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I have now changed the 'misleading table' in the glyph dictionary into:

By counting glyphs the structure of the K calendar is partially revealed, though for a definite description the glyphs must also be studied:
spring-summer fall-winter
period no. glyphs sum glyhs period no. glyphs sum glyhs
1 7 *56 17 3 54
2 3 18 6
3 4 19 4
4 3 20 4
5 2 21 3
6 3 22 6
7 2 23 2
8 2 24 2
9 2 25 3
10 2 26 3
11 3 27 5
12 2 28 4
13 3 29 5
14 2 30 4
15 3 *56 + 54 = *110
16 *13 Numbers preceded by asterisks (*) are reconstructed (because glyphs are destroyed in period 16).

The 17th period is the one parallel to period number 19 in G, i.e. when 'fall' (vero) occurs.

Hopefully, the information given does not need to be changed later on.

In the page which follows K is compared with G:

We can now use the structure earlier suggested for G to compare with the K structure:
G calendar
period no. number of glyphs
1, 2, 3 19 19
4, 5, 6 8 27
7, 8, 9 8 35
10, 11, 12 7 42
13, 14, 15 12 54
16, 17, 18 16 70
K calendar
period no. number of glyphs
1, 2, 3 14 14
4, 5, 6 8 22
7, 8, 9 6 28
10, 11, 12 7 35
13, 14, 15 8 43
16 *13 *56

The patterns are very similar. Twice 28 in K corresponds to twice 35 in G.

28 is the number of potentially moon-lit nights in a month (or ½ the number of moon-lit nights in a double month). 35 is ½ the number of a 'lunar double month' (i.e. 420 / 6).

In other words, in G the number of glyphs (70) in the first 18 periods (covering the time from spring to autumn) equals the number of nights in a 'lunar double month', while in K the number of glyphs (*56) in the first 16 periods (from spring to autumn) equals the number of potentially moon-lit nights in a synodic double month.

The relation between 56 and 70 is equal to 4/5 (80%), 28 = 4 * 7 and 35 = 5 * 7.

420 * 1/5 = 84 and 4* 84 = 336. 365 - 336 = 29. Is there a 'solar new moon' time covering 29 dark nights around winter solstice?

12 * 28 = 336.

Here we expect a break at the beginning of period 14 - but no, the triplet structure does not support it.

Adding 7 (glyphs in periods 10-12) with 3 (in period 13) gives the sum 10. Beyond that point we have (8-3) + *13 = *18 - a result which convinces me to keep period 16 intact as described with *13 glyphs (instead of changing the sum to *12).

The triplet structure for the G calendar was once presented in order to test by counting glyphs if an imagined midsummer point was located between periods 8 and 9:

In the 7th period of the calendar of the year in G there is a tagata glyph without 'accessories' in form of extra signs and in the following two periods (8 and 9) more information is given about what season is 'fully grown':
 
Ga4-1 Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4
7
Ga4-5 Ga4-6 Ga4-7 Ga4-8
8 9

The glyphs in period 7 refer backwards to three earlier periods (3 marks at bottom left on Ga4-2). If these three periods are 4, 5 and 6, we can reach a quartet (including period 7), and with autumn equinox arriving beyond the 2nd group of 8 periods a symmetrical structure would be:

periods nos. periods no.
1 - 3 ↓ ↑ 14 - 16
4 - 7 10 - 13
8 9
mid-summer

However, this idea has no support from the glyphs. Instead another structure is given.
The structure indicated by the number of glyphs in G is:
period no. number of glyphs
1, 2, 3 19 19
4, 5, 6 8 27
7, 8, 9 8 35
10, 11, 12 7 42
13, 14, 15 12 54
16, 17, 18 16 70

6 triplets form the base of the first half year part of the calendar. With red are marked significant numbers, 'proving' this is the correct structure. The first triplet (1, 2, 3) has 19 glyphs, an odd number which indicates that the triplet cannot be regarded as isolated from the rest. It cannot be 'finished' having an odd number of glyphs.

Therefore we have to search for another triplet with an odd number of glyphs, and we must go to the triplet 10, 11, 12 (with 7 glyphs together). That 'closes' the group which will have 42 glyphs, a highly signficant number.

The 12 first periods must belong together. Therefore the next 6 periods (13-18) will form another group. The two groups have 70 glyphs together and half 70 = 35, a number we find as the sum of the first 9 periods. This way the periods are also evenly divided into two groups with 9 periods and 35 glyphs in each group. On Easter Island 70 and 35 are significant numbers, too.

Leaving for the moment the key question whether the methods used are relevant - here for example to add the sums of glyphs for triplets of periods until the resulting total becomes an even number (or generally: to add sums of glyphs for single or groups of periods until the resulting total becomes an even number) - we must remind ourselves how 42 (= 1/10 * 420) possibly signifies the end of 12 periods, thereby also leaving 6 periods with 28 glyphs for the rest of the 18 periods.

