3. Also the Australians celebrate Christmas in December, although it is summer. Their maps have north up and south down, and their word globes are not turned upside down. The creator of the G text probably knew our calendar and he should have tried to integrate it in his text. The stars are rising heliacally simultaneously on both sides of the equator and he would have understood our calendar was based on the solar year. The beginning of the front side of the text evidently coincides with the beginning of 4h, a month before the solstice:
Maybe the earlier text at the end of side b represents one of their own calendars. May 20 is day number 140 according to our calendar and there could be 10 fortnights ending with Gb8-26. 468 - 140 = 328:
The return of the Pleiades in the evening should on Hawaii ideally occur 33 days before winter solstice:
500 (Ga1-27) - 33 = 467. But north of the equator June 21 is summer solstice, while on Easter Island the Pleiades are rising heliacally in the morning ca 35 days before winter solstice.
... the renewal of kingship at the climax of the Makahiki coincides with the rebirth of nature. For in the ideal ritual calendar, the kali'i battle follows the autumnal appearance of the Pleiades, by thirty-three days - thus precisely, in the late eighteenth century, 21 December, the winter solstice. The king returns to power with the sun ... In the late eighteenth century the rule 33 days before the solstice was the ideal time for the return of the Pleiades. This indicates the same structure was used at that time on Hawaii as we can find today in the sky and also in the G text. In our own calendar December 21 is day 355 (356 in my table above) and 33 days earlier means day 322 (323 in my table above). The same day number is defined by the present heliacal rising of the Pleiades, viz. at May 17, which is 35 days before winter solstice on Easter Island. 358 - 35 = 323. Counting the year from January 1 of course will change the day number from 323 to 137 (= 172 - 35):
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