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Day number 363 we have found (at maro) to be the day of Rogo (according to C):

 
glyph numbers counted from Ca1-1
Ca13-16 Ca13-17 Ca13-18 Ca13-19 Ca13-20 (363)
*Ca14-1 *Ca14-2 *Ca14-3 (366) *Ca14-4 *Ca14-5

In Q the disappearing light ('fire') of midwinter is instead described with an ariga erua glyph without 'eyes' and a fat mago with an empty hand (probably meaning that the season beyond high summer has come to an end):

 
*Qb5-23 (597) *Qb5-24
363 = 299 + 64

From *Qb5-23 to the end of side b there are 736 - 596 = 140 glyphs, or 70 days if we count with 2 glyphs per day.

Though the last 64 of those days have already been assigned to the beginning and only 6 days have not been used up, so to say:

*Qb5-25 *Qb5-26 (600) *Qb5-27 *Qb5-28 *Qb5-29 *Qb5-30
300 + 64 = 364 365 366
*Qb5-31 *Qb5-32 *Qb5-33 *Qb5-34 *Qb5-35 *Qb5-36
367 368 1

From the break between *Qb5-35 and -36 to the end of side b there are 64 days.

 

If we count with 3 glyphs per day, we can reach 3 * 46 = 138 glyphs to the end of side b by beginning to count beyond glyph number 736 - 138 = 598 (mago in *Qb5-24):

*Qb5-17 *Qb5-18 *Qb5-19 *Qb5-20 *Qb5-21 *Qb5-22
*Qb5-23 *Qb5-24 *Qb5-25 *Qb5-26 (600) *Qb5-27 *Qb5-28
*Qb5-29 *Qb5-30 *Qb5-31 *Qb5-32 *Qb5-33 *Qb5-34
...
*Qb5-35 *Qb5-36 *Qb5-37 *Qb5-38 *Qb5-39 *Qb5-40

Although there now will be 8 days from *Qb5-17 (which we should begin with), the pattern of the glyphs will be disturbed if we count from *Qb5-25. There is a discontinuity between *Qb5-24 and *Qb5-25, because 14 glyph positions are defined by the niu glyphs.

*Qb5-24 is the 8th glyph from *Qb5-17. Then follow 12 glyphs from *Qb5-25 up to and including *Qb5-36. The end of glyph line Qb5 once had *Qb5-42, and from ariga erua with 'eyes' (*Qb5-12) to the end of the line there are 31 glyphs:

3 6
*Qb5-12 *Qb5-16 *Qb5-17 *Qb5-24
5 8
9 4 ...
*Qb5-25 *Qb5-35 *Qb5-36 *Qb5-37 *Qb5-42
12 6

From Haga Honu (*Qb5-17) we can count 20 + 6 = 26 glyphs. The final glyphs have ordinal numbers which are nice (16, 24, 36, and 42).

The odd 5 glyphs preceding Haga Honu are in an intermediary position, where light is going out. And the line is beginning with these 11 glyphs (which perhaps should be added, in order to reach 16):

*Qb5-1 *Qb5-2 *Qb5-3 *Qb5-4 *Qb5-5 (579) *Qb5-6
*Qb5-7 *Qb5-8 *Qb5-9 *Qb5-10 (584) *Qb5-11

*Qb5-1 is indicated with a strong point. *Qb5-5 shows how the head of the autumn vaha mea has been 'swallowed' by a variant of ika hiku. The 3 frontal members in the double Rei (*Qb5-7) are also thick tails.

*Qb5-5 (579) *Qb5-6
580 / 2 + 64 = 354