An important new piece to the great puzzle has been delivered by Metoro, first presented here as objectively as possible:

 

Unquestionably Metoro has put an impossible to miss mark in his 'translations'. A reasonble first interpretation is to imagine him trying to deliver a message about a kind of reversal in the cycle of the calendar (which he saw), a reversal from the normal order to a mirror image order. An obvious choice of glyphs to trigger his reaction is the pair of henua ora in period 9 (although he probably could understand most of the other glyphs too). He probably could read that the creator of the text had arranged a 'final' in the 9th period. Its location in the calendar (not in the middle but somewhat earlier) would not have made him hesitate - midsummer may come earlier than at the midpoint of a calendar for the year (or the midpoint of the calendar could come earlier than midsummer).

The message is, though, more complex. We can imagine him working out the message step by step. Next step, beyond the mark put at the end of period 10,  probably as a consequence of having passed the henua ora 'recycling' station in period 9, was - amazingly - to revert to normal in period 11. Now we may possibly understand why - the sequcence of periods 10 - 11 -12 is reflected as if in a mirror at the end with 22 - 23 - 24.

Why did he do that? Because he knew he had to try to explain (in his coded, yet very clear, way) that the end of the calendar was of a different kind than the earlier part (presumably incorporating an extended winter solstice 'season').

Here we realize that the 'objective' picture above may be wrong. Instead a more correct view could be:

 

marked periods (black) have henua - kiore									10		12
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		11

This is a more harmonious picture, yet equally true as the first one. The henua ora period (9) is here not belonging to the preceding group (with 8 periods). Instead it is the 1st of 4, and mirrored by the 21st period, also the 1st of 4.

The calendar now starts with 8 blue-marked periods with the correct order kiore - henua. In period 9 the 1st half-year is perishing. If the mirror between (12 and 13) is perfect, then the 2nd half-year will perish in the 21st period (after 8 periods).

The curious 'wobbling' (right - wrong - right - wrong) in the henua - kiore order (9 - 10 - 11 -12) and the opposite 'wobbling' in periods 21 - 24, may be explained by locating summer solstice respectively winter solstice (or their calendrical nearby 'cardinal points') in the 'turbulent order' periods. Mother Earth is shaking her breasts. The sails wave to and fro when the mast is shifted in order to change the course. There are earthquakes and gusty winds, calm has gone. Presumably the bird shaking his wing to get rid of water from the feathers is yet another picture:

Experience tells us - when the wind is blowing hard it is in one direction only. The direction is predictible.

One oddity remains: Why did Metoro change in the 'mirror' group of periods (13 - 20) by suddenly in the 16th period turning the order back to normal?

 

He could have read something here to make him come back to normal order. Or he had counted to 16 and realized that reasonably sun will be leaving in the 16th period. We remember how 16 is a pivotal point also in the K calendar. And in the Mamari moon calendar 16 ends the 3rd period (while 24 ends the 4th period):

 

Probably he knew about the meaning of number 16 and its relation to 24, and he also probably read about the changing season from 'dead' summer (Eb4-29) to beginning of winter (Eb4-30). He had to mark period 16.

But then he must return to the mirrored order again - sun was still going farther and farther away (lower and lower).

From this point of relative secure ground it is then once again necessary to take a quick look at the three mauga glyphs:

If each period respresents half a month (which is plausible), then the 1st mauga appears in the first half of the first month. Or to be more precise: immediately before the 2nd half of the first month (He Anakena) begins:

 

Is not Metoro reversing the normal order in Eb2-13? His tagato oho (a person goes) must refer to the 2nd half of the glyph. If so, then we maybe should change the picture again:

 

The other two mauga glyphs are in period 11 and 19, both mauga presumably indicating darkness, yet only period 19 being an inverted order (henua - kiore) period. No disorder characterizes the word order in period 11. The mauga problem seems to be of another order. The last attempt to change the picture is abolished and we return to the previous picture:

 

marked periods (black) have henua - kiore									10		12
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		11

The 24 periods are grouped in the pattern 8 - 4 - 8 - 4, or translated into months (presumably) 4 - 2 - 4 - 2. There is an orderly 4 month season, followed by a 2 month high summer season, followed by atumn (4 months), and at last 2 months at the end of the year (equally 'turbulent' as high summer) - could we call it 'low winter'?

But autumn is divided in two parts by period 16:

 

Should not spring be divided into two parts? Maybe the reversed word order at the 1st mauga compensates for the normal order of period 16? Haven't we read other orders from the glyphs themselves (without bothering about Metoro's words)?

 

There are hardly any correspondences between these glyph marks and the perceived structure of Metoro. That does not mean his reading (as developed above) it wrong. Instead we should add the above signs to his readings.

E.g.: periods 7 - 12 together define the 2nd quarter of the year. We have therefore verified that also spring is divided in two parts (without any help from Metoro - he may have thought it was obvious from the glyphs):