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Let us now return to manu mata e toru. Earlier (at viri) we noticed a pair of important pare glyphs in P:

 
114 415 493 133
Pa3-3 Pa10-1 Pb9-33
115 531 1025
416 = 16 * 26 494 = 19 * 26 1
1024 = 2 * 2 * .... * 2 (10 times)

The glyph which in H is parallel to Pa3-3 (the spring pare) is preceded by a manu mata e toru glyph:

Ha3-7 Ha3-8 Ha3-9 Ha3-10 (118) Ha3-11

The conclusion should be that manu mata e toru functions like the other moe glyphs we have looked at, it indicates how light can be seen in the sky immediately before the 'person' in question appears in the east. Figure 8 forming the pair of eyes in this pare seems to be a joke - together with a mata at the top of the head there are '3 eyes'.

118 (counted from Ha1-1) is equal to 4 * 29.5 and the corresponding day in G (counted from Gb8-30) is Ga5-3:

16
Ga5-1 Ga5-2 Ga5-3 (118)
17
Ga5-4 Ga5-5 (120) Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 Ga5-9

Period number 16 is in K extended to cover 13 glyphs (periods 16-18 in G). A major season of the sun is ending:

Kb1-7 Kb1-8 Kb1-9 Kb1-10 Kb1-11

Kb1-10 is glyph number 107 counted from Ka1-1. The length of the text is 192 glyphs, and maybe some glyphs at the end of the text should be regarded as the beginning (rather than Ka1-1):

Kb5-14 Kb5-15 Kb5-16 (1) Kb5-17 Kb5-18 Kb5-19 Kb5-20

107 + 5 = 112 = 4 * 28. Possibly this tertial is the same as that illustrated by 4 identical glyphs in Tahua:

Aa1-5

Aa1-6

Aa1-7

Aa1-8

According to Metoro they are all moa with different additional attributes. These 4 'lights in the sky' (?) presumably are announced by light even before they are rising - moe comes before moa.