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Mago:

A few preliminary remarks and imaginations:

1. The mago glyph type can be regarded as vaha mea with an additional sign in form of the curve of the tail:

vaha mea

mago

In hakaturou the curve sign comes at the beginning of a new 'season' and apparently it should be located just beyond the 'peak', as for instance beyond noon:

Ha6-1 Ha6-2 Ha6-3 Ha6-4 Ha6-5 Ha6-6 Ha6-7 Ha6-8

The basic idea of sun turning around to begin his descent is at first sight not equally clear in the following example:

Sunday Monday-Wednesday Thursday-Saturday
Mars and Venus
Mercury and Saturn

But structurally regarded the 2nd half of the week corresponds to the 2nd part of the day (p.m.), and we can identify henua in the 4 first days as marking the 'square' of 'dry land'. A 'water-filled hole' (vaha kai) is the 8th and last glyph of the 1st half of the week (which we should compare with how in the cycle of the year honui glyphs appear beyond midsummer, the 'noon' of the year).

Then follows the 2nd half of the week which is characterized by hakaturou glyphs with bent 'tails' and - significantly - closed 'mouths'. It probably means the phase of 'eating' (growing) is over. At midsummer sun turns around and 'changes his habit' (into a 'raincoat') and this structure seems to have influenced the creator of the weekly calendar above.

The hole (vaha kai) in the 8th position has a 'knee' at right like the 'knee' in haati in the 16th position. Both glyphs implies 'going away'. Excluding these 'zero-glyphs', there are 2 * 7 = 14 glyphs in the calendar.

And the glyphs in positions 6 and 13 are exactly alike, which suggests that we possibly should 'jump over' the 'zero-glyphs' when counting, because 6 and 12 it would then be.

The single 'knee' in position 8 evidently corresponds to the double 'knees' in positions 15-16. And the 'thumb' in position 15 probably is intended to be added to the 'hooks' in the 3 hakaturou glyphs in order to arrived at 4 (a 'square').

The 4 'hooks' correspond to the 4 'chins' in the 1st half of the week (and the 'jaws' correspond to the open hand in position 15). The 'hooks' are like 'grasping hands' in a low position, the 'jaws' like 'grasping hands' in a high position. Counting the 'high' glyphs we have 7 such followed by the hole at the end of Wednesday. Then we have 6 'low glyphs' (including the 'Janus' glyph) followed by the double 'zero' (reversed rima and haati). This structure (7 followed by 6) agrees with what we have found in G (35 + 35 followed by 30 + 30). In other words, 7 seems to be the number of waxing and 6 the number of waning:

Ab6-42 Ab6-43
ka hora tona henua - kua vaha kua ki
Ab6-44 Ab6-45
ki tona henua - kua vaha i to manu
Ab6-46 Ab6-47
kua noho i te henua - ma te vaha ma te nuku rua
Ab6-48 Ab6-49
i te henua - ma te vaha kua vaha
Ab6-50 Ab6-51
hakaturou ki te hue
Ab6-52 Ab6-53 Ab6-54
kua hakaturou ma te hue i te nuku rua
Ab6-55 Ab6-56 Ab6-57
hakaturou ma te rima e te hue e

In Ab6-49 we can read 49 as 7 * 7. The numbers of Ab6-56--57, on the other hand, may have been planned for reaching 168:

55 + 56 + 57 = 168

3 * 56 = 168 = 6 * 28 and we can arrange the numbers into a pattern which 'names' the first (waxing) phase as 7 and the second (waning) phase as 4:

waxing 6 7 7
49
waning 6 4 7
28

6 * 50 = 300 and 6 * 48 = 288 (= 12 * 24). 49 is an odd number which maybe should not be counted. But 48 is in harmony with 28, because 48 = 4 * 12 and 28 = 4 * 7.

waxing 288 6 48 4 * 12
waning 168 6 28 4 * 7

288 + 168 = 456 (consecutive numbers adding up to 15) = 2 * 228.