2. In the idiom of rongorongo writing, we can in tara recognize a compound between mago - lower part - and haga, a bent branch (limb of a tree):    The haga glyph type is charaterized by a sharp point (tara) at right. An indication of the lower part being mago is offered by: Ha1-25 Ha1-26 Often glyphs close together are influencing each other. The signs are not fixed at a predetermined location but fluid, sometimes 'infecting' the surrounding glyphs, sometimes being used for 'glyph play' (see example below). The interpretation of the upper part as haga is not the whole truth, however. Whereas the standard haga has one place where the bough is maximally bent, the standard tara has two such places; it has a shape more like the form of U than the form of V: Furthermore, tara is leaning forward. The explanation may be that tara alludes to three other glyph types, not only to haga and mago but also to kai: This person is leaning forward and his leg corresponds to the tail in tara. We can see this e.g. in Ab8-42: Although the bent arm in kai corresponds to the right of the two 'arms' in tara (explaining why the form is like U rather than V), the open space between these two 'arms' also alludes to the mouth of the shark (mago). An example of this kind of 'glyph play' offers Ab1-46--48:

		10			*10
Ka5-8	Ka5-9		Kb1-6	Kb1-7		*Kb1-19	*Kb1-20
1	2		13	14		*25	*26
high summer = 13 weeks = 91 days = a quarter

Pb10-33	Pb10-34	Pb10-35	Pb10-36
Hb9-23	Hb9-24	Hb9-25	Hb9-26

Aa1-43

Aa3-54	Aa3-60	Aa5-17	Aa7-38	Aa7-59
Ab1-46	Ab1-57	Ab1-72	Ab1-82	Ab3-29	Ab3-31	Ab3-54
Ab3-61	Ab4-8	Ab5-35	Ab7-37	Ab8-42	Ab8-69

A quick look at the three redmarked good examples:

The ordinal number 61 could mean 1 beyond a 'sun cycle'. Yet in Ab3-59 the little bird tells about a new phase (with 59 meaning the twice moon cycle). Rei in Ab3-60 says a new cycle is kicked into action with the following glyph, a tara cycle.

There twice 7 feathers in the pair Ab3-63--64, numbers belonging to the moon rather than to the sun. Twice ihe tau in Ab3-65, as well as mea ke in Ab3-66, illustrate darkness.

Ab7-37 is located in what probably is a midwinter sequence of glyphs:

Henua ora in Ab7-33 is the 'recycling station', where everything is swallowed. Ab7-36 is a marker of center, with 36 signifying new year. Ab7-38 also tells about the center, and in Ab7-39 hakaturou says that it now is going in the opposite direction.

Around Ab8-69 there is also evidence of a dark time, the time of pito (birth comes in the dark):

In Ab8-76 a bent henua (shell of Tagaroa) signifies the dark beginning. In Ab8-63 we see a pure, the right part of which may be Ab8-76.

The last glyph in the 29th and last period of the K calendar has a henua with the same kind of oblique bottom end as in Ab8-83 (and as in Ab8-64):

Ab8-51 is a hatchmarked (dark) henua and then follows in Ab8-62 henua ora, the swallower at the end. Light is diminishing according to Ab8-48, but in Ab8-73 a heke glyph could signal a new beginning, cfr the beginning of the Mamari text:

In Ab8-80 the top oval seems to have the same message as heke in Ca2-1. And then we can return to the mago with a top oval in Ka4-14:

6
	Ka4-14	Ka4-15	Ka4-15

It may be that the oval marks the beginning of a sun cycle. Let us locate summer and high summer in the table over glyph lines:

From now on I have eliminated the asterisks at glyph numbers (though keeping them in glyph labels) because it becomes to tiresome to keep track of them. In the glyph dictionary, however, they are necessary.

The center of high summer is not at Kb1-10--11 but at Kb1-6--7:

We cannot but associate with the kuhane stations - 26 for the king and 2 beyond him.

There are 3 Rei glyphs in the K text, and subtracting these we get 192 - 3 = 189. But it looks as if we should deduct also Kb1-10 (and maybe other glyphs too).

On the other hand, 192 - 52 = 140 is a promising number. It could mean 20 weeks, in which case the missing 52 - 26 - 20 = 6 weeks (42 days) may be outside the K text (364 = 52 * 7).

In E we find the same constellation, 26 + 20 = 46, as the number of glyphs in the last respectively the first periods:

In Tahua the main viri glyphs are dividing the text by way of 20, 26, and 29 (also the number of the last period in the K calendar). The number of glyphs in Tahua is 1,334 =  (20 + 26) * 29.