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The last glyph sequence in the quartet is different because the declining henua at its end is not like the 3 earlier such end henua glyphs (and we recognize the universal pattern 3 + 1):

An Nathra 3 4 5 6 7 8 (100)
August 19 20 21 22 23 24 (236)
Ca6-11 (151) Ca6-12 Ca6-13 Ca6-14 Ca6-15 Ca6-16
te heheu ke - te niu kua huri ki te vai manu teketeke ki ruga takaure kua aha te takaure i te henua ma te rima
  10h (152.2)        

Gregorian day 236 = manzil day 100 is the last day before the arrival of the Moon calendar. From G we remember the inversion from glyph 236 to glyph 237:

Gb1-4 Gb1-5 Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7 (*300) Gb1-8
  Sham (297.8) Tarazed (299.3) Altair (300.3)  
January 12 (377) 13 14 15 16
10 11 12 Shaula 13 Al Naam 1

236 = 472 / 2 = 4 * 59. Four days earlier August 20 coincides with 10h.

Vai in Ca6-12 is 232 - 121 (= 11 * 11) = 111 days later than vai in May 1 (= manzil day 350 = the time when Bharani rose heliacally):

Bharani, the 2nd Hindu lunar station:
Al Muahkhar 8 9 10  11 12 13 (350)
April 26 27 28 29 30 (120) May 1
Ca2-10 (36) Ca2-11 Ca2-12 Ca2-13 Ca2-14 Ca2-15
ki te kea tagata oho ki roto o to vai kua noho te kea kua hua te rima tagata oho ki te vai
υ Virginis (216.5)       Head of the Fly (39.6), Kaffaljidhma (39.8) Right Wing (40.9), Bharani (41.4)
Alrescha 1 2 3 4 (354)
May 2 3 4 5 (125)
Ca2-16 Ca2-17 Ca2-18 Ca2-19 (45)
erua tamaiti ki te huaga o te hoi hatu e tagata poo pouo
    Menkar (44.7)
Alrescha 5 6 7 8
May 6 7 (492) 8 (128) 9
Ca2-20 Ca2-21 Ca2-22 (48) Ca2-23
te vai e tino noho toona te Rei - pa hia mai kiore i te henua
3h (45.7)    Zibal (48.0)  
Algol (45.9)
Alrescha 9 10 (360)
May 10 (130) 11
Ca2-24 Ca2-25
niu - kupega hia mai tu te niu - ku huki
Algenib Persei (50.0)  
99 An Nathra 3 (95) 4
August 19 (231) 20
Ca6-11 (151) Ca6-12
te heheu ke - te niu kua huri ki te vai
  10h (152.2)

But more important: There are 106 days from May 6 (126) to August 20 (232). From vai in Ca2-20 (3h) up to and including vai in Ca6-12 (10h) there are 107 glyphs and maybe we here should count with 107 days of 'water':

Alrescha 5 (355) 105 An Nathra 4 (96)
May 6 (126) August 20 (232)
Ca2-20 (46) Ca6-12 (152)
te vai ki te vai
3h (45.7) 10h (152.2)

Maybe the time from May 6 to August 21 was to be repeated in the calendar in order to reach 472 (= 365 + 107) thereby suggesting 8 * 59 somehow could 'keep pace' with 5 * 73.

Twice (152.2 - 45.7) = 213 (14h) and 472 = 213 + 259, which possibly means Sun was alotted 1 + 259 = 260 days and Moon 471 - 259 = 212 nights:

Sun 5 * 73 = 365 4 * 65 = 260
Moon 8 * 59 = 472 4 * 53 = 212

This idea is not denied by Metoro's te niu kua huri ('the coconut tree which is turning'):

Huri

1. To turn (vt.), to overthrow, to knock down: huri moai, the overthrowing of the statues from their ahus during the period of decadence on the island. 2. To pour a liquid from a container: ka huri mai te vai, pour me some water. 3. To end a lament, a mourning: he huri i te tagi, ina ekó tagi hakaou, with this the mourning (for the deceased) is over, there shall be no more crying. 4. New shoot of banana: huri maîka. Vanaga.

1. Stem. P Mgv.: huri, a banana shoot. Mq.: hui, shoot, scion. 2. To turn over, to be turned over onto another side, to bend, to lean, to warp; huri ke, to change, to decant; tae huri ke, invariable; huri ke tahaga no mai, to change as the wind; tae huri, immovable; e ko huri ke, infallible; huhuri, rolling; hakahuri, to turn over; hakahuri ke, to divine. P Pau.: huri, to turn. Mgv.: huri, uri, to turn on one side, to roll, to turn upside down, to reverse. Mq.: hui, to turn, to reverse. 3. To throw, to shoot. 4. To water, to wet. 5. To hollow out. Hurihuri: 1. Wrath, anger; kokoma hurihuri, animosity, spite, wrath, fury, hate, enmity, irritable, quick tempered, to feel offended, to resent, to pester; kokoma hurihuri ke, to be in a rage. 2. (huri 4) hurihuri titi, to fill up. 3. To polish. 4. (uriuri). Hurikea, to transfigure, to transform. Churchill.

Mq. huri, resemblance. Sa.: foliga, to resemble. Churchill.

We should also remember the capacity of the spring god Mars to go back in time, to navigate against the current:

We could try to count from January 20 (385) backwards in time 107 days and this will take us to day 278, which is October 5.

Or we could rather count ahead 107 days from for instance November 6 (310) to day 417, which corresponds to day 417 - 365 = 52 (February 21). From December 6 (340) to February 21 (417) there are 77 days.