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It seems clear that small circles probably were referring to specific stars.

From the beginning at the armpit of Orion and down to Naos in Argo Navis the vertical measure was 121.3 - 88.3 = 33.0° and the horizontal measure also 'happened to be' 33 days (168 + 33 = 201).

BET-EL-GEUZE

α Orionis

0.58

07° 24′ N

88.3

June 17

168 = 13 + 11 weeks

CANOPUS

α Carinae

-0.72

52° 40′ S

95.6

June 24

175 = 25 weeks

5 days

SIRIUS

α Canis Majoris

-1.46

16° 39′ S

101.2

June 30

181 (= 175 + 6)

DRUS

χ Carinae

3.46

52° 59′ S

119.9

July 18

199 (= 168 + 31)

NAOS

ζ Puppis

2.21

39° 52′ S

121.3

July 20

201 (= 175 + 26)

These numbers surely had taken on specific allusions. For 33 we have the astonishing (mira) star Mira making everyone surprised by its behaviour. My planetary colours makes Mira a Sun-day. With a year measuring 364 = 52 * 7, the days of the week should return to the same place each year, although this could not be the case if each months measured 33 days (11 * 33 = 363).

32 he tahe MIRA (*33) 34 he taha 35 he apuka

Tahe. 1. To run freely, to flow (tehe 4). P Pau.: tahe, a river. Mgv., Mq.,: tahe, to run, to flow, to melt, to liquify. Ta.: tahe, to run, to flow. 2. To smooth out wrinkles (tehe 2). Churchill.

Tehe. 1. To come, to arrive. Tehe oka te ikapotu, to abut. Tehe e turu, through and through. 2. To smooth out wrinkles (tahe 2). 3. To cut. Tehetehe, notch. P Pau.: tehega, circumcision; tehe, to castrate. Mgv.: tehe, to circumcise, to castrate, to cut well, to sting deeply. Mq.: tehe, to cut, to castrate, to circumcise. Ta.: tehe, to castrate. 4. To spurt, to spout, to melt (tahe 1). Hakatehe, to liquify. Tehetoto (tehe 4 - toto), hemorrhage. Churchill.

Taha. To lean; to go down (of the sun in the evening).  Taha-taha. 1. Side, edge; shore: taha-taha tai. 2. To move from side to side (of a boat), to swing. Vanaga. 1. To bend, sloping, to go hither and thither, to evade; ki taha, near; taha ke, to go in different directions; tahataha, frontier, horizon; hiriga tahataha, to cross, to go across; hakataha, to divert, to turn away, to go aside, to be on one side, to dodge, to shun, oblique, to incline the head, to turn over on another side, to avoid, to subject; mata hakataha, to consider; tae hakataha, immovable. 2. To tear. PS Mgv.: tahataha, to cut into pieces. Sa., To., Fu.: tafa, to cut, to gash. Viti: tava, id. Churchill. Moe tahae, to be a light sleeper. Tahatai (taha 1 - tai), littoral, coast, shore; tahatahatai, coast. Churchill.

... Although an old constellation, Cetus is by no means of special interest, except as possessing the south pole of the Milky Way and the Wonderful Star, the variable Mira; and from the fact that it is a condensation point of nebulae directly across the sphere from Virgo, also noted in this respect ...

... Mira also known as Omicron Ceti (ο Ceti, ο Cet), is a red giant star estimated 200-400 light years away in the constellation Cetus. Mira is a binary star, consisting of the red giant Mira A along with Mira B. Mira A is also an oscillating variable star and was the first non-supernova variable star discovered, with the possible exception of Algol. Apart from the unusual Eta Carinae, Mira is the brightest periodic variable in the sky that is not visible to the naked eye for part of its cycle ...

