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We have failed to locate those 4 'extracalendrical nights' beyond vaha kai and we have earlier also failed to locate them in line Gb1. But there is one obvious place for them:

Gb6-17 (400) Gb6-18 Gb6-19 Gb6-20
Gb6-21 Gb6-22 Gb6-23 Gb6-24

If we cosider vaha kai as a mark at the end of 28 periods with 13 days in each, then the meaning probably is connected with how in a month the light shining on Moon will disappear after 28 nights. Beyond vaha kai in Gb5-10 there will be days comparable to the 29th night in a month, it will be a time without light.

There are 31 kiore-henua-maro periods on side a of G, which suggests we should count on beyond 28 * 13 = 364. Saturn, the dark one, is located in the first of the nights without light:

362 37
Gb8-30 (1) Gb5-10 Gb5-11 (365) Gb6-20 (403)
28 * 13 = 364 3 * 13 = 39
31 * 13 = 403

The extraordinary Moon day glyph Gb6-20 obviously must be important, and we now can see the reason why it was designed to be eye-catching - it stands at the end of a measure for the 'year'.

The following glyphs (cfr at haś ke) could be dark nights for 'binding', for instance referring to the 4 quarters:

'nose' up 'nose' down
Gb6-21 Gb6-22 Gb6-23 Gb6-24
young old young old

Light (the 'feather' signs) is left, at the back. 21 in Gb6-21 is beyond the limit set at 20 by Moon. The structure beyond vaha kai will then be:

37
Gb5-11 (365) Gb6-20 (403) Gb6-21 Gb6-22 Gb6-23 Gb6-24
3 * 13 = 39 4 extra glyphs
76
Gb6-25 (408) Gb8-30 (472)
5 * 13 = 65

5 in 5 * 13 = 65 surely refers to the new light fetched from Saturn, who needs 'one more' night to add to his odd number 39. Also Gb6-25 should belong to him. 25 = 5 * 5 confirms this glyph as a glyph of Saturn.

In view of all this, it is doubtful if 8 * 13 = 104 days at the beginning of side a really can represent Waning Moon. A better choice would be to say that they correspond to waxing light. Time makes a 'jump' beyond 13 * 31 = 403 days, and during these dark nights - in the darkest of times before Sun will be seen moving again - the mystic regeneration of 'fire' in the sky takes place.

Rogo in Gb6-26 presumably marks the end of winter solstice, and 14 * 29.5 = 413 (probably corresponding to the kuhane station Tama) is where a new Moon cycle should begin:

Gb6-25 Gb6-26 (409) Gb6-27 Gb6-28
Gb7-1 Gb7-2 (413) Gb7-3 Gb7-4

472 - 412 = 60, and we can therefore add 60 + 104 = 164 to find a possible measure for the first stage of the new year:

14
Ga4-20 (104) Ga4-21 Ga4-22

Next stage measures 12 weeks (= 188 - 104 days), giving a total of 248 (alluding to 24 * 8 = 192) days:

Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17 Ga7-18 (188) Ga7-19
Ga7-20 Ga7-21 Ga7-22 (192)

Counted from the beginning of the front side the total number of days instead becomes 248 - 60 = 188 days. 18 and 8 instead of 24 and 8 are numbers which possibly combine the ideal cyclic number 8 with Sun (18 times 10 = 180) respectively with Moon (24 times 10 = 240). On the other hand, 192 + 60 = 252 = 7 * 36 = 14 * 18 is also a measure of the 'front side' counted from tamaiti:

57
Gb7-2 (413) Gb7-3 Gb8-30 (472)
60
102 83
Gb8-30 (1) Ga4-20 (104) Ga7-18 (188)
104 = 8 * 13 84 = 7 * 12
3
Ga7-22 (192)
4

472 - 252 - 4 = 216 = 6 * 36 = 12 * 18. Once again there are 4 who disturb the picture. This time we can identify them with Ga7-19--22:

Ga7-19 Ga7-20 Ga7-21 Ga7-22 (192)