TRANSLATIONS
If I have guessed right, then it should be of value to investigate the hand gesture in Aa1-48:
In Tahua I find the following 23 glyphs with what possibly is the same hand sign:
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:
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:
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):
I have here listed all reversed hands with thumbs, not as in Tahua eliminated such glyphs which have their thumbs ending without a point.
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:
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:
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):
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:
Gb8-30 will be number 367 + 15 = 382, and we need Ga1-1 to reach around the 'corner':
13 * 29.5 = 383.5. Tahua has 10 months with 32 glyphs each following the first 3 with 30-days:
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:
Probably, though, there are 310 glyphs (155 = 5 * 31 days) which should be considered as important. Because then comes:
Therefore:
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