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On side b one of the hahe glyphs possibly simultaneously refers to 8 * 29.5 = 236 days and to the approximate measure 99 months for the Venus cycle (2920 = 8 * 365 days):

side a side b
589 80 117 271 274
Aa8-5 (590) Ab2-36 (99) Ab5-66 (235)
590 40 332 days = 664 / 2
1334 = 590 + 2 * 40 + 2 * 332

This idea is based on counting 2 glyphs per day beyond Aa8-5. (80 + 118) / 2 = 99 and 235 = (80 + 118 + 272) / 2.

If we instead count from Ab1-1 with 1 glyph per day, the first hahe glyph will be at 4 * 29.5 = day 118 while the second would have its place well beyond the end of high summer:

267
Ab2-40 (122) Ab5-66 (390)
268

But we would have to move even further ahead in order to reach kara etahi. Maybe 408 glyphs from manu kake to find the cardinal point which kara etahi presumably is attatched to:

403
Ab2-36 (118) Ab2-37 Ab7-27 Ab7-28 Ab7-29 Ab7-30 (526)
1 405 406 407 408 = 526 - 118

With 2 glyphs per day and beginning to count from Aa8-6, the day numbers would instead be:

404
Ab2-35 Ab2-36 (118) Ab7-27 Ab7-28 Ab7-29 Ab7-30 (526)
99 202 302 303

Alternatively we can count from Ab2-41:

Ab2-29 Ab2-30 Ab2-31 Ab2-32 Ab2-33 Ab2-34
96 97 98
Ab2-35 Ab2-36 Ab2-37 Ab2-38 Ab2-39 Ab2-40
99 100 0
398
Ab2-41 Ab2-42 (124) Ab7-27 Ab7-28 (524) Ab7-29 Ab7-30
1 199 0 1

 

The extraordinary Ab2-42 has a crack at right in vaha kai (of the summer type). It could mean that a new beginning beyond high summer is in the past. Another similar crack is to the right higher up on the 'throat' of the being which is going head down. If he had been in an upright position this crack would also have been to the right and presumably had the same meaning as the first crack. Possibly we should read the sign just so.

Then there is another greater gap at bottom right. With the same method of reading it will be a great crack in time now in the past. Which agrees with a new beginning from manu kake in Ab2-37. The head has 3 great feathers and ought to belong to spring sun.

If the method of reading an insertion of a zero day (with two glyphs) is correct, then 199 days possibly is to be regarded as two periods (with 100 + a zero day):

Ab2-35 Ab2-36 Ab2-37 Ab2-38 Ab2-39 Ab2-40 (122)
99 100 0
194
Ab2-41 Ab2-42 (124) Ab4-75 Ab4-76 (320) Ab4-77 Ab4-78 Ab4-79 Ab4-80 (324)
1 97 99 100 0

Metoro said vero at Ab4-76 and 320 is easily to be understood as the end of the lifegiving sun season. 4 * 80 = 320 and the 2 tagata are 200 glyphs apart. The great rising fish in Ab4-75 seems to be 'killed' -  he is at left in the pair of glyphs which could be at day 99 beyond high summer. 4 * 75 = 300 and 320 is half 640.

Ab4-80 is the last glyph in line b4. Then comes a new season:

Ab5-1 (325) Ab5-2 Ab5-3 Ab5-4 Ab5-5 Ab5-6
1 2 3
Ab5-7 Ab5-8 Ab5-9 Ab5-10 Ab5-11 Ab5-12 (336)
4 5 6

The structure is surely there. We can measure 2 glyphs per day at least up to Ab4-80.

With the beginning of glyph line Ab5 the subject naturally must be 'fire' (rima = 5). There are 5 + 5 feathers on hua and 5 feathers on ragi.

So we can order:

194
Aa8-6 Aa8-7 Ab2-35 Ab2-36 (118) Ab2-37 Ab2-38 Ab2-39 Ab2-40 (122)
1 97 99 100 0
194
Ab2-41 Ab2-42 Ab4-75 Ab4-76 (320) Ab4-77 Ab4-78 Ab4-79 Ab4-80 (324)
1 97 99 100 0
194
Ab5-1 Ab5-2 Ab7-25 Ab7-26 (522) Ab7-27 Ab7-28 Ab7-29 Ab7-30 (526)
1 97 99 100 0

A new symmetry emerges: The days of 99 are keys for understanding what season is ending, while the 4 following glyphs in a way inaugurate the next season. 18 * 29 = 522:

Ab1-1 (1) Ab7-26 (522)