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5. In e.g. H a hakaturou glyph similarly marks the time when a.m. turns around to p.m.:

Ha6-1 Ha6-2 (277) Ha6-3 Ha6-4
Ha6-5 Ha6-6 (281) Ha6-7 Ha6-8

And from then on the number of feathers in front on tapamea will be 6.

Tagata in Ha6-2 is the first of 6 such glyphs, and - like in the G text - there is one tagata which is special. However, this one is standing out because of its slender tall neck - as if the H picture was the negative of the G picture (or rather the G picture was the negative of the H picture, I guess):

Ha6-2 (277) *Ha9-47 *Ha11-52
*Ha11-53 Hb5-27 Hb7-22
Number play evidently plays a role in their locations.

E.g. are there 52 weeks in a year, 52 * 7 = 364, and a year with 360 days has months with 5 * 6 = 30 days.

Ga4-1 (85) Gb5-6 (360) Gb5-27 (381)
4 30 364
300 = 385 - 85, etc.

4 + 30 + 364 = 398 and 300 + 29 + 70 = 399 (equal to the number of days in the synodic cycle of Jupiter).

Gb6-2 (385) Gb6-6 (389) Gb8-9 (451)
12 36 72
300 29 70

And in this glyph (Hb5-27) we can count 52 * 7 = 364, by the method used at Gb5-27. Here I have used red colour not to indicate a Sunday but to draw attention.

There is a burnt area on the H tablet which makes counting glyphs somewhat uncertain:

side a side b
a1 50 50 a burnt area could have contained the number of glyphs below 50 b1 *51 51
a2 58 108 108 b2 48 99
a3 52 160 160 b3 47 146
a4 56 216 216 b4 51 197
a5 59 275 275 b5 57 254
a6 64 339 *5 344 b6 54 308
a7 48 387 *3 395 b7 50 358
a8 46 433 *8 449 b8 *54 (?) 412
a9 40 473 *13 502 b9 65 477
a10 49 522 *18 569 b10 67 544
a11 36 558 *22 627 b11 53 597
a12 *21 (?) 579 *18 (?) 666 b12 *50 (?) 647
sum *666 (?) sum *647 (?)

But we can anyhow try to search for a number play similar to that in G:

Ha6-2 (277) *Ha9-47 *Ha11-52
12 *658 372 *572 330
*Ha11-53 Hb5-27 Hb7-22
*583 341 364 144

Numbers with asterisks (*658, *572, and *583) are my estimates based on how many glyphs could have been assigned by the creator of the text for the burnt area in lines a9 (*13) respectively a11 (*22). If we count with these numbers (i.e. including also the number of imagined glyphs on the burnt area), then the redmarked numbers above are the results.

If we do not count with the estimated number of glyphs in the burnt area, then the numbers without asterisks (372, 330, respectively 341) are instead what we have to consider:

Ha6-2 (277) *Ha9-47 *Ha11-52
12 372 330
*Ha11-53 Hb5-27 Hb7-22
341 364 144

12 (Ha6-2) is obvious - it ought to refer to noon (12 o'clock). At the other end, at Hb7-22, number 144 can be understood as the completion of a 'square' of 12. And by cause of 22 / 7 = π it can also be considered to be the completion of half a circle.

Ha6-2 and Hb7-22 could together define the beginning and end of a cycle related to number 12. A maro string with 3 feathers is hanging down from the dry old hand of a tagata mata 3 glyphs earlier than tagata at the end of the suggested cycle:

Hb7-19 Hb7-20 Hb7-21 Hb7-22
Hb7-23 Hb7-24 Hb7-25 Hb7-26

3 glyphs later ariga erua has only one head - the head at the back side is 'empty' (an empty hand). 72 * 5 = 360. In G a corresponding - but 'negative' - station could be at Rei in Ga7-22:

Ga7-18 Ga7-19 Ga7-20 (190) Ga7-21 Ga7-22

Ga7-19 has a new 'star' born at the bottom, I imagine, whereas in Hb7-19 an old and fully grown 'star' is 'dying'.