3 glyphs remain:
They seem to be interrelated; Ha10-9 and Hb12-12 due to the ragi sign, while Hb12-12 and Hb12-24 are only 4 days apart. Honui in Hb12-12 is at left and what looks like a haś without 'feathers' is at right. The 'fire' has gone out it could mean, and from Hb12-12 (where 12 * 12 is a square) there are only 40 glyphs to the end of side b. From Ha10-9 to ariki in Ha10-29 there half as many, 20 glyphs:
A hipu is at left in the preceding glyph Ha10-8 (at the end of day 170), much like hipu in Hb7-37 is at left of honui ariga erua (cfr previous page) at winter solstice:
249 days stretch from the first of the honui ragi to the second, possibly a sign that sun is not involved (because then it would have been natural with 250 days instead):
A tentative conclusion is that the hole in Ha10-9 indicates 'a new egg is waiting to be hatched'. Excepting the Janus type of honui such glyphs seem to be located in the intercalated extra days before the ordered season has begun. Therefore it is not strange to find honui in Hb12-24 where only 9 days remain of the text on side b. The distance between honui in Ha5-22 and Hb12-24 is 1030 glyphs, which presumably refers to 10 months with 30 in each, a measure for the sun. He is finished (at left) in Hb12-24 and his 'egg' has turned upside down:
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