2. If the 'sea' ('flood', 'high tide', 'the back of the head') should cover the time to April 18 (at Gb7-26), then it could begin at January 1, because 108 surely must allude to the pentagon of Venus (108º = 540º / 5), cfr at Parehe:
We could try to count backwards 437 - 108 = 329 steps (days) to a possible position of December 31:
329 was, we remember, the date number for the heliacal rising of Antares, in November 25. (And 329 - 100 = 229 is the number of glyphs engraved on side a of the tablet.) What should be there before the 'high tide'? Considering what happens in the myth of the Minotaur a good guess could be a visit to the Underworld. The path of Sun goes down in Virgo:
471 - 314 = 157 days could have been the distance needed to travel down in the Underworld. On the other hand, we could count 472 - 300 = 172 days. 329 (Gb4-8) - 172 = 157 (= 314 / 2), and this is the day before Toliman given that we count days from the beginning of the front side:
From a viewpoint north of the equator Antares is down in the Underworld, but south of the equator Antares announced the arrival of summer (when Sun would be present). The Underworld is when Sun is present south of the equator. Sun has 300 days from January 1 to October 27, and then the heliacal rising of the Centaur tells us Sun is down in the Underworld. But seen from Easter Island the heliacal rising of the Foot of the Centaur informs the viewer Sun has arrived. Counted from the first sight of the Foot of Orion in June it takes him 143 days to 'cross the Sea':
Early in my investigations I imagined the hanau glyph type meant someone was taking a bath, with his legs illustrating the waves of the sea. I think we now have advanced far enough to read the summary page in my glyph type dictionary (we can read this summary without any comments, taking in what may be useful and discard the rest):
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