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A few steps ahead we encounter someone we know from earlier:

Aa2-28 Aa2-29 Aa2-30 Aa2-31 Aa2-32 Aa2-33
i areheu ia ka heheu i te nuku henua noho ragi koia kua hua i toona

It has been discovered that kara etahi is a glyph type which is connected with a peculiar sort of manu rere, for instance is Aa2-33 related to manu rere in Ab6-37:

547 440
Aa2-33 (123) Ab6-37
988 = 19 * 52

The distance from kara etahi to manu rere is here 988 (= 19 * 52 glyphs), and 9 * 88 is equal to 8 * 99.

Number 123 (counted from Aa1-1) possibly alludes to  12 * 3 = 36, because the number of glyphs beyond Ab6-37 to the end of side b (223) could mean 2 * 23 = 46. Though it is also a fact that 1 * 23 + 2 * 23 = 69, which number has 6 ('one more' than 5, rima) at the beginning and 9 at the end. There are 5 feathers at left in Aa2-29.

We can count 2 lunar months from 'hakaturou':

58
Aa1-64 Aa2-33 (123)
59 = 2 * 29.5

This suggests that kara etahi could represent the beginning of the 'front side' of the calendar. In G there are 59 glyphs from tamaiti in Gb7-3 (414) to the end of side b.

The end of the 'back side' would then be:

Aa2-28 (118) Aa2-29 Aa2-30 Aa2-31 Aa2-32
i areheu ia ka heheu i te nuku henua noho ragi koia kua hua

The nuku glyph type has no hands (rima, fire). Neither has the sky (ragi) in Aa2-31 any moon crescent sign - the sky is dark. And mauga in Aa2-32 (where 2 * 32 = 64) has no mata.

The strange Aa2-29 has 5 feathers at left and 2 at right, as if to suggest a conjunction between fire (rima) and water (the 2nd season). In the very beginning there was no light, only darkness. Sky and earth were close together and the offspring were in between them. Metoro has expressed it as henua noho ragi - the earth is residing together with the sky.

It was anticipated:

53
Aa1-59 Aa1-60 Aa1-61 Aa1-62 Aa1-63 Aa1-64 Aa2-28 (118)
59

Maybe the unusual glyph type in Aa2-28 represents a picture of the cosmic domains: Sky, Earth, and Underworld. In Gb1-9 the Sky part (i.e. spring sun) is in the past:

 
Aa2-28 Gb1-9