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From the midnight culmination of Castor there were 8 days to heliacal Fomalhaut:

Gb5-29 Gb6-1 Gb6-2 (384) Gb6-3 Gb6-4 (157)
SOLSTICE DECEMBER 22 23 CHRISTMAS EVE 25 (359)
β/172 Lac. (339.2), 4/1100 Lac. (339.4), π Aquarii (339.5)

Castor

δ Tucanae (340.1), ρ Cephei (340.2),  ν Gruis (340.3), ζ Aquarii, δ Gruis (340.4), 5/1100 Lac. (340.7), σ Aquarii, 6/650 Lac. (340.9

Procyon

υ Oct. (341.0), α/91 Lac. (341.1), Homan, β Piscis Austrini (341.2), ν Tucanae (341.5), υ Aquarii (341.9) η Aquarii (342.1), σ Gruis (342.4), Situla (342.7) ε Piscis Austrini (343.5), ο Pegasi, β Gruis (343.8)
Terminalia February 24 25 (421) 26 27 (58)
'January 27 (392) 28 29 30 31
Gb6-5 Gb6-6 Gb6-7 (160) Gb6-8 Gb6-9 Gb6-10 (392)
DECEMBER 26 27 28 29 30 (364) 31
ρ Gruis (344.0), Matar (344.2), η Gruis (344.6) λ Pegasi (345.0), ξ Pegasi (345.1), ε Gruis (345.3), τ Aquarii (345.7), ξ Oct. (345.8),  μ Pegasi (345.9) ι Cephei (346.0), λ Aquarii, γ Piscis Austrini, σ Pegasi (346.5) Scheat Aquarii (347.0), ρ Pegasi (347.2), δ Piscis Austrini (347.4), Fomalhaut, τ Gruis (347.8) Fum al Samakah (348.3), ζ Gruis (348.5), ο Andromedae (348.9) Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 / House-13
Scheat Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), κ Gruis (349.4), MARKAB PEGASI (349.5)
February 28 March 1 2 3 4 (428) 5 (64)
'February 1 2 3 4 (400) 5 (36) 6

And then there were an additional 2 days to the Fore Spout (the 24th Arab station), to the 26th Hindu station, to the 13th Chinese station.

The Rear Spout, where the Pegasus Square ended at the back side of the head of Andromedae, came after another 16 days (i.e. 26 days after the culmination of Castor):

Gb6-11 (393) Gb6-12 (165) Gb6-13 Gb6-14 Gb6-15 Gb6-16
JANUARY 1 2 3 4 5 6 (371)
23h (350.0) 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), τ Oct. (255.3)
υ, θ Gruis (350.0), π Cephei (350.6), ι Gruis (350.9)
March 6 (430) 7 8 9 10 11 (70)
'February 7 8 9 (40) 10 11 12 (408)
Gb6-17 Gb6-18 (400) Gb6-19 (172)
JANUARY 7 (372) 8 9
no star listed (356) ι Phoenicis (357.3), ι Piscium (357.4), λ Andromedae (357.9) λ Piscium (358.0), Manus Catenata (358.1), Alrai, θ Phoenicis (358.4), κ Andromedae (358.7)
March 12 (436) 13 (72) 3-14
'February 13 2-14 15 (46)

... Februa, also Februatio, was the Roman festival of ritual purification, later incorporated into Lupercalia. The festival, which is basically one of Spring washing or cleaning (associated also with the raininess of this time of year), is old and possibly of Sabine origin. According to Ovid, Februare as a Latin word which refers to means of purification (particularly with washing or water) derives from an earlier Etruscan word referring to purging. The Roman month Februarius ('of Februa', whence the English February) is named for the Februa/Februatio festival, which occurred on the 13th to 15th days of this Roman month ...

Gb6-20 21 22 23 24 (177)
JANUARY 10 11 12 13 (378) 14
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) η Tucanae (363.0), ψ Pegasi (363.1), 32 Piscium (363.2), π Phoenicis (363.4), ε Tucanae (363.6), τ Phoenicis (363.9)
March 15 16 (440) 17 18 19 (78)
'February 16 17 (413) 18 19 20 (51)
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 (408) Gb6-27 Gb6-28 (181)
JANUARY 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
θ Oct. (364.9) Al Fargh al Thāni-25 Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14 χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)
0h (365.25)
Caph, SIRRAH (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8) ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI (1.8)
March 20 (444) 0h 22 23 (82)
'February 21 (52) 22 Terminalia 24 (420)