... In 1638 Johannes Holwarda determined a period of the star's reappearances, eleven months; he is often credited with the discovery of Mira's variability. Johannes Hevelius was observing it at the same time and named it 'Mira' (meaning 'wonderful' or 'astonishing,' in Latin) in 1662's Historiola Mirae Stellae, for it acted like no other known star. Ismail Bouillaud then estimated its period at 333 days, less than one day off the modern value of 332 days, and perfectly forgivable, as Mira is known to vary slightly in period, and may even be slowly changing over time ...

FEBR 17 (14 * 29½) 18 (414 = 365 + 49) 19 (50) 20 (*336 = 12 * 28)
Gb7-30 (440 = 229 + 211) Gb7-31 (63 weeks) Gb8-1 Gb8-2 (214)
ξ¹ Ceti (32.1) γ, δ Trianguli (33.0), χ Persei (33.2), 10 Trianguli (33.5), θ Arietis (33.3), MIRA (Astonishing) = ο Ceti (33.7) no star listed (34)

ξ Arietis (35.0), ρ Ceti (35.4), 12 Trianguli (35.8), ξ² Ceti (35.9)

*360.0 = *35.4 - *41.4
April 22 (477) 23 (*333 - *300) 24 (*399) 25 (115)
°April 18 (473) 19 (*29) 20 21 (111)
'March 26 (450) 27 (*53 weeks) 28 (*372) 29 (88 = 115 - 27)
"March 12 (436) 13 (*51 weeks) 3-14 (73) 15

Tara. 1. Thorn: tara miro. 2. Spur: tara moa. 3. Corner; te tara o te hare, corner of house; tara o te ahu, corner of ahu. Vanaga. (1. Dollar; moni tara, id.) 2. Thorn, spike, horn; taratara, prickly, rough, full of rocks. P Pau.: taratara, a ray, a beam; tare, a spine, a thorn. Mgv.: tara, spine, thorn, horn, crest, fishbone. Mq.: taá, spine, needle, thorn, sharp point, dart, harpoon; taa, the corner of a house, angle. Ta.: tara, spine, horn, spur, the corner of a house, angle. Sa.: tala, the round end of a house. Ma.: tara, the side wall of a house. 3. To announce, to proclaim, to promulgate, to call, to slander; tatara, to make a genealogy. P Pau.: fakatara, to enjoin. Mq.: taá, to cry, to call. 4. Mgv.: tara, a species of banana. Mq.: taa, a plant, a bird. Ma.: tara, a bird. 5. Ta.: tara, enchantment. Ma.: tara, an incantation. 6. Ta.: tara, to untie. Sa.: tala, id. Ha.: kala, id. Churchill.

Hao. Ta.: to encircle. To.: hao, id. Ma.: hao, to inclose, to draw around. Churchill.

The head of Cetus on this ancient vessel surely indicates he is surprised (Mira) - taken off guard.

CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
AUG 19 (231) 20 (*152) 21 22

Al Ghafr-13 (The Cover) / Svāti-15 (Very Good) / TAHUA-TAATA-METUA-TE-TUPU-MAVAE-6 (a pillar to stand by)

15 Bootis (215.2), ARCTURUS = α Bootis (215.4), ASELLUS SECUNDUS (2nd Ass Colt) = ι Bootis (215.5), SYRMA (Train of the Virgin's Robe) = ι Virginis, λ Bootis (215.6), η Apodis (215.8)

*174.0 = *215.4 - *41.4

ι Lupi, 18 Bootis (216.3), KHAMBALIA (Crooked-Clawed) = λ Virginis (216.4), υ Virginis (216.5), ψ Centauri (216.6), ε Apodis (216.8)

*175.0 = *216.4 - *41.4
ASELLUS PRIMUS (1st Ass Colt) = θ Bootis (217.8)

τ Lupi, δ Oct. (218.1), φ Virginis (218.7)

FOMALHAUT (α Piscis Austrini)
Oct 22 (295) 23 24 25 (*218 = *177 + *41)
°Oct 18 (291) 19 20 21 (*214 = *177 + *37)
'Sept 25 (268) 26 27 (270 = 3 * 90) 28 (*191 = *214 - *23)
"Sept 11 (254) 12 13 (16 * 16) 14 (*177 = *191 - *14)

When according to the timespace frame of Bharani (the epoch of birth) the Sun would reach the place of Mira the Full Moon would be at right ascension day *175 (= *350 / 2), viz. in "September 12 (255 = 355 - 100 = 220 + 35).

