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The 2nd (Rear) Spout (Al Fargh al Thāni) was evidently depicted on the last (most important) page of the Dresden Codex:

It was the Uniter, the 27th Mansion of the Moon according to Ibn‘Arabi (ca 1200 AD). This name, we can guess, probably referred to its function as connecting the previous (Old) cycle with the new One - at Oh, at the Topknot (Tikitiki) of Andromeda:

.... Though Andromeda has its roots most firmly in the Greek tradition, a female figure in Andromeda's place appeared in Babylonian astronomy. The stars that make up Pisces and the middle portion of modern Andromeda formed a constellation representing a fertility goddess, sometimes named as Anunitum or the Lady of the Heavens ...

... Yes, said the maiden. She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden. And then she looked in her hand, she inspected it right away, but the bone's saliva wasn't in her hand. It is just a sign I have given you, my saliva, my spittle. This, my head, has nothing on it - just bone, nothing of meat. It's just the same with the head of a great lord: it's just the flesh that makes his face look good. And when he dies, people get frightened by his bones. After that, his son is like his saliva, his spittle, in his being, whether it be the son of a lord or the son of a craftsman, an orator ...

 

Maui mua

Maui roto

Maui taha

Maui pae

 

Maui tikitiki

*0

*92

*183

*274

*0

day 80

day 172

day 263

day 354

day 80

91

183

274

365

24 * 19 = 91

The beginning of the C text was when the Full Moon was at day zero (0h), i.e. at ε Phoenicis,

which was located at the same right ascension day as the Navel of the Pegasus Horse (Sirrah), viz. at the place of the Rear Spout. This was a day of mourning and of high spirits:

Egyptian jubilation Phoenician he Greek epsilon Ε (ε)

Wikipedia points at the Egyptian gesture with arms held high as a Sign of jubilation, which may have been the origin (via Phoenician he) of epsilon.

... Certain Polynesian customs can more easily be understood by us if they are seen as a straight reversal of things we do ourselves. The Maori custom of weeping over friends or relatives when they return, rather than when they go away, is one example, which has a logic not impossible to grasp. A similar straight reversal is found in regard to food. The Polynesian notion of the lowest thing, the most devoid of sacredness, was cooked food: not what comes out of the body, but what goes into it ...

no glyph
Ca1-1 Ca1-2 Ca1-3 Ca1-4
Sept 20 (263) 21 Equinox LONG SAND-BANK 24 (*187)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
REAR SPOUT (0h) ALGENIB PEGASI March 23 24 Julian equinox (84)

... After the great flood had at long last receded, Raven had gorged himself on the delicacies left by the receding water, so for once, perhaps the first time in his life, he wasn't hungry. But his other appetites, his curiosity and the unquenchable itch to meddle and provoke things, to play tricks on the world and its creatures, these remained unsatisfied. Raven gazed up and down the beach. It was pretty, but lifeless. There was no one about to upset, or play tricks upon. Raven sighed. He crossed his wings behind him and strutted up and down the sand, his shiny head cocked, his sharp eyes and ears alert for any unusual sight or sound. The mountains and the sea, the sky now ablaze with the sun by day and the moon and stars he had placed there, it was all pretty, but lifeless. Finally Raven cried out to the empty sky with a loud exasperated cry. And before the echoes of his cry faded from the shore, he heard a muffled squeak. He looked up and down the beach for its source and saw nothing. He strutted back and and forth, once, twice, three times and still saw nothing. Then he spied a flash of white in the sand. There, half buried in the sand was a giant clamshell. As his shadow fell upon it, he heard another muffled squeak. Peering down into the opening between the halves of the shell, he saw it was full of tiny creatures, cowering in fear at his shadow ...

The March 25 equinox (determined by the Sun) followed 183 + 4 (the difference between the dates for the Julian and the Gregorian equinoxes) = 187 glyphs (days) later at Ca7-19. And at heliacal ε Crucis just before Acrux (*5.0 + *365 / 2 = *187.5) the reading of Metoro Tau'a Ure (for Bishop Jaussen on Tahiti) was kua moe:

4th period, days 1-4:
Ca7-17 Ca7-18 Ca7-19 (4 + 183) Ca7-20 (188)
tagata - marama tagata kua moe puhi te ahi - rave i te ika

Moe. To sleep, to lie at full length, to dream, to brood, to place, to cohabit; moe atu, to leave off, to desist; moe atu ra, to adjourn, to postpone; moe hakahepo, to talk in the deep; moe aherepo, somnambulist, sleepwalker; moe hakataha, to sleep on the side; moe no, to oversleep, concubinage; moe tahae, to be a light sleeper; moe tahaga, a sleeper; moe vaeahatu, moe hakaroa, to sleep sprawling; rava moe, to sleep sound; ariga moe ki raro, to lie flat on the ground; tae moe, bachelor; hakamoe, to brood, to fold the wings; to reserve, to lay up; to struggle. P Pau.: moe, sleep. Mgv.: moe, sleep, to lie down, coitus, to shut the eyes. Mq.: moe, to sleep, to lie down; haámoe, to set down on the ground. Ta.: moe, to sleep, to lie down. Moea raruga, lying flat. Moeaivi, thin. Mq.: ivi, haáivi, id. Ta.: ivi, id. Moega, mat. Pau.: moehega, bed. Mgv.: moega, a sleeping mat. Mq.: moena, moeka, mat, floor cloth, bed. Ta.: moea, bed. Moemata, to sleep with the eyes open; mea moemata, phantom. Moemoea, a dream, vision; tikeahaga moemoea, apparition by night. T Mgv., Mq., Ta.: moemoea, dream. Churchill. Mgv. Moemoe, to steal, to purloin at a food distribution. Mq.: moemoe, to seize, to grasp. Churchill. Ta.: 1.  Moemoe, ambush. Ha.: moemoe, id. 2. Moemoe, Phyllanthus simplex. To.: mohemohe, a tree. Churchill. Mq.: Moehu, exiled, banished, prisoner of war. Ma.: morehu, a survivor. Churchill.

χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7) σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7) no star listed (4)

ANKAA (*) = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0)

ALPHARD (α Hydrae)
March 23 24 Julian equinox (84) 26
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

Hasta-13 (Hand) / Chariot-28 (Worm)

GIENAH (Wing) = γ Corvi (185.1), ε Muscae (185.2), ζ Crucis (185.4), ZANIAH (Corner) = η Virginis (185.9)

*144.0 = *185.4 - *41.4
CHANG SHA (Long Sand-bank) = ζ Corvi (186.3)

INTROMETIDA (Inserted) = ε Crucis (187.4), ACRUX () = α Crucis (187.5)

*146.0 = *187.4 - *41.4

γ Com. Berenicis (188.0), σ Centauri (188.1), ALGORAB = δ Corvi (188.5), GACRUX = γ Crucis (188.7)

Equinox (265) Sept 23 24 (84 + 183) 25
4th period, days 5-8:
Ca7-21 Ca7-22 Ca7-23 Ca7-24 (192)
te kava erua marama e marama noho i tona nohoga te hare pure e tagata noho ki roto

Pure. Cowrie (Cypraea caput draconis); pure vaka, another type of cowrie, which can float on the sea like a diminutive boat (vaka). Vanaga. 1. To pray, to supplicate, invocation, prayer; hare pure, church, chapel; tae pure, irreverence; purega, prayer P Pau., Mgv., Mq., Ta.: pure, to pray. In Samoa, Tonga, Niuē, Futuna, Uvea, pule means to command. 2. A shell T. P Pau.: hakapurepure, to dye, to color. Mq.: pué, the porcelain shell. Ta.: pure, a mark. Purepure, spotted, dappled; ragi purepure, dappled sky. Purepurea, spotted. P Pau.: hakapurepure, to dye, to color. Mgv.: purepure, printed cloth; akapurepure, to paint in different colors. Mq.: puépué, covered with pale scars. Ta.: purepure, spotted, dappled. Churchill. Pureva, rock, stone (small enough to be thrown by hand). Vanaga. Pureva, to throw a stone. Ta.: Pureva, to be on the eve of going. Ha.: puleva, to float here and there. Churchill. Pau.: Pure-hiva, a butterfly. Mgv.: pure-rehue, id. Ta.: pure-hua, a moth. Mq.: pure-hua, id. Ma.: pure-hua, id. Churchill.

Roto. 1. Inside. 2. Lagoon (off the coast, in the sea). 3. To press the juice out of a plant; taheta roto pua, stone vessel used for pressing the juice out of the pua plant, this vessel is also just called roto. Roto o niu, east wind. Vanaga. 1. Marsh, swamp, bog; roto nui, pond; roto iti, pool. 2. Inside, lining; o roto, interior, issue; ki roto, within, into, inside, among; mei roto o mea, issue; no roto mai o mea, maternal; vae no roto, drawers. Churchill. Ana-roto. Spica.

March 27 28 29 (88) 30 (272 - 183)
λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4)

*330.0 = *6.4 - *41.4 

ANDROMEDA GALAXY (M31), π Andromedae (7.7) 

ε Andromedae (8.2), DELTA = δ Andromedae (8.4), SCHEDIR (Breast) = α Cassiopeiae (8.6), ζ Andromedae, μ Phoenicis (8.9)

*332.0 = *8.4 - *41.4 

ξ Phoenicis (9.0), ρ Tucanae (9.1), DENEB KAITOS (Tail of the Sea Beast) = β Ceti, η Phoenicis (9.4), AL NITHĀM (String of Pearls) = φ¹ Ceti (9.6)

*333.0 = *9.4 - *41.4 

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
γ Muscae (189.0), AVIS SATYRA (Bird of the Satyrs) = η Corvi (189.3), ASTERION (Starry) = β Canum Ven. (189.5), KRAZ = β Corvi, κ Draconis (189.7) 

α Muscae (190.2), τ Centauri (190.5), χ Virginis (190.7)

ALDERAMIN (α Cephei) 

Al Áwwā'-11 (The Barker) / Shur-mahrū-shirū-18 (Front or West Shur)

SOMBRERO GALAXY = M104 Virginis (191.1), ρ Virginis (191.4), PORRIMA = γ Virginis, γ Centauri (191.5)

*150.0 = *191.4 - *41.4 

ι Crucis (192.2), β Muscae (192.5), MIMOSA = β Crucis (192.9) 
Sept 26 27 28 Sept 29 (2 * 136)

The First (Fore) Spout (Al Fargh al Mukdim) marked the beginning of the Pegasus Square.

2nd period, days 1-5:
Ca6-25 Ca6-26 Ca6-27 Ca6-28 (168) Ca7-1
FOMALHAUT March 4 (*348) FORE SPOUT 23h (*350.0) 7 (431 = 66)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
Sept 1 (244) ALKES (*165) 3 11h (*167.4) 5 (80 + 168)
2nd period, days 6-11:
Ca7-2 Ca7-3 Ca7-4 Ca7-5 Ca7-6 Ca7-7 (175)

The present limit of the celestial polar regions can be defined from the declination of the star γ Andromedae. Its current place is at declination 42º 05' N. In other words the measure across the polar regions should be 2 * (90º - 42º 05') = 2 * 47º 55' = 95º 50' or around 96º. The width of the polar regions is thus around 2 * 96º = 192º and 360 - 192 = 168 = 2 * 84 (→ Julian spring equinox).