"...his weary companions, thrusting their oars through the oar-holes again, beached the Argo by the riverside."

Quite possibly. But that makes his text just more valuable, because that is the way myths are created. A little speck is slowly built into a beautiful pearl as it is retold by generations of tellers of stories.

The 'oar-holes' are congruent with the 'axe-heads' in the nostos of Odysseus. We are at the point of viri. 50 argonauts, 25 on each side of Argo, are all - except Jason and Heracles - 'worn out', i.e. their times have passed. At the end Heracles 'stood up' longer than Jason and of course also his 'oar' then must 'break'. He was not immortal at that time.

25 = 5 squared, 36 = 6 squared. In the horizontal calendar of the year on the Gate of the Sun there were 5 months on each side of the 2 equinox months. If 'earth' is a square, then all the 'earthly' measures also should be squares.

'Arrows' and 'oars' (archers and rowers), are congruent, 'standing' for - among other things - toki te ragi (GD32). Now let us see what Homer wrote about the cyclops Polyphemus.