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When at left there is a moe instead of the normal left side of maitaki, it could mean a season is ending. But the right side of maitaki is shown (as etoru mata). Therefore, I expect there is another set of 177 glyphs to the right of Bb5-14.

Prediction is the method of science. I predict there should be some sign at the end of 2 * 177 = 354 = 12 * 29.5 which encourages this idea of mine. We should see som sign of Hatinga Te Kohe.

 

a1 47 b1 31 31
a2 40 b2 47 78
a3 37 b3 43 121
a4 40 b4 42 163
a5 43 b5 14 177
26 203
a6 44 b6 40 243
a7 43 b7 41 284
a8 46 b8 42 326
a9 49 b9 28 354
22 376
a10 32 b10 42 418
  b11 43 461
b12 45 506
sum 421 sum 506  

This 'experiment' gives - as usual in the world of rongorongo - a result which is only half a proof:

 

Bb9-22 Bb9-23 Bb9-24 Bb9-25 Bb9-26 Bb9-27
ma te hokohuki - ki te henua kua haati ia e kava kava o te ariki e huarae - ma to rima - ki te ragi e rere ia mai - ki to huki ko to huki ka to ihe - kua reva te ika
Bb9-28 Bb9-29 Bb9-30 Bb9-31 Bb9-32 Bb9-33
kua hahaś ia koia e rere koia ki ruga mai kia au kua rere mai ki te toga eaha te manu rere toki - ki te henua eaha te manu rere

Haś is one of the glyph types which indicates the end of a calendar season. The 'foot' is cut off and ending in nothing, similar to the situation at noon in Q:

 

Bb9-28 Qa5-55

But the number of 'feathers' is 6 + 4 = 10, not 12. Does it mean that sun has no more than 10 months, and that there are 2 months which should have no 'feathers'? We can compare with Aa1-11--12:

 
Aa1-9 Aa1-10 Aa1-11 Aa1-12

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3. If the head of moe should be the 'noon' sky, then the long beak towards right could illustrate the spring sky. A position at right means 'future', and spring in a way is the future of the year.

In manu kake glyphs the whole sky dome apparently is visualized by a pair of long necks and beaks, as e.g. in Eb5-29--30, the first two glyphs in the 24th and last period of a Keiti calendar:

 

Eb5-29 Eb5-30 Eb5-31
Eb5-32 Eb5-33 Eb5-34
Eb5-35 Eb6-1 Eb6-2

Metoro connected the first of these two manu kake glyphs with a 'neck' (gao) - e manu gao takoa. The 2nd manu kake was referred to as e manu kake rua.

Eb5-29 is incised stronger into the board than Eb5-30, and 29 probably alludes to the dark night of the moon, the time when new life is generated.

The first manu kake presumably corresponds to spring, while the second - with a fish sign - could refer to the time when sun is far in the north together with his 'winter maid', Hine-takurua, when his light is weaker.

Eb5-31 is a running tagata, and its location could mean it is the old year which is leaving (a Rei comes as next glyph). The composition maybe is a collage of tagata, toa, and vae:

 
Eb5-31 tagata toa vae

Yet another sign is also involved, though. The low knee and compressed vae is in opposition to what we can see in Ea8-120:

Ea8-120 Ea9-5 Eb3-5
Eb5-31 Eb6-13 Eb8-35