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The hanau glyph type is used at times when 'birth' is taking place. The person depicted is sitting down with legs apart.

What more specific the time is can often be seen by supplementary signs, e.g.:

Ab4-29 Aa4-55 Ab1-37
toes at right Y held high hanau between ihe tau and reversed ihe tau

Toes visible could mean that sun is shining, and the high neck in Ab4-29 suggests midsummer. A toa (Y) sign held high at right means the 'season of straw' is arriving. Ab1-37 has ordinal number 707 counted from Aa1-1, which can be interpreted as the first half of the 354th day (counting 2 glyphs per day), i.e. it probably stands at Hatinga Te Kohe (the breaking of the staff), last station of the sun (12 * 29.5 = 354).

When a hanau glyph has no visible 'offspring' it may be because the glyph is in the vicinity of another hanau glyph with shows such a 'fruit', and the meaning then could be 'season of birth' rather than 'birth'.

Or it may be because the hanau sign is used not 'literally' but as a method to draw attention to a new season which is on its way.

 

Probably it is the moon who is born at Hatinga Te Kohe. At Ab4-29 and at Aa4-55 some other person is being born. A gradual development can be seen, beginning with Ab3-62:

Ab3-62 Ab4-29 Aa4-55

The 'baby' is growing with time, given that we begin counting from Ab1-1 (not as when counting to Hatinga Te Kohe). The first phase comes with Ab3-62, and this is the way I once tried to divide the text into more manageable pieces:

Ab3-48 Ab3-49 Ab3-50 Ab3-51 Ab3-52 Ab3-53 Ab3-54 Ab3-55
Ab3-56 Ab3-57 Ab3-58 Ab3-59 Ab3-60 Ab3-61 Ab3-62
Ab3-63 Ab3-64 Ab3-65 Ab3-66 Ab3-67

Rei at Ab3-60 (surely suggesting 360) is preceded by a vae kore exhibiting a prominent 'heel'. I have listed 29 vae kore glyphs in Tahua:

Aa1-1 Aa1-9 Aa1-10 Aa1-63 Aa1-76 Aa1-79
Aa2-11 Aa2-19 Aa4-31 Aa4-33 Aa4-71 Aa5-1
Aa5-75 Aa6-5 Aa6-6 Aa6-31 Aa6-48 Ab1-73
Ab3-14 Ab3-22 Ab3-28 Ab3-59 Ab3-68 Ab4-22
Ab5-22 Ab5-34 Ab5-65 Ab6-8 Ab6-14

Also Ab3-68 has this type of heel, and it initiates a 24 glyph long interesting sequence ending with - which surprised me to find - one more of those henua-ending glyphs we have been studying:

22
Ab3-68 Ab4-14

But I do not have to change anything of what I wrote in the glyph dictionary about the 8 'periods' ending by henua and some other sign, because the discussion began by comparing the first 3 of those 8 periods with the parallels in G and K.

Anyhow the table presented at the beginning of that discussion is in need of updating for various reasons:

1 6 5 10
Ab4-15 Ab4-20 Ab4-33 Ab4-42
2 3 6 5
Ab4-21 Ab4-23 Ab4-43 Ab4-47
3 5 7 10
Ab4-24 Ab4-28 Ab4-48 Ab4-57
4 4 8 5
Ab4-29 Ab4-32 Ab4-58 Ab4-62
sum number of glyphs 18 sum number of glyphs 30

The first adjustment must be to include a new first period, which I guess will contain 8 (up to and including Ab3-67) + 24 = 32 glyphs:

Ab3-60 (1) Ab4-14 (32) Ab4-15 (1) Ab4-20 (6)
227 258 259 264
Ab4-21 (1) Ab4-28 (8) Ab4-29 (1) Ab4-42 (14)
265 272 273 286 = 226 + 60

32 + 6 + 8 + 14 = 60 are all even numbers, and they can be translated into 16 + 3 + 4 + 7 = 30 days. Probably the Rei glyphs tell us there are only two sequences, 16 respectively 14 days long. Therefore, the previous discussion in the glyph dictionary was not so bad:

Ab3-60 (1) Ab4-14 (32)
Ab4-15 (33) Ab4-20 (38) Ab4-21 (39) Ab4-28 (46) Ab4-29 (47) Ab4-42 (60)

We can see a pattern - sun rules the first 32 glyph long sequence and moon the second 28 glyph long sequence. Could it mean that in a solar calendar with 30 days in each month the first 16 days are the sun's and the final 14 days the moon's? I believe that is a good proposal. There is also a symmetry with 260 respectively 140. The last week of the month will then begin with Ab4-29, where the next month's sun will be born:

Ab4-29 (47) Ab4-30 Ab4-31 Ab4-32
24 25
Ab4-33 Ab4-34 Ab4-35 Ab4-36 (280)
26 27
Aa4-37 Aa4-38 Ab4-39 Ab4-40
28 29
Ab4-41 Ab4-42 (60)
30