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We continue with the pages of the 'Excursion':

 

The 1st mauga (in period 1) we have tentatively identified as the last one (number 186):
48 24 16 17
Eb5-11 Eb5-12 Eb6-2 Eb6-19 Eb1-37 Eb2-13
- - - - 1 19
124 125 150 167 168 186

If we count from the 'new fire' glyph (Eb6-3) in the 24th and last period, we will find the last mauga to be number 36:

16 17
Eb6-3 Eb6-4 Eb6-5 Eb6-19 Eb1-37 Eb2-13
0 1 2 17 18 36

Presumably 36 is alluding to the cycle of the sun (360 days). Ordinal number 186 arrived at earlier does not mean the calendar describes only half a year. The first part of the calendar (ending at the mauga in the middle) refers to the 1st half of the year and the second part refers to the 2nd half of the year (ending with Eb6-2).

At the 1st glyph in the calendar (Eb1-37) we are halfway (18) to Eb2-13. The last part of the 24th period (which at least partly refers to the new year) has 18 glyphs (now including Eb6-3), and the 1st period also has 18 glyphs before Eb2-13 (glyphs which at least partly refers to the old year).

Counting the 1st period as the last of the old year means it will have 25 periods, a number which is in harmony with 75 + 75 glyphs (150 = 6 * 25), although then we counted the 1st period as belonging to the new year (and only that way can we reach 186).

48 and 24 could rather be 49 and 25, 7 * 7 respectively 5 * 5, thereby including Eb5-11 respectively Eb5-12. 25 from Eb5-12 reaches up to (but not including) Eb6-2. Multiples of 25 are not congruent with 49.

But if we take a little step backwards, from Eb1-37 to Eb6-19, Eb5-11 will be number 50 (beyond the central mauga). I think this was planned. 'Proof' is found in Eb6-19, a curious glyph with one component being vaha mea (opening of new light):

Furthermore, 125 = 5 * 5 * 5, a suitable ordinal number for the time when sun is at his apex.

But then the 150th glyph will no longer be Eb6-2:

Eb5-35 Eb6-1 Eb6-2 Eb6-3
149 150 151 152
Kua pipiri te hetu ko te mata no te henua to ihe - te maro tara

Metoro's te mata no te henua may mean the 'hole' in the 'earth' (season).

Mata

1. Tribe, people; te mata tûai-era-á, the ancient tribes. 2. Eye; mata ite, eyewitness. 3. Mesh: mata kupega. 4. Raw, uncooked, unripe, green, matamata, half-cooked, half-ripe. Kahi matamata, a tuna fish. Vanaga.

1. The eye; mata neranera, mata kevakeva, mata mamae, to be drowsy; mata keva, mataraparapa, matapo, blind; mata hakahira, squint eyed; mata pagaha, eye strain. 2. Face, expression, aspect, figure, mien, presence, visage, view; mata mine, mata hakataha, mata pupura, mata hakahiro, to consider. 3. Raw, green, unripe. 4. Drop of water. 5. Mesh; hakamata, to make a net. 6. Cutting, flint. 7. Point, spear, spike (a fish bone). 8. Chancre. Matamata, sound of water. Churchill.

There is a wide range of significations in this stem. It will serve to express an opening as small as the mesh of a net or as large as a door of a house; it will serve to designate globular objects as large as the eye or as small as the bud on a twig or the drop of rain, and designating a pointed object it answers with equal facility for the sharpened tip of a lance or the acres of a headland; it describes as well the edge of a paddle or the source from which a thing originates. Churchill 2.

Although other interpretations are possible, for example 'people of the island', mata is people and henua presumably means the (whole) island.

... The cult place of Vinapu is located between the fifth and sixth segment of the dream voyage of Hau Maka. These segments, named 'Te Kioe Uri' (inland from Vinapu) and 'Te Piringa Aniva' (near Hanga Pau Kura) flank Vinapu from both the west and the east. The decoded meaning of the names 'the dark rat' (i.e., the island king as the recipient of gifts) and 'the gathering place of the island population' (for the purpose of presenting the island king with gifts) links them with the month 'Maro' which is June ...

Metoro's tara, which we have used as a label for another glyph type:

indicates that tara is the upper half of the tara glyph type (because it is probably the bottom half of the 'fire generator', Eb6-3, which incited Metoro to say tara).

Where is the new light ignited? At 6 * 25 = 150 (Eb6-1), in the dark 'hole' when the island population gathers, in He Maro (cfr also the ordinal numbers 6-1 a suitable place for the new sun light). But only 25 glyphs from high summer to low winter is strange.

Another consequence of shifting one step leftwards is that the last glyph (167) now will be a hanau glyph:

 

Eb6-9 Eb6-10 Eb6-11 Eb6-12 Eb6-13 Eb6-14 Eb6-15 Eb6-16
158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165
Eb6-17 Eb6-18 Eb6-19
166 167 1

Ordinal numbers 6-18 confirm a final for the sun (6), 18 glyphs beyond mata no the henua.

Earlier - already from the beginning - I was convinced that one established and secure point in this complex mess was that the kiore - henua glyph type meant the end of a season. Now it appears to have been used to indicate the beginning of a season (not only Eb6-19 but also Eb2-14). The difference is infinitesimal, although it feels strange for someone accustomed to western civilisation.

The new end marker, Eb6-18, was referred to as hakapeka hia te tagata by Metoro. Whatever he may have exactly meant, clearly he recognized the final:

 

Peka

Pekapeka, starfish. Vanaga.

1. 100,000 T. 2. A cross; pekapeka, curly; pekapekavae, instep T. (? shoelaces.); hakapeka, to cross; hakapekapeka, to interlace, lattice. T Mgv.: peka, a cross, athwart, across; pepeka, thick, only said of a number of shoots or sprouts in a close bunch. Mq.: peka, a cross, dense thicket. Ta.: pea, a cross. Churchill.

Hakapeka (to cross) implies another side, and the other side presumably begins at Eb6-19.