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Clearly G has documented a 300 glyph long cycle, with no vai glyph excepting Ga5-7:

 

Ga5-7 Gb2-27 Gb3-5 Gb3-25 Gb4-2 Gb4-23 Gb8-11

This is an important discovery. Ga5-7 is located as glyph number 118 counted from Gb8-30. It seems to be a kuhane station (4 * 29.5 = 118), which could explain why it is an exception. The name Te Manavai could be what is expressed.

The text of K has only two vai glyphs, the last of which ought to be in the season outside the 300 days of the sun:

 

27 159 4
Ka2-4 (28) Kb5-16 (188)

Haú in Kb5-14 is the last glyph of a season, which seems to be 6 * 31 = 186 days long, and presumably it is spring:

 

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Kb5-10 (182) Kb5-12 Kb5-13 Kb5-14 (186)
Kb5-15 Kb5-16 Kb5-17 Kb5-18 Kb5-19 Kb5-20

Kb5-10 marks the end of two quarters with 91 days in each. Kb5-15 could at left indicate the 'empty hand' of the 2nd of two quarters. But why should there be a vai glyph at Kb5-16? And why is the headless figure in Kb5-17 running? And why are there 172 (= 472 - 300) glyphs in the K text, if we do not count the last glyph line?

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We should now locate the glyphs in the center of the 300 days, and we only have to add 14 to the previous ordinal numbers (counted from Gb8-30):

148 148
Gb8-16 (1) Ga5-25 (150) Ga5-26 Gb2-30 (300)
150 150

The fat honu is number 150 and he is appropriately located in period number 20 (where all fingers and toes have been used up):

20
Ga5-22 Ga5-23 Ga5-24 Ga5-25
Ga5-26 Ga5-27 Ga5-28 Ga5-29

Tapa mea in Ga5-27 is reversed, but kai continues. A leaner season lies ahead (cfr Ga5-28). The vertical straight line in tapa mea indicates a 'string for measurement'. The glyph has ordinal number 152 = 8 * 19. Counted from Gb8-30 ít has number 138 = 3 * 46. Counted from Gb8-6 the ordinal number is 162 = 9 * 18.

5 * 25 (in Ga5-25) possibly refers to Ga5-1, which has number 125 if counted from Gb8-16:

16
Ga5-1 (125) Ga5-2 Ga5-3