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Excepting *Qa7-17 (Hanga Takaure, which just has been mentioned) I have listed these 18 nuku glyphs from the Q text:


Qa3-1	Qa3-18	Qa3-22	Qa3-24	Qa5-30	*Qa7-6

*Qa7-30	Qa8-4	Qa8-9	Qa8-30	Qa8-32	Qb3-27

*Qb3-41	Qb4-36	*Qb5-2	*Qb6-13	*Qb7-12	*Qb7-13

Qa5-30 is one of the first glyphs in the calendar for the night. In other words it is located according to what I have suggested, viz. to appear when sun has left. It is glyph number 180 counted from Qa1-1, half 360, and 5-30 can be interpreted as 5 * 30 = half 300. A stylized fish is going down (the sun of course) but first it has produced a little 'egg' at bottom right. A haga rave is joining fish and nuku, while the egg is a separate unit.

*Qa7-6 apparently is a combination of nuku with mea ke. Though this mea ke has only 2 wedgemarks. Possibly it means that winter solstice has not yet arrived. The glyph number (counted from Qa1-1) is 260 (not 360):


Qa5-30 (180)		*Qa7-6 (260)

If the ancients had a unified time-space theory, it would surely have been based on measuring degrees.

180 at Qa5-30 could refer to the daytime half of the sky dome, rather than allude to the summer half of the year.

In the Taranaki storehouse the egg is produced at the apex:

Maybe the egg symbolizes the moon who is rising when night is falling. But 180 / 2 + 64 = 154, just beyond half 300, which should mean just beyond midsummer (or noon). Maybe the calendar for the night is beginning at noon?

The first nuku glyph, Qa3-1, could mean that the nuku season is turning around. In the G calendar a similar sign is used at day 237:


Gb1-6	Gb1-7 (237)	Qa3-1

A waxing moon crescent sign is at bottom left. The 'nuku season' is a moon season. In Gb1-7, on the other hand, the maro signs are like 'fire' arms, earlier held high but now hanging low.

Like Gb1-7 (as in 17) it is the first glyph of the next season, which should be a sun season:


*Qa2-40 (63)	*Qa2-41	*Qa2-42	*Qa2-43	Qa3-1	Qa3-2 (68)
64 / 2 + 64 = 96		97		98

Qa3-3	Qa3-4	Qa3-5	Qa3-6	Qa3-7	Qa3-8
99		100		101

Qa3-9	Qa3-10	Qa3-11	Qa3-12 (78)
102		103

The double Rei in *Qa2-41 has a sun sign, only 1 of the 3 'tails' (the top one) is drawn 'alive'. The other 2 are cut off stumps:

		516
*Qa2-40 (63)	*Qa2-41 (64)		*Qb5-7 (581)	*Qb5-8
90		258	355
260 days

The 'fists' evolve into arms and hands with 3 fingers and a thumb. In the 4th quarter, though, the fist has disappeared and instead there are 2 mata riding in a canoe of the moon. The thumb went away together with the fist:


Qa3-5 (71)	Qa3-6	Qa3-7	Qa3-8	Qa3-9	Qa3-10
1		2		3

Qa3-11	Qa3-12 (78)
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