4. We should not forget to measure the distance from the previous tagata rima i ruga:
Apparently Ga4-9 is located a quarter (90 days) beyond winter solstice. But 4 * 9 = 36 could make us consider a position at day number 360 - though the high neck and short legs talk against a position in midwinter (where we usually assume day number 360 should be located). In fact, neither summer solstice nor winter solstice are probable locations, because this person is not drawn en face but looking ahead - he is on his way. Yet henua period number 10 should be an end station for Sun:
After his disappearance down into the Underworld there presumably will follow 2 'tail feathers' to the end of the year:
Neither kiore in Ga4-13 nor in Ga4-15 is the same person as the earlier kiore figures, judging from their jaws. Period number 11 is beginning with a glyph resembling the tamaiti glyph type and it is a Saturday - signs of how the old Sun is dead and buried, I guess. But a true tamaiti glyph should have - according to my criteria - a little 'bulb' at bottom:
Maybe the child is still growing inside the body of his mother. My glyph type hakaua ('making rain') could imply 'a rain god' is being 'baked in the earth-oven':
229 is, evidently, the 'pregnancy' period, equal to the number of glyphs on side a. And - we should remember - there should be a 7-day long 'unclean' week after that: ... Under Mosaic law, a mother who had given birth to a man-child was considered unclean for seven days; moreover she was to remain for three and thirty days 'in the blood of her purification', which makes a total of 40 days ... ... the renewal of kingship at the climax of the Makahiki coincides with the rebirth of nature. For in the ideal ritual calendar, the kali'i battle follows the autumnal appearance of the Pleiades, by thirty-three days - thus precisely, in the late eighteenth century, 21 December, the winter solstice. The king returns to power with the sun ... If we add 7 to 229 the number becomes 8 * 29½ = 236. If we add 40 it becomes 269:
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