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A waxing moon sign is seen at top right in Eb5-14:

20
Eb5-14 Eb5-15 Eb5-16 Eb5-17

The location is in period 20 of 24, and probably it means that the light of the moon is gaining in importance relative to the sun light. Sun has reached his limit, we can understand from tagata. In Eb5-15 the hand sign means sun is declining. Ua in Eb5-16 confirms that the position of the sun is past his apex.

 

The 24 kiore+henua periods in E no longer should be regarded as covering a whole year, I guess. The presence of kiore means the presence of sun, and henua alludes to his 'climbing up the spout'. Then (at midsummer) comes the rain (ua). But inky pinky comes out again - not so strong, but cleaner.

I have kept my text above neutral, not making precise when sun has reached his limit. The thumb is seen in Eb5-15 because this type of hand gesture should produce 4 in the reader's mind.  

Kb3-3--5 much resembles Eb5-14--16:

 
Kb3-1 Kb3-2 Kb3-3 Kb3-4 Kb3-5 Kb3-6

Eb5-14 has 5 * 14 = 70 (with 5-14 possibly alluding to 3.14, and 14 to the middle of the month). In K we should compare Kb3-1 with Ka3-1, they seem to be opposites:

 

20 12
Ka2-1 Ka2-22 Ka3-1 (47) Ka3-14 (60)
1 * 22 14

Waning sun implies waxing moon. In the larger calendar we still are inside the domain of the sun, halfway from its midpoint to its end:

 

42 33 33 19
Ka3-15 Kb1-7 Kb3-1 (138) Kb4-19 Kb5-20
2 * 22 4 * 22

The distance from Ka3-1 to Kb3-1 is 91 glyphs (= 138 - 47).

In other words, maybe 182 days for the sun are defined by Ka3-1 and Kb3-1:

 
13 42 33 33
Ka2-22 Ka3-1 Ka3-15 Kb1-7 Kb3-1 Kb4-19 (172)
46 91 35

Kb3-1 lies in the 22nd kiore+henua period, a sign which means the end of a cycle. But just as in Kb4-19 a sign at right then says it goes on.

I should add comments which compare the 20th period in E with the 22nd in K. We should rely on K for interpreting other texts, if possible:

... The location is in period 20 of 24, and probably it means that the light of the moon is gaining in importance relative to the sun light. Sun has reached his limit, we can understand from tagata. In Eb5-15 the hand sign means sun is declining. Ua in Eb5-16 confirms that the position of the sun is past his apex.

The parallel K text can give support for this interpretation.