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Maybe we should recount from the beginning of those 720 glyphs?

184 530
Pa8-6 Pb1-25 Pb2-1 Pb2-2 Pb2-3 Pb11-255
1 186 187 188 189 720

The ghostly character in Pa8-6 has a 'cousin' sitting down in Pb2-1. In the beginning there is mist. In the end there is no mist, but a ghostly character (Pb11-255). Characters in the mist are always ghosts, but all ghosts are not in the mist.

186 (Pb1-25) suggests a division of the year into 186 + 180 = 366 days. But, we should remember, there presumably are 2 glyphs per day. We can try and search for the quarters. 720 / 4 = 180, but we will also look at 90 (45 days). The 1st part:

78 12 glyphs - see below
Pa8-6 Pa9-42 Pa10-1 Pa10-2 Pa10-3
1 92 93 94 95
Pa10-4 Pa10-5 Pa10-6 Pa10-7 Pa10-8 Pa10-9 Pa10-10
96 97 98 99 100 101 102
Pa9-30 Pa9-31 Pa9-32 Pa9-33 Pa9-34 Pa9-35
Pa9-36 Pa9-37 Pa9-38 Pa9-39 Pa9-40 Pa9-41

Pa9-41 is glyph number 91. With 364 divided by 4 we get 91, and Pa9-42 is number 92. Then begins a new glyph line with a remarkable glyph (Pb10-1). There are 42 glyphs in line Pa9 and 36 in line Pa10, which probably is significant.

Pb10-1 is a (ghostly) example of the rare glyph type pare. In Pa3-3 a more lively pare arrives before the 'early spring' glyphs we recognize from e.g. Eb3-10-15, and when aware of this we can identify a few more points of similarity (most obvious in Eb3-4 corresponding to Pa3-4) and indeed draw the conclusion that the texts may be parallel (in spite of quite different ways of presenting the messages):

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Eb3-1 Eb3-2 Eb3-3 Eb3-4 Eb3-5 Eb3-6
34 35 36 37 38 39

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34 etc are ordinal numbers counted from the beginning of the calendar (Eb1-37).
Eb3-7 Eb3-8 Eb3-9
40 41 42
Eb3-10 Eb3-11 Eb3-12 Eb3-13 Eb3-14 Eb3-15
1 2 3 4 5 6
Eb3-11 is located at the beginning of summer.
Eb3-16 Eb3-17 Eb3-18 Eb3-19
7 8 9 10
Pa3-1 Pa3-2 Pa3-3 Pa3-4 Pa3-5
Pa3-6 Pa3-7 Pa3-8 Pa3-9 Pa3-10
Pa3-11 Pa3-12 Pa3-13 Pa3-14 Pa3-15 Pa3-16

In Pa3-16 the 'canoe with sails at left' (presumably the 2nd half of last year) gives a 'barren hand' (Y) gesture, probably a signal of its definite demise. In Pa3-15 the henua is cut short at the upper end, rising towards the right. In Kb1-3 a greater similar henua probably refers to the end of the 1st half of the calendar, and we realize the need of knowing more about these henua with cut off ends:

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Kb1-2

Kb1-3

The ghostly pare in Pa10-1 is connected with the lively one in Pa3-3, which has ordinal number 115 (counted from the beginning of the P text). 115 = 5 * 23. Pa10-1 has ordinal number 93 counted from the beginning of those 720.

93 + 438 (the last glyph before those 720) = 531. The distance between the two pare is 531 - 115 = 416. The other way around the distance is 1158 - 416 = 742. But we should not count the ordinal way, instead we must include both pare or exclude them:

415 627
Pa3-3 Pa10-1
115 531
416 = 16 * 26 628
1044 = 29 * 36

114 + 1044 = 1158. 628 is 200π. 29 * 36 - 200π = 16 * 26 = 416.

1158 = 16 * 26 + 200π + 6 * 19.

From the beginning of the text in P up to and including the 'lively' pare there are 115 glyphs. Between the 'lively' pare and the ghostly pare the distance is 300 glyphs longer (415). We must see what is in the middle between the two pare:

205 205
Pa3-3 Pa6-5 Pa6-6 Pa6-7 Pa6-8 Pa6-9 Pa10-1
115 321 322 323 324 325 531

We recognize the middle glyph as the one with ordinal number 36 (or 37) in the 1st half of the 150 (or 152) glyphs of 'summer':

33 33
Pa5-52 Pa5-53 Pa6-6 Pa6-7 Pa6-8 Pa6-9 Pa6-44
287 288 322 323 324 325 359
0 1 35 36 37 38 72
75 = 2 * 36 + 3
Pa6-45 Pa6-46 Pa6-47
360 361 362
73 74 75

Why not in the middle, between the 1st and 2nd halves?