Counting from the beginning of side b the number is 84. Hua in Gb3-23 is the last day in a period of 6 fortnights. The glyphs above describe the 12th and 13th weeks, numbers which we should associate with the final of sun (who will reach his 'deadline' after 12 months and then will be 'dormant' during the 13th month). There are 7 + 6 = 13 'feathers' around the hua 'fruit'.

A glyph with ordinal number -23 should be ruled by Jupiter, and we can see from the following Friday that it is time for regeneration. Saturn - here depicted as a hole filled with lifegiving water (vai) - is used in order to make the process work. The result is seen at bottom in Gb3-27 (Monday) where the 'cup' of koti is sprouting.

Mercury is like Saturn depicted as a hole, but the ordinal number is without 'life' (light). In the 29th night of the moon she is not visible. Saturn, on the other hand, has a 'square of fire' as his number during the last week of the month, and it could be the waxing and waning moon in the background.

In Gb3-27 a growing maro has 5 'feathers' - a fire is in safety onboard (as if it were a ballast, rakau o te miro) for the dark night of the moon is approaching. It is Monday and it is Moon who will carry light past the dark gap ahead.

In Tuesday the light on the moon crescent is described by 9 'feathers' at her back. The glyph has at left a reversed tapa mea formed after the growing moon, but at right there is a growing maro string with 6 'feathers' - in front the sun's rays will once again renew the moon.

From this perspective we can identify Mercury as the dark phase of the moon, when she is between the sun and us, where a new moon will be renewed. The hole is where she 'has bathed in the waiora a Tane', the 'fount to restore life'. Two growing maro strings with 4 'feathers' each indicate the 8 new periods of the moon.

With Tane as the sun god he is capable of assuming several different 'garments', one of which is Mercury. Now, when we have seen Tane in his Mercury ('dark moon') garment, we can see what that meens - Mercury is very difficult to catch sight of.

His last garment is that of Jupiter, when sun is playing the role of the Tree, in which 'fire' is dormant. We realize that Gb3-30 is the moon equivalent of the 'fire generator':

moon	sun

Gb3-30	Ka3-14	Ga2-26

In Ka3-14 we should read 314, the day of Jupiter. But it is also a Tuesday, the 14th day in the month. Mars is the planet who brings fire, the spring garment of the sun. We can compare with Ca7-14 in the Mamari moon calendar.