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The first counting naturally should be done from the beginning of the text to Pb9-21 and from there to the end of the text:
 
1011 11 132
Pa1-1 Pb9-21 Pb9-33 Pb11-255
1 1013 1025 1158

The total number of glyphs in the text is 1158 and 145 of them are located beyond Pb9-21. 145 = 5 * 29, a fact agreeing with the suggestion that viri glyphs are related to number 29. In G too 145 glyphs were measured out by distances from viri:

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Ga1-26 Ga5-11 Ga7-1
145 = 5 * 29

Maybe 5 in 5 * 9 refers to the 5 dark nights between 365 and 360. If so, then the 29 glyphs following after Pb9-21 ought to represent those nights:

Pb9-33 Pb9-34 Pb9-35 Pb9-36 Pb9-37
Pb9-38 Pb9-39 Pb9-40 Pb9-41
Pb9-42 Pb9-43 Pb9-44 Pb9-45 Pb9-46
Pb9-47 Pb9-48 Pb9-49 Pb9-50

Then ought to follow a description of the birth of new year:

Pb10-1 Pb10-2 Pb10-3 Pb10-4 Pb10-5 Pb10-6
Pb10-7 Pb10-8 Pb10-9 Pb10-10 Pb10-11 Pb10-12

Pb10-7, with hakaturou being pushed forward, makes me remember Aa2-8 and Metoro's explanation about mahigo:

Aa2-1 Aa2-2 Aa2-3 Aa2-4 Aa2-5
Aa2-6 Aa2-7 Aa2-8 Aa2-9 Aa2-10

... The beginning of line a2, with parallels in H/P/Q, has 8 glyphs ending with Aa2-8 which clearly exhibits toko te ragi (GD32) - which Metoro this time calls mahigo (child):

"Les Mahigo (enfants) et les petites calebasses sont ici réunis. Dans leurs prières, en demandant à Makémaké de petits calebasses, c'étaient surtout des enfants qu'ils désignaient par ce mot." (Jaussen according to Barthel)

... The Dogon peoples saw the sun as a calabash: '... In the upper part of the façade, as a pendant to the calabash on the right which represents the sun, it is a drawing of the moon, either full or as a crescent. This is a reminder, on the left-hand side, of the celestial regions ...'

In Aa2-9 is a version of te pito, and in Aa2-10 is the 'recycling station'. Although the order is strange - Aa2-8 ought to arrive after Aa2-10 - we can recognize the parallel between Aa2-1--2 and Pb10-1--2 (with the same ordinal numbers):

Pb10-1 Pb10-2
Aa2-1 Aa2-2

In Pb10-1 a sort of gnomon is depicted - no body nor limbs - while in Aa2-1 the person is standing high. Pb10-1 is therefore in opposition to Aa2-1. The parallel is only superficial. When in Aa2-9 we observe a 'pito' with the 'sun head' outside and behind instead of inside it is a further 'proof' of the opposition:

Aa2-9 Pb9-33

A closer parallel between Aa2-1 etc maybe is offered on side a of P (and H/Q):

Aa2-2 Aa2-3 Aa2-7 Aa2-8
Pa6-27 Pa6-28 Pa6-29 Pa6-30 Pa6-31 Pa6-32
Pb10-2 Pb10-10 Pb10-1 Pb10-5 Pb10-7

A little sign of the moon is shown at left in Pa6-27, while in Pb10-10 (double-ten as if to show the definite exit of the sun) we can see 12 'feathers' hanging on 3 'threads'. The top of Pa6-29 presumably indicates full moon:

Ea2-13 Ea2-14 Ea2-15 Ea2-16 Ea2-17

Ea2-17 in turn is like Ga1-26 though with viri at the top instead of at bottom:

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Ga1-26 Ga5-11 Ga7-1
145 = 5 * 29

Maybe Ga1-26 is like the Maya maize god emerging from the old shell at new year: