Should we not take the opportunity to search for parallels in the B text? At the beginning of line Ba8 we will recognize an unusual type of design which possibly might indicate for instance day number 296 (= 360 - 64), i.e. "October 23 (a week before king Hotu A Matua began to worry about his ancestor king Oto Uta).

Kua oho ki te nuku honu	mai tae huri ïa	ki te motomotou honu

*Ba8-1 (10 29½)**	Ba8-2 (296)	Ba8-3

*JULY 2 (103)**	83	SEPT 24 (267)

Ga4-20 (103)		Ga7-18 (187)
Sept 4 (247)		Nov 27 (331 = 296 + 35)
11h (167.4) χ Leonis, χ¹ Hydrae (167.1), χ² Hydrae (167.3) 167.4 - 41.4 = *126.0		HAN = ζ Ophiuchi (251.0) 126 + 84 = *210

Or we could connect Ga7-18 with ζ Ophiuchi at *251 = *210 + *41, and from there guess Ba8-2 could have been meant to indicate day 296 - 41 = 255 ("September 12). But the possibilities are numerous. However, a quick look in my glyph catalogue reveals the fused triplet occurs only seldom:


Aa8-80	Ba8-2

	83		270
Ga4-20		Ga7-18		Gb8-17
355 (= 471 - 116)

Unfortunately Barthel has refused to give us (at least in his The Eighth Land) any opportunity to pinpoint precisely which glyphs were referred to in Manuscript E.

103 (the glyph number for Ga4-20) - corresponding to 11h at the time of rongorongo - can be explained for instance as 104 (= 4 * 26) counted from the empty glyph space at the beginning of side a.

The number of glyphs on the B tablet is 421 + 506 = 927 (→ 92 weeks = 644 nights = 280 + 364 days).

421	104	525
506	104	610
927	208	*5 227**

The day of solstice (June 21, 172) was 92 days after March 21 (80), and 92 * 7 = 644 = 161 * 4.

... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th [161] and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...