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Kai persons dominate the glyphs in Thursday:

Hb9-39 Hb9-40 Hb9-41 Hb9-42 Hb9-43
Hb9-44 Hb9-45 Hb9-46 Hb9-47

In Thursday new fire is ignited, we can read from the kava signs (Hb9-43 and Hb9-45). It stands to reason because Thursday is the day of Jupiter, the wielder of thunder bolts.

It is also the 5th ('fire') day of the week. Though with thunder comes rain.

 

 

The back to back twins appear also at the end of the moon calendar in Mamari:

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Ca8-22 Ca8-23 Ca8-24 Ca8-25 Ca8-26
Ca8-27 Ca8-28 Ca8-29 Ca9-1 Ca9-2

At the end of the month a dark night comes (number 29), and a new month will be born (seen at the top in Ca8-29, emerging from the elbow joint and eager to 'eat'). In Ca8-28 the gesture of eating is reversed, together with the whole kai figure - the old month ends.

Even during waning the moon receives light from the sun, but the end of her 'sucking' comes with night number 28.

 

 

The pair sitting back to back in Thursday presumably return standing up and looking at each other in the following glyph Hb9-42:

Hb9-39 Hb9-40 Hb9-41 Hb9-42
Hb9-43 Hb9-44 Hb9-45 Hb9-46 Hb9-47

9 * 40 = 360 and a new year is beginning beyond that, we can read from the numbers. The Y-formed hand in Hb9-40 signifies the 'dry branches' of toa. The standing and united twins in Hb9-42 probably depicts the situation half a year later, when the 1st and 2nd cycles of the year stand face to face (at midsummer).

3 glyphs are used to tell about the solstices surrounding the spring half of the year, and the next 4 glyphs could depict what happens in the 2nd half. The hard wood of the oak (the tree of Thursday) was used for door posts, which explains the twins.

 

The united twins in Hb9-42 are in contrast to the preceding pair. It means, I think, that there is a gap between Hb9-40 and Hb9-41, a gap in time. 9 * 42 = 378 and 378 - 360 = 18 could be the number of days from the end of the regular solar year to the beginning of next such year. Or it could mean that Hb9-42 stands at 18 multiples of 10 days, halfway to 360.

If a new year is beginning at high summer, then it is firmly connected, it seems, with the previous one. The fingers in Hb9-41 are spreading out, a clear sign of spring. The fingers in Hb9-44 are somewhat wilting. The fingers in Hb9-46 are horizontal, indicating solstice. A time series beginning at winter solstice and ending at winter solstice could be the meaning. Maybe the glyphs should be grouped like this:

 

takurua spring is beginning
Hb9-39 Hb9-40 Hb9-41
2nd tertial apex generates a fruit
Hb9-42 Hb9-43 Hb9-44
3rd tertial season of niu
Hb9-45 Hb9-46 Hb9-47

Although a little ball fruit emerges at the front end (at the knee in kava) both in Hb9-43 and Hb9-45, the ghostly state has arrived in Hb9-45 (where 9 * 45 = 5 * 81). The niu sign (top of Hb9-45) is the latest growth, and earlier (in Hb9-43) the end was neatly cut off. The orientation of kava in Hb9-43 is reversed in Hb9-45, a trait which in H is correlated with the niu sign:

 

Ha2-43 Ha2-45 Ha7-115 Ha8-13 Ha9-132 Hb1-218
Hb7-3 Hb9-43 Hb9-45 Hb10-50 Hb11-3 Hb11-21
Hb11-22 Hb11-23 Hb11-24 Hb11-25 Hb11-27 Hb12-31
 
Hb12-48

Hb9-43 seems to be a later stage of Hb7-3:

 

Hb7-1 Hb7-2 Hb7-3 Hb7-4 Hb7-5 Hb7-6

The number of glyphs in H has been tentatively restored by me as twice 648 = twice 8 * 81 (cfr Hb9-45, where 9 * 45 = 5 * 81):

 

a1 50 50 b1 *51 (?) 51
a2 58 108 b2 48 99
a3 52 160 b3 47 146
a4 56 216 b4 51 197
a5 59 275 b5 57 254
a6 *69? 344 b6 54 308
a7 *51? 395 b7 50 358
a8 *54? 449 b8 *54 (?) 412
a9 *53? 502 b9 65 477
a10 *67? 569 b10 67 544
a11 *58? 627 b11 53 597
a12 *21? 648 b12 *51? 648
sum *648? sum *648?

Inserting ordinal numbers we get:

 

takurua spring is beginning
Hb9-39 (451) Hb9-40 Hb9-41
2nd tertial apex generates a fruit
Hb9-42 Hb9-43 (455) Hb9-44
3rd tertial season of niu
Hb9-45 Hb9-46 Hb9-47 (459)

Manipulating the numbers we could arrive at e.g.:

 

550 143
Ha8-13 Hb7-3 Hb9-43
408 648 + 311 = 959 648 + 455 = 1103
552 = 23 * 24 144 = 6 * 24
696 = 29 * 24

The united twins at Hb9-42 are at 1102 = 29 * 19 * 2 (and 551 = 29 * 19).

We should notice puo in Hb7-6, the only of its kind in H:

 

Ha4-14 Ha5-52 Ha5-53 Ha5-57 Ha6-1 Ha6-125
Ha7-120 Hb1-6 Hb2-46 Hb5-28 Hb5-30 Hb5-32
Hb5-43 Hb5-45 Hb5-54 Hb6-47 Hb7-6 Hb9-55

Hb7-6 seems to be the end and new beginning:

 

957 = 29 * 33
Hb6-52 Hb6-53 Hb6-54
Hb7-1 (957) Hb7-2 Hb7-3 Hb7-4 (960) Hb7-5 Hb7-6
Hb7-7 Hb7-8 Hb7-9 Hb7-10 Hb7-11 Hb7-12

Tagata with a mea ke sign stands at 7 * 4 = 28, which indicates that Hb7-5 must be at the '29th position', where new fire is ignited. Then puo (the hot air balloon rising from hipu) will come.

Kai in Hb6-53 should be compared with those in Thursday:

 

144
Hb6-53 (955) Hb9-40 (1100) Hb9-41 Hb9-44 Hb9-46 (1106)
145 = 5 * 29 6
152 = 8 * 19

Hb6-53 is leaning forward, indicating - it seems - the future. The curved back in Hb9-46 suggests an elderly person.

In H there are 21 (redmarked below) uncomplicated kai glyphs according to my glyph catalogue:

 

Ha1-47 Ha2-17 Ha2-18 Ha2-33 Ha2-54 Ha3-44
Ha3-49 Ha6-115 Ha6-124 Ha6-126 Ha6-128 Ha6-133
Ha7-2 Ha7-115 Ha8-10 Ha9-109 Ha10-3 Ha10-7
Ha11-110 Ha12-6 Ha12-8 Hb1-5 Hb1-213 Hb1-214
Hb1-216 Hb2-18 Hb4-23 Hb4-32 Hb4-34 Hb5-4
Hb5-9 Hb5-46 Hb5-49 Hb5-57 Hb6-2 Hb6-17
Hb6-51 Hb6-53 Hb8-14 Hb8-127 Hb9-40 Hb9-41
Hb9-44 Hb9-46 Hb10-42 Hb10-45 Hb10-46 Hb10-48

14 are on side b and 7 on side a. A comparison between them is too much work for the present.