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Let us now return to manu mata e toru. Earlier (at viri) we noticed a pair of important pare glyphs in P:   114 415 493 133 Pa3-3 Pa10-1 Pb9-33 115 531 1025 416 = 16 * 26 494 = 19 * 26 1 1024 = 2 * 2 * .... * 2 (10 times) The glyph which in H is parallel to Pa3-3 (the spring pare) is preceded by a manu mata e toru glyph: Ha3-7 Ha3-8 Ha3-9 Ha3-10 (118) Ha3-11 The conclusion should be that manu mata e toru functions like the other moe glyphs we have looked at, it indicates how light can be seen in the sky immediately before the 'person' in question appears in the east. Figure 8 forming the pair of eyes in this pare seems to be a joke - together with a mata at the top of the head there are '3 eyes'. 118 (counted from Ha1-1) is equal to 4 * 29.5 and the corresponding day in G (counted from Gb8-30) is Ga5-3: 16 Ga5-1 Ga5-2 Ga5-3 (118) 17 Ga5-4 Ga5-5 (120) Ga5-6 Ga5-7 Ga5-8 Ga5-9 Period number 16 is in K extended to cover 13 glyphs (periods 16-18 in G). A major season of the sun is ending: Kb1-7 Kb1-8 Kb1-9 Kb1-10 Kb1-11 Kb1-10 is glyph number 107 counted from Ka1-1. The length of the text is 192 glyphs, and maybe some glyphs at the end of the text should be regarded as the beginning (rather than Ka1-1): Kb5-14 Kb5-15 Kb5-16 (1) Kb5-17 Kb5-18 Kb5-19 Kb5-20 107 + 5 = 112 = 4 * 28. Possibly this tertial is the same as that illustrated by 4 identical glyphs in Tahua: Aa1-5 Aa1-6 Aa1-7 Aa1-8 According to Metoro they are all moa with different additional attributes. These 4 'lights in the sky' (?) presumably are announced by light even before they are rising - moe comes before moa.

Vai in Kb5-16 maybe is the same vai as in Aa6-65. Its ordinal number is 188:

 

side a (670)
480			188
	Aa6-65	Aa6-66 (1146)
240	day 573		94
	95

There is no glyph in H/P/Q like Ab4-18:

	442		224
Ab4-18 (131)		Aa6-66 (332 + 241 = 573)

However, there is glyph with as similar construction in Hb11-52:

Hb11-46	Hb11-47	Hb11-48	Hb11-49
Hb11-50	Hb11-51	Hb11-52	Hb11-53

Henua ora is the 'recycling station' and the meaning of Hb11-52 therefore seems to be something else than that of Ab4-18 - rather its opposite.

However, 11 * 52 = 572 is startlingly equal to the number of days from Ab1-1 to Aa6-65:

260					400	478					188
	Ab4-17	Ab4-18	Ab4-19	Ab4-20			Aa6-63	Aa6-64	Aa6-65	Aa6-66 (1146)
130	days 131-132				200	239	day 572		day 573		94

The glyph Aa6-63 corresponds to Hb11-52 both in number and meaning.

There is just one more similar glyph in H:

Ha9-116	Ha9-117	Ha9-118	Ha9-119	Ha9-120

Reconstructing the number of glyphs in Ha9 we have 8 + x + 32 which I once decided probably should give 53 as a result. Solving the equation gives x = 13, and Ha9-118 = *Ha9-39, where 9 * 39 = 351. The ordinal number becomes 488.

52	487		160	595
		Ha9-118 (488)			Hb11-52 (1244)
540 = 6 * 90			696 = 6 * 116

Half a 'year' (6 'months') combined with 'quarters' - 3 * 30 = 90 for the sun and 4 * 29 = 116 for the moon. In other words 18 (sun) + 24 (moon) = 42 months in all. This could explain why 42 is an important rongorongo number.

Looking at the moe birds, I would say that the thicker one (Ha9-118) is the sun and that Hb11-52 therefore should be the moon (or the far away winter sun). Its mouth suggests sun. A moon crescent adorns the back of Ha9-118.

24 * 29 = 696 ought to refer to the moon, because 18 * 30 = 540 obviously refers to the sun.

More studies are necessary for H.