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And at the time of Bharani there could have been 5 extra nights beyond σ Ceti, nights when Gods were born. Or, considering how 8 - 6 = 2, there could on Easter Island have been twice 5 such nights:

5
Gb4-13 Gb4-14 Gb4-15 Gb4-16 (336) Gb4-17 (108)
FEBRUARY 17 18 19 (50) 20 (*336) 21 (417)
ξ¹ Ceti (32.1) θ Arietis (33.3), Mira (33.7) no star listed (34) ξ Arietis (35.0), ρ Ceti (35.4), ξ² Ceti (35.9) σ Ceti (36.9)
April 22 23 24 (114) 25 26
'March 26 (85) 27 28 29 30
"March 12 13 (72) 3-14 15 16 (*360)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
AUGUST 19 20 21 22 (234) 23 (600)
Al Ghafr-13 / Svāti-15

TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE

ι Lupi, 18 Bootis (216.3), Khambalia (216.4), υ Virginis (216.5), ψ Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8) Asellus Primus (217.8) τ Lupi (218.1), φ Virginis (218.7)

Fomalhaut

σ Lupi (219.1), ρ Bootis (219.5), Haris (219.7)
15 Bootis (215.2), ARCTURUS (215.4), Asellus Secundus (215.5), SYRMA, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8)
October 22 (295) 23 24 25 26
'September 25 (268) 26 27 28 29
"September 11 (254) 12 13 14 (*177) 15
Gb4-23 Gb4-24 Gb4-25 (345) Gb4-26 Gb4-27 (118)
2-27 28 MARCH 1 (60) 2 3 (427)
no star listed (42) ρ Arietis (43.0), Acamar (43.6), ε Arietis (43.7), λ Ceti (43.9)

Denebola

Menkar (44.7) 3h (45.7) Misam (46.2), Botein (46.9)
Algol (45.9)
May 2 3 4 5 (125) 6
'April 5 (95) 6 7 8 (*18) 9 (464)
"March 22 (*366) 23 24 (448) 25 (84) 26
NAKSHATRA DATES:
AUGUST 29 30 (242) 31 SEPTEMBER 1 (*164) 2
Kochab (225.0) Ke Kwan (226.3), Ke Kwan (226.4), Zuben Elakribi (226.8) Nadlat (227.8), π Lupi (227.9) 15h (228.3) ι Librae (229.6), κ Lupi (229.7), ζ Lupi (229.8)
Zuben Hakrabim (228.3), λ Lupi (228.9)
November 1 2 (306) 3 4 5
'October 5 6 7 (280) 8 (*201) 9
"September 21 Equinox (265) 23 24 25 (*188)

A newborn little Sun seeems to be depicted in day 11 beyond σ Ceti and then follows the last star κ:

Gb4-28 (348) Gb4-29 Gb4-30 (121) Gb4-31
MARCH 4 (63) 5 (42 * 9 = 378) 6 (*350) 7
ζ Arietis (47.7) Zibal (48.0), κ Ceti (48.9) τ Arietis (49.7) Algenib Persei (50.0), ο Tauri (50.2), ξ Tauri (50.8)

Gienah

May 7 8 (128) 9 10
'April 10 (465) 11 (101) 12 (*22) 13
"March 27 28 29 (88) 30 (454)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
SEPTEMBER 3 4 5 (*168) 6 (249)
Al Zubānā-14b μ Lupi, γ Tr. Austr. (231.3) ο Cor. Borealis (232.0), δ Lupi (232.1), φ¹, ν² Lupi (232.2), ν¹ Lupi (232.3), ε Lupi (232.4), φ² Lupi (232.5), Pherkad (232.6), η Cor. Borealis (232.8), υ Lupi (232.9) Alkalurops (233.1)
χ Bootis (230.2), χ Bootis (230.3), Princeps (230.6), ZUBEN ELSCHEMALI (230.8)
November 6 7 8 9 (313)
'October 10 11 (*204) 12 (285) 13
"September 26 27 (270) 28 29 (*192)
Egyptian hand Phoenician kaph Greek kappa Κ (κ)

Kaph is thought to have been derived from a pictogram of a hand (in both modern Arabic and modern Hebrew, kaph means palm/grip) ...

