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The moe glyphs are not exactly where they could be expected to be (at day number 150 respectively 300). There are 12 glyphs in a group with the 150th day at a Janus pair we recognize:

 
22
Ga6-5 Ga6-6 Ga6-7 (148) Ga6-8
23
Ga6-9 (150) Ga6-10 Ga6-11
24
Ga6-12 Ga6-13 Ga6-14 Ga6-15 Ga6-16

Several different calendars are integrated in a complex manner. Therefore it is not surprising to find Ga6-6 four glyphs earlier than at position 150. Similarly, it is Gb3-9 which occupies position 300, not the moe glyph:

Gb3-8 Gb3-9 (300) Gb3-10 Gb3-11 Gb3-12

Gb3-12 comes after sun has been 'swallowed' (at Gb3-9) and it is therefore easy to interpret moe here to mean koata (the moon shine arriving before she rises). Moe in Ga6-6 - contrariwise - should come before the sun child has appeared (tamaiti in Ga6-12).

Ga6-6 is located 6 glyphs before Ga6-12, while Gb3-12 comes 3 glyphs after Gb3-9. 6 is the number of the sun and 3 possibly alludes to 3 * 9 + 3 = 30.

The birth of moon herself is presumably revealed in Gb3-13, and then follows a π glyph:

 
Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14

I decide to add this reflection and to insert a page in order to repeat some of the Hua Reva comments from earlier (at the haati excursion):

... Ga6-6 is located 6 glyphs before Ga6-12, while Gb3-12 comes 3 glyphs after Gb3-9. 6 is the number of the sun and 3 possibly alludes to 3 * 9 + 3 = 30.

Beyond Gb3-12 comes what probably illustrates the birth of moon herself:

 
Gb3-11 Gb3-12 Gb3-13

And then follows a π glyph (3-14), meaning that half a cycle is completed - counted by the measure 30½ days in a month (cfr excursion at haati).

The two pages to which the hyperlinks lead:

 

 

In the search for Thunder Twins (cfr the excursion at maitaki) a 300-day long calendar was discovered by counting from Gb8-16, the first glyph after winter solstice:

148 148
Gb8-15 Gb8-16 (1) Ga5-25 (150) Ga5-26 Gb2-30 (300)

This way of counting also resulted in identifying glyph number 168 (8-16 reshuffled) as henua in Ga6-13 (where 6 * 13 = 3 * 26). The preceding tamaiti (Ga6-12), the following manu kapa, the parallel ua in K, and other factors, made it probable that the twin glyphs Ga6-9--10 could be the searched for thunder twins:

23
Ga6-9 Ga6-10 Ga6-11
24
Ga6-12 Ga6-13 (168) Ga6-14 Ga6-15 Ga6-16
25
Ga6-17 Ga6-18

These 10 glyphs end with Ga6-18 (where 6 * 18 = 9 * 12). Period 22, with 4 glyphs, extends the number of glyphs (days) in the group to 14.

 
 

Hua Reva

... Below are listed 6 * 5 = 30 glyphs:

Gb2-27 Gb2-28 Gb2-29 (285) Gb2-30 Gb2-31
Gb2-32 Gb2-33 Gb2-34 (290) Gb2-35 Gb3-1
Gb3-2 Gb3-3 Gb3-4 (295) Gb3-5 Gb3-6
Gb3-7 Gb3-8 Gb3-9 (300) Gb3-10 Gb3-11
Gb3-12 Gb3-13 Gb3-14 (305) Gb3-15 Gb3-16
Gb3-17 Gb3-18 Gb3-19 (310) Gb3-20 Gb3-21

... 10 * 30.5 = 305 is Gb3-14, certainly alluding to π, meaning a cycle has ended. As a confirmation we find its ordinal number beyond Gb2-27 to be 22 (hinting at the formula π = 22 / 7). Moreover, from 305 up to and including 496 there are 192 glyphs, an important number, which here aquires the property of being very close to 2 * 22 / 7 * 30.5 (= 191.71).

A new season is about to be born in Gb3-13, because sun is going away and a new cycle will take its beginning at Gb3-14. Its length is 192 days = the circumference of a circle with radius 30½ ...

 

The pieces of the jig-saw puzzle seem to fit together, although forming a very complex picture. Are there 6 calendars each with its separate measure?

10 * 28.5 = 285 is - we have seen - the number reached when counting to 300 (i.e. 10 months à 30 days) from Gb8-16:

 

148 148
Gb8-16 (1) Ga5-25 (150) Ga5-26 Gb2-30 (300)
150 150

285 does not mean we should use a measure 28.5 days for a month.

Possibly, therefore, the other multiples (290, 295, ... 310) also are only the results of different points of beginning. Maybe all are counted to by adding 300 to some glyph. We should list which such points of beginning could be:

 

Gb8-16 (1) Gb2-29 (299) Gb2-30 (300) Gb2-31
Gb8-21 (1) Gb2-34 (299) Gb2-35 (300) Gb3-1
Gb8-26 (1) Gb3-4 (299) Gb3-5 (300) Gb3-6
Ga1-1 (1) Gb3-8 (299) Gb3-9 (300) Gb3-10
Ga1-6 (1) Gb3-13 (299) Gb3-14 (300) Gb3-15
Ga1-12 (1) Gb3-18 (299) Gb3-19 (300) Gb3-20

Redmarked are two points of beginning, Gb8-16 and Ga1-1, because they evidently give good results when counting to 300. The other points of departure are not equally obvious.

Redmarked are also vertically the 2nd column at the three rows where the beginning comes on side b. From Ga1-1 the 3rd column instead is redmarked. There is a discontinuity because I have counted also Gb8-30 from there. Which of course hardly can be correct for Ga1-6 and Ga1-12. Instead, why not:

 

Ga1-7 (1) Gb3-13 Gb3-14 (299) Gb3-15 (300)
Ga1-13 (1) Gb3-18 Gb3-19 (299) Gb3-20 (300)

I decide to rearrange the table into:

 

Gb8-16 (1) Gb2-29 Gb2-30 Gb2-31
Gb8-21 (1) Gb2-34 Gb2-35 Gb3-1
Gb8-26 (1) Gb3-4 Gb3-5 Gb3-6
Ga1-2 (1) Gb3-8 Gb3-9 Gb3-10
Ga1-7 (1) Gb3-13 Gb3-14 Gb3-15
Ga1-13 (1) Gb3-18 Gb3-19 Gb3-20

The glyphs have served as guides, but uncertainty hovers above the table.