Why did I make the simple mistake of connecting Nga Kope Ririva with 384 instead of with 354? In the modern world such a question is meaningless. Not so for me, tuned in to the ancient world.

Before writing was created there were numbers and counting. And signs. The rongorongo script is not writing in the modern sense. It is writing in the old sense. Not letters in a one-dimensional string which at best will form into a 'textile' in the mind of the creative and attentive reader.

Instead each sign relates to every other sign in the whole corpus of the rongorongo texts. We try our best to light with our little torch on the spot close around us - how can we relate to all the rest?

It can only be done by using our memory. And our memory must first be fed with all the pieces before it can work properly.

Our conscious minds can neither grasp nor gain access to all that is locked inside the memory banks. To our help us there is a mechanism which intrudes upon the little spot visualized by our consiousness. It calls for attention by creating mistakes. Therefore:

Nga Kope Ririva is located at 6 * 29.5 = 177, while the K text stretches to 192 (half 384).

Hatinga Te Kohe is at 12 * 29.5 = 354, while twice 192 is 384.

The difference 192 - 177 is 15, while the difference 384 - 354 is 30 - it has doubled (of course).

We can make a table:

It emerges that instead of 29.5 the K text could have made use of 32 (not 24 as we once thought). I guess this is what subconsious mind tried to tell me. Let us see if we can find any support from the glyphs:

1  -  32
Ka2-5	Ka2-6	Ka2-7	Ka2-8	Ka2-9
2  -  64
Ka3-15	Ka3-16	Ka3-17	Ka3-18	Ka3-19
3  -  96
Ka5-10	Ka5-11	Ka5-12	Ka5-13	Ka5-14
4  -  128
Kb2-6	Kb2-7	Kb2-8	Kb2-9	Kb2-10
5  -  160
Kb4-4	Kb4-5	Kb4-6	Kb4-7	Kb4-8
6  -  192
Kb5-17	Kb5-18	Kb5-19	Kb5-20

Possibly, but no 'proof' at all. The 'gnomon' at Kb4-7 comes 32 steps before the last glyph, but although 5 * 32 = 160, it can alternatively be read as 10 * 16 or 20 * 8 or 40 * 4 or 80 * 2. Given the number conventions perceived in the rongorongo texts I would suggest 10 * 16 is the best guess for the meaning of 160 - the factors should be as close in size as possible.

The following table shows with red the alternatives counted by using 8 (moon) instead of 6 (sun) as the fundamental measure:

192 and 384 are commensurate both with sun and with moon, while 177 and 354 must rely on also the black moon night for a suitable measure (29.5).

22.125 is 22 + 1/8, i.e. 176 respectively 352 can be regarded as 'π numbers'. Nga Kope Ririva is indeed beyond the mainland.

Maybe 170 should be thought of as a 'correspondence' to 360, because 176 - 170 = 366 - 360:

					...
Kb4-15	Kb4-16	Kb4-17 (170)	Kb4-18	Kb4-19	Kb5-1
Kb5-2	Kb5-3	Kb5-4 (176)	Kb5-5	Kb5-6	Kb5-7

Investigating in G where 176 and 352 are located gives new insights. But we begin with 252, which remarkably is a 'π glyph', viz. Kb1-22:

Gb1-20 (250)	Gb1-21	Gb1-22
Gb1-23	Gb1-24	Gb1-25

The upside down 'fish' (rau hei) in Gb1-22 has 100 glyphs later, at Gb4-31 (352) been converted into a rising fish:

Gb4-28	Gb4-29 (350)	Gb4-30	Gb4-31	Gb4-32
Gb4-33 (354)	Gb5-1	Gb5-2	Gb5-3	Gb5-4

I guess mauga in Gb5-4, which comes 6 glyphs beyond the rising fish, could be the 2nd of the pair - equivalent to the 2nd of the pair in Gb1-25 (3 glyphs beyond the 1st member of the pair). The design of Gb5-4 is very similar to that in Gb4-31.

Now to 176, and once again we find rau hei in duplicate:

Ga6-21 (175)	Ga6-22	Ga6-23
Ga6-24	Ga6-25	Ga6-26 (180)

And the numbers are coordinated pairwise: Ga6-22 and G6-25 in parallel with Gb1-22 and Gb1-25.

But wait a minute! This cannot be right, because 177 (Nga Kope Ririva) is not here (at Ga6-23). My subconscious mind is playing tricks again. Nga Kope Ririva is at Ga7-7:

Ga7-5	Ga7-6	Ga7-7	Ga7-8	Ga7-9	Ga7-10 (180)

The correct ordinal numbers for rau hei in line Ga6 are 163 and 166:

Ga6-21	Ga6-22	Ga6-23
Ga6-24 (165)	Ga6-25	Ga6-26

Still, the pairwise constellations of rau hei at ordinal numbers 22 and 25 can hardly be a coincidence. From Ga6-25 up to and including Gb1-25 there are 90 glyphs:

	88
Ga6-25 (166)		Gb1-25 (255)
90

The 4 rau hei glyphs in line Gb1 have no 'dorsal fins', while the 2 rau hei in line Ga1 have 2 respectively 1:

Ga6-22	Ga6-25

In Ga6-22 there are two 'bulges', not only the head but also a fat pregnant stomach. I guess it is a female (moon), while Ga6-25 then will be the sun. As support we can regard 25 = 5 * 5. But then because 6 * 22 = 132 = 32 + 100 it suggests 32 (half a chessboard) is a sign for the moon.

6 * 25 = 150 could indicate sun has reached his apex (at half 300). We can then - at last - understand the meaning of Hb9-19 (in Sunday):

Hb9-17	Hb9-18	Hb9-19	Hb9-20	Hb9-21