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2. If glyph number 266 represents autumn equinox (which I have argued for), then we can expect glyph number 177 to represent summer solstice:

North of the equator South of the equator
spring equinox 80 autumn equinox 266
summer solstice 172 winter solstice 358 = 266 +172 - 80
Sirius 80 + 103 = 183 Sirius 4 = 358 + (183 - 172) - 365
autumn equinox 266 (= 80 + 186) spring equinox 87 = 358 + (266 - 172) - 365
winter solstice 356 (= 80 + 276) summer solstice 177 = 87 + (356 - 266) = 6 * 29½

It is Ga7-7 in the last of the henua periods:

period 31
Ga7-5 Ga7-6 Ga7-7 (177) Ga7-8 Ga7-9 Ga7-10

7-7 could allude to 177, and 8 + 8 feather signs are probably referring to a central position in a cycle of a lunar kind. 177 = half 354 (= 12 * 29½).

3 glyphs remain to the last glyph in the last henua period, and the end of the henua calender therefore coincides with the end of the first half of a cycle of 360 days (cfr at The Arrow of Time):

2 173 4
Ga7-7 (177) Ga7-10 (180) Gb4-33 (354) Gb5-1 (355) Gb5-6 (360)
3 = 6 * ½ 180 = 6 * 30
177 = 6 * 29½ 6 = 12 * ½

Halfway to vaha kai and day 364 is another central glyph in form of ika hiku in Ga7-12 (cfr at Parehe):

181
Ga7-12 (182) Gb5-10 (364)
182
Ga7-11 Ga7-12 (182) Ga7-13 Ga7-14 Ga7-15 Ga7-16 (186)
Ga7-17 Ga7-18 Ga7-19 Ga7-20 Ga7-21 Ga7-22 (192)

And, looking backwards in time, another cycle with 364 days can be perceived, one half of which is beginning with vaha mea in Ga1-4 and ending with mago in Ga7-16:

178
Ga1-3 (4) Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga7-14 Ga7-15 Ga7-16 (186)
182 = 7 * 26

Moving a further 182 glyphs back in time we will arrive at glyph number 472 + 4 - 182 = 295, early in the takaure season (winter):

175 3
Gb3-1 Gb3-2 Gb3-3 Gb3-4 (295) Gb3-5 Gb3-6 Ga1-3 (4)
184 = 4 * 46

From takaure in Gb3-1 (the glyph line without any henua sign) we can count to 366 ending with mago in Ga7-16. Number 46 is apparently a sign which means the opposite of 26, and maybe we could say there are 185 days of winter beginning with Gb3-1 (a day of Mercury) and ending with the bent henua in Ga1-3 (a day of Saturn).