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I suggest the lines across henua in Ka4-7 and Ka4-10 could refer to the dark nights 'when Gods are born'. The design in Ka4-5 (where 4 * 5 = 20) could illustrate how the head of an arrow indeed is a head, and as such - when buried - will result in growth:

... And when the breath has gone from my body and my spirit has departed to the realms of the dead, you are to bury my head carefully near our spring of running water ...

Maybe ι Cancri is the proper place. Iota means something very small (and 66 + 66 = 132 = 11 * 12):

Ka4-1 Ka4-2 (*130) Ka4-3 (65)
η Cancri (128.5) π¹ Ursa Majoris, δ Hydrae (129.6), Al Minhar al Shujā, Museida (129.9), Beehive (130.4) Ascellus Borealis (130.9), η Hydrae (131.0), Ascellus Australis (131.4)
'July 28 '29 (210) '30
Alhena 7 (73) 8 9
Ka4-4 (66) Ka4-5 Ka4-6 Ka4-7
ε Hydrae (131.9), ι Cancri (132.0), ρ Hydrae (132.4)   ζ Hydrae (134.1) Acubens, Talitha Borealis (135.0)
'July 31 (212) 'August 1 2 3
Alhena 10 11 (77) 12 13
Ka4-8 (*136) Ka4-9 Ka4-10 (72)
 ρ Ursa Majoris (135.6), ν Cancri (136.0), Talitha Australis (136.1) ω Hydrae (136.8), σ¹ Ursa Majoris (137.0), κ Cancri (137.3) Alsuhail (137.5), σ² Ursa Majoris (137.6), τ Ursa Majoris (137.7), ξ Cancri (137.8)
'August 4 (216) '5 '6
Murzim 1 (80) 2 3

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days.

As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

72 is the glyph number (counting only the visible glyphs and not the empty glyph spaces in line a1), where 4 feathers are growing out. The design of kiore at Alsuhail (λ Velorum) is like that of kiore in Ka4-7 and they should be considered together. We can read 3 : 2.

The summary of poporo in my preliminary glyph type dictionary:

The poporo glyph type indicates a time of darkness, and at the same time says a 'seed of light' has been 'planted', which gives hope of a coming lighter season.
 
The 'seed' is the 'head' of the previous light season. The vertical straight 'stem' is the same sign as in the center of henua ora, though inverted, which means it is the opposite, a station of 'birth':
 
poporo henua ora kahi

The ika glyph type with a poporo sign (kahi) carries both meanings, both a 'rising fish' and 'birth'. If kahi is inverted it means both a 'sinking fish' and a station of 'death', as for instance in the preview of the year in K:

Ka3-1 Ka3-2 Ka3-3 Ka3-4 Ka3-5 Ka3-6 Ka3-7