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The first of the pages from 'investigation':

 

Another measurement, based on what presumably is a calendar with 300 days, locates Ga5-15 at day 140:

138 9 148
Gb8-16 (1) Ga5-15 (140) Ga5-25 (150) Ga5-26 Gb2-30 (300)
150 150

Counting is here beginning 14 days before Gb8-30 (i.e. Gb8-16 is located 50 days from winter solstice).

However, the following structure (with 471 = 210 + 261) is probably more basic to the text of G:

45 93
Ga1-26 (27) Ga3-13 Ga3-14 Ga3-15 (75) Ga3-16 Ga6-29 (170)
48 = 6 * 8 96 = 12 * 8
144 = 8 * 18
64 260
Ga7-1 (171) Gb1-6 Gb1-7
66 261 = 9 * 29

According to it, our maro glyph is number 100 counted from Ga1-26:

99
Ga1-26 (1) Ga5-15 (100)

Adding the days from winter solstice up to Ga1-26 the day number will be 64 + 26 + 100 = 190.

Weighing the evidence seen so far it can be stated that maro in Ga5-15 seems to be located at the apex of the sun.

 

The pattern with 1 followed by 2 is exhibited in 48 followed by 96, together forming 144. But maybe 48 should be connected to the previous 261, because 261 + 1 + 48 = 310 (if we count Gb8-30 twice).

261 is the dark counterpart of the light 260, it appears:

Gb8-30 counted twice
257
Gb6-17 (1)   Ga7-16 Ga7-17 (260) Ga7-18 Ga7-19 Ga7-20 (263)

But maybe only if we count with 471 as the cycle:

Gb8-30 counted once
260
Gb1-7
261 = 9 * 29

Counting to 472 eliminates the ominous 261.