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And now we will continue with the ordinary pages after a long detour by way of 'a few further pages':

 

We have discovered alternative perspectives from which to view the location of hanau moko in Gb3-13. First, of course, we have the well known cycle based on 14 * 29.5 = 413, according to which tamaiti (the little child) marks the beginning of the cycle and where hanau moko comes late:

1st half of the cycle 57 176
Gb7-3 Gb8-30 Gb8-30 (1) Ga7-7
59 177 = 3 * 59
2nd half 57 176
Ga7-8 (178) Gb1-6 Gb1-7 (237) Gb7-2 (413)
59 177 = 3 * 59

But the ordinal number for hanau moko, 304, is not a multiple of 59 (not even close). We can 'magnify' our 'map' in order to find the 'cardinal points' at 10, 12, respectively 14 times 29½:

57 57 57
Gb1-7 Gb3-4 Gb3-5 Gb4-33 Gb5-1 Gb7-2
59  59 59

In the haga rave chapter it was shown how takaure glyphs are accumulated around the beginning of line Gb3:

   
Ga4-2 Gb2-34 Gb3-1 Gb3-4 Gb3-5 Gb4-4

10 times 29.5 = 295 (counted not from tamaiti in Gb7-3 but from the beginning of the front side of the text) could be referring to how Sun is alloted only 10 months. After that he becomes a 'takaure' ('horse-fly'). His 'spirit' disappears up into the air - it does not shoot down into some hole like a lizard (moko).

Earlier we have located the end of the takaure season at Ga1-1:

Te Pei Tama
Gb1-7 Gb7-3
Hua Reva Hanga Takaure
Gb3-5 Ga1-1
Hatinga Te Kohe
Gb5-1

The names of kuhane stations were here used, and Tama surely could correspond to tamaiti in Gb7-3. And Ga1-1 indeed seems to have a haga rave sign up front:

Ga1-1 haga rave

Possibly Ga1-1 depicts a double haga rave, and if so it could refer to the end of the back side. And perhaps we should read Ga1-1 as hahaga:

Hahaga

Ridge, summit, wall plate. Maroa hahaga, to measure lands, to walk at a great pace. Churchill.

According to this perspective the 'takaure season' should stretch from the beginning of glyph line Gb3 to the end of side b, or for 180 days:

179
Gb3-1 (292) Gb8-30 (472)
180

Ga1-1 is located at the bottom of side a of the tablet and 'summit' (hahaga) should rather refer to the preceding glyph (puo in Gb8-30) which is located at the top end of side b. Maybe the design of Ga1-1 was created to give us a hint that we should begin counting glyphs from Gb8-30. Yet, counting from Gb8-30 tamaiti in Gb7-3 will not be in position 14 * 29.5 = 413 but in position 413 + 1 ('one more').

 
 

Let us change our perspective - we could not find a natural place for hanau moko in the primary map of the G text. There is a spectrum of other alternative views:

For instance by utilizing the sign of 8 + 8 'feathers' in henua ora (which sounds like the opposite of hanau moko) and interpreting it to mean 8 lunar months in the past and 8 lunar months in front, we can then work with hakaua in Gb3-10 in a similar way:

58 176 58 176
Gb7-3 Ga7-7 Gb1-6 Gb7-2 (413)
236 = 8 * 29½ 236 = 8 * 29½
176 58 176 58
Gb5-7 Ga5-13 Gb3-10 Gb5-6 (360)
177 = 6 * 29½ 236 = 8 * 29½ 59 = 2 * 29½
 
From hakaua maro in Gb3-10 to glyph number 360 (tagata in Gb5-6) there are 2 * 29.5 = 59 glyphs. Likewise there are 59 glyphs from henua ora maro in Ga7-7 to glyph number 236 (tagata maro in Gb1-6).
 
In this view glyph line Gb3 resembles glyph line Ga7 - they are both located at the beginning of the last doublemonth of the 'year', where there are 59 days to the end of the 360-day solar year respectively to the end of the first half of 472 days:
 
58
Gb3-10 (301) Gb5-6 (360)
Ga7-7 (177) Gb1-6 (236)

236 (= 472 / 2) looks like a message: '2nd 36(0)', or maybe 2 * 36 = 72. Counting from Rogo in Gb6-26 the day at Gb1-6 will be number 64 + 236 = 300. The glyph number for Gb3-10 (counted from Gb8-30) is 'one more' than 300. If we add 64 it will be 64 + 301 = 365. There are 301 - 236 = 65 (= 5 * 13) glyphs from Gb1-6 to Gb3-10:

58 64 58
Ga7-7 (177) Gb1-6 (236) Gb3-10 (301) Gb5-6 (360)
60 60
184 (= 8 * 23)

Whereas henua ora maro apparently marks the end of 59 + 177 = 8 * 29½ days counted from tamaiti (Gb7-3), hakaua maro could mark the end of 59 + 301 = 360 = 8 * 45 days counted from tamaiti.

