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It is deeply disturbing in Hb6-26 not having parallel glyphs Pb6-26 and Qb6-26 at the same location in the flow of glyphs:
 

Hb6-26 (928) Hb6-27 Hb6-28 Hb6-29 Hb6-30 Hb6-31 Hb6-32
- -
Pb8-7 Pb8-8 Pb8-9 Pb8-10 Pb8-11
...
Qb9-105 Qb9-106 Qb9-107 Qb9-108 Qb9-109 Qb9-110

I ought to write a number dictionary too. There are meanings attatched to numbers. But the two codes (glyphs and numbers) for deciphering the rongorongo texts cannot be in conflict with each other.

Therefore, it can be argued, the texts are not really in parallel it only looks so for the uninitiated.

There is a descending fish in Pb8-7 too, but its signs are completely different (from the fish in Hb6-26) - the tail is reversed, there are double internal 'gill' marks, even the species looks different. Therefore it cannot be a fish of the type which belongs in b6-26.

If this argument is correct, then it follows that we should find glyphs which can be interpreted as 'belonging to location b6-26' at Pb6-26 and Qb6-26.

If we look at Pb6-26 and its immediate surroundings we can see that also here the texts are 'out of phase' with each other:

Hb4-24 Hb4-25 Hb4-26 Hb4-27 Hb4-28 Hb4-29
Pb6-22 Pb6-23 Pb6-24 Pb6-25 Pb6-26 Pb6-27 Pb6-28
Qb7-114 Qb7-115 Qb7-116 Qb7-117 Qb7-118 Qb7-119

For the reader who has diligently followed all translations from the beginning this fact is obvious and no explanations are needed.

To concentrate on Pb6-26 we recognize it as a variant of the 'fire generator' which is located immediately before the beginning of the henua calendar:

Ga2-23 Ga2-24 Ga2-25 Ga2-26
Ka3-11 Ka3-12 Ka3-13 Ka3-14

Given that b6-26 means the end of the old sun this variant of hoea fits the position and we can add Pb6-26:

Hb6-26 Pb6-26 Gb6-26 Eb6-26

It should here be noted, though, that we do not yet know 'for sure' that Pb6-26 really belongs at the end of the solar year. But both the numbers (b6-26) and the 'fire generator' hoea type say so. Glyphs and numbers concur.

Ka3-14 has a number which alludes to π (the measure of half a cycle, if we use the radius).

Ga2-26 is not at b6-26 (which may explain the different design in Pb6-26 compared with Ga2-26). 2 * 26 = 52 = the number of weeks in a 364-day year. In spring number 7 is important.

To find Qb6-26 is not so easy, because the glyphs at the beginning of the line are destroyed:

Hb3-9 Hb3-10 Hb3-11 Hb3-12 Hb3-13 Hb3-14 Hb3-15
Pb5-15 Pb5-16 Pb5-17 Pb5-18 Pb5-19 Pb5-20
...
Qb5-204 Qb6-101 Qb6-102

Qb6-101 cannot be *Qb6-1, it must have a higher ordinal number (according to my conventions for defining glyph labels).

In Barthel's description Qb5-204 is the last glyph in line b5 and no destroyed glyphs lie beyond it in that line. Furthermore, the destroyed part at the beginning of line b6 has room for 3-4 glyphs. Either do we guess on number *Qb6-4 or *Qb6-5 for Qb6-101.

Moving on to Qb6-126 we realize we have to go back 3 à 4 glyphs to find *Qb6-26:

Qb6-118 Qb6-119 Qb6-120
Qb6-121 Qb6-122 Qb6-123 Qb6-124
Qb6-125 Qb6-126 Qb6-127

The alternative 3 steps could be right, because the top of henua slopes downwards and at left tagata should mean 'end of period is in the past'. If this reasoning is right, we here have an example of 'inside the threshold' (as in Eb6-26):

Hb6-26 Pb6-26 Gb6-26 Eb6-26 *Qb6-26

By looking at the parallel sequences in H and P we can see that neither Qb6-122 nor Qb6-124 have parallels in H and P, possibly a sign that we have chosen Qb6-123 correctly as *Qb6-26:

- -
Hb3-30 Hb3-31 Hb3-32 Hb3-33 Hb3-34
- -
Pb5-33 Pb5-34 Pb5-35 Pb5-36
Qb6-120 Qb6-121 Qb6-122 Qb6-123 Qb6-124 Qb6-125 Qb6-126

Also here the parallel texts are 'out of phase' with each other, for instance has tagata in Hb3-32 a henua which is sloping upwards at the bottom end, while Pb5-35 has no henua at all, just a vertical straight line (for indicating a point from which measurements should be done).

3 * 32 = 96 = 8 * 12 = 6 * 16. Hb3-32 seems to stand at a cardinal point also from the numerical perspective.

Its ordinal number counted from Ha1-1 is 779, which at first seem to be rather meaningless. But if we divide by 3 (thinking about the possibility of 3 glyphs per day), we find an important sign - it is the last glyph in the triplet which corresponds to day 259:

Hb3-30 Hb3-31 Hb3-32 Hb3-33 Hb3-34 Hb3-35
259 260

By these numbers it seems evident that Hb3-32 represents the last part of the season before day 260 is dawning. Day 259 is no special day, though, and therefore we might consider other possibilities, either 2 * 59 = 4 * 29.5 or 25 * 9 = 225 = 15 * 15, 'squares' completed in both cases.

Pb5-35 is glyph number 790 counted from Pa1-1, which does not ring any bell. 790 / 3 = 263⅓, and we are not far from the numbers in H:

Pb5-34 Pb5-35 Pb5-36
263

5 * 36 = 180 may be significant, and likewise hanau sitting on what could be a horizontal maitaki sign. It should also be noted that Pb5-33 is an unusual glyph type, but it is used around noon in the daytime calendar of P:

Pa5-47 Pa5-48 Pa5-49 Pa5-50
Pa5-51 Pa5-52 Pa5-53 Pa5-54
Pa5-55 Pa5-56 Pa5-57 Pa5-58 Pa5-59