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If we wish 182 to be the basic feature of the structure on side a, it apparently leaves an open gap of 392 - 364 = 28 glyphs in the center of the text:

waxing sun
176
Ca7-9 (177) Ca7-10 Ca7-11 Ca7-12 (180) Ca7-13 Ca7-14 (182)
2 * 91 = 182
waning sun
116 63
Ca8-12 (211) Ca12-12 (328) Ca12-13
182 = 13 * 14

We can then add more information by documenting also the consequences of measuring to 168 instead of to 182:

167 54 167
Ca6-28 Ca7-1 Ca8-25 (224) Ca8-26
168 = 12 * 14 56 = 4 * 14 168 = 12 * 14
392 = 28 * 14

The central portion of side a will now be 4 fortnights long and we can identify the central structure as:

12 28 12
Ca7-1 (169) Ca7-14 (182) Ca8-12 (211) Ca8-25 (224)
14 14
56

Both Ca8-12 and Ca8-25 are tagata rere glyphs, though looking in opposite directions and also in most other respects opposites (e.g., looking up respectively down, 'arms' up respectively down, slim respectively thick, straight neck respectively bent neck, open 'beak' rescpectively closed, 'toes' in front respectively at the back).

Ca7-1 and Ca7-14 are also showing a sign of reversal - the 'stem' (or rather path of the sun) from which the 'hua fish' is hanging down in Ca7-14 is at the back, while the similar 'stem' in Ca7-1 is in front.

It now remains to identify the nucleus of the central portion of side a, those 28 days between Ca7-14 and Ca8-12:

5
Ca7-25 Ca7-26 Ca7-27 Ca7-28 (196)
Ca7-29 Ca7-30 Ca7-31
Ca8-1 Ca8-2 Ca8-3

The exceptional reversed moe bird ought to mean 'end' (rather than 'beginning' which is the meaning of the non-reversed glyph), and it is glyph number 196 (= 392 / 2). Its identification as a sign of 'turning around' is confirmed by multiplying 7 * 28 = 196. The result of this multiplication agrees with the position of Ca7-28 as counted from Ca1-1.

Turning the tablet around to look at side b we can use the same type of multiplication to identify the glyph of central importance on that side:

Cb7-22 Cb7-23 Cb7-24 (168) Cb7-25 Cb7-26 Cb7-27
Cb8-1 Cb8-2 Cb8-3 (174) Cb8-4 Cb8-5 Cb8-6 (177)
Cb8-7 Cb8-8 Cb8-9 (180) Cb8-10 Cb8-11 (182) Cb8-12

It is Rogo at Cb7-24, because 7 * 24 = 168. However, 348 / 2 = 174.

Position 174 is at the next Venus glyph (Cb8-3). A new glyph line is beginning in between and therefore Cb8-3 can be the next day of Venus although only 6 days have passed since Rogo.

8 * 3 = 24 and 168 + 24 = 192. While side a evidently is based on measuring fortnights, side b seems to be based on number 6. Adding 6 to 174 we will reach 180 and then a new season comes in Cb8-10 (also a day of Venus). Obviously there is a break in time between Cb8-9 and Cb8-10 (cfr the 'nicks' on the maro strings).

Atariki at Cb8-12 apparently marks the end of the central portion on side b. Many more interesting signs appear above, but let us leave them aside, and conclude by observing that two of the seven tagata rere glyphs on side b appear among the 18 central ones above. Cb8-11 comes 14 days beyond Rogo and Cb7-23 is the glyph immediately before Rogo.

 

348 / 6 = 58 = 2 * 29, i.e. 348 = 12 * 29. This is hardly a coincidence. The measure of side b evidently is 6 combined with 29 (light and darkness).

6 * 29 = 174 is the number of the last glyph of the first half of the text on side b.

In Cb8-6 (where 8 * 6 = 48 = 348 - 300) a vero 'kills' the first half of the cycle. Its number is 3 * 59 = 177 and a very distinct full stop tells us that we should not forget to count by the lunar calendar. No, that is a joke - the dot is only a consequence of my copying the glyph from Fischer. The following Cb8-7 is so broad that its left leg intrudes into the picture of Cb8-6.

On side a we have measured 290 (= 10 * 29) as a possible interval relating two of the tagata rere glyphs:

Saturn (†) Sun (*)
ignites the fire  is covered up
Ca2-11 Ca12-12 (328)
290 = 10 * 29

But Ca2-11 has vanished from our discussion, it has no place in the two interconnected structures based on 168 and 182.

168 = 14 * 12 (side a) = 6 * 28 (side b), but 182 = 14 * 13 on side a while 174 = 6 * 29 on side b. 182 is not congruent with 6.

14 is a measure for side a, and Ca2-11 seems to mark day number 100 from Ca12-14 (where 12 * 14 = 168):

waxing
36 139 33
Ca2-11 (37) Ca7-9 (177)
6 * 29.5 = 177
210 = 14 * 15
waning
116 63
Ca8-12 (211) Ca12-12 (328) Ca12-13
118 = 4 * 29.5
182 = 14 * 13

Saturn at Ca2-11 is located as the last day of the first 100 days from what presumably is winter solstice. Then comes a new season:

Aa1-34 Aa1-35 Aa1-36 Aa1-37 Aa1-38 (400)
Ca2-8 Ca2-9 Ca2-10 (36) Ca2-11 Ca2-12
no hands visible in Ca2-9 one hand inside in Ca2-11
rima

In A the perspective is how the day reaches the night. In C it is the opposite: how the 'night' reaches 'dawn'.

12 * 14 = 168 = 7 * 24, and with Rogo in Cb7-24 a new season is also born:

Cb7-22 Cb7-23 Cb7-24 (168) Cb7-25 Cb7-26 Cb7-27
Cb8-1 Cb8-2 Cb8-3 (174) Cb8-4

His open hand in front is rather abruptly turned into another entity, the disc of the new sun. We can count 7 * 26 = 182 at Cb7-26. Tagata rere and Rogo exhibit opposite traits, they indicate end respectively new beginning.

Saturn at Cb7-25 becomes 175, which points at Cb8-4.

392 + 348 = 740 = 14 * 28 + 6 * 58 = 20 * 28 + 6 * 30 = 560 + 180.

392 + 168 (at Rogo in Cb7-24) = 560, which may explain why there are 8 'absent' glyphs on side a (in order to reach 400).