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The first correction is needed in the last page of the excursion from vae kore:

 

Without numbers and counting it would have been nearly impossible to identify where the cardinal points in G can be coordinated with those in A. The examples so far show very different approaches:

Te Pei
Gb1-6 Gb1-7 (236) Aa6-13 Aa6-14 (472)
Te Pou
Gb2-10 Gb2-11 (266) Aa6-72 Aa6-73 (531)
Hatinga Te Kohe
Gb4-33 Gb5-1 (354) Aa8-80 Aa8-81 (708)
Hanga Te Pau
Gb5-11 Gb5-12 (366) Ab1-17 Ab1-18 (730)

And without the kuhane stations it would have been very difficult to first identify the cardinal points in G. But the model for coordinating A and G has now been established, and secured fairly well so far. It can - with caution - be used.

That was no greater problem, because I have not here used the glyphs of Te Pou in any comment. Next correction occurs not until the excursion at hoea:

 

 

At vae kore the following list of kuhane stations was assembled:

Te Pei

8 * 29.5 = 236

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

9 * 29.5 = 265.5

Gb2-10 Gb2-11 (266) Aa6-70 Aa6-71 (529) Aa6-72 Aa6-73 (531)
Hatinga Te Kohe

12 * 29.5 = 354

Gb4-33 Gb5-1 (354) Aa8-79 Aa8-80 Aa8-81 Aa8-82 (708)

The list has, though, been updated to show 4 glyphs in A (corresponding to 2 in G). Earlier numbers for the glyphs in A have been reduced by 1 because counting now begins with Ab8-44 rather than with pito (Ab8-43).

However, the numbers for the stations (according to how many multiples of 29.5 are needed), indicate Te Pito O Te Kainga should be included as number 1:

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 7. Te Piringa Aniva
8. Te Pei 9. Te Pou
10. Hua Reva 11. Akahanga
12. Hatinga Te Kohe 13. Roto Iri Are
14. Tama 15. One Tea
16. Hanga Takaure 17. Poike
18. Pua Katiki 19. Maunga Teatea
20. Mahatua 21. Taharoa
22. Hanga Hoonu 23. Rangi Meamea

Here too, there are no great problem to change the glyphs and numbers at Te Pou. Then comes the needed changes at Akahanga:

 

 

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) Aa8-19 Aa8-20 (647) Aa8-21 Aa8-22 (649)

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.

No problem, but then I had to change next page rather radically, and the result became:

Aa8-15 Aa8-16 Aa8-17 Aa8-18 Aa8-19 Aa8-20 (647) Aa8-21 Aa8-22 (649)
 

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.

 

Aa8-31 is glyph number 1280 = 5 * 256 counted from Ab1-1, cfr below.

 

Aa8-23 Aa8-24 Aa8-25 Aa8-26
Aa8-27 Aa8-28 Aa8-29 Aa8-30
Aa8-31 Aa8-32 Aa8-33 Aa8-34
3 53 520 752
1279 1280 1334 1 522 1275
2 * 29 522 = 18 * 29 754 = 26 * 29

From Aa8-15 up to and including Aa8-34 there are 20 glyphs, of which I suggest 8 are belonging to Akahanga and 12 to Hatinga Te Kohe. Maybe each kuhane station in A should have 8 glyphs as a description or name?

Aa8-15 and Aa8-34 are just 2 of the 6 identical glyphs of this type:

 
Aa7-70 Aa7-85 Aa8-1 Aa8-2 Aa8-7 Aa8-10
Aa8-15 Aa8-27 Aa8-34 Aa8-38 Aa8-55 Aa8-67
Aa8-78 Ab1-11 Ab1-20 Ab1-21 Ab1-27 Ab1-36

If they serve to mark a middle, then the middle is not at Aa8-27:

 
8 8
Aa8-15 Aa8-24 Aa8-25 Aa8-34
20

From Aa8-23 we are in Hatinga Te Kohe, and an inversion is obvious in the middle of these 20 glyphs. Not only head down followed by head up, but also a great fish followed by a smaller one with hatchmark on.

We have calculated Hatinga Te Kohe to end with Aa8-82:

Hatinga Te Kohe

12 * 29.5 = 354

Gb4-33 Gb5-1 (354) Aa8-79 Aa8-80 Aa8-81 Aa8-82 (708)

We can now present a break also (in addition to the vertical one in Aa8-80) between the glyphs (as in G):

Hatinga Te Kohe

12 * 29.5 = 354

53
Aa8-24 Aa8-25 Aa8-79 Aa8-80 Aa8-81 Aa8-82 (708)
59

But then we cannot count from Ab8-43, we must count from Ab8-44:

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

Aa8-23 must be the last glyph of Akahanga. But that was not our solution:

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) Aa8-19 Aa8-20 (647) Aa8-21 Aa8-22 (649)

We can save the situation by changing our earlier assumption, that one glyph in G is equivalent to two in A where the last one in A marks twice 29.5. It is instead the first of the two glyphs in A which marks 59:

Hua Reva

10 * 29.5 = 295

Aa7-46 Aa7-47 Aa7-48 Aa7-49 (590) Aa7-50
Akahanga

11 * 29.5 = 324.5

Aa8-19 Aa8-20 (647) Aa8-21 Aa8-22 (649) Aa8-23