An important new discovery, while searching for clues as to the meaning of the 3 vaero glyphs in line Aa2, is that Aa2-31 probably is illustrating a time when Sky and Earth lay in primal embrace: ... Sky (rangi) and Earth (papa) lay in primal embrace, and in the cramped, dark space between them procreated and gave birth to the gods such as Tane, Rongo and Tu. Just as children fought sleep in the stifling darkness of a hare paenga, the gods grew restless between their parents and longed for light and air. The herculean achievement of forcing Sky to separate from Earth was variously performed by Tane in New Zealand and the Society Islands, by Tonofiti in the Marquesas and by Ru (Tu) in Cook Islands ...
The 'story' ends with glyph number 1280 (= 20 * 64), where we can see empty hands and a kind of fish going down head first. The open mouth seems to be a reversal of the triangular apex of the lightless Ragi in Aa2-31. The 30th glyph in the 16th line is used also in G to indicate a state of light absent:
The tail upside down in Ab8-30 is similar to the tail of vaero:
The numbers agree with what we can see. Aa2-14 is oriented to the left and also 2 * 14 = 28 refers to Moon. The vaero signs in Aa2-18 and Aa2-45 are instead oriented forwards, pointing to the coming season of growth (Te Kaiga as I wish to name it). There are 4 glyphs from Aa2-14 to Aa2-18 which apparently form a contrasting pair. In Aa2-45 there is an obvious gap in time and the same phenomenon can be observed in the following Aa2-46:
By comparing with the beginning of the front side of G (including Gb8-30) it becomes evident that the dark time measures 1334 - 1160 = 174 = 6 * 29 glyphs according to A. But it can alternatively be said that it comes to an end with the 16th glyph (Aa2-48) counted from kara etahi in Aa2-33:
Counting 2 glyphs per day in Tahua will result in 7-8 dark nights for the transformation from the dark time to spring:
On the other hand, it can also be useful to count with 1 glyph per day. From the final glyph Aa2-48 (where 2 ' 48 = 96 seems to confirm the moe sign of a new dawn) and counting backwards 192 glyphs we will (significantly) arrive immediately after Ab8-30:
Probably, though, it does not mean 192 days but 192 / 2 = 96 days. This would result in 88 + 8 days for the dark distance:
Day 571 (= 1334 / 2 - 96) at first seems to be some kind of mistake. But if we recognize day 571 as a 'zero day', we can count with 19 * 30 = 570 as the measure of 'sky with adorning lights'. Or we can alternatively add the 96th day (Aa1-47--48) to 571 and reach 572, which probably is the best method. Moe is the first sign of light and 5 * 72 = 360. A new light must be dawning when a great season has ended. Therefore the crack in time comes at the proper time:
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