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7. If we combine 33 with 153 we will reach 186:
A complicated dance of numbers can be perceived. Ga8-12 is glyph number 216 counted from Gb8-30 and it therefore has an important position in the text. Its day number from spring equinox north of the equator is 64 + 216 = 280. A cardinal point in time seems to have been reached and the design of the glyph indicates a split in its middle (with nuku at left and Rei at right). The nuku path is turning around at the top and the eye in front is lower than the one at the back. A month has passed from Antares in Ga7-16. Instead of 6 'berries' in a single glyph (Ga7-15) there is a pair of glyphs with 4 + 4 = 8 'berries' in Ga8-10--11. Ga8-10 comes 186 days beyond winter solstice (on Easter Island) and 33 days beyond tamaiti in Ga7-11. 33 + 153 = 186. Moe in Ga6-6 (where 6 * 6 = 36) is where a star could be rising heliacally 120 days beyond winter solstice and 33 days ahead is tamaiti in Ga7-11. 120 + 33 = 153. From Ga6-5 up to and including tamaiti in Ga7-11 there are 35 glyphs (5 weeks) and from ika hiku in Ga7-12 up to and including Ga8-12 there are another 35 glyphs (5 weeks). We cannot easily deduce from the text whether 33 should be placed before or after 153. Maybe there should be 33 both before and after 153. The Pleiades should reappear in the Hawaiian evening sky 33 days before the solstice and according to Mosaic law a mother who had given birth to a boy was to remain for 33 days after 'in the blood of her purification'. Regulus is rising heliacally 153 days beyond equinox and Achird, its antipodal star, is - in a way - also there:
The paradox is solved by stating that whereas Regulus is located 153 days beyond spring equinox north of the equator (normal right ascension procedure) Achird is located on the opposite side of the sky, 153 days beyond autumn equinox north of the equator. But the text of G has probably equinoxes and solstices in other places than what Antares and the other major stars are suggesting:
The time from autumn equinox to winter solstice should then be 92 days but the number of glyphs from Gb3-1 to Ga1-27 is longer. 472 + 28 = 500 is the position of Ga1-27 and 500 - 294 = 206. Apparently there are 206 - 92 = 114 too many glyphs. We can compare with the lengths of the seasons in our table:
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