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If we move 100 days backwards in time, from maro at Ca6-24, we arrive at Friday:

96
Ca3-14 (65) Ca3-15 Ca3-16 Ca6-24 (164)
100

In the text of H Venus has been identified as a probable location for the beginning of time:

189 747
Hb9-48 Hb9-49 Hb9-50 Hb3-4 Hb3-5 Hb3-6 (753)
 day 1 63 249 day 250 + 64 = 314

In G we have put Rogo in this position:

63 + 235
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 (1) Gb1-6 Gb1-7 (301)

Maro in Ca6-24 from that perspective seems to acquire a function of marking the end of the first 100 days. This idea finds support in the text of G, where manu rere in Ga4-16 is day number 100 (counted from Cb8-30):

13
Ga4-16 (100) Ga4-17 Ga4-18 Ga4-19

Obviously this glyph is the last of some season, because then follows a Rei glyph. (And 4 * 16 = 64.)

 

The page above is somewhat loose in its details. In G we should identify tagata in Gb6-26 as an important 'person'. He comes before Rogo, and indeed seems to generate him. The gesture with a closed fist is similar to that of manu rere in Ga4-16. But there the hanging down maro string says 'it is over':

63 96
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb8-30 Ga4-14 Ga4-15 Ga4-16 (100)
65 100

Ga4-14--16 seem to belong together, once again a triplet ending with -14, -15, and -16.

If the central glyph Ga4-15 (where 4 * 15 = 60) is what counts, then it is at positon 65 + 99 = 164 from Gb6-25. And 99 could allude to Venus. But no phase of Venus is close to being 164 days long.

Gb1-20 Gb1-21 (315) Gb1-22

Gb1-21 will be day 315 if we add 64 to 251 (which is counted from Gb8-30). Alternatively it will be day 315 by adding 65 to 250 (not counting Gb8-30 twice, but beginning with Gb6-25), which appears to be a more sound reading. Day 250 agrees with the day number for Hb3-4--6:

189 747
Hb9-48 Hb9-49 Hb9-50 Hb3-4 Hb3-5 Hb3-6 (753)
 day 1 63 249 day 250 + 64 = 314

Day 165 at manu rere in Ga4-16, counted from winter solstice, means the next season will begin with day 166.

266 = 366 - 100. There are 265 days from Ga4-17 to Hanga Te Pau:

63 96
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb8-30 Ga4-14 Ga4-15 Ga4-16 (100)
65 100
96 264
Gb8-30 Ga4-14 Ga4-15 Ga4-16 Ga4-17 (101) Gb5-12 (366)
100 265

In other words, 65 is followed by 400 and another 65.

Let us try to identify where glyph number 200 and 265 are located:

98 63 98
Ga4-17 Ga7-30 (200) Ga7-31 Gb2-9 (265) Gb2-10 Gb5-11 (365)
100 65 100

265 can, though, alternatively be 100 + 100 + 65, or 65 + 100 + 100:

98 98 63
Ga4-17 Ga7-30 (200) Ga7-31 Gb3-9 (300) Gb3-10 Gb5-11 (365)
100 100 65
63 98 98
Ga4-17 Ga6-24 (165) Ga6-25 Gb2-9 (265) Gb2-10 Gb5-11 (365)
65 100 100

I vote for this alternative, which has tapa mea vaha kai at Gb3-9:

98 98 63
Ga4-17 Ga7-30 (200) Ga7-31 Gb3-9 (300) Gb3-10 Gb5-11 (365)
100 100 65

Another advantage is 300 days in the center, which is reasonable if sun should have 300 days. 65 + 65 = 130 is half 260.

Adding 65 to 300, we will have a kind of arm- and legless honu at Gb3-10 (in position 366 and maybe alluding to Hanga Te Pau). Counted from Gb8-30 (i.e. by the moon) the same glyph comes as day 301, one day outside the reach of the sun. 8 + 8 = 16 feathers are on the outside, as if the central figure is hiding the rays from the sun.

The 100 days ending at Ca6-24 could be parallel with 100 days from Gb8-30 to Rei at Ga4-17, but only if we are allowed to add one day at the beginning:

64 96
Cb14-19 (1) Ca3-14 (66) Ca3-15 Ca3-16 Ca6-24 (165)
65 100
63 96
Gb6-25 Gb6-26 Gb8-30 (66) Ga4-14 Ga4-15 Ga4-16 (100)
65 100
98 98 63
Ga4-17 Ga7-30 (200) Ga7-31 Gb3-9 (300) Gb3-10 Gb5-11 (365)
100 100 65

Day number 66 will then be Ca3-14 respective Gb8-30, and we can identify the 'fists' held high in Ca3-14 as probably the same as those which are packed inside puo in Gb8-30:

Ca3-14 Gb8-30

The text on side a of C becomes 65 glyphs longer than that on side a of G by cause of the explanation above.

65 + 230 = 295 indicates that the end of side a in G is at Hua Reva (according to the moon). In C we also have Hua Reva at day 295:

62 231
Cb12-12 (1) Ca9-4 (295)