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Once again:

'winter' end of old year
Ca5-32 Ca5-33 Ca5-34 Ca5-35
beginning of new year
Ca6-1 Ca6-2 Ca6-3 Ca6-4
'summer'
Ca6-5 Ca6-6 Ca6-7 Ca6-8 Ca6-9 Ca6-10
Ca6-11 Ca6-12 Ca6-13 Ca6-14 Ca6-15 Ca6-16

These 20 glyphs can be amounting to 360 days if each glyph stands for 18 days. It would then be a system which is like a mirror image of the Mayan with 18 months à 20 days (+ 5). South of the equator things are 'upside down'.

The reversed 'empty hand' gesture in Ca6-3 ought to mean a 'full hand', i.e. 'fire' (rima) is returning. The preceding hau tea illustrates the situation at hand because it has no mata. Then follows a low hau tea with 6 'feathers' on top and double mata. The twin mata eyes in Ca6-1 could refer to winter solstice and the twin mata in Ca6-4 to the change from the 'season of Moon' to the 'season of Sun'.

In Ca6-5 (where 6 * 5 = 30) the 3 'persons' could refer to the 3 major season which lie ahead, first the return of Spring Sun, with a triplet of 'feathers' on top of his head and with 7 at bottom. If we should include Ca6-4 then each of the 7 bottom 'feathers' will correspond to a glyph:

Ca6-4 Ca6-5 Ca6-6 Ca6-7 Ca6-8 Ca6-9 Ca6-10

Next major season has 6 bottom 'feathers' (in Ca6-5) and also 6 glyphs:

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

7 + 6 = 13 and we can interpret these 13 glyphs as months with 28 days in each: 13 * 28 = 364. But it would mean we have to isolate these 13 glyphs from the rest of the 20, which can be used as an argument for creating another separated calendar for the Moon:

Sun 13 28 364 + 1 365
Moon 7 59 413 + 1 414

The last of the 3 major seasons (in Ca6-5) has no 'feather' signs at all and a single mata in front. I guess we should read 'winter':

Ca5-32 Ca5-33 Ca5-34 Ca5-35 Ca6-1 Ca6-2 Ca6-3

7 months of winter will precede the return of Sun in Ca6-4.

The 3 'feathers' at the top of the first (and tallest) of the 'persons' in Ca6-5 could refer to events in the sky rather than to their reflections down on earth. With 6 * 5 = 30 we could multiply by 18 and reach 540, which could be symbolized by 3 'feathers' at the top - the Chinese seem to have used a system with 1½ years (= 3 halfyears).

Light and life returns to earth in spring by way of a path leading down from the sky. The earth will become warmer and warmer until it is much too hot and dry. Relief will then come with water from the sky. Winter, spring, water.