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Here we could have a possibility to connect the E text with the G text:

145 325
Gb8-12 Ga5-17
ALGOL (*45) PORRIMA (*191)
472 = 1½ * 314 + 1 = 2 * 236

= 414 (365 + 7 * 7) + 2 * 29

Because also the E text has a pair of vero glyphs. Furthermore, the glyphs which are following look similar to the corresponding ones in the G text:

te vero te henua toko tokoga te henua - e rima te kiore - te henua

Rangitokona, prop up the heaven! // Rangitokona, prop up the morning! // The pillar stands in the empty space. The thought [memea] stands in the earth-world - // Thought stands also in the sky. The kahi stands in the earth-world - // Kahi stands also in the sky. The pillar stands, the pillar - // It ever stands, the pillar of the sky ...

Toko te rangi, or Sky Propper, is named by Métraux in his corrected Miru genealogy as the thirteenth king of Easter Island and as one of the lineages or subgroups of the Miru. Although we have no record of the Sky Propper legend on Rapa Nui, other Polynesian legends of the Sky Propper are widely known, and they are formative elements in the basic cosmogenic theory of Polynesian belief.

Eb4-2 (325 + 109) Eb4-3 (435) Eb4-4 Eb4-5 Eb4-6
Ga5-17 (271) Ga5-18 Ga5-19 Ga5-20 Ga5-21
PORRIMA (*191) MIMOSA *193 ALIOTH MIN-EL-AUVA
45 kua tu te Ao te rima kua haga i te henua kaoa o te heke te henua - te kiore

Tuu. 1. To stand erect. 2. Mast, pillar, post.

Ao. Large dance paddle. 1. Command, power, mandate, reign: tagata ao, person in power, in command, ruler. 2. Dusk, nightfall. 3. Ao nui, midnight. 4. Ao popohaga, the hours between midnight and dawn. , to serve (food); ku-âo-á te kai i ruga i te kokohu, the food is served on a platter. Vanaga. 1. Authority, kingdom, dignity, government, reign (aho); topa kia ia te ao, reign; hakatopa ki te ao, to confer rank; ao ariki, royalty; ka tu tokoe aho, thy kingdom come. PS Mgv.: ao, government, reign. Mq.: ao, government, reign, command. Sa.: ao, a title of chiefly dignity; aoao, excellent, surpassing, supreme. 2. Spoon; ao oone, shovel. 3. Dancing club T. 3. Aonui (ao-nui 2), midnight. 4. Pau.: ao, the world. Mgv.: ao, id. Ta.: ao, id. Mq.: aomaama, id. Ma.: ao, id. 5. Pau.: ao, happy, prosperity. Mgv.: ao, tranquil conscience. Ta.: ao, happiness. 6. Mgv.: ao, cloud, mist. Ta.: ao, id. Mq.: ao, id. Sa.: ao, cloud. Ma.: ao, id. 7. Mgv.: ao, hibiscus. 8. Ta.: ao, day. Mq.: ao, day from dawn to dark. Sa.: ao, id. Ma.: ao, id. 9. Ta.: ao, a bird. Ha.: ao, id. 10. Mq.: ao, respiration, breath. Ha.: aho, breath. 11. Mq.: ao, to collect with hand or net. Sa.: ao, to gather. Ma.: ao, to collect. Ta.: aoaia, to collect food and other things with care. Churchill.

Eb5-10 (325 + 159) Eb5-11 (485) Eb5-12 Eb5-13

Given the assumption that also vero in Eb4-2 corresponds to Porrima (γ Virginis), the following 4 glyphs could correspond to Mimosa (β Crucis), to right ascension night *193 (Toko Tokoga), to Alioth (ε Ursae Majoris), respectively to Minelauva (δ Virginis) - which latter name I suggest could mean 'Mouth of the Barker'.

... The medieval names Auva, Al Awwa, and Minelauva are from the Arabic, meaning 'barking (dog)'. This star, along with β Vir (Zavijava), γ Vir (Porrima), η Vir (Zaniah) and ε Vir (Vindemiatrix), were Al Awwā, the Barker ...

... On Euphrates it was Lu Lim, the Gazelle, Goat, or Stag, - or perhaps King; and, with ε, probably Mas-tab-ba, another of the seven pairs of Twin-stars of that country. The Hindus called it Āpa, or Āpas, the Waters; and the Chinese, Tsze Seang, the Second Minister of State ...

... Gazelle is derived from the Arabic ġazāl. The first Latin language to adopt it was Middle French, and the word entered the English language around 1600 from the French. Arab people traditionally hunted the gazelle. Appreciated for its grace, it is a symbol most commonly associated in Arabic literature with female beauty. One of the traditional themes of Arabic love poetry involves comparing the gazelle with the beloved, and linguists theorize ghazal, the word for love poetry in Arabic, is related to the word for gazelle ...

If so, then vero in Eb5-10 should correspond to day 80 + *191 + 50 = 321 (November 17). Which at the time of Bharani would have been day 321 - 41 = 280 ("October 7). And at the time of the Bull this place would have been around right ascension night *200 - *23 (precessional time depth down from the epoch of Bharani) = *177 (= 6 * 29½):

te vero 49 kua tu te Ao
Eb4-2 (325 + 109) Eb5-10 (325 + 159)
PORRIMA (*191) VRISCHIKA (*241)
"Aug 18 (*150) SEPT 14 (*177)
DENEB KAITOS (*9) *59
"Febr 17 (413 = 230 + 183) MARCH 16 (*360)

... The name Vrischika made me guess on an origin in India. By searching in Wikipedia I could indeed find the name to be a probable corruption of Vrishchika, the name of the 8th solar month in the Hindu calendar:

According to this system, with 6 double-months, Vrishchika indicates the Scorpion. Allen: 'Early India knew it [Scorpius] as Āli, Viçrika, or Vrouchicam, - in Tamil, Vrishaman; but later on Varāha Mihira said Kaurpya, and Al Birūni, Kaurba, both from the Greek Scorpios. On the Cingalese zodiac it was Ussika ... Taurus was the Cingalese Urusaba, the early Hindu Vrisha, Vrishan, or Vrouchabam, - in the Tamil tongue, Rishabam; but subsequently Varāha Mihira gave it as Taouri, his rendering of Taurus, and Al Birūni, in his India, as Tāmbiru ...

The connection between Taurus in spring and Scorpius in autumn probably accounts for the similarity in names between Vrish-abha and Vrish-chika. Presumably it also accounts for the similarity between the figures in Ga1-4 and in Ga7-16:

Ga1-4 Ga7-16

The distance 50 right ascension days from Porrima to Vrischika (π Scorpii) could perhaps have been intended to correspond to the 50 dark nights before Venus returned as evening star.

CIRCUIT OF VENUS

Black

8

Morning Star

263

Black

50

Evening Star

263

Sum

584

1 Horn α Virginis (Spica) Crocodile (202.7) Oct 9 (282)
2 Neck κ Virginis Dragon (214.8) Oct 21 (294)
3 Root α Librae (Zuben Elgenubi) Badger (224.2) Oct 31 (304)
4 Room π Scorpii (Vrischika) Hare (241.3) Nov 17 (321)
5 Heart σ Scorpii Fox (247.0) Nov 23 (327)
6 Tail μ Scorpii (Denebakrab) Tiger (254.7) Nov 30 (334)
7 Winnowing Basket γ Sagittarii (Nash) Leopard (273.7) Dec 19 (321 + 32)
December solstice