Mars, the red planet, ruler of the 7th day and also the 2nd pillar holding the sky roof up in the east (with Moon as the 1st such pillar), is a pair of concepts which agrees well with the arrangement of the 18 first henua periods in G into 7 times 10 glyphs:
Together Moon and Mars will support 130 + 130 = 260 days. Once, perhaps, the rest of the year was of less importance, not counted. In the Mamari moon calendar the structure can be interpreted as 26 + 20 + 26 (waxing, full, respectively waning light). The 260 glyphs on the 'front side' of G could be another way of expressing waxing (though here evidently referring not to the month but to the year). Mars has (accoring to my chart) days number 7, 14, 21, and 28 in the month. In G there are only 60 glyphs counted from henua period number 19. Are there not 10 glyphs missing? Should we not have 140 instead of 130? If we insist, we must rework the table above from period 33:
My new arrangement is based on what the glyphs seem to say. The earlier two periods 33 and 34 will be a single period with 6 glyphs. Then symmetry forces 2 additional periods before the arrival of the 200th glyph (counted from Gb8-30). Day 140 - counted from Rei as the first glyph in the henua calendar - will be at ika hiku in Ga7-27. But this ika hiku (we have earlier found out) should probably be counted from Rogo at winter solstice:
There may be a play with numbers here. Perhaps we should count both to 260 and to 140, because together it becomes 400. The 4 'legs' at left may refer to Moon and the 3 at right to Mars. Their part of the support ends here. Maybe we should count to 7 pillars instead of to 2. The numbers of ika hiku can be counted as 7 * 27 = 189 = 3 * 63, which we easily can imagine as 36 'arm in arm' with 63 - a reflection of day 363:
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