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Our point of departure for this investigation is the fact that the last three toa glyphs in the Tahua night calendar are shorter than the other:

Aa1-37 Aa1-38 Aa1-39 Aa1-40 Aa1-41
Aa1-42 Aa1-43 Aa1-44 Aa1-45
Aa1-46 Aa1-47 Aa1-48

Toa in Aa1-47--48 are bulging slightly to the right, but in Aa1-46 the bulge is at left and the 'person' in Aa1-46 is looking back, which I interpret as a sign for the last glyph in a sequence.

Aa1-47--48 therefore should stand at the beginning of a new sequence of glyhps, a new period. It presumably means that the new day takes its beginning already with Aa1-47, not with the first glyph of the daylight calendar.