Now only two glyphs remain to study in H, both with tahana as a sign at right and integrated with the main figure:
No longer does it surprise us to find 300 as the distance in days. Is it possible to combine all tahana glyphs into an overall map of the H text? A quick look shows there are twice as many on side b as on side a:
In Hb12-29 a hanau glyph is reforming into a tahana sign, when sun is low in winter a tahana sign is in front. On side a the corresponding glyph (Ha7-33) shows the sun eating to illustrate growth, and his tahana sign is 'in leaf' (not as in Hb12-29). Looking once again at Hb12-29 we can see the glyph joke: there is no leaf at right, instead what looks like a leaf is the tip of a toki behind tahana. If Ha7-33 should refer to summer solstice, we could take 7 * 33 = 231 as a cue to count 5 glyphs further on, to 236 = 8 * 29.5:
Hanau in Ha7-39 is 'giving birth' to a dark season. At left is a reversed 6-feathered tapa mea, possibly indicating that spring is 'dead and gone'. Haga rave at left in Ha7-36 is the same sign as haga rave in Hb12-30. The 'mouth' (vaha kai) in Ha7-35 could correspond to the hole in honui in Gb1-3:
7 * 39 = 273 = 3 * 91, can be understood as the beginning of the 3rd quarter, and Ha7-39 will then be 'parallel' with glyph number 237 (a reordered 273) in G:
As a 'proof' of Ha7-33 being located at summer solstice we can count glyphs from the first tahana:
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