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The 'beginning of glyph line Qb7':

*Qa7-1 *Qa7-2 (256) *Qa7-3 *Qa7-4 *Qa7-5 *Qa7-6
192 = 256 / 2 + 64 193 194
*Qa7-7 *Qa7-8 *Qa7-9 *Qa7-10 *Qa7-11 *Qa7-12
195 196 197
*Qa7-13 *Qa7-14 *Qa7-15 *Qa7-16 *Qa7-17 *Qa7-18
198 199 200

Vaha kai in *Qa7-16 seems to identify a day similar to day 364, a day where 'sun is swallowed' (here the sun of spring).

Also in the text of G day number 192 and 200 are located in glyph line a7:

 
Ga7-18 Ga7-19 Ga7-20 Ga7-21 Ga7-22 (192)
Ga7-23 Ga7-24 Ga7-25 Ga7-26 Ga7-27
Ga7-28 Ga7-29 Ga7-30 (200) Ga7-31 Ga7-32

Remarkably, if we add 64 to 192 (in order to measure the number of days from Rogo at winter solstice) the result is 256, the ordinal number for *Qa7-2 counted from Qa1-1.

256 / 2 + 64 = 192, and 192 + 64 = 256. This paradox can be solved by reflecting on the facts. 4 * 64 = 256, and 192 = 3 * 64.

15 days from Ga7-18 (188) up to and including Ga7-32 (202) could describe, it seems, the end of spring.

18 * 8 = 144 = 12 * 12. A unit of 3 rhombs at bottom tells about the past, then comes another rhomb at the top. 144 / 3 = 48, and 188 + 48 = 236. Although spring may end with day 192, another 44 days are then added:

43
Ga7-22 (192) Gb1-6 (236)

In Ga4-20 the same type of glyph has an 'eye' in front of each of these two units, and 4 * 20 = 80 will be 184 if added to 104:

14
Ga4-20 (104) Ga4-21 Ga4-22
32
Ga7-11 Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14 (184)
33
Ga7-15 Ga7-16 Ga7-17

Disregarding winter solstice, summer solstice according to the calendar is arriving in henua period number 32. The first half of the calendar year of 368 days is ending with Ga7-14. Ga7-15--17 are outside, and more connected with the following 'end of spring' glyphs. Their number will then be 3 + 15 = 18.

At Ga4-20 the glyph number 104 can be read as 4 * 26:

258
Ga4-21 (105) Gb5-10 (364) Gb5-11 Gb5-12 Gb5-13 Gb5-14 (368)
264

But the glyph has 4 rhombs which can be read as 4 * 66 = 264.

In Ga7-32 (where 7 * 32 = 224 = 8 * 28) there are 7 feathers at left and 6 at right. 7 * 30 = 210 (as in Ga7-30) and 6 * 30 = 180, which could be a year with 13 * 30 = 390 days:

Gb6-5 Gb6-6 Gb6-7 (390) Gb6-8 Gb6-9 Gb6-10
Gb6-11 Gb6-12 Gb6-13 Gb6-14 Gb6-15 Gb6-16 (399)

In Ga7-23 haś has 16 feathers, maybe meaning that 16 * 12 = 192 days are in the past.

Feathers on both sides should be read as 'occulted':

Ga7-23 Ga7-24 Ga7-25 (195) Ga7-26 Ga7-27
Ga7-28 Ga7-29 Ga7-30 (200) Ga7-31 Ga7-32

In Ga7-25 the first Rogo glyph has at left 6 + 6 = 12 feathers, and maybe each such feather means 15 days. Twice 195 = 390, which agrees with 13  30- feathers in Ga7-32.

Ika hiku in Ga7-27 has 4 + 3 bent feathers, maybe meaning 'weak'. 7 days in a week times 27 = 189, could refer to Ga7-19:

Ga7-18 Ga7-19 (189) Ga7-20 Ga7-21 Ga7-22 (192)
Ga7-23 Ga7-24 Ga7-25 Ga7-26 Ga7-27 (197)

7-19 is a jumbled 197. If we think of ika hiku (the shark egg case) as similar to rau hei, then the rising shark 197 days later is understandable:

Gb6-5 Gb6-6 Gb6-7 (390) Gb6-8 Gb6-9 Gb6-10
Gb6-11 (394) Gb6-12 Gb6-13 Gb6-14 Gb6-15 Gb6-16 (399)

Day 197 in Q is also telling about a rising shark:

*Qa7-11 *Qa7-12 (266)
197