This time we will begin with the 4 last glyphs in line Ca9:
In Ca9-24 we can count 9 * 24 = 216 = 12 * 18 and 252 = 14 * 18. Perhaps it means 26 * 18 = 468? In Ca9-25 Saturday is appropriately illustrated by mea ke (a sign of darkness). As to the following (and preceding) inoino signs we must wait until that chapter. But the triplet of tagata figures in Moon day means hakaariki ('to make a king'), we can learn from Metoro. The triplet is a unity, and the square of 3 is 9 while its cube is 27. It is the last glyph in the line which accentuates its importance. Line Ca9 is also conspiciously short in its number of glyphs. The first 16 glyphs in line Ca10 ought to form a group (with the 16th glyph being number 20 counted from Ca9-24):
But at Ca10-6 Metoro seems to have read a new beginning because here we find a Capital letter: Tupu te toromiro. Maybe he had counted the glyphs from the beginning of side a and saw the end of 10 times 26 in Ca10-5. Or maybe he read the glyphs. Anyhow, his capital letter made me separate Ca10-6--9 into a quartet. Moko in Ca10-16 will then be number 4 + 7 = 11 counted from Ca10-6. The open mouth of moko in Ca10-16 presumably made Metoro infer it was moving (te moko oho mai), although he said nothing similar at the open mouth of moko in Ca10-8. Perhaps there it is a sign of 'regeneration':
Maybe Metoro realized that a Wednesday cannot open up a season, a day of Mecury is the opposite - it closes the 'morning light'. The ordinal numbers in the line determines Mercury respectively Jupiter as the day rulers for the moko glyphs:
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