But if we instead count with 8 multiples of 29½ - which is more reasonable because a sign should have a fixed 'value' - we will arrive at Ga3-6, which number we immediately will associate with 360:

233 58
Ga3-6 (66) Ga3-7 Gb3-10 (301) Gb5-6 (360)
236 59

Ga3-6--7 are the first 2 glyphs in the 2nd of the 31 periods (those ending with kiore-henua-maro), and it is reasonable to find a cycle of Sun beginning with a pair of fists held high in the air (cfr Gb5-7).

We should also notice the pau foot which ought to have a meaning similar to the pau foot in Hanga Te Pau:

233 58 5
Ga3-6 (66) Ga3-7 Gb3-10 Gb5-6 Gb5-12 (366)
300

Where does hanau moko come in this scheme? Glyph number 304 is number 304 - 66 = 228 counted from Ga3-7, but the numbers will pull us one step ahead:

Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 (305) Gb3-15 Gb3-16
227 228 305 - 66 = 229 230 231

The 'π glyph' on side b (Gb3-14) is day number 229 in the season of Sun and the following Rogo is number 230, and we recognize this type of Rogo with a hole in his body from earlier:

70
Gb1-2 Gb1-3 (233) Gb3-13 Gb3-14 Gb3-15 (306)

Ordinal number 306 is like 360 but with zero moved to the center (and by counting from day 400 to Gb1-3 also 233 will be turned into 306). The distance from Rogo without head in Gb1-3 to Rogo with head is 306 - 233 = 73 (= 365 / 5). Counting instead from Ga3-7 (73 reversed) is possible too of course:

165 72
Ga3-6 (66) Ga3-7 Gb1-3 (233) Gb3-15 (306)
166 + 73 = 240

The end of a Sun cycle seems to be the meaning of Rogo in Gb3-15, although it must have happened already when he lost his head. The hanau glyphs arrive before the Rogo glyphs, and here at last we can make contact with our hanau moko:

71
Gb1-2 (232) Gb3-13 (304)
73

Both hanau glyphs appear just after the turning point (of the tablet respectively a similar distance counted from Ga3-6). 240 is equal to 8 * 30 and beyond this measure a new (dark) season should arrive:

Gb3-24 Gb3-25 Gb3-26 Gb3-27 Gb3-28 Gb3-29 Gb3-30
Gb4-1 Gb4-2 Gb4-3 Gb4-4

Gb3-30 has a pau sign at right and then comes a new glyph line beginning with a reversed hau tea.

10 glyphs, from the 'π glyph' on side b to vae kore in Gb3-24, are needed in order to reach 8 * 31 = 248 (which number together with 224 = 8 * 28 will cover 472 days):

Gb3-14 (305) Gb3-15 Gb3-16
Gb3-17 Gb3-18 Gb3-19
Gb3-20 Gb3-21 Gb3-22 Gb3-23 (314)
165 80 51
Ga3-6 (66) Ga3-7 Gb1-3 (233) Gb3-23 (314) Gb5-12 (366)
248 52

By the way, on side a the 'π glyph' is Ga3-14 and the preceding Ga3-13 is fat just like our hanau moko (Gb3-13):

3
Ga3-10 Ga3-11 Ga3-12 Ga3-13 Ga3-14 (72) Ga3-15 Ga3-16

 
 

There seems to be an opposition between moko (lizard) and mago (shark), presumably aspects of the Milky Way:

' ... The Hawaiians also called the Milky Way Kuamoo, Backbone of the Lizard. Many Polynesian names for the Milky Way may be reminiscent of the crocodiles of Western Melanesia, the moko-roa, 'long lizards' of legend, for the same motif is found in various parts of the Pacific. The Tuamotuans termed the Milky Way Vaero-o-te-moko, Tail of the Lizard, and Mango-roa, Long Shark.

The Mangaian name Moko-roa-i-ata, Long-lizard-of-morning, not only sounds the lizard or crocodile note but also refers to the method of determining the small hours of the night before the rising of the morning star. The Maori used the same term contracted to Mokoroiata. Again they called the Galaxy Mango-roa, Long Shark, and Mangoroiata, Long-shark-of-dawn ...'

The shark lives in the sea and is a ferocious eater with great jaws, while the peaceful little lizard inhabits the ceiling catching insects. It is said that sharks can 'walk on land' (move upwards), but lizards are prone to dive down into holes.

In the summary at mago the resemblance between vaha mea and mago was presented:

 180
Ga1-4 (5) Ga7-16 (186)
vaha mea mago
182 days

Mago in Ga7-16 is now possible to coordinate with hanau moko in Gb3-13:

118 = 4 * 29½
Ga3-6 (66) Ga3-7 Ga7-16 (186)
120
117
Ga7-17 Gb3-13 (304) Gb3-14 Gb3-15 (306)
120

The distance from mago to hanau moko is 4 lunar months (304 - 186 = 118 = 4 * 29½), or half 236.

If we count from the shark standing straight up (vaha mea in Ga1-4) the distance is 304 - 5 = 299, i.e. the measure 300 ends with the 'π glyph':

298
Ga1-4 (5) Gb3-13 Gb3-14
300