Ha9-8 is a hura glyph. This statement means it has both visible and numerical traits which fit with the other two such glyphs we have studied in H. The numerical pattern which becomes visible from these 3 hura glyphs reveals much of interest. First we can count to 354 from tagata rere hura in Hb11-50 to glyph number 300 on side a:
Presumably we should begin to read on H from some point towards the end of the back side of the tablet because such is the method which apparently was used on G. If we divide 54 by 3 (which is reasonable because there is room for so many glyphs on H), then the result, 18, could be a sign alluding to the path of Sun (because 20 * 18 = 360). According to my planetary chart (cfr at gagana) Mercury 'rules' ordinal number 50 and Saturn 'rules' ordinal number 25. From Wednesday to the end of the week (Saturday) there are 4 days. The pattern of the week is 3 + 4 which also refers to spring respectively autumn. Thus the stretch of glyphs from Hb11-50 up to and including Ha6-25 seems to refer to the time of the year when Sun is 'absent' (visiting his Winter Maid). The glyph Ha6-25 is probably tagata haati ('a completed cycle' 'is going away'), because such is the parallel in P:
300 / 3 = 100 and 354 / 3 = 118 = 18 + 100. If we multiply 11 * 50 and subtract 6 * 25 the result is 400. The 4 'balls' of hura in Hb11-50 could each represent 118 / 4 = 29.5 nights. In other words, the 'winter' could stretch for 4 lunar months. 'Summer' would be 12 - 4 = 8 months which is in agreement with the idea that Sun has only one 'limb' (whereas Moon is measured up to 2 * 8 = 16 months). But this is for the moment just a guess without any 'proof'. Beyond Saturday comes an important Sun day, because the distance from Ha6-26 to tagata rere hura is equal to twice the number of glyphs in G:
The lower half of a hura sign is found in Ha6-28 (where 6-28 alludes to 2 * 314). The upper invisible half is not burned away (also literally) as in the surrounding glyphs, the invisible half is not present:
The absent top half of hura is therefore a sign to be interpreted. A 'proof' that it is not destroyed by the arriving 'fire' but in fact absent is offered by another similar glyph (Ha9-8) which comes half 314 glyphs later:
Half 314 (= 157) is though not to be counted from Ha6-28 but from Hb6-26:
Although Mars represents the god who brings 'fire' from sky down to earth in spring it is Sun who counts, who is the 'fire' arriving. He has ordinal number 26 and Mars has ordinal number 28. But Mars can serve the function of indicating the time when Sun arrives from the north. On the front side of H this time evidently is described as 100 days from the beginning of side a. In the first day of the 'Sun-is-present season' the newly arrived 'great fire' burns away the top of hakaua (making rain) and vae (Sun going away) and the day is ending with the half hura sign:
A short season it appears to be, because already 156 (= 457 - 301) glyphs later there is a sign of raindrops (hua poporo), where the glyph is designed to be similar to the half hura in Ha6-28:
Nuku in Ha9-7 is probably a sign meaning 'Sun-is-absent' (a nuku glyph has no rima). Then, in hua poporo combined with hura - which is the first glyph of the new season - we can see 'droplets' hanging, and then visibility goes down to zero (13 glyphs are totally absent). 456 / 3 = 152 and 152 - 100 = 52 can be a symbolic number for the length of summer (Sun-is-present) - which we remember from the calendar in K. If the reasoning above is correct, then the season of 'Sun-is-absent' will begin with 'hura poporo' (which seems to be a fitting label) in Ha9-8. Together with the season 'Sun-is-present' the duration is 3 * 314 = 942 glyphs, which though not necessarily has to correspond to 942 / 3 = 314 days.
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