The distance from the 'cooking' (tao) at Adhil / Spica to that at Gb1-24 was 298 days. Such a long stretch of time suggests we should reverse the positions of the Sun and the Full Moon on the way, and if so then reasonably at midsummer.
This idea could have motivated the design of Ga3-11 - with the head at bottom serving as a growth promotor:
June 22 and December 22 were immediately after the solstice days according to the Gregorian calendar. 183 = 366 / 2 and 214 (→ 21 * 4) = 4 * 84. ... Once upon a time there was an old woman who owned a great potato field where she planted her potatoes in spring and harvested them in autumn. She was famous all around for her many varieties of wonderful potatoes, and she had enough of them to sell at the market place. She planted her potatoes 7 in a row, placing her foot in front of her as a measure from one potato to the next. Then she marked the place with a bean - which would also give nourishment to the surrounding potatoes. South of the equator we could imagine the opposite pattern with nourishment from the surrounding potatoes to 'water' (the opposite of 'air' which was emitted from eating too much beans): ... A crack opened up in the ground, and the Rat was put down into the pit, to rest there. - he hakatopa i te kioe.ki raro ki te rua.he hakarere. (Where) he was nourished by sweet potatoes. - he hangai.hai kumara. [E: 4]
Next she changed variety and planted 7 more followed by another bean, and this was the pattern she followed until all her 214 varieties had been put down in their proper places. She had drawn a map which she followed and from where each sort of potato could be located at the proper time for its harvest. I was fashinated, when I happened to stumble on this Swedish TV program, because my 'once upon a time' was now and 214 (= 2 * 107) was surely no coincidence. She knew what she was doing. Let's therefore count: 214 * 7 (potatoes) + 213 (beans) = 1711. So what? Probably because 1711 = 59 * 29 ... But redundance ought to be a necessary feature when counting in time-space and we should therefore continue. 1711 could for instance be perceived as 171 * 1 → the day before a solstice. And on the C tablet the design of glyph number 12 * 29½ = 354 (→ the day before the December solstice) = 3 * 118 when counted from the Navel of the Horse (Sirrah) at the Full Moon in September 20 (*183), might have been motivated by the creator of this text in order to place 3 unified 'king makers' (haka-ariki) at left in Ca13-11 (→ 311 → Ga3-11).
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