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We try again with the table of comparison:

E G season
7 1 summer begins
18 17 autumn begins
19 19 vero
23 32 ?

24 periods in E covers 12 months, but 32 periods in G seem to cover only 9 months, 16 periods of which define summer. Reasonably, then, the remaining 16 glyphs should cover winter. Beyond period no. 19 in G we have not yet assembled sufficent data to conclude whether the G calendar ends at winter solstice or at spring equinox. Clearly, however, the summer half of the year (or to be more exact: from spring to autumn equinox) is secure ground. Halfway into the summer we find evidence of a changeover:

8 9
Ga4-5 Ga4-6 Ga4-7 Ga4-8
Ka5-2 Ka5-3 Ka5-4 Ka5-5

GD21 (hua poporo) in Ga4-7 (respectively in the parallel Ka5-4) announces how darknes at that point (summer solstice) overpowers light - light will start to retire. In Ga4-6 we notice the dent as if from a blow at the top of henua (GD37), a sign of the outcome of the battle.