... When it was evident that the years lay ready to burst into life, everyone took hold of them, so that once more would start forth - once again - another (period of) fifty-two years. Then (the two cycles) might proceed to reach one hundred and four years. It was called 'One Age' when twice they had made the round, when twice the times of binding the years had come together ...

Sheratan 4	5	6	7 (372)	8
May 20 (140)	21	22	23	24

Ca3-9	Ca3-10	Ca3-11	Ca3-12	Ca3-13 (64)
tapamea tagata kua iri	ki te pa	kua hua	ki te kotiga	kiore i te henua
ν Tauri (59.9)	4h (60.9)	Beid (62.2)	Hyadum I (63.4)	Hyadum II (64.2)

Beid is ο¹ Eridani and omikron is like a little egg (hua). We can imagine the koti glyph in Ca3-12 is illustrating how an egg is broken into halves. Kua hua ki te kotiga seems to mean the 'fruit' (possibly meant to illustrate twins) comes to (ki) the 'hatching place' - the place of division (kotiga).

We should perhaps read the glyphs pairwise, Ca3-9 together with Ca3-10 and Ca3-11 together with Ca3-12.

Koti-ga is a place (-ga) where time is 'cut through':


koti	Ca3-12

Koti

Kotikoti. To cut with scissors (since this is an old word and scissors do not seem to have existed, it must mean something of the kind). Vanaga.

Kotikoti. To tear; kokoti, to cut, to chop, to hew, to cleave, to assassinate, to amputate, to scar, to notch, to carve, to use a knife, to cut off, to lop, to gash, to mow, to saw; kokotiga kore, indivisible; kokotihaga, cutting, gash furrow. P Pau.: koti, to chop. Mgv.: kotikoti, to cut, to cut into bands or slices; kokoti, to cut, to saw; akakotikoti, a ray, a streak, a stripe, to make bars. Mq.: koti, oti, to cut, to divide. Ta.: oóti, to cut, to carve; otióti, to cut fine. Churchill.

Pau.: Koti, to gush, to spout. Ta.: oti, to rebound, to fall back. Kotika, cape, headland. Ta.: otiá, boundary, limit. Churchill.

Koia is suitable for word play as a contrast to kotiga. In tapamea tagata kua iri the 4 words are together (kotia), not separated (kotiga). With tapamea - tagata hoi hatu (in the 'π' glyph Ca3-14)there is an opening (vaha) between the 1st and the 2nd part, and this opening evidently could occur with Ca3-12 (or between Hyadum I and Hyadum II).

Metoro's ki te pa at the vaha kai glyph could mean 'to the enclosure'.


*vaha kai*	Ca3-10

Vaha

Hollow; opening; space between the fingers (vaha rima); door cracks (vaha papare). Vahavaha, to fight, to wrangle, to argue with abusive words. Vanaga.

1. Space, before T; vaha takitua, perineum. PS Mgv.: vaha, a space, an open place. Mq.: vaha, separated, not joined. Ta.: vaha, an opening. Sa.: vasa, space, interval. To.: vaha, vahaa, id. Fu.: vasa, vāsaà, id. Niuē: vahā. 2. Muscle, tendon; vahavaha, id. Vahahora (vaha 1 - hora 2), spring. Vahatoga (vaha 1 - toga 1), autumn. 3. Ta.: vahavaha, to disdain, to dislike. Ha.: wahawaha, to hate, to dislike. Churchill.

According to my norm for the vaha kai type of glyph the form in Ca3-10 ought to be reversed in meaning, possibly indicating a 'birth' hole instead of the hole of 'disappearance' - where at the horizon in the west all celestial persons will be 'swallowed'.

Kai tagata.

However, if days are counted forward from the end of side a on the G tablet to the beginning of side b and further on, then vaha kai in Gb5-10 seems to contradict my idea. Although the RA time is remarkably close to that of vaha kai in Ca3-10 the orientation is the opposite:

Sheratan 5	6	Sheratan 4	5
May 21	22	May 20	21 (141)

Gb5-9	Gb5-10 (364)	Ca3-9	Ca3-10
4h (60.9)	Beid (62.2)	ν Tauri (59.9)	4h (60.9)

Should we instead count days backwards from the beginning of side a, then the position of vaha kai in Gb5-10 will be May 24 (144) - (473 - 364) = 144 - 109 = 35 (February 4).