1. We need to recapitulate. The 16th right ascension hour is ending in November 20, day 324 (= 80 + 244) from January 1:
From my assumption of a correlation between the heliacal rising of Antares in November 26 on one hand and the mago glyph in Ga7-16 on the other - together with a conviction that each glyph in the G text, at least normally, corresponds to a day - we can see that November 20 should be at glyph 180 (counted from Gb8-30):
We could say 'the front side of the year' is beginning at spring equinox north of the equator:
Viri in Ga5-11 is located 186 days after tagata in Gb6-25 and 64 days before mago in Ga7-16. Day 266 - day 80 = 186, and from September 23 to November 26 there are 64 days. Viri in Ga5-11 has number 122 + 64 = *186, where 64 is the distance from Gb6-26 to the end of side b of the tablet. Autumn equinox normally occurs in September 22, i.e. 185 days after spring equinox:
Rogo is at left in Ga5-10 and the season from March 21 to September 22 (265 - 80 = 185 days) can be regarded as the summer 'year'. My name Rogo for the glyph type is not based on any definite and clear suggestion from the readings of Metoro, but if he had read the G text and if he had said Rogo at Gb6-26, then we could have guessed he would have interpreted 0h as the beginning of a year: ... in the ceremonial course of the coming year, the king is symbolically transposed toward the Lono pole of Hawaiian divinity ... It need only be noticed that 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 ... Halfway from spring equinox to 16h (in November) is right ascension 8h:
Day 324 (= November 20) in our calendar is at 16h and (324 - 80) / 2 = 122 (at Ga2-27). Evidently the 'henua calendar' is beginning at 8h and ending at 16h, measuring a third of the cycle of the year. 24h / 3 = 8h:
The June solstice is not at 8h but a month earlier:
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