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Counting the distance from Sirius (181) to Nunki (*288) - both stars connected with water ahead - we could easily arrive at the key number 107. The day number for APRIL 17 (107) + the day number for Sirius in JUNE 30 (181) = 288 (OCTOBER 15) and. Nunki rose with the Sun in OCTOBER 31 (304), 16 days later - i.e. in day 304 + 64 = 368 (January 3) = right ascension day *288. 16 + 64 = 80 = 368 - 288.

This confusing number play is not arbitrary, because at the time when heliacal Sheratan was at 0h (in Roman times) Nunki would have been at right ascension day *288 - *27 = *261, which number 'happens to be' equal to 181 + 80 (= 9 * 29). I.e. 107 = 80 + 27. By combining the effects of the precession with the position of Sirius order can be found.

Furthermore, the minimum number of nights before a star reappeared again after having risen together with the blinding Sun was 16.

At some time in the past the method for determining number of nights counted from a star being at the Sun could have changed from a definition based on when the star would return to visibility again to a definition based on its true heliacal position. Such a change would have increased the effects of the precession with 16 (= 80 - 64) days, pushing the star positions in the past ahead in the year further (more).

The heliacal position of for instance Betelgeuze would according to such an old method not have been in June 17 (*88) but in July 3 (184) - where Adara (ε Canis Majoris, at the belly of the Great Dog) rose heliacally according to the modern method. Notably the 'moist one', Ardra, is a quite similar sounding name:

472 (the number of day positions in the G text) - 107 = 365. In addition to explaining the 4 day difference between the stars at the time of Gregory XIII and the positions of the stars in rongorongo times, the creator of the G tablet clearly could have had the intention to educate the readers about the precessional difference between the time of Julius Caesar (with the First Point of Aries at 0h) and rongorongo times (with Sirrah at 0h). 472 = 8 * 59 = 365 + 107.

The pair of dark mama sea shells at nakshatra τ (Kerb) and υ Pegasi came 68 days after heliacal τ Puppis in APRIL 28 (118 = 472 / 4), which in rongorongo times was 68 nights after July 1. 182 + 68 = 250 (September 7). Kerb was close to the Full Moon in day 250 (September 7) + 183 - 365 = 68 (March 9):

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	Ga4-23	Ga4-24	Ga4-25 (108)	Ga4-26	Ga4-27
	JULY 5	6 (*107)	7	8	9 (190)
	JULY 1	2	3 (*104)	4 (185)	5
	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)	GIAUZAR (174.0), ξ Hydrae (174.3), ο² Centauri, λ Centauri (174.8)
	September 7 (250)	8	9	10	11
	September 3	4	5 (*168)	6	7 (250)
	NAKSHATRA DATES:
	JANUARY 4	5 (*290)	6	7	8 (373)
	DECEMBER 31	JANUARY 1	2	3 (368)	4
	CROSS-BARS		ο Gruis, Snowball Nebula (355.0), τ Oct. (355.3)	no star listed (356)	ι Phoenicis (357.3), ι Piscium (357.4), λ ANDROMEDAE (357.9)
	ο Cephei (353.3), KERB (353.6)	κ Piscium (354.2), θ Piscium (354.4), υ PEGASI (354.9)
	March 9 (68)	10	11	12	13
	March 5 (64)	6 (*350)	7	8	9

Although according to the Gregorian calendar the corresponding period would have stretched from December 31 (Ga2-12) to Ga4-23 (March 5), where Kerb would have been close to the Full Moon in night 64 instead of in night 68. From Ain (at the time of rongorongo) to Aldebaran (at the time of Gregory XIII) there were 4 precessional days.

Maybe the glyphs were here illustrating the dates extrapolated backwards in time from the Gregorian calendar (i.e. as measured from Aldebaran at 0h) rather than the dates extrapolated from the stars at the time of rongorongo (i.e. as measured from Ain at 0h). The heliacal Cross-bars would then have stretched from the end of the previous year (DECEMBER 31) to the beginning of the new year (JANUARY 1). Possibly, therefore, the inside markings of the black chiton (mama) meant 6 + 6 = 12 months in the past.

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...

I think these twice 6 months in the past were probably, however, primarily referring to the situation at the beginning of JULY.