2. By using small signs we could conclude that probably the text of Tahua is not beginning on side a but on side b. These small signs were:

Together with their opposites:

Viri in Ab7-26 is big and it has a little gap in its outline (outside top right):

Ab1-1	Ab7-26	Aa5-7	Aa8-26

The Son of the Lord of Seven Caves should be measured by 7, i.e. by the week (not by fortnights). 7 * 26 = 182 or half the full cycle of 364 days. The Son has to leave after 182 days.

I have used this little exercise in order to define adjuncts, by which I mean such signs which do not reach up to the level of glyph types and which instead are added to (embedded in) the glyph types. Such Signs may seem insignificant, but they are essential for a true understanding.

The 4 viri glyphs above have other 'adjuncts' too. The top front end of the last viri has been 'lopped off', the definite end of him. At his bottom end the curvature is great, a sign of imminent end, I guess:

... The dream soul came to Rangi Meamea and looked around searchingly. The dream soul spoke: 'Here at last is level land where the king can live.' She named the place 'Rangi Meamea A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The mountain she named 'Peke Tau O Hiti A Hau Maka O Hiva'. The dream soul moved along a curve from Peke Tau O Hiti to the mountain Hau Epa, which she named 'Maunga Hau Epa A Hau Maka O Hiva' ...

Also the degree of 'openness in front' is an adjunct. The 'curve' sign is related to it, in a way its opposite. Viri in Aa5-7 has nearly closed its front from the incoming light. In Aa8-26  the upper part has been opened again by the cut.

I suspect the inside form of the bottom half of Aa8-26 is a pau sign:

Aa8-26	Gb5-12

The surrounding glyphs tell about the end of light:

Aa8-26	Aa8-27	Aa8-28	Aa8-29
kua viri	i to vero hia	e tapamea	ma te hokohuki
Aa8-30	Aa8-31	Aa8-32	Aa8-33
ka puhi i te ahi i te toga nui	e hua o te pua	o te henua	ko te hoea

Light has run out (pau), which for instance the vero (ragi without any moon crescent in the background) proves. 7 feathers in front at Mars are reversed at Mercury. Metoro said tapamea where there was light, but hokohuki where the 'red cloth' was cut off. Huki are sticks which close up the ridge of a house, but huki also means 'to cut the throat':

Huki 1. Pole attached to the poop from which the fishing-net is suspended: huki kupega. 2. Digging stick. 3. To set vertically, to stand (vt.). 4. Huki á te mahina, said of the new moon when both its horns have become visible. Vanaga. 1. To post up, to publish. 2. To cut the throat (uki). Mq.: Small sticks which close up the ridge of a house. Ha.: hui, the small uniting sticks in a thatched house.  Churchill. Standing upright. Barthel. M. Spit for roasting. Te Huki, a constellation. Makemson. Hukihuki. 1. Colic. 2. To transpierce, a pricking. 3. To sink to the bottom. Churchill.