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The first glyph in line Gb3 is a takaure (horse-fly), possibly alluding to the flying horse Pegasus:

 

Gb2-32 Gb2-33 Gb2-34 (60) Gb2-35 Gb3-1 (291)
JANUARY 2 3 4 5 (370) 6
Simmah (351.7) φ Aquarii (352.0), ψ Aquarii (352.4), χ Aquarii (352.6), γ Tucanae, φ Gruis (352.8) ο Cephei (353.3), Kerb (353.6) κ Piscium (354.2), θ Piscium (354.4), υ Pegasi (354.9) ο Gruis, Snowball Nebula (355.0)
March 7 8 (432) 9 (68) 10 11
'February 8 9 (40) 10 11 12 (408)
"January 25 26 27 (392) 28 29
NAKSHATRA DATES:
JULY 4 5 (186) 6 7 8
Al Zubrah-9 / Purva Phalguni-11 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

οš Centauri (173.8)
Zosma (169.2), COXA (169.4)
September 6 7 (250) 8 9 10
'August 10 (222) 11 12 13 14 (*146)
"July 27 28 29 (210) 30 31
Takaure

Fly; horse-fly. Vanaga.

A fly; takaure iti, mosquito; takaure marere ke, swarm. Churchill.

takaure
181 85
Gb2-34 Gb2-35 Gb3-1 Ga4-2 (86)
270

However, the word takaure should be composed from taka and ure, which gives us a deeper meaning:

Taka

Taka, takataka. Circle; to form circles, to gather, to get together (of people). Vanaga.

1. A dredge. P Mgv.: akataka, to fish all day or all night with the line, to throw the fishing line here and there. This can only apply to some sort of net used in fishing. We find in Samoa ta'ā a small fishing line, Tonga taka the short line attached to fish hooks, Futuna taka-taka a fishing party of women in the reef pools (net), Maori takā the thread by which the fishhook is fastened to the line, Hawaii kaa in the same sense, Marquesas takako a badly spun thread, Mangareva takara a thread for fastening the bait on the hook. 2. Ruddy. 3. Wheel, arch; takataka, ball, spherical, round, circle, oval, to roll in a circle, wheel, circular piece of wood, around; miro takataka, bush; haga takataka, to disjoin; hakatakataka, to round, to concentrate. P Pau.: fakatakataka, to whirl around. Mq.: taka, to gird. Ta.: taa, circular piece which connects the frame of a house. Churchill.

Takai, a curl, to tie; takaikai, to lace up; takaitakai, to coil. P Pau.: takai, a ball, to tie. Mgv.: takai, a circle, ring, hoop, to go around a thing. Mq.: takai, to voyage around. Ta.: taai, to make into a ball, to attach. Churchill.

Ure

1. Generation; ure matá, warlike, bellicose generation (matá, obsidian, used in making weapons). 2. Offspring; brother; colleague i toou ure ka tata-mai, your colleague has turned up. 3. Friendship, friendly relationship; ku-ké-á te ure, they have become enemies (lit.: friendship has changed). 4. Penis (this definition is found in Englert's 1938 dictionary, but not in La Tierra de Hotu Matu'a). Ure tahiri, to gush, to spurt, to flow; e-ure tahiri-á te toto, blood is flowing in gushes. Ure tiatia moana, whirlwind which descend quickly and violently onto the ocean; whirlpool, eddy. Vanaga.

Penis; kiri ure, prepuce, foreskin. P Pau., Mgv., Ta.: ure, penis. Ureure, spiral. Ta.: aureure, id. Urei, to show the teeth. Mgv.: urei, to uncover the eye by rolling back the lids. Churchill.

Pau.: Ureuretiamoana, waterspout. Ta.: ureuretumoana, id. Churchill.

H. Ule 1. Penis. For imaginative compounds see 'a'awa 1, 'aweule, ulehala, ulehole, ulepa'a, ulepuaa, ule'ulu. Kū ka ule, he'e ka laho, the penis is upright, the scrotum runs away (refers to breadfruit: when the blossom (pōule) appears erect, there will soon be fruit). 2. Tenon for a mortise; pointed end of a post which enters the crotch of a rafter (also called ma'i kāne). Ho'o ule, to form a tenon or post for the crotch of a rafter. 3. To hang. Wehewehe.

... 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). And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae) ...

Rogo in Gb6-26 was at 0h in rongorongo times and the glyph is number 408 in the text.

60 no glyph
Gb6-26 (408) Gb6-27 Gb6-28 Gb8-30 Ga1-1
March 21 22 23 May 23 (143) 24 (12 * 12) 25 (5-25)
0h 64 52 * 5 = 260

Takaure in Gb3-1 corresponded to day 408 in Roman times, i.e. to 'February 12. In rongorongo times the stars were rising with the Sun 27 days later, in March 11 = 355 days after 0h (and 10 days before 0h) - a number alluding to day 355 counted from January 1 (i.e. to the December solstice). Counting from the first X (takaure at heliacal Kerb) the distance to 0h was 12 days.

At Gb2-34 (60) we can count 234 = 13 * 18 and day 60 counted from January 1 was March 1 - included in the 6 days beyond Terminalia according to the Roman way of counting - which reminds us of Tau-ono.

... The ordinary year in the previous Roman calendar consisted of 12 months, for a total of 355 days. In addition, a 27-day intercalary month, the Mensis Intercalaris, was sometimes inserted between February and March. This intercalary month was formed by inserting 22 days after the first 23 or 24 days of February; the last five days of February, which counted down toward the start of March, became the last five days of Intercalaris. The net effect was to add 22 or 23 days to the year, forming an intercalary year of 377 or 378 days.

... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day').

Gb8-22 Gb8-23 (235) Gb8-24 (465)
TAU-ONO MARCH 13 π
Gb8-25 Gb8-26 Gb8-27 Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30
MARCH 15 16 17 18 19 20 (79)

Possibly the idea with this pair of takaure glyphs was to state that the past cycle had gone around (haka)taka and was here generating (ure) a new cycle of the same kind - both when counting with 12 months (the modern structure) and when counting according to the old model (10 months).

The old model could possibly have been inherited from the time of Bharani, when heliacal Kerb was at day 392 ("January 27). 13 * 27 = 351 = 355 - 4. On the Mamari tablet side a carries 392 glyphs.

*Ca14-24 *Ca14-25 *Ca14-26 *Ca14-27 *Ca14-28 *Ca14-29 (392)
te henua te honu kau manu kake rua te henua te honu te rima
δ Phoenicis (21.5) no star listed (22) Achernar (23.3) no star listed (24) no star listed (25) ANA-NIA
POLARIS, Baten Kaitos (26.6), Metallah (26.9)
April 11 12 13 14 (104) 15 16 (471)
'March 15 16 17 18 (77) 19 20 (*364)
"March 1 2 3 4 (63) 5 6 (*350)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
no star listed (204) Heze (205.0) ε Centauri (206.3) no star listed (207) τ Bootis (208.2), Benetnash (208.5), ν Centauri (208.7), μ Centauri, υ Bootis (208.8) no star listed (209)
October 11 12 (285) 13 14  15 16
'September 14 15 16 17 (260) 18 19 (*182)
"August 30 "September 1 2 (245) 3 4 5 (*168)