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This is the 7- period structure which I once - a long time ago - fancied I saw, based purely on visual clues:

1
Ca2-20 Ca2-21 Ca2-22 Ca2-23
2
Ca2-24 (50) Ca2-25 Ca3-1 (52)
3
Ca3-2 Ca3-3 Ca3-4
4
Ca3-5 Ca3-6 Ca3-7 Ca3-8
5
Ca3-9 (60) Ca3-10 Ca3-11 Ca3-12 Ca3-13
6
Ca3-14 (65) Ca3-15 Ca3-16
7
Ca3-17 Ca3-18 Ca3-19 (70) Ca3-20

Considering the expected 'opening-up' to let in the light around number 60, it seems clear that Ca2-23 is only a precursor (like also Ca1-18 and Ca1-25), and that the 6 glyphs in line a3 form a group:

Ca1-18 Ca1-25 Ca2-23 Ca3-1 Ca3-4 Ca3-8
Ca3-13 Ca3-16 Ca3-20 Ca14-211 Cb2-7 Cb2-16
Cb2-22 Cb2-24 Cb2-25 Cb3-2 Cb3-6 Cb3-12
Cb3-15 Cb3-20 Cb4-2 Cb4-7 Cb4-12 Cb4-16
Cb14-11

The mouth in Ca2-23 is drawn curiously shallow in order to focus the attention of the reader. But it (and the two first on side a) belongs to the 'sun' group, as defined by type of henua:

Ca1-18 Ca1-25 Ca2-23
Ca3-1 Ca3-8 Ca3-13
Ca3-16 Ca3-20

We should here note that Ca3-4 instead has the 'moon' type of henua:

3
Ca3-2 Ca3-3 Ca3-4

The peculiar arrangement with kiore drawn as the same entity as henua connects Ca3-4 with Ca3-13:

5
Ca3-9 (60) Ca3-10 Ca3-11 Ca3-12 Ca3-13 (64)

The powerful 'person' in Ca3-13 obviously must refer to the sun, in contrast to the weaker 'moon person' in Ca3-4.

In Ca3-10 we can see a reversal of the sign in Gb5-10 (where the 'mouth' is open to engult the last part of the year):

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

The interior of Gb5-10 is drawn similar to Ca3-11, which in turn looks like the very last glyph in G:

Gb5-10 (364) Ca3-11 (62) Gb8-30 (472)

The story tells about the return of sun light, that is evident. 5 hanau (birth) glyphs are central for the events:

3
Ca3-2 Ca3-3 Ca3-4
4
Ca3-5 Ca3-6 Ca3-7 Ca3-8
5
Ca3-9 (60) Ca3-10 Ca3-11 Ca3-12 Ca3-13
6
Ca3-14 Ca3-15 Ca3-16
7
Ca3-17 Ca3-18 Ca3-19 Ca3-20

Glyph line a3 is exceptional in having so many hanau glyphs:

Ca3-3 Ca3-6 Ca3-9 Ca3-14 Ca3-17
Ca9-17 Cb3-7 Cb3-9 Cb3-14 Cb4-22
Cb4-23 Cb5-7 Cb5-20 Cb8-7 Cb11-21
Cb12-7 Cb12-8 Cb12-9

Moreover, the 3 central hanau glyphs in line a3 are the only ones which show the birth really taking place:

4
Ca3-5 Ca3-6 Ca3-7 Ca3-8
5
Ca3-9 (60) Ca3-10 Ca3-11 Ca3-12 Ca3-13
6
Ca3-14 (65) Ca3-15 Ca3-16

These 12 glyphs (4 + 5 + 3) illustrate how the season of darkness (4) gives way to the season of spring sun light (3) by way of birth (5 is equal to 'fire' which illuminates the sky in the east at dawn).

Ca3-14 is a π glyph. At number 65 (= 365 - 300) the old cycle is finished and a new one begins.

The two full fists held high illustrate 10 months of sun rule. We recognize these fists from e.g. Sb2-8:

Sb2-1--2 are related to Sb2-7--8, because of the special shape of the ihe tau glyphs. ...
Sb2-1 Sb2-2

1

6

Sb2-3

Sb2-4

Sb2-5

Sb2-18

Sb2-19

Sb2-20

2

7

Sb2-6

Sb2-7

Sb2-8

Sb2-21

Sb2-22

Sb2-23

3

8

Sb2-9

Sb2-10

Sb2-11

Sb2-24

Sb2-25

Sb2-26

4

9

Sb2-12

Sb2-13

Sb2-14

Sb2-27

Sb2-28

Sb2-29

5

10

Sb2-15

Sb2-16

Sb2-17

Sb2-30

Sb2-31

Sb2-32

-

...

Sb2-33

Sb2-34 text destroyed

The special type of ihe tau here presumably indicate the exit (Sb2-1) and entrance (Sb2-7) of the sun, and in between the 'birth' season has a sun glyph with a flame at the top

0

...

Sb2-1

Sb2-2

1

Sb2-3

Sb2-4

Sb2-5

2

Sb2-6

Sb2-7

Sb2-8

Fists forward (Sb2-8) or at the top (Ca3-14) are used to indicate the expected soon to come sun season, twice 5 fingers in duration.

In Gb3-26 the fists are reversed, at left, possibly to indicate the opposite season, the time when the sun season is waning:

Gb3-24

Gb3-25

Gb3-26 (317)