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We have encountered pare in *Qa2-40 earlier (at nuku), where not 160 but 260 days was the measure:

... The double Rei in *Qa2-41 is likewise to be contrasted with the other such in *Qb5-7:

516
*Qa2-40 (63) *Qa2-41 (64) *Qb5-7 (581) *Qb5-8
96 = 64 / 2 + 32 258 355
260 days

In *Qa2-41 spring sun is referred to. There is only one 'tail' (at top right), in contrast to the 3 (fat ones) in *Qb5-7. Spring sun will not survive midsummer, only 'stumps' remain of the 2 bottom tails ...

582 / 2 = 291 is 'one more' than 10 * 29, and if we add 64 to 290 we will reach 12 * 29.5 = 354. It ought to mean that indeed we should divide the number of glyphs by 2 in order to find the day numbers:

*Qb5-1 *Qb5-2 (572) *Qb5-3 *Qb5-4
572 / 2 + 64 = 350 351
*Qb5-5 *Qb5-6 *Qb5-7 *Qb5-8
352 353
*Qb5-9 *Qb5-10 *Qb5-11
353½ 354

But neither 354 - 96 = 258 (= 6 * 43) nor 354 - 240 = 114 (= 6 * 19) are periods which are congruent with any multiple of 29.5 - which presumably means pare in *Qa2-40 is the last glyph of the front side of the year.

Toga in *Qb5-10 is glyph number 580 = 20 * 29, and 20 * 17 = 340 is the distance from day 240.