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Tahana in Aa5-31 is connected with tahana in Ab7-51 through another internal parallel (without parallels in H/P/Q):

Aa5-26 Aa5-27 Aa5-28 Aa5-29 Aa5-30 Aa5-31 (364)
Aa5-32 Aa5-33 Aa5-34 Aa5-35
Ab7-47 Ab7-48 Ab7-49 Ab7-50 Ab7-51
7 * 52 = 364
Ab7-52 (1218) Ab7-53 Ab7-54
Ab7-55 Ab7-56 Ab7-57 Ab7-58 Ab7-59

364 figures in both places. And the distances between the two tahana glyphs are apparently also meaningful:

306 546 117 363
Aa5-31 (364) Ab7-51 (1217)
854 = 14 * 61 480 = 20 * 24

If we instead count the ordinal numbers from te pito in Ab8-42 the distances remain intact, but the ordinal numbers will change from 364 to 406 = 14 * 29 respectively from 1217 to 1259, which number seems to say 12 times 59 (= 24 lunar months).

But 1217 is not a meaningless number, because it says that from Ab7-51 to the end of side b there are 118 = 4 * 29.5 glyphs. Counting to te pito instead, will result in 1292 - 1216 = 76 = 4 * 19 glyphs. Both these numbers (118 and 76) should be thought of at the same time - one is a 'square' of the moon (118) and the other a 'square' for the sun (76); 19 is a sign indicating that the sun measure 18 is in the past, i.e. it is similar in meaning to 29.5 which indicates that the moon light measure (28) is in the past. Ab7-51, therefore, stands at the beginning of the last part of the Tahua text, a dark time ready to give birth to next year.