3. Next we will immediately realize the meaning of glyph number 365:
With 186 days to Antares there must remain 179 days to the end of the year.
I have assigned 3 glyphs to Beehive and Regulus, but only 1 glyph to Antares. The proper motions of the stars would threaten the beautiful structure if the stars had been defined precisely to certain glyphs (days). But for Antares it is enough to have a single glyph - it is the immovable 'pole', when it moves the rest of the structure will follow, while it will remain still in its place. The quarters of the year are not equally long and we should therefore compare with our table:
From autumn equinox to winter solstice (on Easter Island) there are 358 - 266 = 92 days. From winter solstice to summer solstice there are 177 days. We can play with these numbers to see where in the text the cardinal points possibly are (according to the present locations of the stars):
From summer solstice to autumn equinox there are 266 - 177 = 89 days:
The precise positions of the solstices and the equinoxes vary a little from year to year. However, based on the position of Antares in the G text, at glyph number 186, the end of summer seems not to be at autumn equinox but later:
Counting by Moon there could be 10 months from the Beehive to the end of summer:
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