Once again. It is possible to put in parallel the glyphs on the G tablet with the necessary items brought onboard the Royal Double Canoe:
But at the last glyph on side b of the G tablet there was a misalignment (hahara) to consider;
viz. between the total number of banana varieties (6) and those varieties brought onboard (5) - similar to the situation when Makoi was left alone on Easter Island when his 5 companions went onboard and sailed home to Hiva.
The boat (crescent) form could have inspired the creators of Manuscript E to use a crippled list of bananas to convey this complicated situation.
Whereas the creator of the G text could have chosen to depict Ga1-2 (the Full Moon at Antares) as a man with a pair of stars (stones) indicating the proper alignment.
Stars were drawn as small circles:
Once upon a time Aldebaran and Antares had been aligned properly, not 365.25 / 2 = ca 183 days apart but 354 / 2 = 177 days apart (or even farther back in time 350 / 2 = 175 days apart): ... The distance from Aldebaran to Antares was less than the distance from Antares to Aldebaran, which agreed with the fact that the northern summer was slightly shorter than the southern summer - the orbit of the Earth around the Sun was not a perfect circle. Over time the fixed stars were not so fixed, they moved slowly against the background with different speeds and in different directions. By investigating this as regards the distance from Aldebaran to Antares I found out that around 5000 B.C. the distance would have been around 177 days, i.e. equal to 6 lunar synodic cycles. 6 * 29 ½ = 177.
But the names Ana-mua (Anatares) and Ana-muri (Aldebaran) meant they belonged together and therefore the distance to consider was rather 182 days than 181 days. In which case the rest of the year would become 183 days:
I.e., unless the observer was south of the equator, where summer was longer and the distance from Antares up to and including Aldebaran could be counted as 183 + 2 = 185 days. Or as the situation would have been in 3000 B.C. when the southern summer could have been counted as 188 days:
The text on the G tablet suggests we should consider the right ascension distance *249 (Antares) - *68 (Aldebaran) = *181 as the current measure for the southern winter (northern summer), i.e. 3 days shorter than in 3000 BC. ... Väinämöinen set about building a boat, but when it came to the prow and the stern, he found he needed three words in his rune that he did not know, however he sought for them. In vain he looked on the heads of the swallows, on the necks of the swans, on the backs of the geese, under the tongues of the reindeer. He found a number of words, but not those he needed. Then he thought of seeking them in the realm of Death, Tuonela, but in vain. He escaped back to the world of the living only thanks to his potent magic. He was still missing his three runes. He was then told by a shepherd to search in the mouth of Antero Vipunen, the giant ogre. The road, he was told, went over swords and sharpened axes. Ilmarinen made shoes, shirt and gloves of iron for him, but warned him that he would find the great Vipunen dead. Nevertheless, the hero went. The giant lay underground, and trees grew over his head. Väinämöinen found his way to the giant's mouth, and planted his iron staff in it. The giant awoke and suddenly opened his huge mouth. Väinämöinen slipped into it and was swallowed. As soon as he reached the enormous stomach, he thought of getting out. He built himself a raft, and floated on it up and down inside the giant. The giant felt tickled and told him in many and no uncertain words where he might go, but he did not yield any runes. Then Väinämöinen built a smithy and began to hammer his iron on an anvil, torturing the entrails of Vipunen, who howled out magic songs to curse him away. But Väinämöinen said, thank you, he was very comfortable and would not go unless he got the secret words. Then Vipunen at last unlocked the treasure of his powerful runes. Many days and nights he sang, and the sun and the moon and the waves of the sea and the waterfalls stood still to hear him. Väinämöinen treasured them all and finally agreed to come out. Vipunen opened his great jaws, and the hero issued forth to go and build his boat at last ...
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