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4. The corner at midsummer is easily understood, it is the point where Sun turns around from rising to descending. We have tentatively located it at tamaiti immediately beyond the end of the henua calendar:

Ga7-8 Ga7-9 Ga7-10
Ga7-11 (181) Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14
North of the equator South of the equator
spring equinox 80 (89) autumn equinox 266
summer solstice 172 (181) winter solstice 358 = 266 +172 - 80
autumn equinox 266 (275) spring equinox 87 = 358 + (266 - 172) - 365
winter solstice 356 (365) summer solstice 177 = 87 + (356 - 266) = 6 * 29½

Though 177 is the number of days from winter solstice to summer solstice south of the equater which maybe is expressed by glyph number 177:

Ga7-5 Ga7-6 (*240) Ga7-7 (177)

Counted from Rogo in Gb6-26 day number 240 is ariki in the preceding glyph. I have suggested - via the star distances - that Gb6-26 represents Sirrah and day number 1:

present autumn equinox present winter solstice present spring equinox
Sirrah 1 - Sirius 102 13 Spica (3) 204 24
Polaris (10) 28 27 Procyon (7) 116 14 Arcturus (6) 216 12
Alcyone 57 29 Alphard (5) 143 27 Toliman 222 6
Aldebaran (2) 69 12 Dubhe (4) 168 25 Antares (1) 250 28
Rigel 79 10 Phaed (9) 180 12
Alnilam 85 6
Betelgeuze (8) 89 4

Sirrah is at the border between 'water' and 'land' and the star pillars are standing 'on land'. In the sky roof 'land' is beginning with the square of Pegasus (diametrically opposed to Virgo and Spica). As if by chance day number 204 for Spica happens to be half 408:

Sirrah (?)
Gb6-25 (408) Gb6-26 (*1)
Ana-roto (?)
Ga5-29 (*204) Ga5-30 (141)

In a corner there is one side at left (at the back) and another at right (in front), therefore it seems reasonable to show both glyphs. But in Ga5-30 the 'interregnum henua' probably indicates it is located in between the 'sides', with the side in front as the following Ga6-1 (cfr at A Pillar To Stand By):

117 113 215 23
Ga6-1 (142) Gb1-26 (256) Gb2-1 Ga1-23 (24)
232 = 8 * 29 240 = 8 * 30

257 - 142 = 115 = 230 / 2.

As a rule of thumb I have suggested (cfr at 57) that the front side should be ⅔ of the whole, which implies we ought to count 204 + 102 = 306 to find out where the cycle ends.

... Gilgamesh is claimed to have been one of the earliest kings of Uruk (or Erech). The circumstances of his fabled birth make him two-thirds god and one-third man, which makes him - in the sexagesimal system of Mesopotamia - two-thirds of 60 (= Anu) = 40, the number which characterized Enki-Ea, whence the latter's denomination of 'Shanabi (= ⅔, i.e., of 60) and Nimin (Sumerian = 40)' ...

This number leads us to Gb3-15 - in the center of the 30 glyph long moko line without any henua signs - where there is another version of Rogo and where 3-14 (a sign for π)  in the preceding glyph says a cycle is closed:

Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 Gb3-15 (306) Gb3-16

It 'proves' my idea of only ⅓ for the back side. If we count to 306 from Gb6-26 we will arrive at glyph number 242 counted from Gb8-30:

Gb1-9 Gb1-10 Gb1-11 Gb1-12 (242)

There are 242 glyphs on side b.

205 at what presumably is the midsummer apex can be interpreted as 'one more' because 205 = 204 + 1:

*Qa7-27 *Qa7-28 (*282)
day 205 = 64 + 282 / 2
Ga7-32 (*266) Ga7-33 Ga7-34 Ga8-1 (205)

Beyond a corner there should be a 'child' - because everything begins as a 'child' - and 5 glyphs beyond Sirrah, in position 'one more' than 14 * 29½ = 413, there is a tamaiti:

Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb6-27 Gb6-28
58 180
Gb7-1 Gb7-2 Gb7-3 (414) Ga7-11 (181) Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14
240

Possibly the distance to next tamaiti was designed to underline there are 240 days on the front side. There appears to be a connection between the first and the second tamaiti because Saturn follows Venus and 3 + 4 = 7. This 'week' begins with Mercury and ends with Mars.

414 - 181 = 233, which number leads us to yet another Rogo, one without head:

Ga8-26 Gb1-1 Gb1-2 Gb1-3 (233)