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Next page is the last one of all those which relate to the honui glyphs in H:

 

3 glyphs remain:

Ha10-9 (511) Hb12-12 (1257) Hb12-24 (1269)
170⅓ 419 423

They seem to be interrelated; Ha10-9 and Hb12-12 due to the ragi sign, while Hb12-12 and Hb12-24 are only 4 days apart.

Honui in Hb12-12 is at left and what looks like a haś without 'feathers' is at right. The 'fire' has gone out it could mean, and from Hb12-12 (where 12 * 12 is a square) there are only 40 glyphs to the end of side b. From Ha10-9 to ariki in Ha10-29 there half as many, 20 glyphs:

Ha10-3 Ha10-4 Ha10-5 Ha10-6
Ha10-7 Ha10-8 Ha10-9 Ha10-10
290
Ha10-29 (531) Ha10-30 Ha10-31 Ha10-32

A hipu is at left in the preceding glyph Ha10-8 (at the end of day 170), much like hipu in Hb7-37 is at left of honui ariga erua (cfr previous page) at winter solstice:

812 138 342
Hb7-35 Hb7-36 Hb7-37 (993) Ha10-8 (510) 46 114
272 = 4 * 68 160

249 days stretch from the first of the honui ragi to the second, possibly a sign that sun is not involved (because then it would have been natural with 250 days instead):

745
Ha10-9 (511) Hb12-12 (1257)
170⅓ 248⅔ 419
249

A tentative conclusion is that the hole in Ha10-9 indicates 'a new egg is waiting to be hatched'. Excepting the Janus type of honui such glyphs seem to be located in the intercalated extra days before the ordered season has begun. Therefore it is not strange to find honui in Hb12-24 where only 9 days remain of the text on side b.

The distance between honui in Ha5-22 and Hb12-24 is 1030 glyphs, which presumably refers to 10 months with 30 in each, a measure for the sun. He is finished (at left) in Hb12-24 and his 'egg' has turned upside down:

1030 264 = 4 * 66
Ha5-22 (238) Hb12-24 (1269)
8 * 43 8 * 11
432 = 8 * 55

264 looks as if it is an allusion to 364 (which is 4 * 91), a way to indicate the path of sun over the year (as if we had not already too many such). Here we can, though, also read 8 * 11 days (which necessitates 264 glyphs). Honui in Hb12-24 has at right henua, which I associated with the spring season when the 'bamboo staff' quickly will be growing tall again.

If the new year sun baby is the one who is growing quickly, then it is reasonable to read 8 * 11, because 11 means the one generated as a baby from the old year - who is at left according to the decimal system (in 10, where the hole lies before 11). 5 * 11 = 55, is here the unit of measure for the whole new year.

Ha5-17 Ha5-18 Ha5-19 Ha5-20
Ha5-21 Ha5-22 Ha5-23 Ha5-24 (240)

Ha5-22 initiates the 80th day counted from Ha1-1. Possibly we should not count from Hb12-24, because there is a ua glyph in Hb12-23, and in Hb12-12 a moe says a new season is in view - it should not be a season with spring sun present:

Hb12-19 Hb12-20 Hb12-21 Hb12-22 Hb12-23 Hb12-24 (1269)
422 423
Hb12-25 Hb12-26 Hb12-27 Hb12-28 Hb12-29 Hb12-30
424 425
Hb12-31 Hb12-32 Hb12-33 Hb12-34 (1279) Hb12-35 Hb12-36
426 427
Hb12-37 Hb12-38 Hb12-39 Hb12-40 Hb12-41 Hb12-42
428 429
Hb12-43 Hb12-44 (1289) Hb12-45 Hb12-46 Hb12-47 Hb12-48
430 431
...
Hb12-49
432

We should also extend the table of honui ragi, and we will try to go forward in time:

8
Hb12-10 Hb12-11 Hb12-12 (1257) Hb12-21 (1266)
419 2⅔ 422
4
26 1296
Hb12-22 Hb12-23 Hb12-24 (1269)
423 8⅔ 432
10

The 'egg' is hatching in Hb12-21 (where -21 is the reverse of -12) and a new ragi comes forth. Then a new season (ua) begins (we have already noted). Reversals appear also in 1269 contra 1296 and 423 contra 432. It presumably means that the ua season stretches from Hb12-22 to the end of side b (but not longer). One wonders if there will always be a ua season after a 'watery hole', where a cycle is completed.

42 is the number of glyphs from Hb12-10 (1255) to the end of side b. 1255 / 5 = 251, one more than 5 * 50. And 432 = 8 * 55.

Honui ragi at Ha10-9 ought to be the beginning of a season ending with Hb12-21:

754
Ha10-8 (510) Ha10-9 Hb12-21 (1266)
170 170⅓ 251⅓ 422
252 = 12 * 21

Our assumption is confirmed by 12 * 21 (cfr Hb12-21). Presumably glyph number 1266 indicates where the reversal takes place (12-21). Once again 266 apperas (here as 1000 + 266).