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I suggest the G text had a season with rain clouds similar to that of the Mayas:

8 Mol 9 Ch'en (Well) 10 Yax (Green) 11 Sac (White) 12 Ceh (Red)
5 * 20 = 100
3 89 4
Ga4-7 (90) Ga4-11 Ga7-15 (184) Ga7-20
100

Such a season may have gone away (kua oho) when μ Scorpii (Deneb-akrab) rose with the Sun, at the 6th Chinese station Tail.

٭SEPTEMBER 12 13 (256 = 4 * 64) 14 (*177 = 6 * 29½) 15 16
Ga7-20 Ga7-21 Ga7-22 (191) Ga7-23 Ga7-24
SEPTEMBER 26 27 (270) 28 29 30 (*193)
Atria (253.9) Tail-6 ι Ophiuchi (255.3), Grafias (255.4) κ Ophiuchi (256.2), ζ Arae (256.5), ε Arae (256.8), Cujam (256.9) no star listed (257)
Wei, η Arae (254.3), DENEBAKRAB (254.7)
November 29 30 December 1 2 (336) 3
NAKSHATRA DATES:
٭MARCH 14 (73) 15 16 17 18
MARCH 28 29 30 31 (90) APRIL 1
Tabit (71.7), π² Orionis (71.9) π4 Orionis (72.1), ο¹ Orionis (72.4), π5 Orionis (72.8) π¹ Orionis (73.0),ο² Orionis (73.4), HASSALEH (73.6), π6 Orionis (73.9) Almaaz (74.7), HAEDUS I (74.8) HAEDUS II (75.9)
May 31 June 1 2 3 4 (155)

There were 4 Mayan 20-day months with rain clouds (with 6 'berries' for each such cloud). Also on Easter Island 4 * 20 = 80 days might have been used as a measure for the rainy season in the sky. Possibly 40 days and 40 nights:

... Ta'aroa sat in his heaven above the earth and conjured forth gods with his words. When he shook off his red and yellow feathers they drifted down and became trees. He created the first parents, Tumu-nui, Great Foundation, to be the husband, and Paparaharaha, Stratum Rock, to be the wife. He put the very essence of himself into their creation; yet when he commanded them to wed, each refused to go to the other.

So Ta'aroa created other gods and Atea, Bright Expanse, the Sky-goddess, who dwelt in darkness in the confined sky Rumia. By Papa-tuoi, Thin Earth, Atea was the mother of children who became artisans for Rai-tupua-nui, Great-Sky-builder. They assisted him in erecting the ten heavens above the earth. In the highest of these dwelt the god Tane, so it was called the Sky-of-the-sacred-omens of Tane and Sky-of-the-water-of-life of Tane. The next highest heaven was called Hiro's Sky-of-prophets.

Atea then became the wife of Rua-tupua-nui, Source of Great Growth, and they became the parents of all the celestial beings, first the shooting stars, then the Moon and the Sun, next the comets, then the multitude of stars and constellations, and finally the bright and dark nebulae. When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...

Counting 80 days backwards from November 30 (334) leads us to (254) September 11 at Ga4-27. The rainy season could therefore have begun with Ga5-1, when Manus Catenata (the Chained Hand of Andromeda, ι) was close to the Full Moon:

Ga4-8 Ga4-9 (92) Ga4-10 Ga4-11
August 23 24 (236) 25 26
Ga4-12 Ga4-13 (96) Ga4-14 Ga4-15
August 27 28 (240) 29 30
Ga4-16 Ga4-17 (100) Ga4-18 Ga4-19
August 31 September 1 2 3
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 (104)
September 4 5 (248)
Ga4-22 Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 (108)
September 6 7 8 9 (252)
Ga4-26 Ga4-27
September 10 11 (254)
Ga5-1 (111) Ga5-2 Ga5-3 Ga5-4 Ga5-5
JULY 10 11 12 (193) 13 14
θ Crateris (175.0), υ Leonis (175.2), ω Virginis (175.3), ι Crateris (175.5) ο Hydrae (176.1) ζ Crateris, ξ Virginis  (177.0), λ Muscae (177.1), ν Virginis (177.2), μ Muscae (177.8) Al Sarfah-10 / Uttara Phalguni-12 / Zibbat A.-16 / Shēpu-arkū sha-A-17 Phekda, β Hydrae  (179.3), η Crateris (179.9)

