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10. We should rather accept at face value day number 379 at vaha kai in *Ha7-35. Maybe 73 * 5 = 365 is enough of a sign.

Vaha kai comes 16 days beyond day number 363:

Ha7-9 Ha7-10 (354) Ha7-11 Ha7-12
...
Ha7-13 Ha7-14 Ha7-15 *Ha7-16 (360)
... ...
*Ha7-17 *Ha7-18 *Ha7-19 (363)
*Ha7-20 (364) *Ha7-21 *Ha7-22 *Ha7-23 *Ha7-24 *Ha7-25

Here the burned area 'covers' 3 glyphs completely (like a black cloth), and it has apparently been strategically located to begin with day number 360.

The lunar synodic month is used in the text, because glyph number 354 (= 12 * 29.5) is designed as a great henua of the 'midnight' type. And - not surprisingly - a tamaiti (Ha7-13) follows soon thereafter.

Manu kake (partly invisible) at ordinal number 364 surely indicates the beginning of a new 'year', so much we know about the meaning of this type of glyph. If we should count with 2 glyphs per night in the text of H it could be from this manu kake, and it would then be 8 nights to vaha kai in *Ha7-35:

14
*Ha7-20 (364) *Ha7-35 *Ha7-36 (380)
7 364 + (380 - 364) / 2 = 372
*Ha7-37 *Ha7-38 *Ha7-39 *Ha7-40 (384)
373 374

Not convincing. Anyhow, counting with a single glyph per day, 384 is not without meaning, because it is twice 192 (the number of glyphs, according to my reconstruction, on the K tablet) and also the closest natural number to 13 * 29.5 = 383.5.