The Serpent Holder (the Lord of the Lake) succeeded Hercules (the Stag).

... Gronw Pebyr, who figures as the lord of Penllyn - 'Lord of the Lake' - which was also the title of Tegid Voel, Cerridwen's husband, is really Llew's twin and tanist ...

Gronw reigns during the second half of the year, after Llew's sacrificial murder; and the weary stag whom he kills and flays outside Llew's castle stands for Llew himself (a 'stag of seven fights'). This constant shift in symbolic values makes the allegory difficult for the prose-minded reader to follow, but to the poet who remembers the fate of the pastoral Hercules the sense is clear: after despatching Llew with the dart hurled at him from Bryn Kyvergyr, Gronw flays him, cuts him to pieces and distributes the pieces among his merry-men. The clue is given in the phrase 'baiting his dogs'. Math had similarly made a stag of his rival Gilvaethwy, earlier in the story.

It seems likely that Llew's mediaeval successor, Red Robin Hood, was also once worshipped as a stag. His presence at the Abbot's Bromley Horn Dance would be difficult to account for otherwise, and 'stag's horn' moss is sometimes called 'Robin Hood's Hatband'. In May, the stag puts on his red summer coat. Llew visits the Castle of Arianrhod [Corona Borealis] in a coracle of weed and sedge. The coracle is the same old harvest basket in which nearly every antique Sun-god makes his New Year voyage; and the virgin princess, his mother, is always waiting to greet him on the bank ...

... In other words, the ancient Druidic religion based on the oak-cult will be swept away by Christianity and the door - the god Llyr [Llew] - will languish forgotten in the Castle of Arianrhod, the Corona Borealis. This helps us to understand the relationship at Rome of Janus and the White Goddess Cardea who is ... the Goddess of Hinges who came to Rome from Alba Longa. She was the hinge on which the year swung - the ancient Latin, not the Etruscan year - and her importance as such is recorded in the Latin adjective cardinalis - as we say in English 'of cardinal importance - which was also applied to the four main winds; for winds were considered as under the sole direction of the Great Goddess until Classical times ...

There were 4 main winds (matagi) and in the G text we can find a quartet of special glyphs resembling the triplet around Ras Alhague:

21 + 22 + 23 + 24 = 90
Gb6-21 (174)	Gb6-22 (404)	Gb6-23	Gb6-24 (229 + 6 * 29½)
12 + 14 (?) = 26		15 + 16 (?) = 31

6 Febr (365 + 37)	7	8 (404)	9 (40)
9 + 10 + 11 + 12 = 42
Cb10-9 (631)	Cb10-10 → 100	Cb10-11	Cb10-12 (242)
14 + 14 + 11 = 39			7 + 5 = 12

26 + 31 + 39 + 12 = 108 (?)

In my efforts to understand the structure of the G tablet I had tentatively concluded that the right ascension days at the time of rongorongo probably were beginning at Rogo in Gb6-26 (408) when the Sun reached the Navel (the birthplace) of the (Sun) Horse (viz. Sirrah) together with the Hand (Caph) of her mother in Cassiopeia - at the time when the Full Moon was at the Tail (the end) of the Horse and the Beak (the beginning) of Black Raven:

Gb6-25	Gb6-26 (408)	Gb6-27 (229 + 180)	6 * 28 = 2 * 84 →  2 * 314
*365	Al Fargh al Thāni-25 CAPH = β Cassiopeiae, SIRRAH = α Andromedae (0.5), ε Phoenicis, γ³ Oct. (0.8)	*1	*2
March 20		22	23 (82)
12h (182.6)	ALCHITA = α Corvi, MA WEI (Tail of the Horse) = δ Centauri (183.1), MINKAR = ε Corvi (183.7), ρ Centauri (183.9)	*184	*185
Sept 19 (*182)		21 (264)	Equinox

But counting forward and ahead past the end of side b, and then all the way to glyph 400 (Gb6-18) implied there could not be a continuity from Sirius rising heliacally in June 30 at Gb6-20 (with the Full Moon at the South Dipper) to 0h at heliacal Sirrah 7 glyphs later. The glyph circuit was 365< 471 < 2* 365:

