Ga6-6 is the first glyph in a 360-day long calendar:   155 169 33 112 Ga6-6 (147) Gb3-12 (303) Ga2-3 (34) 360 112 (the difference between 472 and 360) is equal to 4 * 28. Ga6-6 comes one month beyond Ga5-5, a glyph with maitaki at left and henua at right: 17 Ga5-4 Ga5-5 Ga5-6 Ga5-7 (118) Ga5-8 Ga5-9 22 Ga6-5 Ga6-6 Ga6-7 (148) Ga6-8 Ga5-5 has number 116 = 4 * 29. Rei in Ga5-6 is initiating a new season. 5 months later, at Hua Reva (which we here ought to count as 10 * 30 = 300), an open mouth with 9 red teeth 'swallows' the sun. The last 2 months of the solar year are ruled by the moon. Gb3-8 Gb3-9 (300) Gb3-10 Gb3-11 Gb3-12

The first 12 glyphs on side a of Tahua probably refer to the 12 solar months in a 360-day year: Aa1-9 Aa1-10 Aa1-11 Aa1-12 The 11th and 12th months are ihe tau glyphs (growing has stopped - life has gone). The 2 'cuts' across the throat of 'kuukuu' are maro according to Metoro (ihe kuukuu ma te maro). The 2 marks across henua in Hb9-17 possibly allude to the 2 dark months of the solar year: Hb9-17 Hb9-18 Hb9-19 Hb9-20 Hb9-21 In the Tongan dialect tukutuku means 'to sink in the sea'. In Hawaiian ke alanui a ke ku'uku'u is 'the path of the spider' (a name for the Equator).

The 12-month solar year has 2 months of spring (running), followed by the 'earth' of summer:

Aa1-1	Aa1-2	Aa1-3	Aa1-4
Aa1-5	Aa1-6	Aa1-7	Aa1-8
Aa1-9	Aa1-10	Aa1-11	Aa1-12

The quick months 3-4 are contrasted with the still months 11-12. The middle contains 6 glyphs (Aa1-5--10), the first 4 of which are holding the sky roof high and level - it is high summer.

Discounting the last 2 'dead' months, sun has 10 months. Arranged accordingly it is clear that Aa1-9--10 are autumn glyphs and that the 10-month structure is the old one:

Aa1-1	Aa1-2	Aa1-3	Aa1-4
Aa1-5	Aa1-6	Aa1-7	Aa1-8
Aa1-9	Aa1-10

Aa1-1--2 are Janus figures, they are located at the beginning of the calendar but belong to the old year. The new year comes where the running begins, when it is spring. Symmetrically located at the other end, beyond the 4 months of summer, comes the turning around of sun. Aa1-10 has a waning moon sign in contrast to the waxing moon in Aa1-2. Also, Aa1-9 is a reversal of Aa1-1. I.e., sun has only 8 months.

Or even less, because during spring the sun king has not yet been enthroned.

"To put it in technical language, the succession to the kingship at Rome and probably in Latium generally would seem to have been determined by certain rules which have moulded early society in many parts of the world, namely, exogamy, beena marriage, and female kinship or mother-kin.

Exogamy is the rule which obliges a man to marry a woman of a different clan from his own; beena marriage is the rule that he must leave the home of his birth and live with his wife's people; and female kinship or mother-kin is the system of tracing relatinship and transmitting the family name through women instead of through men ...

... The personal qualities which recommended a man for a royal alliance and succession to the throne would naturally vary according to the popular ideas of the time and the character of the king or his substitute, but it is reasonable to suppose that among them in early society physical strength and beauty would hold a prominent place.

Sometimes apparently the right to the hand of the princess and to the throne has been determined by a race. The Alitemnian Libyans awarded the kingdom to the fleetest runner. Amongst the old Prussians, candidates for nobility raced on horseback to the king, and the one who reached him first was ennobled. According to tradition the earliest games at Olympia were held by Endymion, who set his sons to run a race for the kingdom. His tomb was said to be at the point of the racecourse from which the runners started ...

These traditions may very well reflect a real custom of racing for a bride, for such a custom appears to have prevailed among various peoples, though in practice it has degenerated into a mere form or pretence. Thus 'there is one race, called Love Chase, which may be considered a part of the form of marriage among the Kirghiz. In this the bride, armed with a formidable whip, mounts a fleet horse, and is pursued by all the young men who make any pretensions to her hand. She will be given as a prize to the one who catches her, but she has the right, besides urging on her horse to the utmost, to use her whip, often with no mean force, to keep off those lovers who are unwelcome to her, and she will probably favour the one whom she has already chosen in her heart.'

The race for the bride is found also among the Koryaks of North-eastern Asia. It takes place in a large tent, round which many separate compartments called pologs are arranged in a continuous circle. The girl gets a start and is clear of the marriage if she can run through all the compartments without being caught by the bridegroom. The women of the encampment place every obstacle in the man's way, tripping him up, belabouring him with switches, and so forth, so that he has little chance of succeeding unless the girl wishes it and waits for him.

Similar customs appear to have been practised by all the Teutonic peoples; for the German, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse languages possess in common a word for marriage which means simply bride-race." (The Golden Bough)

As I believe, it was Sun who started this practice - he runs in the sky and all nature follows suit. Everyone living in the ancient world could easily observe the truth told in the myths. Of course - they also saw - it was not sun who was running, but the roof of the sky (ragi). A running tagata means the opposite of standing still. Beyond spring comes summer solstice. That is where sun dies.