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Our task is to study the glyphs preceding day 314, and we should do it both in G and H. It is quicker done in G than in H (given that we are looking for 8 dark Venus days between the evening and morning star appearances). This is the picture

242
Gb1-20 (250) Gb1-21 (1) Gb1-22 (2) Ga1-22 (245)
Ga1-23 (246) Ga1-24 (247) Ga1-25 (248) Ga1-26 (249) Ga1-27 (250)

The Maya Indians had 250 days for Venus as evening star (though the correct figure is 263 days). But if we put the evening star appearance of Venus to side b (as I have suggested), then we do not have 8 dark days but 90 to search for (ending with Gb1-20).

8 is easier than 90. Let us look:

Gb1-7 Gb1-8 Gb1-9 Gb1-10 Gb1-11 Gb1-12
Gb1-13 Gb1-14 Gb1-15 Gb1-16 Gb1-17 Gb1-18
Gb1-19 Gb1-20 Gb1-21 Gb1-22 Gb1-23 Gb1-24

Gb1-12 belongs together with the similar manu rere at Gb1-4, and from the first to the second bird there are 8 glyphs. Then comes another group of 8 glyphs, ending with Gb1-20. They could represent the time between Venus as morning star and Venus as evening star - given that the Mayan convention with 90 days (instead of the correct 50 days between morning and evening star) is changed into an Easter Island convention with 8 days.

Or, the correct Mayan figure 8 days for the time between evening and morning star appearance of Venus was used also on Easteer Island, and - possibly - Gb1-13--20 could then represent these black nights - meaning that it is the evening star Venus which is beginning with Gb1-21.

Let us now look at H and identify the corresponding 8 days. The break in day 314 counted from Friday has Hb3-6 as glyph number 750 counted from Ha1-4:

Glyph numbers below are counted from Ha1-1.
Hb3-1 Hb3-2 Hb3-3 (750) Hb3-4 Hb3-5 Hb3-6
313 = (750 - 3) / 3 + 64 day 314 from Friday

64 + 250 = 314, and the glyphs Hb3-4--6 therefore correspond to Gb1-20 (230 + 20 = 250).

Hb3-1--6 should accordingly be black, and maybe there will be only 6 * 3 = 18 preceding glyphs in the dark period:

Glyph numbers below are counted from Ha1-1.
Hb2-43 Hb2-44 Hb2-45 Hb2-46 Hb2-47 Hb2-48
311 312
Hb2-37 Hb2-38 Hb2-39 Hb2-40 Hb2-41 Hb2-42
309 310
Hb2-31 Hb2-32 Hb2-33 Hb2-34 Hb2-35 Hb2-36
307 308
Hb2-25 Hb2-26 Hb2-27 Hb2-28 Hb2-29 Hb2-30
305 306

Not impossible. Hb2-28--29 (toga) could indicate a coming dark period. And henua ora in the following day (307) is the recycling station.

Hua poporo in day 308 could correspond to hua poporo in day 309 in G:

Gb1-13 (307) Gb1-14 (308) Gb1-15 (309) Gb1-16 (310)
Gb1-17 (311) Gb1-18 (312) Gb1-19 (313) Gb1-20 (314)

The conspicious 'fishing hook' in Gb1-18 could correspond to the 'hook' ending in a hole in Hb2-46 (or in the 'hook' formed by the right lower 'limb' in niu):

Hb2-46 Hb2-47 Hb2-48
312

The pair of niu with haga (?) signs 'underlining' manu rere in the center could maybe correspond to the double upside down haati in Gb1-17--18:

Hb2-43 Hb2-44 Hb2-45
311

We cannot reach any firm conclusion, I think, by studying these 8 days.