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Maybe the running sign stands for time moving. It could be simply a fusion of tagata and vae:

Ea2-8 Cb9-4 Ca12-11 vae Ca12-6 Ea6-14 Eb4-18

It would then not necessarily mean a time of equinox, but it would exclude a solstice. We can integrate hanau and running people to see if hanau excludes running:

I have redmarked clear cases of running persons, avoiding other main figures (e.g. Ga7-21).

Similarly blackmarked are clear cases of hanau, avoiding other types (e.g. Gb2-14).

Ga1-12 Ga1-14
Ga2-9 Ga5-7
Ga6-17 Ga7-21 Ga8-9 Ga8-18 Ga8-24
Gb1-2 Gb2-14 Gb2-31
Gb3-13 Gb3-18 Gb4-18 Gb4-21 Gb4-26
Gb6-17 Gb6-19 Gb6-25
Gb7-28 Gb7-31 Gb8-14 Gb8-24 Gb8-26

Indeed, there is a tendency of hanau excluding running, you don't run when giving birth.

Next reflection relates to vai in Gb4-23:

Gb4-19 (340) Gb4-20 Gb4-21 Gb4-22 Gb4-23 (344)
Gb4-24 Gb4-25 Gb4-26 Gb4-27 Gb4-28 (349)

It comes 4 glyphs beyond Gb4-19, and could therefore allude to 364 (4 days beyond 360):

Gb5-5 Gb5-6 (360) Gb5-7 Gb5-8
Gb5-9 Gb5-10 (364) Gb5-11 Gb5-12

On the other hand is Gb5-5 at position 359 not correspondingly located (as Gb4-22).

Maitaki in Ga7-24 and in Gb4-27 together cover 12 * 13 days, and haś at 192 comes before:

153
Ga7-23 (192) Ga7-24 Gb4-26 Gb4-27 (348) Gb4-28
156 = 12 * 13

13 * 14 = 182 is a fact which could raise interest for 12 * 13.

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The length of the hanau legs are correlated with position in the text:

long right leg
Ga1-12 Ga1-14 Gb8-26
long left leg
Ga6-17 Ga8-18 Ga8-24 Gb1-2
neither
Gb2-14 Gb2-31 Gb3-13 Gb7-28
special
Gb3-18

We will take a closer look on the two redmarked glyphs (because they look similar and fairly uncomplicated).

 

If a running leg indicates time moving, then the long legs above could refer to how during spring time runs fast, a sign which must stop at summer solstice, but which is kept at left already from Ga6-17. This coincides with the time when in the parallel K text ua arrives:

Kb3-1 Kb3-2 Kb3-3 Kb3-4 Kb3-5 Kb3-6
Kb3-7 (144) Kb3-8

The first half year, measured as 192 days, will then have completed its major (spring) part at day 12 * 12 = 144, according to K. Only 48 days then remain. At right in Kb3-8 comes an orderly drawn henua. The hand is empty at right in Kb3-7.