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Counting glyphs instead of days informs us that 354 + 364 + 2 = 2 * 360:

354 363 207 367
Hb2-24 (723) Hb9-27 Hb9-28 Hb9-29 (1089) Ha7-24 (368)
364 day 1089 / 3 + 58 = 421 day 181
2 * 360 = 720 glyphs = 240 days 576 glyphs = 192 days

1089 / 3 = 363, as if time was moving backwards, but the preceding 364 is counted by glyphs, not by days.

1087 (at Ha9-27) - 364 = 723, and converted into days it becomes 723 / 3 = 241, quite similar to 421. Both are of the typ 'one more'. 420 = 7 * 60 and 240 = 4 * 60. Which means, of course, than 421 - 241 = 180 = 3 * 60.

432 = 720 / 3 + 192. Moon has two cycles (counted in glyphs), one is 354 = 12 * 29.5 and the other 364 = 26 * 14. But the table above seems to offer a better alternative, with 354 + 366 = 720 glyphs, i.e. 118 + 122 = 240 days. 364 is not divisble by 3.

However, the number of glyphs on side a prior to Ha7-24 is 367, a number which hardly is acceptable. If we try with 366 instead (which gives day number 122 + 58 = 180 before these 240 days will come), it will be a better alternative:

363
*Ha7-20 *Ha7-21 *Ha7-22 (366)
121 days day number 180 = 366 / 3 + 58
348
*Ha7-23 Ha7-24 *Ha7-25 (369) Hb2-19 Hb2-20 Hb2-21 (720)
1 2 3 352 353 354
day number 1 (181) 116 = 4 * 29 day number 118 (298)
118 = 4 * 29.5 days

We note that the black sign (mea ke in Ha7-25) could refer to the following 4 months with 29 nights in each. Nuku in Hb2-20, on the other hand is not in the dark.

Next calendar is beginning in an opposite mode, viz. with vaha mea (note the similarity with mea ke reversed):

360
Hb2-22 Hb2-23 Hb2-24 (723) Hb9-24 Hb9-25 Hb9-26 (1086)
1 2 3 364 365 366
day number 299 120 = 4 * 30 day number 1086 / 3 + 58 = 420

The order of the great marama glyphs in respective day indicates a new calendar round will begin with Hb9-27 where the great marama comes in the first third of the day:

 

204 ... ...
Hb9-27 Hb9-28 Hb9-29 (1089) Hb12-49 (1294)
1 2 3 208 209 210
day number 1 68 day number 70
363
*Ha7-20 *Ha7-21 *Ha7-22 (366)
121 days day number 192 = 366 / 3 + 70

192 is equal to 366 / 3 + 58 + 12. The first great marama lies 36 glyphs (12 days) prior to mago:

33
Hb9-27 (1087) Hb9-28 Hb9-29 Hb9-63 Hb9-64 Hb9-65 (1125)
12 13 (1125 / 3 + 58 = 433)

In relation to winter solstice, it comes 30 days later:

87
Hb7-41 (997) Hb7-42 Hb7-43 Hb9-27 (1087) Hb9-28 Hb9-29
999 / 3 + 58 = 391 29 363 + 58 = 421

In other words, the first great marama night stands as the first of 12 nights after a month from winter solstice.

Wednesday ends with a mama with a glyph number which alludes to the last day of the solar year (366), and a mama can be a kind of open shell (pure):

Mama

1. To chew. 2. To mouth-feed (arch.) he-mama i te vai tôa koia ko te tiapito kiroto ki te haha o te poki, she mouth-feeds the child with sugarcane juice together with tiapito juice. 3. A sea mollusc (with an eight-horned shell). Vanaga.

1. To leak, to ooze, (maamaa). P Pau., Mgv., Ta.: mama, id. 2. To chew. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: mama, id. 3. Light not heavy, (maamaa). P Mgv., Ta.: mama, id. 4. A limpet (Chiton magnificus). Mgv., Mq., mama, a shellfish. 5. To open the mouth; hakamama, to yawn, to gape, to be ajar. Pau.: hamama, to open. Mgv.: akamama, to burst open. Ta.: haamama, to open. Mq.: haámama, to open the mouth. 6. Ta.: mama-orero, conclusion of a council. Ha.: mama, to finish, to have done with a thing. Churchill.
Hb9-27 Hb9-28 (1088) Hb9-29 Hb9-30 Hb9-31 Hb9-32
1 2
Hb9-33 Hb9-34 (1094) Hb9-35 Hb9-36 Hb9-37 Hb9-38 (1098)
3 4 (= 366 + 58 - 420)

1098 / 9 = 122 and the ordinal number of the last glyph of the calendar round, Hb9-62, is 1122.

Which means those 12 glyphs ought to be divided in two groups, 4 respectively 8 nights long:

Hb9-39 Hb9-40 (1100) Hb9-41 Hb9-42 Hb9-43 Hb9-44
5 6
Hb9-45 Hb9-46 (1106) Hb9-47 Hb9-48 Hb9-49 Hb9-50
7 8
Hb9-51 Hb9-52 (1112) Hb9-53 Hb9-54 Hb9-55 Hb9-56
9 10
Hb9-57 Hb9-58 (1118) Hb9-59 Hb9-60 Hb9-61 Hb9-62 (1122)
11 12 (= 1122 / 3 + 58 - 420)