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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:
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:
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):
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:
And we need to adjust also the earlier stations:
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.
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)?
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:
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 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:
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?
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'):
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. |