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From studying honu glyphs with holes in the G text we have learnt much. What looks like holes are indeed meant to be holes. Surprisingly these holes are probably not empty - out from them come 'torrents of celestial water'. It should be noted at this point, that Metoro said vai (water) not only at the glyph type which I have labelled as vai but also at other glyphs with 'holes', for example: vai Bb9-20 Aa8-42 Although Metoro never said vai at any of the honui glyphs it is fairly certain that the hole in honui glyphs corresponds not only in visual expression but also in meaning to the hole in honu glyphs. We can therefore guess honui glyphs contain 'water': honui The work with honu glyphs in G has revealed a structure where a certain kind of honu (with no legs) apparently are located at the solstices (where sun does not move and consequently has no need of legs). The overall structure of the G text can now be defined, see this page.

98 76 183 = 6 * 30.5 Gb1-2 (232) Gb1-3 Gb3-15 Gb6-26 (409) Ga5-10 (121) 177 = 6 * 29.5 The table above shows that 177 days from Gb1-3 up to and including Gb6-26 can be added to the following 183 days (to Ga5-10), i.e. a year with 360 days is measured out. From Gb1-3 to Gb6-26 the height of honu is increasing; Gb1-3 is at summer solstice and Gb6-26 at winter solstice. Gb6-26 is situated in a structure with 2 * 7 = 14 glyphs, where the first septett refers to the first half of the year (spring) and the second to the second half (autumn): Gb6-17 (400) Gb6-18 Gb6-19 Gb6-20 Gb6-21 Gb6-22 Gb6-23 Gb6-24 Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb6-27 Gb6-28 Gb7-1 (412) Gb7-2 Gb7-3 Gb7-4 In Gb6-18 hipu strives upwards, in Gb6-26 the 'sack' is at the bottom. A tamaiti arrives close to the end of the year (position 13 of 14), and Tama is the 13th kuhane station. 14 * 29.5 = 413 (at Gb7-2). The 3 redmarked glyphs has a special function, they serve as intercalated days, increasing the waning sun season from 177 to 180 days. Moa at Gb7-1 is the last glyph of waning sun. We can therefore revise the table into: 98 76 Gb1-2 Gb1-3 Gb3-15 Gb6-26 177 = 6 * 29.5 180 = 6 * 30 Gb6-27 Gb6-28 Gb7-1 Ga5-10 From Ga5-10 up to and including Gb1-2 there are 233 - 120 = 112  = 4 * 28 glyphs: 54 54 Ga5-10 (121) Ga7-6 Ga7-7 (177) Gb1-2 (232) 112 = 4 * 28 The basic structure of the G text - with lunar months (16 * 29.5 = 472) - has an alternative reading based on a year with 360 days, completed with a calendar defined by fortnights: 6 * 60 + 8 * 14 = 472.

There is a correspondence between 8 * 14 = 112 and 8 * 59 = 472. Moon measures out fortnights and then double months. Yet 4 * 14 ≠ 59. And 6 * 60 = 360, yet the year is longer.

Tamaiti at Ga7-11 comes as number 181 ('one more' than 180):

 

Ga7-11 (181)	Ga7-12	Ga7-13	Ga7-14

Counted according to the calendar with fortnights, i.e. beginning with Ga5-10 as number 1, it will be number 61 ('one more' than 60). If moon generates 14 and 59, then sun generates 60 and 180 - sun is not 'double' as the moon.

There are 3 tamaiti glyphs in G, and two of them come on side b. In addition to Gb7-3 (cfr above) there is Gb4-7:

 

Gb3-30	Gb4-1	Gb4-2	Gb4-3 (324)	Gb4-4	Gb4-5
Gb4-6	Gb4-7 (328)	Gb4-8	Gb4-9	Gb4-10	Gb4-11 (332)
Gb4-12	Gb4-13	Gb4-14	Gb4-15 (336)	Gb4-16	Gb4-17

It has 6 feathers at left and 6 at right. Counting from Gb1-3 it will be number 328 - 232 = 96.

11 * 29.5 = 324.5, i.e. it is located where a 'child' should be.

96 = 192 / 2, and if we consider 192 to be 180 + 12 then 96 = 90 + 6. Counting backwards from Gb4-7 (96) we will find number 90 to be Gb4-1, a dark hau tea. The preceding Gb3-30, we know from earlier, has a hipu sign at bottom right, reminding us of Hanga Te Pau:

Gb5-5	Gb5-6	Gb5-7	Gb5-8
Gb5-9	Gb5-10	Gb5-11	Gb5-12 (366)

Recounting 366 from Gb1-3 it will be 366 - 232 = 134, not very illuminating, yet 2 * 67 = 134.

In Gb5-7 fists with flames are held high, one in the past and one in front. The one in front is still not a reality, it seems, because the 'leg' is open. The future is open, not yet determined. The long necks look like that in Ga5-7 (also with 5-7):

Ga5-4	Ga5-5		Ga5-6	Ga5-7	Ga5-8	Ga5-9

The position is 'one more' (than 360) and the front fist can be regarded as the new year child soon to arrive.

5-7 says where the new year child should be located - in spring. 5 * 7 = 35 (not 30).

In Gb4-6 the same typ of flame fists are shown at left, maybe indicating that the old sun twins (spring and autumn) are finished and in the past. When a tamaiti glyph comes, then it means the old one(s) are in the past.