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"The Hawaiians recognized two principal seasons, hooilo, the rainy period, and ke kau, the dry or summer season. They also subdivided the year unequally as follows:

1. Laa-ula, 'time of growth; March to May;

2. Kau, dry season, June to August;

3. Laa make, 'time of ripening', September and October;

4. Hooilo, rain, November to February.

The Hawaiian scholar Kamakau declares that the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each and that the summer season was named Makalii for the Pleiades while the winter was called Hooilo, rain." (Makemson)

If we compare with our preliminary results so far we can compare the Hawaiian rainy season with 'black' and the dry season with 'red':

5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 1 2 3 4

The four subdivisions of the Hawaiian year are unequal in length: Laa-ula (3), Kau (3), Laa (2) and Hooilo (4). Borrowing this scheme we could recolour into:

5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 1 2 3 4

Laa-ula + Kau makes 6, perhaps the period of the sun. The time of ripening (Laa) should come immediately thereafter (blue).

Our new finding that the midpoint is Aa6-55:

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 Aa6-55

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Aa6-41

Aa7-19

makes us realize that we should reshuffle the earlier ihe tau overview of side a of Tahua:

- Fat, open at bottom left, a hint of a spur at bottom right. 1 6
Aa1-12
1   5
Aa1-49 Aa1-50 Aa1-51 Aa3-74 Aa4-3
3 Red labels for marked glyphs. 4 10
Aa4-48 Aa4-51 Aa4-66 Aa4-75
2 6
Aa5-46 Aa5-54 Aa5-57 Aa5-64 Aa5-83 Aa6-41
3 Aa4-75 and Ab2-7 belong to this group. 6 10
Aa7-19 Aa7-26 Aa7-36 Aa7-48
- A variant in between 3 and 5.
Aa7-57 Aa7-68
- 10 + 10 + 6 = 26 = 15 + 11 4
Aa7-72 Aa7-81 Aa8-23 Ab1-10
Around the center (Aa6-55) there is a symmetry in 10 (= 6 + 4) glyphs on each side.
10 * 14 = 140 and 6 * 14 = 84. 140 + 140 + 84 = 364.

3 * 6 * 14 = 18 * 14 = 252

2 * 4 * 14 = 8 * 14 = 112

If we have 6 * 14 = 84 'dark' nights at the beginning of the year, then - presuambly - the year is beginning in autumn (not at winter solstice). Of these 84 'winter' nights probably half, 42 nights, arrive before winter solstice and 42 after.

But we should remember another 'map':

Aa2-35 Aa2-43 Aa2-48 Aa2-52 Aa2-58 Aa2-67 Aa2-77 Aa3-11 Aa3-38
1st half-year 2nd half-year X
14 13 15

Here 42 appears again (= 14+13+15). Maybe, therefore, we should reinterpret into:

Aa2-35 Aa2-43 Aa2-48 Aa2-52 Aa2-58 Aa2-67 Aa2-77 Aa3-11 Aa3-38
1st 3rd 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd
14 13 15

All these glyphs appear after winter solstice, which - I guess - may be located after the sequence of triple ihe tau:

Aa1-49 Aa1-50 Aa1-51 Aa1-52 Aa1-53 Aa1-54

Aa1-52 is number 52 and 52 * 7 = 364. Aa1-53 may illustrate old and new year (around winter solstice). Aa1-54 we remember from Aa1-15:

Aa1-13 Aa1-14 Aa1-15