Another example of an ingenious double focus is offered by the two notable pare glyphs, which should be possible to interpret both in a short and in a long perspective. Counting glyphs beyond winter solstice (at Hb7-40) the following results emerge:
From Ha3-11 to Ha10-31 there are 533 - 119 = 414 glyphs. In other words, between them is measured out 14 * 29.5 = 413 glyphs, a number which suggests the reader can use the glyphs from the double Rei in Ha3-12 (where 3 * 12 = 36) up to and including Ha10-30 (where 10 * 30 = 300) to count a 'grand moon' cycle (where 14 lunar months is similar to the number of nights in a fortnight). But in Ha10-32 we can read how manu rere is delivering a new 'tamaiti' ('fruit'), cfr the difference compared with Ha10-30. Tama should be at 14 * 29.5 = 413 and we can therefore deduce that we should count days from Ha3-13 (from 3-13 to 413). A superficial reading will end here. We should, however, notice that glyph number 118 (Ha3-10) obviously is related to Ha10-30, the one indicates 30 and the other 300. Furthermore, 118 days (we have just learnt) is the number of nights before the summer sun child will appear, according to the 'multiplication' (creation) pattern with 432 days. Pare in Ha3-11 clearly illustrates his arrival, although the counting has been done in glyphs (from Ha1-1) and not in days. Moe in Ha3-10 is of the type which according to Metoro has 3 eyes (manu mata etoru). We can guess why - the bird's head is the first mata and it represents those 58 days at the beginning when no light existed. Then comes first moon and later sun (the two eyes which are visible as separate units outside the beak). Sun is the youngest of them and he is close to the tip of the beak. In pare the double eyes are formed like a horizontal 8, with the moon at left and somewhat larger (exactly as on the moe beak). It cannot mean moon is shining stronger than the sun, instead it should be interpreted to say that moon is older than sun. To the right of the 'staff' in Ha10-32 moon is returning we can see. 10-32 probably alludes to the completed 10 months of sun 'multiplication (32). If we now try instead to count from the black mago (Hb9-63) and use 3 glyphs per day these numbers will emerge:
236, we remember from the G text, and 8 * 29.5 = 236:
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