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The unusual Aa6-63 seems to be a variant of vaha kai (eating mouth):

 

Aa6-63 vaha kai

Vaha kai, in turn, presumably is a combination a simple ring form with viri:

vaha kai viri Ab4-51

I.e., Aa6-63 is half the sign in Ab4-51 and half (the lower part) the vaha kai sign. The simple ring is also seen at right in Aa8-75:

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

5 glyphs beyond the point where the time cycle is finished (Aa8-75) comes a vertical break (break in time) with a 2nd cycle being followed by a 1st cycle. This is the glyph before Aa8-81 from which we have to start counting in order to reach 1152 (= 8 * 144) at Aa6-67.

A mouth (vaha) without viri probably also 'swallows'. The break glyph is Aa8-80 (8 * 80 = 640), and it resembles Ga4-20 (4 * 20 = 80) and Ga7-18:

Ga4-20 (104) Ga4-21 Ga4-22
Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 Ga4-26 Ga4-27
Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17
Ga7-18 (187) Ga7-19 Ga7-20 Ga7-21 Ga7-22

104 (= 8 * 13) is counted from Gb8-30, while 187 (= 11 * 17) is counted from Ga1-1, I found 7-18 to be in harmony with 187. But 188 = 4 * 47 is also possible, of course.

The 'eating mouth' (at the horizon in the west) devours all celestial bodies after one of their two cycles (day respectively night). I guess Aa6-77 has a hole in his belly to illustrate the same phenomenon, because to his right a reversed 'viri' (or rather rima auaue as I have labelled the glyph type) defines, it seems, the final limit:

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)

6 * 78 = 468 = 300 + 168 = 13 * 36.

471 (Aa6-55) + 23 = 494 = 19 * 26.