At the time of the Hyades Gate, when the head of the Bull was at 0h, the Rear Spout had been the day after day 300 (JANUARY 15) counted from the March equinox, and the 2nd Spout may have delivered 'fresh water which brought life back' (aqua vitae):

... The cord is decorated with small white cowries, not only a sign of chieftainship but by name, buli leka, a continuation of the metaphor of birth - buli, 'to form', refers in Fijian procreation theory to the conceptual acception of the male in the body of the woman. The sacrificed child of the people will thus give birth to the chief. But only after the chief, ferocious outside cannibal who consumes the cannibalized victim, has himself been sacrificed by it. For when the ruler drinks the sacred offering, he is in the state of intoxication Fijians call 'dead from' (mateni) or 'dead from kava' (mate ni yaqona), to recover from which is explicitly 'to live' (bula). This accounts for the second cup the chief is alone accorded, the cup of fresh water. The god is immediately revived, brought again to life - in a transformed state ...

 

Counted by the Moon - and with her cycle beginnning not at 0h but 80 days earlier - it had been day 380 (= 19 * 20).

... The Gilbert Islanders are Polynesians, having emigrated, according to their traditions, from Upolu, Samoa, which they look upon as te buto (Maori pito), the Navel of the World. They never counted the nights of the Moon beyond the twentieth, so far as Grimble was able to ascertain, and in the vagueness of their lunar calendar bore no resemblance to their Micronesian neighbors of the Carolines ...

The old Sun year and the old Moon cycle ended in a 'Flood' which washed them away:

... When it was evident that the years lay ready to burst into life, everyone took hold of them, so that once more would start forth - once again - another (period of) fifty-two years. Then (the two cycles) might proceed to reach one hundred and four years. It was called 'One Age' when twice they had made the round, when twice the times of binding the years had come together. Behold what was done when the years were bound - when was reached the time when they were to draw the new fire, when now its count was accomplished. First they put out fires everywhere in the country round. And the statues, hewn in either wood or stone, kept in each man's home and regarded as gods, were all cast into the water ...

Searching for the beginning of the old Moon cycle we could try to count 380 glyphs back in the text (from Gb6-25) and reach glyph 27 (because 407 - 380 = 27):

377
Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29
DECEMBER 31 JANUARY 1 (366) 2
Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 / House-13 23h (350.0) Simmah (351.7)
Scheat Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), κ Gruis (349.4), MARKAB PEGASI (349.5) υ, θ Gruis (350.0), π Cephei (350.6), ι Gruis (350.9)
March 5 (64) 6 7
'February 6 (37) 7 8
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 (408) Gb6-27 Gb6-28 (181)
JANUARY 15 (*300) 16 17 18 (383)
θ Oct. (364.9) Al Fargh al Thāni-25 Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14 χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)
0h (365.25)
Caph, SIRRAH (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8) ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI (1.8)
March 20 (444) 0h 22 23 (82)
'February 21 (52) 22 Terminalia 24 (420)
88
Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29
APRIL 17 18 (108) 19
6h (91.3) ξ Orionis (92.5) Al Han'ah-4 / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8
ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)  TEJAT PRIOR (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)
June 20 solstice 22 (173)
'May 24 (*64) 25 26 (146 = 2 * 73)
90 + 290 90
Ga1-29 Gb6-28 Ga1-29

91 days is a quarter of a year and the glyph texts seems to say that at the June solstice the quarter beginning at the March equinox was expiring. And after another quarter the Sun would reach Raven and the September equinox.

88
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 (408) Gb6-27 (*1) Gb6-28 (181) Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29
JAN 15 *301 = *408 - *107 17 18 (383) APRIL 17 18 (108) 19
θ Oct. (364.9) Al Fargh al Thāni-25 Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 / Wall-14 χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7) 6h (91.3) ξ Orionis (92.5) Al Han'ah-4 / Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu-8
Caph, SIRRAH (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8) ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI (1.8) ν Orionis (91.4), θ Columbae (91.5), π Columbae (91.6)  TEJAT PRIOR (93.4), γ Monocerotis (93.5), κ Aurigae (93.6), κ Columbae (93.8)
March 20 Equinox (80) 22 23 June 20 Solstice 22 (173)
'February 21 22 (53) Terminalia 24 (*340) 'May 24 (*64) 25 26 (146 = 2 * 73)
90
Ga5-10 (120) Ga5-11
JULY 19 (200) 20 (*121)
Pálida (184.6), Megrez (184.9) Hasta-13 / Chariot-28
GIENAH (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), Zaniah (185.9)
September 21 Equinox (265)
'August 25 (237) 26 (*158)