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Using the week as a guide, our next station, Tama, will be at 'Sunday', the day of the 'sun child':

 

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

And then comes One Tea, the full moon day (Omotohi) when also the 'staff' of the moon is broken (one lunar quarter after Hatinga Te Kohe). No wonder the 'sucking' (omo) of the sun child must be finished (tohi):

 

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Tohi is to cut and therefore similar both in sound and meaning to kohe, and useful for wordplay.

 

Omo

To suck; omoaga, bulky cloud;  ragi omoaga cumulus; omoomo; to suck repeatedly, to suckle; omotahi, to win everything at a game (lit: to suck whole): omotahi-mai-á e au, he has cleaned me out; omotohi, full (of the moon); ku-omotohiá te mahina, the moon is full. Vanaga.

Rima omo, infidelity, faithless, unfaithful. Omoomo, to smack the lips, to suck the breast, to smoke tobacco, to taste of; hakaomoomo, to suckle, to paint. Churchill.

Ta.: Omotu, an ember, a coal. Mq.: komotu, omotu, firebrand. Churchill.
Tohi

Omotohi, full (of the moon); ku-omotohiá te mahina, the moon is full. Vanaga.

Mgv.: tohi, to cut breadfruit paste. Ta.: tohi, a chisel, to cut, to split. Mq.: tohi, to cut up. Sa.: tofi, a chisel, to split. Ma.: tohi, to cut, to slice. Churchill.

Ha.: kōhi. 1. To gather, as fruit; to break off neatly, as taro corm from the stalk with a stick or knife; to split, as breadfruit; to dig; splitter, as stick, stone, knife. Nā wāhine kōhi noni, the noni-gathering women (an insult to Pele, perhaps likening her disposition to sour noni fruit). (PPN tofi.) 2. Fat, rich, as food; fatness. Nā kōhi kelekele o Kapu'u-kolu, the rich foods of Ka-pu'u-kolu (Kaua'i, famous for abundance). 3. To fill or heal, of a wound. Ke kōhi maila ka 'i'o, the flesh is beginning to heal. 4. To hold back, check, restrain: to strain, especially as in childbirth, to travail; to hold or hold back by pressing a person's arm, as in withholding consent, or as in urging someone not to be generous; labor pains, travail. Fig., agony, fear. Cf. haukōhi, kāohi, ho'o kōhi. Also ha'akōhi. 5. Prolonged, as a sound; long. He kōhi ka leo, the sound is long. Wehewehe.

13 glyphs before Tama (Gb7-3) a hipu makes a mark, and a kind of continuity is therefore established with Hua Reva and Akahanga, where hipu measured a distance of 4 * 14 = 56 days.

 

Gb6-17 Gb6-18 (400) Gb6-19 Gb6-20 Gb6-21 Gb6-22 Gb6-23 Gb6-24
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 (408) Gb6-27 Gb6-28 Gb7-1 Gb7-2 Gb7-3 (413) Gb7-4

The distance from the ghostly hipu at Gb4-17 to the newborn hipu in Gb6-18 is 400 - 337 = 63 days.

11 13 13 11
Gb2-27 (282) Gb3-4 Gb3-5 (295) Gb3-19 (309) Gb4-3 (323) Gb4-4 Gb4-5 (325) Gb4-17 (337)
14 14 14 14

There are only 3 tamaiti glyphs in G, but Gb4-4 (at Akahanga) is similar:

Ga7-11 (214) Gb4-4 Gb4-7 (327) Gb7-3 (413)

The form of the 'knob' at bottom should be used for identifying which 'child' it is. The flat bottom in Ga7-11 suggests a solstice and relates Ga7-11 to Gb4-7. 327 - 214 = 113 (a prime number). But between them there are 2 * 56 = 7 * 16 = 112 glyphs. 214 looks like 314 (100π).

The connection between Akahanga and Tama is indicated both by hipu and takaure glyphs. The distance from Ga7-11 to Gb7-3 is 413 - 214 = 199 days, and we recognize Ga7-11 from earlier - it occupies an important place in the calendar:

 

Ga7-11 Ga7-12 Ga7-13 Ga7-14

Now to Tahua. 2 * 413 = 826. 826 - 41 = 785. 785 - 670 = 115. With 82 glyphs in b1 the last of the 2 searched for glyphs will be Ab2-33:

Ab2-18 (811) Ab2-19 Ab2-20 Ab2-21
Ab2-22 Ab2-23 Ab2-24 Ab2-25
Ab2-26 Ab2-27 Ab2-28 Ab2-29
Ab2-30 Ab2-31 Ab2-32 Ab2-33 (826)
Ab2-34 Ab2-35 Ab2-36 Ab2-37 (830)

The rising fish (Ab2-32) has a poporo sign, probably meaning 'birth' (in contrast to henua ora).

These 20 glyphs begin with a great henua at Ab2-18 (suggesting 2 * 18 = 36 or the 2nd cycle of the sun). In Ab2-36 - the 19th of the glyphs - two crossed henua signs (hahe) presumably marks the end.

 

Hahe

Hahehahe. To congregate, to gather (of people, animals, things). Hahei, to encircle, to surround. Ku hahei á te tagata i ruga i te umu, he vari, the people have placed themselves around the oven, forming a circle. Ana ká i te umu, he hahei hai rito i raro, when you cook food (lit.: light the oven) you cover it all around with banana leaves at the bottom. Vanaga.

M. Whawhe, to come or go round. Cf. hawhe, to go or come round; awhe, to pass round or behind; takaawhe, circuitous. 2. To put round. 3. To be blown away by the wind. Te aute tč whawhea - Prov. 4. To grasp, to seize. Cf. wha, to lay hold of; to handle. 5. To save, as a defeated person on a battle-field. Text Centre.

Thanks to poporo in Ab2-32 we can be fairly sure that also Tahua has Tama in the correct position. But now we have gone more than one year. With 413 we have advance 413 - 365 = 48 days into year number 2:

 

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 (366) Ab1-16 Ab1-17 Ab1-18 Ab1-19 (730)
Roto Iri Are

13 * 29.5 = 383.5
Gb5-29 Gb6-1 (384) Ab1-54 Ab1-55 Ab1-56 Ab1-57 (768)
Tama

14 * 29.5 = 413
Gb7-2 Gb7-3 (413) Ab2-30 Ab2-31 Ab2-32 Ab2-33 (826)

The problem has nothing to do with how many glyphs there are in the texts - it is a problem inherent in the structure of the kuhane stations.

If we let the kuhane stations determine the calendar for the year it seems to be a longer year than the solar year.

Mapping Tama, the birth of a new sun at the beginning of the solar year onto the kuhane stations will lead to a station beyond conception (Roto Iri Are).

New moon will rise in the west at Nga Kope Ririva, and then the journey must lead towards Hanga Takaure. Tama must be born before reaching One Tea.

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