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Let us now compare the beginning of calendar I with that of calendar II:

calendar I
Yb3-1 Yb3-2 (200) Yb3-3 Yb3-4 Yb3-5 Yb3-6 (240)
Ya1-1 Ya1-2 Ya1-3 Ya1-4 Ya1-5 Ya1-6 (300)
Ya2-1 Ya2-2 Ya2-3 Ya2-4 Ya2-5 Ya2-6 (360)
calendar II
Yc1-1 Yc1-2
Yc1-3 (60) Yc1-4 Yc1-5 Yc1-6 Yc1-7
Yc1-8 Yc1-9 Yc1-10 (200)
 
Henua at right in Yc1-2 is broad and vertical, but not so in the triplet at days 240, 300, and 360 in calendar I. It could be a spring henua at Yc1-2 respectively autumn ones in calendar I. That would agree with my inferences of the day numbers as suggested earlier.
 
Furthermore, glyphs which are leaning forward might serve to indicate a forward direction and glyphs leaning backwards might point backwards. In this case possibly signifying the direction to midsummer. A 'bar of light' should lean towards midsummer, either pointing forward (increasing light) or in the opposite way (waning light).
 
Experience from calendar II could lead us to consider reducing the value of Yb3-6 from 10 days to 6, because that would give it day number 236 (= 8 * 29.5). But there is uncertainty at Yb3-1 - has time erased the leftmost part of the glyph or was it intentionally drawn so? We will therefore leave this train of possible 'improvements' aside. Let us, however, note that hanau at right in Ya2-5 definitely is ending in nothing. It could suggest 354 (= 12 * 29.5) at Ya2-6.
 
Above I have not considered Yc2-1, earlier counted to end with day 220, as part of the beginning of calendar II. Instead it could be located in next section:
 
2 * 20 = 40
Yc2-1 Yc2-2 (240)

Mercury is located at high summer and a break in time is illustrated by these two glyphs. I have continued counting with 20 days per glyph, because that will lead to 240 (= 8 * 30). If we then change to 10 days per glyph, the result will be:

12 * 10 = 120
Yc2-3 Yc2-4 (260) Yc2-5 Yc2-6 Yc3-1 (290)
Yc3-2 (300) Yc3-3 Yc3-4 Yc3-5 Yc3-6
Yc3-7 Yc3-8 (360)

The solar year needs another 120 days to end with 360. Tagata in Yc3-2 will be at day 300 (with feet no longer visible, as if sun was wading in water). His 'staff' is broken already at Yc3-1, we can see by the break in front. 10 * 29 = 290, light has vanished. Ua at Yc2-4 - a day of Saturn - is another end point for the sun. Sun is gradually vanishing, beginning with Mercury at Yc2-1.

With Sun as the main person in calendar II it is, though, possible to read each glyph as 20 also beyond day 240, in which case we will have:

12 * 20 = 240
Yc2-3 (260) Yc2-4 Yc2-5 (300) Yc2-6 Yc3-1
Yc3-2 (360) Yc3-3 Yc3-4 (400)
Yc3-5 Yc3-6 Yc3-7 Yc3-8 (480)

480 is twice 240 and equal to 8 * 60, an ideal full cycle for the sun. 472 days according to G can be explained as 480 - 8, where 8 could indicate 1 / 60 of the full cycle. Yc3-8 could therefore be referring to 472, which would explain the missing tip of the beak and wing. At the end of the full cun cycle there will be darkness, just as a month is ending in darkness.

Tagata at Yc3-2 will be at 360, an alternative to 300. The rising fish in 'Sunday' (Yc2-5) could signify that a new cycle is beginning here. Possibly we should read the glyphs from Yc2-3 with 'double focus', both with 20 and 10 days per glyph. If numbers reflect reality, then we must accept more than one 'reading' at a time. For instance is 480 not only 8 * 60 but also 20 * 24.

 

The light from the Moon is only a reflection of the light from the Sun. When we measure 10 days per glyph, a number which reflects the Sun, Yc3-8 will reach to 360, also a number referring to the Sun.

When we change the measure to 20, the number of nights which the month is counted to have and which could be alluding to the sum of 10 months for the Sun and 10 for the Moon, Yc3-8 will reach to 480, a number which consequently follows the structure of the Moon cycle (by 8 and 60 having the perfect balanced duality).

8 is two 'squares', not only two cycles. 60 is a double-month. 4 * 30 = 120 and it takes 4 * 120 to reach 480. We can say that Moon has two dimensions, that is necessary to measure out squares.

In contrast Sun is one-dimensional, he is only waxing and then disappears to do it again on the other side of the equator. To show a double-month we have to put 2 cycles in contact with each other and then 8 emerges as the picture.

20 * 24 is quickly seen to be similarly equal to 10 * 12 taken 4 times.

From this perspective the Sun 360 will mean that only 3 squares have been reached. All good things are 3, then follows a dark square.

This imbalance can be explained by dividing the cycle in two parts (which also follows from the formula for the circumference of the circle - it takes 2 times π to measure it). Sun has the first part and Moon the second part.

Sun is all light, but Moon has both light and darkness. It is her 'fault' that there is a dark square at the end of the full double cycle. She introduces the 'dark cloth' and that means she also introduces life - because life needs the dark cloth. The Polynesians have not only singular and plural, they have dual as a third possibility. Life is dual, waxing and waning, birth and death. In between death and rebirth lies the dark cloth.

Yc2-3 and Yc3-3 are both Venus days, and they introduce 120 days each:

12 * 20 = 240
Yc2-3 (260) Yc2-4 Yc2-5 (300)
Yc2-6 Yc3-1 Yc3-2 (360)
Yc3-3 Yc3-4 (400) Yc3-5
Yc3-6 Yc3-7 Yc3-8 (480)

Maybe Moon has different garments too (not only Sun). She limits the Sun with Mondays, for instance with henua at Yc3-6, where we have not only 36 but also 3 * 6 = 18. In Yc2-6 (with 26 and 2 * 6 = 12) a Rei is in front, which means the strange left part could refer to the end announced by ua.

Moon must then create a new son and that happens on Fridays. Vai with a string as perimeter (Yc2-3 and Yc3-3) are located at the beginning of squares, 4 * 30 days 'long'. From 260 up to and including 480 there are 240 days, balancing those twice 120 ruled by spring Sun.

400 is a 'full square' measured out by the Moon:

Saturn
400 200 100 100
200 100 50 50
100 50 25 25

It carries 4 times the double Saturn number as its base, 4 * 25 = 100. It is as if Saturn is the garment of the Moon, because he represents both death and rebirth. Saturday is like the waning phase, coming immediately after Venus the waxing phase.

Sunday - Thursday comes first in the week. First there are 5 (rima) days for the Sun, then comes 2 for the Moon. This structure explains 420 as 15 * 28:

Mercury
420 300 60 60
210 150 30 30
105 75 15 15

15 is a Mercury number and halfway to 30, in the middle of the Sun month. It explains why Mercury should be at midsummer.

But Mercury is also at the base of 480:

Mercury
480 240 120 120
240 120 60 60
120 60 30 30
60 30 15 15

We can finish this exposé with other numbers which are based on multiples of 5:

9 * 5 (Jupiter)
360 180 90 90
180 90 45 45
13 * 5 (Moon)
260 130 65 65
15 * 5 (Mercury)
300 150 75 75
21 * 5 (Mars)
420 210 105 105