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A kind of summary page so far then arrives:

 

 

We can now update our table of kuhane stations. Our question has been (tentatively) answered: The 57 glyphs arriving before the glyph with ordinal number equal to a multiple of 59 (counted from Ab8-44) belong to that kuhane station (plus one glyph beyond):

Te Pei

8 * 29.5 = 236

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Aa5-41 (415) Aa6-12 Aa6-13 Aa6-14 Aa6-15 (472) Aa6-16 (473)
Te Pou

9 * 29.5 = 265.5

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Aa6-17 (474) Aa6-70 Aa6-71 Aa6-72 Aa6-73 (531) Aa6-74 (532)
Hua Reva

10 * 29.5 = 295

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Aa6-75 (533) Aa7-46 Aa7-47 Aa7-48 Aa7-49 (590) Aa7-50 (591)
Akahanga

11 * 29.5 = 324.5

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Aa7-51 (592) Aa8-20 Aa8-21 Aa8-22 Aa8-23 (649) Aa8-24 (650)
Hatinga Te Kohe

12 * 29.5 = 354

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Aa8-25 (651) Aa8-79 Aa8-80 Aa8-81 Aa8-82 (708) Aa8-83

Here are 295 glyphs = 5 kuhane stations from Aa5-41 up to and including Aa8-83. These 5 stations belong together in A. It remains to be investigated whether there also is a continuity before and after.

The glyph structure seems to be OK. At Te Pou Aa6-74 connects to another ua in Aa6-72 and then comes vai in Aa6-75--76, maybe expressing how vai and ua are opposites. Vai seems to be connected with sun present and ua with sun absent - which is rather strange when we know Hua Reva is where sun leaves.

Maybe both the vai glyphs should belong to Te Pou rather than to Hua Reva?

In Aa7-50, the last glyph of Hua Reva, a sign of negation presumably is shown. I remember from somewhere in Fornander that flat hands stretched downwards is the ubiquitous Polynesian gesture of negation. In Aa7-51 only the ghost remains.

But the numbers may be wrong. Wouldn't it be more beautiful to have the final glyph equal to a multiple of 59? We can reach that by starting counting from Ab8-45:

 
Ab8-39 Ab8-40 Ab8-41 Ab8-42
Ab8-43 Ab8-44 (1344) Ab8-45 (1) Ab8-46
Ab8-47 Ab8-48 Ab8-49 Ab8-50

The numbers would then be:

 
Te Pei

8 * 29.5 = 236

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Aa5-41 (414) Aa6-12 Aa6-13 Aa6-14 Aa6-15 Aa6-16 (472)
Te Pou

9 * 29.5 = 265.5

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Aa6-17 (473) Aa6-70 Aa6-71 Aa6-72 Aa6-73 Aa6-74 (531)
Hua Reva

10 * 29.5 = 295

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Aa6-75 (532) Aa7-46 Aa7-47 Aa7-48 Aa7-49 Aa7-50 (590)
Akahanga

11 * 29.5 = 324.5

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Aa7-51 (591) Aa8-20 Aa8-21 Aa8-22 Aa8-23 Aa8-24 (649)
Hatinga Te Kohe

12 * 29.5 = 354

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Aa8-25 (650) Aa8-79 Aa8-80 Aa8-81 Aa8-82 Aa8-83 (708)