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Our basic picture of the beginning of side b should be updated:

258 258
Ab1-1 Ab1-2 Ab4-17 Ab4-18 Ab7-25 Ab7-26
1 2 261 1 260 261

The central Ab4-17--18 are located in the first of the 3 periods parallel with G and K, and it was assumed that it was the 1st of the periods in A.

It could in principle still be so, given that we redefine the henua-ending glyphs into henua-beginning glyphs:

1
Ab4-15 Ab4-16 Ab4-17 Ab4-18 Ab4-19 Ab4-20
1
Ab4-14 Ab4-15 Ab4-16 Ab4-17 Ab4-18 Ab4-19

But there comes a Rei at Ab4-15 which ought to be at the beginning.

If we insert into the basic picture the 32-glyph long sun cycle beginning with another Rei, we will see a problem:

222
Ab1-1 Ab1-2 Ab3-58 Ab3-59 Ab3-60 Ab3-61 Ab3-62
1 2 225 226 227 228 229
1 111 113 114 114½
Ab3-63 Ab3-64 Ab3-65 Ab3-66 Ab3-67 Ab3-68
230 231 232 233 234 235
115 116 117 117½

Vae kore in Ab3-59 and Ab3-68 together cover a 10-glyph long distance, but while Ab3-59 has an ordinal number divisible by 2 it cannot be so for Ab3-68. Also, the pair Ab3-63--64 ought to be in the same day.

It is rather certain that Ab3-68 is the first glyph of 10 + 14 = 24. This is how I once grouped them:

Ab3-68 Ab3-69 Ab3-70 Ab3-71 Ab3-72 Ab3-73 Ab3-74 Ab3-75
Ab3-76 Ab3-77 Ab4-1 Ab4-2 Ab4-3 Ab4-4 Ab4-5 Ab4-6
Ab4-7 Ab4-8 Ab4-9 Ab4-10 Ab4-11 Ab4-12 Ab4-13 Ab4-14

There are 10 glyphs from Ab3-68 up to and including Ab3-77. I have not listed as an internal parallel the sequence which begins at Ab3-68, but there certainly are similarities with the beginning of side a:

Aa1-1 Aa1-2 Aa1-3 Aa1-4 Aa1-5 Aa1-6 Aa1-7 Aa1-8
Ab3-68 Ab3-69 Ab3-70 Ab3-71 Ab3-72 Ab3-73 Ab3-74 Ab3-75

In Aa1-2 there is a waxing moon crescent, in Ab3-69 a descending moon crescent. The double ragi signs are standing straight up on side b, but leaning towards right on side a. A 'knee' (or 'heel') has developed on vae kore on side b. The general impression so far is that sun is beginning at Aa1-1, not at Ab3-68. Number 368 (as in Ab3-68) suggests 8 * 46, that the cycle has reached a 'knee'. We remember that 29 * 46 = 1334.

From Ab4-1 the last figure in the number on side a is in parallel (e.g. Aa1-12 compared with Ab4-2):

Aa1-9 Aa1-10 Aa1-11 Aa1-12
Ab3-76 Ab3-77 Ab4-1 Ab4-2

The sun has 10 months, and in Aa1-11 he is no more. At the 'same' time glyph line b4 takes over from b3. The dark Ab4-2 is in parallel with the dark Aa1-12.

Then follows a moa at Ab4-3, while niu comes on side a:

Aa1-13 Aa1-14 Aa1-15
Ab4-3 Ab4-4 Ab4-5

On side a the new year is beginning later, it seems, in the middle of Aa1-15 (the full moon number). The 3 'berries' in hua poporo could be parallel with the 3 'eyes' in tama (Ab4-4--5). There is 1 hua poporo glyph, but 2 tama glyphs.

Number 2 also is seen in the strange glyphs Ab4-6--7 and in the double ihe tau:

 

Aa1-16 Aa1-17 Aa1-18 Aa1-19
Ab4-6 Ab4-7 Ab4-8 Ab4-9

Instead of eating (kai) in Aa1-18 there is a 'giving away' sign (Ab4-8). Instead of morning, it is 'evening'.

