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3. Playing with my planetary numbers the 'end of the year' planets, Saturn and Jupiter, became 'rulers' at the end of both line b8 and line a1:

Gb8-25 Gb8-26 Gb8-27 Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30 (472)
Saturn Sun Moon Mars Mercury Jupiter
Ga1-25 Ga1-26 Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29 Ga1-30

With 26 glyphs in line a8 and in line b1 Saturn will instead pair up with Sun:

Ga8-25 Ga8-26
Gb1-25 Gb1-26 (256)

The short and powerfully drawn raaraa in the center of Gb1-26 could indicate how the season of light here changes into a season of darkness, and evidently it begins with Gb2-1:

Gb2-1 Gb2-2 Gb2-3 Gb2-4
Gb2-5 Gb2-6 Gb2-7 Gb2-8
sum 120 a7-11--34 24 144
a7-1--10 10 120 b2 (6) 35 179
a6 (4) 29 110 b4 (7) 33 212
a4 (3) 27 81 b5 (8) 29 241
a3 (2) 24 54 b6 (9) 28 269
a2 (1) 29 30 b7 (10) 31 300
(0) 1 1 sum 300

16 * 16 = 256 as ordinal number (counted from Gb8-30) of Sun in Gb1-26 also indicates the end of the front side of the text.

In Gb2-1 the dark 'midnight temple' shows a new light emerging (Mercury), and we can compare with Ga1-23 (Jupiter):

Gb1-26 (256) Gb2-1
Ga1-17 Ga1-18 Ga1-19 Ga1-20
Ga1-21 Ga1-22 Ga1-23 Ga1-24

And then we can connect Gb2-1 with Ga1-23 which leads to 240 days:

215 23
Gb2-1 Ga1-23 (24)
216 = 8 * 27 24 = 8 * 3
8 * 30 = 240
230
Ga1-24 (25) Gb1-26 (256)
232 = 8 * 29

Clearly Ga1-23 is the last glyph in the season which begins with Gb2-1, i.e. the back side of the calendar. Although it is counted as 240 days, as if to show how the old system is at 'left' (transferred to the back side of the text).

But atariki in Ga1-24 should rather be counted as a day of Saturn (number 25):

Ga1-24 (25) Ga1-25 Ga1-26 Ga1-27
Ga1-28 Ga1-29 Ga1-30 (31)

This fits better with tao (the 'hot bun') in Ga1-25 (26) as Sun. And Moon will be the place of birth (Ga1-26), etc. I will therefore recolour accordingly:

259 208
Gb1-7 (237) Ga1-24 (25) Ga1-25 (26) Ga1-26 (27) Gb1-6 (236)
261 = 9 * 29 1 210 = 7 * 30
472 = 8 * 59
234 258
Gb8-30 (1) Gb1-6 Gb1-7 Ga1-23 (24)
236 = 8 * 29½ = 4 * 59 260 = 13 * 20 = 8 * 32½ = 4 * 65
496 = 16 * 31 = 8 * 62 = 4 * 124

It seems we have once again 'proven' Gb8-30 should be counted twice. Otherwise we could not have atariki as a day of Saturn and Sun at tao in Ga1-25. It also suggests, in a way, that Ga1-30 should be counted as the first glyph of the following line.

Ga1-24 (25) Ga1-25 Ga1-26
Ga1-27 Ga1-28 Ga1-29 (30)
Ga1-30 (31)

Tagata without any head and in a generally poor condition will be Old Father Sun.