Both haú and haú ke are instead evidently referring to 'light at the back' (in the past). In a cosmic frame of mind the idea in the background of 'etoru kiori' (Ca6-7--9) could be that 'fire in the sky' is in the past (because there are 'feathers' on the back side of these kai glyphs). According to myth our 'fire' down on earth has been stolen from its origin high up in the sky.

20 glyphs (Ca5-32--Ca6-9) can be read as a calendar for the year, and in this calendar the triplet of haú ke are found, it seems, just before high summer (Ca6-10 is glyph number 150 counted from Ca1-1). It is getting hot because the 'fire' has come down from the sky. Relief is waiting just around the corner, however, because the 'vai season' (cfr Ca6-12) will soon change everything:


Ca6-5	Ca6-6	Ca6-7	Ca6-8	Ca6-9	Ca6-10


Ca6-11	Ca6-12	Ca6-13	Ca6-14	Ca6-15	Ca6-16

Confirmation of the meaning 'fire in the past' is given for instance by the quartet of haú ke glyphs in Gb6-21--24:


Gb6-17	Gb6-18	Gb6-19	Gb6-20

Gb6-21	Gb6-22	Gb6-23	Gb6-24

Gb6-25	Gb6-26 (409)	Gb6-27	Gb6-28

Also they are close to the end of a cycle, because winter solstice is probably located at Rogo in Gb6-26 (where we can imagine 409 as alluding to 40 * 9 = 360).

In Ca6-7--9 the triplet of 'late spring' haú ke glyphs seems to arrive around summer solstice and in Gb6-21--24 the quartet of 'late autumn' haú ke glyphs evidently come just before winter solstice.

12 respectively 13 'feathers' in Gb6-21 and Gb6-22 could refer to 12 respectively 13 months for measuring the path of Sun, for instance as 12 * 30 = 360 and 13 * 28 = 364.

In Gb6-23 and Gb6-24 the number of 'feathers' is 15. Possibly this number has been chosen not only in order to refer to the number for the full moon night - 2 glyphs and 2 full moons because the lunar months have to be counted 2 at a time (2 * 29½ = 59) - but also in order to indicate a longer 'path' for Moon than for Sun:

15 / 13 * 354 = 408

There are 8 glyphs from Gb6-17 up to and including Gb6-25.

At Gb6-25 we can count 6 * 25 = 150. The number of 'feathers' in the pair Gb6-21--22 is 12 + 13 = 25, and compared with the number of 'feathers' in the next pair Gb6-23--24, which is 15 + 15 = 30, it is possible to formulate a relationship between 20 * 15 = 300 and 20 * 18 = 360:

30 / 25 * 300 = 360

If 150 at Gb6-25 refers to 150 days from the beginning of counting days, then the beginning should be in day 408 - 150 = 258:


Gb2-1	Gb2-2 (258)	Gb2-3	Gb2-4	Gb2-5	Gb2-6

Gb2-7	Gb2-8	Gb2-9	Gb2-10 (266)	Gb2-11	Gb2-12

Gb8-30 + the glyphs on side a + those in line Gb1 sum up to = 256 = 8 * 32. Gb2-1 is glyph number 256 + 1, and 408 - 256 = 152 = 8 * 19.

Counting to 150 from Gb8-30 we arrive at Ga6-9, a glyph which indeed is 'looking back':

23
23	Ga6-9 (150)	Ga6-10	Ga6-11

150 (Gb8-30--Ga6-9) + 108 + 150 (Gb2-2--Gb6-25) = 408.

If we count from Ca6-11 with 20 days per glyph, then the last glyph of the calendar in C will be Ca6-10 at day number 400:

'late summer'

Ca6-11 (20)	Ca6-12	Ca6-13	Ca6-14	Ca6-15	Ca6-16

first part of 'winter'				second part of 'winter'

Ca5-32 (140)	Ca5-33	Ca5-34	Ca5-35	Ca6-1 (220)	Ca6-2	Ca6-3 (260)

'fire' brought down to earth

Ca6-4	Ca6-5 (300)	Ca6-6	Ca6-7	Ca6-8	Ca6-9	Ca6-10

With Sun reborn at winter solstice every year, it is reasonable to let the 'great cycle' of Moon (greater than a month) begin at the opposite side of the year, viz. at midsummer.