUGUST 1
Ga5-30 (140) Ga6-1 Ga6-2 Ga6-3 Ga6-4
no star listed (204) Heze (205.0), Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (205.7) ε Centauri (206.3), κ Oct. (206.4) no star listed (207) τ Bootis (208.2), Benetnash (208.5), ν Centauri (208.7), μ Centauri, υ Bootis (208.8)
October 11 12 (285) 13 14 15
●AUGUST 2 (214) 3 4 (*136) 5
Ga6-5 Ga6-6 Ga6-7 Ga6-8 (148)
no star listed (209) Muphrid (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3) φ Centauri (211.0), υ¹ Centauri (211.1), υ² Centauri (211.8), τ Virginis (211.9) Agena (212.1), θ Apodis (212.5), Thuban (212.8)
October 16 17 (290) 18 19
●AUGUST 6 7 8 (220)
Ga6-9 Ga6-10 (150) Ga6-11
14h (213.1) Neck-2 Al Ghafr-13 / Svāti-15

TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE

π Hydrae, χ Centauri (213.0), Menkent (213.1) Asellus Tertius, κ VIRGINIS, 14 Bootis (214.8) 15 Bootis (215.2), ARCTURUS (215.4), Asellus Secundus (215.5), SYRMA, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8)
October 20 21 22 (295)

Evidence from the heliacal stars and the glyphs indicate there indeed was a cardinal point here. The pair in Ga6-9--10 are sitting down back to back as if illustrating Janus. The name of the 13th Arab manzil Al Ghafr menas 'covering'.

Glyph 150 (with the eating figure) corresponded to day 214 counted from 0h at the time of rongorongo and 5 days earlier was vaha mea (also eating) which corresponded to day 214 (●AUGUST 2). But neither of these dates were at the northern autumn equinox. At the time of rongorongo these stars were rising with the Sun too late and at the time of the Goat they were rising too early.

We need a precessional perspective later than that of the Goat and earlier than that of rongorongo. And ●SEPTEMBER 30 (273) should be 273 - 214 (●AUGUST 2) = 59 glyphs later than vaha mea kai in Ga6-5:

52 ●SEPTEMBER 30 ●OCTOBER 1 2 3 4 5
Ga8-1 (204) 2 3 4 5 6
Kelb Alrai, μ Arae (268.1), Kew Ho (268.6), η Pavonis (268.7), Apollyon (268.9) Muliphen (269.0), Basanismus (269.5), Pherkard (269.9) Ptolemy Cluster (270.5) Rukbalgethi Genubi (271.1), ξ Herculis (271.5), Etamin, ν Herculis (271.7), ν Ophiuchi (271.8) ζ Serpentis (272.4), τ Ophiuchi (272.9) Winnowing Basket-7
18h (273.4)
NASH (273.7), θ Arae (273.8)
December 14 15 16 (350) 17 18 19

Apollyon (ι Scorpii) surely stood for the defeat of the Sun in the 'evening':