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If I have guessed right, then it should be of value to investigate the hand gesture in Aa1-48:

 

Aa1-46 Aa1-47 Aa1-48
Ana-mua Ana-muri Ana-roto

In Tahua I find the following 23 glyphs with what possibly is the same hand sign:

Aa1-48 Aa1-86 Aa2-24 Aa2-72 Aa2-81 Aa3-75
Aa4-40 Aa5-75 Aa5-77 Aa7-75 Ab1-29 Ab2-3
Ab4-8 Ab4-35 Ab5-62 Ab5-70 Ab5-74 Ab6-6
Ab6-38 Ab6-40 Ab6-56 Ab8-30 Ab8-83

I have for various reasons eliminated 61 - 23 = 38 of the rima glyphs. The 6 redmarked are characterized by the orientation with thumb at left.

Let us number them and put them into a table:

47 37 323 260
Aa1-48 Aa1-86 Aa5-77 (410)
86 324 = 9 * 36
441 167 52 1
Ab6-38 (1112) Ab8-30 (1280) Ab8-83 (1333)
442 168 = 6 * 28 54

260 does not need any explanation and 442 we should recognize from 15 * 29.5 = 442.5 (One Tea). But Ab6-38 has not reached to One Tea, it belongs to Tama.

We could close the cycle by adding 54 to 86 and reaching 140 = 20 weeks. Aa1-86 will then be similar to Aa1-48 in indicating the final of a night season. Thumb at left indicates a reversed normal hand and the meaning could be the last night. This interpretation fits not only with Aa1-48 and Aa1-86 but possibly also with Aa5-77 (although the gesture is upside down), likewise with Ab6-38, Ab8-30, and Ab8-83 (though here the gesture is alluded to, not being the proper one).

We have furthermore learnt from this exercise that counting glyphs one at a time is necessary also in Tahua.

Why did Metoro say amoamo at Aa1-86:

Aa1-84 Aa1-85 Aa1-86 Aa1-87 Aa1-88 Aa1-89 Aa1-90
tata - e inoino ka te tagata - kua ui ki tona henua amoamo hia ka tere koe e ahine poopouo ko te tagata kua oho.
Amo, âmo

Amo. To carry on one's shoulders: O Yetú i-amo-ai te tatauró ki ruga ki-te maúga Kalvario. Jesus carried his cross up to the Calvary. Amoga, bundle; to tie in a bundle: he-amoga i te hukahuka, to tie a bundle of wood. Vanaga.

1. A yoke, to carry; amoga, burden, load.  2. To bend, to beat a path. Churchill.

Âmo. 1. To clean, to clean oneself: he-âmo i te umu, to clean the earth oven; ka-âmo te hare, ka haka-maitaki, clean the house, make it good; he-âmo i te ariga, to clean one's face wetting it with one's hand. 2. Clear; ku-âmo-á te ragi, the sky is clear. 3. To slip, to slide, to glide (see pei-âmo). Ámoámo, to lick up, to lap up, to dry; to slap one's body dry (after swimming or bathing): he-âmoâmo i te vaihai rima. Vanaga.

Amoamo. 1. To feed, to graze. 2. To spread, to stretch (used of keete). Churchill.

Possibly he said ámoámo = to slap one's body dry after swimming. Metoro could have perceived that the 20 weeks ending here had been in the 'water'.

Reversed hand (with thumb) in G occurs in 6 glyphs (out of a total of 35 rima glyphs):

Ga2-8 Ga2-10 Ga4-5 Ga7-17 Gb8-11 Gb8-26

I have here listed all reversed hands with thumbs, not as in Tahua eliminated such glyphs which have their thumbs ending without a point.

