Aa2-27	Aa2-28 (118)	Aa2-29	Aa2-30	Aa2-31	Aa2-32
day 96 (91, 86)		day 97 (92, 87)		day 98 (93, 88)
Aa2-33	Aa2-34	Aa2-35	Aa2-36	Aa2-37	Aa2-38
day 99 (94, 89)		day 100 (95, 90)		day 101 (96, 91)

Nuku in Aa2-30 is the first of a pair:

Aa2-59	Aa2-60	Aa2-61	Aa2-62	Aa2-63	Aa2-64
139 (134, 129)		140 (135, 130)		141 (136, 131)
Aa2-65	Aa2-66	Aa2-67	Aa2-68	Aa2-69	Aa2-70 (160)
142 (137, 132)		143 (138, 133)		160 / 2 + 64 = 144 (139, 134)
Aa2-71	Aa2-72	Aa2-73	Aa2-74	Aa2-75	Aa2-76
145 (140, 135)		146 (141, 136)		147 (142, 137)
Aa2-77	Aa2-78	Aa2-79	Aa2-80
148 (143, 138)		149 (144, 139)

Maybe the designs of the glyphs can tell us which kind of counting to use in different places. Nuku in Aa2-70 first of all must be thought of as 160, I think. Then we can count 144 = 12 * 12 as a square of sun. Metoro said i vai o rima at Aa2-69 and such is the picture, the vai sign is the same entity as the arm. If we regard the year as ending with day number 368, then something similar should happen 100 days earlier, and such an important event should be alluded to in the glyphs surrounding 2-68. Nuku can be explained as what comes beyond the time when sun disappears 'into the water'. 160 means there is 100 remaining to 260.

144 is the day number counted by the sun. Counted by the moon this day number arrives 5 days later. Here we once again encounter 160 (= 2 * 80). Although there is a gesture of eating (kai) we cannot see any toes. A grand full stop point is half hidden on its way into the open mouth. The preceding glyph is unusual, because instead of ihe tau (which normally is seen at left in this type of glyph) there is a sign similar to a waning moon crescent. Presumably it is not a waning moon crescent but a waning sun crescent, because of its form and because it is the same entity as manu rere. Though together with the right wing of the bird it looks like two waning moon signs. The bird has peculiar feet and the sign could symbolize the trunk of a tree, the 'midsummer' tree.

In addition to the three different types of day numbers we must also count with line numbers and glyph number in the line. Also these are supported by the glyph designs. In Aa2-75 (where 2 * 75 = 150, i.e. half 300) the path of the sun (haga rave) has at right ('autumn') 3 feathers in the past and 4 in front. At left the path describes a kava serpent sign and indeed the time has come to ignite a new fire (the old one perishes in the 'water').

The two nuku glyphs are alike and 40 glyphs apart. Above I have counted days by dividing the number of glyphs by 2 and then added 64 (what could be the normal way of reading a rongorongo text). According to the structure earlier used, however, we should add 37 instead of 64:

		38
Aa2-29	Aa2-30 (120)		Aa2-69	Aa2-70 (160)
day 97		19	37 + 160 / 2 = 117

Disregarding day numbers and relying only on number of glyphs counted from Aa1-1, on the line numbers, on the numbers in the line, and on what the designs in the glyphs can tell us, there is an obvious explanation of nuku in Aa2-30 - it is the first glyph on the back side of the year (according to the G text if we do not count Gb8-30 as the first glyph of its front side). The two nuku glyphs are exactly alike and their meaning should therefore also be exactly the same. Let us move on:

Aa2-39	Aa2-40	Aa2-41	Aa2-42	Aa2-43	Aa2-44
day 102 (97, 92)		day 103 (98, 93)		day 104 (99, 94)

Certainly there is ground for measuring beyond hakaturou in Ab7-39. Support is given also by the surrounding glyphs. Measuring at Ab7-33 we will find 7 * 33 = 231 (and, we should remember, at Ab8-83 we measured 8 * 83 = 664 - the day number for Ab7-33).