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Beyond Te Pei and Te Pou arrives another pair of stations, Hua Reva and Akahanga:

Hua Reva

10 * 29.5 = 295

Gb3-4 Gb3-5 (295) Aa7-46 Aa7-47 Aa7-48 Aa7-49 (590)
Akahanga

11 * 29.5 = 324.5

Gb4-4 Gb4-5 (325) Aa8-22 Aa8-23 (649) Aa8-24 Aa8-25 (650)

The last deed of Hotu Matua was digging wells at Akahanga and enjoying a drink of fresh water from Hua Reva. Sweet drinking water connects the two stations. Furthermore, in G the similarity in shape and ordinal numbers between Gb3-4 and Gb4-4 suggests a connection.

In A it is more difficult to find any connection between the two stations. Glyph line Aa7 is occupied by a special calendar, outside the rest of the text in A. Possibly Hua Reva is not mentioned in Tahua - one should be cautious and avoid to explicitly describe what is bad.

As to the location of Akahanga in the text of A there is no doubt that Aa8-25 is situated at a cardinal point and that a major season ends here.

Jaussen: "4 nomes propres."
Aa8-18 Aa8-19 Aa8-20 Aa8-21
Aa8-22 Aa8-23 Aa8-24 Aa8-25 Cfr Aa8-24 with Gb1-7 at Te Pei.
Aa8-26 is the 'cut-off' viri, probably a sign of a 'cut-off' major season.
Aa8-26 Aa8-27 Aa8-28 Aa8-29
Aa8-31 is glyph number 1280 = 5 * 256 counted from Ab1-1, cfr below.
Aa8-30 Aa8-31 Aa8-32 Aa8-33
3 53 520 752
1279 1280 1334 1 522 1275
2 * 29 522 = 18 * 29 754 = 26 * 29

Beyond Akahanga comes Hatinga Te Kohe, at 354 = 12 * 29.5, and a new fire comes already at the beginning of Hatinga Te Kohe - according to the map I have used. I.e., I have identified the stations with their end glyphs, as defined by multiples of 29.5 (or 59). Aa8-26 looks, however, as if it personified Hatinga Te Kohe.

The number of the multiples suggests Te Pito O Te Kainga should be number 1 of the stations. If we move Hatinga Te Kohe in Tahua to a position 58 glyphs earlier than what has been mapped so far - changing from identifying the stations by their end glyphs to identifying them by the first glyphs in their glyph sequences - pito in Ab8-43 could be the 1st glyph of the 1st station:

 

1. Te Pito O Te Kainga 2. Nga Kope Ririva 3. Te Pu Mahore 4. Te Poko Uri 5. Te Manavai 6. Te Kioe Uri
Ab8-43 Aa1-18 Aa1-77 Aa2-46 Aa3-20 Aa4-3
1 60 119 178 237 296
7. Te Piringa Aniva 8. Te Pei 9. Te Pou 10. Hua Reva 11. Akahanga 12. Hatinga Te Kohe
Aa4-62 Aa5-39 Aa6-15 Aa6-74 Aa7-49 Aa8-23
355 414 473 532 591 650
13. Roto Iri Are 14. Tama 15. One Tea 16. Hanga Takaure 17. Poike 18. Pua Katiki
Aa8-82 Ab1-56 Ab2-33 Ab3-7 Ab3-66 Ab4-48
709 768 827 886 945 1004
19. Maunga Teatea 20. Mahatua 21. Taharoa 22. Hanga Hoonu 23. Rangi Meamea
Ab5-27 Ab6-6 Ab6-65 Ab7-32 Ab8-7
1063 1122 1181 1240 1299

This experiment shows how there now will be room also for Rangi Meamea. Beyond pito at Ab8-43 to the end of side b there are 42 glyphs. Counting backwards from Te Pei, which covers 59 glyphs ending at Aa6-15, there will remain 472 - 59 = 413 glyphs for the kuhane stations preceding Te Pei:

 
Te Pei

8 * 29.5 = 236

Gb1-6 Gb1-7 (236) Aa6-12 Aa6-13 Aa6-14 Aa6-15 (472)

7 * 59 = 413. Therefore, there is room also for Te Pito O Te Kainga. With 472 at Aa6-15 we have counted from Ab8-44, not from pito at Ab8-43. To begin with pito changes very little, only one glyph.

It seems reasonable to begin a sequence of 59 glyphs representing a kuhane station by stating its name, not to save that information to the last glyphs. Probably Tahua covers 23 stations, with the 24th being equal to number 1. A cycle returns to 1 equally well as retuning to zero.

Yet, 23 * 59 = 1357 > 1334. It means Rangi Meamea cannot have more than 59 - (1357 - 1334) = 36 glyphs. Though, we do not know if that is true, because some other station could be the 36 glyph station, or there could be more than one kuhane station with less than 59 glyphs.

Curiously, 1357 - 1334 = 23. Is that a cue that it is the 23rd station which is 59 - 23 glyphs long?

The best choice, I think, is to let Te Pito O Te Kainga be the 36 glyph station. It is a special station anyhow, and it needs some order of light. But then we are back at the original solution - there are 36 glyphs ending with pito at Ab8-43.

