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I have made a mistake which need to be corrected, but how? In the dictionary I wrote:

By now it must be clear that GD16 (vai) is a symbol for the sun.

There remains, though, a question to be answered: Why is there only one oval in Hb9-18 (instead of the normal two)?

Sunday
	Hb9-17	Hb9-18	Hb9-19	Hb9-20	Hb9-21
			Only three glyphs in the P calendar.
	Pb10-29	Pb10-30	Only three glyphs in the P calendar.		Pb10-31

Answer: Because the calendar of the week is also a calendar for the planets. Planets cannot be seen during the day, only in the night. Logic has presumably made the creator of the H text to deduce that sun cannot be visible in a calendar for the week.

Therefore, he decided to chose a symbol for the invisible sun, the sun below the horizon, the sun during the night. The creator of the P text, however, seems to have missed the point, because also in Pb10-29 'night' is written by way of hatchmarks across GD37, henua.

The explanation has no value because in H there are no vai glyphs with a double rim. Or rather: there are no simple vai glyphs with a double rim. A double rim appears once, together with tagata:


Ha4-39	Ha4-40	Ha4-41	Ha4-42	Ha4-43

Ha4-44	Ha4-45	Ha4-46	Ha4-47	Ha4-48

I guess the creator of H made an exception at Ha4-43 because the glyph combination was so common and therefore unsuitable to adapt to his single rim principle. In Q the creator, however, persisted in using a single rim and nowhere did he use a double rim:


Pa4-20	Pa4-21	Pa4-22	Pa4-23	Pa4-24	Pa4-25

Qa4-117	Qa4-118		Qa4-119	Qa4-120	Qa4-121


Pa4-26	Pa4-27	Pa4-28	Pa4-29	Pa4-30	Pa4-31	Pa4-32
			-
Qa4-122	Qa4-123	Qa4-124	-		Qa4-125	Qa4-126

It is not easy to find any parallel texts which may explain this combination of tagata and vai. In the calendar of E, we have seen, the combination occurs together with maro in the 15th period:

15
15	Eb4-26	Eb4-27

In the 6th period there is no tagata combined with vai, and the person with maro is related to the moon:

6			*Only 2 glyphs. Moon (winter) is 'finished' (maro, GD67, with 4 'feathers').*
	Eb3-7	Eb3-8

	Eb3-9	Eb3-10	Eb3-11	Eb3-12	Eb3-13	Eb3-14	Eb3-15	Eb3-16
				2 + 8 + 3 = 13 glyphs
	Eb3-17	Eb3-18	Eb3-19	2 + 8 + 3 = 13 glyphs

A connection between vai and Eb3-10 and Eb3-12 seems possible because of Sb2-8:

1				6
1	Sb2-3	Sb2-4	Sb2-5	6	Sb2-18	Sb2-19	Sb2-20
2				7
2	Sb2-6	Sb2-7	Sb2-8	7	Sb2-21	Sb2-22	Sb2-23
3				8
3	Sb2-9	Sb2-10	Sb2-11	8	Sb2-24	Sb2-25	Sb2-26
4				9
4	Sb2-12	Sb2-13	Sb2-14	9	Sb2-27	Sb2-28	Sb2-29
5				10
5	Sb2-15	Sb2-16	Sb2-17	10	Sb2-30	Sb2-31	Sb2-32

Probably these 30 glyphs present a solar calendar for the year. Sb2-15 is exceptional and refers to midsummer, which the symmetrical ornament on the wing in Sb2-17 also tells us. In Sb2-11 waning moon on the wing presumably means the same thing as Eb3-8, viz. that moon is passé because sun has taken over the role as ruler.

Sb2-7 is exceptional and possibly also refers to the end of the moon rule, while Sb2-8 exhibits a vai glyph with two 'fists'. I guess the 2nd period is corresponding to the 6th in the E calendar, in spite of the fact that 'flame' at bottom left in Sb2-8 is not missing.

Maybe the humu glyph type (Ha4-41 with parallels) is combined with vai and the result becomes Sb2-8?

Humu

1. Tattooing on the feet. (Cf. Ta.: umu, ornament.) 2. (umu). 3. Mq.: To attach, to tie. Ha.: humu, to fasten together by sewing. Churchill.

Though there are only two glyphs of this kind which Metoro has interpreted, and hakahoki is equally valid:


Ba2-13	Ba2-33
hakahoki	ma to humu

Hoki

To return, to go back, to come back; ka hoki ki rá, go back there! ana oho koe ki Hiva, e hoki mai ki nei, if you go to the mainland, do come back here again. Vanaga.

1. Also, what; ki ra hoki, precisely there; pei ra hoki, similitude, likeness; pei ra hoki ta matou, usage. P Pau.: hokihoki, often. Mgv.: hoki, also, and, likewise. Mq.: hoi, surely. Ta.: hoi, also, likewise. 2. To return, to turn back, to draw back, to give back, to tack; mau e hoki mai, to lend; hoki hakahou, to carry back; hoki amuri, to retrograde; hakahoki, to bring back, to send back, to carry back, to restore, to renew, to revoke, to remove, to dismiss, to pay, to pardon, to compress; hakahokia, given up; hakahokihaga, obligation. P Pau.: hokihoki, to persist, to insist; fakahoki, to give back. Mgv.: hoki, to return, to retrace one's steps; oki, to return, to come back. Ta.: hoi, to return, to come back. Churchill.

On side b of Small Santiago Tablet we find the constellation Gb3-25--26 which presumably is expressing about the same thing as Sb2-8:


Gb3-24	Gb3-25	Gb3-26

Gb3-27	Gb3-28	Gb3-29
5	9+6	4+4
28

In Gb3-24 a 'knee' possibly announces spring equinox. No. 26 (in Eb3-26) probably is a sign. Likewise no. 29 suggests 'new moon time', when a new phase is being born. A sun-related phase it must be (28 is the sum and vai has a double rim). Ha4-43 is one more than 42 and may equally well refer to a new sun phase. Pa4-29 serves the same function. On the other hand, Ha4-44 with hanging 'head' suggests autumn. Maybe we should read a quick progression:


Ha4-39	Ha4-40	Ha4-41	Ha4-42	Ha4-43	Ha4-44
autumn	late autumn	takurua	spring	summer	autumn

From the 'Matariki year in H/P/Q' we should remember the opposite humu glyph followed by a sinking fish:


Hb4-39	Hb4-40	Hb4-41	Hb4-42	Hb4-43	Hb4-44	Hb4-45

Hb4-46	Hb4-47	Hb4-48	Hb4-49	Hb4-50	Hb4-51	Hb5-1

If there is a turnaround at Hb4-44 (remarkably close in location to Ha4-41 on the opposite side), then the fish and other signs tells about a maximum point. Ha4-41 ought to be a minimum point because of its orientation and because of the rising fish. The interpretation of the orientation of humu glyphs is confirmed in B:


Ba2-31	Ba2-32	Ba2-33	Ba2-34	Ba2-35	Ba2-36
mai tae hahaú ia	i te nuku roa	ma to humu	kua oho e rima	ki te ariki - kua tere ko te heu ia - kua hanau
			The hand gesture (Ba2-34 and Hb4-45) means 'p.m.'. *'Head' down in Ba2-32 and Ba2-36 will result in rebirth (hanau* in Ba2-36).**
Ba2-37	Ba2-38	Ba2-39
ki te kotia ia	kua vero	koia ki te moa