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A rearrangment seems to be in order:

57
Ha6-42 (317) Ha7-31 (375)
58 day number 183
31 * 7 = 7 * 31 = 217 = 648 / 3 + 1
255
Ha7-32 Ha12-4 (631) Ha12-5 Ha12-6
256 = 8 * 32 day number 268 + 1
7 * 32 = 8 * 28 = 224 12 * (4 + 5 + 6) = 180

2 fat (waning) vaha mea mark the end of the season which is measured out in various ways from Ha7-32.

A quarter then remains of the year, 269 + 91 = 360, and vaha mea at Hb2-23 is the central glyph in day number 299. From Ha12-5 to Hb2-23 there are 91 glyphs:

87
Ha12-4 Ha12-5 (632) Ha12-6 Hb2-22 Hb2-23 (722) Hb2-24
day number 268 + 1 29 day number  299 = 723 / 3 + 58
Hb2-25 Hb2-26 Hb2-27
300

23 was in my mind as I woke up this morning. I saw 236 in front of me. 23 and 6 it could mean, i.e. 6 days beyond those 230 up to the end of side a in G. It seemed to be related - in some unknown way - to the difference between 64 (from winter solstice to the beginning of side a) and 58 (from mago to Ga1-1). Does it mean that there is a time difference of 6 days between the celestial event in question and the reflection of the same in the text?

Here we should remember the three points of reference offered by the special variant of marama:

354 362
Ha7-24 (368) Hb2-24 (723) Hb9-26 Hb9-27 (1087)
day 181 117 day 299 364
118 = 4 * 29.5

What does it mean? On the night side everything should mirror the day side. On side a sun is beginning like a little child but he is steadily growing taller. On the night side we should encounter the same process, beginning in the deep down at Te Pei, from which the Te Pou will rise and be like a virile young sun.

In glyph line b9 number 9 suggests a mirror reflection of autumn equinox, that the star light of Sirius is threatened by dawn light in front.

Glyph number 364 counted from Hb2-24 is the full moon in Monday. Day 364 is in a way the day of the morning star Mars.

In Wednesday the break occurs, the break of 'dawn' (Thursday is the day of the return of the sun king, the beginning of 'January'). In day 366 the old 'sun' (Sirius) will finish. Koti is at 9-36. In between we find somebody in a central position eating, quite inexplicable if we had not seen 'dawn' at left (with March) and day 366 at right - growth stands up in between. It is not a child.

On the night side - maybe beginning beyond Ha7-24 - counting glyphs should begin anew, Ha1-1 is no longer relevant. The numbers become too big. Counting days can proceed 140 days longer though, because 375 / 3 + 100 = 225, which allows for 140 more days before 365 comes. Or, 225 - 42 = 183, which gives even more days up in front.