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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.

Ca3-21 → March 21 Ca3-22 (73) Ca3-23 Ca3-24 Ca3-25 → March 25
tagata tuu rima ki ruga te maitaki te henua Rei hata ia tagata rogo

The Julian equinox was at 3-25 and when the Pope Gregory XIII launched his new calendar it was explained that the effects of the precession since 325 AD had been corrected. 3 * 25 = 75 = 350 / 4:

... When Julius Caesar established his calendar in 45 BC [45 = 180 / 4] he set March 25 as the spring equinox. Since a Julian year (365.25 days) is slightly longer than an actual year the calendar drifted with respect to the equinox, such that the equinox was occurring on about 21 March in AD 300 and by AD 1500 it had reached 11 March. This drift induced Pope Gregory XIII to create a modern Gregorian calendar. The Pope wanted to restore the edicts concerning the date of Easter of the Council of Nicaea of AD 325.

So the shift in the date of the equinox that occurred between the 4th and the 16th centuries was annulled with the Gregorian calendar, but nothing was done for the first four centuries of the Julian calendar. The days of 29 February of the years AD 100, AD 200, AD 300, and the day created by the irregular application of leap years between the assassination of Caesar and the decree of Augustus re-arranging the calendar in AD 8, remained in effect. This moved the equinox four days earlier than in Caesar's time ...

kua tupu te rakau kua tupu - te kihikihi te hau tea

Kihikihi, lichen; also: grey, greenish grey, ashen. Vanaga. Kihikihi, lichen T, stone T. Churchill. The Hawaiian day was divided in three general parts, like that of the early Greeks and Latins, - morning, noon, and afternoon - Kakahi-aka, breaking the shadows, scil. of night; Awakea, for Ao-akea, the plain full day; and Auina-la, the decline of the day. The lapse of the night, however, was noted by five stations, if I may say so, and four intervals of time, viz.: (1.) Kihi, at 6 P.M., or about sunset; (2.) Pili, between sunset and midnight; (3) Kau, indicating midnight; (4.) Pilipuka, between midnight and surise, or about 3 A.M.; (5.) Kihipuka, corresponding to sunrise, or about 6 A.M. ... (Fornander)

Ca4-1 (7 * 11) Ca4-2 (6 * 13) Ca4-3 (79)
June 6 (314 / 2)

μ Aurigae, μ Leporis (77.6)

June 7 (81 + 77) 

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)
June 8 (159 = 3 * 53)

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

ARCTURUS (α Bootis)

 

Dec 6 (340 = 157 + 183)

NODUS I = ζ Draconis (260.0), π Herculis (260.7), RAS ALGETHI = α Herculis (260.8)

Dec 7 (264 + 77)

SARIN = δ Herculis (261.0), ο Ophiuchi (261.4)

*220.0 = *261.4 - *41.4

ALRISHA (α Piscium)

Dec 8 (342 = 3 * 114)

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

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:

75

Gb6-26

Ca3-25 (76)

March 21 (445) June 5 (156)

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 ...

14 Wall Algenib (γ Pegasi) Porcupine March 22 (81)

A

March 22

81

81 - 27 = '54

Febr 23

ALGENIB (γ Pegasi)

C

March 25

84

84 - 27 = '57

Febr 26 DZANEB (ω Piscium)

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.