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The first two of the tahana glyphs in H are apparently connected:

Ha3-38 Ha3-39 (147) Ha3-40 Ha3-41 Ha3-42 Ha3-43
Ha3-44 Ha3-45 (153) Ha3-46 Ha3-47

Ha3-48

Ha3-49

Ha3-41 and Ha3-47 at first glance seem to be the same type of glyph as we have seen during a.m. in the daylight calendar:

Ha5-52 Ha5-56 Ha6-1

However, even if the gesture of eating (growing) is the same, sun is in Ha3-41 and Ha3-47 depicted as another entity than the one who is eating. Sun is - its seems - the basis (or cause) upon which the 'eating' is relying. Without sun there would be no growth.

Sun is involved also in the two tahana glyphs, which can be 'proven' by adding their ordinal numbers, 147 + 153 = 300.

Furthermore, 3 * 39 = 117 = 9 * 13, and 3 * 45 = 135 = 9 * 15, which means that 117 + 135 = 252 = 9 * 28 = 36 * 7. And 252 glyphs ought to correspond to 84 days if we count with 3 glyphs per day. I.e., Ha3-39 and Ha3-45 together seem to indicate a period of 6 fortnights.

 

If sun is the 'message' in these twin tahana 'canoes', then it is probable - I judge - that the following twin glyphs depict the rising 'water spout'.

 
Ha3-40 Ha3-46

The 'beak' of hakaturou is of the kind which I suspect indicates the moon. Could the reading be 'Ohiro'? Next twin glyphs are describing growth relying on sun. Having been 'born', the new 'moon' must then grow.

I have catalogized the 'Ohiro' sign as a variant of hau tea - not of ua. I think that was a good decision.

The distribution of flames in Ha3-41 and Ha3-37 is the same as in Ha5-52 and Ha5-56, 4 followed by 3. Does it allude to the 1st quarter of the sun year having 4 periods and the 2nd quarter 3 periods? But 5 * 52 = 260 (and 5 * 56 = 280), and we should remember:

 

364 4 * 26 = 104 10 * 26 = 260 14 * 26

We may be on the trail of the solution, because in Ha6-1 there is a 'spike' in front, where we can expect the 10th and final flame:

 

Ha5-52 Ha5-56 Ha6-1
4 3 2 + 1

In other words, the a.m. period of growing sun may have been created to allude to the 10 periods of sun. In day 364 (= 104 + 260) he will disappear, and evidently so also at noon. It becomes a curious mixture, because a.m. should correspond only to the first part of the 'sun-is-present' cycle. Yet, the first 'spike' (top left in Ha5-52) is diametrically opposed to the last (in front at Ha6-1), which seems to imply there are 6 periods between two 'corners'.

The problem is far from solved, it seems. We should also take notice of Ha4-11--12, which seem to indicate 6 periods of absent sun respectively 5 with him present:

Ha4-9 (169) Ha4-10 Ha4-11 Ha4-12 Ha4-13 Ha4-14
57 58
Ha4-15 Ha4-16 Ha4-17 Ha4-18 Ha4-19 Ha4-20 (180)
59 60
Ha4-21 Ha4-22 Ha4-23 Ha4-24 (184) Ha4-25 Ha4-26
61 62

And then we can see that Ha4-20 stands at both day 180 (if we count one glyph per day) and at day 60. A new 'day' comes beyond day 183, but why is the sun below a 'roof'? Is it an illustration of rain clouds? Or maybe it is the darkness fleeing towards the western horizon. We remember the same kind of problem from earlier:

Aa1-16 Aa1-17 Aa1-18 Aa1-19 Aa1-20 Aa1-21
Aa1-22 Aa1-23 Aa1-24 Aa1-25 Aa1-26 Aa1-27

At number 4 * 25 = 100 and at day 20 there should be a 'knee' (a disorderly point in time when the direction is changed). In Aa1-18 we can now identify tahana 'leaves'. They seem to be only at the beginning (cfr also Ha4-14 in contrast to Ha4-22).