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It is of considerable interest to compare the beginning of side a of Tahua with the corresponding parallel glyph sequences of H, P, and Q. In Tahua we can read the end of side b together with the beginning of side a at the same time as we will connect the end of the 15-glyph long sequence to its beginning:

back side
	Ab8-80	Ab8-81	Ab8-82	Ab8-83	Ab8-84 'tu-vi')
front side
	Aa1-1 ('tu-ao')	Aa1-2 ('ta-vi')	Aa1-3	Aa1-4

back side
	Aa1-11	Aa1-12	Aa1-13	Aa1-14	Aa1-15 ('tu-vi')
front side
	Aa1-1 ('tu-ao')	Aa1-2 ('ta-vi')	Aa1-3	Aa1-4

Ihe kuukuu ma te maro was what Metoro said at Aa1-11 (one more than 10). Old Sun is finished here, and his 'head' seems to be severed, possibly to be used as an 'egg' (cfr Ab8-80).

The 11th month-bird could be, I suggest (having disregarded the pair of 'lintel birds'), the 'down in the earth' kumara and the 12th the 'up-in-the-light' kiakia:

ascending		kukuru toua	white pigeon	makohe	frigate	descending
ka araara	sooty tern	2 adult manu tara months added to 4 juvenile ones = 6 months for ascending, together with 3 double months for descending add up to 12 months.				kena	booby
te verovero						tavake	redtailed tropic bird
kava eoeo						ruru	black petrel
pi riuriu						taiko
manu tara erua						kumara	white tern
						kiakia

The 7th bird on the list of Manuscript E, if we count from pi riuriu, is kena. Kena could correspond to a 'Sunday' because of its location high up and because of the preceding ka araara, which has been located to a 'Saturn-day'. I do not count with kukuru toua and makohe when looking for the path of Sun - during the flat horizontal part he does not move, he is in his 'harbour' (haga rave).

And tavake should also be coloured red because Tavake took over the role of Kuukuu the planter (which I assume corresponds to kukuru toua):

Aa1-3	Aa1-4
manu tara erua
Aa1-5	Aa1-6	Aa1-7	Aa1-8
pi riuriu	kava eoeo	te verovero	ka araara
Aa1-9	Aa1-10	Aa1-11	Aa1-12
kena	tavake	ruru	taiko
Aa1-13	Aa1-14
kumara	kiakia

Kukuru toua and makohe cannot be counted if we are to reach 12 months in a year. The frigate is black and I have therefore guessed the colour of the 'pigeon' to be white, the colour of the dead. Spring Sun is 'cut short' before his heat will be devastating. His colours returns to white. His 'cranium' must be put down into the earth and the colour will be black. In the afternoon sky turns red and the tail of tavake is red.

In we then turn to for instance H the 'birds' are not close to the end of the back side of the tablet:

Ha5-27 (3)	Ha5-28	Ha5-29	Ha5-30	Ha5-31	Ha5-32 (8)
manu tara
Ha5-33 (9)	Ha5-34	Ha5-35	Ha5-36 (12)
kena	tavake	ruru	taiko

The imagined bird list here ends with the 'owl' (ruru-taiko) instead of moving on into the territory of the white Moon (white tern). I have assigned the ordinal numbers counted from Ha5-25:

Ha5-19	Ha5-20	Ha5-21	Ha5-22
Ha5-23	Ha5-24 (240)	Ha5-25 (1)	Ha5-26

Marama in Ha5-26 (rima together with the last station number for the ruling Sun King) is a formed as the 'broken eggshell' in Aa1-1 (as the waning Moon crescent). It could therefore represent tuao and the preceding Ha5-25 will then be the Saturn tuvi. There is only 1  glyph (not 5) from the 'egg' to 'tuao', and it could be a shorter 'incubation time' for Moon. Unless matariki in Ha5-25 indicates a longer duration.

Beyond the 'owl' (Ha5-35--36) we will find the first glyphs of the nighttime cycle:

Excepting Ha5-37 these night glyphs have their counterparts in Tahua (though there allocated after the daytime calendar). Possibly we should regard Ha5-37 as a Moon glyph, one more than 5 * (20 + 16) = 180.

Tahua has here, instead of the beginning of the nighttime cycle, the first glyphs of the daytime calendar: