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Do I have to change anything in the glyph dictionary? That is a question I need to ask myself time and again.

Firstly, I have noticed a need to have a summary at each GD, a summary which is easy to reach by way of a hyperlink from the first of the pages:

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Indeed, it started as if automatically already at the end of the text for henua ora, and I needed only to write about GD11-GD13:

To summarize: Only birds are truly 'superhuman', flying out of reach above our heads.

Birds of prey are those highest in the food chain and they have a hooked beak. They are the equivalents of kings, the rulers of the sky.

This glyph type represents a 'godly king' and was used in for example Sunday and Monday for the sun respectively the moon.

Here I had to balance and not say too much. I have a suspicion that manu rere at Thursday and at Saturday may represent the sun (and not Jupiter and Saturn).

5 / 7 * 420 = 300 = 30 * 10 is a fact which indicates that there is an equivalence between Thursday and the 10th and last month of the sun. The 6th 'flame' of the sun and Friday (Venus) would accordingly be a time of the 'dead' sun, maybe 'the residences for the future and the abdicated kings' (the 27th and 28th stations of the kuhanePapa O Pea and Ahu Akapu).

The 7th 'flame' (Saturn) would be the 29th station, Te Pito O Te Kainga - the dark new moon. The 8th day of the week - the coming Sunday - is hidden inside the 7th day somewhere.

The sun is depicted with 6 flames surrounding an oval center.

In the rongorongo texts these 6 flames could be used to depict a division of the solar course into 6 parts.

However, according to the rongorongo texts there were two 'years' - the summer 'year' and the winter 'year'. Sun was 'absent' during the winter 'year'.

Furthermore, sun governed also the daily cycle. As such, he could be represented as a little child in early morning, growing by a gesture of 'eating' to reach a fully grown state at noon.

Also here a balancing act is needed. They had two 'years' not a year. The geometrical trick with a 7th flame of the sun is therefore questionable. Moreover, there were 10 solar periods for a year, not 6.

The 6-flame geometry seems, however, to have been used at Aa1-32, with a prominent triangular straight peak at the top followed by a little gap (reading counterclockwise):

Aa1-32 Aa1-33 Aa1-34 Aa1-35 Aa1-36
9 10
- 8

The 10th period of the day has two heads, as if representing Saturday, the dark new moon incorporating next week. There may, however, be a fortnight (and not just a single week) 'ahead'. The new year will have two 'years'.

If we discount the reversed tapa mea periods (no. 1 and 6), there will be 8 periods for the day, just as there are 8 days in a week. The last day (period) has the future.

We notice how the last true face of the sun has ordinal number 32, corresponding to the number of periods in the G calendar for the year. 32 may represent the end. The day calendar in A begins with glyph no. 16, i.e. 16 may represent the beginning.

8 periods for the day and for the week. 16 glyphs for the day means 2 glyphs per period. 42 glyphs in the calendar of the week according to H can be converted to 21 periods (by using the same method). The 21st station of the kuhane is Hanga Hônu. It belongs to the moon, because at autumn equinox there should be a rei miro glyph representing the change of direction and the short standstill of the sun.

A week is one half of the total (fortnight). Likewise 21 is one half of the moon year (420 nights).

I am becoming quite fluent in talking in several dimensions at once.

The rei miro glyphs were used by the rongorongo men to mark cardinal points, i.e. points where the direction of the journey of the sun canoe across the blue sea of the sky had to be adjusted.

The orientation of the canoe as seen in the glyphs is therefore 'standing on its front end'. It has stopped for a moment and a new straight course will soon begin.

Whereas the sun is steady and always the same the moon is the incarnation of change. Therefore the rei miro glyphs have 'appendices' in form of 'sickles' below the hull, a sign to indicate the moon. Rei miro glyphs always appear when change is due, never at other times.

The calendars for the year had the solstices and equinoxes located at points which did not coincide with the points where the major calendar periods changed. In that respect their view corresponds with our view: New year arrives, for example, later than winter solstice and spring equinox before the 1st of April.

Secondly, I ought to continue with the work for reconstructing the number of glyphs in H:

a1 50 b1 *51 (?)
a2 58 b2 48
a3 52 b3 47
a4 56 b4 51
a5 59 b5 57
a6 *69? b6 54
a7 *51? b7 50
a8 *54? b8 54?
a9 *53? b9 65
a10 *67? b10 67
a11 *58? b11 53
a12 *21? b12 *51?
sum *648? sum *648?

With red I have marked the task which I thought was due now. However, to my surprise I discover that we have already decided the matter:

...

Hb8-9

*Hb8-16 (te pito)

Hb8-106

Hb8-113

Hb8-128

7

*6

7

16

*36

*Hb8-16 is the glyph which is parallel to Pb9-33. It is very remarkable that there should be a disappeared glyph exactly here. Nowhere else in the lines b2-b10 is there any damage. It cannot be a coincidence I think. Someone must have destroyed the te pito glyph, not by accident but by knowing its meaning and with a wish to obliterate ...

There were probably once ago two glyphs in H where P has one:

...
Hb8-101 Hb8-102 Hb8-103 Hb8-104 Hb8-105
Pb9-33 Pb9-34 Pb9-35 Pb9-36 Pb9-37

Still, a question mark within parenthesis must remain, *54 (?).