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3. To bring fire from the celestial domain to the people down on earth is an event which ought to correspond to the season when spring is beginning. Just before the henua calendar there are glyphs which I guess are related to 'creating fire':

Ga2-13 Ga2-14 (45) Ga2-15 Ga2-16
Ga2-17 Ga2-18 Ga2-19 (50) Ga2-20
Ga2-21 Ga2-22 Ga2-23
Ga2-24 (55) Ga2-25 Ga2-26

The central position among the last 3 glyphs avove is occupied by Saturn at Ga2-25 and the picture is clearly related to that of the following variant of hoea and also to the ua glyph type.

Although hoea means an instrument for tattooing (i.e. it should be connected with autumn rather than with spring), we can see that the front 'claw' in Sunday is uplifted to let in new light.

Hoe

Hoe 1. Paddle. Mgv.: hoe, ohe, id. Mq., Ta.: hoe, id. 2. To wheeze with fatigue (oeoe 2). Arero oeoe, to stammer, to stutter; Mgv. oe, to make a whistling sound in breathing; ohe, a cry from a person out of breath. Mq.: oe, to wheeze with fatigue. 3. Blade, knife; hoe hakaiu, clasp-knife, jack-knife; hoe hakanemu, clasp-knife; hoe pikopiko, pruning knife. 4. Ta.: oheohe, a plant. Ma.: kohekohe, id. Churchill.

T. Paddle. E hoe te heiva = 'and to paddle (was their) pleasure'. Henry.

Hoea, instrument for tattooing. Barthel.

Earlier I have summarized:

The hoea glyphs are of different kinds and the meaning varies according to what signs constitute the upper and lower parts, e.g.:

hua (at the top) indicates a new sun (son) will come
three 'fingers' (at the top) indicate sun is born
pau (at bottom right) indicates sun is finished

Hoea glyphs consequently show what the situation is as regards the light coming from the sky.

Maybe I went a bit too far in my interpretations of the adjuncts, but in general I believe the description still is useful.

Hoea pau (as we obviously can name the variant) is the last glyph in line b3, and Ga2-26 the last glyph in line a2 - given that we push the remaining 3 glyphs in the line forward to form the beginning next line:

262
Ga2-26 (57) Ga2-27 (*1) Gb3-30 (321) Gb4-1
264
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
side a x - x x x x x x
side b x x - x x x x x

Glyph line a2 has 29 glyphs, but the last 3 of them can presumably be assigned to the beginning of the first period of the henua calendar.

Number 29 alludes to the night when a new Moon light is created and the 29th glyph in the G text perhaps carries a sign for this, a variant of haga rave which is conspiciously fat in front:

Ga1-20 (21) Ga1-21 Ga1-22 Ga1-23
Ga1-24 (25) Ga1-25 Ga1-26
Ga1-27 (28) Ga1-28 Ga1-29 Ga1-30

If we count the glyphs in line a2 beginning with Ga1-27 (Mars), then Ga2-25 will be number 29.

Anyhow, the numbers agree with an interpretation of light arriving with Saturn in Ga2-25:

side a side b
55 169 5
Ga2-25 Ga2-26 Ga2-27 Ga2-28 (59) Ga2-29 Gb1-6
56 = 7 * 8 3 177 = 6 * 29.5
180 = 6 * 30