63	zero	229	169					6
				Gb6-17 (229 + 170)	Gb6-18 → 108	Gb6-19	Gb6-20 (402)
				no star listed (98)	ν Puppis (99.2), ψ3 Aurigae (99.4), ψ2 Aurigae (99.5)  GEMMA (α Cor. Bor.)	ψ4 Aurigae (100.5), MEBSUTA (Outstretched)  = ε Gemini (100.7)	SIRIUS = α Canis Majoris (101.2), ψ5 Aurigae (101.4), ν Gemini (101.6), ψ6 Aurigae (101.7)
				June 27	28	29 (180)	30 (*107 - *6)
				Abhijit-22 (Victorious) θ Cor. Austr. (281.0), VEGA = α Lyrae (281.8)	no star listed (282)	ζ Pavonis (283.4), λ Cor. Austr. (283.6), DOUBLE DOUBLE = ε Lyrae (283.7), ζ Lyrae (283.8)	South Dipper-8 (Unicorn) Φ SAGITTARII (284.0), μ Cor. Austr. (284.6), η Cor. Austr., θ Pavonis (284.8)
64		398		Dec 27 (361)	28	29	30 (*290 - *6)
462 = 542 - 80				463	542 - 70 - 8	465	466 = 64 + 402
472 (= 1½ * 314 + 1) = 8 * 59 (= 413 + 2 * 29½) = 408 + 64
... Easter Island (te pito o te kainga) is the last of all known islands. Seven lands lie before it, but these do not recommend themselves for settlement. Easter Island is the 'eighth land' (te varu kainga). Actually, we are dealing here with a figure of speech because 'seven' and 'eight' used as qualifying quantities play a traditional role in Oceania (Barthel 1962a). While the number seven is known as a topos in MQS., HAW., and MAO., the topos of the number eight goes far beyond eastern Polynesia (MQS., HAW., TAH.). In TON., the number eight is 'a conventional term signifying many or a well-balanced number' (McKern 1929:17), and on Malaita in the southern Solomon Islands, the physical world in its entirety is referred to as 'eight islands (wālu malau) (Ivens 1927:400). The number eight not only means 'many' but also denotes perfection. Thus, when Easter Island was called 'an eighth land', the expression contained first of all the idea of a 'last' island - an island farthest away from the rest of the islands that make up the oceanic world. At the same time, the expression indicated a special position among the other islands. The idea of groups of seven, which are surpassed by an eight element, seems to belong to the cosmology of Asian high cultures. For example, there are seven planets circling the world axis, which represents the eighth, and therefore central, position ...

Here was a right ascension jump ahead measuring *366 (Sirrah) - *101 (Sirius) = *265 days, while the corresponding text carried only 408 - 402 = 6 glyphs. Or we could perhaps count the interval in days from Gb6-17 when the Full Moon was at Vega (the ancient star at the north pole) to 12h at Gb6-25 = 8 glyphs.

Notably number 542 (the distance from the Mayan first 3-stone place to the day when Hun-Nal-Ye became the sky) could have been thought of also as 78 (19 March) + 464.

Itzam-Yeh defeated	28 May (148), 3149 BC
First 3-stone place	21 May (141), 3114 BC
Creation of our present world	13 Aug (225), 3114 BC
Hun-Nal-Ye became the sky	5 Febr (36), 3112 BC
(3149 - 3112) / 71 = 0.52 < (26.6 - 26)
21 May, 3114 BC - 13 August, 3114 BC = 225 - 141 = 84 (= 12 * 7) 21 May, 3114 BC - 5 February, 3112 BC = 542, which 'happens to be' the sum of 365 days and 6 * 29½ nights.
148 (May 28) - *70 = 78 (19 March)

	365			174
Ca4-12 (88)		Cb3-13 (454)	Cb3-14 (63)		Cb10-8 (630)
BETELGEUZE		BETELGEUZE	tagata - hanau hia		kua pu
21 May (141)		177 = 3 * 59
	542 = 365 + 177 = 464 + 78
	(= 300 + 242 = 8 * 59 - 70 = 401 + 141 = 260 + 2 * 141)

Possibly we could therefore identify Hun-Nal-Ye with Sirius, which was at the Full Moon in December 30 when the Sun was at the Mad Hatter's t-party - when it was time to move one place ahead:

... 'I wan't a clean cup', interrupted the Hatter: 'let's all move one place on.' He moved as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare moved into the Dormouse's place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only one who got any advantage from the change; and Alice was a good deal worse off than before, as the March Hare had just upsed the milk-jug into his plate [creating the Milky Way river] ...