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Next vae kore glyph, following only 12 glyphs after Aa4-71, is located at the beginning of a new glyph line: 10 Aa4-71 Aa5-1 12 By comparing them we can notice how the 'beak' has changed from what possibly is a moon variant to a sun variant (sharper). The change gives the illusion of the latter looking more upwards than the former. It is necessary to here list the surrounding glyphs: Aa4-79 Aa4-80 Aa4-81 Aa4-82 Aa5-1 Aa5-2 Aa5-3 371 372 373 374 375 = 15 * 25 376 377 The glyphs appear in pairs, a trait usually found in the 2nd half of a cycle. Aa5-1 could be regarded as the 2nd of a pair together with Aa4-71. The key role of Aa5-1 will be explained here.

Possibly 375 should be expressed as 3 * 75 rather than as 15 * 25. Another possibility is 37 * 5 = 185, which easily could have been used to hint at 365 - 180. If so, then probably indicating the beginning of the winter half of the year.

We can count to see which glyph is located at position 375 - 180 = 195 (at which we can guess the summer half of the year will begin):
 

a1	90
a2	85	63
		22
a3	76	158
a4	82

42 (on side b) + 90 + 63 = 195.

 

Aa2-59	Aa2-60	Aa2-61	Aa2-62	Aa2-63 (195)	Aa2-64	Aa2-65	Aa2-66	Aa2-67
koia	tona purega	ka moe	ki te hoga ka rogo			ki te honu	no te henua	ka hua nei te poporo

Did Metoro mean 'the last of the Rogo season'? And then maybe the 'turtle' (honu) comes next? Maybe Aa5-1 is located at Hanga Hoonu? Is the '4th viri' (Aa5-7) the 'harbour' of the 'old turtle'?

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The numbers 364 respectively 375 for the two vae kore glyphs have been counted from pito at Ab8-43. If we instead count the more natural way, from Aa1-1, 375 will be changed into 334:   Aa4-79 Aa4-80 Aa4-81 Aa4-82 Aa5-1 Aa5-2 Aa5-3 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 From Ab8-43 to Aa1-1 there are 42 glyphs. 375 - 42 = 334. Ab8-42 Ab8-43 Ab8-44 Ab8-45 Ab8-46 36 Ab8-83 Ab8-84 Aa1-1 Aa1-2 The little bird in Aa1-1 does not have the typical vae kore 'knee' (or rather 'elbow'), but I have anyhow classified it as such.

With Aa5-1 as glyph number 334 (counted from Aa1-1) there will be 1000 glyphs from Aa5-1 to Aa1-1:   1000 321 10 Aa1-1 Aa4-71 Aa5-1 334 This is similar to the distribution of the viri glyphs: 1000 272 59 Aa5-7 Aa8-26 Ab1-1 334 The natural 'moon complete' number 59 (twice 29.5) is parallel with the natural 'sun complete' number 10 (twice 5). The idea comes immediately - maybe vae kore glyphs function in a way similar to viri glyphs.

I did not in the summary for viri in the glyph dictionary suggest that viri could depict 'empty eye-sockets', but I did so in the section for 'preliminary remarks and imaginations'. With 59 as the characteristic number for viri, moon comes to mind. Moon is one, yet has two 'faces', maybe the upper and lower parts of viri. Mata means both 'eye' and 'face'.

The wing at the back of vae kore (which I have not commented upon in the glyph dictionary so far) forms part of a single 'empty eye-socket' and it is at left (in the past), possibly indicating the egg shell from which the bird has hatched.

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Presumably Aa1-1--2 should be read together like Ab1-1--2:   Ab1-1 Ab1-2 Aa1-1 Aa1-2 A horizontal crescent 'canoe' integrated with hau tea in Ab1-2 at the beginning of the 'moon' season should be compared with a standing moon crescent open at the 'front', at right (as if waiting for the arrival of sun later in spring). Aa5-1 could be connected in a similar way with the two following glyphs:: Aa5-1 Aa5-2 Aa5-3 334 335 336 336 = 12 * 28 presumably explains the location of Aa5-1.

The complicated structure of Tahua needs vae kore glyphs, and there they seem to function in a way similar to viri glyphs. Such structurally important glyph types as viri and vae kore are of potential use for connecting texts on different tablets. One such example will be given here, based on 12 * 28 = 336: Aa5-1 Aa5-2 Aa5-3 334 335 336 Gb4-13 Gb4-14 Gb4-15 The ordinal numbers are counted from a1-1 in both texts. The parallel is obvious. But the expressions are quite different. Manu rere in Gb4-15 comes after twin glyphs, not before. Probably it is due to the different characteristics inherent in the little bird contra those of the great bird. As birth contra death. Gb4-15 is only some 10 glyphs beyond Akahanga (the burial place): 10. Akahanga Gb4-4 (324) Gb4-5 (325)

The twin henua in Gb4-13--14 are straight at bottom but carry the sign of midnight at their top ends. Gb2-5 is the only other example of this in G:

Gb1-26	Gb2-1	Gb2-2	Gb2-3	Gb2-4	Gb2-5
Gb2-6	Gb2-7	Gb2-8	Gb2-9	Gb2-10	Gb2-11

We are here at Te Pou (Gb2-11) and the preceding glyphs have been translated as the days of the week, with Mars at Gb2-5, arranged immediately above Te Pou. The bottom of Te Pou is 'ghostly', but the top 'aflame', while conversely in Gb2-5 the top end is in the dark and the bottom in the light (illustrating the two 'faces' of Mars).