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If we follow the advice formulated in Occam's razor we do not need to think about the possibility of counting with 1 glyph per day in H. If we follow the rule of jigsaw puzzles, every piece must fit. The first rule is for the lazy, the second for the ambitious.

 I am not satisfied with 137, it is an odd number which is ugly and does not fit.

137
Ha3-10 Ha3-11 Ha3-12 (120) Ha10-30 (532) Ha10-31 Ha10-32
140 278

I can get rid of the problem by redrawing the picture to a more beautiful version:

136
Ha3-10 Ha3-11 Ha3-12 (120) Ha10-27 (529) Ha10-28 Ha10-29
140 277

136 maybe is to be read as 'first 36', which then would need a 'second 36' in form of 236, a day number we recognize from G:

Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7

Similarly 277 could refer to a 'first 77' at day number 177:

Ga7-5 Ga7-6 Ga7-7 (177) Ga7-8 Ga7-9 Ga7-10

This is thought provoking, but outside the rules of a jigsaw puzzle. We should avoid mixing pieces from different puzzles.

Having got rid of 137 another problem arrives. What should we think about the pattern 6 + 6 = 12 glyphs where Ha10-27--29 are the last three:

Ha10-18 Ha10-19 Ha10-20 Ha10-21 Ha10-22 Ha10-23 (525)
274 275
Ha10-24 Ha10-25 Ha10-26 Ha10-27 Ha10-28 Ha10-29 (531)
276 277

We have moved into the 4th and last quarter of the year (vidi Ha10-14):

Ha10-3 Ha10-4 Ha10-5 Ha10-6 Ha10-7 Ha10-8 (510)
269 270
Ha10-9 Ha10-10 Ha10-11 Ha10-12 Ha10-13 Ha10-14
Ha10-16 (517) Ha10-17 Ha10-18 Ha10-19 Ha10-20 Ha10-21
273 274

We do not have to solve this new problem. Instead we ought to move slowly forward in time beyond Ha7-16. This is were we were. We had explained away as unneccessary the idea of glyph number 360 indicating the last day of the regular solar year, it is just an unavoidable consequence of multiplying 220 by 3:

... ... ...
Ha7-14 Ha7-15 Ha7-16 (360) Ha10-36 (538) Ha10-37 Ha11-5 (574) Ha11-6
220 280 = 10 * 28 292 = 192 + 100

But then the rule of jigsaw puzzles forces us to explain what these glyphs mean, how they fit in:

*Ha6-68 *Ha6-69 Ha7-1 (345) Ha7-2 Ha7-3 Ha7-4
215 216
Ha7-5 Ha7-6 (350) Ha7-7 Ha7-8 Ha7-9 Ha7-10 (354)
217 218
...
Ha7-11 Ha7-12 Ha7-13 (357) Ha7-14 Ha7-15 Ha7-16 (360)
219 220
... ...
Ha7-17 Ha7-18 *Ha7-19 *Ha7-20 (364) *Ha7-21 *Ha7-22 (366)
221 222

The pieces of a puzzle do not necessarily have to be put at their right places as soon as we pick them up. But we ought to try to explain the obvious change of rule (henua ora at Ha7-8, 'midnight' henua at Ha7-10, tamaiti at Ha7-13, and ordinal number -14 in Ha7-14).

There is no new kuhane station arriving nearby, although 7.5 * 29.5 = 221.25 is quite close to 222. Tagata in Ha7-22 has a toki from which dangles a kind of 'fruit' with 2 + 2 'feathers'. In Ha7-21 ('one more' than 20) ragi is the new 'person'.

Manu kake at Ha7-20 we recognize, and once again we find 36:

*26 *8
*Ha7-20 (*364) *Ha7-47 (*391) Ha8-5 (*400)
36

In order to make the pieces fit we possibly should think in terms of the end of the first 'side' as defined in G, and 400 / 3 = 133⅓ (we must remember to add 100 from side b):

Ga8-16 (220) Ga8-17 Ga8-18 Ga8-19 Ga8-20 Ga8-21
Ga8-22 Ga8-23 Ga8-24 Ga8-25 Ga8-26 (230)
Gb1-1 Gb1-2 Gb1-3 (233) Gb1-4 Gb1-5 Gb1-6 (236)

Gb1-3 is at day 233 + 63 = 296 counted from winter solstice, but the structures are similar. We recognize at left in Ga8-25 (where 8 * 25 = 200) the pair in Ha7-12.

The curious variants of haś in Ga8-16 and Gb1-1 presumably stand at cardinal points. 220 is the day number which corresponds to glyph number 360 counted from Ha1-1 -  because 3 * (220 - 100) = 360 - and the glyph is not visible.

If the structures really are parallel we should find some sign at Ga8-18 (where 8 * 18 = 12 * 12), because day 222 in H gives glyph number 366 (Ha7-22) holding a 'fruit'. The glyph type in Ga8-18 is hanau (birth) and in the following glyph tagata says a limit has been reached. Also, to the right there is a straight nearly vertical line which I read as a line for measurement - a new season is beginning here.

I think there is sufficient evidence to hazard a guess that Ha7-12 with surrounding glyphs is referring to the same season as Ga8-25 with surrounding glyphs.

Ha7-22 (366) is not standing at day number 366. Neither is Gb1-3 (which we arrive at when we divide 400 by 3 and add 100). Ha7-22 and Gb1-3 stand beyond summer solstice, but not at the end of the solar year.

In G we have counted with 63 days beyond winter solstice on side b, which must be added to the ordinal numbers from Gb8-30 in order to reach the distance in days from winter solstice. 63 + 233 = 296 = 4 * 29 days beyond day 180 (summer solstice), given that we count with 360 days for a year. A hole in honu means a dark time.

In H we have counted with 100 days beyond winter solstice on side b, and 300 + 400 = 700 converts to day 233 counted from winter solstice (not from Ha1-1). Where, then is summer solstice in H? That we know:

117 = 9 * 13 ...
Ha5-22 Ha5-23 Ha5-24 (240) Ha7-14 Ha7-15 Ha7-16 (360)
180 180 + 40 = 220

We have found a pattern of days from Ha1-1, viz. 40 + 40 + 40 = 120:

117 117
Ha3-10 Ha3-11 Ha3-12 (120) Ha5-22 Ha5-23 Ha5-24 (240)
40 40

With high summer in the central 40-day term in this triplet, we will get the message that Ha7-16 is at the opposite side of midsummer as compared with Ha3-12 (where 3 * 12 = 360).

Once again we are forced back to the idea that we should count glyphs as days. 3 * 120 = 360. But the solar year cannot end only 4 months beyond midsummer. What we can reach, however, is the 10th and last month for the sun. 300 * 3 = 900 glyphs, and 300 of them come beyond winter solstice on side b.

Glyph number 600 (counted from Ha1-1) ought to be at the end of sun. It means we should look at glyph Ha11-31 with surroundings, and we have been there:

...
*Ha11-28 *Ha11-29 *Ha11-30 (600) *Ha11-31 *Ha11-32 *Ha11-33
300 = 100 + 200 301

The unusual Ha11-29 needs a comment. Obviously it is connected with a similar glyph at day 260:

... ...
*Ha9-22 *Ha9-23 *Ha9-24 (473) *Ha9-25
257 258
*Ha9-26 *Ha9-27 *Ha9-28 *Ha9-29 *Ha9-30 *Ha9-31 (480)
259 260
*Ha9-32 *Ha9-33 *Ha9-34 *Ha9-35 *Ha9-36 *Ha9-37