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On the other side of the 'Tree' the 'land' could be different. In Ca6-16 we can imagine the 'grasping hand' - Mayan chikin, Metoro's tagata oho rima (person going to 'the hand') - at the horizon in the west. There are 13 'notches' (Spanish for nights) at left, and 12 * 13 = 156:

Side a

155 8 (100) An Nathra 9 (101) 235
24 (236) August 25 (237)
Ca6-16 (156) Ca6-17 (157)
156 (= 12 * 13) 236 (= 80 + 156)

The old Roman calendar could be of use for us. Therefore I have below added the dates half a year later (= earlier), and tried to count with August 25 'translated' into February 24:

... Once again, glyph 157 could be pointing at the day which is the first beyond number 92 + 40 + 24 after March 21. South of the equator this season is not at the end of high summer but instead corresponding to 40 + 24 + 1 = 65 days after winter solstice, or around day 355 + 65 = 420. This should be February 24 (55) or - if we should consider the day when Castor rose heliacally as a leap day - February 23 (54) ...

1 An Nathra 9 (101) 10 11 12 13
August 25 (237) 26 27 28 29
Ca6-17 (157) Ca6-18 Ca6-19 Ca6-20 Ca6-21
tagata oho rima - ki te marama koia kua oho ki te marama kua moe kua ka te ahi i te rima aueue - te ika
February 24 (420) 25 26 27 28 (59)
Alterf 1 2 3 (108)
August 30 (242) 31 September 1
Ca6-22 Ca6-23 Ca6-24 (164)
te marama kua hua marama kua tuu i te kihikihi
March 1 (60) 2 3
2 Alterf 4 5 6 7 (112) 8
September 2 3 11h (167.4) 5 6 (249)
Ca6-25 Ca6-26 Ca6-27 Ca6-28 (168) Ca7-1
tagata marama koia ra marama - kua Rei te vae
March 4 5 6 7 (66) 8
Alterf 9 10 11 12 13 (118) Dschuba 1
September 7 8 9 10 11 12 (255)
Ca7-2 Ca7-3 Ca7-4 Ca7-5 Ca7-6 Ca7-7
o te marama eono
March 9 10 11 12 13 14 (73)
3 Dschuba 2 3 4 5 6 (124)
September 13 14 15 16 (259) 17
Ca7-8 Ca7-9 (177) Ca7-10 Ca7-11 Ca7-12
koia ki te marama tagata marama kua moe ki te ahi - e rima rave i te ika
March 15 16 (75) 17 18 19
Dschuba 7 8 9 10 (128)
September 18 19 12h (182.6) 21 (264)
Ca7-13 Ca7-14 Ca7-15 Ca7-16 (184)
marama kua hua - ki te marama kua hahaś hia te marama noho i te nohoga
March 20 21 (80) 22 23
4 Dschuba 11 12 13 Azzubra 1 (132)
September 22 23 24 25 (268)
Ca7-17 Ca7-18 Ca7-19 Ca7-20 (188)
tagata - marama tagata kua moe puhi te ahi - rave i te ika
March 24 25 26 27
Azzubra 2 3 4 5 (136)
September 26 27 28 29 (272)
Ca7-21 Ca7-22 Ca7-23 Ca7-24 (192)
te kava - erua marama e marama noho i tona nohoga te hare pure e tagata noho ki roto
March 28 29 30 31 (90)

The results are encouraging. September 29 (272) is 182 days later than March 31 (90) and here the text has an extraordinary glyph with figures inside.

We have earlier found April 1 to be a very special date at the end of side b on the H tablet:

Hb12-12 (1258) Hb12-13 Hb12-14 Hb12-15
125 * 8 = 1000 April 1 (91)
33 ...
Hb12-49 *Hb12-50 (1296)
11 April 13 (468)

In rongorongo times February 23 could be connected with Castor, because it was the date of the midnight culmination of his star:

  365 days
  (80 + RA / 24h * 365¼)   Day of culmination  
Atlas May 16 (136) 228 December 31 (365) 135
  56 -3  53 +3
Castor July 12 (193) 225 February 23 (419) 138
Gb5-23 Gb5-24 (378) Gb5-25 (*335) Gb5-26 Gb5-27
17 (413) February 18 19 20 21
Saad Al Thabib 7 8 9 10 11
Gb5-28 Gb5-29 (*339) Gb6-1 (384) Gb6-2 Gb6-3 Gb6-4
22 23 24 (420) February 25 26 27
12 13 14 (284) Saad Al Thabib 15 Saad Balaa 1 2

The creator of the Moon calendar in C could have intended it to begin 384 days after May 25 (because 13 * 29½ = 383½ is a fact which probably explains why Gb5-29 is only 'half' a glyph).

February 18 (at hakaariki in Gb5-28 where the glyph number agrees with the synodical cycle of Saturn) maybe should be compared with the glyph which in C comes 384 - 378 = 6 days earlier than Ca6-17 (157):

An Nathra 3 4 (96)
August 19 (231) 20
Ca6-11 Ca6-12 (152)
te heheu ke - te niu kua huri ki te vai
π Leonis (150.6) 10h (152.2)