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To conclude (at least for the moment) the subject of the rising fish (reva ika), we should notice that such occur only at the beginning and end of the G text:

Ga1-8 Ga1-10 Gb8-4
Ga1-7 Ga1-8 Ga1-9 Ga1-10
Gb8-1 Gb8-2 Gb8-3 Gb8-4 Gb8-5

There must be something in common between ihe tau, henua and tao.

Next page is the last of those describing a 'year' with 496 days:

Now, at last, it is possible to relate the pair of reversed haati glyphs (Gb1-16--17) with the non-reversed example in Gb7-30:

192
Gb1-16 Gb1-17 Gb1-18 (248) Gb7-30 (441)

By way of the central glyphs Gb1-18--19 these haati glyphs are connected first to tao in Gb7-17:

178 12
Gb1-18 (248) Gb1-19 Gb7-17 (428) Gb7-30 (441)
192 = 8 * 24

Then, in the other direction. Gb7-30 is connected with the important tao in Ga1-25:

46 7
Gb7-30 (441) Ga1-16 (488) Ga1-24 (496) Ga1-25
48 = 8 * 6 8

192 is here 'explained' as 8 * 24 and 48 as 8 * 6, together equal to 8 * 30 = 240 days. 496, therefore, must be equal to twice 8 * (24 + 6) + 8.

The distance between tao in Gb7-17 and tao in Ga1-25 is 12 + 48 + 8 = 5 * 12 + 8 = 68 days.

Is it possible to draw a total map, which is also including the measure 192 from hua reva to 488?

63 63 62
Gb3-5 (0) Gb5-6 (64) Gb5-7 (65) Gb7-14 (129) Ga1-16 (192) Ga1-17
296 360 361 425 488 489
64 64 64
192

Let us try. First an overview of the terrain:

244
Gb8-28 Gb8-29 Gb8-30 Ga1-1 Ga1-2 Gb1-18
470 471 472 2 3 248
Gb1-5 Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7
Gb1-8 Gb1-9 Gb1-10 Gb1-11
Gb1-12 Gb1-13 Gb1-14 (244) Gb1-15
Gb1-16 Gb1-17 Gb1-18 Gb1-19

236 = 8 * 29.5 obviously is the center of the text, because 2 * 236 = 472 = 16 * 29.5.

But equally clear Gb1-14 (with ordinal number 14) indicates a central position (together with Gb1-15, both of which have a vertical line). 2 * 244 = 488:

242 242
Gb8-30 Gb1-14 Gb1-15 Ga1-16
244 = 8 * 30½ 244 = 8 * 30½

While 12 * 29½ gives 354, 12 * 30½ gives 366, and we suddenly can see the light:

Gb4-33 (354) Gb5-12 (366)

There are 12 glyphs (days) between Hatinga Te Kohe and Hanga Te Pau. To reach 12 * 30 = 360 we ought to have a center at Gb1-10, and the glyphs seem to confirm:

Gb1-9 Gb1-10 (180) Gb1-11

So far we have mapped three years, based on 29.5 (354), 30 (360) and 30.5 (366).

But there is a longer period than a year, we should continue to 16 * 29.5 = 472, to 16 * 30 = 480, and to 16 * 30.5 = 488. Our grand map should include also 480:

238 238
Gb8-30 Gb1-10 Gb1-11 Ga1-8
240 = 8 * 30 240 = 8 * 30

The rising fish in Ga1-8 illustrates the end at 16 * 30, 180 days after day number 300 (= 10 * 30).

Hua Reva is also a time of rising fish, and to complicate matters we can ideed equate 10 * 29.5 + 1 with 16 * 18.5:

293
Gb8-30 Gb3-4 Gb3-5
295 = 10 * 29.5 296 = 16 * 18.5

It seems to be Gb3-5 which is the 'real' hua reva glyph, not glyph nunmber 295. Number 18½ may represent the maximum before the ominous 19 comes.

We must try to map also the year based on 18½. It should end at 12 * 18½ = 222, and the halfway station is 111:

220 73
Gb8-30 Ga8-18 (222) Gb3-5 (296)
15
Ga4-23 Ga4-24 Ga4-25 Ga4-26 Ga4-27 (111)

Certainly we are on the right track. The declining top of henua in Ga4-27 is here explained.