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3. Number 63 was significant also when we counted the Libra beads (in the illustration of Flamsteed):

Northern bowl:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 22 20 16 58
Inside the bowl: 24 10 14 48
Sum: 46 30 30 106
Inside the bowl: 17 19 45 81
Sum visible beads: 63 49 75 187
Southern bowl:
  L C R Sum
To the rim: 9 7 12 28
Inside the bowl: 1 + 3 19 11 34
Sum: 13 26 23 62
Inside the bowl: 50 23 33 106
Sum visible beads: 63 49 56 168

Left implies 'in the past'. 187 could possibly correspond to Ga7-17:

215 69 184
Gb6-20 (403) Ga7-15 Ga7-16 (*249) Ga7-17 (187)
216 256

On the other hand, the fact that 177 + 187 equals 364 makes it also possible to read vaha kai in position 364 as number 187:

50 133
Ga7-7 (177) Ga7-8 Ga7-9 Ga7-10 183 Gb5-10 (364)
187

South of the equator it is winter when it is summer north of the equator (and vice versa). And in late September comes spring equinox. In the age of Taurus - and south of the equator - spring equinox evidently could have come here:

Ga7-11 Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14 (184)
'November 20 '21 '22 (326) '23
"September 18 "19 "20 "21 (264)

326 - 263 = 63. Counted from January 1 there are 264 days to September 21, one day before the normal date for autumn equinox. Counted from March 21 (which the Church defined as spring equinox) there are 264 - 80 = 184 days to September 21.

The person in Ga7-13 has a broad tail at left and together with his left 'wing' it forms what can be imagined as a 'grasping hand' - the season of Sun is in the past. The G text seems in Ga7-13 (a Moon-day) not to describe the time before spring equinox on Easter Island but the time when darkness falls north of the equator. Henua in front has 7 notches across, signifying darkness.

If we instead of 177 add 168 (the number of beads at the southern bowl of Libra) to 187 the result is 355 (presumably referring to winter solstice in December 21, day 355 from January 1).