"The seeds are sometimes used by children in traditional board games such as Chinese checkers (China), Dhakon (Java), and others." (Wikipedia)
Gb8-3 could be the origin of the new the year, illustrated as a 'fruit' with 5 feathers at left and 5 in front, hanging down from the 'thumb' of a 'dry old tree':
Maybe this 'dry old tree' is a tamarind (vi). 10 says its 'fruit' (hua) is Sun and 8 * 3 = 24 is supporting evidence. A fruit from the tamarind (tamar hind, 'Indian date') could be an image of the Sun (Tama) 'fruit'. A calendar is an ordered structure of dates. Though on Tahiti vi referred to Spondias dulcis or Golden Apple. The day of Gb8-3 is ruled by Venus. Aphrodite (Venus) was born from the foam bubbles of the 'sea'. Raindrops (the tears of Sun) move downwards in high summer and foam bubbles (Sun berries) rise upwards at winter solstice. Gb8-4, where 8 * 4 = 2 * 16 (and where 8-4 resembles 84 at kea in Ab8-84) has ordinal number 216 if counted from Gb1-1. By force of its ordinal number 4 it is a day of Saturn. In Tahua we have tentatively allocated tu-ao to Aa1-1 and then kea in Ab8-84 became tu-vi:
Aa1-3--4 I earlier suggested to be days of Mars because of the order of the bird list in Manuscript E, but the ordinal numbers in Tahua suggest Venus respectively Saturn. Possibly we should count 84 / 7 = 12 as an argument for kea in Ab8-84 to also represent Saturn. Kea in Gb8-1 should though be a Mercury glyph, and Jupiter ought to rule the following kiore - henua:
Moon in Gb8-6 is the 'planet' which will 'strike down' (finish) the vi season, it should correspond to 'tavi'. The reversed manu rere ought to represent 'tu-ao', which apparently means the return of the 'spirit-breath of light' (vaiora a Tane) down to this earth of ours in early spring. Saturn is responsible for the 'standing up' (tu) of the triplet of vi-birds. The arrangment in twice 3 glyphs above has Venus and Moon as final glyphs, and they are both females. Jupiter and Sun are males, whereas the difficult to see Mercury and Saturn are boundary cases. There are 25 glyphs from 'tavi' to the end of side b (472 - 447 = 5 * 5). A square of 'fire' is suitable in order for the text to follow hand-in-hand with the events in the sky. This arrangement is more easy to grasp than what we have puzzled over at the beginning of side a of Tahua. The 'egg' in Ab8-80 should correspond to Gb7-31, if we assume 5 glyphs to tuao:
The idea of being 'last' is, maybe, in G indicated by Gb7-31 as the last glyph in the line, while in A the last glyph on side b was an ideal candidate. Kea in Ab8-84 could show how the 'egg' at the top in Ab8-80 is brought down (to be hatched in Aa1-1), while in G the imagery is not built on an egg but on a hanging 'fruit':
The thumb is the origin of the hanging fruit. 31 - 20 = 11 is a Saturn number and 11 is also expressing 'one more' (than 10 for the maximum of Sun):
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