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What is next step? I will begin with the first and what I believe simplest of the groups:

Aa3-58 Aa6-43 Da2-106 Ga3-7 Gb5-12
I12-122 Ra2-21 Sa3-126

We should now look for haga rave glyphs in their surroundings. Only one of the 8 glyphs above (Gb5-12) has such a sign in the same glyph. Conceivably haga rave could be a separate glyph. I think we must accept cases where it comes immediately before or immediately after. For safety reasons we will look 5 glyphs before and 5 after:

Aa3-53 Aa3-54 Aa3-55 Aa3-56 Aa3-57 Aa3-58
Aa3-59 Aa3-60 Aa3-61 Aa3-62 Aa3-63

Haga rave glyphs are difficult to classify - there are several bird wings here which could be seen as haga rave signs - and therefore I will use the criterion that the glyph must have been registered under haga rave in my glyph catalogue. None of these glyphs, surrounding Aa3-58, have been registered as haga rave. Therefore I will (for the moment at least) assume we should not read Aa3-57--59 as Haga Te Pau. Although the ordinal numbers are suggestive, 3 * 60 = 180, and the Y-formed hand close to the ground could mean a 'dry branch' ready for burial.

The other Tahua example, Aa6-43, gives the same result, no haga rave glyphs are classified among Aa6-38--48, and therefore probably is no message concerning Haga Te Pau. Using the mechanical rules just stipulated we have:

Aa6-38 Aa6-39 Aa6-40 Aa6-41 Aa6-42 Aa6-43
Aa6-44 Aa6-45 Aa6-46 Aa6-47 Aa6-48

It is not necessary to list more examples where haga rave glyphs are missing. The method has been explained.

Da2-106 is no Haga Te Pau case either. But G is more interesting, because the creator had thought of (I have concluded) the possibility of using haga (rave) in combination with (tagata) pau to illustrate Haga (Te) Pau.

Ga3-2 Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5 Ga3-6 Ga3-7
Ga3-8 Ga3-9 Ga3-10 Ga3-11 Ga3-12

Somewhat astonishing I found Ga3-11 (the top sign of course) to be an example of haga rave. When systematically classifying glyphs a sense for recognizing the searched for signs develops, and I must not question my earlier judgment that Ga3-11 exhibits a sign of haga rave.

Annoyingly there is a distance between Ga3-7 and Ga3-11 which diminishes the probability that Haga Te Pau at this point was in the mind of the creator of the text. On the other hand Ga3-7 may very well illustrate tagata pau in order to tell about a fully grown season (tagata) having run out (pau). The surrounding glyphs seem to tell about what happens when a great old fire has been blown out (Ga3-10). A new fire (fists in Ga3-6--7) is still not in the open. A 'nut' (Ga3-11) will in due time generate new light. A 'fire drill' (Ga3-12) comes in handy when 3 * 12 = 360 has ended.

We can now compare with the other glyph in G, the Haga Te Pau glyph:

Gb5-7 Gb5-8 Gb5-9 Gb5-10 Gb5-11 Gb5-12
Gb5-13 Gb5-14 Gb5-15 Gb5-16 Gb5-17

The 'gesture of farewell' (right sign in Gb5-17) is similar to that in I12-122:

I12-117 I12-118 I12-119 I12-120 I12-121 I12-122
I12-123 I12-124 I12-125 I12-126 I12-127

In the hand of I12-122, though, the middle digit is short and straight, repeating the sign in I12-119. No haga rave glyph is registered in the interval I12-117--127 in my catalogue. Possibly, though, there is one hidden in the beak of I12-121 or in the arm of I12-123.

The the peculiar I12-127 draws our attention. A singular bird with head looking backwards was in G - I have arrived at - standing at te pito:

Gb7-31 Gb8-1 Gb8-2 Gb8-3 Gb8-4 Gb8-5

Among the multitude of manu rere glyphs on the Large Santiago staff there are only a few with their heads turned backwards (possibly a sign of solstice):

I2-79 I3-143 I3-149 I12-127

A poor bird it is in I12-127, maybe illustrating the 'exhausted' state when time has run out (pau). In Gb8-5 the feet are arranged assymmetrically to indicate how an old season is at left. In I12-127 there is no such clear sign in the feet of the bird. But the peculiar beak obviously is meant to be observed. Is it a haga rave sign? Shouldn't such a sign have open side up?

In Ra2-21 we encounter a parallel to Aa6-43:

Ra2-16 Ra2-17 Ra2-18 Ra2-19 Ra2-20 Ra2-21
...
Ra2-22 Ra2-23 Ra2-24
Aa6-34 Aa6-35 Aa6-36 Aa6-37 Aa6-38 Aa6-39
Aa6-40 Aa6-41 Aa6-42 Aa6-43 Aa6-44
Aa6-45 Aa6-46 Aa6-47 Aa6-48

I have not registered any haga rave glyphs in the interval Ra2-16--24. The parallel makes it possible to postulate a final at both Ra2-20 and Aa6-42. The ordinal numbers are in the same numerical 'positions' (2 * 20 = 80 and 6 * 42 = 252) - the measure is emptied by the flow of time. 21 must in a way correspond to 43.

One glyph remains, Sa3-126:

Sa3-121 Sa3-122 Sa3-123 Sa3-124 Sa3-125 Sa3-126
Sa3-127 Sa3-128 Sa4-1 Sa4-2 Sa4-3

No haga rave glyphs are documented in the surroundings, according to my glyph catalogue. But earlier I have found Sa3-126 to be parallel with Ga3-7:

Sa3-124 Sa3-125 Sa3-126 Sa3-127 Sa3-128
Ga3-6 Ga3-7 Ga3-8 Ga3-9
- -
Ka4-1 Ka4-2 Ka4-3
- -
Ab4-21 Ab4-22 Ab4-23

The first group of potential Haga Te Pau glyphs has failed to bring up any more examples (than Gb5-12). On the other hand the idea of a fully grown (or empty) season seems to be present in most places, marked red below:

Haga Te Pau (?)
Gb5-12
'dry branch' instead of 'nut'
Aa3-58
Aa6-43 Ra2-21
pau exceptionally at left
I12-122
Ga3-7 Sa3-126
negative
Da2-106

The tagata pau sign apparently is connected with the a season which is fully grown (tagata) or - paradoxically - of which nothing is left (pau). The next step - to connect tagata pau with Haga Te Pau - has, though, not been confirmed by the investigated glyph sequences.