Deneb Cygni

93 LEONIS (178.0), DENEBOLA (178.3), ALARAPH (178.6)
September 12 13 (256) 14 15 16
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JANUARY 9 10 11 12 13 (378)
λ Piscium (358.0), MANUS CATENATA (358.1), Alrai, θ Phoenicis (358.4), κ Andromedae (358.7) ω Aquarii (359.2), 78 Pegasi (359.5) ψ Andromedae (360.1), σ Phoenicis (360.4) γ¹ Oct. (361.4). φ Pegasi (361.7) Dzaneb (362.4), γ² Oct.(362.8)
π March 15 16 17 18 (77)

Rei in Ga7-22 (alluding to 22 / 7) was glyph number 191 and the exceptional Rei with a hand hanging as if lifeless at the back side in Ga5-1 was glyph number 111 (= 191 - 80). The nuku type of glyph exhibited no arms.

The hind quarters of the Lion was immersed in sweet rain water. Thus he changed his sex and became Virgo. But he may have kept the tip of his tail (93 Leonis) dry above the water:

The expression (from the tale of Noah) of a deluge stretching for 40 days and 40 nights suggests a division in 2. In the G text there is evidence of a division halfway from Manus Catenata to Denebakrab. March 14 (3-14) + 39 = 73 + 39 = 112 and 112 - 64 = 48 (FEBRUARY 17). When in rongorongo times the Sun reached Arcturus in day 295 (October 22) it could have meant there were another 40 days (or rather nights) ahead before the waters would subside:

Ga6-6 Ga6-7 Ga6-8 Ga6-9 Ga6-10 (150) Ga6-11
AUGUST 14 15 16 17 (229) 18 19
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) 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 17 18 19 20 21 22 (295)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
FEBRUARY 13 2-14 (45) 15 16 (413 = 14 * 29½) 18
ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8) ALRISHA, χ Phoenicis (29.2), Alamak (29.7) Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 η Arietis (31.9) no star listed (32) θ Arietis (33.3), MIRA (33.7)
2h (30.4)
κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (30.5)

Alkes

April 18 (108) 19 (*29) 20 (475) 21 22 23

The same division of time, we should remember, occurred in the C text, where heliacal Muphrid was not only at the first glyph on side b but also at the beginning of line Ca2:

٭JULY 31 (212)
Ca2-1 (27)
Te heke
MUPHRID (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3)
October 17 (290)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
٭JANUARY 29 (395 = 29 + 366)
Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1
Segin, Mesarthim, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN, φ Phoenicis (27.4)
April 17 (473 = 107 + 366)
٭AUGUST 1 2 (214) 3 4 (*136) 5
Ca2-2 Ca2-3 Ca2-4 (30) Ca2-5 Ca2-6
erua tagata te henua tagata oho ki tona huaga kua oho
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) 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 18 19 20 21 22 (295)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
٭JANUARY 30 31 ٭FEBRUARY 1 2 3
ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8) ALRISHA, χ Phoenicis (29.2), Alamak (29.7) Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 η Arietis (31.9) no star listed (32)
2h (30.4)
κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (30.5)

ALKES

April 18 (108) 19 (*29) *30 + 366 = *396 *214 + 183 = *397 22

When at the time of Hyadum II the Sun reached π Hydrae it was in AUGUST 17, i.e. in day 229 (equal to the number of glyphs on side a of the G tablet).

The last Greek lettered star in the Water Serpent was π.

Egyptian sebchet Phoenician pe Greek pi Π (π)

Wikipedia: '... according to a theory by Theodor Nöldeke from 1904, some of the letter names were changed in Phoenician from the Proto-Canaanite script ... pit 'corner' to pe 'mouth' ...'

However, I think the Egyptian source hieroglyph could have been Gardiner's O14 (sebchet), a sign which illustrates a corner with feather-like ornaments upon the walls. The meaning was 'portal' according to Wilkinson. Or why not an Archway for exit, the Mayas had a 'grasping hand' (Chikin) in the west:

 

To be in a corner means there is no way forward.