... Wikipedia has no information regarding the origin of the Phoenician lamedh, but the Egyptian 'cloth' hieroglyph (menchet) is - I suggest - related to the 4 upside down sky pillars. I.e. the basic element of the 'covering' hieroglyph could have indicated the arrival of darkness:

     

... When the man, Ulu, returned to his wife from his visit to the temple at Puueo, he said, 'I have heard the voice of the noble Mo'o, and he has told me that tonight, as soon as darkness draws over the sea and the fires of the volcano goddess, Pele, light the clouds over the crater of Mount Kilauea, the black cloth will cover my head. And when the breath has gone from my body and my spirit has departed to the realms of the dead, you are to bury my head carefully near our spring of running water. Plant my heart and entrails near the door of the house. My feet, legs, and arms, hide in the same manner. Then lie down upon the couch where the two of us have reposed so often, listen carefully throughout the night, and do not go forth before the sun has reddened the morning sky. If, in the silence of the night, you should hear noises as of falling leaves and flowers, and afterward as of heavy fruit dropping to the ground, you will know that my prayer has been granted: the life of our little boy will be saved.' And having said that, Ulu fell on his face and died ...

... The Fijian barkcloth that in the end captures the chief represents his capture of the land: upon installation, he is said to hold the 'barkcloth of the land' (masi ni vanua). The barkcloth thus has deeper significance. In general ritual usage, barkcloth serves as 'the path of the god'. Hanging from the rafters at the rear, sacred end of the ancient temple, it is the avenue by which the god descends to enter the priest ... There is still more to the barkcloth. The barkcloth which provides access for the god/chief and signifies his sovereignity is the preeminent feminine valuable (i yau) in Fiji. It is the highest product of woman's labor, and as such a principal good of ceremonial exchange (soolevu). The chief's accession is mediated by the object that saliently signifies women ...

Half menchet resembles the outline of Cancer.

And menchet sounds as the twin of merkhet.

... In the inscriptions of Dendera, published by Dümichen, the goddess Hathor is called 'lady of every joy'. For once, Dümichen adds: Literally ... 'the lady of every heart circuit'. This is not to say that the Egyptians had discovered the circulation of the blood. But the determinative sign for 'heart' often figures as the plumb bob at the end of a plumb line coming from a well-known astronomical or surveying device, the merkhet. Evidently, 'heart' is something very specific, as it were the 'center of gravity' ... See Aeg.Wb. 2, pp. 55f. for sign of the heart (ib) as expressing generally 'the middle, the center'. And this may lead in quite another direction. The Arabs preserved a name for Canopus - besides calling the star Kalb at-tai-man ('heart of the south') ... Suhail el-wezn, 'Canopus Ponderosus', the heavy-weighing Canopus, a name promptly declared meaningless by the experts, but which could well have belonged to an archaic system in which Canopus was the weight at the end of the plumb line, as befitted its important position as a heavy star at the South Pole of the 'waters below'. Here is a chain of inferences which might or might not be valid, but it is allowable to test it, and no inference at all would come from the 'lady of every joy'. The line seems to state that Hathor (= Hat Hor, 'House of Horus') 'rules' the revolution of a specific celestial body - whether or not Canopus is alluded to - or, if we can trust the translation 'every', the revolution of all celestial bodies. As concerns the identity of the ruling lady, the greater possibility speaks for Sirius, but Venus cannot be excluded; in Mexico, too, Venus is called 'heart of the earth'. The reader is invited to imagine for himself what many thousands of such pseudo-primitive or poetic interpretations must lead to: a disfigured interpretation of Egyptian intellectual life ...

