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2. The beginning of line b2 probably represents the beginning of a new season:

14
Gb1-26 (256) Gb2-1 Gb2-16 (272)

In A Pillar to Stand By was described a probable connection with Ga1-23:

117 113 215 23
Ga6-1 (142) Gb1-26 (256) Gb2-1 Ga1-23 (24)
232 = 8 * 29 240 = 8 * 30

29 refers in the old common sign language of humanity to the dark night of Moon, when Sun is rejuvenating her - he is behind her:

... When the new moon appeared women assembled and bewailed those who had died since the last one, uttering the following lament: 'Alas! O moon! Thou has returned to life, but our departed beloved ones have not. Thou has bathed in the waiora a Tane, and had thy life renewed, but there is no fount to restore life to our departed ones. Alas ...

Aue

Ah, alas. Aueue, oh. P Pau., Ta.: aue, alas. Mgv.: aue, auhe, alas. Mq.: aue, oh, alas; auhe, a sigh. Exclamation in general representing the most primordial type of speech, it seems that this may be reduced to recognizable elements. The e is throughout these languages a vocative or hailing sign, commonly postpositive in relation to the person hailed. In the examination of au we have shown that the primal first person singular designation is u. With the comparatively scanty material afforded by this vocabulary we may not attempt ot define the use of a but we have no hesitation in noting that proof based on wider studies will show it to have, inter alia, a characteristic function as a word-maker. In a very high degree, then, a-u-e is represented by a common English interjection 'oh my!' in which oh = a, my = u, and e = !. Churchill.

What is this cry which our primitive islanders share with the animals? Look at its elements, all full-throated. First we have a, the sound of mouth open, fauces open, lungs full of air. As air expires the sound recedes in the mouth towards the palate and we find the u. Last comes the conscious finish of the utterance, the muscles begin to retract, the sound-making point is forced forward and the sound is e. If the man had but a few more cubic centimeters of lung capacity he could attain cow volumne for his cry, or interjection, since it amounts to the same thing. Churchill 2.

Rima aueue signs occur in the moon calendar of Mamari:

fish rising
Ca6-21 Ca7-1 Ca7-12 Ca7-20
fish descending
Ca7-29 Ca8-7 Ca8-15 Ca8-26

Such signs are here of central importance, indicating a contact between Sun (left) and Moon (the fish at right), and possibly they represent a life-giving fluid (vai ora) given by Sun to Moon, the 'fluid' which illuminates Moon anew.

472 (the number of glyphs in the G text) - 256 (Gb1-26) = 216. This number is perhaps alluded to in Gb2-16.