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The 3rd (toru) line on the front side ought to tell us about how the wheel of sun once again mysteriously emerges from the primary chaos:

398
Aa3-8 Aa3-9 (184) Aa3-10 Aa7-84 (584) Aa7-85 Aa8-1 (586)
92 400 / 2 = 200 days 293

Counting with 2 glyphs per day manu kake in Aa3-10 can be described as a.m. of day number 186 / 2 + 27 = 120 counted from manu rere in Ab8-31:

50
Ab8-29 Ab8-30 (1280) Ab8-31 Ab8-32 Ab8-83 Ab8-84
day 572 1 25 27
398
Aa3-8 Aa3-9 (184) Aa3-10 Aa7-84 Aa7-85 Aa8-1 (640)
92 + 27 = 119 400 / 2 = 200 days 293 + 27 = 320

Although manu kake here would seem to be an appropriate appellation (where we can imagine a new 'bird' ascending, kake), Metoro instead underlined that the bird has 2 faces - ko te manu ariga erua.

If a new 'year' is beginning not only in midwinter but also some 4 months later, then it would be reasonable to talk about the latter sun appearance as the 2nd 'face of the bird'. With 1 glyph per day manu ariga erua would be 240 days into the year, at a time when the 'face' of the sun disappears for a while, and in such a situation it would be more difficult to understand the words of Metoro.