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The major example of hua in G is connected, we can see below, with hoea pau:

 
Gb3-17 Gb3-18 Gb3-19 Gb3-20 Gb3-21 Gb3-22 Gb3-23
Gb3-24 Gb3-25 Gb3-26 Gb3-27 Gb3-28 Gb3-29 Gb3-30

The location of hua in Gb3-23 is definitely at the border line between one 'generation' and the next, because counting glyphs from Gb8-30 the number is 314 (100π).

Counting from the beginning of side b the number is 84. Hua in Gb3-23 is the last day in a period of 6 fortnights. The glyphs above describe the 12th and 13th weeks, numbers which we should associate with the final of sun (who will reach his 'deadline' after 12 months and then will be 'dormant' during the 13th month). There are 7 + 6 = 13 'feathers' around the hua 'fruit'.

A glyph with ordinal number -23 should be ruled by Jupiter, and we can see from the following Friday that it is time for regeneration. Saturn - here depicted as a hole filled with lifegiving water (vai) - is used in order to make the process work. The result is seen at bottom in Gb3-27 (Monday) where the 'cup' of koti is sprouting.

Mercury is like Saturn depicted as a hole, but the ordinal number is without 'life' (light). In the 29th night of the moon she is not visible. Saturn, on the other hand, has a 'square of fire' as his number during the last week of the month, and it could be the waxing and waning moon in the background.

In Gb3-27 a growing maro has 5 'feathers' - a fire is in safety onboard (as if it were a ballast, rakau o te miro) for the dark night of the moon is approaching. It is Monday and it is Moon who will carry light past the dark gap ahead.

In Tuesday the light on the moon crescent is described by 9 'feathers' at her back. The glyph has at left a reversed tapa mea formed after the growing moon, but at right there is a growing maro string with 6 'feathers' - in front the sun's rays will once again renew the moon.

From this perspective we can identify Mercury as the dark phase of the moon, when she is between the sun and us, where a new moon will be renewed. The hole is where she 'has bathed in the waiora a Tane', the 'fount to restore life'. Two growing maro strings with 4 'feathers' each indicate the 8 new periods of the moon.

With Tane as the sun god he is capable of assuming several different 'garments', one of which is Mercury. Now, when we have seen Tane in his Mercury ('dark moon') garment, we can see what that meens - Mercury is very difficult to catch sight of.

His last garment is that of Jupiter, when sun is playing the role of the Tree, in which 'fire' is dormant. We realize that Gb3-3 is the moon equivalent of the 'fire generator':

moon sun
Gb3-30 Ka3-14 Ga2-26

In Ka3-14 we should read 314, the day of Jupiter. But it is also a Tuesday, the 14th day in the month. Mars is the planet who brings fire, the spring garment of the sun. We can compare with Ca7-14 in the Mamari moon calendar.

 

The pau sign in hoea pau (Gb3-30) is in contrast with the spur in Ka3-14 and Ga2-26, a female soft roundness in contrast with the sharp 'spear' of the male.

In Ka3-14 the curve at bottom has at left a straight segment, presumably drawn in the likeness of a henua, and this henua cannot mean the earth on which we walk but it should be the vertical (or rather slightly leaning) 'tree' pushing the sky higher.

Gb3-26 is a Sunday. The 'fist' at right is held high, not low as the 'bulb' in Gb3-30:

Gb3-24 Gb3-25 Gb3-26 Gb3-27 Gb3-28 Gb3-29 Gb3-30

The peculiar left part we have met before, and Sb2-8 seems to combine parts of Gb3-25--26:

Sb2-3

Sb2-4 Sb2-5

Sb2-6

Sb2-7

Sb2-8 (Mercury)

There is a resemblance with Gb6-18, but the 'bud' is much greater and striving upwards - it is the new year sun:

Gb6-17

Gb6-18 Gb6-19

Gb6-20

Gb6-21

Gb6-22

Gb6-23

Gb6-24

The page 'the Mamari moon calendar':

3rd period
Ca7-8 Ca7-9 Ca7-10 Ca7-11 Ca7-12
Ca7-13 Ca7-14 Ca7-15 Ca7-16
Maharu Ohua Otua

A black hole in the place of the eye (Ca7-11) indicates Saturn. In the following glyph Sun has reached his lowest stage, instead of an apex up as at midsummer the apex is straight down. Full moon is on her way.

The Moon position of Jupiter (Ca7-9) means pregnancy, now she is two 'persons'. When Moon has arrived at the Mars position (Ca7-14) hua is at left, he has been born!

The night Ohua is shown (if I have managed to correlate glyphs with names properly) with a sun child (3 + 3 feathers) to the left of the moon crescent. The growing moon is receiving light from her sun child.

Haru in Maharu could mean 'to raise':

Aaru

To grasp, to grip, to grab, to hold: ka-aaru hiohio i te ura, hold the lobster firmly. Vanaga.

1. To raise; aaru ki te rima, to raise the arm. 2. (haruharu, aruaru). Churchill.

Tua in Otua should mean the back side. Beyond the 15 'feathers' (nights) on haś the back side will come. It is as if the 3rd period is at the end of growing moon, and that the rest of the month is something else and separate.

waxing full moon waning
period 1 8 period 4 8 period 6 7
period 2 11 full moon period 7 11
period 3 9 period 5 10 period 8 8
sum 28 sun 18 sum 26

During her pregnancy Moon moves towards a position in the morning, because at that time the sun child will be born in the east. Once this has happened the most important part of the month will be in the past. 28 + 8 = 36.