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Let us try also with *Qb5-16 and the parallel Hb2-34:

*Qb5-15 *Qb5-16 (590) *Qb5-17 *Qb5-18
359 = 64 + 295 360 = 64 + 592 / 2
Hb2-33 Hb2-34 (734) Hb2-35 Hb2-36
734 / 2 = 367 368

Glyph number 590 (= 20 * 29.5) at *Qb5-16 motivates hua poporo, I think. We need not consider the following Rogo glyph in day 360, because he is at the beginning of the new year. The old year ends after 20 / 2 = 10 lunar months, and 'one more' day will be in the new year. Once again the addition with 64 days does not change anything drastically. 20 months with 18 days in each will reach 360, and hetuu in *Qb5-18 may tell us so - 5 ('fire') should here be counted with 18 (days per month).

In H the numbers 2-33 etc seem to indicate that half the cycle of 472 is coming close to its end. This happens in the hua poporo season of high summer. For glyph numbers I have here used 648 + the ordinal number counted from Hb1-1, because it seems to give the best results (e.g. with the 13 lines from Ha1 up to and including Hb1 adding up to 700 glyphs). In other words, we should count imagined glyphs in the burnt area (on side a), but not those 18 at the end of line Ha12.

Day number 368 at hetuu (Hb2-36) maybe means we should divide by 2 once more, in which case the day number would be 368 / 2 = 184. To find out, we have to continue with also *Qb7-18 and its parallel Hb4-28:

*Qb7-16 *Qb7-17 *Qb7-18 (671) *Qb7-19
399 = 64 + 370 / 2 400
Hb4-26 Hb4-27 Hb4-28 (823) Hb4-29
411 824 / 2 = 412

But it is hard to tell, because both 412 (just before the 'zero' day 14 * 29.5 = 413) and 412 / 2 = 206 (close to the last Sun day 208) are possible. Tagata in Hb4-26 stands en face which probably indicates 'solstice', not to a Moon cycle, and ordinal number 26 is associated with Sun. He is holding a hakaturou in front, and it could be the next Sun. Day number 411 seems to be OK. Presumably we should not divide once again by 2. The vanishing top end of hoea (Hb7-27) could correspond to the vanishing moa beak in Gb7-1:

Gb6-26 Gb6-27 Gb6-28 Gb7-1 (412) Gb7-2 Gb7-3 Gb7-4

Winter solstice ends with Rogo in Gb6-26, in day number 409, and if we count with day number 359 = 64 + 295 as the end of the old year, there is a difference = 409 - 359 = 50 days for the 'standstill' season in winter. 88 for hua poporo in high summer and 50 for winter solstice adds up to 138, a number we have found - without having understood it - at Ha5-20:

 

additional days from the end of side b: - + 59 + 64 + 106 + 108
40 99 104 146 148
79 138 143 185 187
178 237 242 284 286
Ha5-19 Ha5-20 (236) Ha5-21
237 / 3 + 59 = 138

We seem to have once again arrived at the conclusion that glyphs should be divided by 2 also in H - but not always.