In G there are ariki glyphs both with and without feathers. Disregarding the peculiar Gb3-7 (and atariki in Ga1-24) there is, though, only one ariki without feathers:
Without doubt this ariki is located 'among the shadows':
6 days remain to the first of the henua periods and 8 days to the close of those 4 * 29.5 = 118 needed to reach the great niu at Ga2-29. Possibly 2-29 alludes to the necessity of adding 2 * 29 to 60. 4 weeks have passed from atariki:
If atariki stands at spring equinox (63 + 25 = 88 days counted from winter solstice, given we count Gb8-30 only once), then sun ought to be present. Yet he seems to be a few days late. The calendar is not beginning with Gb6-26 but with tamaiti (Gb7-3), 5 days later, which explains the delay:
The 'fire generator' (Ga2-26) comes 5 days after ariki in Ga2-21. So it should be possible to find sun approaching already at day 88 counted from winter solstice. Day 90 is, significantly, represented by a haś glyph (which usually are used to mark the end of a season). And, possibly, ordinal number 52 at Ga2-21 has been determined in order to make the reader reflect on 7 * 52 = 364 and on the number of the 'fire generator' (2 * 26 = 52). There is a hidden connection between the not quite real (open circumference) ariki in Ga2-21 and the 'fire generator', both come 116 days after the beginning of the year (winter solstice respectively tamaiti at Gb7-3):
116 = 4 * 29. We need to count Gb8-30 twice. Atariki will therefore represent day 89 counted from winter solstice, the last day before a new quarter will open its eye:
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