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There seems to be cardinal points in the vicinity of both tagata at Gb5-6 and henua at Ga5-2:

side b side a
111 111
Gb5-6 (360) Gb8-30 (472) Gb8-30 (1) Ga5-2 (113)
224 = 8 * 28

5 * 6 = 30 and 5 * 2 = 10. Or, 56 = 2 * 28 = 4 * 14 and 52 = 2 * 26 = 4 * 13.

Let us try with another obvious cardinal marker, viz. manu kake in Ga4-21. It is glyph number 105 counted from Gb8-30, i.e. it should have a corresponding glyph in position 472 - 104 = 368 (indeed a number which probably marks a cardinal point):

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Ga4-20 (104) Ga4-21 Ga4-22
Gb5-6 (360) Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-10 (364)
Gb5-11 Gb5-12 (366)
Gb5-13 Gb5-14 (368) Gb5-15 Gb5-16

The 3 identical fishes have each a 'feather' sign inside, not visible on the outside, i.e. presumably they are meant to be not light but black.

But on the other side of the tablet, on side a (the front side of the tablet) the glyphs which are preceding manu kake (in Ga4-21) evidently are in a season bathing in sun light. Another manu kake stands at its beginning, in period number 1 after the 'ignition' by the 'fire generator' (haga in Ga2-26):

Ga2-21 Ga2-22 Ga2-23 Ga2-24 Ga2-25 Ga2-26
1
Ga2-27 Ga2-28 Ga2-29 (60)
Ga3-1 Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5

368 - 4 = 364 (vaha kai in Gb5-10) and if we add 4 to 105 it becomes 109:

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Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 (109) Ga4-26 Ga4-27

From which we can expect henua in Ga4-25 to also be important.