... The Mahabharata insists on six as the number of the Pleiades as well as of the mothers of Skanda and gives a very broad and wild description of the birth and the installation of Kartikeya 'by the assembled gods ... as their generalissimo', which is shattering, somehow, driving home how little one understands as yet. The least which can be said, assuredly: Mars was 'installed' during a more or less close conjunction of all planets; in Mbh. 9.45 (p. 133) it is stressed that the powerful gods assembled 'all poured water upon Skanda, even as the gods had poured water on the head of Varuna, the lord of waters, for investing him with dominion'. And this 'investiture' took place at the beginning of the Krita Yuga, the Golden Age ...

And then the missing first glyph in the C text (at Sirrah - the Navel of the Horse - the topknot of Andromeda) could be considered as equivalent to the 2nd Bissextum day - to be added in leap years.

*Febr 1 - Terminalia*	*Bissextum - March 1*
23	7
30

Furthermore, number 6 was also used to indicate Tau-ono (the 6 'stones') in the first day of the Pleiades.

... They all sat down and rested [on the plain of Oromanga], when suddenly they saw that a turtle had reached the shore and had crawled up on the beach. He [Ira] looked at it and said, 'Hey, you! The turtle has come on land!' He said, 'Let's go! Let's go back to the shore.' They all went to pick up the turtle. Ira was the first one to try to lift the turtle - but she didn't move. Then Raparenga said, 'You do not have the necessary ability. Get out of my way so that I can have a try!' Raparenga stepped up and tried to lift the turtle - but Raparenga could not move her. Now you spoke, Kuukuu: 'You don't have the necessary ability, but I shall move this turtle. Get out of my way!' Kuukuu stepped up, picked up the turtle, using all his strength. After he had lifted the turtle a little bit, he pushed her up farther. No sooner had he pushed her up and lifted her completely off the ground when she struck Kuukuu with one fin. She struck downward and broke Kuukuu's spine.The turtle got up, went back into the (sea) water, and swam away. All the kinsmen spoke to you (i.e. Kuukuu): 'Even you did not prevail against the turtle!' They put the injured Kuukuu on a stretcher and carried him inland. They prepared a soft bed for him in the cave and let him rest there. They stayed there, rested, and lamented the severely injured Kuukuu. Kuukuu said, 'Promise me, my friends, that you will not abandon me!' They all replied, 'We could never abandon you!' They stayed there twenty-seven [27] days in Oromanga. Everytime Kuukuu asked, 'Where are you, friends?' they immediately replied in one voice, 'Here we are!' They all sat down and thought. They had an idea and Ira spoke, 'Hey, you! Bring the round stones (from the shore) and pile them into six heaps of stones!' One of the youths said to Ira, 'Why do we want heaps of stone?' Ira replied, 'So that we can all ask the stones to do something.' They took (the material) for the stone heaps (pipi horeko) and piled up six heaps of stone at the outer edge of the cave. Then they all said to the stone heaps, 'Whenever he calls, whenever he calls for us, let your voices rush (to him) instead of the six (of us) (i.e., the six stone heaps are supposed to be substitutes for the youths). They all drew back to profit (from the deception) (? ki honui) and listened. A short while later, Kuukuu called. As soon as he had asked, 'Where are you?' the voices of the stone heaps replied, 'Here we are!' All (the youths) said, 'Hey, you! That was well done!' ... [E:27-30]

... The star cluster Krittika ... sometimes known as Kārtikā, corresponds to the open star cluster Pleiades in Indian astronomy and Jyotisa (Hindu astrology). The name literally translates to 'the cutters' ... In Hindu mythology, the god Murugan (Skanda / Subrahmanya / Kartikeya) was raised by the six sisters known as the Krttikā and thus came to be known as Kārtikeya (literally 'Him of the Krttikā'). According to the Mahābhārata, Murugan was born to Agni and Svāhā, after the latter impersonated six of the seven wives of the Saptarshi and made love to him. The Saptarshi, hearing of this incident and doubting their wives' chastity, divorced them. These wives then became the Krttikā ...

The origin of the idea of 6 stars in the Pleiades (the nurses of Kārttikeya) might have been the computation 366 = 6 * 60 + 6 → 666 → the Number of the Beast:

The tropical year needed more than 365 days, viz. approximately 365¼ days, as in the circuit of Sirius,

... The Sothic cycle was based on what is referred to in technical jargon as 'the periodic return of the heliacal rising of Sirius', which is the first appearance of this star after a seasonal absence, rising at dawn just ahead of the sun in the eastern portion of the sky. In the case of Sirius the interval between one such rising and the next amounts to exactly 365.25 days - a mathematically harmonious figure, uncomplicated by further decimal points, which is just twelve minutes longer than the duration of the solar year ... In ancient Egypt they thought Sirius was behind the yearly rise of the Nile ... the seasonal cycle, throughout the ancient world, was the foremost sign of rebirth following death, and in Egypt the chronometer of this cycle was the annual flooding of the Nile ...

and 6 * (60 + 1) ought to be a good (maitaki) measure (i.e. leaping over 1 day in 3 out of 4 years). Or, rather, it should be a very good measure:

BOOTES:
15	Svāti	α Bootis	Shoot of plant, coral	Oct 22 (295)
	very good	Arcturus

... Given our perception that there were 6 dark (interregnum) nights from day 359 to the end of the year,

April 25 (115)	60	June 25 (176)	121	Oct 25 (298)	60	Dec 25 (359)	6 + 114
183				182
365

we could expect also the other cardinal points of the Sun to follow suit, because we know that June 21 (Gregorian summer solstice) belongs together with December 21 (Gregorian winter solstice) in the same way as 'June 25 (the Julian summer solstice) paired up with 'December 25 (the Julian winter solstice). And the Pope had similarly changed also the Julian date for spring equinx from day 84 to day 80.

