I have now coloured red the first 16 glyphs because 42 can be perceived as 16 + 26. I have coloured Mercury black and the glyphs for the last 3 days of the week blue. 16 + 6 + 20 = 42. We can imagine the 6 black glyphs are illustrating the time when Sun has disappeared beyond midsummer (6 = 16 - 10) and Moon (20) not yet taken over. In other words I suggest the structure of the week should be understood as possibly reflecting the structure of the year.

Glyph 22 is the last in Wednesday and number 22 is probably an allusion to π (by way of 22 / 7).

Twice 21 = 42 was the number of judges of the dead in ancient Egypt (cfr at 8), and planets can be seen only during the night:

... They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead ...

The following are the days of the week with my normal way of presenting rongorongo text:

Sun

Hb9-17	Hb9-18	Hb9-19	Hb9-20	Hb9-21

The central (important) glyph of Sunday (Hb9-19) puzzled me at first because why should Sun fall victim (rau hei) when in the middle of his course? Now, we know, the reason probably is that he was considered to be born 'at midnight' and like all sky persons he cannot live more than from the horizon of birth in the east to the horizon of death in the west, half a cycle. The following manu rere could represent his living soul escaping from the old carcase and 9 * 20 = 180 is equal to the number of degrees in half a cycle. However, after contemplating moe in Hb9-21 another interpretation is to say that the first day of the week represents the time when in the middle of the 'night' a new Sun is being born. The other 'planets' will then follow suit, each one ruling over a part of the year:

Moon

Hb9-22	Hb9-23	Hb9-24	Hb9-25

Hb9-26	Hb9-27	Hb9-28	Hb9-29

Mars

Hb9-30	Hb9-31	Hb9-32

Mercury

Hb9-33	Hb9-34	Hb9-35	Hb9-36	Hb9-37	Hb9-38

Jupiter

Hb9-39	Hb9-40	Hb9-41	Hb9-42	Hb9-43

Hb9-44	Hb9-45	Hb9-46	Hb9-47

Venus

Hb9-48	Hb9-49	Hb9-50

Saturn

Hb9-51	Hb9-52	Hb9-53	Hb9-54

Hb9-55	Hb9-56	Hb9-57	*Hb9-58 (470)**

I have here estimated the ordinal numbers of the glyphs from the first glyph on side b. One of the uncertainties is if we should count also the space between Hb8-15 and *Hb8-16:


Hb8-10	Hb8-11	Hb8-12	Hb8-13	Hb8-14

	...
*Hb8-15 (373)**	...	Hb8-16 (374)	*Hb8-17	*Hb8-18	*Hb8-19	*Hb8-20

Judging from the parallel in P we should not:


Pb9-27	Pb9-28	Pb9-29	Pb9-30	Pb9-31


Pb9-32	Pb9-33 (426)	Pb9-34	Pb9-35	Pb9-36	Pb9-37

In P there are 599 glyphs on side a and 599 + 426 = 1025. In H we can first count without the glyph spaces in the burnt area on side a and then the sum could be 579 + 374 = 953.

If we count also 'the burnt glyphs' on side a there are two alternatives, either we disregard the glyph spaces beyond the last visible glyph in line a8 or we try to count also with them, resulting in 648 + 374 = 1022 respectively in 666 + 374 = 1040. The last alternative appears to be good because 20 * 52 = 1040 and the number of the beast is nice to include.