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4. Remembering the 19th month in the Mayan calendar, with only 5 days instead of 20, we can guess the month 19 Rongo also could be shorter than the preceding 18. And my guess 28 days per month is far too much for a year with 18 months. Instead we can try with 20 days per month.

My peculiar arrangement with Rongo as the last son of the year is hardly correct. He was the first son of Tu and mentioned at the beginning. Comparing with the Mayan calendar there is a possible clue: The counting of days began with 0 instead of with 1. The last (19th) haab month (Vayeb) had only 5 days, and its highest number therefore became 4. Otherwise the highest number in a month was 19.

We can therefore put number 18 at the 19th and last son Whatonga to connect him with Saturn and still have Rongo at the beginning, but now as number zero. And the day preceding number 1 (Mercury) must be Mars:

2

18 Whatonga

0 Rongo

360

364

20

64 = 4 * 16

20

4 5 Tiki

4

10 Waiorangi

4

15 Tiki
100 120 200 220 300 320

100

100

100

300 = 15 * 20 = 5 * 60
2

18 Whatonga

0 Rongo

532 (= 2 * 266)

28

112 = 4 * 28

4 5 Tiki

4

10 Waiorangi

4

15 Tiki
168 308 448

140

140

140

420 = 15 * 28 = 7 * 60

Instead of 3 * 140 = 420 nights of Moon we now have a more suitable 3 * 100 = 300 days of Sun. Instead of 7 'flames of Sun' there are 5 such flames (periods with 60 days). A year with 360 days is the balanced medium between 7 and 5 flames, it seems.

300 + 4 * 16 = 364 corresponds to 420 + 4 * 28 = 532. But of course there is room for a reduction down from 532 to a lower number. However, such a change would destroy the beautiful ordinal number 532 (= twice the number of autumn equinox).

Moon gives more room for a wider kind of beauty than Sun who definitely cannot go much further than 364 days (= twice the number of summer solstice):

Ga7-11 Ga7-12 (182) Ga7-13 Ga7-14
Gb5-6 Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9
Gb5-10 (364) Gb5-11 Gb5-12

Sun is swallowed at vaha kai and day number 2 * 182 is a day of Venus. In analogy with Sun who has ika hiku (the tail fish) halfway around his cycle we have autumn equinox as the halfway station for Moon:

Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (266) Gb2-11 Gb2-12
Gb2-13 Gb2-14 Gb2-15 Gb2-16
2 * 266 = 532 = 472 + 60
Ga2-27 Ga2-28 Ga2-29 (*532)
Ga3-1 Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5

The oval head of vaha mea turns around to become the bottom end of niu in Ga2-29. And the string which has an apex inside his head can be compared with the full moon sign in Mamari where it is not a string but a band of light which has an apex:

Ca7-24 (192)

Gb2-10 (266)

full moon

autumn equinox