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I think we must restate in a more complete way the discovery of how Te Pei and Hatinga Te Kohe are coordinated in G. The flanking birds should be included, together with the corresponding glyphs at Hatinga Te Kohe:

 

Gb1-4 (233) Gb1-5 Gb1-6 Gb1-7 (236) Gb1-8
Gb4-31 (351) Gb4-32 Gb4-33 Gb5-1 (354) Gb5-2
Gb1-9 Gb1-10 Gb1-11 Gb1-12 (241)
Gb5-3 Gb5-4 Gb5-5 Gb5-6 (359)

Ordinal numbers are counted from Ga1-1, but if we begin with Gb8-30 the results become better. Gb5-6 will be 360, Gb4-33 will be 354 and Gb1-6 will be 236:

 

Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7
Gb4-33 (354) Gb5-1
Gb5-5 Gb5-6 (360)

Furthermore, the flanking birds will get even numbers:

 

Gb1-4 Gb1-12
 234 = 13 * 18  242 = 11 * 22

Is it possible to go beyond Gb1-12 and find glyphs coordinated with the glyphs beyond Gb5-6?

 

Gb1-11 Gb1-12 (342) Gb1-13 Gb1-14 Gb1-15
Gb5-5 Gb5-6 (360) Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9
Gb1-16 Gb1-17 Gb1-18 (248) Gb1-19
Gb5-10 (364) Gb5-11 Gb5-12 (366) Gb5-13

Obviously Hanga Te Pau is coordinated with Gb1-18. Not only do we recognize the haga rave sign in both glyphs (at right in Gb1-18 and at left in Gb5-12) but also the numbers tell the story: 18 and 60 (5 * 60) are sun numbers for completeness.

Furthermore: 248 = 8 * 31 and 366 = 12 * 30.5.

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Another reversed hau tea is located at the beginning of the preceding glyph line, and it is drawn exactly as in Gb5-1:
32
Gb3-30 Gb4-1 Gb4-33 Gb5-1
320 321 354 355

Here 320 = 10 * 32, where 32 probably alludes to the 5th term in the 'growth series': 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 ... If so, then it probably means that at Gb3-30 the season of growth is ending, which also a pau sign at bottom right indicates.

A new (black) season without growth (which needs sun light) evidently begins with Gb4-1. If we add the glyphs from Gb4-1 up to and including Ga4-2 we reach 236 = 8 * 29.5:

149 83
Gb3-30 Gb4-1 Gb8-30 Ga1-1 Ga4-2
320 1 151 152 236

A takaure season (winter) with sun 'absent', a dark season, is beginning with Gb4-1 and ending with Ga4-2.

The calendar is 16 * 29.5 = 472 glyphs long (1 more than the number of glyphs on the tablet) and half the calendar describes when sun is 'absent', half when sun is 'present'.

Here it is 'proven' that sun is 'present' during 236 glyphs, while at the same time it is implicitly stated that during 320 glyphs he is 'present'. The difference is 320 - 236 = 84 = the distance from Ga1-1 to Ga4-2. Growth is indicated already from the beginning of the text but sun has not yet arrived.

Then we have the evidence of the 'feather garlands', marking - presumably - his residence, during some twice 4 * 29.5 = 236 glyphs, with a halfway station at Gb1-7:

 

Ga5-8 (118) Ga5-15 Gb1-7 (236) Gb3-5 (295)
177 = 6 * 29.5

Ga5-15 (5 * 15 = 75) has ordinal number 125 (5 * 25) and the twice 6 maro feathers are rising. The sun fire has arrived.

Here the end is at Hatinga Te Kohe (10 * 29.5 = 295), 35 glyphs (days) later than the end of the growth. It is better expressed by pointing out that growth ends (pau) with the last glyph in line b3, and after an interlude in line b4 a new season will begin with the first glyph in line b5.

The sun king is buried in the inderlude (line b4), because there we find Akahanga:

 
Gb3-25 Gb3-26 Gb3-27 Gb3-28 Gb3-29 Gb3-30 Gb4-1
Gb4-2 Gb4-3 Gb4-4 Gb4-5

In Gb3-29 there is either a hole in the sun or some object in front, maybe a 'nut'? By being buried the king will return. The maro strings are rising, a good sign.

In Gb4-3 the tagata 'head' is indicating Maunga Hau Epa - it is 'finished'.