6. These are the 30 glyphs in the 9 henua periods of line a6 (including Ga5-30):
Also the first of the henua periods, we remember, began earlier than with the first glyph in the line (thereby in a way increasing the 24 glyphs in line a3 to 3 + 24 = 27 and decreasing the number in line a2 from 29 to 26):
Several explanations for this peculiar arrangement can be imagined, and my planetary colours can be applied according to the ordinal number in the line (the normal method) or by counting from Rei in Ga2-27. But to have Ga2-29 as Saturn is also a possibility - it could be a way to indicate that the cycles of Moon (29) and Sun (60) have a conjunction here (and 472 + 60 = 532 = 2 * 266), probably the day before Sun is beginning his climb (kake).
Another explanation is to say that line a3 and the beginning of the henua calendar 'belong to Moon', because spring equinox (and the end of the Takaure half year) will not arrive until line a4. To avoid the risk of the reader misunderstanding what the beginning of the henua calendar means, the creator could have decided to put a Rei glyph 3 glyphs earlier (maybe alluding to the 3 islets outside Rano Kau).
The proper order of events is, I think, a conjunction of Moon with Sun at the reef outside the new land. ... Fakataka swims and swims, reaching another land. She goes there and stays on the upraised reef in the freshwater pools on the reef, and there delivers her child, a boy child. She gives him the name Taetagaloa. When the baby is born a golden plover flies over and alights upon the reef. (Kua fanau lā te pepe kae lele mai te tuli oi tū mai i te papa). And so the woman thus names various parts of the child beginning with the name 'the plover' (tuli): neck (tuliulu), elbow (tulilima), knee (tulivae) ... A Rei glyph could indicate a similar conjuntion: ... Up to the present time, fertility spells for fowls have played an important role. Especially effective were the so-called 'chicken skulls' (puoko moa) - that is, the skulls of dead chiefs, often marked by incisions, that were considered a source of mana. Their task is explained as follows: 'The skulls of the chiefs are for the chicken, so that thousands may be born' (te puoko ariki mo te moa, mo topa o te piere) ... As long as the source of mana is kept in the house, the hens are impregnated (he rei te moa i te uha), they lay eggs (he ne'ine'i te uha i te mamari), and the chicks are hatched (he topa te maanga). After a period of time, the beneficial skull has to be removed, because otherwise the hens become exhausted from laying eggs ... Kake means to climb, but also to spawn, cfr. Mgv.: kake, the arrival of shoals of spawning fish. The beginning of line a4 and the beginning of line a5 coincide with the beginning of henua periods:
Without doubt Ga5-29 cannot belong at the beginning of line a6:
I will therefore try to colour the glyphs in line a6 from Ga5-30. 5 * 30 = 150 as if it was a sign for half 300, but it could also mean 53 combined with 10, or 5-30 could point at 5-3. There are 29 glyphs from Ga5-1 (111) to Ga5-30 (141), and maybe Ga5-30 therefore functions as a 'joint' between line a5 and line a6:
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