In the whole rongorongo corpus of glyphs there is only one more of the type in Aa8-52, viz: Ba10-15:

404 is counted from Ba1-1 and 190 from Bb1-1.

Metoro began reading at Ba1-1, but possibly the beginning of the text is at Bb1-1, in which case Ba10-15 will be only 17 glyphs from the end of the text. In Tahua Aa8-52 is the 34th (= 2 * 17) glyph before the end of the text.

32 (Ba10) - 15 = 17.

85 (Aa8) - 52 = 33. But 1300 is counted beyond Ab1-1 (not from), therefore Aa8-52 is located 34 glyphs before the end of the text.

There is a Swedish expression of horror and disgust: 'Fy sjutton' (Fie seventeen). I have read somewhere an opinion that it is based on a gallows on the island of Gotland, constructed with 17 stones.

910 = 13 * 70 and 1300 = 13 * 100.

There is a Swedish expression of horror and disgust: 'Fy sjutton' (Fie seventeen). I have read somewhere an opinion that it is based on a gallows on the island of Gotland, constructed with 17 stones.

In addition we have an allusion to the glyph type in Ca1-25:

Here there seems to be a sort of 'fire generator' instead of henua ora. A kind of joke, we can guess, maybe based on the idea of the 'recycling station' (death) being the other side of 'fire generation' (life). In Ca2-1 the nut in Ca1-26 has resulted in new light - the 'fire generator' in Ca1-25 has been turned upside down, cfr the inverted henua ora in K:

In Tahua Aa8-52 is preceded 20 glyphs earlier by kava in Aa8-31:

3			20		32			520		752
	Aa8-30	Aa8-31		Aa8-52		Aa8-85	Ab1-1		Ab7-26		Aa8-26
59 = 2 * 29.5							1	1274 = 52 * 24.5
1334 = 2 * 29.5 + 1 + (2 + 50) * (29.5 - 5)

In Aa8-26 the old season is stopped short (at 1274 = 52 * 24.5), in Aa8-30 the old fire is finished (at 1278 = 18 * 71 - where 71 is equal to 17 inversed), and in Aa8-31 kava and a 'feathered mauga' illustrate the new fire.

The counting is here done from Ab1-2:

Aa8-52 will therefore be number 1279 (not 1280 = 5 * 256). The full measure of light is 256 times the number of fingers on a hand. The kava ceremony is needed before that happens.

If we search for a kava glyph earlier than Ba10-15 we will find 3 in glyph line a9. There are many kava glyphs in the Aruku Kurenga text:

9 * 13 + 9 * 24 + 9 * 41 = 9 * 78 = 702 = 13 * 54 = 26 * 27. We have here applied experience from G:

The argumentation above shows that at the end of the path of the sun the old fire is extinguished and a new fire alighted just in time before the measure of light is filled to the brim. Kava is the sign used in the rongorongo system for this event.

The fingers on one hand (5) is used to count the full measure of light: 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 = 256 = 8 * 32. At Aa8-32 the old light measure is full.

How strange then that the rima glyph type has 4 and not 5 fingers.