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TRANSLATIONS
If kiore + henua glyphs indicate the progress of spring sun as observed by the aid of markers on the horizon in the east, then the henua signs could be the stretches of ground between such markers. Alternatively the henua signs could illustrate poles put down at different places in the east. Either way it is not strange if different texts have different numbers of kiore + henua glyphs. We must put aside the glyph dictionary for the moment and try to map the K text with the method just used for side a in G:
The personfication of Te Piringa Aniva in Ga1-29 presumably has its parallel in Ka1-23, which is 'spooky' and has a wave form like the left arm in Ga1-29. Its ordinal number is one less than the full 24 measure, while Ga1-29 similarly is one less than the full 30 measure. It seems as if in K it is intended to keep Te Piringa Aniva in glyph line a1, and the same goes for G. The end of the month is anyhow indicated in K by viri at position 29 and by Ka2-7--8 which resemble Ga1-27--28 (but which are non-spooky); 2-7--8 is much like 27-28. A non-spooky tagata then comes as Ka2-9, followed by Rei. Ga1-24 resembles Ka1-18 (rather than Ka2-3), because it is located 5 glyphs earlier than the 'spooky' Ga1-29. Likewise Ka1-18 is 5 glyphs earlier than the 'spooky' Ka1-23. From this follows that the strange Ka1-20 probably is a parallel to Ga1-26. The sense is, though, rather opposite - a dark, covered sky rather than an open one (cfr also Ka1-21). What 'evaporates' in Ka1-23 is this covered sky, it seems - not a 'person' (as in Ga1-29).
Ka3-14 could say by way of its ordinal numbers (π) that a cycle in time has closed. The glyph type has been named haga by me because that is the conclusion I have drawn from the readings of Metoro. Quite adequate if a cycle in time has been reached. Rei in Ka3-15 comes 60 - 34 = 26 glyphs after Rei in Ka2-10. Rei in Ga2-27 comes 58 - 31 = 27 glyphs after Rei in Ga1-30. Presumably we should instead measure from Rei in Ga1-30 to haga in Ga2-26 - where the cycle is completed and where the ordinal number is 26. Rei in Ga2-27 has another meaning than normal Rei glyphs, because of the waxing (sic!) moon crescent at top left. If we count the distance between Ga1-29 (30) and Ka1-23 (23) as a measure (7 days) of how at Te Piringa Aniva the text of K is dislocated compared with the text of G, we can take a new measure at Te Kioe Uri and possibly find it to be 57 (Ga2-26) - 60 (Ka3-15), or minus 3 days - a 10 day advancement. On the other hand, Ga2-29 (60) probably is parallel with Ka3-15 (60), in which case the week in dislocation has disappeared. The week at Te Piringa Aniva is probably caused by a wish to finish with Te Piringa Aniva within the first glyph line. Similarly, the creator of G could have wished Te Kioe Uri to be located in glyph line Ga2; Te Piringa Aniva in Ga1 and Te Kioe Uri in Ga2. We must see if also the creator of K has located Te Kioe Uri at the end of line a2:
It is not impossible. The rising fish in Ka3-1 would then correspond to manu kake in Ga3-1. Moving forward 45 respectively 90 glyphs counted from Ka2-21 should then correspond to moving from Ga3-1 to Ga4-21 respectively to Ga6-9:
It is not impossible. Yet the only manu kake in K is not in harmony with the three glyphs above. Instead it arrives in the middle between Te Manavai and Te Poko Uri:
Here it is obvious that Ka5-2--4 correspond to Ga4--6, i.e. K has moved quicker than G with 4 days (glyphs) - the glyph lines are shorter. Equally clear are the wishes to put Te Manavai at the beginning of a glyph line (Ka5 respectively Ga4). There are 8 growing maro feathers in a single vertical stream in Ka5-5, while in Ka5-7 there are 10 (4 + 6) in two bent streams. With only 192 glyphs in K the halfway point is close -.hau tea in Ka5-2--3 show eyes also at left. This may be the explanation also for hua poporo in Ka5-4 (which earlier has puzzled us). Ka5-8 can illustrate the child personifying the 2nd half of the text. (There are no tamaiti glyphs in K, and Kb4-15 'proves' this type was used instead.) The takaure season ends in Ga4-1--2, we have earlier suggested. 3 feathers are at left. The last glyph in line Ka4 is a tagata with a kai gesture. Summarizing glyph lines and kuhane stations so far:
Shifting from the end (a1 and a2) to the beginning (a5 respectively a4) with a transition season between may be a pattern.
In G the 'sails' change from left to right in the 6-glyph sequence beginning with Ga5-5. Sun is no longer a matter of past time (left). Te Poko Uri seems to mean that sun is arriving. Vai at right in Ga5-7 says so too. In Kb1-21 the dark mountain (of sun's absence) is only a memory (a ghost, not reality). 4 lunar months it takes before sun returns. In Kb2-2 the wedges possibly say that 'increasing' (<) is the most recent development (top of the glyph), while earlier (lower down in the glyph) 'decreasing' (>) - at least the food - was the reality. The distance from Ga5-10 (121) to Kb1-13 (110) is 11 days (glyphs). A week (Te Piringa Aniwa) became zero (Te Kioe Uri) - or possibly a fortnight in the other direction, (Ka2-21 at 45 - Ga2-28 at 29). At Te Manavai the difference maybe is only 3 days (Ga4-5 at 89 - Ka5-3 at 86). At Te Poko Uri G still is in the lead (counted by number of days) and has increased the distance from 3 to 11.
In Kb3-9 there is a hole (pu), which convinces me that we have an allusion to the name Te Pu Mahore. But the glyph in G which is parallel with Kb2-16 (135) clearly is Ga6-10 (151) or Ga6-15 (155). 151 - 135 = 16 and 155 - 135 = 20. Ga6-19 and Ga6-21 (162) are parallel with Kb3-9 respectively Kb3-11 (148). 162 - 148 = 14.
The K calendar seems to end in a way with glyph line b4. If so, it means Nga Kope Ririva is outside the regular calendar, outside the island proper. 192 - 20 = 172 = 4 * 43. If we reduce also with 60 glyphs at the beginning of the K text, we will have 172 - 60 = 112 = 4 * 28 = 8 * 14, a reasonable result. Two 30-day months at the beginning are followed by 4 months in the light. Also Ga7-3 indicates a time outside the regular calendar. Excluding the glyphs in line Ga7 there will be 177 - 7 = 170 glyphs left. 170 - 58 = 112 = 8 * 14. The Rei glyphs seem to mark where to begin counting:
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