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413 days is not compatible with a solar year, it does not help if the reader of the text jumps beyond Hanga Te Pau at 366 to the beginning at Gb8-30. Moon will continue on her travel in the sky without regard.

This means that each new year will be unique. 413 - 365¼ = 47¾, 400 - 365¼ = 34¾, 400 - 364 = 36.

Given a calendar established a long time ago documenting some 'greater month', preferably a 'greater fortnight' (= 14 * 29.5 = 413 or 14 * 28 = 392 nights), the task would then be to accommodate the solar truth to it.

392 - 365¼ = 26¾ and 15 * 26 = 390.

If the creator of G found winter solstice to be located 63 days before the point in time which he had observed to coincide with what the moon dictated, it could be another year than that in which the creator of H decided it necessary to document 100 days from winter solstice to make his calendar obey the phases of the moon.

100 - 64 = 36, though, which could mean it was the same year after all. Because from the beginning of winter solstice to its end 36 nights later sun did not move very much. We ought to look at day 36 in H. But first a reminder of where we have located winter solstice:

Hb7-29 Hb7-30 Hb7-31 Hb7-32 Hb7-33 Hb7-34
429 430
Hb7-35 Hb7-36 Hb7-37 Hb7-38 Hb7-39 Hb7-40 (996)
431 432 = 231 + 201
Hb7-41 Hb7-42 Hb7-43 Hb7-44 Hb7-45 Hb7-46
1 2

996 + 36 * 3 = 1104, and we arrive in Thursday:

Hb9-39 Hb9-40 Hb9-41 Hb9-42 Hb9-43 Hb9-44 (1104)
35 36 = 100 - 64
Counting with 63 (the number of glyphs beyond winter solstice to Ga1-1) seems to give a better result than counting Gb8-30 twice.
Hb9-45 Hb9-46 Hb9-47 (1107)
37 = 100 - 63
Hb9-48 Hb9-49 Hb9-50 (1110) Hb9-51 Hb9-52 Hb9-53
38 = 370 + 100 - 432 39
Hb9-54 Hb9-55 Hb9-56 Hb9-57 Hb9-58 Hb9-59 (1119)
40 41 = 531 + 100 - 431
Hb9-60 Hb9-61 Hb9-62 Hb9-63 Hb9-64 Hb9-65 (1125)
42 43 = 375 + 100 - 432

1110 / 3 = 10 * 37. Three quarters with sun present (1) is followed by one quarter with sun absent (0).

Immediately beyond the last glyph in Saturday a dark season comes: 9 * 59 = 531 = 18 * 29.5 and mago in Hb9-63 probably indidates the end of a kind of year. 9 * 63 = 81 weeks ('one more' than 80).

Obviously the glyphs agree with the counting. Thursday is the day of the 'door' and Janus (cfr Hb9-42) stands inside the threshold. In Hb9-50 there is a break (koti) illustrating what happens in the dark time (mauga in the preceding glyph).

The last and darkest day comes with day 43. 1125 = 9 * 5 * 5. A new - yet only imagined - year is arriving, but it is no break in time here, and we can compare with what happened earlier, in high summer:

255
Ha7-11 Ha7-12 Ha7-13 (357) Hb9-63 Hb9-64 Hb9-65 (1125)
219 = 119 + 100 43 = 375 + 100 - 432

432 days is here described as 256 + 176, it seems. A long 'multiplying' season down on earth in the light from the sun (256 = 4 * 64), is followed by a shorter season in the dark. In the season which is dark down on earth a renewal takes place up in the sky , 16 * 11 = 176, and then comes tamaiti at 357 = 176 + 181. As a result of the genetic game of chance he came out as 357 instead of 375, or was there somebody else than old sun who came in between? 375 - 176 = 199.

1125 / 3 = 375 = 15 * 25.

Beyond Hb9-65 there are (1296 - 1125) / 3 = 57 days (= 100 - 43). From the beginning of side a to day 219 there are 118 days.

256 + 58 + 118 = 432 = 8 * 32 + 2 * 29 + 4 * 29.5. From the beginning of side a comes a normal lunar tertial, then the season dominated by multiplying sun light, followed by a double-month in total darkness (29).

118 + 256 = 374 = 17 * 22. Mago is the first glyph inside the threshold to the double-month without any light.