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I still believe the break should be done after the last glyph, not before.

But what is the alternative? To have different fundamental structures, one in A and another in H/P/Q probably is not right either.

1. I remember an idea that Aa1-1 -- 2 could be two introductory glyphs referring to the time before respective after midsummer. The orientation in the shapes of the glyphs agree with this idea:

The 'knees' are oriented at left before midsummer and at right after midsummer.

2. If they (Aa1-1 -- 2) are of an introductory kind, they possibly should not be counted as 'months'. That may explain why there is no parallel to Aa1-1 in H/P/Q; the introduction may be longer there and perhaps a break should come after the moon glyph:

Or the introduction may be shorter, containing only the moon glyph (to indicate that in the beginning of the year darkness rules).

Maybe, even, there is a long introduction telling about the time of winter solstice?

3. Manu tara appears at the beginning of spring, not in midwinter: 'The arrival and the nesting of these birds at the beginning of the southern spring was the high point of the year.' (Barthel 2)

The bird list of Manuscript E begins with manu tara. Perhaps this indicates that the calendar for the year in A (and H/P/Q) starts at spring equinox? Focus of interest clearly was on the summer (red below), and the speculative arrangement I constructed earlier may contain some truth:

 

Hora (Hora iti + Hora nui) and Vaitu (Vaitu nui + Vaitu potu) may once each have covered 2 months:

6 are red (dominated by the presence of the sun). 2 are black, located at the end and maybe representing the 4th quarter of the year, where sun has gone away.

1/8 of the year, i.e. 45 days (given 360 for the year) is a period well adapted to the hatching time of manu tara. If we instead count the periods as double months, we find that 8 * 2 * 28 = 448 > 365¼. The 8 periods (if they are periods and have equal lengths) cannot be double-months. Counting with single months will leave 13 - 8 = 5 months (or 12 - 8 = 4 months) outside the calendar. Hora iti + Hora nui + Maro + Anakena are 4 mothns.

4. Hora (Hora iti + Hora nui) could in this perspective be represented by the glyphs Aa1-3 -- 4 (with parallels in H/P/Q):

	A	Q
Hora
Hora

Possibly Hora iti (little summer) is represented by Aa1-3 and Hora nui (big summer) by Aa1-4, and maybe Hora iti refers to the time before midsummer and Hora nui to the time after midsummer. Similarly, Vaitu nui (big winter) could refer to the time before midwinter and Vaitu potu (short winter) to the time after midwinter. The pattern of introduction as suggested for Aa1-1 -- 2 would then be repeated also in Hora (Aa1-3 -- 4) and Vaitu (Aa1-11 -- 12).

5. From the above we may construct a new table:

Possibly Maro and Anakena may be represented by Aa1-1 -- 2.

6. This speculative new calendar may once have covered only 10 months, not 12 as suggested by the English names within parenthesis,

The equation 3 * (4 * 28) + 1 * (4 * 7) + 1¼ = 365¼ is built on the assumption of 13 lunar months with 28 nights is each.

With only 10 such months, we will have 280 nights inside the calendar and 365¼ - 280 = 85¼ nights outside the calendar.

Suppose, however, that we first subtract 1¼ to reach 364 = 13 * 28, then there will be 364 - 280 = 84 nights outside the regular sun part of the calendar. (1¼ may be represented by Aa1-15.)

Now, 84 is twice the number of the Egyptian judges of the dead in the Hall of the Two Truths:

42 is hinted at by the number of glyphs on side a of the Tahua text:

7. The last line on side b in Tahua contains 84 glyphs. Searching in the middle of this line (to find any indication of a division in two like in the Hall of Two Truths), we can see:

Ab8-39	Ab8-40	Ab8-41	Ab8-42	Ab8-43	Ab8-44	Ab8-45	Ab8-46

As always when we search for the middle in a line with an even number of glyphs we find two glyphs. Ab8-42 is not remarkable in any way, but Ab8-43 is quite notable. Metoro said o te pito motu. In Manuscript E Easter Island is called Te Pito: "... The (entire) land she named 'Te Pito O Te Kainga A Hau Maka O Hiva' ..." (Barthel 2) This agrees with Makemson's description:

"The heavens varying in number from three to twelve according to the locality were imagined as formed by widely spaced concentric hemispheres of solid material which rested upon the plane of the earth.

In a vertical direction upward the celestial realms would accordingly lie one above the other; but in the horizontal direction they formed circular zones on the earth's surface. Thus a group of islands which considered itself te pito, the navel of the universe, was conceived of as situated at the center of a series of concentric spaces of great but indefinite extent, separated from one another by the walls of the various sky domes which rested on the earth." (Makemson)

The word motu means 'cut off'. Did Metoro mean that the 'land' was broken in two at this point in time?

8. The glyph type in Ab8-43 is rare, but one example (Ca5-20) is seen in the Mamari text (after what earlier has been identified as glyphs describing the time of new year):