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The global maps of G and H are slowly becoming more detailed, but also more complicated. The two main problems we have are why there are so many glyphs in a calendar and why parallel text sequences (especially in H/P/Q) are 'out of tune' with each other.

Both these problems possibly can be easier to explain if the calendars aim to document not only a year but 1½ year. 531 = 18 * 29.5 we have just realized:

290
Ha10-29 (531) Ha10-30 Ha10-31 Ha10-32
177 = 6 * 29.5 178

531 is at Ha10-29 counted from Ha1-1 and everything indicates it is a dark time which has arrived. If each glyph is counted as one day, then Ha1-1 ought to be at a bright time, around spring equinox or summer solstice:

Ha1-1 Ha1-2 Ha1-3 Ha1-4 Ha1-5 Ha1-6
1 2
Ha1-7 Ha1-8 Ha1-9 Ha1-10 Ha1-11 Ha1-12
3 4

But that it certainly is not, we can read from the 'midnight' henua and other signs.

177 days is expressing half a year. The first half of that year should end at midsummer, and it will force us back to side b if we wish to find winter solstice:

99 290
Hb7-41 (997) Hb7-42 Hb7-43 Ha5-22 Ha5-23 Ha5-24 (240) Ha10-29 (531)
1 180 177 = 6 * 29.5

I have decided to use ordinal numbers for glyphs as counted from Ha1-1 while at bottom in the table above the days will be found - counted from winter solstice in this case.

Should we not instead of day 1 take a look at day 180 - 177 = 3? It means we must go forward 9 glyphs to Hb7-50:

Hb7-44 (1000) Hb7-45 Hb7-46 Hb7-47 Hb7-48 Hb7-49
2 3
Hb7-50 Hb8-1 Hb8-2 Hb8-3 Hb8-4 Hb8-5
4 5

Remarkably we recognize the 'birth of a new honu' in Hb7-50, and just before (in Hb7-49) a hipu.

Hb7-32 Hb7-33 Hb7-34 Hb7-35 Hb7-36 Hb7-37
430 431
Hb7-38 Hb7-39 Hb7-40 (996) Hb7-41 Hb7-42 Hb7-43
432 1

Obviously time is cut off beyond Hb7-50, where a new glyph line is beginning and a special sequence dominated by viri comes in. This sequence is 15 glyphs long (5 days, maybe those from 360 to 365), and then comes a day which ends with a glyph (Hb8-18) which I once classified as hupee, but which very well could be a variant of pito (cfr the parallel Hb9-33):

*Hb8-16 *Hb8-17 *Hb8-18 (1024) *Hb8-19 *Hb8-20 *Hb8-21
6 7
Pb9-33 (1025) Pb9-34 Pb9-35 Pb9-36 Pb9-37 Pb9-38

1024 = 16 * 64, and 8 * 18 = 144 = 12 * 12. A cardinal point it is, and if hupee is correct, then it is a cold and humid time (because sun is absent):

Hupee

Mucus; hupeehupee, asthma. T Pau., Ta.: hupe, mucus. Churchill.

Rhume, air froide. Jaussen according to Barthel.

Depending on how long a year we reckon with (354, 360, 364 etc) the cardinal point when sun departs will be different. Likewise his rebirth beyond solstice will depend on the length of the year.

However, we have eliminated the possibility of needing to count with 1 day per glyph backwards from Ha10-29.

Once we identified a period of 14 * 29.5 nights between Ha3-11 and Ha10-31, but that seems rather doubtful now:

118 = 4 * 29.5 413 = 14 * 29.5
Ha3-11 (119) Ha10-31 (533)

Instead, let us put days in and see what happens:

137
Ha3-10 Ha3-11 Ha3-12 (120) Ha10-30 (532) Ha10-31 Ha10-32
140 278

By adding 100 days from the end of side b (and thereby reaching 10 * 14 = 140) the position of Ha3-11 becomes understandable. The 'winter' season is over. Only 40 days are - it seems - allowed for spring sun. The curious 137 days are equal to 3 * 137 = 411. By adding Ha3-12 (where 3 * 12 = 36) and Ha10-30 (where 10 * 30 = 300) we will reach 413 glyphs, i.e. equal to the number of nights to Tama (14 * 29.5 = 413).

If spring sun is born at Ha3-11 (notice 3-11), then a new baby is needed after 413 glyphs (not days).

Expressed in days we maybe should think 137 means 13 * 7 = 91, a quarter.

But I find it unreasonable to have only 137 days between the appearance and disappearance of sun. Instead I suggest we should count 1 day per glyph and then there will be 413 days from Ha3-11 to Ha10-30, room for counting to 14 lunar months.

If I am right, we should be able to identify Hanga Te Pau at Ha7-22 (366). And I think I am right. A new page is necessary.