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The last page of 'reexamine the texts':

Now to the parallels between A and H. Aa1-73 seems to have day number 181 (maybe to be understood as 72 + 9 * 12):


Aa1-72	*Ha6-53	*Ha6-54 (329)	*Ha6-55
368	237

Aa1-73	*Ha6-56	*Ha6-57 (332)	*Ha6-58
181 (369)	238 = 333 / 3 + 64 + 63

The glyph is a curious variant of moe. Such a glyph type ought to announce the 'dawn' of a new season. 6 months with 30 days in each could be its duration. From the 'bird' at left emerges an new one, yet he is the same. In *Ha6-58 another way of illustrating it is by way of tagata rere, with one mata at left and one at right (the 2 mata being equivalent to the 2 heads in Aa1-73).

The sitting figure in *Ha6-57 has two 'hands' attatched to his back. In Ga7-5 the same type of sign is used in front:

31
31	Ga7-5	Ga7-6	Ga7-7	Ga7-8	Ga7-9	Ga7-10 (180)

In Tahua the sign seems to have been split up on two glyphs, with the little top hand being put in front and transformed into enormously long 'fingers':


Aa1-73	Aa1-74
181	182
369

Presumably this 'hand' is a kind of 'hakaturou' sign:


Aa1-64	Aa1-74
364	182 (369)

The two hands, rima (2 * 5 = 10), at the back in *Ha6-57 could mean that the 10 months of Spring Sun are in the past (6 * 57 = 342 = 18 * 19). The complex 'fingers' in Aa1-74 means something else, and they could possibly be referring to the time beyond midsummer. If we still read them as rima, we can imagine that 3 doublemonths of the sun are in the past (the tail feathers of moe in Aa1-73) and 3 'doublemonths' (extra long ones) are in front (long fingers in Aa1-74). The break in time would be illustrated by one glyph representing the past and the other representing the future.

The suggested 'hakaturou' sign in Aa1-74 ought to mean a change is due, maybe to a time when we should look for pairs of glyphs. 90 - 74 = 16 and 182 + 16 / 2 = 190 (= 10 * 19) could be the last day in line Aa1. Or, if we continue to count with 1 glyph per day: 182 + 16 = 198 (= 2 * 99).

Obviously the parallel between A and H continues 2 glyphs longer than Aa1-74:


Aa1-75	Aa1-76
183	184


*Ha6-59	*Ha6-60 (335)	*Ha6-61	*Ha6-62	*Ha6-63	*Ha6-64
239			240

Day 240 is beginning with a variant of vero, it is apparently time to 'kill' the sun king. 240 = 8 * 30 and at *Ha6-64 we can count 6 * 64 = 384 = 2 * 192 (the '2nd' season of 192 days?).

Equally clear it is that the following sequence of Tahua glyphs have no parallel in H:


Aa1-77	Aa1-78	Aa1-79	Aa1-80	Aa1-81	Aa1-82

Aa1-83	Aa1-84	Aa1-85	Aa1-86	Aa1-87	Aa1-88

Aa1-89	Aa1-90

Aa1-80--82 seems to reflect once again what happens at midsummer. Therefore Aa1-77 could once again refer to day 177 = 3 * 59. If so, then these 14 glyphs can stand for 14 days. 184 + 14 = 198.

In H we can read only 1 glyph before the parallel with Tahua (at the beginning of line Aa2) resumes:

*Ha6-65 (340)

This inoino glyph apparently is to be compared with Aa1-78 and Aa1-84, the last one of which could be at day 192.

Aa1-80 resembles those tagata + manu rere glyphs we have seen recently, though here Rogo is at left:

	28		180		199
Aa1-61 (361)		Aa1-80 (390)		Aa4-10 (261)		Aa6-45 (461)
	200				200

I surely must add a page in order to document this.

... Aa1-80--82 seems to reflect once again what happens at midsummer ...

But what glyph comes as number 661? It is maitaki in Aa8-76 (where 8 * 76 = 19 * 32):


Aa8-72	Aa8-73	Aa8-74	Aa8-75	Aa8-76 (661)

Aa8-77	Aa8-78	Aa8-79	Aa8-80 (665)	Aa8-81

Aa8-82	Aa8-83	Aa8-84	Aa8-85 (670)

Aa1-80 resembles those tagata + manu rere glyphs we have seen recently, though here Rogo is at left:

	28		180		199
Aa1-61 (361)		Aa1-80 (390)		Aa4-10 (261)		Aa6-45 (461)
	200				200

Presumably Aa1-80 identifies where winter solstice is meant to be in the text. Rogo is here the same 'person' as the eating creature at right - Rogo marks the beginning of spring.

From Aa1-80 up to and including Aa4-10 there are 182 glyphs, maybe days, which is congruent with a 364-day long year (364 = 2 * 182):

	180
Aa1-80 (1)	180	Aa4-10 (182)

	180		17
Aa4-11 (183)	180	Aa6-27 (364)	17	Aa6-45 (382)	Aa6-46

13 * 29.5 = day 383½ lies beyond the pair in Aa6-45. 64 * 6 = 384.

1 glyph per day is a method which apparently gains support from the glyphs:


Aa4-11	Aa4-12	Aa4-13	Aa4-14	Aa4-15	Aa4-16
183	184	185	186	187	188

Midsummer evidently is indicated by the very open pure sign - light is coming in. In Aa4-13 the 'person' in front hides the sun and we can only see his flames. It ought to be a sign of summer solstice because there are 3 feathers at left and 4 at right in the following 'uplifted fruit' (hua reva). Tapa mea in Aa4-16 (where 18 * 8 = 144) has 8 short feathers at right, probably a sign of the new 'moon' season on its way.