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There are several other raaraa glyphs between Cb1-1 and Cb3-16, but they are not drawn exactly alike:

63
Cb1-1 (393) Cb3-16 (457)
65 (= 5 * 13)
Krittikā 7 8 (36) 9
Sheratan 5 6 7
May 21 22 (142) 23
Cb2-11 Cb2-12 (428) Cb2-13
 ka moe i roto te henua ihe manu ra
4h (60.9) Beid (62.2) Hyadum I (63.4)
no star listed
Mrigashīrsha 3 4 (60) 5
Albatain 2 3 (30) 4
June 14 15 (166) 16
Cb3-10 Cb3-11 (452) Cb3-12
te taketake henua kiore - henua
Alnitak, Phakt (Phaet), (84.7) γ Leporis (85.9), Saiph (86.5) ζ Leporis (86.6)

Possibly raaraa in Cb2-12 points at day 36 and raaraa in Cb3-11 at day 60 (= 36 + 24).

Perhaps the creator of the text added inviting number plays to his basic calendar structure:

34 23 4
Cb1-1 (393) Cb2-12 (428) Cb3-11 (452) Cb3-16 (457)
36 28

However, raaraa in Cb2-12 is obviously different from that in Cb1-1 and you cannot count oranges together with (koira) bananas.

On the other hand, comparing Cb3-11 with raaraa at left in Cb3-16 seems to be a more subtle game. At first they appear to be the same. But Cb3-11 is drawn slightly more powerful, meaning it is a stronger 'Sky Propper'. If we add a year to day 166 the result is 531:

Mrigashīrsha 3 4 (60) 5
Albatain 2 3 (30) 4
June 14 (165) 15 (531) 16
Cb3-10 Cb3-11 (452) Cb3-12
te taketake henua kiore - henua
Alnitak, Phakt (Phaet), (84.7) γ Leporis (85.9), Saiph (86.5) ζ Leporis (86.6)

531 = 18 * 29½. At the preceding Cb3-10 Metoro said te taketake. I guess this is the negation of take:

Take

The Marquesans are the only people who own to a distinctive national name, and retain a tradition of the road they travelled from their original habitat, until they arrived at the Marquesan Islands. They call themselves te Take, 'the Take nation'. Fornander.

June 15 (531) 5 June 21 (537)
Cb3-11 (452) Cb3-17 (458)
7

Maybe the rongorongo carvers had a convention which meant they sometimes incised a glyph once more in order to show you had to count beyond the limit of calendar time, count 'once more'.