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There are two hyperlinks in the page we earlier saw:

 

Possibly the pure glyph type is constructed from two bent henua, which together form an opening resembling a mouth. By implication a pure glyph would then probably illustrate a calendrical cycle.

Investigating, in K, this thread of thought, it is found that isolated bent henua are not  frequent. A few bent in one direction are located at the beginning of the text and a single one bent the other way is in the later half of the text:

concave at left
Ka1-7 Ka2-7 Ka2-8
concave at right
Kb4-5
 
To come further it is necessary to once again look at the structure of the K text. We need to move to the very beginning to find Ka1-7 and to move towards the end of the text in order to reach Kb4-5.

Before we follow the link 'beginning', I must document that pure evidently is the opposite of vai:

pure vai

Not only do they seem to mean opposite qualities ('dry spirithood' contra 'living water'), but they also show the same general outline. Furthermore, we have established a relationship between the two in the text of Large Washington Tablet:

Sb2-1--2

Sb2-7--8

Now to the beginning of the K text:

Ka2-7--8 are at the beginning, reflecting Ka2-1--2:
A
Ka2-1 Ka2-2 Ka2-3 Ka2-4 Ka2-5 Ka2-6
B Ka2-1--4 are similar to Ka2-7--10
Ka2-7 Ka2-8 Ka2-9 Ka2-10

Here - it can be argued - Rei in Ka2-10 ought to be the 1st glyph of the 1st calendar. The 2nd Rei has (at least so far) been regarded as the 1st glyph of the 2nd calendar, and the 3rd Rei seems to be the 1st glyph of the 2nd half of the 'summer' season:

Ka3-15 Ka3-16 Ka3-17 Ka3-18 Ka3-19 Ka3-20 Ka3-21
partly destroyed glyphs follow here
Kb1-11 Kb1-12 Kb1-13 Kb1-14

Ka2-5 and Kb1-14 are identical glyphs (viri) and Ka2-4 resembles Kb1-13, suggesting that indeed also A belongs to the 1st calendar.

Although pure and vai are opposites, there is also a reflection between Ka2-4 and Ka2-10:

A
Ka2-1 Ka2-2 Ka2-3 Ka2-4 Ka2-5 Ka2-6
B Ka2-1--4 are similar to Ka2-7--10
Ka2-7 Ka2-8 Ka2-9 Ka2-10

The situation is, though, even more entagled: Ka2-7 is presumably related to the pure glyph type, yet it cannot resemble more than half a pure, and Ka2-7 is - we now can understand - the exact opposite of Ka2-4 (only half a vai).

Ka2-5--6 together (half of 10 is 5) represent the middle - a sequence of an even number of glyphs must have two glyphs in the middle. Therefore Ka2-4 must be reflected in Ka2-7 (not in Ka2-10).

Ka2-10 must then be a reflection of Ka2-1. The meaning of Rei is also exactly the opposite of the meaning of tao. The male Rei (life generator) has a female 'canoe' (or 'earth oven', tao) as counterpart.

Tao

1. To cook in an oven, to sacrifice. P Mgv., Mq., Ta.: tao, to cook in an oven. 2. To carry away. 3. Abscess, bubo, scrofula, boil, gangrene, ulcer, inflammation, sore. Mgv.: taotaovere, small red spots showing the approach of death. Mq.: toopuku, toopuu, boil, wart, tumor. Ta.: taapu, taapuu, scrofula on neck and chin. 4. Mgv.: a lance, spear. Ta.: tao, id. Sa.: tao, id. Ma.: tao, id. 5. Mgv.: taotaoama, a fish. Sa.:  taotaoama, id. 6. Ta.: taoa, property, possessions. Ma.: taonga, property, treasure. Churchill.

Sa.: tao, to bake; taofono, taona'i, to bake food the day before it is used; tau, the leaves used to cover an oven. To.: tao, to cook food in a oven, to bake. Fu.: taņ, to put in an oven, to cook. Niuē: tao, to bake. Uvea: tao, to cook, to bake. Ma., Rapanui: tao, to bake or cook in a native oven, properly to steam, to boil with steam. Ta.: tao, the rocks and leaves with which a pig is covered when cooking; baked, boiled, cooked. Mq., Mgv., Mg., Tongareva: tao, to bake in an oven ... The word refers to the specific manner of cookery which involves the pit oven. The suggestion in the Maori, therefore, does not mean a different method; it is but an attempt more precisely to describe the kitchen method, a very tasty cookery, be it said. The suggestion of boiling is found only in Tahiti, yet in his dictionary Bishop Jaussen does not record it under the word bouillir; boiling was little known to the Polynesians before the European introduction of pottery and other fire-resisting utensils ... Churchill 2.

The 1st calendar begins with tao in Ka2-1, not from Rei in Ka2-10. If - which now is obvious - tao and Rei reflect each other, then, at another level of understanding, a boustrophedon reading can be imagined:

→ mirror
Ka2-1 Ka2-2 Ka2-3 Ka2-4 Ka2-5
←
Ka2-10 Ka2-9 Ka2-8 Ka2-7 Ka2-6

Odd numbers become even and even become odd after having passed the mirror.

In some way it is not Ka2-3 which is reflected in Ka2-9, but it is Ka2-2. And Ka2-3 is reflected in Ka2-8; new riddles (to solve in the future).

Another complication is how Ka2-4--5 are reappearing in Kb1-13-14:

 

Ka2-1 Ka2-2 Ka2-3 Ka2-4 Ka2-5
Kb1-10 Kb1-11 Kb1-12 Kb1-13 Kb1-14

Probably Ka2-3 and Kb1-12 are related, too.

Ka2-1 and Kb1-11 are opposites, and so do Ka2-2 and Kb1-10 seem to be.