But whereas December 25 + 6 = December 31 we can see that June 25 + 6 = July 1. The solution to this dilemma should be to let the new year begin with December 31 (365 = 52 weeks + 1) instead of with January 1.

April 25 (115)	60	June 25 (176)	5 + 116	Oct 25 (298)	60	Dec 25 (359)	5 + 116
61		*2 61**		61		*2 61**
183				183
*366 = 2 183 = 6 * 61**

However, the Gregorian calendar was beginning with January 1 and this strange phenomenon ('a year and a day') could have motivated 6 days at the beginning of the C text - as well as at the beginning of its side b. March 21 (80) + 6 = March 27 (86) ...

	391
Ca1-6		Cb1-6 (398)
*March 27 (86 = 6)**		*(398 = 366 + 32)**

Also; the distance from Canopus (*95) to Sirius (*101) was 6 right ascension days and this may have been decisive.

no glyph	koia	ki te hoea	ki te henua	te rima te hau tea	haga i te mea ke	ki te henua - tagata honui
	Ko. 1. Article (ko te); preposition: with (see grammar); prefix of personal pronouns: koau, I; kokoe, you (singular); koîa, he, she, it; kokorua, you (plural); ko tagi, koîa, he with his weeping. 2. Article which precedes proper nouns, often also used with place names: Ko Tori, Ko Hotu Matu'a, Ko Pú. Koîa, exact: tita'a koîa, exact demarcation. Seems to be the personal pronoun koîa - applied in the meaning of: thus it is, here it is precisely. Vanaga. 1. Negative; e ko, not, except; e ko ora, incurable; ina ko, not; ina ko tikea, unseen; ina e ko, not; ina e ko mou, incessant. 2. A particle used before nouns and pronouns; ko vau, I; ko te, this; ko mea tera, this; ati ko peka, to avenge, ko mua, first, at first, formerly. 3. There, yonder. P Mgv.: ko, over there, yonder. Ta.: ó, there, here. Churchill. Hoe. Hoe 1. Paddle. Mgv.: hoe, ohe, id. Mq., Ta.: hoe, id. 2. To wheeze with fatigue (oeoe 2). Arero oeoe, to stammer, to stutter; Mgv. oe, to make a whistling sound in breathing; ohe, a cry from a person out of breath. Mq.: oe, to wheeze with fatigue. 3. Blade, knife; hoe hakaiu, clasp-knife, jack-knife; hoe hakanemu, clasp-knife; hoe pikopiko, pruning knife. 4. Ta.: oheohe, a plant. Ma.: kohekohe, id. Churchill.T. Paddle. E hoe te heiva = 'and to paddle (was their) pleasure'. Henry. Hoea, instrument for tattooing. Barthel.

	Ca1-1	Ca1-2	Ca1-3	Ca1-4	Ca1-5	Ca1-6
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Sept 20 (263)	21	Equinox	23	24	25 (84 + 184)	26
ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)	PÁLIDA (Pale) = δ Crucis (184.6), MEGREZ (Root of the Tail) = δ Ursae Majoris (184.9)	*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)	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)
... 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 ...
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
March 21 (80) *Al Fargh al Thāni-25 (Rear Spout)* 0h (365.25) CAPH (Hand) = β Cassiopeiae, SIRRAH (Navel of the Horse) = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)	22 *Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)* ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)	23 χ Pegasi (2.1), θ Andromedae (2.7)	24 σ Andromedae (3.0), ι Ceti (3.3), ζ Tucanae (3.5), ρ Andromedae, π Tucanae (3.7)	Julian equinox no star listed (4)	26 (80 + 5) ANKAA = α Phoenicis, κ Phoenicis (5.0) ~~ALPHARD (α Hydrae)~~	27 λ Phoenicis (6.3), β Tucanae (6.4) 6.4 - 41.4 + 366.0 = 331 *= 148.0 + 183.0**
... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...
... The players all played at once, without waiting for turns, quarreling all the while, and fighting for the hedge-hogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting 'Off with his head!' or 'Off with her head!' about once in a minute. Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, 'and then', thought she, 'what would become of me?' They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here: the great wonder is, that there's any one left alive! ...

