April 1 (4-1, 91) was day 11 counted from 0h and in a sense Ca4-1 (77 = 66 + 11) could therefore allude to a similar position. This idea gains support by the preceding glyph which was designed to be number 25 (and last) in the 3rd line. Because the Julian equinox was day 25 in the 3rd month counted from January.
Thus the figure of Rogo in Ca3-25 ought to be alluding to March 25 (84 = 12 weeks). But in the G text Rogo had been placed at March 21:
June 5 (156) was 80 days after day 76 and 1 day before day 314 / 2 (= 157) → the picture of Auriga in Ca4-1. Similarly, day 365 + 80 = 445 was 80 days after day 365 and 1 day before day 366. On Hawaii the enigmatic Lono (Rogo) figure was dispatched of by the King at the proper time: ... 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 ... The effigy god should be defeated at the final of the previous year. This agrees with Gb6-26 because a new year was beginning with March 22 (we have learned): ... Thus, presumably the drums were sounding at the northern spring equinox - viz. according to the A text in what could be deduced as day 1 after 0h in Roman times ('March 22) and according to the C text 3 days later = the Julian equinox ...
Rogo at Gb6-26 was located at the 'Navel of the Horse' (Sirrah, α Andromedae) when the Beak of the Raven (Alchita, α Corvi) was at the Full Moon.
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