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With 432 days in H and 472 in G we should try to identify which sequence, or which sequences, of days do not appear in H.

A natural choice to try at first is the sequence which begins with day number 368 and which ends with day number 406:

glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30
Gb5-6 Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-10 Gb5-11 Gb5-12
Jupiter (0) Venus (1) Saturn (2) Sun (3) Moon (4) Mars (5) Mercury (6)
Gb5-13 Gb5-14 (368) Gb5-15 Gb5-16 Gb5-17 Gb5-18 Gb5-19
Jupiter (7) Venus (8) Saturn (9) Sun (10) Moon (11) Mars (12) Mercury (13)
glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30
62 312
Gb6-24 (407) Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb8-30 (472) Ga1-1 (2) Gb1-21 (315)

Gb6-24 is the last glyph in the 1st sequence of 8. The break betweeen the two sequences comes between Gb6-24 and Gb6-25, i.e. we should count from Gb8-30.

Gb1-21 will receive number 315 by the change, but for it we maybe should count Gb8-30 only once.

Between Gb5-13 and Gb5-14 there is also a break in time - it should be so between Jupiter and Venus, we have learnt:

glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30
33
Gb5-14 (368) Gb5-15 Gb5-16 Gb5-17 Gb5-18 Gb5-19 Gb6-24 Gb6-25 (408)
40

What it means is that in H we possibly have to reduce the time for morning star Venus on side a with 40 days, as compared with G:

 phase

observed periods

periods in the 'map' of G

periods in the 'map' of H

morning star

263

150 + 113

314

110 + 153 314

black

50

51

51

evening star

263

262

270

262

270

black

8

8

8

sum

584

584

584

In G we counted the evening star season as 262 days followed by 8 dark nights prior to 150 days in the sun, and then side a was finished.

glyph numbers are counted beyond Gb1-1
190 68
Gb2-25 (50) Gb8-30 (241) Gb8-30 (242) Ga1-1 (243) Ga3-11
262
glyph numbers are counted beyond Gb2-25
3
Ga3-10 Ga3-11 Ga3-12 Ga3-13 Ga3-14 Ga3-15 Ga3-16
261 262 263 264 265 266 267
4
Ga3-17 Ga3-18 Ga3-19
268 269 270
5
Ga3-20 (80) Ga3-21
1 2

Those 40 days should logically be erased from the evening star season rather than from the morning star season, they are not on side a but late on side b:

 phase

observed periods

periods in the 'map' of G

periods in the 'map' of H

morning star

263

150 + 113

314

150 + 113 314

black

50

51

51

evening star

263

262

270

222 + 40

270

black

8

8

8

sum

584

584

584

Moreover, the location of these (supposedly extra) 40 days in G is neither at the beginning nor at the end of the evening star season:

glyph numbers are counted beyond Gb1-1
190 68
Gb2-25 (50) Gb8-30 (241) Gb8-30 (242) Ga1-1 (243) Ga3-11
262
glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30
33
Gb5-14 (368) Gb5-15 Gb5-16 Gb5-17 Gb5-18 Gb5-19 Gb6-24 Gb6-25 (408)
40

Gb2-26 is the first day of those 262, and it has ordinal number 52 + 230 = 282 counted from Gb8-30.

368 - 282 = 86:

glyph numbers are counted beyond Gb8-30
84 38 134
Gb2-25 Gb2-26 (282) Gb5-13 Gb5-14 (368) Gb6-24 (407) Gb6-25 Ga3-11
86 40 136
262

86 + 136 = 222. Are we ready for H?