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The Moon character of these glyphs are indicated also by tao in Gb2-12, which has been drawn with a strong outline and with a slight indentation in front. Moon has 2 faces ('eyes') because her basic cycle is 2 * 29½ = 59 nights.

Gb2-12 tao
 
Gb2-12 Gb2-13 Gb2-14 Gb2-15 (270) Gb2-16
LUCIA DECEMBER 14 15 16 (350) 17
Kuh (331.4), γ Gruis (331.5) no star listed (332) η Piscis Austrini (333.4) 22h (334.8) ι Pegasi (335.0), Alnair (335.1), μ Piscis Austrini, υ Piscis Austrini (335.3), Woo (335.7), Baham, τ Piscis Austrini (335.8)
Kae Uh (334.0), Al Kurhah (334.4), SADALMELIK, Al Dhanab (334.6), ι Aquarii, ν Pegasi (334.7)
February 15 16 (2-16) 17 (413) 18 19 (50)
'January 19 (384) 20 21 22 23
"January 5 (370) 6 7 8 9
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JUNE 14 15 16   17 (168) 18
Tseen Ke (149.9) ν Leonis (150.1), π Leonis (150.6) υ² Hydrae (151.8) Al Jabhah-8 / Maghā-10 λ Hydrae (153.2)
10h (152.2)
AL JABHAH (152.4), REGULUS (152.7)
August 17 18 19 20 (232) 21
'July 21 22-7 23 (204) 24 25
"July 7 8 9 (190) 10 11

Tao

1. To cook in an oven, to sacrifice. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: tao, to cook in an oven. 2. To carry away. 3. Abscess, bubo, scrofula, boil, gangrene, ulcer, inflammation, sore. Mgv.: taotaovere, small red spots showing the approach of death. Mq.: toopuku, toopuu, boil, wart, tumor. Ta.: taapu, taapuu, scrofula on neck and chin. 4. Mgv.: a lance, spear. Ta.: tao, id. Sa.: tao, id. Ma.: tao, id. 5. Mgv.: taotaoama, a fish. Sa.:  taotaoama, id. 6. Ta.: taoa, property, possessions. Ma.: taonga, property, treasure. Churchill.

Sa.: tao, to bake; taofono, taona'i, to bake food the day before it is used; tau, the leaves used to cover an oven. To.: tao, to cook food in a oven, to bake. Fu.: taò, to put in an oven, to cook. Niuē: tao, to bake. Uvea: tao, to cook, to bake. Ma., Rapanui: tao, to bake or cook in a native oven, properly to steam, to boil with steam. Ta.: tao, the rocks and leaves with which a pig is covered when cooking; baked, boiled, cooked. Mq., Mgv., Mg., Tongareva: tao, to bake in an oven ... The word refers to the specific manner of cookery which involves the pit oven. The suggestion in the Maori, therefore, does not mean a different method; it is but an attempt more precisely to describe the kitchen method, a very tasty cookery, be it said. The suggestion of boiling is found only in Tahiti, yet in his dictionary Bishop Jaussen does not record it under the word bouillir; boiling was little known to the Polynesians before the European introduction of pottery and other fire-resisting utensils ... Churchill 2.

Kao-kao, v. Haw., be red. Root and primary meaning obsolete in Haw. Sam., tao, to bake. Marqu., tao, bake, roast, sacrifice. Tah., tao, baked, boiled, cooked. Greek, καιω, Old Att. καω, to light, kindle, burn, scorch. According to Liddell and Scott, Pott refers καιω to Sanskrit çush, be dry, but Curtius rejects this. In Dravid. (Tamil) kay, to be hot, burn. Fornander.

Furthermore, the beak of the strange moe bird in the following night could be a Moon crescent. And hanau in Gb2-14 has 2 'eye holes'.

Judging from the position of Ka1-11 - which ought to be around June 4 (6-4) - the distance to Gb2-14 could have been approximately 256 (= 4 * 64) days:

   
Ga1-7 Ga1-8 Ga1-9 Ga1-10    
May 31 (151) June 1 2 3    
TAU-ONO ALCYONE (56.1), PLEIONE, ATLAS (56.3) Menkhib (57.6)

Porrima

Zaurak (58.9)    
Atiks, Rana (55.1), CELAENO, ELECTRA, TAYGETA (55.3), MAIA, ASTEROPE, MEROPE (55.6)
Ka1-7 Ka1-8 Ka1-9 Ka1-10 Ka1-11 Ka1-12
Ga1-11 Ga1-12 Ga1-13
June 4 5 6 (157)
4 absent nights
*Ka1-17 *Ka1-18

413 (6 *59) = 157 (314 / 2) + 4 * 64 (256).