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My imagination has found a Mermaid's Purse, the egg case of a shark, at the center of ika hiku glyphs:

 
ika hiku

There is evidence of a connection between shark glyphs (vaha mea, mago) and ika hiku glyphs. For instance are there 6 lunar months from vaha mea in Ga1-4 to ika hiku in Ga7-12.

 180    180
Ga1-4 (5) Ga7-16 (186) Gb8-30 (1) Ga7-12 (182)
vaha mea mago puo ika hiku
182 days 182 days

Studies of the G and Q texts suggest ika hiku glyphs appear beyond the spring sun 'half year', e.g.:

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Gb6-26 (1) Ga7-26 (260) Ga7-27

The '2nd half year' is ruled by the moon, and ika hiku tend to come in pairs (in the same way as moon has two 'faces').

Ika hiku in Ga7-27 is day number 197 counted from Gb8-30. In Q a vaha mea shark has a position counted from Qa1-1 equal to the lunar station of Te Pou (Sirius), which generates day number 197:

*Qa7-11 *Qa7-12 (266)
197 = 266 / 2 + 64

Possibly there was a 'shark year' based on 2 * 197 = 394 days:

Gb6-5 Gb6-6 Gb6-7 (390) Gb6-8 Gb6-9 Gb6-10
Gb6-11 (394) Gb6-12 Gb6-13 Gb6-14 Gb6-15 Gb6-16 (399)

394 - 266 = 2 * 64. In some complicated way number 64 has a key role in the number system of rongorongo.