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The triplet of haś ke glyphs (Ca6-7--9) seems to be numbers 11-13 in a group consisting of 20 glyphs located immediately before the calendar for the month:

Ca5-32 Ca5-33 Ca5-34 Ca5-35 Ca6-1 Ca6-2 Ca6-3
Ca6-4 Ca6-5 Ca6-6 Ca6-7 Ca6-8 Ca6-9 Ca6-10
Ca6-11 Ca6-12 Ca6-13 Ca6-14 Ca6-15 Ca6-16

The redmarked henua+rima glyphs form a pattern of 3 + 1, and the pattern of 'feathers' on haś ke (7 + 7 + 6 = 20) is similar to how I have tried to divide the 20 glyphs above into 3 lines with 7, 7, respectively 6 glyphs. Other subdivisions are also possible, though.

We can take one more step and add ordinal numbers counted from Ca1-1:

Ca6-1 Ca6-2 Ca6-3 Ca6-4 (144) Ca6-5 Ca6-6
Ca6-7 Ca6-8 Ca6-9 Ca6-10 (150) Ca6-11 Ca6-12
Ca6-13 Ca6-14 Ca6-15 Ca6-16

Possibly hau tea in Ca6-4 (where 6 + 4 = 10 and 6 * 4 = 24) has to do with summer solstice. There are 3 + 3 'feathers' at the top, and the outer vertical lines are curved, which could mean 'spreading out' ('multiplying','growing'). Though it is rather strange that the height of the glyph is so low, when the sky is so high in summer.

The central 'person' in the following Ca6-5 has a threadlike vertical straight line above his head, presumably a 'line for measuring', and his mata in front is tilted. It could mean that beyond the maximum height of Sun his path is sloping downwards.

In Ca6-10 (the last of 3 identical glyphs) we can count 6 + 10 = 16 or 6 * 10 = 60, and 150 is half 300. In the following Ca6-11 there is a break between the left 'person' and the central niu. The 'chevron' at bottom left could have been put there to indicate a contrast with the top of niu, i.e. to convey a sense of overturning (huri). This was also, it seems, a thought with Metoro, who here said te niu kua huri.