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It seems clear that vaero glyphs indeed can be imagined as illustrating 'tails'. Manu kake in Ga4-21 stands at the beginning of the last part of the year:

62 98
Gb6-26 (409) Gb8-30 Gb8-30 Ga1-1
64 1 99
164
Ga4-17 Ga4-18 Ga4-19 Ga4-20 (104)
4
258
Ga4-21 Gb5-10 (364)
260

Counted by the moon (from tamaiti in Gb7-3) manu kake is located as day 100. If we add 64 to 104 it becomes 168:

64 + 4 * 26 = 168 10 * 26 = 260
8 * 8 + 14 * 26 = 64 + 364 = 428

Using the text of A we can then try to assemble a similar structure:

16
Ab8-11 (1261) Ab8-12 Ab8-29 Ab8-30 (1280)
64 + 1262 / 2 = 695 8 64 + 640 = 704
10
50
Ab8-31 Ab8-32 Ab8-83 Ab8-84
26 day 37
40
Aa1-1 Aa1-2 Aa1-43 Aa1-44 Aa1-45 Aa1-46 Aa1-47 Aa1-48
day 38 20 day 59 day 60 day 61
Aa1-49 Aa1-50 Aa1-51 Aa1-52 Aa1-53 Aa1-54
day 62 day 63 day 64

Day 64 has a vae glyph in p.m. and the preceding maitaki also agrees with the idea of a year ending. Vae is number -54 which could allude to the 54 last glyphs on side b. If so, then a further 20 glyphs (corresponding to Ab8-11--30) will coincide beautifully with the demise of sun according to the daylight calendar:

Aa1-32 Aa1-33 Aa1-34 Aa1-35 Aa1-36
ka puhi hoki ki te ahi ma te toga tu te tapamea e tagata hakaganagana e uhi tapamea

This correlation cannot be investigated further at the moment, but the parallel explains for instance the triangular form of hetuu in Aa1-32 - it indicates winter solstice I guess.

Day 65 has a nuku in a.m. and possibly we can count the length of its season as 100 days:

98
Aa1-55 Aa1-56 Aa1-57 Aa1-58 Ga4-17 (101) Ga4-18
day 65 99 day 165 day 166

Here I have used the glyphs of G at the end. In a separate page is illustrated what happens if we instead continue with A. Counted by the moon day number 166 at Ga4-18 will be day 161.