10. The first line on side b is upside down (and to be read from right to left), because the last line on side a has an odd number - to be compared with how the K tablet with twice 5 lines also has its first line of side b at the bottom and upside down. Once again the Q text leaves the trail of H and P for a while (which tends to occur not at the end of the Q lines but before they begin):
The pare (fort, place of refuge, head-dress, covering) glyphs offer a foundation for suggesting that counting should proceed across those areas of the H tablet where there are no glyphs visible:
599 glyphs on side a of the P tablet could possibly allude to 531 because this number equals 59 * 9. There seems to be 21 weeks - given that each glyph corresponds to a day - from Qb1-1 to Pa10-5:
Beyond niu there is a 'chapter' with lots of feathered fishes rising:
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