te rima	E tupu	ki roto	o te hau tea	ki te henua - te maro	rutua - te pahu
Rutu. 1. To read, to recite, to pronounce words solemnly; he-rutu i te kohau motu, to read the rongorongo tablets; hare rutu rogorogo mo hakama'a ki te ga poki ite kai, i te rogorogo, rongorongo school, house in which children were taught reading and writing the rongorongo signs. 2. To pelt with stones. 3. To gather in great numbers (of people). Vanaga. Sound. Rutu-rongorongo = the sound of recitation. Barthel. T. Beat. Henry. To recite; tae rutu, irreverence. Churchill. Pau.: rutu, a drum. Mgv.: rutu, to beat, to cause to resound. Ta.: rutu, a drum, to drum. Mq.: utu, to drum. Sa.: lutu, to shake a rattle. Churchill. Pahu. Drum. Pahu-rutu-roa = Long-beating-drum. Barthel. M. Pahū. Tree gong. Starzecka. Pahu uma, coffin; in modern usage, any sort of jar. Pahupahu = To dig a hole. Vanaga. A trough, barrel, cask, cradle, drum, chest, box; pahu nui, a kettle; pahu oka, a drawer; pahu papaku, coffin; pahu rikiriki, sheath; pahu viriviri, hogshead. Pahupahu, box. Churchill. A trough, barrel, cask, cradle, drum, chest, box; pahu nui, a kettle; pahu oka, a drawer; pahu papaku, coffin; pahu rikiriki, sheath; pahu viriviri, hogshead; pahupahu, box. P Mgv., Ta.: pahu, a drum. Mq.: pahu, a drum, a large cylindrical container. (To.: bahu, a hollow tree set in water as a filter.) Sa.: pusa, a box. To.: buha, id. Fu.: pusa, id. Niue: puha, id. Pau.: puha, id. Pahuahi, lantern, beacon. Paukumi, closet, cupboard. Pahupopo, a mould; pahupopokai, cupboard for food. Pahure: 1. To sweep everything away. 2. To wound, to lacerate, scar, bruise, lesion, sore; pahurehure, to wound, to scratch; hakapahure, to wound. T Pau.: pahure, to be skinned; pahore, to peel off, to scale. Mgv.: pahore, to cut off, to chop, to slice. Ta.: pahore, to flay, to skin. Churchill 2.

*Ca14-29 (32 + 360)	Cb1-1 (393)	Cb1-2	Cb1-3	Cb1-4 (396)	Cb1-5
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
April 16 (471 = 364 + 107) *ANA-NIA-10 (Pillar-to-fish by)* χ Ceti (26.1), POLARIS = α Ursae Minoris, BATEN KAITOS (Belly of the Fish) = ζ Ceti (26.6), METALLAH (Triagle) = α Trianguli (26.9)	17 (91 + 16) *Al Sharatain-1 / Ashvini-1 / Bond-16 (Dog) / Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku-1 (Front of the Head of Ku)* SEGIN = ε Cassiopeia, MESARTHIM = γ Arietis, ψ Phoenicis (27.2), SHERATAN (Pair of Signs) = β Arietis, φ Phoenicis (27.4) 351.0 = 27.4 - *41.4	18 ι Arietis (28.0), λ Arietis (28.2), υ Ceti (28.8)	19 ALRISHA (The Knot) = α Piscium, χ Phoenicis (29.2), ε Trianguli (29.4), ALAMAK (Caracal) = γ Andromedae (29.7) 353.0 = 29.4 - *41.4	20 *Arku-sha-rishu-ku-2 (Back of the Head of Ku)* 2h (30.4) κ Arietis (30.3), HAMAL (Sheep) = α Arietis (30.5) ~~ALKES (α Crateris)~~	21 (111) DELTOTUM = β Trianguli (31.2), ι Trianguli (31.7), η Arietis (31.9) 355.0 = 31 - *41
20 (471 - 27 = 444)	21 (80 = 107 - 27)	22	*23 (2 41)**	'March 24	Julian equinox
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
no star listed (209)	MUPHRID (Solitary Star) = η Bootis (210.1), ζ Centauri (210.3)	φ Centauri (211.0), υ¹ Centauri (211.1), υ² Centauri (211.8), τ Virginis (211.9)	AGENA (At the Knee) = β Centauri (212.1), θ Apodis (212.5), THUBAN (Dragon) = α Draconis (212.8)	14h (213.1) π Hydrae, χ Centauri (213.0), MENKENT (Shoulder of the Centaur) = θ Centauri (213.1)	*Neck-2 (Dragon)* ASELLUS TERTIUS (3rd Ass Colt) = κ Bootis, κ Virginis, 14 Bootis (214.8)

rutua te maeva

Maeva. T. 1. Move. Rangi-maeva = Moving Sky (name of a marae). 2. Greet, greeting. Henry.

Cb1-6 (398)

ξ¹ Ceti (32.1)

Al Ghafr-13 (The Cover) / Svāti-15 (Very Good) / TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE-6 (a pillar to stand by)

15 Bootis (215.2), ARCTURUS = α Bootis (215.4), ASELLUS SECUNDUS (2nd Ass Colt) = ι Bootis (215.5), SYRMA (Train of the Virgin's Robe) = ι Virginis, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8)

*174.0 = *215.4 - *41.4