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I am aware of other mistakes here in the Translations part, but they can stand as they are for the moment - my methods will sooner or later correct them if they are important. And not always will I comment upon the corrections in the glyph dictionary. Instead we will move on to next page:

 

 

The 'cut off' viri at Aa8-26 comes after the last glyph of Akahanga, and there seems to be a strong connection between not only Hua Reva and Akahanga but also including Hatinga Te Kohe:

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) Aa8-20 Aa8-21 (647) Aa8-22 Aa8-23 (649)
Hatinga Te Kohe

12 * 29.5 = 354
Gb4-33 Gb5-1 (354) Aa8-79 Aa8-80 Aa8-81 Aa8-82 (708)
Hanga Te Pau
Gb5-11 Gb5-12 Ab1-16 Ab1-17 Ab1-18 Ab1-19

Hanga Te Pau is not one of the kuhane stations, and the lunar approximation of the solar year is calculated as 12 * 29.5 = 354. It ends with Hatinga Te Kohe.

It does not end with Hatinga Te Kohe, there is a 13th station (equivalent to the 13th lost zodiacal sign, I guess), which covers the leap between 354 and 13 * 29.5 = 383.5, but in the glyph dictionary that is not yet know.

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So far we have not determined if the glyphs between the kuhane stations belong to the kuhane station indicated by the last glyph of the sequence of 59 glyphs, or if they are independent from the station indicated by the end glyph, or if they possibly belong to the preceding station. Hatinga Te Kohe is a good station to work with, trying to answer this question. It is obviously an important station which cannot be silently dismissed like (possibly) Hua Reva.

These 20 glyphs begin and end with exactly the same typ of glyph:

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 Aa8-34

The first 8 of them belong (so far as we have been able to ascertain) to Akahanga and the remaining 12 presumably to Hatinga Te Kohe. In the glyph catalogue (at ragi) we can observe that there are 6 identical glyphs of this kind, all close to Aa8-15 and Aa8-34:

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

Aa8-27 is not in the middle between Aa8-15 and Aa8-34 (which two glyphs are central among the 6 in the group).

 

Instead we can find two other interesting glyphs in the middle:

8 8
Aa8-15 Aa8-24 Aa8-25 Aa8-34
20

It is hardly a coincidence that the first of them is turned head down (as in Gb1-7 at Te Pei), while the second stands straight with head up, when at the same time they both carry a fish (the left great and the right smaller, with a black head). Probably these two fishes represent the sun respectively the moon.

Surely Aa8-24 belongs to Akahanga (with sun head down) and Aa8-25 to Hatinga Te Kohe (where moon is released from the 'bamboo'). If this suggestion is correct, then we have determined the beginning of the 59 glyph long sequence which describes Hatinga Te Kohe:

Hatinga Te Kohe

12 * 29.5 = 354

 53
Aa8-25 Aa8-79 Aa8-80 Aa8-81 Aa8-82 (708) Aa8-83
59

The rule - we can see - is that twice the number at a kuhane station in G determines the first of a pair of glyphs (e.g. Aa8-82--83). Earlier we counted with a pair of glyphs where the second of them corresponded to twice the number in G. The new rule is in a way logical, because what is important should always comes first.

Maybe a better interpretation is to say that there are 18 glyphs instead of 20:

8 8
Aa8-24 Aa8-25
18

18 is a number more characteristic for the sun than 20. These 18 glyphs can be grouped as 9 pairs:

 

Aa8-16 Aa8-17
Aa8-18 Aa8-19
Aa8-20 Aa8-21
Aa8-22 Aa8-23 (649 = 11 * 59)
Aa8-24 Aa8-25
Aa8-26 Aa8-27
Aa8-28 Aa8-29
Aa8-30 Aa8-31
Aa8-32 Aa8-33

I have redmarked obvious pairs. The contrast between Aa8-32 and Aa8-33 can be expressed as that between standing straight (tu) and bending in a curve (ta). Aa8-26 illustrates the sudden 'cut', while Aa8-27 includes a new rising fish. Aa8-22 ought to be the opposite of the death shown with ihe tau.

By the new rule Aa8-24 will be the 2nd of a pair with Aa8-23 as the first member. 9 of the 18 glyphs will belong to Akahanga and 9 to Hatinga Te Kohe:

 

Akahanga
Aa8-16 Aa8-17 Aa8-18 Aa8-19
Aa8-20 Aa8-21 Aa8-22 Aa8-23 Aa8-24
Hatinga Te Kohe
Aa8-25 Aa8-26 Aa8-27 Aa8-28 Aa8-29
Aa8-30 Aa8-31 Aa8-32 Aa8-33