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The next half of the solar cycle begins with Ha5-19 (probably impersonating the midsummer sun):

Ha5-19 Ha5-20 (236) Ha5-21 Ha5-22 (238) Ha5-23 Ha5-24 (240)
78⅓ 78⅔ 79 79⅓ 79⅔ 80

Moa at Ha5-21 announces the arrival of a new 'day'. 3 'feathers' is at left (in the past). The hole in Ha5-22 looks like an egg, and from such a beautiful beginning we expect a new half year to grow. In Ha5-24 a similar shape is balancing at the top, lifted up, it seems.

A quick look at the corresponding glyphs in G reveals a similarity in the two standing 'persons' in 235-236, but then the descriptions are different:

Gb1-5 Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7 Gb1-8 Gb1-9 Gb1-10 (240)

Honui (Ha5-22) stands at the beginning of day 182 counted beyond Hb7-32. The 2 days described in Ha5-19--24 probably are intercalated - to fill up from 180 to 182. But they belong to the 2nd cycle of the sun, the order is not 180 + 2 but 2 + 180. Therefore, we can read 2 similarly intercalated days at the beginning of the 1st cycle of the sun:

Hb7-29 Hb7-30 Hb7-31 Hb7-32 (988) Hb7-33 Hb7-34
328⅓ 328⅔ 329 329⅓ 329⅔ 330
1 2

By counting with 2 + 180 days from Hb7-29 we can see that day 183 (Ha5-19--21) is a very special day: 365.25 / 2 = 182.625. At its beginning spring sun has reached his apex, and 0.625 * 3 = 1.875, which means that he must 'be finished' at Ha5-20 (where 5 * 20 = 100 and where also 236 = 8 * 29.5).

Another effect of counting with 2 + 180 days from Hb7-29 is that the number of days to the end of side b will be 104 = 4 * 26, in harmony with 78 = 3 * 26. 364 = 14 * 26 and 182 = 7 * 26. Or we could say: 104 = 8 * 13 and 78 = 6 * 13; 364 = 13 * 28 and 182 = 13 * 14.

7 * 32 (in Hb7-32) + 5 * 18 (in Ha5-18) = 224 + 90 = 314 is presumably alluding to π, i.e. half the total of 360 days are measured out from Hb7-32 to Ha5-18.