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Even more clear becomes the situation when we realize these two henua glyphs together demarcate the region in which all 10 such glyphs on side a are standing:
Ga4-3 Ga4-12 Ga4-25 Ga5-2 Ga5-18
Ga5-20 Ga5-23 Ga5-26 Ga6-7 Ga6-13

Here it is probably correct to say 'standing'. In the season of rising sun it looks as if he is climbing an invisible bamboo stem, section for section.

"The Moriori priests taught that Rangi and Papa existed in close and loving embrace until a spirit without origin forced them asunder. His name was Rangi-tokona, Sky-propper, and he corresponds with the Tui-tee-langi of Samoan myth. Rangi-tokona first politely requested Rangi and Papa to separate but they refused. Then he lifted Rangi higher and higher by means of magical incantations and propped him up on ten pillars which he placed one on top of the other so that they formed a single, long support. Then for the first time light shone in upon the earth." (Makemson)

This is nice, finding a common denominator between the 10 simple henua glyphs and the theory of the Moriori fishermen. The 'staff' sign is a sign of the male and it should be contrasted with the lying down female earth (Papa). We can now look on kiore - henua with new respect, presumably it is a sign of raised up sky standing with only hands and feet in touch with mother earth.

Or is it maybe an image of the Sky-propper (Rangi-tokona) raising the sky roof with his long 'bamboo staff'? It does not fit. Because in that case kiore - henua ought to be found only in the region with the 10 simple henua glyphs. But 6 of them come before and 7 after this region.

So we should regard kiore as a daytime relative of the ancient Egyptian nighttime Nut:

Winter north of the equator means summer south of the equator. Even though it is night at the same time on both sides of the equator it may be so that night and winter were so tightly connected together as to force Nu-t to become a daytime kiore south of the equator. We should not underestimate the power of the old general theory of nature: the theory of correspondences.

When Ure Honu lifted up the hare paega of Tuu Ko Ihu he performed the task of Rangi-tokona. Presumably he did not lift all the way up to 90º, because then the house would have rolled over. Perhaps 68º was the proper height, lower it would have become too heavy to stand there bent over looking in.

This kind of reasoning makes us understand the necessity of having another 68º later on representing the phase of lowering the house down.

360º around or 360 days - same thing. Both 68 day periods are part of 180º. It leaves 180 - 68 - 68 = 44 days for high summer.

66 25
Ga4-3 Ga6-13 Ga7-10
68 26
55 55
Gb1-6 Gb3-1
112 →
67

Gb5-6

68

We have isolated 26 of those 44 days, and we should be on the lookout for the remaining 18. If we reduce 112 with those 18 days, we will have 94 days left, a number we recognize. But we should also (for symmetrical reasons) take away 26 glyphs at the end of the period with 112 glyphs. And then we will get 86, also a number we recognize. And 94 should be divided into 68 + 26.

No, stop! Gb5-6 is standing at the end of the year, not 180 days away from Haga Takaure. The 68 days beyond Gb3-1 are not part of summer, they are part of the takaure season.

But there should be 68 glyphs at the end of those 112 glyphs of summer. There should be 68 days ending with Gb3-1. We must see what would happen:

44 10 55
Ga8-21 Gb1-6 Gb3-1
139 150 206
68
112
Ga8-16 Ga8-17 Ga8-18 Ga8-19 Ga8-20
Ga8-21 Ga8-22 Ga8-23 Ga8-24 Ga8-25
Ga8-26 Gb1-1 Gb1-2 Gb1-3 Gb1-4

In Ga8-19 I imagine we can see the 'hare paega' standing on its end. In Ga8-22 the sky (ragi) is 'head down'.

Subtracting 68 from 112 we find 44. But we had calculated 180 - 68 - 68 to 44 just a moment ago. It does suggest these 44 glyphs are high summer. From which follows that those 26 do not belong in high summer, they should be extracalendrical.

This is the (provisional) solution. It looks very good, with the extra (special 32nd) period beginning those 44 high summer days:

66 25
Ga4-3 Ga6-13 Ga7-10
68 26
39
Ga7-11 Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14 Ga8-20
44
10 55
Ga8-21 Gb1-6 Gb3-1
68

It remains to do something similar with the other half of the year, the takaure season.

67 111 82

Gb5-6 Gb8-30 Ga1-1 Ga4-1

Ga4-2

68 112 84
264

There should be 68 days at the end of  takaure - in Hiva the world is like ours, only upside down. During the 68 days ending with Gb5-6 (which according to this logic must stand before solstice, not on it) the sky is lifted up in Hiva. Ending with Ga4-2 their sky will later sink down for the same number of days.

Let us take a look:

15 65

Ga1-1 Ga1-17 Ga1-18 Ga4-1

Ga4-2

17 68

Not bad, there is an end (maro) at Ga1-17. We should compare:

Ga7-14 Ga1-17

Ga7-14 is the 72nd glyph of summer, Ga1-17 is the 69th glyph before the end of takaure. The maro in Ga1-17 signifies end, and no maro at Ga7-14 means the end is not at that place. The end of what? It should be of 'low winter' respectively of 'high summer'. 'High summer' could be designed like a canoe seen from above (or below), while 'low winter' could be like a canoe seen from the side.

If Hiva is a mirror image, then there will be 44 glyphs immediately before their sinking down sky (not immediately after their raising sky up. 17 of those 44 are seen above. The rest, 27, will be at the end of side b. I focus on the first two of these 27:

Gb7-31 Gb8-1 Gb8-2 Gb8-3 Gb8-4 Gb8-5
82 83 84 85 1 2

Then follow 25 glyphs which seem to be a group. 112 - 27 = 85 = the number of glyphs from Ga1-1 up to and including takaure at Ga4-2. Not bad:

66
Gb5-5 Gb5-6
68
83
Gb8-2 Gb8-3
85
24 14
Gb8-4 Gb8-5 Gb8-30 Ga1-1 Ga1-16 Ga1-17
44
64

Ga1-18 Ga1-19 Ga4-1

Ga4-2

68

I felt as if it was necessary to have double glyphs in Hiva.

26 here and 85 there will be 111 together. 471 - 111 = 360.