3. The updated 13th hour of the text:
Zaniah (η, at Ga5-12) is also a name which means 'corner': "Zaniah is from Al Zāwiah, applied in German lists to this instead of to the stars β and γ, all of these being in the Kennel." (Allen) There were no dogs on Easter Island and perhaps they therefore illustrated 'the kennel' (possibly the pieces for playing a board game like Fifty-Two) with turtles coming up onto the beaches to lay their eggs - in a way a kind of manu kake.
... A young Egyptian called Setna (or Seton Chamwese) wanted to steal the magic book of Thot from the corpse of Nefer-ka Ptah, one of the great Egyptian gods, who was often portrayed as a mummy. Ptah, however, was awake and asked him: 'Are you able to take this book away with the help of a knowing scribe, or do you want to overcome me at checkerboards? Will you play Fifty-Two?' Setna agreed, and the board with its 'dogs' (pieces) being brought up, Nefer-ka Ptah won a game, spoke a formula, laid the checkerboard upon Setna's head and made him sink into the ground up to his hips. On the third time, he made him sink up to his ears, then Setna cried aloud for his brother, who saved him ... (Cfr at The Little Bald Woman).
"Turtles are thought to have exceptional night vision due to the unusually large number of rod cells in their retinas. Turtles have color vision with a wealth of cone subtypes with sensitivities ranging from the near ultraviolet ... to red ... Like other reptiles, turtles lay eggs which are slightly soft and leathery. The eggs of the largest species are spherical, while the eggs of the rest are elongated. Their albumen is white and contains a different protein from bird eggs, such that it will not coagulate when cooked. Turtle eggs prepared to eat consist mainly of yolk. In some species, temperature determines whether an egg develops into a male or a female: a higher temperature causes a female, a lower temperature causes a male. Large numbers of eggs are deposited in holes dug into mud or sand. They are then covered and left to incubate by themselves ... Sea turtles lay their eggs on dry, sandy beaches ... Researchers have recently discovered a turtle’s organs do not gradually break down or become less efficient over time, unlike most other animals. It was found that the liver, lungs, and kidneys of a centenarian turtle are virtually indistinguishable from those of its immature counterpart. This has inspired genetic researchers to begin examining the turtle genome for longevity genes ..." (Wikipedia)
Possibly 27 in p. 27 of Manuscript E refers or alludes to day number 270 (at Ga5-15). But 51 * 5 = 255 could then point back at September 12 and the imminent death of the summer king (maybe by name of Kuukuu, the gardener who was forced down into earth, into a cave). September 29 is an ominous day with a vero sign, 192 days beyond 0h. A final could be the last day of September, where we count 51 * 8 = 408:
There are no honu signs in the 12th hour, they come in the 13th hour. The ecliptic path of Sun is in Virgo going down from 'sky' to 'earth' (at declination 0º):
"On October 12, 272 BC, the ancient Greek astronomer Timocharis observed a conjunction of the star with Venus. The last occultation by a planet took place on September 27, 1843, also by Venus, which will occult it again on November 19, 2445." (Wikipedia) Maybe the creator of the G text played with the idea that 'sky' could be regarded as the region south of the ecliptic and that the region north of the ecliptic should be 'sea'. Anyhow the Chinese name Chang Sha (for ζ Corvi) becomes more understandable if we imagine it alludes to the 'kennel' stars in Virgo which are rising at the same time - the name means a 'long sand-bank'. We should notice the differences between the honu and the Rogo types of glyph, Rogo has no flippers and cannot move, as if 'stone from waist down':
In September 22, north of the equator, summer is 'at left' and Rogo in Gb5-10 is shown to be in the past. Counting the distance from Rogo in Gb6-26 to Rogo in Ga5-10 we will find it to be 185 - 1 = 184 glyphs (days):
If half a year is 184 days, then the whole cycle should be 368 days. There is room for two games of 52 in the text:
But symmetry demands we should arrange the table better:
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