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Simple logic has made me arrive to the conclusion that the text of K ends where (when) sun goes down in the west in autumn. Furthermore, that when sun has gone down it is time for Sirius to predict the coming of a new year.

In ancient Egypt Sirius caused the waters of the Nile to rise, and on Easter Island they also appear to have connected Sirius with the soon to come watery season.

And, according to G, the 'needfire' season (Hanga Te Pau) arrives 100 days later than Sirius. As I wrote in the excursion from poporo in the glyph dictionary:

 

 
He Kope Riva was the name of a star on Easter Island, and He Kope Riva can associate to Nga Kope Ririva, the first kuhane station. Maybe Nga Kope Ririva were not only three islets but also three stars. If so, then these stars should have risen a quarter (90 days) earlier than Sirius:
 
87
Ga7-8 Gb2-10 Gb2-11
 177 265 266
90

Sirius (Te Pou) is located 100 days before Hanga Te Pau (at 365 counted from Ga1-1). The brightest star in the sky is followed 100 days later by the day when the last glimmer of light will disappear:

 
98
Gb2-10 Gb2-11 Gb5-12
265 266 365

265 + 99 = 364 = 13 * 28 = 14 * 28 may have been the old way to measure the length of a year, and Hanga Te Pau could then have meant day number 365, the 'dark' day between the years.

99 is connected with Venus and 265 = 5 * 53. The pentagram of Venus is referred to, I guess.

The distance between glyphs remains the same even if we change the position from which we count. Counting from Gb8-30, however, does not only change the number of Hanga Te Pau from 365 to 366, but also changes the locations of the kuhane stations with 1 position:

 

192
90 100 2
87 96
Ga7-5 Ga7-6 Ga7-7 Gb2-9 Gb2-10 Gb2-11 Gb5-10 Gb5-11 Gb5-12
 175  176 Nga Kope Ririva Te Pou Hanga Te Pau
7 * 25 8 * 22 5 * 43 268 267 364 5 * 73 6 * 61
205 206 297 298 299 394 395 396

The last line shows the effects of the new system (counting from Gb7-31). The results are rather poor, which indicates that this is not the right way to count. Redmarked are the significant numbers resulting from counting from Gb8-30. We cannot change to the new system when counting glyphs.

192, the number of glyphs in K, suddenly appears as the result of counting from the first glyph in the 31st (last) period (with kiore+henua) up to and including Gb5-12.

It cannot mean that the K text covers the 190 days from Nga Kope Ririva to the end of the solar year. It should therefore rather mean that 2 * 192 = 364 is a full calendar year and that the first half (which comes before Nga Kope Ririva) is the subject of the K calendar.

Having established this as a fact (as far as such things can be facts), we can continue with for instance the facts that twice 6 = 12 and that we have two odd 6-glyph sequences in G:

 
One Tea (15 * 29.5 = 442.5)
Gb7-31 Gb8-1 Gb8-2 Gb8-3 Gb8-4 Gb8-5
Gb1-1 Gb1-2 Gb1-3 Gb1-4 Gb1-5 Gb1-6 (236)

The beginning of One Tea appears to be located in one of the 6-glyph sentences. The other odd 6-glyph sequence is located at the end of the unnamed (out in the sea) 29.5 nights before the arrival of Te Pei.

It is as if the back side of G is reduced in number from 242 to 242 - 12 = 230. And 472 - 12 = 460, a number which should make us think 10 * 46.

In the series 16, 26, 36 ... the 4th memeber, 46, presumably indicates a season which is longer than a regular solar year (360 days). And 26, we have seen, is not referring to summer, but rather to half a year.

The number of glyphs in A is 1334 = 29 * 46.