3. Our calendar moves its dates to keep pace with the precession of Sun. Equinoxes and solstices come 1 day earlier each 72 years, but our calendar has locked the dates to these heart (cardinal) points of Sun. The G structure, on the other hand, has locked its glyphs to the stars. The G text is like the face of a watch, although with the figures much more elaborate and numerous. The hands of solar time must be imagined, moving with precession. Basically the stable background evidently is the synodic face of Moon:
With an asterisk (*) above I have denoted a pair of dates in the leap-year 1776, when the union of the 13 states in the north of America was 'born'. Counting with the effects of precession we can see where the imaginary hands of Sun must have been in the past. First there is 1 precessional day needed to change our current star position dates to what I have suggested was current at the time of G. Today ω Gemini is rising heliacally 106.4 days after spring equinox north of the equator. 80 + 106 = 186 implies the date should be July 5 (unless the year is a leap-year when the date will be July 4). To find the present date for the heliacal rising of a star we must add 80 (the distance from January 1 to March 21). 106.4 + 80 = 186.4, which can be approximated to day 186 = July 5. Precession has moved ω Gemini 1 day ahead from day 185 (July 4) in the G text, according to my assumption of a creation year for the text close to 1870. To find the date in 1870 which corresponds to a glyph we have to add 143 to the glyph number. 143 is equal 80 + 63:
Thus ω Gemini ought in 1870 (not a leap year) to have risen heliacally in day 42 + 80 + 63 = 185 ('July 4'). In 1766 ω Gemini would have risen heliacally around 2 days earlier, i.e. in day 42 + 80 + 61 = 183, but with 1776 as a leap year an extra day inserted pushed the date to *July 3. I think people on Easter Island saw where the solar hand of time (making its cycle around in ca 26000 years) must have been when the Scorpion rose as the sign of spring equinox (south of the equator). In that ancient golden age the 'fish-hook of Maui' drew up summer and the date should have been around "September 23:
The glyph number (counted from Gb8-30) is easily converted to the number of the day in this golden age, e.g. 187 + 80 = 267 ("September 24) and 45 + 80 = 125 ("May 5):
The 'golden age' date for hakaturou in Ga2-11 evidently is "May 2 and the number of the date, 122, could allude to 8h and to the star Heap of Fuel (μ Cancri):
The henua calender is beginning here, and henua means 'land'. Probably we should understand that 122 = 80 (the distance from January 1 to March 21) + 42 (the distance from March 22 to May 2). 'Land' seems to be beginning with these 4 stars (Naos, Heap of Fuel, Tegmine, and Al Tarf). In 'July 19 the day number reached 200. In the golden age the day number at Ga2-29 would have been 140, or 20 weeks counted from "January 1. Both in this golden age and in 1870 (and today and at any time) the end of glyph line a2 comes 18 days after the hakaturou fish-hook. With the heliacal rising of Al Tarf and manu kake (the 'climbing bird') land (in the sky) arrives. The date "October 26 for the heliacal rising of Vega around (363 - 299) * 72 = 4600 years ago (ca 2600 B.C.) has number 299 in our calendar, which can be imagined as the last day before the 300 days of Sun are finished. The curve at the top (at left in the glyph) could mean 'land turns to sea', half a lunar synodic year after the fish-hook has brought 'land' up from the 'sea'. But with a position at left in the glyph it ought to mean past tense - the 'black cloth of sea' should with the heliacal rising of Vega indicate a new beginning. The following Rei is a sign which seems to agree with my interpretation. At the time of G the summer solstice would be a week in the past and a new year would be on its way. In the golden age day number 299 pointed at a time 219 days after the "March 21 equinox. Perhaps there are 5 nights from 214 which correspond to the 5 days from 360 to 365:
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