... The manik, with the tzab, or serpent's rattles as prefix, runs across Madrid tz. 22 , the figures in the pictures all holding the rattle; it runs across the hunting scenes of Madrid tz. 61, 62, and finally appears in all four clauses of tz. 175, the so-called 'baptism' tzolkin. It seems impossible, with all this, to avoid assigning the value of grasping or receiving. But in the final confirmation, we have the direct evidence of the signs for East and West. For the East we have the glyph Ahau-Kin, the Lord Sun, the Lord of Day; for the West we have Manik-Kin, exactly corresponding to the term Chikin, the biting or eating of the Sun, seizing it in the mouth.

  

The pictures (from Gates) show east, north, west, and south; respectively (the lower two glyphs)  'Lord' (Ahau) and 'grasp' (Manik). Manik was the 7th day sign of the 20 and Ahau the last ...

I feel inclined to improve my earlier description of Greek sigma:

Egyptian tusk Phoenician shin Greek sigma Σ (σ, ς)

Wikipedia: Shin (also spelled Šin (šīn) or Sheen) literally means 'teeth, 'press', and 'sharp' ...

The symbol Σ is currently used as an expression for 'sum'. The Phoenician shin is oriented in another way, similar to how Cassiopeia is read in the night when in a low position - as Celestial W when below the pole, in contrast to the Celestial M when above it.

Greek sigma therefore resembles Cassiopeia in between, when she was in the west at the time when the Sun was rising in the east.

It should here also be added that γ Ceti has a name which could connect Gb4-20 with Gb4-29 (at κ Ceti):

 
Gb4-18 Gb4-19 Gb4-20 (111) Gb4-21 Gb4-22 (342)
2-22 (418) TERMINALIA FEBRUARY 24 (*340) 25 (56) 26
ν Ceti (37.9) ν Arietis (38.5), δ, ε Ceti (38.8) μ Arietis (39.4), Head of the Fly (39.6), Kaffaljidhma (39.8) ο Arietis, π, μ Ceti (40.0), Angetenar (40.2), Right Wing (40.9) Bharani-2 / Stomach-17
π Arietis (41.2), BHARANI (41.4), τ² Eridani, σ Arietis (41.7)
April 27 (117) 28 (472 / 4) 29 30 May 1
'March 31 'April 1 2 (92) 3 4 (*14)
"March 17 18 (*362) 19 (78) 20 0h
NAKSHATRA DATES:
AUGUST 24 25 (*157)   26 27 28 (240)
σ Bootis (220.2), η Centauri (220.4) ρ Lupi (221.0), Toliman (221.2), π Bootis (221.8), ζ Bootis (221.9) 31 Bootis (222.0), Yang Mun (222.1), Rijl al Awwa (222.5), ο Bootis (222.9) Izar (223.0), 109 Virginis, α Apodis (223.3) Al Zubānā-14a / Visakha-16 / Root-3
ZUBEN ELGENUBI (224.2), ξ Bootis, ο Lupi (224.5)
October 27 (300) 28 29 30 31
'September 30 'October 1 2 3 4 (277)
"September 16 17 (260) 18 19 (*182) 20

... Al Kaff al Jidmah is the Arabs' name for the whole group marking the Whale's head, but in modern lists is exclusively applied to this star ... The Arabian astronomers of course knew the Greek constellations and called it [Cetus] Al Ketus, from which have come Elketos, Elkaitos, and Elkaitus; but their predecessors, who had not heard of the Royal Family and its foe, separated these stars into three very different asterisms. Those in the head, α, γ, δ, λ, μ, ξ¹and ξ² , were Al Kaff al Jidmah, the Part of a Hand, from a fancied resemblance to their Stained Hand, our Cassiopeia ...

... The Arabians called it Al Dhāt al Kursiyy, the Lady in the Chair - Chilmead's Dhath Alcursi, - the Greek proper name having no significance to them; but the early Arabs had a very different figure here, in no way connected with the Lady as generally is supposed, - their Kaff al Hadib, the large Hand [cfr Caph] Stained with Henna, the bright stars marking the fingertips; although in this they included the nebulous group in the left hand of Perseus. Chrysococca gave it thus in the Low Greek Χείρ βεβαμένη; and it sometimes was the Hand of, i.e. next to, the Pleiades, while Smyth said that in Arabia it even bore the title of that group, Al Thurayya, from its comparatively condensed figure ...