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For instance late in the text on the Small St Petersburg Tablet (Q) we can find several sequences of glyphs which contain variants of maitaki.

maitaki

In some places the glyphs in these sequence are partly or totally obliterated, but the parallel texts of Large Santiago Tablet (H) and Large St Petersburg Tablet (P) will allow us to perceive a picture.

I have tried to make clear the structure of these sequences of glyphs (in H / P / Q) by dividing the text into three compartments::

1b - 6b

6 similar sequences of glyphs where the Sun, maitaki, and other types of glyphs are repeatedly mentioned

 Hb3-9 - Hb6-25
1c - 6c

6 similar sequences of glyphs where the Sun, darkness. and other types of glyphs are repeatedly mentioned

 Hb3-17- Hb6-32
1a - 6a

6 different sequences of glyphs which lie immediately before the two sets of sequences above

In my tables for 1b - 6b and 1c - 6c, which will follow, I have not been able to put all similar glyphs in the same vertical columns, because the texts sometimes has located similar glyphs to different places. But for the glyphs of the Sun and for maitaki I have strived to create strictly ordered columns.

1b - 6b 1c - 6c
170 169
Hb3-9 (109) Hb6-25 (280) Hb3-17 (117) Hb6-32 (287)
172 171
343 → 7 * 7 * 7 → 160 (June 10) + 183

It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. 172 + 40 + 40 = 252 (*172) → 343 - 91.

... Midsummer is the flowering season of the oak, which is the tree of endurance and triumph, and like the ash is said to 'court the lightning flash'. Its roots are believed to extend as deep underground as its branches rise in the air - Virgil mentions this - which makes it emblematic of a god whose law runs both in Heaven and in the Underworld ... The month, which takes its name from Juppiter the oak-god, begins on June 10th and ends of July 7th. Midway comes St. John's Day, June 24th, the day on which the oak-king was sacrificially burned alive. The Celtic year was divided into two halves with the second half beginning in July, apparently after a seven-day wake, or funeral feast, in the oak-king's honour ...