From FEBRUARY 18 (49) to AUGUST 20 (*152) there were 366 / 2 = 183 right ascension days.

... Although an old constellation, Cetus is by no means of special interest, except as possessing the south pole of the Milky Way and the Wonderful Star, the variable Mira; and from the fact that it is a condensation point of nebulae directly across the sphere from Virgo, also noted in this respect ...

When in the Golden Age of the Bull the Sun had reached the equinox in SEPTEMBER 22 (*185) - corresponding to "October 15 (288) - then the Full Moon had been at *2, which presumably was visualized in Ga1-2:

In the C text we have another example (Ca4-1 → 41 Arietis = Bharani) of how small circles probably were intended to indicate stars, because the outline of the small circles in this glyph resembles the distribution of the main stars in Auriga:

kua tupu te rakau kua tupu - te kihikihi te hau tea
Ca4-1 (77) Ca4-2 Ca4-3
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)  ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)

λ Aurigae (79.0), λ Leporis (79.6), ρ Aurigae (79.7)

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)

June 6 (157 = 314 / 2) 7 (*78) 8 (4 * 29½ + 41)
'May 10 (*50 = *77 - * 27) 11 12 (132 = 118 + 14)
"April 26 (*36 = *77 - *41) 27 28 (118)
APRIL 3 (*13 = *77 - *64) 4 5 (95 = 118 - 23)
CLOSE TO THE SUN:
Dec 6 (340 = 157 + 183) 7 (*261 = *78 + *183) 8 (342 = 18 * 19)
NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8) SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

ξ Ophiuchi (262.2), θ Ophiuchi, ν Serpentis, ζ, ι Apodis (262.4), ι Arae (262.8), ρ Herculis (262.9)

*221.0 = *262.4 - *41.4

Number 414 (FEBRUARY 18) at heliacal Mira will thus allude to the heliacal position of the star of birth, viz. Bharani (*41.4).

And from Mira to the Mother Goat (Capella) at the foot of Orion (Rigel) there were 360 / 8 = 45 days.

... In view of the almost universal prevalence of the Pleiades year throughout the Polynesian area it is surprising to find that in the South Island and certain parts of the North Island of New Zealand and in the neighboring Chatham Islands, the year began with the new Moon after the yearly morning rising, not of the Pleiades, but of the star Rigel in Orion ...

75 40
Ca1-1 Ca4-1 Ca4-2 (78) Ca5-14 Ca5-15 (120) Ca5-16
koia kua tupu te rakau kua tupu - te kihikihi kua haga te mea ke manu puoko i tona ahi kua heu te huki
Sept 21 (264) Dec 6 (340) 7 Jan 17 18 (200 + 183) 19 (384)
March 22 (446) June 6 (157) 7 (523) July 18 19 (200) 20 (566)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:

Uttara Bhādrapadā-27 (2nd of the Blessed Feet) / Wall-14 (Porcupine)

ο Oct. (1.3), ALGENIB PEGASI = γ Pegasi (1.8)
75 μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)  ĸ Leporis (78.0), RIGEL (Foot) = β Orionis (78.1), Flaming Star = IC405 (78.2), CAPELLA = α Aurigae (78.4), ο Columbae, τ Orionis (78.8)

*37.0 = *78.4 - *41.4

THUBAN (α Draconis)

40 DRUS (Hard) = χ Carinae (119.9) ω Cancri (120.2)

8h (121.7)

χ Gemini (121.0), NAOS (Ship) = ζ Puppis (121.3)
'Febr 23 (419) 'May 10 (130) 11 (496) SOLSTICE 'June 22 (173) 23
"Febr 9 (405) "April 26 (116) 27 (482) "June 7 8 (159) 9
JAN 17 (382) APRIL 3 (93) 4 (459) MAY 15 (500) 16 (120 + 16) 17