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I will postpone the continued quoting from Barthel 2 for a while. Instead: Consider 472, the number of glyphs in the text of G (with 1 added). With moon as 16 and sun as 12, we can count 472 * 12 / 16 = 354 = 12 * 29.5. Sun ends at Haga Te Pau (366 = 354 + 12), but moon continues all the way up to 16 * 29.5 = 472.

Each kuhane station maybe should cover 29.5 nights, and the text of G possibly maps only 16 / 28 of the kuhane journey on the island - maybe 12 of the stations are not described. The text of K definitely does not cover all, and therefore it is possible that not even G covers all.

If 12 stations are missing in G, the number suggests it could be those of the sun (up in east, then from east to west, and down again).

If so, then the 8 times 59 ought to be discernible in the text. I have here below alternated between blue and red in order to define where these suggested 8 text segments are located:

a1 30 b1 26 = 7 + 19
a2 29 b2 35
a3 24 b3 30 = 5 + 25
a4 27 b4 33
a5 30 = 8 + 22 b5 29 = 1 + 28
a6 29 b6 28
a7 34 = 8 + 26 b7 31 = 3 + 28
a8 26 b8 30

Then the glyphs at the borders:

Ga2-27 Ga2-28 Ga2-29 Ga3-1 Ga3-2
Ga3-3 Ga3-4 Ga3-5
Ga5-4 Ga5-5 Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 Ga5-9
Ga7-5 Ga7-6 Ga7-7 Ga7-8 Ga7-9 Ga7-10
Gb1-4 Gb1-5 Gb1-6 Gb1-7 Gb1-8
Gb1-9 Gb1-10 Gb1-11 Gb1-12
Gb3-2 Gb3-3 Gb3-4 Gb3-5 Gb3-6
Gb4-32 Gb4-33 Gb5-1 Gb5-2 Gb5-3 Gb5-4
Gb6-27 Gb6-28 Gb7-1 Gb7-2 Gb7-3 Gb7-4

The result is encouraging - we recognize several key locations. Yet, Haga Te Pau is not congruent with multiples of 59 (and neither is it a kuhane stations of course).

Let us go forward and try to put the 16 first of the kuhane stations in parallel:

59 Nga Kope Ririva Tutuu Vai A Te Taanga 295 Hua Reva
Ga2-29 Te Pu Mahore Gb3-5 Akahanga
118 Te Poko Uri 354 Hatinga Te Kohe
Ga5-8 Te Manavai Gb5-1 Roto Iri Are
177 Te Kioe Uri 413 Tama
Ga7-8 Te Piringa Aniva Gb7-3 One Tea
236 Te Pei 472 Hanga Takaure
Gb1-7 Te Pou Ga1-1 Poike

I think the redmarked names are possible to read in the glyphs. Obvious is the haga rave sign in Ga1-1. And in Gb7-3 the glyph type is tamaiti:

haga rave tamaiti

Maybe Ga1-1 is a double haga rave? If it is the 2nd one, then Ga1-1 naturally should be counted as the last glyph rather than the first one of the text. In other words: counting to the end of the sun journey (Haga Te Pau) we must begin with the last glyph on side b, counting to the end of the moon journey we must end with the first glyph on side a.

Number 354 (= 12 * 29.5) at Gb5-1 (the first glyph in the 12th text line) could very well refer to the breaking of a staff of 'bamboo' (kohe), especially when we consider the obvious sign of reversal:

Gb4-33 Gb5-1

The upside down 'head' in Gb1-7 (halfway through the cycle) is not a bad illustration of how the first half is overturned. Te Pei is followed by Te Pou (Sirius), i.e. utter darkness is followed by the most brilliant star in the sky.

On the other hand, although it is rather obious that also the 3 first '59-glyphs' are located at important points, I cannot see any evident connection with the listed kuhane stations.

Given that we can identify Gb3-5 with Hua Reva (the first station in the pair), we will have located 5 * 2 = 10 kuhane stations. More than 10 possibly should not be found, because10 is the maximum of the sun. In which case the birth of the sun could be the theme at Te Pei + Te Pou. It is becoming complicated again.

Now to Hua Reva, which could be the name of a star, because the Maoris had a star named Karewa (or Marewa):

Hua

1. Testicle. 2. Figuratively: son, hua tahi, only son; fruits of the earth; to grow well (of fruits). 3. To cause a fight, a quarrel. Hua-ai, generation, as lineage of direct descendents; contemporaries. Huahua, coccyx of bird, 'parson's nose': huahua moa, huahua uha. Huataru, a creeper (Chenopodium ambiguum). Vanaga.

