1. Nos. 1, 6 and 9 are turned 'backwards'. If that should be a sign for end, then we have - in between - 4, 2, 1 glyphs oriented in the normal, unmarked, direction. If we include the backwards oriented glyphs we have 1, 5, 3, 1 glyps, together summing up to 10 (tekau according to a Maori dialect).

2. No. 9 has only five markings, the other six. 9 * 6 + 5 = 59 → 2 * 29½.

... The author of the Book of Enoch in his treatise on astronomy and the calendar also reckoned a year to be 364 days, though he pronounced a curse on all who did not reckon a month to be 30 days long ...

3. The markings of the glyphs oriented normally have basically the same form all over, whereas those oriented backwards show some varitions.

4. Glyphs nos. 9-10 seem to be thinner than those preceeding. But this parameter seems not to be quite constant in glyphs nos. 1-8 either. Could this in some way indicate intensity of daylight? Could Metoro have seen this difference in thickness and therefore introduced the aberrant words hokohuki and henua? Metoro for some reasons did not use the word tapamea in periods nos. 4, 6 and 7.

5. Vanaga: Uhi = "yam (Dioscorea alata); a large tuber, one of the main staple foods in ancient times, of which some 40 varieties were grown." Thus uhi tapamea could mean 'yam with red skin' and tapamea be a shorter form of uhi tapamea.

tapa mea

Below are examples of Egyptian hieroglyphs visualizing the 'eye', as copied from Gardiner's list over 'parts of the human body' (D19-25):

Might we not explain the tapa mea glyphs on the A tablet - at least those we are currently discussing - as corresponding to some variant of D23?

The star named Eye (Ain, ε Tauri) was used in the Chinese system and heliacal Ain had been placed by the creator of the G text as the first glyph on side a of his tablet.

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