On side a there are only 2 hipu glyphs and not very obvious such:
Tagata in Ga3-7 exhibits both a pau foot and a full fist. The completed cycle (tagata) includes both 'death' and 'birth':
From some mysterious beginning first the sky (ragi) is illuminated and then light will intrude between the sky roof and the island. At Ga7-33 the waning part of the cycle is beginning. Hua poporo at right is a certain sign of the dark season. The sun 'fist' has bent downwards, as we can see at left in the glyph. The end of waxing can be read in haú (Ga7-23) with 16 'feathers':
7 * 29 = 203 (Ga7-33) and 7 * 27.5 = 192.5, i.e. Ga7-23 is necessary to complete the waxing season. 7 * 23 = 161, one more than 16 * 10 (and in agreement with the 16 haú 'feathers'). 203 (Ga7-33) - 67 (Ga3-7) = 136, alluding to the first 36-cycle (equal to the number of glyphs in the waxing phase of the Mamari moon calendar). 3-7 at the beginning of the 36-cycle returns reversed in 7-33, with an added 3 to indicate the arrival of the 2nd part of the cycle. The peculiar arrangement with 3 'legs' at right and 4 at left in Ga7-27 (ika hiku) can be explained by thinking of the 'tail fish' as turning around at summer solstice, so its former tail-at-bottom now comes up. Turning the glyph 180º to the right will change the position of left in the fish into right from us seen and vice versa. From the view of the fish, however, his 3 legs are at left = in the past and referring to the spring season which has passed away. We can compare with the position of the eating (kai) gesture in the upside down person in Gb1-13 (at 243 = 3 * 3 * 3 * 3 * 3):
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