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I realize that the tail-fish (ika hiku) is seen also in Aa6-67, and update the glyph catalogue accordingly:

 

Aa6-64 Aa6-65 Aa6-66 Aa6-67 Aa6-68 Aa6-69 Aa6-70

Beyond will come another season, and in Aa6-66 we can see that it is the season of water. Aa6-65 makes clear that it is a celestial matter, related to the sun. Sun is turning (cfr Aa6-69) to become a rainy character.

In Aa6-68 the light is heavily at left, sparsely at right. The head of the sun fish is engulfed by ika hiku.

Aa6-67 must stand at a numerically recognizable point. Should we count from Ab1-1, from Aa1-1 or from some other starting point? Experience from G and K says we should think 16 or 8:

 

G 16 472 29.5 8 59
K 16 192 12 8 24
A 16 1334 83.375 8 166.75

Probably we should adjust the number of glyphs from 1334 to 1344 - resulting in 84 respectively 168. We have adjusted 471 to 472 in G and did so by using Gb8-30 also as the first glyph on side a.

Therefore, we should try to begin counting 10 glyphs earlier than from Ab1-1 or Aa1-1.

The glyphs at the end of side a are promising:

 
Aa8-67 Aa8-68 Aa8-69 Aa8-70 Aa8-71
Aa8-72 Aa8-73 Aa8-74 Aa8-75
Aa8-76 Aa8-77 Aa8-78 Aa8-79 Aa8-80
Aa8-81 Aa8-82 Aa8-83 Aa8-84 Aa8-85

At the end of side b we have:

Ab8-69 Ab8-70 Ab8-71 Ab8-72 Ab8-73 Ab8-74 Ab8-75 Ab8-76
Ab8-77 Ab8-78 Ab8-79 Ab8-80 Ab8-81 Ab8-82 Ab8-83 Ab8-84

Counting from Ab8-75 the ordinal number for Aa6-67 will be 416 + 67 + 10 = 493.

Counting from Aa8-76 the number will be 10 + 664 + 416 + 67 = 1157:

493 8 61.625
1157 8 144.625

8 * 0.625 = 5, which suggests we should reduce 493 and 1157 to 488 respectively 1152:

 
Aa6-64 Aa6-65 Aa6-66 Aa6-67 Aa6-68 Aa6-69 Aa6-70
485 486 487 488 489 490 491
1149 1150 1151 1152 1153 1154 1155

488 / 4 = 122, and 1152 / 4 = 288 glyphs. Translated into days, 61 respectively 144 (= 12 * 12). Both alternatives are reasonable.

We cannot move the starting points 5 glyphs forward (to Ab8-80 respectively to Aa8-81), because that would destroy 84 respectively 168 (as multiples of 8 for the total number of glyphs in the text).

G 16 472 29.5 8 59
K 16 192 12 8 24
A 16 1344 84 8 168

But 488 for Aa6-67 requires we start counting from Ab8-80, and if we then count also the 5 glyphs at the end of side a twice, we will reach 1344. Alternatively we change focus from Aa6-67 ot Aa6-62.

 We have earlier found Aa6-67 to be the 13th glyph counted from Aa6-55:

Aa6-55 (1) Aa6-56 Aa6-57 Aa6-58 Aa6-59 Aa6-60
Aa6-61 Aa6-62 Aa6-63 (9) Aa6-64 Aa6-65 Aa6-66
Aa6-67 (13) Aa6-68 Aa6-69 Aa6-70 Aa6-71 Aa6-72
Aa6-73 Aa6-74 Aa6-75 Aa6-76 Aa6-77 Aa6-78 (24)
Aa6-79 Aa6-80 Aa6-81 Aa6-82 Aa6-83 Aa6-84 (30)

8 * 29.5 = 236 is the day which defines the beginning of Te Pei. 2 * 236 = 472 is the corresponding glyph in A. Counted from Aa1-1 the first glyph, Aa6-55, will have ordinal number 471 (= the number of glyphs in G). It suggests we possibly should count not from Aa1-1 but from Ab8-84.

Aa6-78 has a henua covered by 6 marks, and to the right a sign which resembles that in Gb5-5:

Gb5-5 Gb5-6 Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-10 Gb5-11 Gb5-12
359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366

Aa6-63 resembles half Gb5-10. Aa6-63 has ordinal number 9 suggesting a final. 472 + 9 = 481 (= 13 * 37), but 480 = 8 * 60.

Counted in days, a first sun cycle apparently could be equal to 8 * 30 = 240, covering 2/3 of 360 days.

G 472 8 59
K 192 8 24
A 240 * 2 8 30 * 2

1344 - 480 = 864 = 500 + 364 (= 250 + 182 days). 10 glyphs (5 days) earlier than the beginning of Te Pei we find Aa6-45:

Aa6-40 Aa6-41 Aa6-42 Aa6-43 Aa6-44
Aa6-45 Aa6-46 Aa6-47 Aa6-48 Aa6-49
Aa6-50 Aa6-51 Aa6-52 Aa6-53 Aa6-54

We recognize the constellation tagata + manu rere from earlier (Gb7-7):

... Another example of sun depicted as a fish is seen in Gb7-10:

Gb7-5 Gb7-6 Gb7-7 Gb7-8 Gb7-9 Gb7-10
50 51 52 53 54 55

A new cycle is generated in Gb7-5, and in Gb7-8--9 is illustrated how the new 'sun' (year) is being 'released'. In Gb7-10 the great new 'fish' is rising.

Gb7-6 seems to represent the cycle of a kind of 'year', drawn as the largest of the henua glyphs in the text of G.

The numbers in the bottom line are counted from the ika glyph following immediately beyond haga te pau:

Gb5-11 Gb5-12 Gb5-13
365 366 1

366 + 50 = 416 = 16 * 26. Both sun (26) and moon (16) have reached 'time zero' - it is a time of conjunction ...

The first sun cycle should not, however, cover more than 180 days. 240 - 180 = 60 days, which maybe are located before spring equinox.