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I suggest that a correct interpretation of the K text should be based on reading 1 glyph as 1 day (as in G). The end of the text therefore has Kb5-10 as day number 182:

...
Kb5-10 (182) Kb5-12 Kb5-13 Kb5-14
Kb5-15 Kb5-16 Kb5-17 Kb5-18 Kb5-19 Kb5-20

182 is 364 / 2 and also equal to 7 * 26 (a combination of the number of days in a week - or the number of 'planets' -  with the number of the last 'residence of the king', Hanga Moria One).

Haú in Kb5-14 indicates the end of the spring season by means of another measure, viz. 31 days in a month. 186 = 6 * 31. The missing glyph (Kb5-11) solves the problem of illustrating 0.625 days = (365¼ - 364) / 2.
 
Beyond Kb5-14 follow 6 glyphs necessary to reach to 192 = 6 * 32 days. I have marked them black, because sun cannot have more than 31 days in a month. Day number 32 is a day which resembles the 29th night of the moon - a black (but very important) time when a new light must be alighted.

Kb5-15 has at top left an arm instead of the maitaki sign expected and the hand is hiding the light in a gesture downwards. To see the complete dark season we must continue to read at the beginning of the text:

4 22
Kb5-15 Kb5-20 Ka1-1
29

The central portion of Kb5-15 agrees in meaning with the similar structures in Eb6-1 and in the ancient Egyptian picture of Pharaoh crossing the intercalated 5 days between the end of day number 360 and the new year. 'Twins of light' follow the 29 glyph long text:

50 90
Ka1-24 Ka4-8 (75) Kb4-13 (166)
52 = 4 * 13 91 = 7 * 13

75 is a quarter of 300 days (the time of sun) and 91 is equal to a quarter of 364. Two quarters cover the first half of the year.

Between day number 166 and the dark maitaki glyph (at day 187), there are 20 glyphs which maybe should be added to the dark season. 29 + 20 = 49 = 7 * 7. The dark 'day' of sun should not be 29 but have a unique own number:

15 3
Kb5-10 (182) Kb5-14
20

Kb5-13 at 185 has not been explained. Why is the top part of the glyph missing? Is it saying that the 2nd half of the year is not described in the text?

If we compare Kb5-15 with the parallel glyph in G we can see a dark string instead of a light henua:

Ga7-24 Kb5-15

The comparison enables us to see that the strange sign at top right in Kb5-15 is a kind of toki with a string hanging in front. Maybe the form of the 'fruit' describes a sun canoe in Kb5-15, but a moon hua in Ga7-24, indicating what comes next (i.e. spring respectively autumn). Maybe the string only marks a 'break in time', whereas henua (or a vacant space formed like henua) indicates intercalated days.

There is no glyph in G which resembles Kb5-15 and Eb6-1, the closest example (Ga5-5) has maitaki signs only at left:

Ga1-17 Ga1-21 Ga3-11 Ga3-17 Ga4-20 Ga5-5
Ga5-10 Ga5-13 Ga7-8 Ga7-14 Ga7-18 Ga7-19
Ga7-24 Ga8-6 Ga8-10 Ga8-17 Ga8-21 Ga8-26
Gb2-22 Gb4-3 Gb4-26 Gb4-27 Gb6-5 Gb7-23
 
Gb7-30 Gb8-17

I have redmarked also Gb4-3 because there is a henua in it. Ga5-5 (with 5 * 5 = 25) evidently is a strong mark for 'sun fire now in the past', but the midnight henua does not carry much weight because that is the normal way the G creator designed his henua. 8 * 26 = 208 seems to connect Ga5-5 with Gb4-3, but is unclear how:

207 148 115
Ga5-5 (116) Gb4-3 (324)
208 = 8 * 26 264 = 8 * 33
207 148 115
Gb4-3 (324) Ga5-5 (116)
208 = 8 * 26 264 = 8 * 33

116 = 4 * 29, which suggests the 2nd alternative is the right one (Ga5-5 must close a 'square').  But 264 - 116 = 148 is no multiple of 29, and neither is 116 a multiple of 8. Maybe we therefore should go from 8 to 4, which immediately becomes more interesting because 264 = 4 * 66:

207 148 115
Gb4-3 (324) Ga5-5 (116)
208 = 4 * 52 264 = 4 * 66
472 = 4 * 118

Gb4-3 stands at Akahanga (11 * 29.5 = 324.5), and we can identify glyph number 10 * 32 as outside the reach of the sun:

Gb3-25 Gb3-26 Gb3-27 Gb3-28 Gb3-29 (320) Gb3-30 Gb4-1
Gb4-2 Gb4-3 Gb4-4 Gb4-5

A little pau (or maitaki) sign at bottom right in Gb4-3 marks the future, the tagata sign the complete season of the past.

Rei in Ga5-6 has ordinal number 117 as if to allude to the period number (17):

17
Ga5-4 Ga5-5 Ga5-6 (117) Ga5-7 Ga5-8 Ga5-9

Te Poko Uri (4 * 29.5 = 118) seems to be the beginning of a dark season (in contrast to Te Kioe Uri). That is hardly right - the maitaki sign at left in Ga5-5 does not fit as a sign for the spring sun. If we regard Ga5-7 with its high 'neck' and vai in front, the resemblance with the double vai glyphs at Akahanga should tell us something.

4 * 66 at Ga5-5 informs us that a 'square' ('earth') is completed, and the 'square' in question is related to 'fire' (5) and to sun (66). Is focus from Te Poko Uri shifting from the spring sun fire (which is lifting up of the sky roof) to another 'habit' for the sun? Tagata with high neck is at left in Ga5-7.

The new season ('habit') apparently is connected with vai. This type of vai then is ending at Hua Reva (the first kuhane station without Te).