The glyphs in Tahua and the model we have found suggests, though, that Te Pito O Te Kainga should be where we have located Hatinga Te Kohe (from Aa8-26):

 
1st cycle 2nd cycle
481 59
Ab1-1 Ab7-26 Aa5-7 Aa8-26
522 = 18 * 29 812 = 28 * 29

There are 59 glyphs beyond Aa8-26 to the end of side a. If we start counting from Ab8-43 (pito), then Aa8-26 will be the last glyph of Akahanga, and Hatinga Te Kohe can have those 59 glyphs:

 
Hatinga Te Kohe

12 * 29.5 = 354

Gb4-33 Gb5-1 (354) Aa8-78 Aa8-79 Aa8-80 Aa8-81 (708)

And we need to adjust also the earlier stations:

 
Hua Reva

10 * 29.5 = 295

Gb3-4 Gb3-5 (295) Aa7-45 Aa7-46 Aa7-47 Aa7-48 (590)
Akahanga

11 * 29.5 = 324.5

Gb4-4 Gb4-5 (325) Aa8-21 Aa8-22 (649) Aa8-23 Aa8-24 (650)

Hua Reva looks better this way, with ihe tau as a relevant sign for the death, and with the double maitaki glyphs visible. Akahanga likewise is ending with the upside down sign.

Te Pei

8 * 29.5 = 236

Gb1-6 Gb1-7 (236) Aa6-11 Aa6-12 Aa6-13 Aa6-14 (472)
Te Pou

9 * 29.5 = 265.5

Gb2-10 Gb2-11 (266) Aa6-71 Aa6-72 (530) Aa6-73 Aa6-74 (532)

Also Te Pei and Te Pou can be regarded as improved, with more symmetry now.

What will happen if we use also the first glyphs among the 59 (as listed above earlier)?

Te Pei

8 * 29.5 = 236

54
Aa5-39 Aa6-11 Aa6-12 Aa6-13 Aa6-14 (472)
Te Pou

9 * 29.5 = 265.5

54
Aa6-15 Aa6-71 Aa6-72 (530) Aa6-73 Aa6-74 (532)
Hua Reva

10 * 29.5 = 295

54
Aa6-74 Aa7-45 Aa7-46 Aa7-47 Aa7-48 (590)
Akahanga

11 * 29.5 = 324.5

54
Aa7-49 Aa8-21 Aa8-22 (649) Aa8-23 Aa8-24 (650)

Here Aa6-74 appears both at the end of Te Pou and at the beginning of Hua Reva. There must be some mistake. 416 + 74 = 490, and then from Ab8-44 to the end of side b there are 41 glyphs. 490 + 41 = 531:

a1 90 416 b1 82
a2 85 b2 85
a3 76 b3 77
a4 82 b4 80
a5 83 b5 80
a6 84 74 b6 92
10
a7 85 b7 84
a8 85 b8 84
sum 670 sum 664

Counting from Ab8-43 will result in 532. The table over first glyphs counted from Ab8-43 is correct, and 531 should be the number if we count from Ab8-44. 531 = 9 * 59, and the rule must be that each end glyph should be a multiple of 59. The red-marked glyphs above are therefore wrong (or at least their numbers).

Correcting their numbers should then easily lead to the correct glyphs by referring to the table over first glyphs above:

Te Pei

8 * 29.5 = 236

54
Aa5-39 Aa6-11 Aa6-12 Aa6-13 Aa6-14 (472)
Te Pou

9 * 29.5 = 265.5

54
Aa6-15 Aa6-70 Aa6-71 (529) Aa6-72 Aa6-73 (531)

Te Pou becomes as it should with mirror effects pairwise from the glyphs at Te Pei to Te Pou. Furthermore, we recognize Te Pou in Gb2-10--11:

 

Te Pei

8 * 29.5 = 236

Gb1-6 Gb1-7 (236)
Te Pou

9 * 29.5 = 265.5

Gb2-10 Gb2-11 (266)

Aa6-15, with central henua ora, looks more as belonging to Te Pei than to Te Pou. Maybe the stations are centered around multiples of 59 rather than ordered with their ends at the multiples?

 
Hua Reva

10 * 29.5 = 295

54
Aa6-74 Aa7-45 Aa7-46 Aa7-47 Aa7-48 (590)
Akahanga

11 * 29.5 = 324.5

54
Aa7-49 Aa8-19 Aa8-20 (647) Aa8-21 Aa8-22 (649)

Akahanga is not as I would like to have it. Either the last glyph should have been Aa8-23 (ihe tau similar to Aa7-48) or Aa8-18 should have been where now Aa8-19 is (to get hold of all '4 nomes propres'):

 

Aa8-2 Aa8-3 Aa8-4 Aa8-5 Aa8-6 Aa8-7 Aa8-8 Aa8-9
Aa8-10 Aa8-11 Aa8-12 Aa8-13 Aa8-14 Aa8-15 Aa8-16 Aa8-17
Aa8-18 Aa8-19 Aa8-20 Aa8-21 Aa8-22 Aa8-23 Aa8-24 Aa8-25
Aa8-26 Aa8-27 Aa8-28 Aa8-29 Aa8-30 Aa8-31 Aa8-32 Aa8-33

Maybe Aa8-22 is the opposite of ihe tau? It would then serve as the phase before Aa8-23 (which glyph will illustrate - or name - Hatinga Te Kohe).

Anyhow, I have to correct in the glyph dictionary wherever I have used final glyph numbers for stations which are not multiples of 59. It will be hard work, because the mistakes have not been made recently in only the last pages referred to here in the Translations part. But I will not change these mistakes here in the Translations part.