38 1 47 97 43
Ga2-8 (39) Ga2-10 (41) Ga4-5 (89) Ga7-17 (187)
222 14 4
Gb8-11 (453) Gb8-26 (468)

48 + 38 at the beginning of side a of Tahua seems to be mirrored in 38 + 48 at the beginning of side a of G - given that we count from Ga1-1 instead of the normal Gb8-30:

37 1 47 97 43
Ga2-8 (38) Ga2-10 (40) Ga4-5 (88) Ga7-17 (186)
38 48 142
222 14 4
Gb8-11 (452) Gb8-26 (467)
242

Instead of a following 9 * 36 = 324 glyphs we have in G a following of 142 + 242 = 384 = 12 * 32 glyphs.

Restoring counting from Gb8-30, we will have 39 + 49 = 88 = 8 * 11 glyphs at the beginning. 88 + 384 = 472. Probably, though, we should think of Ga2-8 and Ga2-10 as final signs in the little calendar beginning with Ga2-1.

Discarding, at least for the moment, the odd Ga2-8 and Ga2-10, together with the glyphs with both hands up, we have a nice little table remaining:

363
Ga4-5 (89) Gb8-11 (453)
364

364 is probably not coincidence. The signs are quite similar, yet with slight differences. 3 * 29.5 = 88.5, but Gb8-11 is no kuhane station. And the thumb is different from that in Ga4-5. 8 * 11 = 88 could allude to Ga4-4 (the last glyph of the 88 before Ga4-5):

Ga4-1 Ga4-2 Ga4-3 Ga4-4

In Tahua we have 3 months followed by 9 'months'. We could count the whole glyph line Aa1 as the first quarter (3 * 30 = 90). If we do so, then 324 - 4 = 320 becomes an expression equal to 10 * 32, and we are closing in on the structure of G.

A common trait in A and G could be that side a should begin with a quarter.

If we in G count with a new solar year beginning with Ga4-6 (number 90), then Gb8-12 will be number 364:

Gb8-1 (353) Gb8-2 Gb8-3 Gb8-4 Gb8-5
Gb8-6 (358) Gb8-7 Gb8-8 Gb8-9 Gb8-10
Gb8-11 Gb8-12 (364) Gb8-13 Gb8-14 Gb8-15 (367)

Gb8-30 will be number 367 + 15 = 382, and we need Ga1-1 to reach around the 'corner':

 
Gb8-26 (378) Gb8-27 Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30
Ga1-1 Ga1-2 (384) Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5

13 * 29.5 = 383.5.

Tahua has 10 months with 32 glyphs each following the first 3 with 30-days:

 
side a
89 319 260
Aa1-90 Aa5-77 (410)
90 320 = 10 * 32
670

90 / 2 = 45 days, maybe, i.e. 9 hands. 320 / 5 = 64 hands. 9 + 64 = 73 hands = 365 / 5. 260 / 5 = 52 hands. 73 + 52 = 125 = 5 * 5 * 5 hands. But 670 / 5 = 134 hands.

If we need 2 glyphs for each day, then 320 = 160 days and 260 = 130 days, which gives 290 days beyond 45 days (= 3 * 15).

290 = 29 'decades', and adding 3 '15ths' we have 32 once again.

Leaving the 90 first glyphs aside, we can regard the following 670 - 90 = 580 glyphs as equal to 20 * 29, presumably 10 * 29 days. But sun is falling on his face after 318 / 2 = 159 days. Then comes 261 glyphs:

side a
89 316 260
Aa1-90 Aa5-74 (407) Aa5-75 Aa5-76 Aa5-77 (410)
45 days 158 day 159 day 160 130
670

Probably, though, there are 310 glyphs (155 = 5 * 31 days) which should be considered as important. Because then comes:

Aa5-68 (311) Aa5-69 Aa5-70 Aa5-71 (314)
Aa5-72 Aa5-73 Aa5-74  (317) Aa5-75

Therefore:

side a
310 2 2 260
Aa5-68 (311) Aa5-71 (314) Aa5-74 Aa5-75 Aa5-76 (319) Aa5-77 (320)
155 2 2 day 160 130
290 days