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The first page about a possible 496-day year:

 

A square measured out as 4 by 61 days for the first half of the year comes after 8 * 29.5 = 236 (Te Pei at Gb1-6). Sun is measured by 4 and moon by 8:

Gb1-5 Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7 Gb1-8 Gb1-9
Gb1-10 Gb1-11 Gb1-12 Gb1-13 Gb1-14 (244)
Gb1-15 Gb1-16 Gb1-17 Gb1-18 Gb1-19

If spring sun is finished after 244 days, there could follow 2 moon 'years' each with 8 by 8 = 64 days. 244 + 64 + 64 = 372 = 12 * 31:

Gb5-6 (360) Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-10 Gb5-11
Gb5-12 (366) Gb5-13 Gb5-14 Gb5-15 Gb5-16 Gb5-17
Gb5-18 (372) Gb5-19 Gb5-20 Gb5-21 Gb5-22 Gb5-23 (377)

Moa in Gb5-19 cries out, for a new year is being born.

I suspect yet another year is measured out by 377 = 13 * 29. Gb5-22 is identical with Gb5-17, and 5-22 says the 'fire' has come to the end of its cycle. 29 'carries darkness'.

There are 4 glyphs between Gb5-17 and Gb5-22, also between Gb5-23 and the equally dark Gb5-28:

Gb5-23 Gb5-24 Gb5-25 Gb5-26 Gb5-27 (381) Gb5-28

In between is kava announcing new fire (5-25), followed by an eating moa. Tagata at Gb5-27 has number 381 = 3 * 127, and 14 * 27 = 378 is at Gb5-24, a very remarkable glyph.'

Possibly there is a relation between Gb5-8--9 and Gb5-24:

Gb5-6 (360) Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-10 (364) Gb5-11
Gb5-12 Gb5-13 Gb5-14 Gb5-15 Gb5-16
Gb5-17 Gb5-18 Gb5-19 Gb5-20 Gb5-21
Gb5-22 Gb5-23 Gb5-24 Gb5-25 Gb5-26 Gb5-27

The relationship should be that the dancing triplet in Gb5-24 represents the new year while the distorted 2 + 1 represent the old year - the distribution is like that in Aa8-80 (708, Hatinga Te Kohe, 12 * 29.5):

ki to hatu huri

Maybe a dancing triplet suggests the time when a new 'king' is created? Metoro said e gagata hakaariki at Ca4-7:

Ca4-1 Ca4-2 Ca4-3 Ca4-4 Ca4-5 Ca4-6 Ca4-7

Likewise etoru gagata hakaariki kia raua at the end of glyph line Ca9:

Ca9-21 Ca9-22 Ca9-23 Ca9-24 Ca9-25 Ca9-26 Ca9-27

Nowhere else did he say hakaariki. In view of the pattern with 6 glyphs followed by a dancing triplet in the first sequence of glyphs at the beginning of line a4 and a second at the end of line a9, as if serving to mark the 5 glyphs lines a4 - a9, we should count:

a1 26 b1 24
a2 25 b2 25
a3 25 b3 22
a4 29 29 b4 23
a5 35 64 b5 21
a6 28 92 b6 29
a7 31 123 b7 27
a8 29 152 b8 29
a9 27 179 b9 30
a10 29 b10 22
a11 32 b11 22
a12 27 b12 25
a13 20 b13 30
a14 29 b14 19
sum 392 sum 348

179 is a prime number and says nothing. If we reduce by 6 + 6 we get the well known 167. 392 - 167 = 225 = 15 * 15 = 9 * 25.