3. It is interesting to note how Metoro in the parallel text on the Tahua tablet is twisting henua into fenua (its Tahitian equivalent):

Aa1-42	Aa1-43	Aa1-44
e ia toa tauuruuru raaraa		e ia toa tauuru
Aa1-45	Aa1-46	Aa1-47	Aa1-48
i te fenua	e ia toa tauuru - ma te hokohuki - e ika no te tagata	ma te tauuru ki te ragi	e tauuru no te henua

The single tao in Aa1-45 is located at the beginning of the 1st phase of the cycle, because raaraa (no Raa present) identifies the time as winter solstice. There are 3 periods in front (Aa1-46--48), not 2 as in H, P, and Q. Also, the hand sign in Aa1-48 is oriented in the opposite direction compared to H, P, and Q. There is evidently a basic difference between A and the other three texts. This is revealed also by the line number 1 contra 5 in H, P, and Q.

Metoro seems to tell us, by not pausing between e ia toa tauuruuru and raaraa, that we should count the glyphs from Aa1-42. They are 3 + 4 = 7, i.e. the 'mystic number of earth's surface'. I guess the corresponding numbers in H, P, and Q cannot be 7 because the double-canoe is leaving 'land' behind.

When Sun moves over 'land' all is well, but when he reaches the shoreline he must have a canoe (with 2 hulls) in order to be able to keep going without coming in contact with the lethal sea. On a long sea voyage fire was kept on board to enable cooking food as usual.

In the text of G glyph line a8 lies beyond the first 7 and we should notice that there are pairs of henua signs from then on:

Ga8-8	Ga8-11	Gb1-26	Gb2-1	Gb2-3	Gb2-5
1		2		3

Gb4-13	Gb4-14	Gb5-2	Gb5-3
4		5
Gb5-17	Gb5-22	Gb6-27	Gb6-28
6		7

Maybe the idea is that the 'land of Sun' is followed by a 'land of Moon'?

There were only 10 Tahitian star pillars and there are no henua pairs in the 11th glyph line on the G tablet and indeed not a single sign of henua in line b3. Otherwise henua is a common glyph type and can be found in nearly every glyph line:

I believe the absence of henua ('land') in line b3 is due to the season of moko, where Sun disappears down into his hole in the west, where the dark watery winter half of the year (takaure) is beginning:

Gb2-35 is glyph number 290, the last before the great takaure glyph. An allusion to day number 235 seems unavoidable: