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I once estimated the first line on side a to have 30 glyph spaces, the same number as in the 3rd and 5th lines:

a1 30* 30 b1 17* 17
a2 24 54 b2 24* 41
a3 30* 84 b3 21* 62
a4 26* 110 b4 23* 85
a5 30* 140 b5 26* 111
a6 29* 169 b6 33 144
a7 31* 200 b7 29* 173
a8 26* 226 b8 21* 194
sum 226* b9 ca 30 ca 224
  sum ca 224

We do not need to look closer on line Ra5 for the moment, but the absence of glyphs at the very beginning of line Ra1 must be examined:

... ... ... ... ...
*Ra1-1 *Ra1-2 *Ra1-3 *Ra1-4 *Ra1-5 *Ra1-6 *Ra1-7 *Ra1-8
*Ra1-9 *Ra1-10 *Ra1-11 *Ra1-12 *Ra1-13
*Ra1-14 *Ra1-15 *Ra1-16
*Ra1-17 *Ra1-18 *Ra1-19 *Ra1-20 *Ra1-21 *Ra1-22 *Ra1-23
*Ra1-24 *Ra1-25 *Ra1-26 *Ra1-27 *Ra1-28 *Ra1-29 *Ra1-30

Possibly the absence of 5 glyphs at the beginning of side a means absence of 'fire'. If we subtract 30 - 5 = 25 the result means Saturn. *Ra1-25 is not the usual type of haga rave, it does not have the pointed front end, and it should therefore rather mean the 'harbour of autumn':

*Ra1-25

haga rave

Hakaariki ('to make a king') in *Ra1-16 could express a símilar idea - the 'Fire King' (Sun) must be recreated. In *Ra1-8 there are 5 maro 'feathers' hanging down and in *Ra1-15 mauga has 3 + 3 'feathers' emerging from behind 'the mountain' (mauga). Yet another week and the 'feathers' are no longer there. From *Ra1-17 a new season has arrived and the last 10 glyphs in the line is beginning with Mars depicted as hetuu. Sun time is once again running (*Ra1-26). In the following *Ra1-27 Moon has no force to stop him, that is why we hardly can see anything of this glyph. It must be a sign.