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3. We know there is an ika hiku glyph after the end of the 31 henua periods in the text of G:

32
32	Ga7-11	Ga7-12	Ga7-13	Ga7-14
33
33	Ga7-15	Ga7-16	Ga7-17

34
34	Ga7-18	Ga7-19	Ga7-20

While reading the Keiti text Metoro said kiore henua at the glyph type coming at the end of such periods. The 'rat' (kiore) apparently refers to the sun, who is steadily growing (kai) and moving higher.

31
31	Ga7-5	Ga7-6	Ga7-7	Ga7-8	Ga7-9	Ga7-10 (180)

Ika hiku in Ga7-12 should therefore in some way refer to what happens to the sun in his next developmental stage. Recounted from Gb8-16 the story cannot take a pause until we reach number 260 at Ga7-17.

Its plump body may allude to Rogo and at the top end there is no caudal fin but an open mouth, which we should compare with that of vaha kai half a year earlier:

	180
Ga1-4 (5)		Ga7-16 (186)
vaha mea		mago
182 days

Tamaiti in Ga7-11 has a flat bottom, and not a droplike one as at the end of the lunar year:


Gb7-3 (414)	Gb7-4

The flat smooth pavement must be at summer solstice.