Aa1-20 Aa1-21 Aa1-22 (692) Aa1-23
Ab4-10 Ab4-11 Ab4-12 (256) Ab4-13

The peculiar inverted crescent which is strangely eating (Aa1-20), and which has been unexplained so far - the time of breaking the shadows should not be a time of increasing shadows - is parallel with Ab4-10 in which the marama glyph is the opposite (waxing with a full moon sign instead of a shape like an overturned boat).

A vertical and fully shining moon in Ab4-10 is contrasted with a horizontal overturned boat shape in Aa1-20. Then comes a very strongly drawn (which I have not noticed before) tapa mea at Aa1-21, while Ab4-11 is its opposite, ihe tau. In Ab4-12 the reversed situation continues - with a reversed kai gesture.

The even number 256 connects Ab4-12 with the preceding Ab4-11 and so does ihe tau. 256 glyphs = 128 days = 4 * 32. Sun is the measure, it seems.

692 = 4 * 173 glyphs is equal to 346 days. 22 suggests a cycle which is completed. But 173 is a prime number. In G day number 346 is a haś glyph:

Gb2-19 Gb2-20 Gb2-21 Gb2-22 Gb2-23 Gb2-24 Gb2-25 Gb2-26

8 feathers are at right in Ab4-13, 6 in Aa1-23.

Aa1-24 Aa1-25 Aa1-26 Aa1-27
Ab4-14 Ab4-15 Ab4-16 Ab4-17

At noon we can compare the top split flame of sun (Aa1-26) with how - presumably at the opposite time, viz. nadir - there are 2 niu glyphs (also of course with tops split). 26 is the number on side a, 16 on side b.

A second split top flame of sun comes at Aa1-30:

Aa1-28 (698) Aa1-29 Aa1-30 Aa1-31
Ab4-18 (262) Ab4-19 Ab4-20 Ab4-21

Ab4-18--19 seem to indicate a vertical split up of time, possibly to be compared with the horizontal such in a single glyph at Aa1-15. There are 2 sun discs in Ab4-21, and instead of a hand 'waving goodbye' (Aa1-30) to the daylight, another type of turnaround is visualized at right.

If Ab4-18 and Ab4-19 is a pair, which is suggested also by my earlier arrangement of Aa1-28 together with Aa1-29, then - in both cases - the counting must have changed somewhere, because the 2nd glyph of a pair should have an even number.

Sun 'goes south' (toga) in Aa1-33, and the reversed tapa mea (Aa1-34) has only 5 feathers. Sun cannot go further than to 32:

Aa1-32 (702) Aa1-33 Aa1-34 Aa1-35 Aa1-36
Ab4-22 Ab4-23 Ab4-24 Ab4-25 Ab4-26

The ragi vae kore is also reversed, and number 22 indidates a full cyle. 36 on side a corresponds to 26 on side b. The double heads in Aa1-35 (now not single any more) are may be alluded to in Ab4-26 where the singly toa top is adorned with two 'eyes'.

When evening comes on side a there is another cardinal change on side b.

Aa1-37 Aa1-38 Aa1-39 Aa1-40 Aa1-41 Aa1-42 Aa1-43
Ab4-27 Ab4-28 Ab4-29 Ab4-30 Ab4-31 Ab4-32 Ab4-33

At midnight (Aa1-43), a new sun baby is born (Aa1-45) - although not yet seen (no feathers) - and a birth occurs also on side b. But maybe it comes somewhat earlier (Ab4-29). And maybe the single baby in Aa1-45 corresponds to twins in Ab4-34:

Aa1-44 Aa1-45 Aa1-46 Aa1-47 Aa1-48
Ab4-34 Ab4-35 Ab4-36 Ab4-37 Ab4-38

At the crack of dawn (Aa1-48) a 'season' is over. On side b it happens at Ab4-36.

Then follow glyphs which still seem to be in parallel, but we must stop here:

Aa1-49 Aa1-50 Aa1-51 Aa1-52 Aa1-53 Aa1-54
Ab4-39 Ab4-40 Ab4-41 Ab4-42 Ab4-43 Ab4-44