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2. Glyph number 182 (= 364 / 2 = 7 * 52) is in the Mamari text Ca7-14 (the 26th glyph in the so-called Moon Calendar), and here Metoro mentioned the hua sign - looking like a fish - hanging at left:

Ca7-8 (**20) Ca7-9 (177)
koia ki te marama tagata
Ca7-10 (**22) Ca7-11 Ca7-12 (180) Ca7-13
marama kua moe ki te ahi - e rima rave i te ika marama
Ca7-14 (182) Ca7-15 Ca7-16 (**28)
kua hua - ki te marama kua hahaś hia te marama noho i te nohoga

The period is the 3rd (of 8) in the calendar and at left in Ca7-9 (a Thursday) the normal right arm has been changed into a wing (with the arm as a separate entity left in the background). I think this glyph perhaps is telling about what happens after 6 lunar months (6 * 29½ = 177).

7 * 9 + 177 = 240 (= 480 / 2)

The pair of crescents (Ca7-10 and Ca7-13) could be a sign of an eclipse ('Rahu'), as in Ga1-15 and Ga1-19:

Ga1-15 (488) Ga1-16 Ga1-17 Ga1-18 Ga1-19 (492)
  Bellatrix (489.7) Elnath (489.9)  Mintaka (491.4)   Heka (492.2)
Rahu
Ga1-20 Ga1-21
Alnilam (492.7), Heavenly Gate (493.0) Alnitak (493.7)
'Pyramid of Khafre' 'Pyramid of Khufu'

The negation of the sign for day, as e.g. in Ca7-13, appears in all 8 periods of the Mamari calendar:

1 2 3
Ca6-19 Ca6-27 Ca7-10
4 5 6 7 8
Ca7-19 Ca7-27 Ca8-6 Ca8-13 Ca8-24

The offspring (hua) should be there immediately beyond the dark nights, such is the basic rule of the cycle of life and death.

When the newborn baby - not yet dry behind his ears - is held high up in the fresh breeze the first question surely is whose boy this is? Who is the father?