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Or, there could be other structures. If we locate the centrum in summer it should have 6 glyphs, and it would begin in Mars:

Sun Moon Two periods before fire comes down to earth
Eb7-3 Eb7-4 Eb7-5 Eb7-6
Mars Mercury Jupiter
Eb7-7 Eb7-8 Eb7-9 Eb7-10 Eb7-11 Eb7-12
Venus Saturn Venus and Saturn define a π glyph between them
Eb7-13 Eb7-14 Eb7-15 Eb7-16

This structure gives 4 + 4 glyphs to the 'straw' season.

Or we could break up the system of glyph pairs:

Sun Moon Two periods before fire comes down to earth
Eb7-3 Eb7-4 Eb7-5 Eb7-6
Mars Mercury Two periods with fire coming down and being 'swallowed'.
Eb7-7 Eb7-8 Eb7-9 Eb7-10
Jupiter Venus Two periods for summer, ending with a π glyph.
Eb7-11 Eb7-12 Eb7-13 Eb7-14
Saturn Saturn cuts time short.
Eb7-15 Eb7-16

I have redmarked Eb7-3--4 and Eb7-13--14 because they look similar. A 'baby sun' could be inside Venus.

Attention is here given Eb7-4, Eb7-8, and Eb7-12 by force of their locations in central positions. 3 * 3 = 9 glyphs are used for these triplets.

Let us now move on to the excursion into the night and day calendars of Tahua:

Our point of departure for this investigation is the fact that the last three toa glyphs in the Tahua night calendar are shorter than the other:
Aa1-37 Aa1-38 Aa1-39 Aa1-40 Aa1-41
Aa1-42 Aa1-43 Aa1-44 Aa1-45
Aa1-46 Aa1-47 Aa1-48

Toa in Aa1-47--48 are bulging slightly to the right, but in Aa1-46 the bulge is at left and the 'person' in Aa1-46 is looking back, which I interpret as a sign for the last glyph in a sequence.

Aa1-47--48 therefore should stand at the beginning of a new sequence of glyhps, a new period. It presumably means that the new day takes its beginning already with Aa1-47, not with the first glyph of the daylight calendar.

Also the Mars glyph bulges in front, but it has a very narrow 'neck':

Ea3-24 Ea8-107 Eb6-31 Eb6-33 Eb7-8 (*554)

It is a different type of toa, one which also has been used (without the 'flames') in Ea8-107:

Ea8-105 Ea8-106 Ea8-107 (*267) Ea8-108 Ea8-109 Ea8-110 Ea8-111

Ea8-107 is located at the Sirius (Te Pou) position (9 * 29.5 = 265.5), and from there to the end of side a we have 2 * 29.5 = 59 glyphs:

59 226
Ea8-107 Ea9-36 Eb1-1 Eb7-8
*267 *326 1 228
288 = 8 * 36

Keiti is assymmetric, with 9 lines of glyphs on side a and 8 on side b:

a1 32 32 b1 42 42
a2 33 65 b2 27 69
a3 35 100 = 4 * 25 b3 38 107
a4 36 136 b4 42 149
a5 42 178 b5 35 184 = 4 * 46
a6 39 217 b6 36 220
a7 39 256 = 4 * 64 b7 42 262
a8 *34 *290 b8 40 302
a9 36 *326 sum 302
sum *326 sum total *628 = 200π

Hatinga Te Kohe (10 * 29.5) is located at the beginning of line a9:

Ea9-1 Ea9-2 Ea9-3 Ea9-4 Ea9-5 (*295)
Ea9-6 Ea9-7 Ea9-8 Ea9-9 Ea9-10
Ea9-11 Ea9-12 Ea9-13 Ea9-14 Ea9-15
Ea9-16 Ea9-17 Ea9-18 Ea9-19 Ea9-20
Ea9-21 Ea9-22 Ea9-23 Ea9-24

Next pages:

Next we will use the efforts of Metoro to make Bishop Jaussen understand:
Aa1-42 Aa1-43 Aa1-44 Aa1-45
e ia toa tauuruuru raaraa e ia toa tauuru i te fenua - e ia toa tauuru
Aa1-46 Aa1-47 Aa1-48
ma te hokohuki - e ika no te tagata ma te tauuru ki te ragi e tauuru no te henua

Meotoro never elsewhere used the expression e ia (outside of this night calendar). Ia is here a Tahitian word, meaning 'fish' (īka in the language of Easter Island). He probably tried to tell the Bishop that in night calendars upside down hanging 'fishes' was the norm, another way of expressing the 'death' here described by the Y sign. We know that a rising 'fish' is a growing 'fish', while a descending 'fish' is waning.

By comparing with the parallel night calendars in H, P, and Q we find the 'hanging fishes' are described by rau hei glyphs. Both rau hei and toa resemble in general outline hanging fishes:

rau hei Ca7-29 toa
Ha5-43 Ha5-44 Ha5-45 Ha5-46 Ha5-47 Ha5-48
Pa5-25 Pa5-26 Pa5-27 Pa5-28 Pa5-29 Pa5-30 Pa5-31
Qa5-33 Qa5-34 Qa5-35 Qa5-36 Qa5-37 Qa5-38 Qa5-39