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These 4 glyphs remain to discuss:

Ha10-9 (511) Hb7-38 (994) Hb12-12 (1257) Hb12-24 (1269)
170⅓ 331⅓ 419 423

Ariga erua (Hb7-38) comes beyond winter solstice:

2 intercalated days:
Hb7-29 Hb7-30 Hb7-31 Hb7-32 Hb7-33 Hb7-34
Hb7-35 Hb7-36 Hb7-37 Hb7-38 Hb7-39 Hb7-40
1 2

If we compare with summer solstice, we notice a parallel structure:

Ha5-17 Ha5-18 Ha5-19 Ha5-20
Ha5-21 Ha5-22 Ha5-23 Ha5-24

The Janus sign (which we can assume the twin heads are indicating) is not used between the first and second 'cycles' of the sun, only when a new year has arrived - Janus should stand inside the threshold of a new year. The hole in Hb7-38 can be interpreted as the 'door' leading from the old year to the new year. But such a 'door' leads also from the first half of the year to the second.

The distance from honu in Ha5-18 to honui in Ha5-22 is 4 glyphs, while the distance from honu in Hb7-32 to honui in Hb7-38 is 6 glyphs. Why it should be so is not clear. Maybe one reason is that the creator of the text wanted to reach 266 (in 7 * 38), a number alluding to 9 * 29.5 (266.5), Te Pou (Sirius). In ancient Egypt Sirius 'caused' the waters of the Nile to rise, thereby 'creating' a new year.

 

Another reason could possibly be to reach sums (18 + 22 = 40 and 32 + 38 = 70) relating to the pattern of the week (and indirectly, maybe, the year): 40 (4 'decades') would then allude to Wednesday and 70 to Saturday. Odin had only one eye - after having payed with one at the 'water hole' of Mimer, but Saturn must have had two, I think:

 
Hb9-33 Hb9-34 Hb9-35 Hb9-36 Hb9-37 Hb9-38
Hb9-51 Hb9-52 Hb9-53 Hb9-54 Hb9-55 Hb9-56 Hb9-57 Hb9-58

There are two fishes (Hb9-53) and two holes (Hb9-55) in Saturn's day.

9 * 36 = 4 * 81, a 'square' is completed. 9 * 55 = 5 * 99 and 9 together with 9 is 81 or 99. In the Mamari moon calendar there are 36 glyphs to the middle. 9 * 58 = 522 = 18 * 29.

This raises the interesting question if pu glyphs incorporate the same type of sign (holes) as honui. If so, then pu glyphs should be important for finding out the structures of texts. In G for example, we immediately can see lots of possible cues connected with those glyphs I have listed as pu in the catalogue:

 

Ga1-6 (7) Gb2-7 (263) Gb2-16 (272) Gb4-16 (337)
Gb7-8 Gb7-9 (420) Gb8-8 (450) Gb8-30 (472)

Most conspicious (and therefore presumably important) is Gb2-16. 2 * 16 = 32 and 272 = 240 + 32 = 4 * 68. It comes close after Gb2-7 and we are at Te Pou:

Gb1-21 Gb1-22 Gb1-23 Gb1-24 Gb1-25 Gb1-26 Gb2-1 Gb2-2
Gb2-3 Gb2-4 Gb2-5 Gb2-6 Gb2-7 Gb2-8 Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (266)
Gb2-11 Gb2-12 Gb2-13 Gb2-14 Gb2-15 Gb2-16 Gb2-17 Gb2-18

Earlier we found a possible calendar for the week beginning with Gb1-26 (as in the sun king's last residence, Hanga Moria One). Gb2-4 has one 'eye' at bottom, presumably it is Mercury. Gb2-5 has a henua which is based on dry land (straight bottom line). In Gb2-6 Jupiter then generates offcome together with the following Venus (Gb2-7), and Saturn (Gb2-8) completes the week. He has a bigger 'eye' at bottom than Mercury and two maro sprouting (the mirror image of Gb2-2 where Mars also has 9 feathers but in opposite order). 9 + 9 = 18. Mars announces light, Saturn darkness.

Venus carries a child - a tamaiti glyph certainly is alluded to. I must immediately include it as a tamaiti glyph in my extended catalogue as viewed from the glyph dictionary:

Ga7-11 (181) Gb2-7 (263) Gb4-7 (328) Gb7-3 (414)

Ga7-11 has ordinal number 181 and when counting to reach the ordinal numbers for Gb4-7 and Gb7-3 we should notice that 91 and 181 are the ordinal numbers from the beginning of side b up to and including the last glyph in line b3 respectively in line b6:

a1 30 30 b1 26 26
a2 29 59 b2 35 61
a3 24 83 b3 30 91
a4 27 110 b4 33 124
a5 30 140 b5 29 153
a6 29 169 b6 28 181
a7 34 203 b7 31 212
a8 26 229 b8 30 242
sum 229 sum 242

A quarter is covered from Gb1-1 up to and including Gb3-30:

 
Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 Gb3-15 (306) Gb3-16 Gb3-17 Gb3-18
Gb3-19 Gb3-20 Gb3-21 Gb3-22 Gb3-23 Gb3-24
Gb3-25 Gb3-26 Gb3-27 Gb3-28 Gb3-29 Gb3-30 Gb4-1
Gb4-2 Gb4-3 Gb4-4 Gb4-5

Here we can see the reason why there is a hole in Gb3-15, it must be due to the time when sun 'disappears' in autumn. 306 - 230 = 4 * 19. There is a change in rule here, and moon takes over:

155 = 5 * 31 169 = 13 * 13 33
Ga6-6 (147) Gb3-12 (303) Ga2-3 (34)
sun pushing moon pushing ?
360

Next quarter ends with Gb6-28 (411)

Gb6-17 Gb6-18 Gb6-19 Gb6-20 Gb6-21 Gb6-22 Gb6-23 Gb6-24
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb6-27 Gb6-28 Gb7-1 Gb7-2 Gb7-3 Gb7-4

Tamaiti comes at Gb7-3 (at 181 + 3 = 184). A new year must appear when the old one has gone. Likewise we find a tamaiti (Gb4-7) after sun has gone down in the west.