Once again. There was one vessel before and another after midnight (respectively before and after midwinter):
The Roman concept of extra days beyond Terminalia (February 23) before the Kalends of March suggests there was a gap between these canoes. ... The leap day was introduced as part of the Julian reform. The day following the Terminalia (February 23) was doubled, forming the 'bis sextum - literally 'double sixth', since February 24 was 'the sixth day before the Kalends of March' using Roman inclusive counting (March 1 was the 'first day'). Although exceptions exist, the first day of the bis sextum (February 24) was usually regarded as the intercalated or 'bissextile' day since the third century. February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages ...
Before the Julian reform this gap would then have covered not 6 but only 5 days. ... 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 ...
In the C text we can read there were 5 (or 6) extra days at the beginning of both side a and of side b:
... E:74 → (392 + 348) / 10 → 80 - 6 (ono) ... ... The loading of the double canoe of Hotu A Matua took 6 moega days ... Probably there were 6 (and not 5) extra days at the beginning of side a and of side b on the C tablet, because at the time of rongorongo Mira (*33 = *27 + *6) rose with the Sun at Cb1-7. And at Ca1-7 the corresponding right ascension day *7 was where M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy, the Queen of the Nebulae) rose heliacally.
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