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It should be possible to redmark also Roto Iri Are:

 

  0 1 - 29 29 Ga1-1
Te Piringa Aniva 1 30 - 58 29 Ga1-30
Te Kioe Uri 2 59 - 88 30 Ga2-29
Te Manavai 3 89 - 117 29 Ga4-6
Te Poko Uri 4 118 - 147 30 Ga5-8
Te Pu Mahore 5 148 - 176 29 Ga6-8
Nga Kope Ririva 6 177 - 206 30 Ga7-8
  7 207 - 235 29 Ga8-4
Te Pei 8 236 - 265 30 Gb1-7
Te Pou 9 266 - 294 29 Gb2-11
Hua Reva 10 295 - 324 30 Gb3-5
Akahanga 11 325 - 353 29 Gb4-5
Hatinga Te Kohe 12 354 - 383 30 Gb5-1
Roto Iri Are 13 384 - 412 29 Gb6-2
Tama 14 413 - 442 30 Gb7-3
One Tea 15 443 - 471 28 Gb8-2

This is the only multiple of 29.5 glyph which is tagata - a full 'man' has been counted. As a 'proof' I refer to the number of glyphs in K, viz. *192.

We know that the texts of G and K are parallel, and that 192 = ½ 384. And we can be fairly certain that the year was described as two cycles, with one beginning in midwinter and the other in high summer. The text of K has such kiore+henua glyphs which indicate the first of the two cycles.

192 corresponds to the midpoint of Nga Kope Ririva (177 + 15 = 192), or 6½ kuhane stations. But that may be irrelevant. 192 = 2 * 96 = 4 * 48 = 8 * 24. On The Eighth Island it is probable that the text of K was divided into 8 sections (i.e. half those 16 divisions of G). Let us 'cast' such a 'net' on K:

 

0 1 Ka1-1 23
1 24 *Ka1-24 24
2 48 Ka3-2 24
3 72 Ka4-5 24
4 96 Ka5-13 24
5 120 Kb2-1 24
6 144 Kb3-7 24
7 168 Kb4-15 24
8 192 *Kb5-20 1

We can note that 7 * 24 = 168 = 12 * 14 occur in K, and the glyphs concur with the special occasion:

 
Ga7-11 (180) Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14
Kb4-15 (168) Kb4-16 Kb4-17 Kb4-18

In G the halfway point to 360 has been reached and it happens in Nga Kope Ririva. Instead of 12 * 14 (= 168) the ordinal number is 12 * 15 (= 180). The common factor is 12, which indicates each cycle should be divided into 12 parts. Thus the multiples of 24 in the table above correspond to multiples of 59 in G - each multiple should be divided in two. Then the number of periods will be 16 (exactly as in the full text of G).

13 * 28 = 364 is the result if we double 168 (reaching 12 * 28 = 336) and then add an odd period (in a way corresponding to Roto Iri Are). This may be a better way to describe 364 than identifying it as 26 fortnights or as 52 weeks. The serpent should not be hidden.