TRANSLATIONS

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In A we have earlier seen that Te Pei covers only half the expected number of glyphs:

 

Aa6-55 (472) Aa6-56 Aa6-57 Aa6-58 Aa6-59 Aa6-60
Aa6-61 Aa6-62 Aa6-63 Aa6-64 Aa6-65 Aa6-66
Aa6-67 Aa6-68 Aa6-69 Aa6-70 Aa6-71 Aa6-72
Aa6-73 Aa6-74 Aa6-75 Aa6-76 Aa6-77 Aa6-78
Aa6-79 Aa6-80 Aa6-81 Aa6-82 Aa6-83 Aa6-84 (501)

Aa6-55 is here counted from Ab8-30. Otherwise it would have been number 471 (= the number of glyphs in G). The number of glyphs on side a in A is 670, which means there are 200 glyphs from Aa6-55 to the end of side a. New facts emerge constantly:

 

470 200
468 28 198
Aa1-1 Aa6-54 Aa6-55 Aa6-84 Aa7-1 Aa8-85
500 170

Then comes the special calendar in line Aa7-1, which rather is connected with Te Pou, than with Te Pei. Let us see if we can discern a first half of Te Pei which arrives before Aa6-55. That would be logical if Te Pei is the 'navel' from which two cycles emerge in contrary directions:

 

Aa6-25 (442) Aa6-26 Aa6-27 Aa6-28 Aa6-29 Aa6-30
Aa6-31 (448) Aa6-32 Aa6-33 Aa6-34 Aa6-35 Aa6-36
Aa6-37 Aa6-38 Aa6-39 Aa6-40 Aa6-41 Aa6-42
Aa6-43 (460) Aa6-44 Aa6-45 Aa6-46 Aa6-47 Aa6-48
Aa6-49 Aa6-50 Aa6-51 Aa6-52 Aa6-53 Aa6-54 (471)

These 30 glyphs could very well belong to Te Pei, I think. Aa6-47 connects to Aa6-56, for example. And with 2 glyphs per day we must have Aa6-54 as the first part of day number 236.

Lots of interesting signs appear. E.g. is pau (finished) evident in Aa6-43, which seems to say that the first cycle has reached its end. 460 / 2 = 230.

7 * 29.5 = 206.5, and 2 * 206.5 = 413. 460 - 413 = 47 = 23.5 * 2.

But the preceding glyphs are not evidently belonging to any different season. Maybe we have to move all the way to Aa6-1 to reach a break:

Aa6-1 (417) Aa6-2 Aa6-3 Aa6-4 Aa6-5 Aa6-6
Aa6-7 Aa6-8 Aa6-9 Aa6-10 Aa6-11 Aa6-12
Aa6-13 Aa6-14 Aa6-15 Aa6-16 Aa6-17 Aa6-18
Aa6-19 Aa6-20 Aa6-21 Aa6-22 Aa6-23 Aa6-24 (441)

Glyph line Aa5 ends with special glyphs:

 
Aa5-68 (402) Aa5-69 Aa5-70
Aa5-71 Aa5-72 (406) Aa5-73 Aa5-74 Aa5-75 Aa5-76
Aa5-78 Aa5-79 Aa5-80 (413) Aa5-81 Aa5-82 Aa5-83 (416)

Aa5-72 indicates by its numbers a cardinal point: 5 * 72 = 360. And 14 * 29 = 406.

At the end of side a in G we find Nga Kope Ririva, at position 6 * 29.5 = 177. Translated to A we get 2 * 177 = 354. If Nga Kope Ririva covers 29.5 days, we can add 59 to 354 and reach 413 at Aa5-80.

From Aa5-81 and forward to Aa7-1 there are 3 + 84 = 87 glyphs:

 

55 28
Aa5-81 Aa6-54 Aa6-55 Aa6-84

A standard kuhane station length is 29.5 * 2 = 59 glyphs. 87 - 59 = 28, equal to 14 days.

... If we count each cycle as 182 days, we can easily find 7 * 24 = 168 of them, but then comes 14 (not the expected 12). Hina is needed to find those 14 ...

But is really Nga Kope Ririva at position 2 * 177 = 354 in A? We must take a careful look:

 

a1 90 333 b1 82
a2 85 b2 85
a3 76 b3 77
a4 82 b4 80
a5 83 20 b5 80
63
a6 84 b6 92
a7 85 b7 84
a8 85 b8 84
sum 670 sum 664
Aa5-1 (335) Aa5-2 Aa5-3 Aa5-4 Aa5-5
Aa5-6 Aa5-7 Aa5-8 Aa5-9 Aa5-10
Aa5-11 Aa5-12 Aa5-13 Aa5-14 (348) Aa5-15
Aa5-16 Aa5-17 Aa5-18 Aa5-19 Aa5-20 (354)
Aa5-21 Aa5-22 Aa5-23 Aa5-24 Aa5-25
Aa5-26 (360) Aa5-27 Aa5-28 Aa5-29 Aa5-30
Aa5-31 (365)

To make the long glyph sequence complete, we should also add the glyphs beyond Aa5-31 and up to Aa5-68:

Aa5-32 (366) Aa5-33 Aa5-34 Aa5-35 Aa5-36 Aa5-37
Aa5-38 (372) Aa5-39 Aa5-40 Aa5-41 Aa5-42 Aa5-43
Aa5-44 (378) Aa5-45 Aa5-46 Aa5-47 Aa5-48 Aa5-49
Aa5-50 (384) Aa5-51 Aa5-52 Aa5-53 Aa5-54 Aa5-55
Aa5-56 (390) Aa5-57 Aa5-58 Aa5-59 Aa5-60 Aa5-61
Aa5-62 (396) Aa5-63 Aa5-64 Aa5-65 Aa5-66 Aa5-67 (401)