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It is time to move on to next chapter in the glyph dictionary:

A few preliminary remarks and imaginations:

1. Possibly GD45 is a picture of a broken canoe.

"…to enter a war canoe from either the stern or the prow was equivalent to a 'change of state or death'. Instead, the warrior had to cross the threshold of the side-strakes as a ritual entry into the body of his ancestor as represented by the canoe. The hull of the canoe was regarded as the backbone of their chief. In laments for dead chiefs, the deceased are often compared to broken canoes awash in the surf." (Starzecka)

Trying to read signs integrated in other glyph types it can be difficult to distinguish ihe tau from marama, e.g. in Pa5-16:

marama Pa5-16 Pa5-17 ihe tau

The arm held high in tagata here resembles a waning moon, and possibly the intention of the creator of the glyph was to give that sign. Unquestionably, though, the left part of the following glyph is ihe tau, which can put doubts into the mind of the untrained reader.

Another example is the wing held high in Ab2-69. But here the preceding ihe tau glyph does not seem to contradict the wing sign - which more resembles ihe tau than a reversed marama:

Ab2-68 Ab2-69

A broken canoe can look like half a moon crescent, and in the Mamari moon calendar a curious glyph at the beginning of the waning phase seems to illustrate a broken moon 'canoe':

Ca7-21 Ca7-22 Ca7-23 Ca7-24
Ca7-25 Ca7-26 Ca7-27 Ca7-28 Ca7-29

Ca7-27 is similar to e.g. Gb1-7 in being drawn to illustrate an upside-down  position:

Gb1-7 (237)

The back side of the moon has come to the top, respectively the back side of the sun.

Counting from Ca1-1 we reach 195 (= 13 * 15) at Ca7-27. In the process we can furthermore discover that the first 6 glyph lines amount to 168:

Ca6-25 Ca6-26 Ca6-27 Ca6-28 Ca7-1
165 166 167 168 169

Also the full moon glyph, Ca7-24, indicates 168, because 7 * 24 = 168. Ca7-24 is glyph number 168 + 24 = 192 (equal to the number of glyphs in the K text). In other words, its ordinal number is 8 * 24 and its line number and glyph number in the line result in 7 * 24.

Contrariwise, in Ca6-28 the two numbers agree, because 6 * 28 = 168.

The total number of glyphs in C is 392 + 348 = 740, and one possible way to give a structure to the numbers is the following:

a1 26 168 = 7 * 24 b1 24 144 = 6 * 24
a2 25 b2 25
a3 25 b3 22
a4 29 b4 23
a5 35 b5 21
a6 28 b6 29
a7 24 b7 4
7 200 23 200
a8 29 b8 29
a9 27 b9 30
a10 29 b10 22
a11 32 b11 22
a12 27 b12 25
a13 20 b13 30
a14 29 b14 19
sum 392 sum 348

740 = 400 + 28 + 312, where 312 = 13 * 24 = 12 * 26 (and close to 314).

740 = 5 * 148, where 148 = 6 * 24 + 4 = 348 - 200.

I have redmarked 6 * 29 + 19 = 193, because all 7 of those glyph line numbers which end with 9 are located in glyph lines with even numbers. It cannot be a coincidence. Adding the corresponding glyph line numbers we get 4 + 8 + 10 + 14 = 36 on side a, and 6 + 8 + 14 = 28 on side b - presumably indicating that sun 'owns' side a and moon side b.

Adding the rest of the glyph line numbers: 69 (side a) + 77 (side b) = 146 = 2 * 73, and 365 - 146 = 3 * 73 = 219, and 219 - 36 = 183 or half 366. 219 - 28 = 191 or 192 - 1. 219 - 36 - 28 = 155 = 5 * 31.