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18.   The Chinese began their list of 28 (→ 364 / 13) stations with Spica (→ *137 days after the Eye of the Bull, Ain, *65).

... The author of the Book of Enoch in his treatise on astronomy and the calendar also reckoned a year to be 364 days, though he pronounced a curse on all who did not reckon a month to be 30 days long ...

If my suggested reading of the end of side a on the A tablet should be correct, we ought to find heliacal Spica a week before October 16:

 
Aa8-80 (1329) Aa8-81 (666) Aa8-82 Aa8-83 Aa8-84 Aa8-85 (1334)
ki to hatu huri ma to ua mata mae tae e ui hia mai kua oho te tagata ki te henua -
Oct 16 (260 + 29) 17 (290) 18 (472 - 181) 19 20 21 (294)
*209 *210 *211 THUBAN *213 *214
April 16 (314 * 1½) 17 (16 * 29½) (365 + 108 = 473) 19 ALKES 21 (111)

To. 1. Particle sometimes used with the article in ancient legends; i uto to te hau, the ribbon was in the float. 2. To rise (of the sun) during the morning hours up to the zenith: he-to te raá. Vanaga. 1. Of. T Pau., Ta.: to, of. Mgv.: to, genitive sign. Mq.: to, of, for. 2. This, which. Churchill. Mgv.: To, to make a canoe of planks. Mq.: to, to build a canoe. Sa.: to, to build. Churchill.

Huri. 1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga. 1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill. Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

Ab1-1 (671 → 461 + 210) Ab1-2 (2 * 336) Ab1-3 Ab1-4
Oct 22 (295, *215)

ARCTURUS (*215.4)

23 24 25 (*218, *584)

FOMALHAUT

13 Aug (225 408 - 183) 14 Aug (*146, *512) (*513 19 * 27 = 9 * 57) 16 Aug (*514)
CLOSE TO THE FULL MOON:
April 22 (112, *32) 23 24 25 (115, *35)
12 Febr (408 - 365 = 43) 13 Febr (*329) All the 'hearts' (*514 - *183 = *331)
Te hoea rutua te pahu - rutua te maeva - atua rerorero - atua ata tuu

I.e, heliacal Spica ought to be at glyph number 664 + 665 = 1329 (Aa8-80 → 640 = 2 * 320) - 7 = 1322 (Aa8-73):

Aa8-67 (1316) Aa8-68 Aa8-69 Aa8-70 (664 + 655 = 1319)
Oct 3 4 5 6 (*199)
Aa8-71 (1320) Aa8-72 (→ 9 * 73 = 657) Aa8-73 → 8 * 73 = 584 Aa8-74 (664 + 659 = 1323)
Oct 7 (280) 8 9 (282, *202) 10
Aa8-75 (1040 + 284) Aa8-76 (1325)
Oct 11 12 (285)
Aa8-77 Aa8-78 Aa8-79 (1328)
13 14 Oct 15 (260 + 28)

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