The ragi figure in Hb5-53 is not moving, instead it is like a rooted great tree standing still:
In the G text we should search for the corresponding place around 88 glyphs beyond Ga3-20:
And since 79 (→ the day after Rigel) + 88 = 167, the place could be at the extraordinary Ga6-27 (167):
However, we have seen in my G table above that *64 is not equal to *39 + Ga1-16 + *25 = *65. ... Another name for Mercury was Hermes and Hermes Trismegisthos (thrice-mighty) could have referred to the fact that there were 3.141 * 115.88 = 364.0 days for the cycle of the Earth around the Sun. Although the calendar has 365 days for a year this is due to the fact that the Earth has to turn around an extra day in order to compensate for how the direction to the Sun changes during a year ... And we have also seen that my data for Hb3-16 appear to be ambivalent:. ... But Hb3-16 (116) is not around *45 right ascension days earlier than Hb3-41 (141). Instead there seems to have been a shift, a locomotion, in the astronomical perspective ultimately due to the precession ... My derived date "April 29 (118 + 1) suggests influence from the Moon, because 118 = 4 * 29½ = 354 / 3. Counting according to the Sun calendar we need 118 + 3 in order to reach day 121 (= 11 * 11) ... In which case the distance to "May 24 (144) would then not be *25 days but *23 days (= *64 - *41) ... Furthermore, the glyph in the G text which should correspond to Hb5-53 should not be 88 right ascension days after *79 but *88 glyphs after Ga3-4 (at the Nose of Ursa Major). MAY 23 (→ *64 - *41) + *88 = *151 (AUGUST 19, 231) at Arcturus (*215.4).
A pair of quick arithmetic operations secures my suggested reading, because 254 ("Sept 11) + 41 (→ Bharani) = 295 (→ 10 synodic lunar months) = 80 + 215.
48 + 88 = 136 → May 16 when the Sun would be at Alcyone in the Pleiades. And the culmination (at 21h) of Arcturus coincided with the day between Rigel and Elnath:
And in the C text, at the beginning of side b, Metoro had a unusually long explanation for Bishop Jaussen on Haiti, among other things about a moving sky:
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