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Obviously 236 is the key number to notice, and we know it means 8 * 29.5:

side a side b
589 80 117 271 274
Aa8-5 (590) Ab2-36 (99) Ab5-66 (235)
590 40 332

99 at Ab2-36 at the same time alludes to (or even refers to) the 99 months necessary to cover the Venus cycle (8 * 365 = 99 * 29.4949 ... = 2920 days).

... The Maya and later the Central Mexicans divided the motion of Venus into four intervals. They assigned an 8-day period to the disappearance at inferior conjunction [when Venus is between sun and Earth], which is close to that observed today.

When Venus is between Earth and Sun the situation is similar to when Moon is between Earth and Sun. She is bathing in the revitalizing rays from the Sun. It takes 8 days for Venus. Maybe this is the subject matter of the glyphs from Ab2-29 to the end of the (supposed) day 99:

Ab2-29 Ab2-30 Ab2-31 Ab2-32 Ab2-33 Ab2-34
96 97 98
Ab2-35 Ab2-36 Ab2-37 Ab2-38 Ab2-39 Ab2-40
99 1 2

The wavy wings of manu kake remind us about the wavy wings of the pair of manu rere in G:

Ga8-25 Ga8-26 Gb1-1 (230) Gb1-2 Gb1-3
Gb1-4 (234) Gb1-5 Gb1-6 Gb1-7 Gb1-8
Gb1-9 Gb1-10 Gb1-11 Gb1-12 (242)

Maybe the low and broad manu kake (Ab2-37) is meant to refer to low clouds hiding the sun. Hahe in Ab2-36 apparently is located at the black station Te Pei. Myths tell about high flyings ending in abrupt crash landings, and best known is Icarus who flew too close to the sun and ended in the Icarian Sea.

Manu rere in Ab2-30 could mean the vital spirit of the 'crash lander' (spring) returning home to heaven on the first day of the 'back side'. We can compare with the opposite manu rere in Aa8-6 (presumably representing a.m. of day 409):

side b side a
111 552 590 79
Ab2-30 Aa8-6

The 80 last glyphs on side a should be added to the beginning of the 'front side' (side b). Manu rere in Ab2-30 will then get number 112 + 80 = 192, which number probably is expressing that 'spring' is 'finished' (cfr the estimated number of glyphs in K).

10 glyphs later comes Ab2-40 (presumably refers to day number 240), which evidently has its counterpart in Aa8-7:

78 121 542 591
Ab2-40 (200) Aa8-7

By adding 78 (from the end of side a) it will be numbered 122 + 78 = 200. The 'head' of ragi is 'well fed' after 200 days (in high summer).

99 is a number connected with Moon and with Venus, and it has here been counted by using 2 glyphs per day. 200 is counted with 1 glyph per day and it is connected with Sun and with Earth. The two 'sticks' in hahe (Ab2-36) probably refer to Moon and Venus rather than to Sun and Earth.