Maybe there are triplets of 6-group periods, with a midpoint break between periods 6 and 7 in the double period summing up to 42:

1-6 6 27 42 27
7-12 6 15 43
13-18 6 28 28
sum 18 70

That would explain why in Ga4-1 we see a fully grown person:

7
Ga4-1 Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4

The time immediately after midsummer could very well begin with line a4. It has become more and more evident that a break from one glyph line to the next should not be ignored - it carries meaning.

Yet the imagined triplet division of the 18 first periods in the G calendar must not occlude the idea of a possible binary division:

1-9 9 35
10-18 9 35
sum 18 70

In K, we saw, periods 7-9 (with a triplet of double glyphs) defined a group separated from period 10 etc:

 

Before period 10 another group is discernible, in which 'the eating gesture' connects 7 and 8, while 8 and 9 obviously are connected by the 'double-eyed' hau tea:

7
Ka4-16 Ka5-1
8
Ka5-2 Ka5-3
9
Ka5-4 Ka5-5
1 7 7+12+3+6 = 28 according to how the glyphs possibly connect the periods.
2 3 12
3 4
4 3
5 2
6 3
7 2 6
8 2
9 2

The glyphs in period 9 of K suggest a reversal or 'finish'. There are 8 (double) 'feathers' in the Ka5-5 maro, the part at left in Ka5-4 is a mirror image of the part at right in Ka5-2, hua poporo (GD21) in Ka5-4 tell us 'dark' and the maro string in Ka5-5 has a sharp bend presumably indicating a cardinal point.

In the G calendar we have the following glyphs in the periods under discussion:

7
Ga4-1 Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4
8
Ga4-5 Ga4-6
9
Ga4-7 Ga4-8
10
Ga4-9 Ga4-10
11
Ga4-11 Ga4-12 Ga4-13
12
Ga4-14 Ga4-15

The upraised arms show that periods 10-12 belong together.

The elbow ornament at left (past) in Ga4-9 is complete, no unfinished (open) part of its perimenter. In Ga4-14 there are twice maro elbow ornaments, both with a triplet of 'feathers'. Elbows presumably indicate cardinal points and elbow ornaments describe cycles.

Henua in Ga4-13 is open at the top, a sign of the 'spectral nature' of the central (11th) period of the triplet. In the 12th period an unusual 'foot' at right bottom of henua possibly announces the growth of a new season. Number 15 tells of a waning season soon to come.

Beyond follows a set of 3 periods which look rather individualistic - no obvious connection is seen between them:

 

13
Ga4-16 Ga4-17 Ga4-18 Ga4-19
14
Ga4-20 Ga4-21 Ga4-22
15
Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 Ga4-26 Ga4-27

However, in Ga4-16 the upraised 'arm' does seem to indicate a connection with the doubly upraised arms in periods 10 and 12. We seem to have entered a new season, because the 'fist' is at right now and the elbow ornament (at right) is 'unfinished'. Rei in Ga4-17 affirms the arrival of a new season.

Ga4-17 has a special kind of appendix at top left, corresponding closely with the one in Ga2-17 (the first glyph in the calendar) but different from all other Rei glyphs in G:

Ga2-27 Ga2-28 Ga2-29 Ga3-1 Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5

Finally, there is a triplet of periods in G (corresponding to the single period 6 in K) which underlines the changes due. A new glyph line (a5) is used for that purpose:

 

16 A triplet of periods with 16 glyphs concluding the 1st 'year'.
Ga5-1 Ga5-2 Ga5-3
17
Ga5-4 Ga5-5 Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 Ga5-9
18
Ga5-10 Ga5-11 Ga5-12 Ga5-13 Ga5-14 Ga5-15 Ga5-16

The glyphs in G do indeed naturally group together the text into triplets of periods:

text period no. number of glyphs
Ga2-27 1, 2, 3 19 19
Ga3-17 4, 5, 6 8 27
Ga4-1 7, 8, 9 8 35
Ga4-9 10, 11, 12 7 42
Ga4-16 13, 14, 15 12 54
Ga5-1 16, 17, 18 16 70

Ga3-1 must also be noted, of course:

Of course, we must also see a similar table for K. Not one of the 6 groups of periods begin where a new glyph line starts:

 

text period no. number of glyphs
Ka3-15 1, 2, 3 14 14
Ka4-8 4, 5, 6 8 22
Ka4-16 7, 8, 9 6 28
Ka5-6 10, 11, 12 7 35
Ka5-13 13, 14, 15 8 43
Kb1-7 16 *13 *56

Ka4-1 is at the beginning of period 2, Ka5-1 at the end of period 7 and Kb1-1 at the end of period 13:

     

Kb2-1 is located at the beginning of period 18 - the period immediately following the vero period: