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The hyperlink 'All glyphs in line a1 are intact' leads to:

 

6
Sa1-101 Sa1-102 Sa1-103 Sa1-104 Sa1-201 Sa1-202
1 2 3 4 5 6
18
Sa1-203 Sa1-204 Sa1-205 Sa1-206 Sa1-207 Sa1-208
7 8 9 10 11 12
Sa1-209 Sa1-210 Sa1-211 Sa1-212 Sa1-213 Sa1-214
13 14 15 16 17 18
Sa1-215 Sa1-216 Sa1-217 Sa1-218 Sa1-219 Sa1-220
19 20 21 22 23 24
12
Sa1-221 Sa1-222 Sa1-223 Sa1-224 Sa1-225 Sa1-226
25 26 27 28 29 30
Sa1-227 Sa1-228 Sa1-229 Sa1-230 Sa1-231 Sa1-232
31 32 33 34 35 36

These 36 glyphs probably describe a year. Our knowledge of the meanings is too meager as yet to allow us a thorough explanation.

In glyph number 26, though, it is clear that the 'chief moa' is 'kicking' a new season into action. 26 is the last kuhane station of the ruling king.

In glyph number 24 viri marks the end of the 18 glyph long season beyond glyph number 6. Glyph number 25 is the reverse of glyph number 6.

These 36 glyphs are probably important for us. The structure 6 - 18 - 12 is not disturbed by number juggling dependent on the area of the tablet.

18, we can presume, is the summer half of the year and 12 + 6 the winter half. Glyph number 25 (immediately beyond summer) has a normal henua, while the end glyph of winter (6) is of the 'midnight' type:

 

25 6

The 'fruit' at left resembles that in Ab6-42:

 

Sunday

Monday-Wednesday

Thursday-Saturday

 

Mars and Venus

Mercury and Saturn

The meaning, I guess, is to show how last week continues with this week. Yet Metoro interprets Ab6-42 (notice the numbers) as involving hora (summer):

 
Ab6-42 Ab6-43 Ab6-44 Ab6-45 Ab6-46 Ab6-47
ka hora tona henua - kua vaha kua ki ki tona henua - kua vaha i to manu kua noho i te henua - ma te vaha ma te nuku rua
vaha (opening) is mentioned in 4 + 1 = 5 glyphs of the 16
Ab6-48 Ab6-49 Ab6-50 Ab6-51
i te henua - ma te vaha kua vaha hakaturou ki te hue
Ab6-52 Ab6-53 Ab6-54 Ab6-55 Ab6-56 Ab6-57
kua hakaturou ma te hue i te nuku rua hakaturou ma te rima e te hue e

The planets are also a kind of hetu'u, and why could they not be associated with the different seasons of the year? If disorder characterizes the names of the months - no longer securely connected to the stars which rose in early morning and gave their names to the months - then the planets could be connected with the seasons too.

Metoro's hora could mean 'open up' (etc) too, and ka hora tona henua implies it is henua which is opening up (and obviously he is referring to the left part of the glyph):

 

Ka, ká

Ka. Particle of the affirmative imperative, of cardinal numerals, of independent ordinal numerals, and of emphatic exclamation, e.g. ka-maitaki! how nice! Vanaga.

. 1. To light a fire in order to cook in the earth oven (see umu): he-ká i te umu, he-ká i te kai. 2. Figuratively: to fire up the soul. To put oneself in a fury (with manava): ku-ká-á toona manava he has become furious. Vanaga.

1. Of T. 2. Imperative sign; ka oho, ka tere, ka ea, begone!; ka ko iha, a greeting T; ka mou, hush; ka oho, goodbye. 3. Infinitive sign; mea meitaki ka rava, a thing good to take; ka harai kia mea, to accompany. 4. A prefix which forms ordinals from cardinals. 5. The dawning of the day. 6. Different (? ke). Churchill.

Hora

Ancient name of summer (toga-hora, winter summer). Vanaga.

1. In haste (horahorau). 2. Summer, April; hora nui, March; vaha hora, spring. 3. 'Hour', 'watch'. 4. Pau.: hora, salted, briny. Ta.: horahora, bitter. Mq.: hoáhoá, id. 5. Ta.: hora, Tephrosia piscatoria, to poison fish therewith. Ha.: hola, to poison fish. Churchill.

Horahora, to spread, unfold, extend, to heave to; hohora, to come into leaf. P Pau.: hohora, to unfold, to unroll; horahora, to spread out, to unwrap. Mgv.: hohora, to spread out clothes as a carpet; mahora, to stretch out (from the smallest extension to the greatest), Mq.: hohoá, to display, to spread out, to unroll. Ta.: hohora, to open, to display; hora, to extend the hand in giving it. Churchill

To(o)na

Toona, his, her. Vanaga.

Tona, toona, his. Churchill.

This type of glyph (left 'fruit' + henua) can be a female counterpart to the male Rei, a slow opening up of Mother Earth, evolving into a blossoming summer, announcing the glorious time in front. The 1st glyph among the 36 may at left have this sign:

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Mars and Venus in Ab6-47 respectively Ab6-54 (nos. 6 respectively 13 of the 16) have two 'faces' (phases) in the sky and the nuku rua glyph type very well could illustrate this fact. In Large Washington Tablet there is only one glyph of this type:

 

6 13 29

Its location (29) indicates darkness (which indeed also characterizes Venus sometimes and - to a lesser degree Mars). Head up should mean light and head down darkness. The 15th glyph (Saturn) has the gesture of 'waving goodbye', which perhaps should be compared with the 15th glyph among the 36. Although there is a similar gesture also at left in number 20:

 

15 15 20

The meaning is the opposite of kai, I believe. First comes growing (kai) then comes leaving (when the leaves will fall to earth). The result is a dry branch (cfr at right in 20).

We can once again look at the 1st of the 36. The ghostly character in the middle is the continuation of the left 'sun' (the previous year I suppose), which promises to develop into a new similar year. Yet the ghostly character is not the new year - he is the old man with a gesture of farewell, fare you well my son / sun:

 

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