1. The same; ki hua, again, to continue, to strain, to struggle, to move, to repeat, over and above. Mq.: hua, the same, to return, to recommence.  2. To bloom, to sprout; flower, fruit (huaa); huaa tae oko, huaa vahio, young fruit; hua atahi, only son; huahaga, fruit; mei te huahaga o tokoe kopu, the fruit of thy body; tikea huahaga, deceptive appearance. P Pau.: ua, to be born; huahaga, lineage. Mgv.: hua, to produce (said of trees, grain, etc.), blooming time of flowers, abundance of fruit. Mq.: hua, to produce, to bear fruit. Ta.: ua, to sprout. Huahua. 1. Tailless fowl. 2. Vein, tendon, line. 3. Mgv.: huahua, pimples covering the face. Ta.: huahua, id. Mq.: hua, tubercules. Sa.: fuafua, abscess on hand or feet. Ma.: huahua, small pimples. Pau.: Hua-gakau, rupture. Ta.: áau, entrails. Sa.: ga'au, id. Ma.: ngakau, id. Churchill.

1. Fruit. 2. Egg. 3. Tā hua = 'genealogical writing' or 'same writing'. Fischer.

Reva

To hang down; flag, banner. Revareva, 1. To be hanging vertically; to detach oneself from the background of the landscape, such a person standing on top of a hill: ku-revareva-á te tagata i ruga i te maúga. 2. To cast itself, to project itself (of shadows); revareva-á te kohu o te miro i te maeha o te mahina, the shadow of the tree casts itself in the light of the moon. 3. Uvula. Vanaga.

To hang, to suspend, flag, banner; hakareva, to hang up; hakarereva, to hang up, to balance; hakarevareva, to wave ... any light object hung up in the island air under the steady tradewind will flutter; therefore the specification involved in the wave sense is no more than normal observation. Churchill.

Ta.: Reva, the firmanent, atmosphere. Ha.: lewa, the upper regions of the air, atmosphere, the visible heavens. Churchill.

It is not impossible that Hua Reva is depicted in Gb3-5, but I cannot 'read' it.

295 evidently tells us 10 * 29.5, an important location associated with 'end'.

Earlier I wrote:

... A final remark: The figure I have suggested as marking honu, standing close to the border between honu and takaure, could be the same figure as that in Ga1-16:

Gb3-2 Gb3-3 Gb3-4 Gb3-5 Gb3-6
Ga1-13 Ga1-14 Ga1-15 Ga1-16 Ga1-17 Ga1-18

Ga1-16 looks like a full moon with a honu person inside, while Gb3-5 could be illustrating its opposite, a takaure person on board the sun canoe.

Haga Honu could be here, I suggested. With Haga Takaure at Ga1-1 (we have now reconstructed) - i.e. 3 * 59 = 177 glyphs away, as if indicating the number of days in summer (south of the equator) - Takaure should be winter and Honu summer, given that Gb3-5 is to be read as winter being born and Ga1-16 as honu being born.

471 - 177 = 294 = 4 * 42.

472 - 177 = 295 = 10 * 29.5.

Hua Reva at 295 could be referring to how beyond Te Pei and Te Pou a new 'baby' (hua) now is discerned in the sky, observed close to the horizon (revareva).

Makemson:

"209. Karewa; one of the stars said to have guided the vessel Takitumu on its historic voyage from the Society Islands to New Zealand."

"353. Marewa; a Maori star. The hero Rata's mother said to him, 'Wait awhile and set forth in December when Marewa and Autahi (Canopus) are suspended over the horizon.'

354. Marewa-i-te-pangi, Floating-on-high; a Maori star or constellation, perhaps the complete title of Marewa."

6 months (6 * 29.5 = 177) from the beginning of summer (counted from Hua Reva) we arrive at Hanga Hoonu:

1st quarter

2nd quarter

3rd quarter

4th quarter

He Anakena (July)

Tagaroa uri (October)

Tua haro (January)

Vaitu nui (April)

Te Pei

Te Pou

Tama

One Tea

Mahatua

Taharoa

Nga Kope Ririva Te Pu Mahore

Hora iti (August)

Ko Ruti (November)

Tehetu'upú (February)

Vaitu potu (May)

Hua Reva

Akahanga

Hanga Takaure

Poike

Hanga Hoonu Rangi Meamea Te Poko Uri Te Manavai

Hora nui (September)

Ko Koró (December)

Tarahao (March)

He Maro (June)

Hatinga Te Kohe

Roto Iri Are

Pua Katiki

Maunga Teatea

Peke Tau O Hiti Mauga Hau Epa Te Kioe Uri Te Piringa Aniva

According to the reconstruction of Barthel December (Ko Koró) starts with Pua Katiki, the 8th station counted from Hua Reva. The Poike peninsula in the east represents high summer, when the baby sun in Hua Reva has grown up. Winter (takaure) is covering the time when baby sun is young and ends not until Poike arrives.

The triplet Hua Reva, Hanga Takaure, and Hanga Hoonu should be read together - birth of the sun, maturity, and end. I have recoloured accordingly above. 6 * 29.5 = 177. Summer is hora and Hua Reva is the beginning of Hora iti (according to Barthel).

In G winter ends when spring sun is emerging in the east:

66 25 44 66
Ga4-3 Ga6-13 Ga7-10 Ga8-21 Gb3-1
68 26
68
65 129 65
Gb3-2 Gb3-3 Gb5-6 Ga1-17 Ga4-1 Ga4-2
68 68

And Gb3-5 (Hua Reva) is located in what definitely is autumn, not late winter or spring. Something is upside down.