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Next page is the last from 'here', referring to 'where the triplet of vaero glyphs in line a2 are located ...':

 

 

With the discovery of Aa2-31 as probably illustrating the time when sky and earth lay close together letting no 'children of light' come in between them, an allusion to day 231 (the first day on the 'back side' of the year according to the G text) seems unavoídable:

1158
Aa2-31 (121) Ab8-30 (1280)
1160 = 40 * 29

We can guess that the empty hands of hanau in Ga8-24 (where 8 * 24 = 192) illustrates how Spring Sun has no more 'fire':

Aa2-28 Aa2-29 Aa2-30 Aa2-31 Aa2-32
228 229 230 231 232
Ga8-24 Ga8-25 Ga8-26 Gb1-1 Gb1-2

Hanau in Gb1-2 has no head, but the 2 arms held high could illustrate a potential for future 'fire'.

The open hands of hanau in Ga1-14 should similarly (together with hanau in Ga1-12) indicate that the 2nd part of the year is 'empty'. It is their left hands (seen at right from our point of view) which are empty. Thumbs in front of left hands tell us that it is the back sides of the hands we are looking at:

Ga1-12 Ga1-13 Ga1-14 Ga1-15 Ga1-16
Aa2-44 Aa2-45 Aa2-46 Aa2-47 Aa2-48 (16)

The left hand of hanau in Ga8-24 has its inside towards us, proving it is empty, but the sign is reversed (cfr the rima glyph type). The meaning should therefore be 'not empty'.

In A we can identify the kai sign 'hair' at the back of the heads in Aa2-44 and Aa2-46 as another way to illustrate how the 2nd part of the year no longer delivers any 'light'. Ariki in Ga1-13 is drawn strongly and (together with another similar ariki glyph in Ga1-5) it has 3 feathers in front. It is time for the 2nd part of the year to leave and the figure in the oval of Ga1-16 presumably indicates that the 'spirit' (manu rere) of winter is going away.

At Aa2-46 Metoro said koia kua mau - i te kaiga, which I think means that this variant of henua represents next season, viz, spring (the season of growth, which I henceforth will call Te Kaiga in contrast to autumn, Te Nuku).

Ariki in Ga1-5 will then explain that the strange vai glyph Aa2-37 ('one more' than 236) should refer to the coming Kaiga season. The proper vai sign is on its way to form. The peculiar black rectangle in the center could represent land rising above the water:

Aa2-33 Aa2-34 Aa2-35 Aa2-36 Aa2-37 Aa2-38
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-6

The similarity in structure between A and G makes it possible to suggest a similarity in meaning between our target glyph and ariki in Ga1-13:

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Aa2-37 Aa2-45
Ga1-5 Ga1-13 (14)

Mata at left in Ga1-5 has disappeared in Ga1-13. In Aa2-45 mata is at top left, sheltered by the long curved arm of the 2nd part of the year. The vaero sign must refer to the coming Kaiga season. The arm of the 1st part of the year is descending, but it ends with a bifurcated tail. The tail is slightly open in front and it is not a fully open gap as in vaha mea in Ga1-4. Spring light is still only beginning to show itself and vaero in Aa2-45 appears to be a better choice of sign.

 

However, we have not done what was intended:

 

All 9 vaero on side a belong in the group of 526 glyphs which end with tagata in Aa8-5:

side a side b side a
525 80 525 138 64
Aa8-5 (590) Ab7-30 (526)
526 808 = 8 * (99 + 2)
1334

To be more precise, however, entails a distinction between the triplet in line a2 from those three in line a3 (the first of them is Aa3-18) and a further distinction as regards those three in line a5 (the first of them Aa5-32):

157 239
Aa3-10 (185) Aa5-10 (343) Aa5-11 Aa7-84 (584)
160 = 2 * 80 240 = 4 * 60
400 = 5 * 80

Each group of triplets of vaero must consequently be considered separately from the rest, at least as a first step.

The first triplet is among 120 glyphs beginning with Aa1-65 and ending with Aa3-9:

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Aa1-64 Aa1-65 Aa1-66 Aa3-8 Aa3-9 Aa3-10 (185)
120 = 4 * 30

These 120 glyphs could represent 120 days, and with 64 added from the end of the earlier season it becomes 184, which then possibly would be the number of days in the first half year. We will here investigate where the triplet of vaero glyphs in line a2 are located according to this guess.

 

So let us look at this question here and now. Kara etahi in Aa2-33 should be the first glyph of the front side:

Aa2-33 Aa2-34 Aa2-35 Aa2-36 Aa2-37 Aa2-38
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-6

Counting from there we will find manu kake in Aa3-10 to be glyph number 185 - 122 = 63. With 2 glyphs per day:

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Aa2-33 (123) Aa2-34 Aa3-8 Aa3-9 Aa3-10 (185) Aa3-11
1 29 31 32

Inserting also hakaturou:

56
Aa1-63 Aa1-64 Aa1-65 Aa1-66 Aa2-33 (123) Aa2-34
29 29 + 1
58
Aa3-8 Aa3-9 Aa3-10 (185) Aa3-11
29 59 + 1 61

Counting with 2 glyphs per day obviously changes the distance between hakaturou and manu kake from 120 to 60 days. Not obvious is the distribution of these 60 days into 29 + 1 followed by another 29 + 1 days.

Hakaturou in Aa1-64 is followed 183 - 64 = 119 glyphs later by another hakaturou sign (right in Aa3-8). Expressed in days: hakaturou in Aa1-64 is followed 59 days later by another hakaturou day, this one located in a.m. I guess they are meant to draw attention to the central figure, viz. kara etahi. 123 - 64 = 59.

However, these reflections should be saved to next 'chapter', toki.