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With one day per glyph an overview of the K text could be mapped like this:

sun light barred spring sun leaves
ca 59 days ca 108 days ca 25 days
ca 192 days

One strong point for this model is that the calendar has two months before sun arrives, which is in agreement with how I have interpreted a Maya calendar:

5 Tzek 6 Xul 7 Yaxkin 8 Mol
9 Ch'en 10 Yax 11 Sac 12 Ceh
200
13 Mac 14 Kankin 15 Moan
16 Pax 17 Kayab 18 Cumhu 19 Vayeb
1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip 4 Zotz

20 days in each month means sun is 'barred' during 60 days (Pop, Uo, and Zip), and the open mouth in Zotz illustrates how light is returning (left means future here).

Moreover, this idea of a period of 60 days in waiting beyond winter solstice has ancient roots also in our own classical time.

"Sixty days after the winter solstice corresponds by astronomical definition to February 20.

On that date in 1250 B.C. Arcturus rose before sunset, was two and one-half degrees above the horizon at sunset, and seven degrees above the horizon by thirty-tree minutes after sunset, when it could shine through the fading glow of the day.

On the same date in 700 B.C., Arcturus did not rise until after sunset and did not attain a seven-degree elevation above the horizon until one hour and twelve minutes after sunset. By then it was totally dark; the facts of 700 B.C. simply do not seem to fit the circumstances of acronychal rising as defined in the passage of Hesiod."

"Curiously enough ... phenomena Hesiod mentions are ... more appropriate to a date of 1250 than to Hesiod's date of 700 B.C. There is a rather technical temporal formula given at Works and Days 564-566:

'When Zeus, after the turn of the (winter) solstice, has completed sixty wintry days, that's when the sign-star Arcturus leaves the cold stream of Ocean and first rises acronychally in splendor'.

The occurrence of the solstices was not determinable by any exact stellar apparition but was to be found roughly by the use of a gnomon. The apparition of Arcturus confirms that the solstice was sixty days past. Its rising is one of the few sure signposts of the year. Arcturus is the fifth brightest star (zero magnitude) visible in the northern latitudes. If it is not obscured by haze or a high horizon, it will become visible within a half-hour after sunset." (Worthen)

With one day per glyph the curious measure 167 days could describe the time before sun leaves the island:

sun light barred spring sun leaves
ca 59 days ca 108 days ca 25 days
ca 167 days
ca 192 days

With two days per glyph a similar measure will be 168 days, the sum of 118 and 50:

sun light barred sun present sun leaves
ca 118 days ca 216 days ca 50 days
ca 384 days

168 = 2 * 84 = 6 * 28, which feels easier to accept than the odd figure 167.

And 216 = 6 * 36 = 6 * 6 * 6, maybe alluding to the three 'feathers' of 'daylight' (i.e. with sun present).

The new structure for K, with 2 days for each glyph, seems promising. It would indeed be strange with a calendar showing only half the year.

216 is commensurate with 360, because 144 (their difference) is 12 * 12. And 168 also relates to 360, because 168 + 192 = 360.

216 = 12 * 18 and 168 = 12 * 14:

144 12 * 12 168 12 * 14
216 12 * 18 192 12 * 16
360 = 12 * 30

Perhaps we therefore should adjust into:

sun light barred spring sun leaves
ca 60 days ca 108 days ca 24 days
ca 168 days
ca 192 days

I will therefore include a new page from a hyperlink at 216:

216 is commensurate with 360, because 144 (their difference) is 12 * 12. And 168 also relates to 360, because 168 + 192 = 360.

Furthermore: 216 = 12 * 18 and 168 = 12 * 14, i.e. the following table correlates all four numbers:

144 12 * 12 168 12 * 14
216 12 * 18 192 12 * 16
360 = 12 * 30

Probably we therefore should adjust the number of glyphs into:

60 108 24
168
192

Ka3-15 is number 61 and Kb4-15 is number 168:

Ka3-15 Ka3-16 Ka3-17 Ka3-18 Ka3-19 Ka3-20 Ka3-21
Kb4-15 Kb4-16 Kb4-17 Kb4-18

168 can in this model be regarded as the time of the sun counted from winter solstice.

Giving a value of 2 days for each glyph not only expands the time scale but also redefines the location of 168:

120 216 48
384

Here 168 days should be read as a moon measure, because it is equal to 12 fortnights, because 216 divides 168 into two parts, and because 216 is a sun-related number (= 12 * 18). With a value of 1 day per glyph 168 days instead can be regarded as sun-related (24 weeks), which is followed by a 25th week.

The reign of sun apparently ends at 384 - 48 = day 336, i.e. 29 days before 365. 336 = 12 * 28. Kb4-15 is glyph number 168 (= 336 / 2).

New complications crop up without any end. 216 = 8 * 27, where 27 could be an approximation of the sidereal month (27.3 days).

8 * 27.3 = 218.

384 = ca 14 * 27.3 = 382.2.

We need one glyph more:

118 218 48
384

Now 118 will be properly moon-related: 4 * 29.5 = 118, and the fire generator will be the first of 109 glyphs:

Ka3-14 Ka3-15 Ka3-16 Ka3-17 Ka3-18 Ka3-19 Ka3-20 Ka3-21

I need to insert one more page:

There is, though, a third way to read the K text:

216 = 8 * 27, where 27 could be an approximation of the sidereal month (27.3 days).

8 * 27.3 = 218.4 and 384 = ca 14 * 27.3 = 382.2.

And then 6 * 27.3 = 382.2 - 218.4 = 163.8 = ca 164 = 364 - 200:

Kb4-10 Kb4-11 (164) Kb4-12 Kb4-13 Kb4-14

We need one glyph more in order to adjust to 27.3:

118 218 48
384

Now 118 will be moon-related: 4 * 29.5 = 118, and the fire generator will be the first of 109 glyphs:

Ka3-14 Ka3-15 Ka3-16 Ka3-17 Ka3-18 Ka3-19 Ka3-20 Ka3-21

This is the right time to quote the following from Hamlet's Mill:

"Again and again, in the course of this essay, we have insisted on the vanity of any attempt to give an 'image' of the archaic cosmos, even were it such an image as Rembrandt drew of the cabalistic apparition to the Initiate, or as Faust suddenly saw in the sign of the Spirit of Earth.

Even as a magic scheme, it would have to be a design of insoluble complexity. Far worse did our own scholarly predecessors fare when they tried for a model, conceived mechanically, an orrery, a planetarium maybe, such as Plato suggests teasingly in his deadpan way with his whorls and spindles and frames and pillars.

A real model might indeed help, he goes on without batting an eye, and one realizes it would come into the price range of a Zeiss Planetarium, still true to the kinematic rigor of the Powers of heaven, but blind to their moving soul in its action - and Plato's machinery promptly dissolves into contradictions, no real 'model' at all.

Plato will never yield on his 'unseriousness', which for him is a matter of principle, a way of leaving mystery alone while respecting reason as far as it can go."

I suspect the newly defined number 109 is the key for understanding the relationship between manu kapakau and ua 'generating an eye':

22
Kb3-1 Kb3-2 Kb3-3 Kb3-4 Kb3-5 Kb3-6
counted from *Kb2-15 9 10
counted from the 1st Rei (Ka2-10) 109 110
counted from the 2nd Rei (Ka3-15) 82

83
counted from the 3rd Rei (Kb1-11) 32 33
counted from Kb1-14 29 30
from ua to Kb4-7 there are 18 glyphs

The text is a planetarium of cosmic proportions.