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Ua in Pa10-3 is the 1st of 5 (without additional signs). But in Pa8-51 there may be a forewarning:

288
Pa8-51 Pa10-3 Pb2-30 Pb8-16 Pb8-18 Pb8-20 Pb8-40
1 49 170 1 3 5 25 (483)

49 in Pa10-3 is the ordinal number from Pa8-51. Pa8-51 is number 45 beyond Pa8-6 and counted from the beginning of those 720 glyphs the ordinal number of Pa10-3 is 49 + 45 = 94 (the mirror image of 49). 49 + 51 (as in Pa8-51) = 100.

Pb2-30 looks like a reversal, while the rest in some way constitute a quartet (1 + 2 + 4 = 7, as in 7 * 7 = 49).

Pb8-16 may be connected with Pb2-30 because of the reversed orientation. 288 = 2 * 12 * 12. If so, then Pb8-18 and Pb8-20 together seems to form a new reversal:

Pb8-18 Pb8-19 Pb8-20
461 462 463
506 507 508

462 = 11 * 42. Counting from the beginning of 720 we reach 504 at Pa8-16.

It is probable that the 'ua season' is located at the end of side a (at the beginning of line a10), and that it ends in line b2. Both these glyph lines have 36 glyphs (and no other glyph line has that number). The ua glyphs in line b8 will then presumably be the opposite - the season when light returns.

170 / 2 will give an estimated 85 days for the 'ua season'. Alternatively we could count only from Pa10-3 to Pb2-30:

 

120
Pa10-3 Pb2-30

120 / 2 = 60 days is presumably the correct length (though 61 is also possible) for the ua season (one 'flame of the sun' although he is on the other side of the equator).

Let us for a moment return to the 1st part (of those 720 glyphs). Probably it ends with the last glyph in line a9:

 

89
Pa8-6 Pa8-6 Pa9-42 Pa10-1
1 2 92 93

The double-eyed hau tea (Pa8-6) maybe indicates how sun has passed his maximum. The bird in Pa9-42 is unique in P, though there exist a few other manu rere without 'eye-holes' - which could mean 'living persons' (in P).

Beyond the guessed at end with Pa9-42 we have the glostly pare. Its ordinal number is 531 = one more than 10 * 53 from the beginning of the text, and (we should remember) 53 = 314 - 9 * 29:

114 415 627
Pa3-3 Pa10-1
115 531
416 = 16 * 26 200π
1044 = 29 * 36
1000π - 90 * 29 200π
1200π - 90 * 29

Maybe there is a division of the beginning of the text into 115 (up to and including the lively pare), followed by 300 (150 days?) and another 115 (up to the ghostly pare):

 
113 298 114
Pa1-1 Pa3-3 Pa3-4 Pa7-40 Pa7-41 Pa10-1
115 300 115 531

62 - 3  = 59 (a3). 59 + 61 (a4) = 120. 120 + 80 (a5) = 200. 200 + 60 (a6) = 260. 260 + 58 (a7) = 318 > 300. 58 - 18 = 40. And 58 - 40 = 18 (a7). 18 + 55 (a8) + 42 (a9) = 115. Possibly the right part of Pa7-40 is the same entity as that in Pa6-45 and Pa8-1:

 
Pa6-45 Pa7-40 Pa8-1

The double Rei in Pa3-4 suggests a new season is beginning there - after pare:

 

Pa3-1 Pa3-2 Pa3-3 Pa3-4 Pa3-5
113 114 115 116 = 4 * 29 117

Therefore the 'antipodal' season should also begin beyond pare in Pa10-1 - though the numbers suggest it should begin from the ghostly pare in Pa10-1.

The beginning of what may be the 2nd group perhaps begins with 5 glyphs (Pa10-2--6). But other alternatives are equally good. For instance could Rei in Pa10-5 initiate the beginning of the ua season:

 

Pa10-2 Pa10-3 Pa10-4 Pa10-5 Pa10-6
94 95 96 97 98
Pa10-7 Pa10-8 Pa10-9 Pa10-10
99 100 101 102
Pa10-11 Pa10-12 Pa10-13 Pa10-14 Pa10-15
103 104 105 106 107

In Pa10-11 vae kore may announce the beginning of a new sequence. The glyphs with odd ordinal numbers (counted from the beginning of 720) are probably (here in the 'antipodal world') more informative than those with even ordinal numbers.

Pa10-7 may allude to the fish at midsummer whose head disappears. The glyph has two parts, it is not a normal niu glyph.

Pa10-13 is flanked by two fishes with 4 + 3 respectively 3 + 4 'feathers', i.e. Pa10-13 is a point of reversal. 104 = 4 * 26.

Pa10-5 has a Rei given forward by a 'person', and a similar constellation occurred also in the 1st part (of those 720):

 

Pa8-17 Pa10-5

Considering how the double Rei in Pa3-4 (and the Rei in Eb3-4) are located as number 4 in the glyph line it is quite reasonable to find Pa10-5 as number four after pare.

Why, then, is Pa8-17 not arriving as number 4? It is number 17 in the glyph line and number 12 of those 720. The answer may be that it is Pa8-21 which has position 4 counted from Pa8-17:

Pa8-16 Pa8-17 Pa8-18 Pa8-19 Pa8-20 Pa8-21

Evidence from Q confirms the idea of Pa8-21 initiating a new season, because in Q - but not in H or P - the first of an internal triplet of parallels is commencing here (immediately beyond Rei):

- -
Qa8-31 Qa8-32 Qa8-33 Qa8-34 Qa8-35 Qa8-36 Qa8-37
...
Qb3-26 Qb3-27 Qb3-28 Qb3-29 Qb3-30 Qb3-31 Qb3-32 Qb3-101

 

Qb4-35 Qb4-36 Qb4-37 Qb4-38 Qb4-39

The Rei in Pa8-21 agrees completely with the one in Pa7-41, and there are a few more of the same design:

Pa1-10 Pa3-4 Pa3-43 Pa5-74 Pa7-9 Pa7-41
Pa7-56 Pa8-17 Pa8-21 Pa10-5 Pb1-5 Pb2-4
 
Pb3-4 Pb4-36 Pb7-27 Pb7-28 Pb11-243  Pb11-254

Pb4-36 draws attention, not only by the numbers - 4 * 36 = 12 * 12 = 144 - but also by being the lifeless opposite of Pa3-4:

115 = 5 * 23 618 = 6 * 103 423 = 9 * 47
Pa3-4 Pb4-36
116 735
4 * 29 3 * 5 * 7 * 7
619 a prime number 424 = 8 * 53
734 = 2 * 367 424 + 115 = 539 = 7 * 77

Possibly the measure from Pa3-4 up to and including Pb4-36 is the correct message: 620 = 20 * 31. Although 1158 - 620 = 538 = 2 * 269 is not very interesting. Unless we take away 2 * 8 and reach 2 * 261.

Is there a numerical pattern which I have not found yet? The visual clues suggest a connection between Pb4-36 and Pb7-27--28:

 
154
Pb4-36 Pb7-26 Pb7-27 Pb7-28
1 156 = 6 * 26 157 158