The other alternative, to count from day 52, is also fruitful:
288 (= 864 / 3) - 52 = 236 = 8 * 29.5, a number we have learnt to read as Te Pei. However, there are twice 236 days in the text of G. The bird looking back is not the sun, rather the moon. Therefore Hb5-19 is not at Te Pei but perhaps at Hanga Takaure. If that is so, then manu rere at Ha3-48 should be at Te Pei, and he clearly is the sun (we can recognize from his beak). There are 3 maro feathers and 3 * 48 = 144 = 12 * 12. Given this, it is evident that tahana can stand both at summer solstice and at winter solstice. Furthermore, ordinal number 156 for Ha3-48 should be adjusted to 150 (= half 300, the days for the sun). We must accept that division by 3 to reach days in the calendar does not exclude counting the glyphs as such in allusions. The 6 glyphs needed for the adjustment are easily found, they are at the very beginning of the text:
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