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Perhaps we should no longer count in triplets of glyphs, because Sun is apparently no longer present. I will anyhow do so in order to see what happens:

Gb7-12 Gb7-13 (424) Gb7-14
April 4 5 (460) 6 (96)
Gb7-15 (426) Gb7-16 Gb7-17
April 7 8 9 (99)
Gb7-18 Gb7-19 (430) Gb7-20 Gb7-21 (*130)
Ksora (20.1)     Achernar (23.3)
April 10 (100) 11 12 13
Almuqaddam 5 6 (330) 7 8
ο Ursa Majoris (127.4) θ Cancri (128.2) η Cancri (128.5) π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ Hydrae (129.6), Al Minhar al Shujā, Museida (129.9), Beehive (130.4)
July 26 27 28 29 (210)
Alhena 5 6 (72) 7 8
Hb12-22 Hb12-23 Hb12-24
April 4 (94)
Hb12-25 Hb12-26 Hb12-27 (1273)
April 5 (95)
Hb12-28 Hb12-29 Hb12-30 Hb12-31 Hb12-32 Hb12-33
April 6 (96) April 7 (97)
Hb12-34 (1280) Hb12-35 Hb12-36
April 8 (98)
Hb12-37 Hb12-38 (1284) Hb12-39
April 9 (464)
Hb12-40 Hb12-41 Hb12-42 (1288)
April 10 (100)
Hb12-43 Hb12-44 Hb12-45 Hb12-46 Hb12-47 (1293) Hb12-48
April 11 (466) April 12 (102)
...
Hb12-49 *Hb12-50 (1296)
April 13 (468)

There could be a reference to the beginning of the Taurus constellation, with its first stars rising heliacally a few days before the front side of the G text:

Gb8-22 (464) Gb8-23 Gb8-24 Gb8-25
Atiks, Rana (55.1), Celaeno, Electra, Taygeta (55.3) Maia, Asterope, Merope (55.6), Alcyone (56.1), Pleione, Atlas (56.3)   Menkhib (57.6)
May 15 16 (136) 17 18
14 Alrescha 15 (365) Sheratan 1 2
Gb8-26 (468) Gb8-27 Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30
Zaurak (58.9), λ Tauri (59.3) ν Tauri (59.9)   Beid (62.2) Hyadum I (63.4)
May 19 (139) 20 4h (60.9) 22 23
Sheratan 3 4 5 6 7

In retrospect, looking again at the 'leap ahead' illustrated in Hb12-12 it has become obvious that this glyph should be considered together with the end of the text - where there is 1 glyph missing:

Hb12-12 (1258) Hb12-13 Hb12-14 Hb12-15
125 * 8 = 1000 April 1 (91)
...
Hb12-49 *Hb12-50 (1296)
April 13 (468)

The idea could be to say that the end of March is also the end of the regular cycle, that what follows is an addition.

Also in the G text the glyphs show a break beyond 14 * 29½, and by adding 107 (= 472 - 365) to the dates in northern spring (derived from positioning Rogo in Gb6-26 at March 21) the heliacal rising of Castor will coincide with the eyeless hau tea in Gb7-4:

Gb7-1 Gb7-2 (413) Gb7-3 Gb7-4
Wasat (109.8) Aludra (111.1) Gomeisa (111.6), ρ Gemini (112.1) Castor (113.4)
July 9 10 11 (192) 12
Heka 1 2 3 (56) 4
Gb7-5 (416) Gb7-6 Gb7-7
  Markab (114.7), Procyon (114.9) σ Gemini (115.7), Pollux (116.2)
July 13 (194) 14 15
Heka 5 6 7 (60)
Gb7-8 Gb7-9 (420) Gb7-10 Gb7-11
Azmidiske (117.4)     χ Carinae (119.9)
July 16 / March 31 July 17 / April 1 July 18 / April 2  July 19 (200) / April 3
Heka 8 9 10 11 (64)
Gb7-12 Gb7-13 Gb7-14
Naos (121.3) Heap of Fuel (122.1) Tegmine (123.3)
July 20 / April 4 8h (121.7) / April 5 July 22 / April 6 (96)
Heka 12 13 (66) Alhena 1

The manzil Heka (ruled by λ Orionis) was beginning when Wasat (δ Gemini) rose heliacally.

... Wasat, and Wesat are from Al Wasat, the Middle, i.e. of the constellation; but some have referred this to the position of the star very near to the ecliptic, the central circle...

Wasat is located where the legs of Pollux diverge. In Gb7-7 we can imagine the living twin (Pollux) as manu rere in front and at left his 'dead' brother Castor.

Procyon could be at the preceding Raaraa.

Rogo in Gb6-26 will according to my preferred reading above be not in March 21 (80) but in Gregorian day 80 + 107 = 187 = July 6, close to aphelion. And Sirius will be at Raaraa 6 days earlier:

Gb6-17 (400) Gb6-18 Gb6-19 (*100) Gb6-20
  ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4) ψ2 Aurigae (99.5) ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), Mebsuta (100.7), Sirius (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4)
June 27 (178) 28 29 30
Al Tuwaibe' 2 (42) 3 4 5
Gb6-21 Gb6-22 Gb6-23 Gb6-24
ψ6 Aurigae (101.7), τ Puppis (102.2), ψ7 Aurigae (102.4) ψ8 Aurigae (103.2) Alhena (103.8), ψ9 Aurigae Adara (104.8), ω Gemini (105.4)
July 1 (182) 2 3 4
Al Tuwaibe' 6 (46) 7 8 9
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 (*107) Gb6-27 Gb6-28
Muliphein (105.8) Wezen (107.1)    
July 5 (186) 7h (106.53) 7 8
Al Tuwaibe' 10 11 12 13 (53)

... Royer cut away a portion of Canis Major, and constructed Columba Noachi therewith in 1679. The part thus usurped was called Muliphein, from al-mulipheïn, the two stars sworn by, because they were often mistaken for Soheïl, or Canopus, before which they rise: these two stars are now α and β Columbae. Muliphein is recognized as comprehending the two stars called Had'ár, ground, and al-wezn, weight ...