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5. In the chapter The Star at the Top number 107 was once again noted:

 

1. The current star at the north pole is Polaris and we have found a suitable glyph in Gb7-25:

Gb6-26 Gb6-27 Gb6-28 (*2)
(0h) Caph, Sirrah (408.5) Algenib Pegasi (409.8)
'March 21 '22 '23 (82)
23
Gb7-24 Gb7-25 (436) Gb7-26 (*28)
   Polaris (434.6), Baten Kaitos (434.6), Metallah (434.9), Segin (435.2), Mesarthim (435.2), Sheratan (435.4)
23 'April 16 (106) '17 '18 (108)
34 184
Gb8-30 Gb8-30 (*64) Ga7-16 (*249)
Hyadum I (471.4) Hyadum II (472.2) Antares (249.1)
34 'May 23 (143)  '24 184 'November 25 (329)

The position for Polaris above (which has been adjusted downwards with 1 day due to the precession) is equal to 26.6 days beyond March 21. 107 (April 17) - 80 = *27.

From this we can deduce that 0h must be at Rogo in Gb6-26. There will be 63 days from there to the end of side b (not 64 as I earlier thought).

I have allowed Polaris and the 5 other stars close by to spread out over 3 glyphs because we have concluded the precision in principle cannot be greater:

... The position of a star in the text is presumably defined not by a single glyph but by a triplet of glyps, because there must be borderline cases where it is difficult to know if a star is at the end of a day or if it is at the beginning of next day ... A pair of glyphs is necessary.

But with a pair of glyphs for each star there are still borderline cases, viz. those where a star was measured to be e.g. in position 436.0 - should it pair up with Gb7-24 or with Gb7-26? Only with a triplet of glyphs for each star can an orderly system be possible.

In order to measure out 329 (November 25) - 107 (April 17) = 222 days from Gb7-25 (Polaris) to Ga7-16 (Antares) it is necessary to count puo in Gb8-30 twice. This is the only instance so far when I have given a glyph 2 dates.

'The species name dactylifera 'date-bearing' comes from Ancient Greek dáktulos 'date' (also 'finger') and the stem of the Latin verb ferō 'I bear'.' (Wikipedia)

At my assumed time for G the star Polaris rose heliacally in right ascension day 26.6 and 434.6 = 408 + 26.6. However, Rogo in Gb6-26 is glyph 409 (if counted from Gb8-30). Combined with my earlier mistake we maybe should read 106 ('April 16) - 80 = *26.

Although our Gregorian calendar counts with 365 days, which implies 107, and then 107 ('April 17) - 80 = *27. The difference between 365 and 364 has provisionally been located by me in 'July (cfr Fish-hook of Maui):

Antares at the time of G
Rising in the east at sunset  'June 1 (152) 0 0
Aphelion 'July 3 (184) 32 32
Fish-hook of Maui 'July 4 (185) 1 33
15 days from winter solstice 'July 6 (187) 2 35
Culmination at midnight 'July 11 (192) 5 40
Leap day

'July 12 (193)

 1 1
Heliacal rising 'November 25 (329) 136 137
Culmination at midnight 'July 11 (192) 228 365
206 44
Gb2-10 (266) 250 Ga2-14 (45)
'July 6 (187) 177 187 'July 7 (188)

At the time of G the date 'November 25 (at the heliacal rising of Antares) was around 222 days later than the heliacal rising of Polaris. 329 - 107 = 222. Maybe this number (the Toliman number as I have named it) could have been illustrated vertically (instead of horizontally) because Easter Island lies on the opposite side of the equator:

maitaki
Maitaki

Clean, neat, pure, pretty, nice, beautiful, handsome; tagata rima maitaki, clean-handed man, correct man. Vanaga.

1. Good. Henua maitaki = the good earth. 2. Shine. Marama maitaki = the shining moon. Barthel.

Ce qui est bon. Jaussen according to Barthel.

Meitaki, good, agreeable, efficacious, excellent, elegant, pious, valid, brilliant, security, to please, to approve (maitaki); ariga meitaki, handsome, of pleasant mien; mea meitaki ka rava, to deserve; meitaki ke, marvelous, better. Hakameitaki, to make good, to amend, to do good, to bless, to establish. Meitakihaga, goodness. PS Pau.: maitaki, good. Mgv.: meitetaki, beautiful, good. Mq.: meitai, good, agreeable, fit, wise, virtuous. Ta.: maitaiki, good, well. Niuē: mitaki, good. Maitakia, clean. Churchill.

The good earth (henua maitaki) would come when Antares rose heliacally.