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The second page of the 'explanation':

 

We can convert the glyph numbers into days by dividing by 2 and adding 64 according to the pattern which has been discovered earlier:

*Qb3-37 *Qb3-38 (522) *Qb3-39 *Qb3-40 *Qb3-41 (525) *Qb3-42
261 + 64 = 325 326 327

From day 327 there are 6 weeks left of the calendar year:

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*Qb5-17 *Qb5-18 (592) *Qb5-33 *Qb5-34 (608)
296 + 64 = 360 7 368

The gesture of eating (kai) in *Qb3-42 (where 42 possibly alludes to 6 weeks) must refer to how darkness is increasing. The left 'eye' of nuku is missing, sun has vanished in the past.

Day number 300 is in the past, and we are close to Hanga Hoonu (day 360).

 

When we have turned the tablet and arrived where moon rules, shouldn't we change our system of counting and start from zero at summer solstice instead of at winter solstice?

Rogo at Hanga Hoonu (*Qb5-17) will then not be at day 360. First we eliminate 64 and arrive at day 296.

Then we can identify the glyph of summer solstice as number twice (184 - 64) = 240 counted from Qa1-1, i.e. at Qa6-35:

Qa6-24 Qa6-25 Qa6-26 Qa6-27 Qa6-28 Qa6-29
179 180 181
Qa6-30 Qa6-31 Qa6-32 Qa6-33 Qa6-34 Qa6-35 (240)
182 183 240 / 2 + 64 = 184
Qa6-36 Qa6-37 Qa6-38 Qa6-39 Qa6-40 Qa6-41
1 2 3
... ... ...
Qa6-42 Qa6-43 Qa6-44 *Qa6-45 (250) *Qa6-46 *Qa6-47
4 5 6 (190)

Certainly we have here summer solstice. Rogo in day 360 will accordingly be in day 360 - 183 = 177 counted from the birth of the 'moon half year'. In Qa6-34 the figure sitting down is drawn without arms, or possibly with them at the back.

177 is equal to 6 * 29.5 and with day 184 = day zero, Rogo will be in the 177th day (with 176 whole days in the past counted from the end of day 183):

*Qb5-17 *Qb5-18 *Qb5-19 *Qb5-20 *Qb5-21 *Qb5-22
177 = (592 - 238) / 2 178 179

177 + 183 = 360.

Nuku in day 327 will be in day 327 - 183 = 144 counted from summer solstice, a square of 12.

The subpage 'Day number 300':

 

80
Qa9-45 Qb1-1 (388) Qb2-31 Qb2-32 Qb2-34 Qb2-35 (472)
258 40 days 299 day number 300 (= 236 + 64)

The curious sign at bottom left in Qb2-31 probably is meant to connect it with Qb1-1.

Comparing with the parallel text in H we can guess Qb1-1 could refer to Rogo:

Ha10-31 Ha10-32 Ha10-33 Ha10-34 Ha10-35 Ha10-36
no Q text here
Qb1-1 (388) Qb1-2

From day 258, where the reader has to turn the Q tablet from side a to side b, there are 6 weeks to day number 300.

Tamaiti in Qb2-31 apparently has been given a number which alludes to day 231 (where 231 + 64 = 295 = 10 lunar months from winter solstice).