We will now move on to Tahua, where I have assembled only 6 (possible) tahana glyphs:
Without parallel text sequences it would have been difficult to ascertain that such glyphs as e.g. Ab5-23 really are tahana:
If we begin counting ordinal numbers for the glyphs from te pito (Ab8-42), we have 1019 + 42 = 1061 at Ab5-25 (which seems to be important because 5 * 25 = 125, the cube of 'fire'). Dividing 1061 by 4 (to look for a 'square') we find 265.25 - a number very close to Te Pou (at 9 * 29.5 = 265.5). The proper glyph to count to should therefore presumably be Ab5-26, where 1020 / 4 = 265.5 and where we can read 5 in combination with 26 as a possible allusion to the last residence of the sun king (at Hanga Moria One). The number of maro feathers in the 6-glyph sequence ending with Ab5-26 are 5 + 6 + 6 + 5 = 22, maybe telling by way of the formula 7 * π = 22 that a cycle has been completed. In the internal parallel π seems to be more directly pointed at - by way of 3-14, which has the same position in the sequence as Ab5-22 ('fire finished'):
The number of maro feathers are the same, but they are distributed differently: 5 + 5 + 6 + 6 = 22. Possibly this distribution indicates midsummer (and 5 + 6 + 6 + 5 a quarter later). At Ab3-16 we can see a short vertical straight line, which probably means we should measure at that glyph. If we count from the beginning of side b we will find 183, i.e. the midpoint of 365. Hetuu in Ab3-18 is assymmetric with a thick flame at top left (suggesting spring sun), and at the apex there is a sign looking like that in p.m.:
We can guess that the big sun in Ab5-25 primarily is not Sirius (Te Pou) but the old sun (which grows bigger when he comes close to the horizon in the west). The number of glyphs from Ab3-16 to Ab5-26 is 125 (= 5 * 25):
As to the meaning of the tahana glyph type, it is fairly obvious that tahana at Ab3-15 and Ab5-23 stand immediately after sun cycles have been finished (at 3-14 respectively 5-22). The fish-like shape is going down, and it ought to mean that sun is departing. In Ab3-15 the 'tail' looks like sun (hetuu) flames, in Ab5-23 something else is depicted, maybe waxing, full, and waning moon. The central 'apex' is identical with that in Ab5-25, which rises the question if possibly also the moon can be referred to by a hetuu glyph. If sun goes away at midsummer but moon is staying with us, then the p.m. hetuu glyphs in the daylight calendars could refer to the moon. Furthermore, the enigmatic 'vapour' rising at right in Ab5-24 cannot be the steam generated by the hot spring sun, it must be the cool mist of the night generated by the moon. Hakaturou has at top left 2 'feathers', which confirms this interpretation - it is a moon hakaturou. Ab3-16 is also such a variant of hakaturou, characterized - it seems - by a very slender 'neck'. If Ab5-23 refers to the moon, then it should be more natural to count to Ab5-26, to the most brilliant star (Sirius) in the domain of the moon:
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