Maybe each glyph line constitutes a separate 'chapter' of the text. Line a1, we know, seems to begin with an overview of the year, and we will take the opportunity to once again look at the beginning of side a:
Then follows what evidently is a calendar for the daylight and after that a calendar for the nighttime. Though they can of course also be read as another overview of the year, a sun-oriended cycle with summer followed by winter. The continuation of the kuhane journey beyond One Tea is indeed the Path of the Sun arriving from the east:
If each glyph here would denote 10 days, there would be 210 days for 'summer'. Each 70-day long 'week' would end with a 'Monday' - Moon measures the time by marking where the periods are ending. There is a change from light to darkness and back again to light, and so on forever. The living reality is 'breathing in and out' like the tides. 'Winter' should therefore come with Aa1-37 (where Metoro said ehu, ashes):
There are 2 'ashes' glyphs, the 2nd of them with an opening at top right. Following Moon at Aa1-36 there ought to be a Mars night at Aa1-37, but following my intuition I think we here should count two 'Mondays' in a row. The glyphs tell me so, and maybe there is a need for two 'Mondays' because the end of the 3rd 'week' coincides with the end of a first cycle of 36(0). The Midnight Henua at Aa1-43 will by this manipulation become a Sun-day. Though the pair of growing maro signs (2 * 8 = 16) in Aa1-37--38 can be read as an expression of the Moon, in which case a triplet of Moon-days (Aa1-36--38) is another reading:
This would explain the 'crack' at top right in Aa1-38 - the limit of daylight has been set here by the Moon. 38 * 16 = 608 (60 and 8), and 38 * 20 = 760 (= 360 + 400). The 808 glyphs long section of the text ends with Aa1-64, and 64 - 38 (Aa1-38) = 26. 10 of these 26 glyphs constitute the 'calendar of the night'. Or maybe we should recognize a limit defined by Aa1-49--51 as the end of the nighttime calendar, in which case half of these 26 glyphs will come before Rei in Aa1-52:
The tiny Rei in Aa1-52 is followed by a great maitaki with only two mata. It could mean that Spring Sun has left after 52 * 7 = 364 / 2 = 182 days - we are in the 808 glyph long part where there is a need for 2 glyphs per day. 64 glyphs will be 32 'days', and with Aa1-48 'day' number 24 (presumably times 10) has been reached. Vae in Aa1-54 could refer to Spring Sun, he has left. Then comes the season of Nuku. Evidently we should read in triplets of glyphs. 300 / 20 = 60 is the glyph where the 10 months of the Sun could be ending. A new little one (Aa1-61, 'one more') will arrive. Metoro: kua tute ki tona poki - ki te mago. A child (poki) there is, and the Shark is involved. If the station is Tama, then the Queen will die at Aa1-64 (and we will count only 1 glyph per day from then onwards). The strongly drawn Aa1-63 is interesting. Metoro said te herehua, the same appellation he used at Aa1-9 (presumably at the beginning of autumn):
The 9th kuhane station is Te Pou (Sirius), and what could be a better sign in the sky for a change of seasons than the return of brilliant Sirius? Herehua can be translated as 'ties up the fruit' (Barthel 2). The 'fruit' is presumably the 'skull' of the Sun King, and we should remember the fate of this skull (cfr at hua poporo and at ua), not to mention how the skull of One Hunaphu fascinated Blood Moon: ... And then the bone spoke; it was there in the fork of the tree: Why do you want a mere bone, a round thing in the branches of a tree? said the head of One Hunaphu when it spoke to the maiden. You don't want it, she was told. I do want it, said the maiden. Very well. Stretch out your right hand here, so I can see it, said the bone. Yes, said the maiden. She stretched out her right hand, up there in front of the bone. And then the bone spit out its saliva, which landed squarely in the hand of the maiden ... The hand is female in character and 'squarely in the hand' apparently refers to Mother Earth (Nuku). So I imagine:
Before the 'fruit' is tied it must certainly be lifted up and this could be the reason behind the expression hua reva:
The 'hand' at the horizon in the west (the Mayan Chikin) 'swallows' the descending Sun and the result will be a Son in the east. A new Sun is a new fire and he must be 'drilled' into being (cfr at rima):
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