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If we use our own calendar as a frame of reference, we can say that on Easter Island winter solstice is located at 'December 21', by which is meant not December 21 but June 21.

From there to the beginning of the text of G there are 63 glyphs, which we - at least as a first approximation - can say represent 63 days (i.e., nights):

61
Gb6-26 (409) Gb6-27 (410) Gb8-30 (472) Ga1-1 (2)
0 1 63 64
'December 21' 'December 22' 'February 22' February 23'

31 - 21 = 10 days are beyond 'December 21', then comes 'January' with 31 days, and 'February' with 28.

10 + 31 + 28 = 69. Gb8-30 will therefore be day number 28 - (69 - 63) = 22 in 'February', the 22nd day in the 2nd month.

8 * 8 = 64, a square of 8, is the ordinal number of the first glyph on side a, if we count from the beginning of the new solar year.

The first day of the new year (Gb6-27) has at top right a tao sign which probably is to be read as a flame.

Next we should consider the position of Ga1-26:

24
Gb8-30 (472) Ga1-1 (2) Ga1-26 (27) Ga1-27 (28) Ga1-28 (29) Ga1-29 (30) Ga1-30 (31)
63 64 89 90 91 92 93
'February 22' February 23' 'March 20' 'March 21' 'March 22' 'March 23' 'March 24'

90 days into the new solar year we arrive at 'March 21', the time of spring equinox. The exact date is a little uncertain, it varies from year to year, which can explain why all three glyphs between number 89 and 93 are 'ghostly' in character (have unfinished border lines). At day 93 there is certainty, the 2nd quarter can begin. The first lunar month in the calendar is beginning with Gb8-30 and 63 + 28.5 = 91.5, which means that Ga1-29 signifies the beginning of the second lunar month.

Ga1-29 has a rima aueue sign at left, and in the summary page we can read about spring equinox:

 

The fundamental rima aueue sign (without any extra signs added) depicts a downwards moving flow, like an undulating river. But it seems to be a river of light, maybe the 'living water' of Tane. We can compare with the famous pyramid of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza, where at equinoxes a 'feathered serpent' (a stream of light triangles) undulates down the northern staircase.

In the text of G rima aueue signs show us where the 360-day solar year begins and ends:

side a side b
28 200 99 27 112 = 4 * 28
Ga1-29 Gb4-9 Gb4-10 Gb5-5
300 29

472 (the total number of glyphs in the G text - with Gb8-30 counted twice) is equal to 300 (the number of days with sun 'present') + 30 (Gb8-30--Ga1-29) + 30 (Gb4-10--Gb5-6) + 112. Rima aueue signs end the two 30-day months where sun has not yet arrived, respectively has left.

Basically, though, rima aueue belongs at the end, because in Ga1-29 the sign is reversed (drawn as a 'ghost' and with aueue arm at left). This reversal involves also its location - instead of being at the beginning of a month of 30 pre-solar days (as in a true mirror image) it is at the end of the pre-solar month ...

The text of G has spring equinox 1 month from its beginning. We should search for summer solstice 3 months beyond Ga1-29:

85
Ga1-30 (31) Ga5-6 (117) Ga5-7 (118) Ga5-8 (119) Ga5-9 (120) Ga5-10 (121) Ga5-11 (122)
93 179 180 181 182 183 184
'March 24' 'June 18' 'June 19' 'June 20' 'June 21' 'June 22' 'June 23'

31 days in March, 30 in April, 31 in May, and 30 in June, and we can add 31 + 30 + 31 + 30 = 2 * 61 = 122 in order to reach June 30.

If we let Ga1-30 be day number 1 beyond spring equinox, then Ga5-11 will be 184 - 92 = 92.

'March' has 31 - 23 = 8 days beyond spring equinox. 8 + 30 + 31 + 1 = 70 and the 70th day beyond spring equinox will be 'June 1'.

Rei at Ga5-6 is glyph number 87 beyond spring equinox, and day 88 beyond spring equinox will be day 180 beyond winter solstice. It is located at the beginning of the 4th lunar month in the calendar (counted from Gb8-30). 4 * 29.5 = 118.

Ga5-7 will therefore be 'June 19' (18 days beyond the 70th day beyond spring equinox).

At left in Ga5-10 is a solstice sign, a honu without legs. It means summer solstice is in the past, which is in agreement with 'June 21' immediately to the left.

The numbers should possibly be adjusted so that 'June 18' agrees with 118 and so on. That way viri at Ga5-11 will be 'June 22'. From midwinter to midsummer is a little shorter than from midsummer to midwinter, February has only 28 days.

midwinter to midsummer (north of the equator) 10 31 28 31 30 31 21
10 41 69 100 130 161 182
midsummer to midwinter (north of the equator) 9 31 31 30 31 30 21
9 40 71 101 132 162 183
difference -1 -1 2 1 2 1 1

Counting according to our own calendar from summer solstice to winter solstice will give 183 days, and if we let 'June 21' be the correct date according to our own calendar it will be December 21.

I think it more logical to name Ga5-10 as 'June 21' than 'June 22':

Ga5-6 (117) Ga5-7 (118) Ga5-8 (119) Ga5-9 (120) Ga5-10 (121) Ga5-11 (122)
179 180 181 182 183 184
'June 17' 'June 18' 'June 19' 'June 20' 'June 21' 'June 22'
December 17 December 18 December 19 December 20 December 21 December 22

'March 24' at Ga1-30, the first day after spring equinox, will consequently be changed into 'March 25' (because there is one more day in December than in June).