glyph line in Q	Q
a1	23?	66	23
a2	43		66
a3	41	84	107
a4	43?		150
a5	55	104	205
a6	49?		254
a7	41	88	295
a8	47		342
a9	45	96	387
b1	51		438

But if we contiue in the same way on side b it does not look quite so good:

glyph line in Q	Q
b2	46	85	484
b3	39		523
b4	39?	81	562
b5	42?		604
b6	37?	76	641
b7	39?		680
b8	32	44	712
b9	12?		724

85 + 81 = 166 and 76 + 44 = 120, on side b we should maybe think 'double'.

724 is equal to 4 * 181, which means we presumably should count 2 glyphs per day.

Now we are ready to try to answer the question: Is it at winter solstice the eyes disappear from ariga erua?

42 glyphs in line Qb5 assumes there is none before Qb5-101:

579 (at honu in Qb5-117) would be day 579 / 2 = 289.5 (or rather the first half of day 290). This number seems to be significant. But it does not make it winter solstice.

Unless we should add ca 75 * 2 = 150 glyphs from the end of side b. This does not appear to be very reasonable. It is too long a period, it should be 2 months, not 2½. The numbers could give support for 2 months, because there are 120 glyphs in lines Qb6-Qb9. And 290 + 60 = 350 days, rather close to 354 days. 2 * (354 - 290) = 2 * 64 = 128 glyphs. 64 days from the end of side b is a good solution (equal to what we have seen in G).

It necessitates moving back to Qb5-34, which becomes day 362 if we add 64 days the suggested way:

Qb5-130	Qb5-131	Qb5-132	Qb5-133
Qb5-134 (596)	Qb5-135	Qb5-201	Qb5-202

The arm at left in Qb5-134 is open. I have convinced myself. We have winter solstice where honu stands, a week before next honu comes, but this one with legs:

 

Considering G, where tamaiti arrives 6 days after winter solstice, we recognize the possible reason from the Q text, viz. that the origin of these 6 days is the difference between 360 and 354:

 

Gb6-26 (409)	Gb6-27	Gb6-28	Gb7-1	Gb7-2	Gb7-3
1	2	3	4	5	6