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From H we have learnt that there is one egg-formed honui hole at summer solstice and another at winter solstice:


Ha5-22	Hb7-38

In G there are no honui glyphs, but there are honu glyphs with holes:

				98		76
Ga8-26	Gb1-1	Gb1-2	Gb1-3		Gb3-15		Gb6-26
2		100			78
180

Here Gb1-3 is located at summer solstice, and the other honu with a hole (Gb3-15) appears to be a repetition (although more developed). Together 100 days are measured out by them. The number pattern 100 + 78 in G possibly is the same - but reversed - as that on side a of H:

days in H
side a			side b
78	100	38	28	84	104
178		66		184
216			216

A reversal in time is not strange, considering what happens when you follow the trail back again downhill, encountering the same landmarks but in opposite order. Side a of H probably describes the path of waxing sun and side b of G the path of waning sun.

At winter solstice (Gb6-26) there is no hole, sun (6 and 26) has come back again. Down he went at midsummer (in order to be reborn at midwinter to give light for those who live north of the equator).

The hole sign is - it seems - connected with summer solstice, but not necessarily with winter solstice. If it occurs at winter solstice, as for instance in Hb7-38, then it could be to indicate the return of sun through a hole similar to that at summer solstice:


Hb7-29	Hb7-30	Hb7-31	Hb7-32	Hb7-33	Hb7-34

Hb7-35	Hb7-36	Hb7-37	Hb7-38	Hb7-39	Hb7-40

7 * 38 = 266 alludes to how the total blackness of Te Pei (236) is turned into its opposite by the blazing Te Pou (Sirius, at 266). Hipu in Hb7-37 is not 'ghostly' in character as Ha10-8:


Ha10-3	Ha10-4	Ha10-5	Ha10-6

Ha10-7	Ha10-8	Ha10-9	Ha10-10


Ha10-30	Ha10-31	Ha10-32 (534)

Sun fades away (Ha10-31) and the sky (ragi) with its stars once again will become dominant (Ha10-9). It happens in day number 534 / 3 = 178 (counted from Ha1-1). The return of spring sun in his full force happened in day 120 / 3 = 40:

*118 = 4 29.5**		*413 = 14 29.5**
	Ha3-11 (119)		Ha10-31 (533)

40 is the number of his return in spring, 80 (cfr Ha10-8) could be the number of his leaving in autumn. Another way to count is to say that sun has 10 * 31 = 310 days, but during the first 118 of them he has not grown strong enough to be of any value. Therefore, we should not count with him for more than 310 - 118 = 192 days (equal to the number of glyphs in the K text).