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After having returned from the link 'investigate' (hahe in Qb2-9 and the parallel texts in H and P) next page is:

There are no hahe glyphs visible in the text of K. Maybe the number of glyphs (estimated as 192) means each glyph stands for 1 day and that 192 + 64 = 256 = 16 * 16 is not enough to reach past the end of high summer.

In high summer an 'egg' should be produced:

Pa11-17 Pa11-18 Pa11-19 Pa11-20 Pa11-21 Pa11-22

11 * 17 = 187 is just past midsummer. 11 * 21 = 231 and if we add 64, we can imagine that hahe in Pa11-21 is alluding to day 295. Once again it seems that hahe comes after the birth of the successor:

Yb3-1 Yb3-2 Yb3-3 Yb3-4 Yb3-5 Yb3-6
'birth'
Ya1-1 Ya1-2 Ya1-3 Ya1-4 Ya1-5
'death'

Although the time for hahe in P is quite different. Instead of an 'empty shell' (pure) we have in Pa11-17 a 'shell' full with life (an 'egg'). Ordinal number 17 indicates Venus, while ordinal number 4 refers to Saturn.

Maybe the central rhomb in Pa11-21 illustrates this 'egg'. Ordinal number 21 is 'one more' (than 20) and the planet presumably is Mars. But if counting nights in the month ends with 20, the planet number will be 1 once again, i.e. Mercury:

Pa11-12 Pa11-13 Pa11-14 Pa11-15 Pa11-16
Pa11-17 Pa11-18 Pa11-19 Pa11-20
Pa11-21 Pa11-22 Pa11-23 Pa11-24 Pa11-25 Pa11-26

 
 

There is at least one obvious 'birth' glyph in K, viz. Kb4-19:

Kb4-15 Kb4-16 Kb4-17 Kb4-18 Kb4-19 (172)

An inverted henua ora sign should mean the opposite of 'recycling station', a station of beginning instead of an end station. If we add 64 to number 172 we arrive at the well known 236 (= 8 * 29.5):

Gb1-5 Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7

236 + 64 = 300 and 236 - 64 = 172.

The last glyph line, Kb5, probably was intended to accommodate 20 glyphs, but the majority is absent or visible only at their top ends (maybe in order to show the effects of the 'deluge'). 172 + 64 + 20 = 256 = 192 + 64.

...
*Kb5-1 (173) *Kb5-2 *Kb5-3 *Kb5-4 *Kb5-5 *Kb5-6
... ...
*Kb5-7 *Kb5-8 *Kb5-9 *Kb5-10 *Kb5-11 *Kb5-12 (184)
*Kb5-13 *Kb5-14 *Kb5-15 *Kb5-16 (188)
*Kb5-12 is drawn in full, and 184 + 180 = 364.

Neither *Kb5-8 (180) nor *Kb5-11 (183) is visible. 180 + 180 = 360 and 183 + 180 = 363 (the day of Rogo).
*Kb5-17 *Kb5-18 *Kb5-19 *Kb5-20 (192)

The absent front bottom part of *Kb5-3 may have the same (or similar) meaning as the absent front bottom part of Rogo in Qb2-10:

126 446
*Qb5-35 (1) *Qb5-36 Qb2-9 Qb2-10 (448)
64 + 448 / 2 = 288 days

The front bottom part of Rogo glyphs are special, it seems, because we can also look at Kb4-17:

Kb4-15 Kb4-16 Kb4-17 Kb4-18 Kb4-19 (172)

Maybe the 'shield' at right in Kb4-17 has internal signs alluding to hahe.

We should also notice the resemblance between *Kb5-19 and *Ya1-1:

*Kb5-19 *Ya1-1

 

368 = 188 + 180 is a vai glyph. Water is where the solar year ends.

Mars at Kb5-14 is illustrated by a haś glyph with 8 feathers. The Mars garment of Sun is ending after 6 * 31 = 186 days.

Once again we have found evidence that the end of Mars (the spring garment of Sun) is compared (it seems) with how the solar year is ending. Certainly this must be so for a Polynesian, who is intensely aware of the geography with darkness both in the extreme north and in the extreme south.