Perhaps we should study side b separately from side a?

Side a
57		334
	Ca3-7 (58)
	e hokohuki mau ki te matagi
392

Side b
97		146		103
	Cb5-4 (490)		Cb10-15 (637)
	tagata mau matagi		te matagi ma te rau hei
348

146 = 2 / 5 * 365 and 740 - 146 = 594 = 6 * 99 = 300 + 294.

From Cb10-15 to the end of side b there are 104 glyphs (8 * 13 days).

From Cb1-1 to Cb10-15 there are 98 + 146 = 244 glyps (= 4 * 61 days)

From Ca1-1 up to and including Ca3-7 there are 58 glyphs (2 * 29 days).

58 + 146 = 204 and 740 - 204 = 536 (= 2 * 268).

536 - 104 = 432.

From  Ca3-7 to Cb5-4 there are 334 + 98 = 432 glyphs but only 431 days (because April 17 occurs twice). 432 = 6 * 72 = 12 * 36 = 18 * 24.

There is a dot in front at Cb5-4 and also a vertical line of measurement. 146 + 104 = 250 (= 740 - 490).

Given these numbers we could expect a new season would arrive after 7 fortnights counted from Cb1-1, with Cb5-5 where 5 * 5 agrees with Bright Fire, because 25 is a Saturn number and fire was kept by Saturn.

491 (Cb5-5) - Cb1-1 (393) = 98 and April 17 (107 at Cb1-1) + 98 = 205 (July 24).

289 (October 16 at Cb1-1) + 98 = 387 = 365 + 22 = January 22.

I have here corrected a mistake of mine earlier. Cb10-13 is glyph 635 and although I earlier counted correctly to December 15 (349) by adding 635 - 393 = 242 days to April 17 (107) the correct heliacal date should be October 16 (289) + 242 - 365 = 166 (June 15).

The Chinese 9th station Ox / Herd Boy was, reasonably, connected with a Buffalo:

1	Horn	α Virginis (Spica)	Crocodile	(202.7)	Oct 10 (283)	283 = 265 + 18
2	Neck	κ Virginis	Dragon	(214.8)	Oct 22 (295)	295 = 283 + 12
3	Root	α Librae (Zuben Elgenubi)	Badger	(224.2)	Oct 31 (304)	304 = 295 + 9
4	Room	π Scorpii (Vrischika)	Hare	(241.3)	Nov 17 (321)	321 = 304 + 17
5	Heart	σ Scorpii	Fox	(247.0)	Nov 23 (327)	327 = 321 + 6
6	Tail	μ Scorpii (Denebakrab)	Tiger	(254.7)	Dec 1 (335)	335 = 327 + 8
7	Winnowing Basket	γ Sagittarii (Nash)	Leopard	(273.7)	Dec 20 (354)	354 = 335 + 19
December solstice
8	South Dipper	φ Sagittarii (?)	Unicorn	(284.0)	Dec 30 (364)	364 = 354 + 10
9	Ox / Herd Boy	β Capricornii (Dabih)	Buffalo	(308.0)	Jan 23 (388)	388 = 364 + 24

It is tempting to see rau hei in Cb10-15 as Betelgeuze (head down) but more in proper order would be to understand the glyph as signifying the midnight culmination in June 17 (168) of the Southern Claw (Zuben Elgenubi, α Librae).

At the other end of the sky was another 'genubi' star, viz. Rukbalgethi Genubi (θ Herculis). Possibly, I guess, genubi should be understood as 'knee' - a point in time between a pair of well ordered seasons. Hevelius may have thought so too, because he drew θ Herculis at the left knee of Hercules:

 

Egyptian nfr		Phoenician teth		Greek theta	Θ (θ)
... The form of the letter θ suggests a midline ('waist'), although the origin of θ is the Phoenician tēth which means 'wheel'. This in turn could have originated from a glyph named 'good' which in Egypt was nfr ... ... θ is the last star in the Ara constellation, and the ancient meaning of this letter was described as a wheel by the Phoenicians but for the Egyptian it meant 'good. When the wheel of time has come full cycle around and the upside down fire-altar is in the past the times ahead should be good (or lucky Sa'ad) ...

At Cb5-5 we can assume there was a contrast between the Bright Fire (λ Cancri) seen close to the Full Moon in January 22 on one hand and Gredi (α Capricorni) together with the Sun on the other. Sun was at the opposite side of the Bright Fire - probably meaning he had completely lost his Fire.

This interpretation is supported by Metoro. Ihe toga ought to indicate a point (ihe) down in the south (toga):

As regards the word maa it could be related to the central ceremonial ground (raaraa = no Sun):

Mara To start rotting, going bad (e.g. a lobster, a fish). See also mamara. Vanaga. Mgv.: mara, open land, cultivated field. Mq.: mara, maa, land under tilth. Ta.: amara, the first stone of a marae, etc. Sa.: mala, a new plantation. Ma.: mara, land under tilth. Churchill. Sa.: malae, the town green. Nukuoro: malae, a cleared space, an open place, a plantation. To.: malae, a gree, a grass plot ... Ha.: malae, smooth (as a plain) ... Ma.: marae, an inclosed place in front of a house. Ta.: marae, the sacred place of worship ... Vi.: mara, a burying place ... In note 261 I have advanced the opinion that malae is in form a conditional derivative of lae. This holds of the signification found in Nuclear Polynesia. The secondary sense which the Tongafiti carried to eastern Polynesia has obscured the lae element; but the sacrosanct content of the marae in the four-godded theology of eastern Polynesia is after all but a logical outgrowth of the Nuclear Polynesian malae as the civic center of social life where god is sole, surpreme - and Lucretian ... Churchill 2.