"... in ancient Egypt the king, as the representative of the sun, walked solemnly round the walls of a temple in order to ensure that the sun should perform his daily journey round the sky without the interruption of an eclipse or other mishap.

And after the autumnal equinox the ancient Egyptians held a festival called 'the nativity of the sun's walking-stick', because, as the luminary declined daily in the sky, and his light and heat diminished, he was supposed to need a staff on which to lean." (The Golden Bough)

At Hatinga Te Kohe, we understand, his staff broke and old sun fell down on his face. But we must save this discussion until the toki chapter:

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Another maitaki glyph in G we recocgnize from Nga Kope Ririva (6 * 29.5 = 177): 31 Ga7-5 Ga7-6 Ga7-7 Ga7-8 (178) Ga7-9 Ga7-10 It may be a concidence, but probably not, that the distance between these two maitaki is 100 glyphs: 100 Ga3-17 (77) Ga7-8 (178) If we try to move 100 paces in the opposite direction we arrive at Gb8-6, located immediately beyond the 15th kuhane station One Tea. 15 * 29.5 = 442.5, i.e. Gb8-1 is needed to reach One Tea, and manu rere in Gb8-5 looks back, says it is all over: Gb8-1 (443) Gb8-2 Gb8-3 Gb8-4 Gb8-5 Gb8-6 (448) Gb8-7 Gb8-8 Gb8-9 Gb8-10 448 = 16 * 28, which should make us remember glyph number 392 (= 14 * 28) in H: Ha7-47 Ha7-48 (392) Ha7-49 Ha7-50 Ha7-51 392 - 200 = 192 = 8 * 24 and 448 - 200 = 248 = 8 * 31. Also in Gb8-1 twins are looking at each other. From One Tea (15) to Nga Kope Ririva (6) there are 202 glyphs (and probably days), a number not commensurable with months. To bridge the gap another measure must be used, and we could for instance count from Gb8-6 up to and including Ga7-8: 100 100 Gb8-6 (448) Ga3-17 Ga7-8 (178) 203 = 7 * 29 As to the meaning of the maitaki glyphs not much can be said so far. Maybe 100 is to be read as 5 ('fire') times 20 (number of fingers and toes). 100 days could be the number for a sun 'tertial', given there are 300 days in the calendar for the sun. Clearly, though, Ga7-8 has at bottom a sign in form of a very assymmetric 'stone'. The meaning of such an assymmety will be investigated shortly.

200 = ⅔ of 300. Does it mean that the year is 400 days long, but with the last 100 days 'without sun'? A structure with quarters and the last such 'black', seems reasonable.

Let us take a look (again) at glyph number 466. It is Gb8-24 (with 8 * 24 = 192):

Gb8-7	Gb8-8	Gb8-9	Gb8-10	Gb8-11	Gb8-12 (454)
Gb8-13	Gb8-14	Gb8-15	Gb8-16	Gb8-17	Gb8-18 (460)
Gb8-19	Gb8-20	Gb8-21	Gb8-22	Gb8-23	Gb8-24 (466)
Gb8-25	Gb8-26	Gb8-27	Gb8-28	Gb8-29	Gb8-30 (472)

The upraised empty hand in Gb8-11 is attatched to vai, the 'living water' seems to be ending. In the following glyph (354 + 100, a sort of Hatinga Te Kohe) the vero sign agrees.

12 glyphs (days) later the number is 366 + 100, and the strange creature is looking back.

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Between Ga3-17 and Ga7-8 yet another maitaki glyph is located, of the same kind as Ga3-17: 100 46 53 Gb8-6 (448) Ga3-17 (77) Ga5-13 (124) Ga7-8 (178) 100 203 = 7 * 29 It comes beyond the first of the pair of 'tired old' viri and the kuhane station is Te Poko Uri (4 * 31 = 124): 18 Ga5-10 Ga5-11 Ga5-12 Ga5-13 Ga5-14 Ga5-15 Ga5-16 94 48 Ga1-26 Ga5-11 Ga7-1 (171) 145 = 5 * 29 4 is half 8 and maybe we should understand Te Poko Uri as the halfway station of the sun on his way to Te Pei.

If Gb8-6 is the beginning, it should have number zero, and we should recount the ordinal numbers accordingly:

	23		75		46		53
Gb8-6 (0)		Gb8-30 (24)		Ga3-17 (100)		Ga5-13 (147)		Ga7-8 (201)
	100				100

147 = 3 * 49 possibly suggests 'day 29' for the sun. The following 53 agrees.

The period number is 18 and there is a viri at position 145 (= 5 * 29).

I consider to add to the dictionary page:

In view of Gb8-6 evidently standing at the beginning of something new (it is the first glyph beyond the final kuhane station in G, One Tea) we should consider it as 'day zero' and give new ordinal numbers to the maitaki glyphs:

	23		75		46		53
Gb8-6 (0)		Gb8-30 (24)		Ga3-17 (100)		Ga5-13 (147)		Ga7-8 (201)
	100				100

Viri at Ga5-11 will now receive a more reasonable ordinal number, viz. 145 = 5 * 29.

46 = 20 + 26, and we remember from Tahua that 1334 = 29 * 46.

The renumbered table puts focus also on 75 (= 300 / 4). Ga3-17 comes after a quarter. 8 * 6 (in Gb8-6) = 48, and by rearranging once again it is possible to locate 48 as the measure for the maitaki pair (and see that it is twice 24):

	23		75		46		53
Gb8-6 (0)		Gb8-30 (24)		Ga3-17 (100)		Ga5-13 (147)		Ga7-8 (201)
	24			48

The twin birds are located at the beginning of a 48 day long season:

4
	Ga3-17	Ga3-18 (101)	Ga3-19

This is what I finally decided to add:

In view of Gb8-6 evidently standing at the beginning of something new (it is the first glyph beyond the final kuhane station in G, One Tea) we should consider it as 'day zero' and give new ordinal numbers to the maitaki glyphs:

	23		75		46		53
Gb8-6 (0)		Gb8-30 (24)		Ga3-17 (100)		Ga5-13 (147)		Ga7-8 (201)
	24			48

Viri at Ga5-11 will now receive a more reasonable ordinal number, viz. 145 = 5 * 29. Furthermore, we can conclude that the twin birds in Ga3-18 belong at the beginning of a 48 day long 'season' (from period 4 to period 18):

		45
Ga3-17	Ga3-18 (101)		Ga5-13	Ga5-14 (148)	Ga5-15
	48