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If we think that Cb11-18 is referring to day 366, then we can reconstruct the other day numbers:

13 62
Cb11-17 Cb11-18 (662) Cb12-10 (676) Cb12-11 Cb14-19 (740)
366 367 381 382 445

Before running ahead we must see if the assumption of 1 glyph per day fits with Cb11-17 as day 366. Or whether we should count 2 glyphs per day and find another suitable first glyph. Or whether neither gives a satisfactory result.

Let us first, though, note that 661 - 366 = 295 (= 10 lunar months). There may be more than one point from which to begin counting:

13 62
Cb11-17 Cb11-18 (662) Cb12-10 (676) Cb12-11 Cb14-19 (740)
295 296 310 311 374

 

Glyph number 661 counted from Ca1-1 is Cb11-17 and 6 * 61 = 366. If it is significant, then we should understand the bottom right part of the tail as a moon variant of pau. One way to investigate this possibility is to count to 384 = 6 * 64 in the same fashion:

Cb11-17 (661) Cb11-18 Cb11-19 Cb11-20 Cb11-21 (665)
366 372 378 384 390
Cb11-22 (666) Cb12-1 Cb12-2 Cb12-3 Cb12-4 (670)
396 402 408 414 420

This method is interesting. 378 = 9 * 42, and the signs in the glyphs support 420. Tamaiti occurs as a great rising fish (kahi) at 414. Counting 6 days per glyph 8 glyphs are needed to go from the moon type of kahi (Cb11-17) to the sun type.

A moon kahi is rising in day 661 - 366 = 295. But it is possibly just a reflection of old sun.

We must go forward in time to see where this method leads us:

Cb12-5 (671) Cb12-6 Cb12-7 Cb12-8 Cb12-9 Cb12-10
426 432 438 444 450 456
Cb12-11 (677) Cb12-12 Cb12-13 Cb12-14 Cb12-15 Cb12-16
462 468 474 480 486 492

12 * 16 = 192 and 492 = 192 + 300.

And then we should move backwards in time:

Cb11-12 (656) Cb11-13 Cb11-14 Cb11-15 Cb11-16
336 342 348 354 360
Cb11-17 (661) Cb11-18 Cb11-19 Cb11-20 Cb11-21 (665)
366 372 378 384 390

The unusual Cb11-15 becomes day 354 (= 12 * 29.5), and instead of vaha kai (364) we can imagine somebody has taken a bite on henua, a kind of picturesque logic.

What has happened, though, is not a bite on mother earth. Instead it is the kuhane who has mistreated the sun staff.

Cb11-14 Cb11-15 Cb11-16 Cb11-17 (661)
348 354 360 366

348 is the number of glyphs on side b. The little henua at top right is of the same general type as that in Cb11-15. The base is standing on earth the top is filled with water.

If there is a pattern, then the moon kahi in Cb11-17 will be of a similar kind to the little henua at top right in Cb11-16.

Then the mistreated henua must be the sun staff. And the 'midnight henua' at top right in Cb11-16 must signify the moon.

In Cb11-14 there are 3 + 1 feathers. In Cb11-16 there are instead 3 'flows'.

According to this model the inverted maro in Cb11-18 is located in the dark time beyond 354 and beyond 366. 12 * 31 = 372.

In G the equivalent position is Gb5-18:

Gb5-11 Gb5-12 (366) Gb5-13 Gb5-14 Gb5-15 Gb5-16 Gb5-17
Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon
Gb5-18 (372) Gb5-19 Gb5-20 Gb5-21 Gb5-22 Gb5-23 Gb5-24 (378)
Mars Mercury Jupiter Venus Saturn Sun Moon