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At ua in this dictionary a structure is described where moon has a determining function: 40 40 Eb3-8 Eb4-11 Eb4-12 Eb5-11 1 42 43 84 40 40 Eb5-11 Eb6-17 Eb6-18 Eb3-8 84 125 126 167 (1) Eb3-8, we have earlier concluded, has the sign of moon at left to indicate that the dark time of the year ('night') is in the past. It is drawn like 'night' in the Mamari moon calendar. The maro feathers hanging down mean 'end', and at the knee a little sun is at right (forward in time). The mauga glyph in Eb5-11 probably also has a moon sign, but at right. Some of the earlier comments:   ... The total number of glyphs in the calendar (167) is subdivided into 4 equally long sequences of glyphs if we use Eb3-8, the 'moon mauga' and the 4 central glyphs in the table above. 4 * 42 = 168, but Eb3-8 is counted twice. With 6 for sun and 7 for moon, 42 can symbolize their union (6 * 7 = 42) and 4 * 42 = 168 = 24 * 7, as if signifying 24 weeks. If we add these 168 nights to the 186 for the very last mauga glyph (Eb2-13) we get 354 = 6 * 59 (or 6 double-month cycles of the moon, given 29½ nights for each such month). Coincidence? Hardly! The 'moon mauga' and the 'last mauga for the sun' cooperate. 186 - 168 = 18 and 168 - 18 = 150. The 'moon mauga' is of central importance ... ... Then all the guardians procured baskets in which to transport the family. There was the basket of the Sun, Chief of the sky; the basket of the Moon, the Year-builder; the basket of Autahi, Canopus, and the younger stars, and the basket of Wide Space for the multitude of small star children. The tiny stars were placed in the canoe Uruao, Cloud-piercer, which can be seen in the sky (Tail of the Scorpion), and the canoe was given into the charge of Tama-rereti, Swift-flying Son, as its navigator. He was enjoined to tend carefully the little star children lest they be jostled about by their elder brothers and some of them fall to earth ...

We cannot, for practical reasons, go back to the excursion at mauga, it would take too much energy and time. We remember the at that time astonishing (yet obvious once discovered) discovery of the multipurpose ('Swiss knife') character of rongorongo texts.

Instead we must focus on the page above. I was forced to stretch the net to make it fit: Only by counting Eb3-8 twice did it extend the hoped for 168 glyphs. We have not yet understood the principles of counting, should we count in the normal way, count long, or count short?

	166
Eb3-8		Eb3-8
168

The pattern in G forces (we have proven) long counting:

	470
Gb8-30		Gb8-30
472

In K another pattern is suggested:

	190
Ka1-1		*Kb5-20
192

A common trait is the rule of a sum which is even. That rule seems to be followed also in the quarters:

 

	40
Eb3-8		Eb4-11
42

	40
Eb4-12		Eb5-11
42

	40
Eb5-11		Eb6-17
42

	40
Eb6-18		Eb3-8
42

40 = 360 / 9 and 42 = 378 / 9. 360 / 2 = 180 and 378 / 2 = 189. 4 * 42 = 168 and 4 * 40 = 160.

166 is like 366 - 200, which may be significant. Sirius is at position 266, maybe dividing 200 glyphs in the middle. If we read K according to the scale 1:1 (one glyph per day), there will be no place for Sirius. Only by changing to 1:2 (one glyph per two days) can Sirius be accomodated. Glyph number 83 is Ka5-1:

 

Ka4-16	Ka5-1	Ka5-2	Ka5-3	Ka5-4	Ka5-5
82	83	84	85	86	87

From the eating gesture in Ka4-16 a change occurs with Ka5-1. The 2nd season (two eyes in hau tea) has arrived, and the eating gesture is abnormally counting 4 - the hand should be oriented outwards. It is a powerful sign.

4 * 84 = 336, a moon measure (= 2 * 168).

Yet, Ka5-3 is the glyph which is focused as the middle (mirror) by the two surrounding glyphs. 85 = 5 * 17.

But Te Pou should not arrive until beyond Nga Kope Ririva and Te Pei. It hardly fits in the journey as described by the parallel G text, viz. from Te Piringa Aniva to Nga Kope Ririva, following the sun from noon to his end. Te Pou lies east of Te Pei.

In E there are 168 (167 + 1) glyphs for the journey which in G appears to take 123 (122 + 1) glyphs and in K 108 (107 + 1) glyphs:
 

57		121
	Ga2-27 (58)		Ga7-10 (180)
60		105
	Ka3-15 (61)		Kb4-14 (167)

The sun journey is 360 / 2 = 180 days says G, while E and K agree on 167. But we presumably should add 1 to reach 168 = 336 / 2, or rather (according to E) = 354 - 186. 186 - 18 = 168 and 168 - 18 = 150. Maybe Ka1-1 should be read twice, coming also as an imagined continuation beyond Kb4-14?

But G is not deaf to 168:

 

Ga6-24	Ga6-25	Ga6-26
Ga6-27 (168)	Ga6-28	Ga6-29	Ga7-1
Ga7-2	Ga7-3	Ga7-4