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The new structure results in an interesting fact, viz. that the time when sun is absent amounts to ca 118 + 50 = 168 days:

sun light barred sun present sun leaves
ca 118 days ca 216 days ca 50 days
ca 384 days

Our earlier measure was 167 glyphs (equal to 167 days) for sun light barred + spring.

168 = 2 * 84 = 6 * 28 is easier to accept than the odd figure 167.

And 216 = 6 * 36 = 6 * 6 * 6, maybe alluding to the three 'feathers' of 'spring' (i.e. sun present according to the new structure).

Using an earlier structure, Nga Kope Ririva will be at the end of sun's journey across the island from the east to the west and the time is 12 * 29.5:

5. Te Kioe Uri
Ga2-29 (118)
3. Te Poko Uri
Ga5-8 (236)
1. Nga Kope Ririva
Ga7-8 (354)

From this we can conclude that Ga2-29 at 118 indicates the final of the 'Black Rat'.

Te Poko Uri ('the little black' - maybe indicating the coming darkness) will be halfway through the sun-is-present season, which agrees with the parallel K text, where we have identified Kb1-10 as the central glyph for the sun-is-present season:

Ga5-4 Ga5-5 Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 Ga5-9
- - - -
Kb1-9 Kb1-10 Kb1-11

Therefore: Side a of G and the text of K seem to cover the whole sun calendar, not only half of it.

192 glyphs for K equals 384 days. In G there are 230 glyphs (counted from Gb8-30) on side a. Twice 230 = 460 days is not possible. But 460 - 100 = 360 is.

Ga8 is a glyph line which has no parallel in the K text. It has 26 glyphs = 52 days. 460 - 52 = 408 = 384 + 24. Side a of G seems to cover more than the whole sun calendar.

384 - 354 = 30 days and 31 (Ga7) - 8 (Ga7-8) = 23 glyphs. I.e. beyond Nga Kope Ririva comes 2 * (23 + 26) = 98 days, 68 more than what is needed to reach day 384.

68 = 168 - 100 seems to be no coincidence.

Expressed in glyphs, we can state that day 384 is located at glyph number 192 = Ga7-22 (counted from Gb89-30):

Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17
Ga7-18 Ga7-19 Ga7-20 Ga7-21
Ga7-22 Ga7-23 Ga7-24 Ga7-25 Ga7-26
Ga7-27 Ga7-28 Ga7-29 Ga7-30 Ga7-31

22 as ordinal number in the line indicates a 'π location'.