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The 'list' is not primarily a list over the planets, it is a list over the year. The planets were used to make a list over a sequence of 7 days which we call a 'week'. The planets were also used to make a list over the seasons of the year:

'spring' (possibly 4 * 15 + 10 * 15 = 210 days)
Eb7-3 (549) Eb7-4 Eb7-5 Eb7-6 Eb7-7 Eb7-8
Sun Moon Mars
birth of 'autumn'
Eb7-9 (555) Eb7-10
Mercury
'autumn' (possibly 8 * 15 =120 days)
Eb7-11 (557) Eb7-12 Eb7-13 Eb7-14
Jupiter Venus
birth of 'spring'
Eb7-15 (561) Eb7-16
Saturn

360 - 210 - 120 = 30 and we can guess Mercury and Saturn each has 15 days. However, in G there are 16 * 29.5 = 472 positions in the calendar. And its regular calendar ends with 14 * 29.5 = 413. Above I have listed 14 glyphs, but if we begin from Eb7-1 there are 16 glyphs to consider.

In G the last 2 'months' at the end of side b seem to function as an intermediary phase before the 'front side' arrives. Similarly the pair Eb7-1--2 seems to work as a prelude to the 14 glyphs above:

Eb7-1 Eb7-2

Eb7-1 is a Rogo glyph, a glyph type which we usually will find at the beginning of the year. But this Rogo has signs which indicates he marks the end (he is leaning slightly backwards with an open hand and with 'waves in his hair', and he has a completely drawn elbow ornament).

They form a pair these two glyphs, we can see from their 'waterfilled' common bottom form. Hipu are containers used for carrying liquids and in Gb2-27 the origin of vai is stated to be hipu, a statement which causally connects Eb7-2 with Sun in Eb7-4:

 
Gb2-27 Eb7-2 Eb7-4
hipu + vai hipu vai

'The living water of Tane' must be refilled before the year can begin for real.