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And then we have found variants of GD17 also in e.g.this sequence:
To have a figure presumably representing Rogo (Lono on Hawaii) at a place which could allude to the first day after day 366 (= 2 * 183) could have been natural for a creative Polynesian mind.
... The correspondence between the winter solstice and the kali'i rite of the Makahiki is arrived at as follows: ideally, the second ceremony of 'breaking the coconut', when the priests assemble at the temple to spot the rising of the Pleiades, coincides with the full moon (Hua tapu) of the twelfth lunar month (Welehu). In the latter eighteenth century, the Pleiades appear at sunset on 18 November. Ten days later (28 November), the Lono effigy sets off on its circuit, which lasts twenty-three days, thus bringing the god back for the climactic battle with the king on 21 December, the solstice (= Hawaiian 16 Makali'i). The correspondence is 'ideal' and only rarely achieved, since it depends on the coincidence of the full moon and the crepuscular rising of the Pleiades ... Given such a mind-set we can then continue the thread of reasoning with Aa4-13 (→ 413→ 14 * 29½ → 366 + 47 = 365 + 48 → February 17) and Aa4-14 (→ right ascension *41.4 → the star Bharani → day 80 + 41 = 121 → May 1 → Beltane). Cfr Ga3-13--14.
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