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The measure for 336 and 364 is 28, but other measures were also used. From Hanga Te Pau (Gb5-12) to the end of the text there are twice 53 glyphs (472 - 366 = 106), indicating a dark time (in contrast to the líght time measured by 28). Counting from glyph number 364 instead, there are twice 54 (= 108) glyphs to the end of the text. By adding 108 (a numinous number) to vae kore at Aa4-71 we can identify what in A corresponds to the end of the text in G (viz. Hanga Takaure). We can do it in two steps, first by adding 100:     Ab8-43 (1) Aa4-71 (364) Aa6-4 Aa6-5 Aa6-6 (464) Aa6-7 Both of the twin vae kore glyphs are reversed: Aa6-6 has its body reversed, while Aa6-5 has its head reversed. One looks back and one looks forward. Aa6-8 Aa6-9 Aa6-10 Aa6-11 Aa6-12 Aa6-13 Aa6-14 (472) Aa6-15 Aa6-16 Aa6-17 Aa6-18 Aa6-19 Aa6-20 Aa6-21 These strange and complex glyphs together suggest Aa6-14 marks the end of a season. We can e.g. note henua ora in Aa6-15 and moa in Aa6-16 (announcing the arrival of a new season). Probably the time is new year.

By relying on the text in G and the 16 first kuhane stations it is possible to give at least an illusion of firm ground - which is necessary. Hanga Te Pau and Hanga Takaure are good bays to take a rest in.

But Aa6-14 is 472 as counted by adding 108 glyphs to 364 in Aa4-71, and from what point of departured did those 364 come, pito (Ab8-43) or Aa1-1? It is hard to remember. Without remembering, we should expect the answer to be pito, because it refers to the sacred geography of Easter Island.

Let us try to coordinate kuhane stations with the text in A, and the natural beginning must be at Ab8-43 (where the kuhane finished - she moved withershins):

	Te Pito O Te Kainga
Ab8-43

If Hanga Takaure is at Aa6-14, the numbers 6 * 14 = 84 appear to be a suitable choice.

	Hanga Takaure
Aa6-14

Looking closely we can identify 4 + 6 = 10 'feathers' around hua (the bottom part), 4 'quarters for the sun' at left and 6 double-months at right, with 10 as the full measure.

Notably the bottom 'knob' (pau) also has feathers, 1 at left ant 2 at right, which we can regard as the ordinal numbers encountered in several places - 1 for the first half of the cycle and 2 for the next half. Or possibly they refer to the 3 wives of the sun. Anyhow - two of these 'feathers' are drawn as if to indicate a straight horizontal line behind pau, which we noted earlier at Aa6-11:

Aa6-11	Aa6-14

The main difference between the 'feathers' on hua in Aa6-11 and Aa6-14 is that one has been added at bottom right in Aa6-14. And then, of course, we cannot miss how pau in Aa6-14 has been integrated with the rest of hua.

The top part of Aa6-14 is separate. The creator has half hidden this break in time. The 'grasping hand' (Mayan manik) at the western horizon can be imagined in Aa6-11, and it has developed into a variant of haga rave, drawn like a claw. The details are not easy to discern, but there are 4 'feathers' at right and a complex with 3 at left. As I read this part of the glyph the left is drawn like a string figure, while the right is líke henua - it is a 'beam' (or a reversed haú). The 3 'feathers' at left suggest the shape of a moon canoe, where mua and muri are indicated with one 'feather' each and where the middle 'feather' forms the mast. Hanga Takaure here could serve as a reference point both for moon (left) and sun (right).

These 7 glyphs apparently belong together as a group:

Aa6-8	Aa6-9	Aa6-10	Aa6-11	Aa6-12	Aa6-13	Aa6-14 (472)

In Aa6-12 (with 6 * 12 = 72 = 360 / 5) the bottom part of tagata suggests Hanga Te Pau. A rising fish is at right, which agrees with how Hanga Te Pau is described in G:

Gb5-12	Gb5-13

The earlier hinted at Hanga Te Pau in A has a bird at right instead:

Aa4-70	Aa4-71	Aa4-72	Aa4-73	Aa4-74
363	364	365	366	367

The logic ought to be that the bird and inverted haga rave (imaginary, because the circumference is broken by Y at the top) means the end of the first part of the cycle (at midsummer).

470 (at Aa6-12) - 366 (Aa4-73) = 104 = 8 * 13.

What glyph is located at 366 - 104 = 262?

a1	90	b1	82
a2	85	b2	85
a3	76	b3	77
a4	82	b4	80
a5	83	b5	80
a6	84	b6	92
a7	85	b7	84
a8	85	b8	84
sum	670	sum	664

42 (from pito) + 90 + 85 = 217 and 262 - 217 = 45:

Aa3-45	Aa3-46	Aa3-47	Aa3-48

Aa3-45 is the first in a group with 20 glyphs belonging together. It could very well be the beginning of the first half of the cycle (of 8 * 26 = 208 glyphs).