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Next we turn to the end of the cycle:

... There are 1334 glyphs in Tahua. The text can be used as a calendar with viri glyphs marking the main divisions (in multiples of 29 glyphs) ...  the overall 'map' of the structure can be regarded as:

58 520 752
Aa8-85 Ab1-1 Ab7-26 Aa8-26
2 * 29 522 = 18 * 29 754 = 26 * 29

The beginning of the text is at Ab1-1 and the end at Aa8-85. With an even number of glyphs there are two central glyphs ...

Here we realize that in Aa8-85 the three little 'sun ducklings' still are unhatched.

Expanding the time from Ab7-26 to Aa8-26 we can see how moon is used to measure beyond the 'high light viri', because 16 refers to the number of nights defined (on Easter Island) for waxing moon:

100 361 17 270
Ab7-26 Ab8-43 Aa4-70 Aa4-71 Aa5-7 Aa8-26
464 = 16 * 29 290 = 10 * 29

Glyph number 364 (Aa4-71) has an ordinal number connected with the moon and the sun together, because the number of nights in a month when moon is 'seen' by the sun is 28 and 364 = 13 * 28.

464 is equal to 364 + 100, and 4 * 64 = 256. This is hardly a coincidence, which next page will show.