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6 + 8 = 14
Ca2-7 Ca2-8 Ca2-9 Ca2-10 Ca2-11 Ca2-12
Ca2-13 Ca2-14 Ca2-15 Ca2-16 Ca2-17 Ca2-18 Ca2-19 Ca2-20

7+6+7=20 was the pattern I thought suitable for arranging the glyphs Ca2-1--20. According to the parallel texts in H/P/Q, however, Ca2-7 belongs to the group above.

Ca2-1--6 must (according to the parallel texts) instead be the last part of a group of glyphs beginning with Ca1-19:

Ca1-19 Ca1-20 Ca1-21 Ca1-22 Ca1-23 Ca1-24 Ca1-25 Ca1-26
8 + 6 = 14
Ca2-1 Ca2-2 Ca2-3 Ca2-4 Ca2-5 Ca2-6

For instance: Pa1-1--15 corresponds to Ca1-1--18, Pa8-22--35 to Ca1-19--Ca2-6 and Pa9-10--21 to Ca2-7--19. Ca2-20 has no corresponding glyph in P.

Ca2-7 Ca2-8 Ca2-9 Ca2-10 Ca2-11 Ca2-12
-
Pa9-10 Pa9-11 Pa9-12 Pa9-13
Ha9-130 Ha9-131 Ha9-132 Ha9-133
Qa9-35 Qa9-36 Qa9-37 Qa9-38

Very interesting are the glyphs in parallel with Ca2-11, how different leg designs anyhow seem to mean about the same thing. Vai with double rim in C and P, with single rim in H and Q.

Ca2-13 Ca2-14 Ca2-15 Ca2-16 Ca2-17 Ca2-18 Ca2-19 Ca2-20
-
Pa9-14 Pa9-15 Pa9-16 Pa9-17 Pa9-18 Pa9-19 Pa9-20 Pa9-21
Ha10-2 Ha10-3 Ha10-4 Ha10-5 Ha10-6 Ha10-7 Ha10-8 Ha10-9
Qa9-39 Qa9-40 Qa9-41 Qa9-42 Qa9-43 Qa9-44 Qa9-45

Ca2-20 is like Ca2-12, a repetition of an earlier glyph (Ca2-15 respectively Ca2-10) and without any corresponding glyphs in H/P/Q.

H and Q have once again single-rimmed vai, while in P tagata with a special type of elbow ornament seems to carry a similar meaning.

Hand gestures point both forward (Ca2-13, Pa9-15--16, Ha10-3 and Ha10-7) and inwards (Ca2-14 and Ca2-19, Pa9-14, Ha10-2), while in Q the description is different.

The main point, though, is the structure of the glyphs in C revealed by the parallel texts:

Ca1-1--18 18
Ca1-19--Ca2-6 8 + 6 = 14 28
Ca2-7--20 6 + 8 = 14

How does the new information harmonize with earlier suggestions? Answer: there is no major collision. But Ca2-6 ought to belong to the 3rd group with Ca2-5, which forces the red-marked changes below:

 

1 18 5 3 8 5
Ca1-18 Ca3-1 Ca3-13
2 8 6 3 9 3
Ca1-25 Ca3-4 Ca3-16
3 6 7 4 10 4
Ca2-5 Ca3-8 Ca3-20
4 17 (6+4=10) + (8+4=14) = 24

(18+17=35) + (14+8=24) = 59

59+14 = 73

Ca2-23

We must now introduce yet another parallel text, viz. one in N (Small Vienna Tablet):

Ca2-7 Ca2-8 Ca2-9 Ca2-10 Ca2-11
Nb4-103--104 Nb4-105 Nb4-106 Nb4-107 Nb4-108 Nb4-109
Ca2-13 Ca2-14 Ca2-15 Ca2-16 Ca2-17 Ca2-18 Ca2-19 Ca2-20
- ...
Nb4-110 Nb4-111 Nb4-112 Nb4-113 Nb4-114 Nb4-115

Nb4-109 (redmarked) is similar to Aa2-3--4:

Aa2-1 Aa2-2 Aa2-3 Aa2-4 Aa2-5 Aa2-6 Aa2-7 Aa2-8

In Friday we have this kind of vai (without 'flashes') too:

Eb7-13 Eb7-14
Erua oona mea ki te puoko ka tupu te rakau

In Bb2-37 the situation presumably is the same:

Bb2-32 Bb2-33 Bb2-34 Bb2-35 Bb2-36 Bb2-37
te hihoga - ika i hoki ki te tagata - ki te vai kua moe ko te tagata e tagata itiiti mea mau - i te vaha

The word hihoga presumably means 'transformation':.

Hiho

To come. Hihoi; 1. To divine, hakahihoi, id. Ta.: hióhió, diviner, wizard, spy; to observe. 2. To turn into, to transform; hakahihoi, to infuse, to mix, to blend, to falsify. Churchill.

Bb2-32--33 makes us remember Ca5-9--10 and te pito (Ca5-20):

Ca5-9 Ca5-10 Ca5-11 Ca5-12
te hokohuki erua te marama te maitaki
Ca5-13 Ca5-14 Ca5-15 Ca5-16
te henua kua haga te mea ke manu puoko i tona ahi kua heu te huki
Ca5-17 Ca5-18 Ca5-19 Ca5-20
hakahagana te honu tagata moe hakarava hia ka moe hakapekaga mai
Ca5-21 Ca5-22 Ca5-23 Ca5-24
te Rei te manu te henua tuu te rima i ruga

And - interestingly - in Ca4-26--27 (and Ca5-6) we have the same type of glyph as in Ca2-16--17 (with parallels), what Metoro normally calls tamaiti (child):

 

Ca4-26 Ca4-27 Ca4-28 Ca4-29
Ca5-1 Ca5-2 Ca5-3 Ca5-4
Ca5-5 Ca5-6 Ca5-7 Ca5-8

In the 23rd period of the Keiti calendar for the year 'tamaiti' occurs:

23
Eb5-25 Eb5-26 Eb5-27 Eb5-28
tamaiti nuku maro etoru kua puoko i te haś ia te henua - te kiore
32
Ga7-11 Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14
29
Kb4-15 Kb4-16 Kb4-17 Kb4-18