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6. I think we now have 'proven' that a major cycle in the G text ends at the beginning of the 31 henua periods. Moreover by adding 532 + 300 = 832 the cycle evidently can continue much further:

2 * 266 = 532 = 472 + 60
Ga2-27 Ga2-28 Ga2-29 (*532)
Ga3-1 Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5
296
Ga3-1 (61) Gb5-4 Gb5-5 Gb5-6 (360)
300

832 = 16 * 52 = 26 * 32.

Back to the Chatham Islanders' view of the year: The name Tiki has made us count 20 days per son, and Maroro will be at Moon, who ends the rule of Sun at the proper place (14 * 20 = 280):

0 Rongo

Tane

Tangaroa

Rongomai

Kahukura

5 Tiki

Uru

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

7 Ngangana

Io

Iorangi

Waiorangi

Tahu

12 Moko

Maroro

160

180

200

220

240

260

280

14 Wakehau

Tiki

Toi

Rauru

300

320

340

360

18 Whatonga

364

Rauru is not a Moon son, but a Venus son, yet the position is similar. In the Mayan calendar the Venus Turtle of Kayab obviously signifies 'the biting of Sun' (Chikin, Manik-Kin) at the horizon in the west, as if to comment upon why the drums were sounding (rutu) already at the 16th month Pax. The woman drummer has only 1 visible limb, a left leg, but maybe it is not her own leg but the missing leg of Sun (360 - 300 = 60):

16 Pax 17 Kayab 18 Cumhu
60 days
19 Vayeb (365)

The Bay of Turtles, Hanga Hoonu, could be a name for a 17th month. The number of the 18th son of Tu was 17 and his name Rauru we now can immediately understand as Ra-uru, i.e. Sun is here only an image, no longer present in person. Like the injured Kuukuu he has drawn back into a cave with his broken spine. Outside the cave are standing 6 images of stone, maybe each one with a value of 10 days.

Earlier and at the end of the 14th son, Maroro, the number is 280 and in the Mayan calendar this is Kankin:

1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip 4 Zotz 5 Tzek (100)
6 Xul 7 Yaxkin 8 Mol (160) 9 Ch'en 10 Yax (200)
11 Sac 12 Ceh 13 Mac (260) 14 Kankin 15 Moan (300)

The rain clouds - cfr the 6 'droplets' hanging above for 80 days beyond summer solstice - have gone away with Mac. Sun is once again shining and everything is drying up (he maro). But only for a short while before he will go down in the west. Mac ends with day number 260 which is like a 'compromise' between Mol and Cumhu:

8 Mol 160 = 60 + 100
13 Mac 260 = 60 + 200
18 Cumhu 360 = 60 + 300
1 Pop 2 Uo 3 Zip
60 days

It is similar to how 364 is like a compromise between 280 and 392, which should make us rethink. Maybe day number 364 (like day number 260) once was regarded as the time of autumn equinox.